The Political Bureau apopted Joint Resolution against COVID-19 pandemic.

By Rodong Sinmun The meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea discussed in depth and decided on the issue of taking stricter state measures for protecting people's life and safety from the worldwide pandemic.It also set forth detailed goals for economic construction, increasing national defence capability and stabilizing people's livelihood this year and indicated tasks facing every field and unit including Party and government organs, working people's organizations and armed forces organs and ways to carry them out.The recent meeting comes to be an important occasion to clearly show the revolutionary nature of the WPK which holds full responsibility for the destiny of the people and which regards it as the paramount principle of its activities to improve the people's living.Making selfless, devoted efforts for the good of the people is the mode of existence and revolutionary climate of the WPK.For our Party, nothing is more precious than the safety of the people. The Party's intention is that if any success in socialist construction cast a shadow over the safety of the people and their happy life, though it is miraculous one of the century, it, in essence, would mean no victory.This is why the meeting discussed the issue of taking stricter nationwide step as the first agenda item for protecting the safety of the people against the worldwide pandemic and the revolutionary measures were taken to adjust and modify certain policy tasks that have been carried out with much effort.The implementation of the joint resolution adopted at the meeting is not a mere technical work, but a struggle for defending and serving the people to bring the Party's noble loving care for the people into bloom.Everyone has to think and do all works from the standpoint of making selfless, devoted efforts for the good of the people, whatever they do in the ongoing grand onward movement of creation.We should constantly intensify the nationwide anti-epidemic work.All the officials, Party members and other working people should not slacken vigilance although the worldwide pandemic has not yet entered our country but more strictly observe the rules and regulations. They should be prompt in informing relevant organs of any abnormal phenomena, no matter how trivial they may be.All sectors and units of the national economy should more fully display the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance.They should hold fast to self-reliance and science and technology to turn adversity and misfortune to good account, thereby demonstrating to the full the creative mettle of Juche Korea and its spirit of making a leap forward.It is imperative to enhance the role of Party organizations to the maximum.Party organizations at all levels should implant the idea and spirit of this meeting deep in the people’s minds and wage an intensive revolutionary ideological offensive for encouraging them to implement the joint resolution.The Party organizations should give an active boost to the Cabinet and other economic organs so that they can scrupulously organize economic planning and guidance in pursuance of the intention of the Party Central Committee and push forward the struggle for improving people’s livelihood without an inch of deflection.(Text compiled from Rodong Sinmun and KCNA, April 17, 2020 -ed)