Just three months after the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), the DPRK is reporting impressive early achievements in implementing its new Five-Year Plan. According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the country’s industrial sector recorded a 5 percent increase in overall output during the first 100 days following the Party Congress, reflecting what the agency describes as a vigorous mass technical innovation movement.

The new development strategy, outlined by the Marshal Kim Jong Un at the Ninth WPK Congress, places emphasis on boosting overall socialist development through self-reliance and scientific and technological advancement. It is also rooted in confidence in the Korean working people, who have demonstrated their strength through many decades of remarkable achievements. KCNA reports that this approach has generated strong momentum from the outset, with numerous factories, mines, power stations, transport enterprises, and other units across the economy exceeding their planned targets.

Very strong performances have come from the construction materials industry. The Sangwon Cement Complex achieved an average of 107 percent of its daily production target in March and successfully met its ambitious goals throughout April and May. The Sunchon Cement Complex produced tens of thousands of additional tons of cement during the first 100 days of the plan, while cement producers nationwide collectively exceeded their planned output, providing increased supplies for construction projects across the country.

Coal production has also expanded. Workers at the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine increased production by six percent compared to the same period last year. At the February 8 Jikdong Youth Coal Mine, various workplace innovation campaigns enabled miners to produce well over a thousand additional tons of coal beyond the monthly target in May alone.

Mining enterprises supplying the country’s steel industry likewise reported positive results. The Musan Mining Complex over-fulfilled its production plans of concentrated iron ore for three consecutive months, while the Unnyul Mine’s technicians strengthened its capacity to increase iron ore and concentrated ore production.

The chemical industry has focused strongly on technological innovation. At the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex, engineers and workers introduced original technical inventions that enabled the plant to surpass its fertilizer production goals. The Hungnam Fertilizer Complex also exceeded its planned output by well over a thousand tons through improvements in operating methods and technical measures that increased gas production efficiency.

The power sector has also benefited from engineering improvements. The Pukchang Thermal Power Complex introduced new boiler technologies using far-infrared heating elements, increasing combustion efficiency while reducing coal consumption. Suphung, Jangjingang and Sodusu power stations also reported higher electricity generation through improved water management and more efficient operation of generating equipment.

The country’s machinery industry has concentrated on modernizing equipment through large-scale technical innovation campaigns. The Pyongyang Electric Cable General Factory 326 has made innovations in the production of various types of high-quality electric cables through technical upgrades to its plastic mixers, rolling mills, large-size elongation machines and other equipment. Meanwhile, the Anju Insulating Material Factory has boosted the production of paints and insulating materials by ensuring the efficient operation of its existing production lines, strengthening its technical capabilities and modernizing its insulating varnish production process.

The mining and light industries also conducted a mass technological innovation movement, giving importance to science and technology and introducing incentives to encourage working people to develop their technical knowledge and professional skills.

Railway workers, timber producers and fishery workers have all met their monthly targets for rail freight, timber production and seafood production.

The report emphasizes that the determined efforts of the DPRK’s heroic working class during the opening phase of the new Five-Year Plan have produced industrial growth well above planned levels, establishing a solid foundation for steady and sustained growth of the country’s economy.

While in today’s world many countries continue to face economic uncertainty, the early results of the DPRK’s Five-Year Plan seem to present clear evidence of the effectiveness of its development strategy centered on domestic industrial capacity, technological innovation, and the coordinated mobilization of national resources.

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The first phase of the Tanchon Power Station in South Hamgyong Province, a project of great significance to the development of the national power industry, has been completed successfully.

Military and civilian builders engaged in carrying out the Workers’ Party of Korea’s ambitious nature-transformation projects drove waterway tunnels through the northern mountain ranges and successfully completed Units 1, 5 and 6 of the Tanchon Power Station together with two dams. Their achievement has laid another solid foundation for economic development and the improvement of people’s living standards.

A ceremony for inaugurating the first stage of the Tanchon Power Station was held at the site on May 18.

Present at the ceremony were Pak Thae Song, Member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and Vice-President of the State Affairs Commission and Premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and other senior Party and government officials, officials of the Tanchon Power Station Construction Division Command Group and relevant units, officials and working people in Hochon County of South Hamgyong Province, military and civilian builders, and employees of the power station.

The national anthem of the DPRK was played.

Premier Pak Thae Song made an inaugural address.

The premier praised the builders for completing the first phase of the Tanchon Power Station, describing the project as a proof of their indomitable revolutionary spirit and strong fighting traits.

He noted that the completion of Units 1, 5 and 6 marked an important achievement in the development of largest-scale hydraulic resources for diverting the courses of several rivers and streams to the East Sea and had provided valuable experience for future construction of power stations.

He said that there were numerous difficulties, but the idea and leadership of the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un served as a source of tremendous strength to overcome all of them and bring about the changes.

Expressing confidence in the builders as they continue their efforts to advance the project, he declared the completion of the first phase of the Tanchon Power Station.

Then he cut the inauguration tape.

Following the ceremony, a performance was held in honour of the power station builders, and a fireworks display took place.

Participants in the inauguration ceremony toured Units 1 and 5 of the Tanchon Power Station, the dams, and the residential housing built for employees.

Source: KCNA (2026-05-20)

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The Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm is located on Wihwa Island near the Amnok River in the country’s northwest and sprawls over 450 hectares.

It was built according to the plan put forward by the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un and under his direct guidance. The area, once known for natural disasters and harsh river winds, has been transformed into a new model of regional development, a modern large-scale greenhouse vegetable producer.

It includes a thousand and hundreds of modern greenhouses of different types and an advanced vegetable science research center, along with attractive residential housing and cultural facilities. The site is protected by solid flood-control infrastructure and beautifully decorated with distinctive landscapes.

It produces a wide range of crops, including tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, lettuce, cabbage, etc. Some greenhouses combine fish farming with hydroponic vegetable cultivation. At the farm, an intelligent integrated production system and efficient recycling technologies have been introduced, which is helpful in realizing the integration of management and production of the greenhouse farm.

Scientists working at the farm’s vegetable science research center are putting their efforts into creating modern methods for ensuring the quality, taste and nutritive value of greenhouse vegetables, expanding the distribution of high-quality vegetable seed varieties, and other issues important for the farm itself and for the development of greenhouse agriculture across the country.

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Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, has set forth a new five-year plan for the DPRK’s economic development at the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

The primary task of the socialist economic construction at the present stage is to cement the achievements made during the eighth term of the Party Central Committee, lay a foundation of development for the stable and steady growth of the country’s economy and substantially improve the people’s living standards. To this end, the period of new five-year plan should be a phase of stabilization and consolidation, a phase of gradual and qualitative development, and this must be set as the general goal, the principle of the work of the ninth-term Party Central Committee, he said at the meeting.

As already known, the WPK set it as the general orientation of the five-year plan for the national economic development in the eighth term of its Central Committee to lay solid foundations for reenergizing the overall national economy and improving the people’s standard of living by concentrating efforts on the main links in the whole chain of economic development. In a nutshell, its economic strategy for the past five years was the one for readjustment and reinforcement.

In its wake, the main thrust of the new five-year plan is to properly coordinate the following two aspects in the coming five years―consolidating the economic foundations and forces built in the past five years in a qualitative way and further developing them.

Accordingly, the DPRK plans to qualitatively consolidate the foundations for the production of the key industries such as the metallurgical, chemical, electric power, coal and machine-building industries during the period of the new five-year plan to guarantee the growth of the overall economy and to ensure sustainable development of the natural resources exploitation, mining industry, forestry and rail transport sectors. The Party Congress also called on the light industry sector to focus on the quality improvement and development of new products and lay a new groundwork for the light industry.

The agricultural sector intends to keep intensifying the work to change the grain production structure with main emphasis put on rice, wheat and barley farming, and expand the wheat-processing capacity and push ahead with the seed revolution, scientific farming, tideland farming, double cropping and land improvement to provide an important guarantee for the increased grain production. On the other hand, the country aims to steadily develop livestock farming, further improve the irrigation system, attain the goal of tideland reclamation and promote the land realignment so as to continue to cement the material and technical foundations of agriculture and, at the same time, further scale up the proportion of mechanized farm work by increasing the production of farm machinery.

The future development of the construction sector is particularly expected. It is reported that the construction sector, as it did in the past five years, will vigorously propel the projects for transforming the capital city of Pyongyang into a magnificent city with an appearance as a world-class city. It also plans to execute the work to transform the provincial capitals across the country year by year.

In addition, the DPRK attempts to develop various levers of economic development in a diversified and comprehensive way, including IT, foreign trade, tourism, land management, ecological environment protection and improvement of urban management.

At the congress Kim Jong Un also indicated the tasks and ways for further speeding up the regional development, the rural construction during the period of new five-year plan to transform the regions and countryside in a fresh way every year and bring about greater improvement in the material and cultured life of the people across the country.

When the new five-year plan set forth by Kim Jong Un is realized, more epochal progress will be made in the economic development of the DPRK and the improvement of the people’s standard of living.

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On Feb. 28, chief secretaries of city and county committees of the Workers’ Party of Korea and chairpersons of city and county people’s committees from across the DPRK visited the Samgwang Livestock Farm under the North Phyongan Provincial Rural Economy Committee. The farm has recently been developed into a modern livestock production base. The visit took place shortly after the Ninth Congress of the WPK, which outlined a new strategy for advancing the country’s socialist development.

As part of a broader rural development initiative led by the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un, Samgwang-ri has been dramatically transformed, showing the new level of Korean-style rural civilization and the orientation of development of the animal husbandry.

The senior city and county officials looked round different places of the farm including the first branch, protected cultivation floor and dairy goods production ground. They were briefed on the fact that all the requirements of the Party for the modernization of animal husbandry have been met in the whole course of production and management activities.

Touring the production facilities where all the factors for the development of animal husbandry have been effectively implemented, they learned about the orientation and ways to build new stockbreeding bases in conformity with the characteristics and conditions of their regions, push ahead with modernization of existing facilities and radically increase the production of livestock products.

Source: KCNA (2026-03-01)

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A ceremony was held in the DPRK on February 2 to inaugurate the Samgwang Livestock Farm, a new model for rural construction and development of animal husbandry in the country, in the presence of Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the DPRK. Addressing the event, the DPRK leader stressed the need to put rural development onto a new stage of qualitative transformation.

His mention about “putting rural development onto a new qualitative transformation stage” seems to be meaningful.

Over the recent years the DPRK has pushed the efforts to newly build rural houses, change the grain production structure and improve agricultural mechanization, irrigational system, farming methods and the farmers’ level of ideological consciousness and civilization, bringing about a great transformation in every realm. But Kim Jong Un thinks that only when the agricultural workers come to enjoy all the benefits of modern science and technology and civilization in all realms, can it be said that the socialist rural development policy has succeeded in the true sense of the word.

To this end, he intends to transform the rural communities across the country like the Samgwang Livestock Farm.

First of all, he plans to readjust and fully improve land, roads, irrigation facilities and electric supply system, which are directly related to agricultural production, in a neat and efficient way, step up the comprehensive mechanization of farm operations in keeping with the topographical features, and actively introduce into them the full automation and AI technology.

Efforts will be made to build workteam buildings, greenhouses and other bases of farms for production activities and production facilities in a neat way and make them multifunctional.

The country plans to add more to the urbanized, civilized and advanced characters of the rural villages, ensure perfect quality of the rural houses and all the other buildings, promote the convenience of the agricultural workers as much as possible and enable them to substantially enjoy modern civilization, thereby reducing the gap between towns and the countryside.

It will also keep stepping up the three revolutions–ideological, technological and cultural–to make agricultural workers full-fledged masters of the modern countryside, who are prepared ideologically, spiritually, culturally and technologically.

It will work to develop specialized livestock farming on an IT, intelligent, intensive and industrial basis, with superior breeds, sufficient feed, scientific approach to rearing, comprehensive veterinary services and the making of production and management informatized and intelligent as five key factors in developing livestock farming, so as to definitely turn the country’s livestock farming into a modern one of the world level.

If you have to describe the future of the DPRK’s countryside that is set to be put onto a new stage of qualitative transformation, you will obviously call it a paradise.

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