This picture taken on February 8, 2021 and released from the DPRK's official Korean Central News Agency on February 9 shows DPRK leader Kim Jong-un attending the first day of the 2nd plenary meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in the DPRK. (STR / KCNA VIA KNS / AFP)

Kim Jong-un, the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), specified the direction of polices related to this year's economic development plan at a meeting on Tuesday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Wednesday.

At the second plenary meeting of the eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), Kim, the newly-reelected party general secretary, set forth tasks for different sectors, including economy and culture, and called for "enhancing the role of the state organs for economic guidance to carry them out," according to the report.

DPRK top leader Kim Jong-un reiterated the need for economic officials to "decisively enhance their responsibility and role in planning and guiding this year's economic work"

Kim also put forward tasks for the fishing sector so as to provide people with more marine products.

He stressed the need for the economic sector to carry out innovative and reasonable plans to protect the economy and consolidate its independence, it added.

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"Propping up agriculture is an important state affair" that must be successful in solving the food problem and pushing ahead the cause of socialist construction, the DPRK leader added.

Noting that the party will support bold economic renovation, Kim reiterated the need for economic officials to "decisively enhance their responsibility and role in planning and guiding this year's economic work," according to the report.

The meeting, which will run through Wednesday, is the second of its kind this year after the first plenary meeting of the WPK central committee was held last month, it added.

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