Original title: The Workers’ Party of Korea convened the Third Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee to discuss the completion of work tasks in the first half
Xinhua News Agency, Pyongyang, June 16 (Reporter Jiang Yaping Hong Keroon) According to the KCNA report on the 16th, Kim Jong-un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea hosted the third plenary meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea in Pyongyang on the 15th. Discussions were held on the completion of the work of various departments of the national economy in the first half of the year and the success of this year’s agricultural production.
According to the report, the main agenda of this plenary session includes summarizing the implementation of main national policies in the first half of the year, discussing how to concentrate efforts on agricultural production this year, how to make every effort to prevent epidemics, analyze the current international situation and corresponding policies, and how to improve people’s lives.
Kim Jong-un said that although the subjective and objective conditions and environment have become more difficult since the beginning of this year, the total industrial output value in the first half of the year has been exceeded, an increase of 25% over the same period last year, and the overall national economy has grown steadily. However, due to the failure of the agricultural sector to complete the food production plan due to the typhoon disaster last year, the current food situation of the people is tense, and it is necessary to propose countermeasures at this plenary meeting.
Kim Jong-un analyzed and summarized the work of the various departments of the national economy in the first half of the year in detail, and put forward the tasks and ways to implement the new five-year plan. He emphasized that doing a good job in agricultural production is the most important and first priority task of the party and the state.
After listening to an analysis report on the current situation of the country’s emergency epidemic prevention work, he said that under the conditions that the global health crisis caused by the new crown epidemic has become more serious, epidemic prevention work is an urgent task that the country must solve. He also put forward tasks and requirements on how to continue to ensure the country’s epidemic prevention status and carefully arrange economic work.