The second-day sitting of the First Session of the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was held on March 23.

The speaker and deputy speakers of the SPA took the chair.

The newly elected leading officials of the state took the platform.

The session discussed the issue related to the amendments to the Constitution as its fourth agenda item.

Jo Yong Won, speaker of the Supreme People’s Assembly, made a report.

The reporter said that to amend and supplement the Constitution of the DPRK, a legal basis and political charter for defending the dignity and sovereignty of the country and the people and ensuring their independent development, as required by the new stage of the developing revolution, constitutes an important landmark in legally guaranteeing the victorious advance of socialist construction and the cause of the DPRK. He explained in detail the contents of the draft law amended and supplemented, including the renaming of the “Socialist Constitution of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” as the “Constitution of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”.

The session examined the draft law and adopted with full approval an ordinance of the DPRK SPA “On the amendment and supplementing of the Socialist Constitution of the DPRK”.

It discussed the issue of thoroughly implementing the new five-year plan for national economic development as the fifth agenda item.

Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet, made a report.

The reporter said that the past five years were the years of great changes when Korean-style socialist construction definitely entered the stage of comprehensive development and remarkable progress was made in the struggle for the prosperity of the country and the wellbeing of the people, adding that this proud success is a brilliant fruition of the outstanding leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Un who clearly indicated the main tasks and ways for carrying out economic construction and energetically guided them.

He said that the historic Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea set it as a primary task of socialist economic construction at the present stage to lay the developmental foundations for the stable and sustainable growth of the country’s economy and substantially improve the people’s living standards while consolidating the successes made during the eighth term of the Party Central Committee. And he referred to the Cabinet’s work plan and ways for thoroughly implementing the task.

The tasks facing us are huge, but we are sure to win as the Party, the people and socialism are united by sharing their destiny and there are tens of millions of people supporting the WPK’s leadership wholeheartedly, he said, expressing the firm will to unconditionally fulfill the new five-year plan for national economic development by enhancing the role of the Cabinet as an economic control tower in every way.

Oral or written speeches were made by Ri Chol Man, Paek Song Guk, Kim Kwang Nam, Yun Jae Hyok, Kim Sung Chan, Pak Jong Gun, Kim Yu Il, Kim Son Myong, Kim Sung Jin and Ri Song Bom.

Reviewing the work of relevant sectors and units for implementing the Party’s and the state’s policies over the past five years, they stressed that through the hard yet honourable struggle, they came to keenly realize that a shortcut to making a leap forward is to make bold innovations going beyond the limit and consistently prioritize science and technology with confidence in victory.

They pledged to carry through the new long-term plan by fulfilling their responsibilities and duties in the work to lead the new struggle of a higher stage to epoch-making results on the basis of the past successes, experience and lessons.

The session adopted with unanimous approval an ordinance of the DPRK SPA “On thoroughly carrying out the five-year plan for national economic development set forth by the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea”.

The session discussed the issue of the state budget as the sixth agenda item.

The Supreme People’s Assembly recognized that the state budget for 2025 was implemented correctly as planned amid the struggle to successfully accomplish the final year’s task during the eighth term of the Party Central Committee and that the state budget for 2026 has been properly set up to ensure the simultaneous and balanced development of all sectors and provide a financial guarantee for the improvement of the people’s living standards while concentrating investment on bolstering up the national defence capabilities and successfully attaining the goals of economic sectors as required by the decisions of the Ninth Party Congress and the First Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Party Central Committee.

The session adopted a decision of the DPRK SPA “On approving the fulfilment of the state budget of the DPRK for 2025” and an ordinance of the DPRK SPA “On the state budget of the DPRK for 2026”.

There was a policy speech by the head of state at the session.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, appeared at the venue of the session to clarify the important policy orientation of the DPRK government.

All the participants broke into enthusiastic cheers, extending highest respects to Comrade Kim Jong Un who is building the DPRK into an ever-prosperous socialist power, solid with single-minded unity and strong with matchless national strength, with his spirit of devoted service to the country and the people and seasoned and sophisticated leadership.

Comrade Kim Jong Un made the historic policy speech.

He congratulated all the deputies who were elected as members of the 15th supreme power body of the dignified state thanks to the deep trust and support of all the people across the country, and reviewed the state affairs during the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly which brought about successful years through the arduous struggle. And he set forth important tasks and ways for the DPRK government to further promote the prosperity of the state and the wellbeing of the people as required by the reality in which the socialist cause of a Korean style has entered a new phase.

Stressing the importance of more dynamically stepping up the three revolutions–ideological, technological and cultural–in keeping with the present phase of socialist construction while consistently adhering to the principle of independent politics, self-supporting economy and self-reliant defence and the people-first principle in state building and activities, he called upon the SPA deputies to make painstaking efforts as befitting the masters of state affairs administration and representatives of the people so as to turn the five years to come into a period of better and more worthwhile transformation and for the future of the DPRK which will grow stronger.

All the participants expressed full support and approval with enthusiastic applause to Kim Jong Un’s speech which comprehensively and scientifically clarified the path of victory, to be followed by the DPRK, and its perfect action programmes at a new stage of accomplishing the socialist cause.

His historic policy speech is an immortal state-building programme that enables the Korean people to make the unprecedented epoch-making victory, gained in building a prosperous power through their heroic and bold pioneering struggle, lead on to the dynamic prosperity and leap forward.

All the participants hardened their will to fully discharge their duties entrusted by the people in firmly defending Korean-style socialism centred on the masses of the people and accelerating the comprehensive development of the state by thoroughly applying the fighting strategy and ways, set forth by Kim Jong Un, in the overall state affairs.

Jo Yong Won, speaker of the SPA, made a closing address.

The First Session of the 15th SPA served as a historic occasion that greatly boosted the patriotic enthusiasm of all the people across the country to usher in a period of comprehensive prosperity of the state by redoubling the fighting spirit with which they had pioneered the period of transformation unprecedented in the annals of the country’s history, true to the leadership of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un.