Deputy Kim Tok Hun, premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), swore an oath at the 4th Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK on Sunday on behalf of the Cabinet members.

He said that he was entrusted with an important duty as premier of the Cabinet in token of the high political trust of Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, and would surely live up to the trust and expectation of the Party and the people.

He went on:

The Cabinet will hold fast to the lines and policies of the WPK as its lifeline to organize and command in a responsible manner the economic work for carrying out the decision of the 8th Congress of the Party and thus faithfully fulfill its mission and duty in the drive for developing the national economy and improving the people's standard of living.

The Cabinet will hold in high esteem the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the great head of our Party, state and people and outstanding leader of the Juche revolution, with pure loyalty and conscience and thoroughly establish the Party's unified leadership system in the economic work.

The Cabinet will attach top priority to laying firm foundation for revitalizing the whole of national economy and improving the people's living standard by concentrating forces on key industries according to the general direction of economic construction indicated by the 8th Party Congress.

The Cabinet will further strengthen the Cabinet-responsibility system, Cabinet-centered system as required by the developing reality and enhance its executive ability and control for implementing economic tasks, so as to ensure the reliable state unified guidance and strategic management of the overall economic work.

The Cabinet will establish in all aspects our own-style economic management method embodying the Juche idea, thoroughly reject irrationalities and formulism latent in the field of economic work and achieve the maximum economic development on the basis of the existing economic foundation.

The Cabinet will improve the work of planning, drastically increase the reliability of the national economic plan, establish a strict discipline in the implementation of the plan and thus carry out without fail the five-year plan for national economic development set forth by the Party.

The Cabinet will promote the sci-tech development to certainly open up the broad avenue towards prosperity by dint of self-reliance, and bring about an era of all-round efflorescence in the fields of education, public health, art and literature and sports.

The Cabinet will make a positive contribution to beefing up the country's military muscle in every way by giving top priority to the supply of equipment, materials and fund necessary for developing the national defense industry and modernizing military equipment.

The Cabinet will make the people's committees at all levels uphold with loyalty the Party's idea of "The people are God" and its people-first policy, so that they have to make the spirit of making selfless, devoted efforts for the good of the people run through all their works and activities and fulfill their responsibility and duty as the master responsible for the people's living.

The Cabinet members and other economic guidance officials will display high sense of responsibility, initiative and creativity to plan the economic work in an innovative way and stoutly carry it out to the end. 

(KCNA - Jnury 18, 2021)