Second-day Sitting of First Session of 15th SPA of DPRK Held

Second-day Sitting of First Session of 15th

SPA of DPRK Held

Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) — The second-day sitting of the First Session
of the 15th Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic
of Korea was held on March 23.
The chairman and vice-chairmen of the SPA took the chair.
The newly elected leading officials of the state took the platform.
The session discussed the issue related to the amendments to the
Constitution as its fourth agenda item.
Deputy Jo Yong Won, chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly, made a
report.
The reporter said that to amend and supplement the Constitution of the
Republic, the legal basis and political charter for the dignity and sovereignty of
the country and the people and their independent development, as required
by the new stage of the developing revolution, constitutes an important
landmark in legally guaranteeing the victorious advance of socialist
construction and our cause. He explained in detail the contents of the draft
law amended and supplemented, including the renaming of the "Socialist
Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" as the
"Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea".
The session examined the draft law and adopted with full approval an
ordinance of the DPRK SPA "On the amendment and supplement to the
Socialist Constitution of the DPRK".
It discussed the issue of thoroughly implementing the new five-year plan for
national economic development as the fifth agenda item.
Deputy Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet, made a report.
The reporter said that the past five years were the years of great changes
when the Korean-style socialist construction definitely entered the stage of
comprehensive development and remarkable progress was made in the
struggle for the prosperity of the country and the wellbeing of the people,
adding that this proud success is the brilliant fruition of the outstanding
leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Un who clearly indicated the main tasks

and ways for carrying out the economic construction and has energetically
guided it.
He said that the historic Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea set it
as a primary task for the socialist economic construction at the present stage
to lay the developmental foundations for the stable and sustainable growth of
the country's economy and substantially improve the people's living standards
while consolidating the successes made during the eighth term of the Party
Central Committee. And he referred to the Cabinet's action program and ways
for thoroughly implementing the task.
The tasks facing us are huge, but we are sure to win as the Party and the
people and socialism are united by the same destiny and there are tens of
millions of people supporting the WPK leadership wholeheartedly, he said,
expressing the firm will to unconditionally fulfill the new five-year plan for
national economic development by enhancing the role of the Cabinet as an
economic control tower in every way.
Attending the oral or written discussions were deputies Ri Chol Man, Paek
Song Guk, Kim Kwang Nam, Yun Jae Hyok, Kim Sung Chan, Pak Jong Gun,
Kim Yu Il, Kim Son Myong, Kim Sung Jin and Ri Song Bom.
They reviewed the work of relevant sectors and units for implementing the
Party and the state's policies over the past five years, stressing that through
hard yet honorable struggle, they came to keenly realize that a shortcut to
making a leap forward is to make bold innovations going beyond the limit and
consistently prioritize science and technology with confidence in victory.
They pledged to carry through the new long-term plan by fulfilling their
responsibilities and duties in the work to bring about epoch-making results in
the new high-stage struggle on the basis of the past successes, experience
and lessons.
The session adopted with unanimous approval an ordinance of the DPRK
SPA "On thoroughly carrying out the five-year plan for national economic
development set forth by the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea".
The session discussed the issue of the state budget, the sixth agenda item.
The Supreme People's Assembly recognized that the state budget for 2025
was implemented correctly as planned in the struggle to successfully
discharge the final year's task during the eighth term of the Party Central

Committee and that the state budget for 2026 has been properly set up to
ensure the simultaneous and balanced development of all sectors and provide
a financial guarantee for the improvement of the people's living standards
while concentrating investment in bolstering up the national defence
capabilities and successfully attaining the goals of economic sectors as
required by the decisions of the Ninth Party Congress and the First Plenary
Meeting of the Ninth Party Central Committee.
The session adopted a decision of the DPRK SPA "On approving the
fulfillment of the state budget of the DPRK for 2025" and an ordinance of the
DPRK SPA "On the state budget of the DPRK for 2026".
There was a policy speech of the head of state at the session.
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 at the venue of the session to clarify the important policy orientation
of the DPRK government.
All the participants broke into enthusiastic cheers, extending highest respects
to Comrade Kim Jong Un who is building the DPRK into an eternally
powerful and prosperous socialist country, solid with single-minded unity and
strong with matchless national power, with his spirit of devoted service to the
country and its people and seasoned and tested leadership.
Comrade Kim Jong Un made a historic policy speech.
He congratulated all the deputies who were elected as members of the 15th
supreme power body of our dignified state by the deep trust and support of all
the people across the country, and reviewed the state affairs during the 14th
Supreme People's Assembly which brought about successful years through
the arduous struggle. And he set forth important tasks and ways for the DPRK
government to promote the prosperity of the state and the wellbeing of the
people in keeping with the requirement of the reality in which the socialist
cause of our style has entered a new phase.
Stressing the importance of more dynamically stepping up the three
revolutions – ideological, technical and cultural – in keeping with the present
phase of socialist construction while consistently adhering to the principle of
independent politics, self-supporting economy and self-reliant defence and the
people-first principle in state building and activities, he called upon the SPA

deputies to make painstaking efforts as befitting the masters of state affairs
and representatives of the people so as to turn the future five years into the
ones of better and more worthwhile transformation and for the future of the
DPRK which will grow stronger.
All the participants expressed full support and approval with enthusiastic
applause to Kim Jong Un's speech which comprehensively and scientifically
clarified the path of victory, to be followed by our state, and its perfect action
programs at a new stage of accomplishing the socialist cause.
His historic policy speech is an immortal state-building programme that
enables our people to make the unprecedented epoch-making victory, gained
in building a prosperous power through their heroic and bold pioneering
struggle, lead on to the dynamic prosperity and leap forward.
All the participants hardened their will to fully discharge their duties entrusted
by the people in firmly defending Korean-style socialism centered on the
popular masses and accelerating the comprehensive development of the
state by thoroughly applying the fighting strategy and ways, set forth by Kim
Jong Un, in the overall state affairs.
Deputy Jo Yong Won, chairman of the SPA, made a closing address.
The First Session of the 15th SPA served as a historic occasion that greatly
raised the patriotic enthusiasm of all the people across the country to usher in
a period of comprehensive prosperity of the state by redoubling the fighting
spirit with which they have pioneered the period of changes unprecedented in
history, true to the leadership of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un.