Pyongyang,
June 5 (KCNA) -- The 1st meeting of the Political Bureau of the 8th Central
Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) took place at the office
building of the Party Central Committee on June 4.
Kim
Jong Un, general secretary of the WPK and president of the State Affairs of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea, presided over the meeting.
Attending
the meeting were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C.,
WPK and members and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK.
The
meeting made an interim summing-up of the execution of the key policies of the
Party and the state for 2021 advanced at the 2nd Plenary Meeting of the 8th
Central Committee of the Party, and discussed as a major agenda the issue of
convening a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Party to take
additional state measures for solving pending problems urgent for the economic
work and people's living.
Positively
appreciating that a lot of planned works are being sped up on a long-term
basis, thanks to the ideological enthusiasm and fighting spirit of self-reliance
of the entire Party and all the people which were considerably raised by the
8th Congress of the Party though the smooth development of the state affairs
are being seriously challenged and restricted due to the prevailing unfavorable
subjective and objective conditions and environment, the respected General
Secretary briefed and analyzed the execution of major policy tasks in different
fields for the first half of the year.
He
stressed that at the present point it is necessary to convene a plenary meeting
of the Central Committee of the Party and make correct summing-up of the
overall state affairs for the first half of the year to take additional measures
for setting right the deflective matters in time.
Saying
that the Party and the government should make every possible effort, bearing in
mind their very important mission and responsibility under the current
situation prevailing at home and abroad, he emphasized that under the present
situation it is necessary to propel a staunch campaign for the stability and
improvement of the economy and people's living by signally enhancing the
leading role of the Party.
The
Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Party adopted a decision on
convening the 3rd Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Party in
early June.
It
also studied and discussed in depth the issue for the structural reorganization
of departments of the Central Committee of the Party and other items to be
presented to the plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee, and approved
them.