North Korea's plenum stresses that all central agencies, enterprises and organizations should be key players in the development of science and technology

An extended meeting of the 10th plenum of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) held from June 28 to July 1 stressed that all central agencies, enterprises, factories and organizations should be the main players in the development of science and technology. This means that the development of science and technology should be carried out not only by research institutes or related organizations, but by all institutions.

"As was clearly stated at the plenary session, what the Party's central leadership believes in and expects more firmly, and what it expects more strongly as it calls for more vigorous efforts to fight for the country's prosperous development and the people's well-being, is a stronger and ever-improving scientific and technological strength," the Rodong Sinmun reported on July 13.

The newspaper stressed that science and technology are the foundation and core of comprehensive national strength, and that the most strategic resource in the struggle to achieve the 12 key points of economic development and the struggle to implement local development policies is not materials or funds, but science and technology. Those who grasp science and technology will surely become winners and conquerors in the future, while those who miss it will inevitably become losers and failures.

Workers and toilers in all sectors and at all levels should deeply cherish the Party's noble will to always attach great importance to science and technology in the revolution and construction, and rely on the power of science and technology to step up the struggle in the second half of the year.

The meeting stressed that the S&T sector should devote its efforts to solving practical problems in economic work, problems that urgently need to be solved in current production, and practical problems directly related to improving the stability of people's lives, Rodong Sinmun said.

The science and technology sector has a lot of work to do in the second half of the year, it said, adding that it has a heavy responsibility to complete the planned tasks in key nationally promoted goals, including the energy-saving oxyfuel furnace of the Huanghai Iron and Steel Combined Industry Center and the goal of creating a carbon-hydrogen chemical industry.

The Party stresses that all research, development and innovation projects must be carried out at a high level to ensure genuine science and efficiency and produce results, Rodong Sinmun said.

Scientists and technologists must overcome the disadvantages of producing results that end up on paper or in a few prototypes, or producing fake and incomplete products that do not contribute to production and construction, reduce costs or improve quality, and harm the country. We must develop and create something real, complete and useful, Rodong Sinmun argued. 

In particular, the role of provinces, central authorities, factories, enterprises and organizations in making full use of and constantly improving scientific and technological capabilities is crucial, the newspaper said. It stressed that provinces, central authorities, factories, enterprises and organizations should be the key players in the development of science and technology.

Although scientific research and education units play an important role in the development of science and technology, the scientific and technological capabilities of factories, enterprises and organizations are not weak at all, and the new technological innovations they research and introduce are as good as those of professional scientific research units, the newspaper said.

Under the heavy responsibility that the fate of the Party's S&T-oriented policy rests on their shoulders, the workers should become riders and avant-garde fighters in the struggle to transform their sectors and units with the power of S&T and build them into competitive groups, the newspaper stressed.

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