13th Session of 14th Supreme People's Assembly of DPRK Held

13th Session of 14th Supreme People's

Assembly of DPRK Held

Pyongyang, September 22 (KCNA) — The 13th Session of the 14th Supreme
People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea took place
at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on September 20 and 21.
The session was convened at a time when all the people of the country are
further accelerating the general advance to successfully complete all the tasks
of the five-year plan for national economic development set forth by the
historic Eighth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea and greet the 80th
founding anniversary of the Party and the Ninth Congress of the Party with
eventful successes to be specially recorded in the history of the country.
Present there were deputies to the SPA and, as observers, officials of the
Party Central Committee, the SPA Standing Committee, the Cabinet,
ministries, national agencies and armed forces organs and other officials
concerned in Pyongyang and local areas.
A ceremony of hoisting the national flag of the DPRK was held.
Deputies to the SPA paid high tribute to the sacred national flag, reflecting
their firm pledge to devote themselves to the struggle for staunchly defending
the sovereignty of the state and the interests of the people, thoroughly
observing the constitution of the Republic and steadfastly safeguarding and
further consolidating the socialist system as masters of state affairs and
representatives of the people.
Taking the platform were Pak Thae Song, member of the Presidium of the
Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and premier of the DPRK
Cabinet, Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of
the WPK Central Committee, first vice-president of the State Affairs
Commission of the DPRK and chairman of the SPA Standing Committee, and
other senior Party, government and military officials, members of the State
Affairs Commission, and vice-chairmen, secretary general and members of
the SPA Standing Committee.
Before discussing the agenda items, the session recalled the chairman of the
SPA.
Deputy Maeng Kyong Il, vice-chairman of the SPA, presided over the session
according to the regulations for the operation of the SPA.

When the session was declared open, the national anthem of the DPRK was
played.
The 13th Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK
brought out the following agenda items:
First, on the deliberation and adoption of the law of the DPRK on grain
management
Second, on the deliberation and adoption of the law of the DPRK on
intellectual property
Third, on the state of supervision of the enforcement of the law of the DPRK
on urban management
Deputy Kang Yun Sok, vice-chairman of the SPA Standing Committee, made
reports on the first and second agenda items at the session.
The reporter explained the contents of the draft laws according to the
chapters, saying that the full-dress SPA session will deliberate and adopt the
law of the DPRK on grain management in order to better the grain
management directly related to the improvement of the people's diet, true to
the Workers' Party of Korea's grain policy.
The draft law on intellectual property stipulates the legal requirements and
practical issues arising in hastening the comprehensive national rejuvenation
through the steady increase and active use of intellectual creativity by further
consolidating the well-regulated system of the state for guiding the intellectual
property work and further strengthening the intellectual property protection
system, the reporter said.
The SPA Standing Committee submitted the draft law of the DPRK on grain
management and the draft law of the DPRK on intellectual property for
deliberation at the Supreme People's Assembly.
Deputies Kim Kwang Jin, Kim Son Il, Kim Chol Won and Yun Chun Hwa made
speeches on the first agenda item.
The speakers said that the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, with an
insight into the significance and importance of grain management in the
struggle to usher in a new era in which regional areas are developing radically
and prospering in an all-round and concurrent way as early as possible, took
an important measure to include the construction of the city and county grain

management stations in the Regional Development 20 x 10 Policy as one of
the three essential projects and carry it out with the state taking responsibility.
They said that the adoption of the new law on grain management is a
legalization of the determination and will of our Party to substantially promote
the well-being of the regional people.
They expressed full support to the draft law, saying that it provided a sure
legal guarantee for establishing a comprehensive and integrated system of
grain management by specifying in detail all issues related to the
procurement, storage, processing, supply, sale and consumption of grain.
Deputies Kim Song Bin, Ri Myong Guk, Pang Tu Sop, Pak Myong Ho, Pak Ji
Min and Ri Kuk Chol made speeches on the second agenda item. They
unanimously recognized that the strengthening of the intellectual property
protection system by establishing a well-regulated system and order for
intellectual property work is of great significance in encouraging the broad
working masses to take part in the technological development and creation
with the attitude of a master and bringing substantial benefits to the people,
the sci-tech talents who work with knowledge and technology and contribute
to social progress and development, and thus raising a hot wind of developing
new technologies and new products and increasing the productivity across the
country.
Speakers expressed their resolve to make positive contributions to
accelerating the socialist economic construction and promoting the
development of science, technology and culture by correctly abiding by the
requirements of the law on intellectual property to be newly adopted.
The session adopted with unanimous approval ordinances of the DPRK SPA
"On adopting the Law of the DPRK on Grain Management" and "On adopting
the Law of the DPRK on Intellectual Property".
The session discussed the state of supervision of the enforcement of the law
of the DPRK on urban management as the third agenda item.
Deputy Ko Kil Son, secretary general of the SPA Standing Committee, made
a report to be followed by speeches of deputies Im Kyong Jae, Choe Hui
Thae, Choe Myong Su and Jo Kil Nyo.
The report and speeches analyzed and reviewed the reason why the urban
management is failing to keep pace with the present situation in which the

appearance of the capital city and regional areas, towns and rural areas is
undergoing a facelift to meet the requirements of an advanced and highly
civilized nation through gigantic creation and changes.
Expressing the will to radically improve and strengthen urban management
with innovative working manner and roles, the deputies offered constructive
opinions on more thoroughly guaranteeing the enforcement of the law on
urban management.
Deputy Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet, made public measures for the
presented opinions.
The session adopted with unanimous approval a decision of the SPA of the
DPRK "On Thoroughly Executing the Law of the DPRK on Urban
Management".
The head of state made an important speech at the second-day sitting of the
13th Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly.
The moment that Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of
Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic
of Korea, appeared on the platform to clarify the important policy orientation of
the DPRK government, all the deputies raised stormy cheers of "Hurrah!",
looking up to him who is ushering in the era of comprehensive prosperity of
our state by achieving great victories and epoch-making changes with the
noble idea of the people-first principle and extraordinary leadership.
In his speech he expressed thanks to the Supreme People's Assembly for
doing its work in a responsible manner on the basis of the mission and
authority granted by the constitution, outlined the qualitative successes made
in the development of all the national economic sectors in the nine months of
this year, made a strict analysis of the trend of the situation on and around the
Korean peninsula, and clarified the principled stand of the DPRK government
towards the U.S. and the ROK.
He ardently called upon the deputies who have been entrusted with state
affairs by the people and who pledged to work for them to make more
proactive and devoted efforts to realize the prosperity of the Republic and its
people's ideal.
Upon hearing Kim Jong Un's speech full of a noble sense of duty for
accomplishing the socialist cause and the great spirit of serving the country

and the people, all the deputies expressed full support for and approval of the
administrative policy of the head of state with enthusiastic applause and
cheers.
The historic speech made by Kim Jong Un at the 13th Session of the 14th
Supreme People's Assembly serves as an immortal great programme for
building the state which makes it possible for our people to give fuller play to
their own heroism, indomitable stamina and bold fighting spirit in the
invariable path of socialism chosen by themselves as faith and to open up a
new stage of the development of the state with confidence.
The 13th Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK
successfully concluded its work amid the extraordinary determination and
great political enthusiasm of the participants to fulfill their responsibility and
duty assigned by the people at the forefront of the sacred struggle to bring
earlier the comprehensive rejuvenation of the dignified DPRK true to the
ideology and cause of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un. -0-