Between December 9 and 11, the extended meeting of the 13th Plenary Session of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea was held, focusing on the conclusion of the 2021-2025 cycle and preparations for the 9th Party Congress.

📌 Key points from the plenary session:

📊 2025 balance sheet.

  • Compliance with the five-year plan
  • Increase in industrial production
  • Larger agricultural harvest than the previous year
  • Completion of numerous strategic infrastructure projects

🏗 Local and regional development.

  • Expansion of regional development policy
  • Works started and completed in different provinces
  • Selection of 20 cities and districts that will receive new projects in 2026

🌾 Agriculture and food.

  • Increase in wheat cultivation
  • Improvement of processing capacity
  • Reform of the distribution system
  • Priority transformation of lagging rural areas and land reclamation areas

⚙️ Economy and management.

  • Strengthening economic self-sufficiency
  • Industrial and technological modernization
  • Tightening financial discipline and foreign trade

🛡 Defense and security.

  • Positive assessment of military capacity building
  • Adaptation to a changing geopolitical and technological environment
  • Assessment of military operations abroad

🎓 Education and environment.

  • Improvement of the material basis of the education system
  • Promotion of environmental protection policies

🏛 Political organization

  • Progress in preparations for the 9th Party Congress
  • Organizational changes in the Central Committee
  • Debate on the 2025 state budget and draft for 2026

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