The state news agency KCNA today published the leader’s full speech at the 10th meeting of the 14th legislature of the Supreme People’s Assembly, focused on the immediate tasks for the development of the country and the well-being of the people.

Kim stressed that these successes were possible due to the support for the policies of the Party, the State and the Government, and despite the efforts and resources allocated to defense to counteract the enemy’s hostile actions.

Our people confirmed once again the justice of their cause and the will to develop comprehensively through the process of socialist construction, he stressed.

He called to turn the triumphs of 2023 into a platform for those of 2024 and recalled that those two years are key to successfully completing the current Five-Year Plan. The most important task of the Government is to continue promoting the rise of the economy and march towards stable and sustainable development, he stressed.

He said that a special effort must be made in agriculture due to the weight of that sector in satisfying the needs and well-being of the population, the supreme objective of the PTC, the State and the Government.

He noted, however, that since it is a matter of survival, the DPRK must continue to dedicate great efforts and resources to defense because the Korean Peninsula has become a virtual theater of war due to the threats and provocations of the United States and its allies. South Korea and Japan.

The warmongering fever of the enemies forces us to march along the path of strengthening the national self-defense capacity in order to guarantee the tranquility of the country, the people and future generations, he said.

Kim also referred to the Supreme People’s Assembly’s decision to dissolve the reconciliation mechanisms with South Korea, namely the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, the National Economy Collaboration Directorate and the International Tourism Directorate. Mount Kumgang.

In this regard, he said that the bitter history of inter-Korean relations demonstrates the impossibility of moving along the path of territorial reunification since Seoul adopted total confrontation with the DPRK as a state policy and advocates the “collapse of the regime” and “unification through absorption.”

The general secretary of the WPK even urged to amend the Magna Carta of the DPRK to make clear the rejection of several articles of the South Korean Constitution that are openly aggressive and hostile in nature.

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