The 14th Enlarged Meeting of the Political Bureau of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea was held in the office building of the Party Central Committee on Thursday.

The meeting discussed and decided on the immediate work and important political issues of the Party and the state.

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, attended the meeting.

It was also attended by members and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee.

Present there as observers were other leading officials of the Party Central Committee, officials of the Cabinet, ministries and national agencies, heads of provincial Party and people's committees, commanding officers of military organs, members of the Central Emergency Anti-epidemic Headquarters and officials of the construction field.

Upon authorization of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un presided over the meeting and made important concluding remarks.

As the first agenda item, the meeting reviewed the work done in the past six months to prevent the malignant epidemic and discussed the issue of further consolidating the present anti-epidemic situation by intensifying the national emergency anti-epidemic work.

The Supreme Leader referred to the objective and purport of discussing again the national emergency anti-epidemic issue at the Party’s Politburo meeting.

After making an in-depth analysis of the six month-long national emergency anti-epidemic work, he said that the DPRK has thoroughly prevented the inroads of the virulent virus and maintained a stable anti-epidemic situation despite the worldwide health crisis, and that this is a shining success achieved by the far-sighted leadership of the Party Central Committee and the highly voluntary unity of all the people acting as one on its order. He referred to the need to value such success in the anti-epidemic work and constantly consolidate it so as to fully ensure the security of the state and well-being of the people.

Given that the trend of re-infection and re-expansion of the deadly epidemic persists in neighbouring countries and regions and the outlook for relieving the danger of the pandemic is uncertain, the anti-epidemic outposts should maintain the maximum alert without slight self-complacency or slackness and re-examine and carry on more strictly the anti-epidemic work, he pointed out.

He sternly criticized the inattention, disregard, chronic attitude and violation of the rules of the emergency anti-epidemic work that are gradually widespread among officials as the work takes on a protracted character. He repeatedly warned that hasty slackening of anti-epidemic measures would result in an unimaginable, irretrievable and fatal crisis and ordered all the sectors and units to further strengthen the emergency anti-epidemic work till the danger of the inroads of the epidemic completely disappears without being intoxicated by self-complacency and slackening vigilance over the current good anti-epidemic situation.

The meeting heard a report on the national emergency anti-epidemic work done for the past six months, before speeches were made.

The report and speeches critically analysed and reviewed the moot points that were revealed in the work in the first half of the year and pointed to the need to arrange organizational and political work more carefully for thoroughly implementing the emergency anti-epidemic measures and take more detailed and appropriate measures for strictly maintaining the emergency anti-epidemic system in the face of the serious damage around the world.

As the second agenda item, the meeting discussed the issue of speeding up the construction of the Pyongyang General Hospital and taking measures to provide personnel, materials and technology needed for medical service.

Kim Jong Un expressed satisfaction with the construction project making steady progress as planned despite the difficult and unfavourable conditions, thanks to the extraordinary mental power and great devotion of the builders.

He made sure that powerful state measures were taken for quickly solving the problems arising in successfully completing the hospital to such a world standard as to provide the people with the most advanced medical service, and specified tasks to be tackled by the sectors in charge of execution, material supply and preparations for operation.

The meeting studied the draft decisions on the first and second agenda items, before adopting them with unanimous approval.