Kim Jong-un's Speech on Party Founding Day... "Solving People's Food, Clothing, and Housing Issues in the Next 5 Years"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] Kim Jong-un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, announced that he will resolve the people's food, clothing, and housing issues over the next five years in celebration of the Party's founding day (October 10).

The Korean Central News Agency reported on the 11th, "Comrade Kim Jong-un delivered a keynote speech titled 'Let us further improve and strengthen Party work to meet the new development stage of socialist construction' at the commemorative lecture for the 76th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea on the 10th."

According to the agency, in this lecture, General Secretary Kim stated, "The five-year plan period set by the Party's 8th Congress will be an effective five years to boost the country's economy and solve the people's food, clothing, and housing issues, a five-year period of great transformation that will bring about another significant change to the landscape ahead of schedule, and we will continuously carry out grand operations for the next stage to build a socialist power that the world envies, which is the determination and will of our Party."

To achieve this, cadres of Party committees at all levels must be "true Party workers who hold unconditional confidence in our cause, feel infinite pride and fulfillment in hardships, find happiness in the people's laughter, feel the slightest inconvenience of the people as their greatest pain, and consider repaying their expectations as a rightful duty and an unearned honor," the agency reported.

Furthermore, General Secretary Kim pointed out to the cadres, "Acts that infringe upon the people's interests and alienate the Party from the masses can never be tolerated," and urged them to "thoroughly guard against the biases appearing in Party work."

It is unusual for General Secretary Kim to give a commemorative lecture on the Workers' Party founding day. Since he mentioned the "brilliant achievements made in Party building over the past 10 years," it appears to commemorate his 10 years in power.

Also, the lecture focused on domestic messages, with no messages directed toward South Korea or the United States. Professor Lim Eul-chul of Kyungnam University's Institute for Far Eastern Studies explained, "General Secretary Kim is effectively engaging in speech politics and lecture politics," and "the demands related to improving Party work are essentially condensed into the governing ideology of putting the people first."

This indicates why North Korea will inevitably focus on domestic issues rather than external ones for a considerable period. Professor Lim stated, "In the situation where General Secretary Kim is emphasizing socialist construction, the essential requirement of the socialist system?'taking full responsibility for the people's livelihood and satisfactorily meeting the people's increasing material and cultural needs'?is becoming increasingly important," adding, "they will employ a strategy focused on creating an environment that allows concentrating on solving economic problems while managing foreign relations as stably as possible."

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