North Korea’s Kim Jong Un talks about non-nuclear food by 2022 Kim Jong Un News

Kim says he wants to boost economic development and improve people’s lives as he celebrates the 10th anniversary of his leadership.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended his 10th year in power with a speech on tractor factories and school uniforms that referred to nuclear weapons or the United States, according to state media summaries on Saturday.

North Korea’s main goals for 2022 will be to kick-start economic development and improve people’s lives as it faces a “great struggle of life and death,” Kim said in a speech at the end of the 4th Plenary Session of the 8th Central. The Committee on the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) began on Monday.

The reunion coincided with the 10th anniversary of Kim’s return to the country’s leadership in 2011 after the death of her father.

Kim has used previous talks about the new year to make big political predictions, including launching major diplomatic engagements with South Korea and the US.

But summaries of his speech, published in the North Korean state media, made no specific reference to the United States, only a temporary reference to inter-Korean relations and inaccurate discussions on “foreign affairs.”

The focus of the speech was to highlight the economic crisis that Kim is experiencing at home, where self-imposed border pandemics against the pandemic have left North Korea more isolated than ever.

“The core tasks that the party and the people will have next year are to provide a firm guarantee for the implementation of the five-year plan and to make significant changes in national development and the lives of its citizens,” Kim said.

Kim spent most of his speech focusing on domestic issues, the need to suppress people’s diets, school uniforms, and “non-socialist practices” from an ambitious plan for rural development.

He cited unspecified military progress as a significant achievement last year and discussed “militant tasks” to tackle national defense in 2022. The tractor factory he discussed at the conference is also likely to be used to build missile launch vehicles, foreign analysts said. , and North Korea is believed to have expanded its arsenal despite blockades.

Chad O’Carroll, the founder of NK News, a North Seoul-based website that monitors North Korea, said the focus on rural development is a populist strategy.

“Overall, Kim may be aware that this year’s introduction of sophisticated military development plans while people are suffering from food shortages and harsh conditions outside of Pyongyang may not have been a good idea this year,” he wrote on Twitter.