Juche

    Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un elucidated in New Year Address of 2019 that every sector in national economy should give impetus to hitting the targets of the five-year strategy for national economic development.

    In order to give impetus to hitting the targets of the five-year strategy for national economic development in every sector of the national economy, primary efforts should be directed to relieving the shortage of electricity to make a breakthrough in revitalizing the national economy.

    For the present, it is important to raise power generation to the peak year level by focusing state investment on the electric-power industry to maintain and reinforce its existing foundation and making maximum and effective use of it to renovate and modernize one by one badly needed sectors and projects.

    It is also important to take the problem of easing the strain on electricity as an undertaking of the whole state, step up the construction of hydroelectric power stations including Orangchon and Tanchon power stations and create a capacity for generating tidal, wind and atomic power under a far-reaching plan. It is also important for provinces, cities and counties to develop and utilize in an effective way various energy sources available in their local areas.

    In order to give impetus to hitting the targets of the five-year strategy for national economic development in every sector of the national economy, coal production should be increased.

    The coal-mining industry should channel efforts, first and foremost, into supplying coal to thermal power stations so that they can normalize electricity generation without letup.

    The whole country should render active ideological and spiritual, material and technical assistance to coal mines, and the state should take stringent steps to provide in a responsible manner facilities and materials needed for coal production and good living conditions for coal miners.

    In order to give impetus to hitting the targets of the five-year strategy for national economic development in every sector of the national economy, a greater development should be achieved in establishing the Juche orientation in the metallurgical and chemical industries, the two pillars in economic construction.

    The metallurgical industry should lower production cost to the minimum by perfecting the scientific and technological aspects of the Juche-oriented iron and steel-making processes and ensuring their normal operation, and work out and implement an operations plan for providing them with full amounts of iron ore, refractories and ferro-alloys to meet their increased production capacity.

    The chemical industry should step up the building of the phosphatic fertilizer factory and the establishment of the C1 chemical industry, develop the glauberite and synthetic fibre industries and convert the existing equipment and technical processes into energy-saving and labour-saving ones. This year a nationwide effort should be made to run the chemical fertilizer factories at full capacity and boost production at the February 8 Vinalon Complex.

     In order to give impetus to hitting the targets of the five-year strategy for national economic development in every sector of the national economy, rail and other transport sectors should launch an intensive campaign to strengthen discipline and increase their carriage and traffic capacities to ease the strain on transport. The machine-building industry should upgrade designing and processing techniques to develop and produce a variety of modern machinery and equipment in its own way to suit actual conditions of the country.