SEOUL, April 12 – RIA Novosti. A meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the workers ‘ party of Korea was held on 11 April with the participation of North Korean leader Kim Jong-UN, discussed the budget issues, personnel changes and combat the pandemic of coronavirus, reports the North Korean Central news Agency (KCNA).
the meeting was Chaired by Kim Jong-UN, participation of members and candidate members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the WPK.
As noted by South Korean Yonhap news Agency, the fact that a Politburo meeting was held on Saturday, implied that the Supreme people’s Assembly (SPA) of the DPRK, which was to be held on Friday, was postponed for unknown reasons.
This is confirmed by the agenda of the meeting of the Politburo, stated KCNA. The meeting discussed the staffing issues that “will be presented at the third session of the ANS 14th convocation”, the country’s budget, as well as measures for the fight against deadly coronavirus.
the KCNA about the contents of the agenda notes that the coronavirus pandemic “is spreading rapidly all over the world and turns into the worst disaster of all mankind” that shows the inability to eliminate this risk in the short term, and it can become an obstacle to the economic development of the DPRK.
the DPRK will continue to “strictly” implement government measures to prevent the spread of the virus. Adopted at the meeting of the joint decision of the Central Committee of the WPK, the DPRK’s state Council, the Cabinet of Ministers of the DPRK “on a more consistent adoption of national measures for the protection of the safety of life of the people of the DPRK in connection with a deadly pandemic” implies a further tightening of anti-epidemic measures.
North Korea continues to declare that in its territory there are no confirmed infected with the coronavirus COVID-2019.
Also during the meeting further elected several members and candidate members of the Politburo, including the appointment of the sister of Kim Jong-UN Kim-Jeong a candidate member of the Politburo. She was expelled from its members during the plenary meeting of the Working party in April 2019, after the failed summit, the US-DPRK in Hanoi, which ended without any agreement between Kim Jong-UN and U.S. President Donald trump.
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