Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Makes Historic Policy Speech "On the Orientation of Present Struggle for a Fresh Development of Socialist Construction"

 

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.