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5th Enlarged Meeting of 8th CMC, WPK held

The Fifth Enlarged Meeting of the Eighth Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea was held.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the WPK, Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, guided the meeting.
Present there were members of the Central Military Commission of the WPK, commanding personnel of the Ministry of National Defence and commanding officers of the services and corps of the Korean People's Army. Also on hand as observers were senior officials of the departments concerned of the Party Central Committee.
The meeting discussed the orientations of important political and military activities of the People's Army and measures including the issue on organizing and waging a powerful struggle on a nationwide scale by dispatching the People's Army to major sites for radical development of the socialist construction.
The Central Military Commission of the WPK confirmed again the importance of the solution of the rural problem raised by the Party as the most crucial prerequisite and strategic matter for the accomplishment of the socialist cause and the progress of the current rural construction. It presented as the core items of the discussion the ways for unconditionally and thoroughly implementing the clear orientation and goals of the medium- and long-term development of the socialist rural construction.
The meeting confirmed the orientation of activities and specific tasks of the People's Army to accelerate the rural development, local construction and grand socialist construction which the Party designs in a prospective way and leads with purposeful struggle, discussed organizational and structural measures and plan of using military force for their implementation and adopted relevant decisions with unanimous approval.
The meeting also discussed and decided on the important practical measures to more effectively exercise the war deterrent of the country and put it to powerful and offensive use for coping with the present situation in which the war provocation moves of the United States and south Korea are reaching the grave danger line every hour.
Reviewing and analyzing the subjective and objective situation created in the way of advance of the Korean revolution, Kim Jong Un said today's creative campaign to promote the great cause of overall development of the state bravely overcoming every challenge and obstacle demands the People's Army which has always played the vanguard role in the implementation of the Party's far-reaching program lead the whole society with more dynamic and passionate struggle.
He said the People's Army must become the driving force and example in the sacred struggle for the socialist rural construction and economic development to put the ideal of the people into brilliant reality and unconditionally hit the stepwise goals to surely achieve the prosperity of the country year by year.