Kim Jong-un "Will Present New 5-Year National Economic Development Plan in January Next Year" (2nd Report)

Holding the Party Plenary Meeting... Decision to Convene the 8th Party Congress in January

North Korean State Affairs Commission Chairman Kim Jong Un held the 16th Political Bureau meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party at the Party Central Committee headquarters on the 13th, according to a report by the Korean Central News Agency on the 14th.

North Korea held a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party and decided to convene the 8th Party Congress in January next year, according to the North Korean state media Korean Central News Agency on the 20th.

The agency reported, "On August 19, Juche 109 (2020), the 6th plenary meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was held at the headquarters building of the Party Central Committee," adding, "The main agenda was to discuss the issue of convening the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea."

Presiding over the meeting, Chairman Kim Jong-un proposed, "To comprehensively, three-dimensionally, and anatomically analyze and summarize the biases and shortcomings that appeared in the work to implement the decisions of the 7th Party Congress during this critical period of our revolution, and to discuss and decide on the strategic tasks of a new stage of struggle facing the Party and government, the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party will be convened."

Chairman Kim stated, "At the 8th Party Congress, a new five-year national economic development plan will be presented."

In the decision document of the Party plenary meeting, North Korea pointed out, "Due to the harsh domestic and international situation continuing and unexpected challenges overlapping, the economic work was not improved accordingly, resulting in the serious underachievement of the planned national economic growth targets and no clear improvement in the people's living standards."

This plenary meeting of the Party was held about eight months after the 5th plenary meeting of the 7th Central Committee held from December 28 to 31 last year. All members and alternate members of the Party Central Committee participate in the plenary meeting, where key national strategies and policy lines are decided.

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