An enlarged plenary meeting of the DPRK Cabinet took place Friday to carry through the decisions of the Tenth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

The meeting decided on important issues arising in fully ensuring the successful implementation of all tasks by strengthening in every way the Cabinet’s ability to control and guide the overall economic work in accordance with the main orientation and policy of the work for the second half of the year, which was set forth at the plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee.

Kim Tok Hun, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK, vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and premier of the Cabinet, guided the meeting.

Present there were Vice-Premiers Pak Jong Gun, Pak Hun, Jon Sung Guk, Jong Myong Su and other members of the Cabinet.

Attending it as observers were officials of the organs under the Cabinet, ministries and national agencies, chairpersons of the provincial, city and county people’s committees and officials of the agricultural guidance organs and major industrial establishments.

Kim Tok Hun read out the tasks set forth at the Tenth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK.

Speeches were made at the meeting.

The speakers noted that the Korean-style development strategy has been steadily carried into practice and the ceaseless advance of socialism made thanks to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un’s extraordinary wisdom and distinguished and seasoned leadership.

They expressed their determination to unconditionally attain the goals set by the Party Central Committee by displaying extraordinary fighting spirit and tenacious executive power in the struggle of the second half of the year for implementing the Party’s decisions, full of confidence in the validity and victory of their cause.

The premier called upon all officials to reject the mechanical and stereotyped work attitude, formalism, whitewashing work style, subjectivism, arbitrariness, abuse of power, and bureaucratism and bring about substantial changes and good results with fresh determination and resolution in the struggle to thoroughly implement the decisions of the Central Committee of the WPK and thus glorify this year as a new and significant year.

The meeting adopted with unanimous approval an additional decision on detailed and scientific ways for bringing about improvement in the work of the Cabinet and administrative and economic affairs of the state.

Rodong Sinmun