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National Meeting of Scientists and Technicians Held

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 30 (KCNA) -- A national meeting of scientists and technicians was held here on Oct. 29 and 30. The meeting reviewed the performance of the last 5-year plan for the development of science and technology and discussed tasks and ways to thoroughly carry out the new 5-year plan.
    Present at the meeting were leading officials of the Party and the state including Pak Pong Ju, Jon Pyong Ho and Han Song Ryong and functionaries concerned.
    Read out at the meeting was a congratulatory message sent by the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea to the participants in the meeting. The message recalled that the scientists and technicians had greatly helped the country tide over grim tests and vigorously advance toward the peak of a great prosperous powerful nation by successfully solving scientific and technological problems arising in strengthening national defences and boosting the national economy. Noting that it is the unshakable will of the WPK to carry the revolutionary cause of Juche to accomplishment, holding fast to science and technology together with the arms, the message called on all the scientists and technicians to work energetically to bring about a great heyday of scientific and technological development under the Songun revolutionary leadership of the Party.
    Pyon Yong Rip, president of the Academy of Sciences, made a report at the meeting.
    Leader Kim Jong Il, pursuing great Songun politics, stipulated science and technology as one of three pillars for building a great prosperous powerful nation together with ideology and the arms and set forth the line of attaching importance to science and technology as a strategic line of building the great prosperous powerful socialist nation, he said.
    He continued:
    It is the main task of the new 5-year plan for scientific and technological development embodying the WPK's line of attaching importance to science and technology to rapidly develop ultra-modern science and technology, lift the science and technology of the country to the advanced level of the world and vigorously promote the technical restructuring and modernization of the national economy in conformity with the demand of the line of building economy in the Songun era.
    It is important in developing the country's science and technology to conduct brisk scientific and technological exchange and information services to introduce modern science and technology of other countries along with researches and development of new science and technology, the reporter stressed.
    Speeches were made at the meeting. The speakers evinced their resolution to turn the motherland into a world-level power of science and technology by making a great leap in the development of science and technology in the revolutionary soldier spirit and the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance.
    They said they would cherish the WPK's idea of attaching importance to the military affairs as their firm faith and actively contribute to consolidating the defenses of the country as firm as a rock by preferentially solving the scientific and technological problems arising in the development of the defense industry as required by the line of building the socialist economy in the Songun era.