For Decisive Victory in Anti-Epidemic Campaign: DPR Korea

-Victory Brought By Great Love

Our people were healthy and sound during the last 2 years and 3 months since the outbreak of Covid-19. But Covid-19 has finally hit our country threatening the life of our people and putting our country into the greatest turmoil since its foundation.

But every minute and second of the time passed under the great love unknown to the world on this land where the maximum emergency anti-epidemic system was in motion.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un convened the 8th meeting of the Political Bureau of the 8th Central Committee of the WPK on May 12, 2022. There, he put forth a scientific anti-epidemic policy to bring the state anti-epidemic work under the maximum emergency anti-epidemic system. He saw to it that timely measures were taken one after another to achieve a decisive victory in the anti-epidemic campaign.

Since the Political Bureau meeting, mornings of this country were dawned with the news of WPK Central Committee (CC) Political Bureau meetings, Political Bureau consultative meetings and meetings of the Presidium of the Political Bureau, all of which were convened and presided by the respected Marshall with the single agenda item - safeguarding of the people’s lives.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un believes in people as in heaven. He has a strong sense of responsibility and duty, and boundless devotion to safeguard people’s health and well-being at any cost. Our people were attended by his warm love which never left them even for a moment.

He, being the commander of anti-epidemic campaign himself, visited the state emergency anti-epidemic headquarters to teach strategies and brilliant ideas for victory. With an earnest prayer that peace and laugh would settle again in all families across the country as soon as possible, he sent reserve medicines prepared by his family to the families in need.

He did not care about his personal health when he visited pharmacies in Pyongyang City which were frequented by sick people. There he stayed till late at night to learn the situation and work out practical measures. Looking up to their great father who regards people of this country as his own flesh and blood and devotes his all to the people, the whole country was moved to tears of happiness and gratitude.

He issued the special order of the Party Central Military Commission, never known in the history of our armed forces, and took measure to immediately stabilize the supply of medicines in Pyongyang City by involving the powerful forces from the military medical field of the People's Army. The medicines sent by the benevolent father became miraculous elixir of life which found its way to each household of this country and a legendary tale associated with it later came into existence.

Although the anti-epidemic situation was severe, our country got more stabilized and strengthened day by day. Our people’s spirit to traverse the difficulties with the united power of love and care grew in intensity.

The international society, which was looking closely at how the DPRK tides over this health crisis, was surprised to find that the anti-epidemic work was improving in no time in our country.

The Western media also carried articles under the title of “Leader Kim Jong Un shares life with his people”.

They said in detail that at the consultative meeting of the Political bureau of the Central Committee, he expressed his firm determination to share his life with people and donated medicines reserved in his family to be delivered to the families in the most difficult situation.

Other foreign personages expressed sympathy with our anti-epidemic policy.

They said to this effect that resolute determination and strong stand of the Korean Leader, stabilized social structure, ideological unity, discipline and swift quarantine measure stand in favor of the victory in the anti-epidemic war.

Our people have firm conviction and will that we would surely emerge victorious as long as we are led by Comrade Kim Jong Un. We have the invincible might of single hearted unity firmly rallied around Party with virtue and emotion. Because of these, we will surely prevail not only in the anti-epidemic work, but also any other storm in the future.

-Kim Jong Un Formulates a Policy on Building Up the State’s Anti-Epidemic Capabilities

Recently, an enlarged meeting of the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea was held in Pyongyang, the capital city of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in the presence of General Secretary Kim Jong Un.

The meeting discussed an important agenda item of powerfully pushing forward with building up the state’s anti-epidemic capabilities.

The General Secretary clarified the strategic and tactical plans for finally defusing the malignant epidemic crisis, restoring stability and vigorously promoting the building-up of the state’s anti-epidemic capabilities, its capacity to cope with crisis.

Now the state’s anti-epidemic work has entered the new stage of both blockade and eradication of the epidemic from the blockade-focused prevention after the unexpected serious crisis caused by the spread of the virulent virus.

In a report to the enlarged meeting the General Secretary said that, under the current situation in the state’s anti-epidemic work, the urgent task facing the Party and state is to immediately remedy the shortcomings and deviations revealed in the work and to take decisive steps for building up the country’s anti-epidemic capabilities.

He said that only when the anti-epidemic policy of the Party and state is enforced in a strict, scientific and advanced way, can it prove successful, stressing the need to steadily improve the anti-epidemic system and methods.

Our anti-epidemic work is based on the people’s voluntary unity in action, not on any institutional mechanism or material and technical means, he said, adding that great victory in this work can be won only through an all-people resistance, by their joint efforts.

On May 12 the state’s epidemic prevention system was switched to the top-level emergency anti-epidemic system; since then, the Korean people have turned out as one in implementing the ruling WPK’s and the government’s measures for rigorous blockade and anti-epidemic work.

In the report Kim Jong Un clarified in detail the tasks for overcoming the immediate epidemic crisis: The Party organizations at all levels should conduct a vigorous ideological work for arousing all the people to the anti-epidemic war and guide the emergency anti-epidemic work in a responsible manner; all the Party cells should find on their own initiative the work to be done in the current anti-epidemic situation and ensure that Party members fulfil their duties and responsibilities with the same thought and action; officials should always lead Party members and all other broad sections of the people in the van of the anti-epidemic front, learn in detail about and grasp the enforcement of the emergency anti-epidemic system on the spot and take timely steps.

Underlining the need to vigorously promote the building-up of the state’s anti-epidemic capabilities, he said that the capabilities to be built by us is an ensemble of a consolidated work system and order, technical forces, material foundations and potentials capable of containing, controlling and defusing any possible health crisis, which the country might face, on its own initiative and in a stable way.

He reviewed and analyzed the invaluable experience gained and lessons drawn in the course of ensuring the preventive security of the country for over two years by enforcing our own style of epidemic prevention policy and of running the top-level emergency anti-epidemic system. He noted that all the emergency anti-epidemic policies and guidelines and the measures and policies pursued so far by the Party and the government serve as a great asset for building up the state’s anti-epidemic capabilities.

He set forth the immediate goal, long-term goal and detailed ways for firmly consolidating the material and technical foundations for bolstering up the state’s anti-epidemic capabilities.

Noting that the current anti-epidemic war is an occasion for gaining priceless experience and stratagems for creditably defending the security of the country and the people in any future health crisis, he called for bringing about an unprecedented miracle in restoring the stability in the anti-epidemic work by further intensifying the Party work, economic organization and public healthcare to give the fullest play to the organizing ability of our united society and the advantages of the socialist public health system.

He ardently called for firmly protecting the health and safety of the dear people by organizing and launching the emergency anti-epidemic work scrupulously, flexibly and substantially with confidence and courage and powerfully accelerating the building-up of the country’s capabilities for coping with any epidemic disease and crisis.

-DPRK Soon Recovers Peace and Stability

After the malicious novel coronavirus had infiltrated its territory, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea promptly imposed nationwide blockade, and soon peace and stability gradually set in with the epidemic situation controlled in a stable manner. What made such a quick recovery possible?

The major factor is that the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea has assumed direct responsibility for the anti-epidemic war.

On May 12, the Eighth Meeting of the Political Bureau of the Eighth WPK Central Committee was convened. At the meeting Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the WPK, had the Political Bureau adopt a decision on switching the state epidemic prevention system to the top-level emergency anti-epidemic system.

Then he had a series of measures taken to promptly contain and manage the epidemic situation and to firmly hold the strategic initiative in the anti-epidemic campaign. He presided over the consultative meetings of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee on May 14 and 15. A meeting of the Presidium of the Political Bureau was called on May 17, and consultative meetings of the Political Bureau were held on May 21 and 29 under his guidance.

Within the 18 days after the top-level emergency anti-epidemic system had been put in place, he guided six major meetings to cope with the crisis, an unprecedented fact in the history of the WPK, which clearly shows how prompt and timely his measures were for the lives and safety of the people.

Kim Jong Un personally visited the sites of anti-epidemic work in spite of high risk to acquaint himself with the situation and take relevant measures, and had the household medicines from his family sent to those experiencing difficulties. It would also be written on a new page of the world history of anti-epidemic work.

He visited the state emergency epidemic prevention headquarters to acquaint himself with the national epidemic situation and had measures taken to implement immediately and thoroughly the items of the decision of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee so as to take up the winning position in the campaign proactively and definitely.

On May 15, shortly after the consultative meeting of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Jong Un visited some pharmacies in the capital city of Pyongyang. It was not long after the shop assistants recovered from the disease. Despite personal risk, he approached them and familiarized himself in detail with how medicines were supplied and stored, whether the pharmacies were open round the clock, what kinds of medicines were in highest demand and how much they cost. He also asked them to tell him what they thought the best treatment method was and how they would consult those with fever. Then he saw to it that officials put to rights the faults in the medicine supply system and take powerful measures with regard to the transport of medicines.

The DPRK’s recovery of stability through the anti-epidemic campaign can also be attributable to the state’s unified guidance, all the people’s voluntary unity to keep pace with it and their displays of tenderness and human feeling.

Since the enforcement of the nationwide blockade, the Korean people have been proactive and responsible in implementing the government’s measures including disinfection and closure.

According to the special order of the Central Military Commission of the WPK, nearly 3 000 medics of the Korean People’s Army were deployed in hundreds of pharmacies in Pyongyang to conduct transport and supply of medicines. They did not merely wait for the people to come to the pharmacies but visited the families in their charge to provide necessary medicines and actively engage in medical treatment, instilling in them confidence and courage. According to the data, tens of millions of medicines of over 90 kinds were supplied in Pyongyang and other provinces in a single day of May 24, and in early June the number increased to more than 360 million of over 430 kinds.

Throughout the country nearly 500 rapid mobile anti-epidemic groups and rapid diagnosis and treatment groups conducted confirmative diagnosis, transport and treatment of the cases and other anti-epidemic work. More than a million of medical workers and teachers and students of the medical education institutions and hygiene activists were mobilized for treatment, examination and disinfection.

The tenderness and human feeling of helping and leading one another forward can be said to be a major characteristic of the current anti-epidemic campaign in the DPRK. Many people donated spare medicines, money and grains to help the families in hardship. Some young pupils sent pharmacies medicine envelopes they made with their own hands.

Thousands of people who retired from the public health sector and even other ones volunteered to take part in the medical service. The volunteers also participated in the work for stabilizing the people’s living. Nearly 10 000 mobile service groups were organized across the country, and over 160 carts of vegetables, foodstuffs and daily necessities were deployed in each district of Pyongyang alone.

According to mass media of the DPRK, the daily occurrence of cases with fever continued to drop by 6.1 per cent on average from May 15, a few days after the blockade was imposed (May 12), and as of 18:00 hours, June 9, 4 265 860 (98.068 per cent of the total cases with fever) fully recovered and 83 980 (1.93 per cent) are under treatment.