Third Session of 11th SPA of DPRK Held

     Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The Third Session of the 11th Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was held at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on April 11. Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, appeared on the platform.
    It was also mounted by Kim Yong Nam, Jo Myong Rok, Pak Pong Ju, senior officials of the Party, the state and the army, chairpersons of friendly parties, and members of the Presidium of the SPA.
    Chairman of the SPA Choe Thae Bok made an opening address.
    The session discussed the following agenda items:
    1. On the review of the work of the DPRK Cabinet in Juche 93 (2004) and its tasks for Juche 94 (2005)
    2. On the results of the implementation of the DPRK state budget for Juche 93 (2004) and the state budget for Juche 94 (2005)
    3. Organizational Issue
    Deputy Pak Pong Ju, premier of the Cabinet, delivered a report on the first agenda item and Deputy Mun Il Bong, minister of Finance, a report on the second agenda item and speeches were made.
    Written speeches were given by deputies.
    The speakers noted that the work of the Cabinet and the implementation of the state budget last year were correctly reviewed and summed up. This year's tasks to accelerate the general march of the Songun revolution were clearly set out and the state budget was also correctly drawn up to bring about a decisive turn in socialist economic construction and in the improvement of people's living. They fully supported and approved them.
    A decision of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly "On approving the report on the work of the DPRK Cabinet and the results of the implementation of the state budget in Juche 93 (2004)" and an ordinance of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly "On the state budget of the DPRK for Juche 94 (2005)" were adopted at the session with the unanimous approbation of the deputies.
    The organizational issue was discussed as the third agenda item.
    Deputy Choe Yong Rim was elected to fill a vacancy of secretary general of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly and Deputy Kang Chang Uk, chairman of the Central Committee of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea, to fill a vacancy of a member of the SPA Presidium with the unanimous approval of the deputies.
    Chairman Choe Thae Bok made a closing address.

Report on State Budget Delivered at DPRK SPA Session

     Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The 3rd Session of the 11th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK was held at the Mansudae Assembly Hall here today. Deputy Mun Il Bong, minister of Finance, delivered a report on the second agenda item "On the results of the implementation of the state budget for Juche 93 (2004) and the state budget for Juche 94 (2005)".
    Reviewing the implementation of the state budget for last year, the minister said that the state preferentially allocated funds for the increase of the military strength while providing money for prosperity and development of the socialist country and the promotion of the people's wellbeing, including the spending for the national economy and popular policies.
    In order to cope with the more frantic moves of the U.S.-led imperialists to isolate and stifle the DPRK, the DPRK government allotted 15.6 per cent of its total budgetary expenditure as military spending, thus boosting the independent and modern defense industry, augmenting the combat power of the People's Army in every way and firmly defending the dignity and sovereignty of the country, the reporter noted, and continued: Last year 41.3 per cent of the total state budgetary expenditure was allocated to the national economy and 40.8 per cent of it to social and cultural fields, thereby developing the nation's economy and successfully carrying out the socialist cultural construction.
    The 2004 state budgetary expenditure was executed at 99.3 per cent.
    The state budget for this year has been drawn up in such a way as to keep the balance between revenue and expenditure to sufficiently finance the general march for the Songun revolution called for by the Workers' Party of Korea.
    The state budgetary revenue for this year will increase 15.1 per cent over the previous year.
    The new state budget envisages a 13.5 per cent rise in revenue from the profits of the state enterprises, the main source of budgetary revenue, and an 8.4 per cent increase in revenue from profits of the cooperatives and a 3 per cent growth in revenue from social insurance over the previous year.
    A considerable increase is expected in the local budgetary revenue, too.
    The revenue from the profits of the state enterprises will be markedly boosted to ensure the 2005 state budgetary revenue. In the meantime, factories of large-scale key industries and the light industry will radically increase their production and all local areas and other units conduct diverse production and services in keeping with their specific conditions to raise the revenue.
    The total expenditure will be raised 11.4 per cent over the previous year, true to the Party's intention to speed up the building of a great prosperous powerful nation and improve the standard of the people's living.
    The state will allocate 15.9 per cent of the total state budgetary expenditure as military spending with a view to bolstering the People's Army, developing the defence industry and implementing to the letter the Party's policy of placing all the people under arms and turning the whole country into a fortress.
    A large financial disbursement will be made for different fields of the national economy to sharply increase the production at industrial sector as a whole.
    29.1 per cent more funds than the previous year will be invested in agriculture so that all efforts of the country can be directed to decisively solving the people's food problem.
    This year more funds will be earmarked for the capital construction, land management and city management. It will help spruce up Pyongyang, the capital city of revolution, and other cities and rural areas and build more monumental edifices to glorify the era of Songun.
    A 14.7 per cent bigger financial allocation than last year will be made for science and technology to accelerate the process of putting all fields of economy on a modern and IT basis.
    10.3 per cent more funds than last year will be spent for more successfully implementing the popular policies such as the compulsory free educational system and the free medical care system.
    This year, too, the state will provide a huge amount of educational aid fund and stipends to the Korean children in Japan to help the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) develop the democratic national education.
    The tasks facing the Korean people this year are difficult and vast, but they are sure to emerge victorious as there are the great Songun politics of the WPK, the single-minded unity of all the servicepersons and people around the headquarters of revolution and the strong potentials of the independent national economy, the reporter concluded.

Premier on Last Year's Work of DPRK Cabinet and Its Tasks for This Year

     Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Deputy Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, delivered a report on the first agenda item "On the Review of the Work of the DPRK Cabinet in Juche 93 (2004) and Its Tasks for Juche 94 (2005)" at the Third Session of the 11th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK held at the Mansudae Assembly Hall here Monday. According to the report, last year the Cabinet administered economic affairs with main stress on radically boosting the electricity, coal and metal industries and the railway transport and rejuvenating the production in all sectors of the national economy including light industry and agriculture, true to the line of the Workers' Party of Korea on economic construction in the Songun era, and took positive measures to round off the socialist economic management method our own way while powerfully stepping up the work of reconstructing and modernizing the national economy on the basis of modern science and technology.
    The U.S. imperialists were so base as to suspend even the supply of heavy fuel oil to our country last year, though they were committed to it as compensation. But industrial fields boosted the production on major indices.
    The electricity production went up 50 percent as against 2002. The Musan Mining Complex, in particular, increased the production of concentrated ore 90 percent as against the previous year. The Kusong Machine Tool Factory has been technologically updated and great successes have been registered in the reconstruction and modernization of the Rakwon Machine Complex, the Huichon Machine Tool Factory and other machine factories and the March 26 Factory.
    Operation has been on normal track at major mines and smelteries. The construction of the Taean Friendship Glass Factory has made rapid progress.
    Many successes have been made in the chemical and electronics industries and railways and marine transport. A large deposit of iron ore was discovered in the Musan area and a Juche-based iron-making method and the technology of producing magnesia clinker by use of anthracite have been developed and introduced to production. These are spectacular successes made in the efforts to consolidate the foundation of the independent industry.
    Successes were also achieved in agriculture, fisheries, light industry and land management last year.
    The main tasks facing the economic fields this year are to decisively settle the food problem, true to the Party's plan and intention, and dynamically push forward the work of reconstructing and modernizing the national economy as required by the new century and, at the same time, put the overall industrial production on a higher level on the basis of the existing solid production foundation.
    Agriculture is the main front in the socialist economic construction this year.
    It is necessary for this field to widely introduce high yielding seeds, implement to the letter the Party's policies of cultivating two crops a year, bringing about a radical turn in potato farming and successfully cultivating bean and decisively boost the per-hectare yield of grains.
    It is also necessary to direct sustained big efforts to those sectors which play the role of a pilot for the national economy while stepping up the work to reconstruct and modernize it so as to settle the problems of fuel, power and iron and steel and the problem of transport and effect a new surge in the overall industrial production on this basis.
    It is imperative to operate thermal power generating equipment at full capacity, accelerate the construction of large-scale hydro power stations and minor ones, decisively increase the production capacity at the coal mines in South Hamgyong Province and the northern area and boost the iron production by use of locally available fuel. It is necessary to dynamically push ahead with the drive to reconstruct and modernize the Chollima Steel Complex and the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex as required by the new century and put the UHP electric arc furnace of the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex into commission ahead of schedule.
    It is necessary to increase the railway freight turnover 20 percent as compared with that last year and decisively boost the portion of marine and auto transport.
    It is imperative to positively conduct external economic activities to suit the changed environment and, at the same time, bring the quality of the second and third processing goods in great demand to the world's level by use of raw materials and resources rich in the country in a bid to positively explore foreign markets. Effective economic cooperation should be pursued with other countries in the direction of introducing advanced science and technology. Efforts should be channeled into capital construction this year to build monumental edifices in the Songun era on the highest level so as to contribute to adding shine to the 60th anniversary of the Party foundation.
    It is imperative to focus efforts on carrying out the tasks facing the major objects of the state to solve latest scientific and technological problems and intensify the activities of the "February 17 Shock Brigade of Scientists and Technicians" to help major factories and enterprises successfully settle issues arising in their technological updating.
    It is necessary to study and perfect the new socialist economic management system and method of our style to suit the new circumstances and conditions and, for the present, continue energetically pushing forward the drive to boost the economy of the country with main emphasis on the state enterprises as required by the socialist planned economy in all sectors of the economy.
    All the economic guiding officials and managing officials of the factories and enterprises should work out scientific management strategy, business strategy, organize production and business activities as desired by the people and in keeping with the specific conditions, while thoroughly adhering to the socialist principle and the principle of ensuring profitability, and make tangible contributions to rounding off the socialist economic management method of our style.
    A new turn should be effected in the cultural construction including education, culture, public health and sports this year and the revolutionary soldier culture of the People's Army should be displayed to the full throughout the society.
    The reporter referred to specific tasks, stressing the need to decisively increase the function and role of the Cabinet as an organizer and implementer of the overall economic affairs of the country in order to successfully carry out the vast tasks facing it this year.

Gift to Kim Jong Il from Chinese Delegation

     Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il received a gift from the Chinese government cultural delegation participating in the 23rd April Spring Friendship Art Festival. The gift was handed to Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on April 10 by Shan Jixiang, director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of China, who is leading the delegation.

Stockpile of 600,000 Tons of War Supplies in S. Korea by U.S. Disclosed

     Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The stockpile of a huge amount of war supplies in south Korea by the United States for "an event of contingency" on the Korean Peninsula has been newly disclosed to the public, according to south Korean KBS on April 8. All sorts of bullets, bombs, missiles and other war materials stored up at the military arsenals of the U.S. forces in south Korea reportedly run into 600,000 tons.
    Having turned south Korea into the biggest nuclear war depot in the Far East, the United States is driving the situation of the Korean Peninsula to a higher pitch of strain while getting more undisguised in its aggressive designs on the DPRK.

Youth, Students and Schoolchildren Make Study March to Mangyongdae

     Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Youth, students and schoolchildren across the country made a study march to the old home of President Kim Il Sung in Mangyongdae on April 10 on the threshold of the significant Day of the Sun. Officials of the youth league, working youth, students and schoolchildren from all parts of the country took part in the study march.
    Just before their start, they placed a floral basket and bouquets before the statue of the President on Mansu Hill and paid homage to him.
    When the marchers were passing through streets, chanting revolutionary slogans, youth, students and schoolchildren of the city warmly welcomed them, waving bunches of flowers and presenting colorful art pieces.
    Upon arrival in Mangyongdae, the cradle of the revolution, the marchers laid bouquets before the graves of Kim Po Hyon and Ri Po Ik, grandparents of the President, and Kim Hyong Jik and Kang Pan Sok, his parents, and observed a moment's silence.
    They saw with keen interests the mementos kept in the old home with deep care.
    The march powerfully demonstrated the indomitable spirit of the youth, students and schoolchildren to hold the President in high esteem through all ages and struggle staunchly to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche to the last, single-mindedly united around leader Kim Jong Il.

Yang Hyong Sop Meets Chinese Delegation

     Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on April 10 had friendly talks with the Chinese government cultural delegation led by Shan Jixiang, director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, on a visit to the DPRK to participate in the 23rd April Spring Friendship Art Festival. On hand were Choe Chang Il, vice-chairman of the Organizing Committee of the festival, and Wu Donghe, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK.

23rd April Spring Friendship Art Festival Opens

     Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The 23rd April Spring Friendship Art Festival opened with splendor at the April 25 House of Culture here on Sunday on the threshold of the significant Day of the Sun. Present at the opening ceremony were Vice-President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly Yang Hyong Sop, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Jong Ha Chol, Chairman of the festival organizing committee Choe Ik Gyu who is minister of Culture, Chairman of the Pyongyang City People's Committee Ryang Man Gil, officials concerned and working people, artistes, foreign diplomatic envoys and embassy officials in Pyongyang, foreign guests and Koreans overseas.
    Also present were cultural delegations, delegates and artistes of different countries, Korean artistes overseas and foreign delegations and delegates visiting Pyongyang to participate in the 8th Aesthetic Symposium on Present Times and National Arts.
    Yang Hyong Sop in his congratulatory speech at the opening ceremony recalled that the festival has contributed to friendship among countries and development of culture and to human civilization and peace and has developed into an international art festival of high authority supported and hailed by men of culture and art of the world for its rich national emotion and content and peculiar style of art.
    Today men of literature and art of the world hope for developing genuine literature and art desired by the popular masses by exchanging successes and experience of national arts and expanding cultural cooperation and exchange through mutual contacts and visits, he said, and stated:
    We will as ever consistently maintain the idea of external policy--independence, peace and friendship--and thus make a sizable contribution to the development of national culture and the building of human culture.
    He was followed on the rostrum by the heads of the Russian Sveshnikov State Academic Chorus and the cultural delegation of the Chinese government and the leader of the Polish Mazovshe Song and Dance Ensemble.
    An art performance was given at the end of the ceremony.

Reception Given for Participants in Art Festival

     Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The organizing committee of the 23rd April Spring Friendship Art Festival hosted a reception for the participants in the festival at Yanggakdo International Hotel on Sunday evening. Present there on invitation were cultural delegations and delegates from various countries, foreign artistes and overseas Korean artistes.
    Minister of Culture Choe Ik Gyu who is chairman of the organizing committee of the festival, vice-chairpersons of the committee and officials concerned were on hand.
    A speech was made at the reception.

Taekwon-Do Demonstration Given

     Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Foreign and overseas Korean Taekwon-Do players, who came here to mark the 50th anniversary of the naming of Taekwon-Do, and personages concerned enjoyed a Taekwon-Do demonstration performance at the Taekwon-Do Hall Sunday. Appearing in the performance were well-known Taekwon-Do instructors and players of the DPRK who proved successful in the past World Taekwon-Do Championships and international games.
    They fully displayed the development of Taekwon-Do, a traditional martial art and pride of the Korean nation, in such events as pattern, sparring, power and special techniques.
    Also there was an exhibition performance of martial arts by foreign players.

Curative Plastic Sheets Developed

     Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Curative plastic sheets Nos. 1 and 2 have been developed by scientists in the textile field of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. They are polypropylene and polyethylene sheets treated in an electronic way. With the sheets one can cure various diseases by oneself in any places without medical apparatuses and medicines.
    When they are pasted to the points to be treated, it helps recover the function of abnormal minute electric current, damaged cells and tissues in human body and activate metabolism.
    Sheet No.1 is for external wounds such as gash, abscess and burn and sheet No. 2 for internal diseases such as contusion, bone fracture, neuralgia, indigestion, stomach cramps and inflammation.
    The years of clinical test shows that patients who had long suffered from sore finger and tympanitis recovered health with one-time use of the sheet and obstinate simple necrosis patients with six-time use. And babies under six months cured pneumonia with the help of the sheets.

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III sesion de XI legislatura de la APS de la RPDC

     Pyongyang, 11 de abril (ATCC) -- La III sesion de la oncena legislatura de la Asamblea Popular Suprema de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea tuvo lugar el dia 11 en el capitalino Palacio de los Congresos Mansudae. El Dirigente Kim Jong Il, Secretario General del Partido del Trabajo de Corea y Presidente del Comite de Defensa Nacional de la RPDC hizo su aparicion en la tribuna. Ocuparon los asientos de la tribuna Kim Yong Nam, Jo Myong Rok, Pak Pong Ju y otros cuadros del partido, el Estado y el ejercito, los presidentes de partidos amigos y los miembros del Presidium de la APS.
    El discurso de apertura estuvo a cargo de Choe Thae Bok, presidente de la APS.
    La sesion discutio los siguientes puntos de la agenda:
    Primero, sobre la labor del Consejo de Ministros de la RPDC en el 93 (2004) de la Era Juche y las tareas para el 94 (2005) de la Era Juche
    Segundo, sobre el balance de ejecucion del presupuesto estatal de la RPDC en el 93 (2004) de la Era Juche y el presupuesto estatal para el 94 (2005) de la Era Juche
    Tercero, el problema de la organizacion.
    El diputado Pak Pong Ju, premier del CM, rindio el informe sobre el primer punto de la agenda; el diputado Mun Il Bong, ministro de Finanzas, sobre el segundo punto. Otros diputados hicieron uso de la palabra.
    Algunos diputados presentaron discursos por escrito.
    Los oradores senalaron que se balancearon correctamente la labor del CM y la ejecucion presupuestaria estatal del ano pasado, se presentaron claramente las tareas de este ano para acelerar la marcha general de la revolucion del Songun (priorizacion militar) y se trazo justamente el presupuesto estatal para propiciar un cambio decisivo en la construccion de la economia socialista y en la mejora de la vida del pueblo, y expresaron entero apoyo y consentimiento al respecto.
    En la sesion fueron aprobadas, por el consentimiento unanime de todos los diputados, la resolucion de la APS de la RPDC: "Sobre la ratificacion del informe de la labor del Consejo de Ministros de la RPDC y el balance de la ejecucion del presupuesto estatal para el 93 (2004) de la Era Juche" y la ley de la APS de la RPDC: "Sobre el presupuesto estatal de la RPDC para el 94 (2005) de la Era Juche".
    La sesion discutio el tercer punto de la agenda: el problema de la organizacion.
    Los diputados Choe Yong Rim y Kang Chang Uk, presidente del CC de la Union de Trabajadores Agricolas de Corea, fueron elegidos suplementariamente, por el consentimiento unanime de todos los diputados, como secretario y miembro del Presidium de la APS de la RPDC, respectivamente.
    El presidente de la APS Choe Thae Bok pronuncio el discurso de clausura.

Pak Pong Ju balancea labor de CM en 2004 e indica tareas para 2005

     Pyongyang, 11 de abril (ATCC) -- El diputado Pak Pong Ju, primer ministro del Consejo de Ministros de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea, rindio el informe sobre el primer punto de la agenda "Sobre la labor del Consejo de Ministros de la RPDC en el 93 (2004) de la Era Juche y las tareas para el 94 (2005) de la Era Juche" en la III sesion de la XI legislatura de la Asamblea Popular Suprema, que tuvo lugar el dia 11 en el capitalino Palacio de los Congresos Mansudae. El ano pasado, en pleno acato a la linea de la construccion economica de la epoca del Songun (priorizacion militar) presentada por el Partido del Trabajo de Corea, el Consejo de Ministros (CM) organizo los quehaceres economicos dando mayor importancia al mejoramiento decisivo de las industrias de generacion electrica, carbon y metalurgia y el transporte ferroviario y a la revitalizacion de todos los sectores de la economia nacional, incluidas la industria ligera y la agricultura, comenzo el premier y prosiguio:
    Tomo medidas activas para perfeccionar a nuestra manera el metodo de administracion economica socialista, a la vez de impulsar energicamente la reconstruccion y la modernizacion de la economia nacional basandose en la ciencia y la tecnica modernas.
    El ano pasado, pese a las virulentas maniobras de los imperialistas norteamericanos como el cese del suministro de aceite pesado que deben recompensar a la RPDC, la produccion de electricidad se aumento 1,5 veces en comparacion con el ano 2002 y la de otras ramas claves de la industria tambien marco indices considerablemente altos.
    En particular, en el Complejo Minero de Musan se incremento 1,9 veces la produccion de minerals concentrados de hierro en comparacion con el ano pasado y se lograron grandes exitos en la reconstruccion y la modernizacion de la Fabrica 26 de Marzo y varias fabricas maquinarias, entre otras, el Complejo de Maquinaria de Rakwon y la Fabrica de Maquinas Herramientas de Huichon.
    Entre tanto, las minas claves y las fundiciones de metales no ferrosos entraron seguramente en la normalizacion de la produccion, se acelero la edificacion de la Fabrica de Vidrio Amistad de Taean y se registraron muchos exitos en varios sectores como la industria quimica, la electronica, el transporte ferroviario y maritimo.
    En la zona de Musan se hallo un nuevo y prolifero yacimiento de minerales de hierro y se aplicaron un autoctono metodo de produccion de hierro y la nueva tecnologia de produccion de clinker de magnesia con antracita, lo cual devino un valioso logro que consolido aun mas la base de la industria independiente de nuestro pais.
    El ano pasado, tambien se reportaron exitos en la agricultura, la pesqueria, la industria ligera y la administracion del territorio nacional.
    La tarea mas importante en la labor economica para el ano en curso es resolver decisivamente el problema de alimentos para llevar a la realidad el proposito y la intencion del PTC y revitalizar en un nivel mas alto la produccion industrial en su conjunto al dar buen impulso a la reconstruccion y la modernizacion de la economia nacional y emplear al mismo tiempo el ya preparado potencial productivo.
    El frente principal de la construccion de la economia socialista de este ano es el agricola.
    En el sector de la economia rural, se debe sembrar en gran medida semillas de alto rendimiento y ejecutar consecuentemente los lineamientos del partido sobre las dos cosechas al ano, la revolucion en el cultivo de patatas y el buen cultivo de soya para aumentar decisivamente el rendimiento de granos por unidad.
    Ademas de impulsar activamente la reconstruccion y la modernizacion de la economia nacional, hay que seguir canalizando grandes fuerzas a las ramas prioritarias de esta a fin de resolver el problema de materias primas, energias, materiales de hierro y acero y el transporte. A base de estos logros, se debe registrar un nuevo ascenso en la produccion industrial en su conjunto.
    Es preciso asegurar el funcionamiento al maximo de los equipos de las plantas termoelectricas, acelerar la construccion de las plantas hidroelectricas de medianos y pequenos tamanos, aumentar decisivamente la capacidad de produccion carbonifera de las minas en la zona de Hamnam y la region septentrional del pais y agrandar la produccion de hierro con el combustible nacional. Se debe acelerar la labor para reconstruir y modernizer en consonancia a la demanda del nuevo siglo el Complejo de Acero Chollima y el Siderurgico Kim Chaek y adelantar la operacion del horno UHP del Complejo Siderurgico Hwanghae.
    Hay que aumentar al 120 % la cantidad de mercancias transportadas por el ferrocarril en comparacion con el ano pasado y elevar decisivamente la proporcion del transporte maritime y el automovilistico.
    Es preciso desplegar activamente las transacciones economicas con el extranjero en correspondencia a las circunstancias cambiadas, mejorar al nivel mundial la calidad de los mas demandados productos elaborados dos y tres veces con materias primas abundantes en el pais y buscar el Mercado internacional de estos.
    Ademas, se debe desarrollar sustancialmente la cooperacion economica con otros paises en rumbo a asimilar la ciencia y la tecnica avanzadas.
    Al concentrar fuerzas en la construccion basica, hay que contribuir a glorificar el 60 aniversario de la fundacion del partido con la edificacion en el maximo nivel de las creaciones monumentales de la epoca del Songun.
    Se debe resolver satisfactoriamente los problemas cientifico-tecnicos de punta al concentrar fuerzas en el cumplimiento de las tareas que se presentan en los proyectos de importancia estatal y los otros que aparecen en la reconstruccion y la modernizacion de fabricas y empresas claves al intensificar las actividades de la "Brigada de Choque de Cientificos y Tecnicos 17 de Febrero".
    Conforme a las nuevas circunstancias, es preciso investigar y perfeccionar nuevo sistema y metodos de administracion de la economia socialista al estilo coreano. Por ahora, en consonancia a la demanda de la economia socialista, todos los ramos de la economia tienen que seguir luchando energicamente por mejorar la economia del pais apoyandose fundamentalmente en las empresas estatales.
    Todos los funcionarios directivos de la economia y administradores de las fabricas y empresas deben observar estrictamente el principio socialista y el de sacar ganancias netas, trazar estrategias cientificas de administracion y gestion empresarial conforme a la aspiracion del pueblo y condiciones reales, organizar la produccion y las actividades administrativas a base de estas y contribuir sustancialmente al perfeccionamiento del metodo de administracion economica socialista al estilo coreano.
    Hay que producir el ano en curso un nuevo viraje en las ramas de la construccion cultural, entre otras, la educacion, la cultura, la salud y el deporte y hacer que prevalezca aun mas la cultura revolucionaria de los militares en toda la sociedad.
    Para cumplir satisfactoriamente las enormes tareas para este ano, es necesario elevar decisivamente la funcion y el papel del CM como organizador y ejecutor de la labor economica en su conjunto del pais.
    Por ultimo, el informante enumero en detalles otras tareas. S 041111 - III sesion de XI legislatura de APS discute presupuesto estatal Pyongyang, 11 de abril (ATCC) -- Tuvo lugar el dia 11 en el capitalino Palacio de los Congresos Mansudae la tercera sesion de la undecima legislatura de la Asamblea Popular Suprema de la Republica Popular Democratica de Corea, en la cual el ministro de Finanzas, Mun Il Bong, rindio un informe sobre el segundo punto de la agenda "Sobre el balance de la ejecucion del presupuesto estatal del 93 (2004) de la Era Juche y el presupuesto estatal para el 94 (2005) de la Era Juche". Segun el informe, en la ejecucion del presupuesto estatal del ano pasado se dio prioridad al cubrimiento de los fondos para el fortalecimiento de las fuerzas armadas y satisfizo la demanda sobre los fondos para el desarrollo de la patria socialista y el fomento del bienestar del pueblo incluidos los para el desenvolvimiento de la economia nacional y las medidas populares. Para hacer frente a las recrudescentes maniobras de los imperialistas encabezados por los norteamericanos encaminadas a aislar y aplastar la RPDC, el gobierno de esta asigno para los gastos de defensa nacional 15.6 por ciento del valor total del egreso del presupuesto estatal para fortalecer por todos los medios la industria de defensa nacional independiente y moderna y la combatividad del Ejercito Popular y defender con firmeza la dignidad y la soberania del pais. Del valor total del egreso presupuestario estatal del ano pasado fue destinado el 41. 3 por ciento a la economia nacional y el 40.8 por ciento a la cultura social para promover con exito la labor para el desarrollo de la economia nacional y la construccion de la cultura socialista. El egreso del presupuesto estatal del ano pasado se ejecuto en 99.3 por ciento. El presupuesto estatal del presente ano fue elaborado en direccion a mantener el equilibrio entre el ingreso y el egreso para asegurar en lo financiero la marcha general de la revolucion mediante el Songun (priorizacion militar) planteada por el Partido. El ingreso presupuestario estatal para este ano se incrementara en 15.1 por ciento en comparacion con el ano pasado. En este ingreso se preve aumentar en el 13.5 por ciento el ingreso por ganancias de las empresas estatales que es fuente basica del ingreso presupuestario, en 8.4 por ciento el ingreso por ganancias de las organizaciones cooperativas, en 3 por ciento el ingreso por tarifa del seguro social con respecto al ano pasado. El ingreso presupuestario local se incrementara considerablemente con respecto al ano pasado. El ingreso presupuestario estatal para este ano preve aumentar activamente el ingreso por ganancias de las empresas estatales y al mismo tiempo el ingreso a traves de aumentar decisivamente la produccion en las fabricas de industria clave de gran envergadura e industria ligera y de desplegar diversas actividades de produccion y servicio en todas las localidades y unidades conforme a las condiciones reales en que se hallan. Se preve aumentar este ano en 11.4% con respecto al ano pasado la suma total de egreso para acelerar energicamente la construccion de una gran potencia prospera y materializar estrictamente la intencion del partido de mejorar la vida del pueblo. Este ano se dedicara el 15.9% de la suma total del egreso presupuestario estatal a los gastos de defensa nacional para fortalecer el Ejercito Popular, desarrollar la industria de defensa nacional y materializar cabalmente la orientacion del partido en materia de armamento de todo el pueblo y fortificacion de todo el pais. Se destinaran muchos fondos a las ramas de economia nacional para aumentar trascendentalmente la produccion del sector industrial en general. Particularmente al incrementar en 29.1% con respecto al ano pasado los fondos dedicados a la rama agricola se hara dirigir todas las fuerzas del pais a resolver definitivamente el problema de alimentos. Este ano se destinaran los fondos mas que el ano pasado a las construcciones basicas, la administracion territorial y urbana para acondicionar mejor las ciudades y las aldeas rurales incluyendo la ciudad de Pyongyang, capital de la revolucion y erigir mas creaciones monumentales que glorifican la epoca del Songun. Se aumentaran en 14.7% con respecto al ano pasado los fondos dedicados a la rama de ciencia y tecnica para acelerar globalmente la modernizacion y la informatizacion de la economia. Este ano se incrementaran en 10.3% con respecto al ano pasado los fondos para ejecutar mejor la politica popular como el sistema de ensenanza obligatoria gratuita y el de asistencia medica gratuita. Tambien este ano se enviara gran suma de fondos de ayuda educacional y becas a los hijos de los coreanos residentes en Japon para el desarrollo de la labor de educacion democratica y nacional de Chongryon (Asociacion General de Coreanos residentes en Japon). Son dificiles y enormes las tareas que nos incumben este ano, pero mientras existen la gran politica de Songun de nuestro partido, el ejercito y el pueblo unidos monoliticamente en torno a la Direccion de la Revolucion y la solida base de economia nacional independiente, nuestra victoria sera definitiva, subrayo el informante.