An enlarged plenary meeting of the Cabinet Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea took place on January 13-14 to implement the decisions of the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth WPK Central Committee.

The meeting was guided by Pak Thae Song, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and premier of the DPRK Cabinet.

Present there were members and alternate members of the Cabinet Committee of the WPK and, as observers, officials concerned.

The meeting reviewed in detail the work of 2024, and discussed and decided on the measures for successfully carrying out the important tasks set forth at the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth WPK Central Committee.

Ri Yong Sik, chief secretary of the Cabinet Committee of the WPK, made a report.

The decisions, made at the plenary meeting of the WPK Central Committee to successfully implement the revolutionary programme set forth at the Eighth Party Congress, are a great action programme for the struggle to bring an upturn for a higher stage of development by steadily elevating the all-people offensive spirit for the comprehensive development of socialism, he stressed.

The meeting analyzed and reviewed the successes and experience as well as a series of shortcomings and lessons gained in implementing the Party decisions last year, and discussed the issues arising in achieving the sustained and stable development of the overall economic work.

It referred in detail to the tasks and ways for the Cabinet to successfully fulfil the five-year plan by strengthening its control and leadership over the overall economic work in every way.

The meeting focused on discussing the issue for the key industrial sectors to attain the goals set forth at the Eighth Party Congress and at the same time make preparations for entering the next stage of development. It also stressed the need for the construction field to create another new legendary tales about construction and make a continuous leap forward so as to keep the great golden age of construction.

The meeting stressed the need to make more effective use of the existing economic foundations and potentials by conducting a dynamic campaign for increased production though the struggle task is huge and obstacles and difficulties are still lying in the way ahead.

It also dealt with the constructive issues arising in improving the afforestation, land management and ecological environment protection and establishing a unified command system and order in the nationwide disaster prevention work.

The meeting underscored the importance to regard it as the main task to bring about a substantial change in the people's living standards and further intensify the Party guidance for carrying out the major policy-oriented tasks related to the people's living.

It called for making sure that the newly-built regional-industry factories prove their worth from the first year, for scrupulously and substantially organizing and directing the work to thoroughly implement the Party's policy on regional development, and for giving prompt policy-oriented and political guidance to the work for designing, equipment manufacturing, supply of raw materials and revitalization of production.

The meeting discussed the practical issues for supplying enough seeds and farming materials badly needed for the agricultural sector, unconditionally attaining the grain production goal set forth by the Party by concentrating all the forces and means, and decisively increasing the agricultural production while attaching importance to scientific farming.

The meeting had an in-depth discussion on the ways for focusing on the improvement of quality of light industrial goods and condiments, implementing the socialist policies for children and students in a responsible manner, and strengthening the material and technical foundations of the fishing sector.

Presented to the meeting were innovative proposals for positively settling the sci-tech problems badly necessary for the country's economic development and the people's living and decisively improving the administrative work for science and technology.

The meeting also discussed the issues for the cultural field to fulfil its mission and responsibility by improving the quality of medical service and consolidating the foundation for anti-epidemic work and elevating the revolutionary stamina of the working people with sports successes on the part of the health and sports sectors.

The plenary meeting emphasized the need for the party organizations at ministries and national agencies to enhance their function and role as the political staffs by redoubling their efforts.

Speeches were made at the meeting.

There were sectional consultative meetings to confirm the guarantee for the implementation of the policy-oriented tasks facing the Cabinet and economic organs and to work out the plans for thoroughly implementing them.

Adopted at the plenary meeting with unanimous approval was a decision drawn up amid the high enthusiasm of all its participants.

KCNA