Pyongyang,
September 30 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and
president of the State Affairs of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea, made a historic policy speech
"On the Orientation of Present
Struggle for a Fresh Development of Socialist
Construction"
at the second-day sitting of the 5th Session of the 14th Supreme People's
Assembly of the DPRK on Wednesday.
In
the speech the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un congratulated the deputies who
took part in the session of the supreme power organ of the dignified Republic
amid expectation of tens of millions of people waging indefatigable labor struggle
for the new great victory with firm confidence
in socialism and with iron-strong will. He then set forth the administrative
policy of the government of the Republic for powerfully propelling the new development of socialist construction under
the ever-changing subjective and
objective situations.
Saying
that the construction of our own-style socialism that has victoriously advanced with the great
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism as the
guidelines has entered the phase of epochal development of comprehensively embodying our state-first
principle with the 8th Congress of the
WPK as an occasion, he reviewed and analyzed positive changes that are witnessed in all fields including
politics, economy, culture, national
defence and external relations.
Despite
unfavorable environment and difficulties, the might of single minded unity
between the Party and the popular masses, the driving force of socialist construction, has been further
augmented thanks to the consistent,
in-depth and dynamic struggle of our Party and the state to increase the driving force and internal
power.
In
the course of thoroughly embodying the people-first principle of our Party as the basic political mode under
socialism, popular nature has been
evidently displayed in the state affairs and the work method and style
of officials have been remarkably
improved and this has resulted in deepening
confidence of people in the Party and the state and in enhancing
their patriotic enthusiasm and
activeness, he said, and continued:
Especially,
the admirable tradition of the army-people unity has been steadily carried forward and it has been
consolidated to be invincible as the
People's Army defends the people by unsparingly shedding sweats of patriotism and remains faithful to its revolutionary
obligation of rendering disinterested
help to the people under the leadership of the Party.
Our
youth, successors to the revolution, have grown stronger in their spirit and there is a hot wind of
volunteering to difficult and labor consuming fields among them. This is a very
important achievement that added great
vitality to socialist construction. Such political achievements promising the sustained victory and bright
future of socialist construction become
tremendous encouragement and great pride for our Party and the state.
In
the field of economic construction big operations have been powerfully promoted to drastically prop up
metal industry and chemical industry,
key pillars of the self-supporting economy, large-scale major construction projects have been dynamically
pushed forward and efforts have been
deepened to bring about innovative improvement in various fields like agriculture, land construction,
city management, science, education and
public health. As a result, achievements that constitute a step forward in supporting the prosperity and
development of the country have been
made.
In
the national defence field a spur has been given to ensuring the stable control of the unstable military
situation in the area of the Korean
peninsula and to developing a powerful new weapon system capable of thoroughly containing the military moves of
the hostile forces. One can be confident
of the might of our Party and the state powerfully opening up the way for the victory of socialism from our
ultra-modern weapons which are being
developed at an extremely fast speed and from the militant features of the People's Army, paramilitary and
security forces which are growing day by
day.
The
independent foreign policy of our Republic, representing justice and truth and implicating thorough-going
practical ability has crucial impacts on
the international political arena, and our state is enjoying
ever-growing external prestige.
In
all, we can be proud of our style of socialism making dynamic advances along the orbit of its development with new
greater vitality in reliance on the
driving force that is being steadily consolidated.
Kim
Jong Un specified policy tasks facing the government of the Republic at present.
The
most crucial task facing the government of the Republic as it was solemnly declared at the 8th Congress of our
Party is to prove the new development of
our style socialist construction with substantial achievements and practical changes waited for
and welcomed by the people from the
first year of carrying out the five-year plan, he said, calling for further consolidating popular nature in
all fields of the state affairs,
removing all things not revolutionary, not militant and backward
and bringing about fresh innovation,
bold creation and steady progress on all
fronts of socialist construction.
An
important task which the government of the Republic should constantly hold fast to is to keep putting
efforts on strengthening the political
and ideological might of our style of socialism, he said.
Our
political and ideological might which has the single-minded unity of the Party and people as a core constitutes
force majeure peculiar to Juche Korea
and becomes a decisive factor promoting new development of socialist construction, he said, stressing
the need to unfold the work of
consolidating the people-first principle as the political climate and
social customs of our state in a more
substantial and purposeful manner.
He
said that when organizing and executing all work, it is important to thoroughly maintain the principle of giving a
top priority to the interests of ordinary
working people and solving issues in reliance on the voluntary enthusiasm and active creativity of the
popular masses, to pay primary attention
to cultivating popular work style peculiar to the WPK among officials guiding the execution of the policies
of the Party and the state and to
steadily carry out education, control and uncompromising struggle to prevent any unpopular acts from being
practiced.
Calling
for doing well the work of inciting our state-first principle and comprehensively embodying it throughout
society, he clarified issues for further
strengthening the political and ideological position of socialism including the provision of proper guidance
for all citizens to display nobility and
personality as befit the people of a powerful country in all aspects of their ordinary work and life.
He
elaborated on policy tasks for powerfully promoting the independent and overall development of the state economy.
He
underlined the need to create an occasion of an epochal turn in socialist construction by setting it forth as
an urgent task before the times to
ensure that the state economy makes a shift to independent and overall development and by organizing powerful
struggle.
The
government of the Republic should correctly set up the state plans for the independent and overall development
of the national economy and powerfully
promote it while creating mature conditions for realizing them on its own initiative and provide proper
guidance to fields and units staying
behind so that they can clearly set up long-term goals and phased plans
to put their own fields on a world level
and carry them out in a persistent way, he said.
An
issue that needs priority settlement in the economic work at present is to ensure the satisfactory production and
provision of raw and other materials,
power and equipment, he said, stressing the need to firmly maintain the principle of giving precedence
to the development of metal industry and
chemical industry, which constitute basic production fields in providing raw materials to major fields of
the national economy, over the overall
economic development.
He
underscored the need to scrupulously take economic and technical measures to keep the production going at a
high rate at the major iron works, steel
plants and iron mines and simultaneously and dynamically push forward the capacity expansion and
modernization work in the sector of the
metallurgical industry for meeting the statewide demand for iron and steel in the near future.
He
indicated detailed tasks for the chemical industrial sector that it should dynamically propel the work for the
establishment of the C1 chemical
industry being conducted amid the great interest and expectation of the whole country under the scientific and
technical guarantee, develop the
glauberite-based basic chemical industry, realize the production of paper and fiber with reed and hasten the work
for using brown coal as main raw
material of the chemical industry and the work for realizing the home-production of catalysts.
He
stressed the need to increase the national investment in the sectors of electricity and coal industry and put
efforts to strengthening the material and technical foundations to fully meet
not only the urgent demands of the national
economy but also its future demands.
He
indicated the task for comprehensively remodeling the railways, piloting the
national economy, and underscored the need to develop the machine industry and IT industry to make them
play important roles in realizing the
home-production of equipment and the modernization of the national economy.
Saying
that it is an urgent demand to remodel the existing production processes in various fields of the national
economy and expand their production
capacities for strengthening the independence of the state economy, he underscored the need to
thoroughly carry out the planned work
for expanding production capacities by concentrating forces on the major projects of great significance in the
national economy under the Party's
strategy of readjustment and reinforcement.
He
said that the construction sector should complete the construction of apartment houses in Songsin and Songhwa areas
within this year and successively begin
the construction of 10 000 flats of the next phase, and thus build another modern district and street
and usher in a new turning point of
capital city construction by positively introducing new architectural styles.
He
stressed the need to finish the construction in the Komdok area which is being propelled by the People' Army
in a short span of time and build
dwelling houses in provinces, cities and counties on a large scale to make all the people enjoy a highly civilized
life in wonderful houses.
He
underscored the need to correctly map out the nationwide master plan for land development and implement the
land management including forest and
water conservation in provinces, cities and counties in a responsible way to fundamentally remove the
danger of flood damage, spruce up the ecological
environment of the country and propel the mid term and long-term greening and
growth plan in a substantial way for
raising the level of city greening in the period of the five-year plan.
Noting
that the decisive improvement of guidance and management of the economic work in the present period
arises as an urgent task in
strengthening the independence of the state economy and displaying its potentially,
he referred in detail to the methodological issues arising for the Cabinet to fully play its role as the control
tower for carrying out the five year plan for the national economic
development.
He
stressed the need to intensify the state guidance over the external economic work to make all the trade
activities expand and develop in the
direction of reducing the dependence on import and strengthening independence in the economic sector, and
earnestly study and apply the scientific
plans for strengthening the executive ability of the state organs for economic guidance in the sector of
economic management and ensuring the
interests of the working people.
Noting
that the most important and vital revolutionary task in achieving new development in socialist construction at
present is to stabilize and improve the
people's living, he indicated in detail the policy issues for it.
To
provide the people with a stabilized and affluent living, a primary effort should be put on agricultural development,
he said, expressing the unshakable will
and determination of our Party to completely remove the food problem in the near future by
rapidly developing agricultural
production.
He
stressed the need to correctly work out and thoroughly implement the agricultural development strategy for
achieving the stable and continuous
development of agricultural production despite any unfavorable weather and climatic conditions, in particular,
solve the issue of seeds with a focus on
breeding and improving high-yielding seeds that stand disastrous abnormal weather.
Clarifying
the plan on boldly changing crop distribution and making a shift of direction to rice, wheat and barley
farming, he underscored the need to
increase the nationwide areas for cultivating paddy rice and dry field rice,
ensure more than two times increase in the areas sowing wheat and barley, raise the per-hectare yield and
provide the people with polished rice
and flour, and thus provide them with the condition for improving their diet in a cultured way.
He
said that the agricultural sector should positively study and apply new advanced farming techniques and methods
including the good and rational control
of the species distribution and sowing period as one of measures for minimizing
the damage by disastrous weather, and broadly organize and conduct the work for sharing and
disseminating the good successes and
experience of the units going ahead.
And
he mentioned the need to set it as an important policy task to establish the scientific water management
system and resolve the water problem, to
adjust and reinforce all irrigation structures, equipment, reservoirs and waterways, and manage the
water in a scientific way to suit to the
weather and climatic conditions so as to prevent the damage by drought and flood and fully provide water
needed for farming.
Kim
Jong Un stressed the need to update the meteorological instrumentation for
timely coping with disastrous and abnormal climate and to thoroughly ensure the promptness,
scientific accuracy and correctness in
the weather forecast.
He
called for decisively increasing goats and cattle and massively conducting the movement for breeding rabbits
as an all-people one as required by the
Party's policy of obtaining meat from grass in the sector of stockbreeding, and paying attention to
lowering the feed consumption unit to
the utmost and improving the anti-epizootic work.
Especially,
the work for implementing the Party's new childcare policy should be waged in a substantial way to
treble the nationwide milk production,
develop the milk processing technology and thoroughly ensure the quality of dairy products, he said, and
went on:
Putting
the production of fruit and vegetables on an intensive basis, building more large-scale vegetable
greenhouse farms and boosting the
production of industrial crops including oil-bearing crops and sugar
crops should be pushed forward to make
tangible contributions to the people's
living.
Pyongyang
City, provinces, cities and counties should wage brisk campaigns in which one overtakes and learns
from others and swaps experience with
one another after creating new model units in the field of agriculture as required by the development of
the era. A campaign for rooting out
bragging should be waged in the field of agriculture.
The
way of procuring agricultural products including grain should be set and enforced in a proper way in order to
increase the agricultural workers' zeal
for production activities while fully meeting the nationwide demand.
He
indicated in detail the issues of intensifying the state assistance to the agricultural field, sprucing up food
administration stations in cities and
counties and updating the grain-processing.
He
also clarified the important plans and ideas of promoting the development of local construction and
face-lifting the socialist rural areas
by adopting the unconditional supply of cement by the state to cities
and counties from next year as a policy
and law.
He
referred to political tasks for improving the people's material and cultural life by developing light industry.
Saying
that it is the most urgent task arising in the life of the people at present to produce more necessities demanded
by the people and supply them by
operating the light industrial factories in full capacity, he called for unconditionally keeping the state supply of
raw and other materials needed for
producing mass consumption goods more than six months ahead.
He
said that the light industrial field should adopt it as an important policy-oriented issue to ensure domestic
production of materials and recycling,
while thoroughly relying on science and technology.
Putting
a particular stress on enhancing the spirit of service for the people in producing consumer goods, he set it
as an important task for the light
industrial field to improve the quality of consumer goods, increase the kinds of products and lower the cost.
He
called for bringing earlier the completion of the projects of local industrial
factories in Kimhwa County of Kangwon Province which are being remodeled and standardized on an experimental
basis and completing in a short period
the technical modernization of local industrial factories in cities and counties across the country on the basis
of the experience gained in remodeling.
He
also indicated the ways for fully tapping materials for the light industry in local areas to increase consumer
goods, putting the production on August 3 mass consumption goods and daily
necessaries production on an active
basis and enhancing the role of socialist commerce.
Kim
Jong Un referred to the political tasks for putting efforts on the development of the fishery industry.
The
fishing sector should accelerate the modernization and overhaul of fishing boats and fishing tackle, catch a lot
of fish through an intensive fishing
campaign and enrich the people's diet by producing various kinds of processed marine products including canned
fish, he noted.
He
also called for protecting and managing marine resources in a planned way, keeping strict supervision and
control over the acts of destroying
marine resources, waging a vigorous campaign for stocking the seas, rivers and lakes with fries and
conducting fish farming and culture
massively so as to produce more marine products.
Saying
that the civilization level of the country is an important criterion for appraising the national strength and a
symbol of its prosperity, development
and future, he clarified the important issues arising in developing all fabrics of socialist culture
such as science, education and public
health.
Noting
that the government of the Republic should consistently keep it as an important state policy to facilitate
sci-tech development and thoroughly
implement it in all fields and sectors, he called for establishing a national custom of drawing up plans, setting
goals and resolving all problems arising
in production and construction on the strength of science and technology, putting primary efforts into
sci-tech development and innovation,
training one's own sci-tech forces and making them play a leading and key role.
He
said that the scientific research field should regard it as the core, main assignment and priority task to
immediately resolve the urgent sci tech problems in economic construction and
people's living, step up the research
and development for it and introduce its successes into practice in order to gain actual benefits.
Saying
that it is one of the very important tasks facing the government of the Republic to turn the country into an
advanced country in education, He called for opening up a new period of
development in socialist education,
guided by the Party's policy of attaching importance to education
and talents.
He
also stressed the need to constantly conduct the work for properly training teachers, proactively exploring and
introducing new contents, system and
methods into further improving the quality of education, promoting the university education as
required by the global education
development trend in order to train more talents majoring in
development and creation and those with
practical knowledge. He also referred to the
important tasks in improving education conditions and environment
and the issue of increasing the stipends
for university students.
Saying
that to establish the health system capable of tangibly promoting the health of all the people is an important
task of our socialist state, the
fulfillment of which brooks no further delay, he called for taking
decisive measures to put the material
and technical foundations of the public health
sector on a high level and improving the quality of health service.
Saying
that the government of the Republic should develop the art and literature, media and sports as required by
the times and the reality and as
demanded and intended by the people as it is duty-bound to assume the responsibility for taking care of the destiny
and moral and cultural life of the
people and the rising generations and for leading them to a right path, he laid down the immediate tasks for doing
so.
He
said that the government of the Republic should ceaselessly intensify the education in communist morality and
collectivism in a methodological way
among officials, working people and the younger generations in accordance with the people's state of
consciousness and the changed
environment.
He
advanced the tasks to be fulfilled to further tighten epidemic prevention measures, the top priority work of
the government of the Republic at
present that requires flawlessness.
Calling
for turning the present epidemic prevention system into more reliable and developed one, he referred to
the important issues arising in steadily
preserving the public epidemic prevention atmosphere and the people's voluntary unity of action by making
the work of abiding by the epidemic prevention regulations and order their own
vital requirements and habits, and in
putting the country's epidemic prevention foundations on a scientific basis and thoroughly ensuring the
popular character in the emergency
epidemic prevention work.
Noting
that it is the top-priority right of a sovereign state to bolster the national defence power and the existence and
development of our own style socialism would have been absolutely unthinkable
without the steady strengthening of the
national defence power, Kim Jong Un called for
attaining with thorough-going practices the goals of defence
up-building set forth at the 8th Party
Congress by strengthening the armed forces of
the Republic in every way and putting the defence industry on a
high-level Juche, modern and scientific
basis.
He
underscored the need to strengthen the socialist legal system, further improve the function and role of people's
power as required by the times and thus
consolidate our politico-ideological position and class position in every way.
People's
power organs should make unconditional service for the people run through all their activities in
conformity with their duty, direct them
towards the realization of the will, demand and interests of the people and never allow any slightest
practices and elements against the
nature of the people-centered socialist system, he said.
He
noted the methods to build up the ranks of power organ officials with men of ability, who will conduct every work
in a brave and innovative way with high
Party spirit, revolutionary spirit and loyalty to the people, rationally rearrange the structure and work
system of power organs and thus make our
people's power fulfill its role as a political weapon dynamically advancing the cause of socialism.
Kim
Jong Un outlined and assessed the present inter-Korean relations still locked in insecure and grave deadlock
and the situation of the Korean
peninsula before clarifying the policy towards the south at the
present stage.
He
said that different military drills and arms buildup under the pretext of "containing" the DPRK have
become conspicuous in south Korea and dishonest remarks and behaviors getting
on our nerves and provoking us
regardless of time have been heard from it.
Noting
that the south Korean authorities are bent on begging external support and cooperation while clamoring for
international cooperation in servitude
to the U.S., he said that as regards the issue of declaring the termination of war proposed by south Korea
recently, though the termination of war
is declared, hostile acts would be continued and, therefore, unexpected different clashes
repeated, arousing the anxiety of all
the fellow countrymen and international community only, as long as there remain factors, the apple of distrust
and confrontation between the north and
the south, intact.
It
is the invariable demand repeatedly explained by us to ensure the respect for each other and withdraw the
partial view, unfair and double dealing attitude and hostile viewpoint and
policies towards the other side before
declaring the termination of war, and this is an important task to be settled beforehand in order to control the
inter-Korean relations and open up a
bright future, he noted.
Pointing
out to the attitude of the south Korean authorities who have shown no sign of change while ignoring and
neglecting the sources of aggravated
inter-Korean relations though they are well aware of them, he said that now the inter-Korean relations
stand at the crossroads of serious
choices-either to advance toward reconciliation and cooperation
after warming the present cooled-off
relations or to suffer from national division
amid a vicious cycle of confrontation and advanced the principled
matters for the fundamental settlement
of the north-south relations.
It
is important for the south Korean authorities to change its confrontational and habitual attitude toward
our Republic, keep the stand of national
independence through practices, not with words, deal with the inter-Korean relations with a view to
settling the essential matters and give
weight to and sincerely implement the north-south declarations, he stressed.
Kim
Jong Un said we are closely watching the fact that recently, the U.S. and south Korea are destroying the
stability and balance around the Korean
peninsula and inviting more complicated dangers of clash between the north and
the south through excessive arms buildup and allied military activities that arouse concerns, underscoring
the need to stand against the gangster
logic of the U.S. and south Korea, bitterly denounce it, firmly maintain our invariable standpoint to check
such dangerous trends, and take all
necessary tough measures.
Saying
we obviously remind the south Korean authorities of the fact once again that it depends on the attitude of the
south Korean authorities whether the
inter-Korean relations would be restored and develop onto a new stage or continue to keep the present
state of worsening, he noted that we
have neither aim nor reason to provoke south Korea and no idea to harm it and it is necessary for south
Korea to promptly get rid of the
delusion, crisis awareness and awareness of getting harmed that it
should deter the North’s provocation.
He
expressed the intention to see to it that the north-south communication lines that had been cut off due
to the deteriorated inter-Korean relations are restored first from early
October as part of the efforts for
realizing the expectations and desire of the entire Korean nation to see the earlier recovery of the north-south
relations from the present deadlock and
durable peace settling in the Korean peninsula.
He
analyzed the current international political situation and underlined the need
for the field in charge of foreign affairs to more proactively and positively
cope with the eventful ever-changing external environment.
Saying
that there now exist not a few serious crises and challenges facing the world but the fundamental danger
comes from the U.S. and its vassal
forces' high-handed and arbitrary practices that destroy the foundation of international peace and
stability, he noted that the current
international situation is mainly characterized by the fact that it has
got more complicated as the structure of
the international relations has been
reduced to the structure of "neo-Cold War" due to the U.S.
unilateral and prejudiced bloc-forming
style external policy.
Pointing
out that the U.S. remains utterly unchanged in posing military threats and pursuing hostile policy toward
the DPRK but employs more cunning ways
and methods in doing so, as proven by the deeds done by it over the past eight months since the
emergence of its new administration,
He
said that the U.S. is touting "diplomatic engagement" and
"dialogue without
preconditions" but it is no more than a petty trick for deceiving the international community and hiding its
hostile acts and an extension of the
hostile policy pursued by the successive U.S. administrations.
He
tasked the field in charge of foreign affairs with concentrating on providing tactical measures for thoroughly
implementing the strategic policy of the
DPRK government toward the U.S. on the basis of strictly studying and analyzing the present U.S.
administration's stand on the DPRK, the
prospects of the U.S. political situation and ever-changing international balance of forces within the
framework of their correlations.
He
urged the field in charge of foreign affairs to put primary efforts into the work for firmly protecting the
sovereignty of the country and its
independent development interests while proactively coping with the international political situation and the
surrounding environment that gets more
and more unstable.
He
affirmed that the DPRK government will as ever develop its good neighborly relations with all the countries
in the world that respect its
sovereignty and are friendly toward it, and fulfill its responsibility
and role in the struggle for preserving
peace and stability of the Korean peninsula.
Saying
that all the people in the country entrust their destiny totally to the Republic, regarding it as the very one
ensuring their worthwhile life, he noted
that such great trust is the dearest and most valuable asset possessed by the WPK and the DPRK government
and it is the most sacred and glorious
obligation we assumed before tens of millions of citizens of the country to live up to the trust.
Solemnly
evincing the iron will of the WPK and the DPRK government to remain boundlessly loyal to the great people
and do their best to fulfill their
weighty mission and responsibility, he ardently appealed to everyone to work hard for the prosperity of the great
country DPRK, for happiness and
wellbeing of the great people and for fresh development of Korean-style socialist construction under the uplifted
slogan of "The People Are God",
single-minded unity and self-reliance.
The
important policy speech made by him at the session is an undying program that powerfully accelerates the
development of Korean-style socialist construction by injecting great vitality
and courage into the all people struggle for attaining the goals for victory
set by the 8th Congress of the WPK and
enhancing the fighting efficiency of the state power organs in an all-round way.
The
full text of the historic policy speech will be published and distributed among party organizations and
working people's organizations, people's
power organs, armed forces organs, judicial and prosecutorial organs and public security organs at all
levels and organs in charge of south
Korean and foreign affairs.
