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Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, guided the meeting.Attending the meeting were members of ...
02/06/2022

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, guided the meeting.

Attending the meeting were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and members and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee. Also, present as observers were officials of the state emergency epidemic prevention headquarters.

First, the Political Bureau heard a report of the state emergency epidemic prevention headquarters on the state of the epidemic spread as of May 28.

More than 89 500 fevered cases and over 106 390 recoveries were reported from May 27 to 28 throughout the country.

The total number of fevered persons, found as of May 28 since late April, is about 3 448 880, of which more than 3 262 700 (94.602%) have recovered and at least 186 110 (5.396%) are under medical treatment across the country.

Reported to the Political Bureau were the epidemic situation in each region, the characteristics of course of the pandemic disease, various analysis data, the supply of medicines and the experiences in treatment.

The Political Bureau heard the results of the state-sponsored study and clarification of the first place of the outbreak of the pandemic disease and the cause of infection before discussing the relevant issues.

It made a positive evaluation of the pandemic situation being controlled and improved across the country and discussed the issues of continuously stabilizing and improving the overall anti-epidemic situation while further consolidating the experiences gained in the early period of the anti-epidemic work.

The Political Bureau examined the issue of effectively and quickly coordinating and enforcing the anti-epidemic regulations and guidelines given the current stable anti-epidemic situation.

The meeting heard the accounts of the technical guidance teams' activities for the mid-term review of the ex*****on of the Party and state policies set forth at the 4th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Party Central Committee and discussed the important issues concerning the preparations for the 5th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Party Central Committee.

A research group of the History Faculty of Kim Il Sung University has unearthed cave relics of the Palaeolithic era in R...
12/05/2022

A research group of the History Faculty of Kim Il Sung University has unearthed cave relics of the Palaeolithic era in Rimgyong Workers’ District of Kangdong County in Pyongyang. They intensified research into the relics to scientifically illuminate the appearance of the relics.

They discovered seven human (neolithic man) fossils, over 300 animal bone fossils in nine kinds and 274 pieces of fossil spore and pollen in the cultural layer (second layer) of the Palaeolithic era.

The electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) measurement was conducted to confirm that the relics date back to 23 000±3 000 years ago, and human fossils (teeth and skull bones) were those of a 30-year-old woman in the latter period of the Palaeolithic age.

The DPRK Archaeology Society deliberated on the fossils discovered in the natural cave of the district and named it Kangdong Woman after the place name.

According to the deliberation of the non-permanent tangible cultural heritage deliberation and assessment committee and the Cabinet decision, the Rimgyong cave relics have been put on a list for preservation.

The discovery of Kangdong Woman in the Kangdong area, Pyongyang, where there is the tomb of Tangun, the founding father of the Korean nation, is of great importance in anthropologically clarifying that people had lived consecutively in the area since the dawn of human civilization to create time-honoured history and culture.

The Eighth Political Bureau meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was convened at the o...
12/05/2022

The Eighth Political Bureau meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was convened at the office building of the Party Central Committee on May 12.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, was present at the meeting.

Attending the meeting were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and members and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee.

Present there as observers were officials in the state emergency epidemic prevention sector and some commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence.

The General Secretary presided over the meeting.

First, the Political Bureau discussed an issue of convening the plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee.

Adopted at the meeting with unanimous approval was a decision of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee on convening the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee early in June to make intermediate summing-up of the ex*****on of the Party and state policies in 2022 and discuss and decide on a series of important issues.

Next, the Political Bureau discussed the issue of coping with the situation of an epidemic prevention crisis facing the country.

It recognized as follows:

The most serious state emergency incident has occurred that a hole was broken in our emergency epidemic prevention front which has firmly been defended for two years and three months from February 2020.

The state emergency epidemic prevention command and relevant units deliberated over the results of strict gene arrangement analysis of the analytes collected from persons with fever of an organization in the capital on May 8 and concluded that it coincided with o mutated virus BA.2 which has recently spread worldwide rapidly.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic Peopl...
11/05/2022

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, on May Day had a photo session with the students and working youth in the capital city of Pyongyang who have contributed to holding the successful military parade for celebrating the 90th founding anniversary of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army.

Present there were Ri Il Hwan, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, and Kim Yong Hwan, chief secretary of the Pyongyang Municipal Committee of the WPK.

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