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Second-day sitting of Third Plenary Meeting of Eighth Central Committee of WPK held

Date: 17/06/2021 | Source: Pyongyang Times | Read original version at source

The second-day sitting of the Third Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was held on June 16 amid exceptionally high fighting will of all the participants in the plenary meeting to bring about without fail remarkable development-oriented changes in the overall state work by thoroughly implementing major policy tasks for 2021, the first year for accomplishing the new five-year plan set forth by the Party Congress.

In the second-day sitting, sector panels were organized and study and consultative meetings were held to make detailed study and discussion to successfully push ahead with the fighting tasks for the second half of the year without any deviation on the basis of the review and analysis of the work in the first half of the year that were mentioned in the important concluding speeches made by the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un in the first-day sitting of the plenary meeting.

Members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and members of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee conduted the study and consultative meetings of panels.

The study and consultative meetings were held divided into panels of metal and rail transport, chemical industry, electric power, coal-mining and machine-building industries, construction and building materials, light industry, agriculture, emergency infectious disease prevention efforts, the struggle against anti-socialist and non-socialist practices and the Party work. The participants studied the draft resolution to be suggested to the plenary meeting and confirmed the draft measures and planned figures of which scientific accuracy and practicality are guaranteed.

The plenary meeting continues.

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