The session was convened at a time when all the people of the country are further accelerating the general advance to successfully complete all the tasks of the five-year plan for national economic development set forth by the historic Eighth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea and greet the 80th founding anniversary of the Party and the Ninth Congress of the Party with eventful successes to be specially recorded in the history of the country.

Present there were deputies to the SPA and, as observers, officials of the Party Central Committee, the SPA Standing Committee, the Cabinet, ministries, national agencies and armed forces organs and other officials concerned in Pyongyang and local areas.

Taking the platform were Pak Thae Song, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and premier of the DPRK Cabinet, Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, first vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and chairman of the SPA Standing Committee, and other senior Party, government and military officials, members of the State Affairs Commission, and vice-chairmen, secretary general and members of the SPA Standing Committee.

Speakers expressed their resolve to make positive contributions to accelerating the socialist economic construction and promoting the development of science, technology and culture by correctly abiding by the requirements of the law on intellectual property to be newly adopted.

The session adopted with unanimous approval ordinances of the DPRK SPA "On adopting the Law of the DPRK on Grain Management" and "On adopting the Law of the DPRK on Intellectual Property".

The session discussed the state of supervision of the enforcement of the law of the DPRK on urban management as the third agenda item.

Deputy Ko Kil Son, secretary general of the SPA Standing Committee, made a report to be followed by speeches of deputies Im Kyong Jae, Choe Hui Thae, Choe Myong Su and Jo Kil Nyo.

The report and speeches analyzed and reviewed the reason why the urban management is failing to keep pace with the present situation in which the appearance of the capital city and regional areas, towns and rural areas is undergoing a facelift to meet the requirements of an advanced and highly civilized nation through gigantic creation and changes.

Expressing the will to radically improve and strengthen urban management with innovative working manner and roles, the deputies offered constructive opinions on more thoroughly guaranteeing the enforcement of the law on urban management.

Deputy Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet, made public measures for the presented opinions.

The session adopted with unanimous approval a decision of the SPA of the DPRK "On Thoroughly Executing the Law of the DPRK on Urban Management".

The head of state made an important speech at the second-day sitting of the 13th Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly.

In his speech, Kim Jong Un expressed thanks to the Supreme People's Assembly for doing its work in a responsible manner on the basis of the mission and authority granted by the constitution, outlined the qualitative successes made in the development of all the national economic sectors in the nine months of this year, made a strict analysis of the trend of the situation on and around the Korean peninsula, and clarified the principled stand of the DPRK government towards the U.S. and the ROK.

He ardently called upon the deputies who have been entrusted with state affairs by the people and who pledged to work for them to make more proactive and devoted efforts to realize the prosperity of the Republic and its people's ideal.

Upon hearing Kim Jong Un's speech full of a noble sense of duty for accomplishing the socialist cause and the great spirit of serving the country and the people, all the deputies expressed full support for and approval of the administrative policy of the head of state with enthusiastic applause and cheers.

The historic speech made by Kim Jong Un at the 13th Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly serves as an immortal great programme for building the state which makes it possible for our people to give fuller play to their own heroism, indomitable stamina and bold fighting spirit in the invariable path of socialism chosen by themselves as faith and to open up a new stage of the development of the state with confidence.

The 13th Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK successfully concluded its work amid the extraordinary determination and great political enthusiasm of the participants to fulfill their responsibility and duty assigned by the people at the forefront of the sacred struggle to bring earlier the comprehensive rejuvenation of the dignified DPRK true to the ideology and cause of Kim Jong Un.

KPL