This picture taken on June 27, 2022 and released from DPRK's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on June 28 shows DPRK top leader Kim Jong-un (right) attending an enlarged meeting of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) at the office building of the WPK Central Committee in Pyongyang. (STR / KCNA VIA KNS / AFP)
SEOUL - Democratic People’s Republic of Korea top leader Kim Jong-un presided over another meeting of the ruling party to tighten discipline, state media said on Tuesday, as Pyongyang continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and gears up for potential flood damage from heavy rains.
The enlarged meeting of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was held on Monday to discuss "improving and readjusting the work system of Party guiding organs at all levels," the DPRK's official KCNA said.
The enlarged meeting of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was held on Monday to discuss "improving and readjusting the work system of Party guiding organs at all levels," the DPRK's official KCNA said
State media did not elaborate how the party system was adjusted, but during another secretariat meeting held about two weeks ago, Kim had ordered preserving discipline against "abuse of power and bureaucratism revealed among some Party officials."
Kim has been holding a series of party meetings in recent weeks as Pyongyang battles an intestinal epidemic outbreak following a wave of COVID infections, with the start of the rainy season earlier than usual adding concerns over the crop output.
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"Farm villages across the country are putting efforts into protecting paddy rice from rainstorm during the rainy season," KCNA said on Monday.
The KCNA also said the country has been conducting "ideological work" to "inform the masses of the validity and scientific accuracy of the emergency anti-epidemic policies enforced by the Party and the state."
The DPRK earlier said that the COVID wave has shown signs of subsiding. It reported 6,710 more people with fever symptoms on Tuesday, with the total number of fever patients recorded since late April nearing 4.73 million.
