North Korea’s parliament has outlined plans to bring into line industrial production and meet its economic goals this year, despite the “worst-ever uproar amid the coronavirus pandemic in 2022, state media said on Thursday.
The introverted country’s rubber-stamp parliament, Supreme People’s Assembly, held a two-day meeting from Tuesday to discuss government budget, economic policy and personnel changes, Leader Kim Jong Un was absent from the meeting while premier of the cabinet, Kim Tok Hun,
Kim Tok Hun called for normalizing the production of metal factories and reinforcing iron mines and steel plants, and for operating chemical plants “at full capacity” to accelerate construction projects.