Politics

The 26th Plenary Meeting of the 14th Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK took place at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang on June 2.

Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, first vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and chairman of the Standing Committee of the SPA, presided over the meeting.

The meeting was attended by Vice-chairmen Kang Yun Sok and Kim Ho Chol, Secretary General Ko Kil Son and other members of the SPA Standing Committee.

Present there as observers were officials concerned from the SPA Standing Committee, the Secretariat of the Cabinet, ministries and national agencies.

Put on the agenda items were the issue of amending and supplementing the Law of the DPRK on Land Administration Planning, the Law of the DPRK on Tideland Reclamation, the Law of the DPRK on Supplying Drinking Water and the Law of the DPRK on Sewage Treatment and the issue of recalling and electing judges of the Central Court of the DPRK.

A report was delivered on the main contents of draft amendments and supplements deliberated on by the SPA Legislation Committee.

The plenary meeting studied and deliberated on the proposed bills and adopted relevant decrees of the SPA Standing Committee.

Judges of the Central Court of the DPRK were recalled and elected at the meeting.