It is of very weighty significance that the DPRK set it as the general orientation to launch a sweeping campaign for bringing about a drastic turn in the improvement of the people's standard of living in the joint editorial this year, he said.

The WPK and the All-India Forward Bloc have maintained good relations, supporting and solidarizing with each other in the efforts for socialism against imperialism, he noted, expressing the unshakable will of the bloc to keep boosting such relations in the future.

He stressed that the DPRK proposal for concluding a peace treaty is a positive step for peace, security and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, expressing full support for the proposal.