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Anniversary of Labor Law Marked in DPRK

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, June 23 (KCNA) -- A national meeting took place here on Friday to mark the 60th anniversary of the historic Labor Law. Present there were Kim Yong Nam, Pak Pong Ju and other cadres, members of the Cabinet, officials of the Party and power bodies, public organisations, ministries and national institutions and working people in the city.
    Yang Hyong Sop, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workersf Party of Korea and vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme Peoplefs Assembly, made a report at the meeting.
    The promulgation of the Labor Law by Kim Il Sung on June 24, Juche 35 (1946) helped establish a democratic and popular, new labor system, the first of its kind in the history of Korea, and brought about a radical change in the work of its people, the reporter said, and continued:
    The President instituted the Socialist Labor Law as required by the development of the revolution which called for building socialism in all fields by systematizing and comprehensively dealing with the successes and experience gained in the course of executing the Labor Law. The law is a Juche-oriented code of labor as it comprehensively stipulates overall requirements and norms of the socialist labor on the principle of putting the position and role of the working masses in the field of labor on the highest plane and firmly protecting their rights and interests and a unique labor charter clearly indicating the way of finding a final solution to the issue of labor.
    General Secretary Kim Jong Il has attached great importance to strengthening the labor administration in consolidating and developing the socialist labor system. He clarified overall tasks for improving and strengthening labor administration and ways to do so as required by the developing reality.
    He has turned the labor administration into a definite work with people, a political work to meet the intrinsic need of socialist society. He has also wisely led the work to encourage all the working people to devotedly work for the society and the collective by effectively managing the labor forces and properly organizing labor, while giving first consideration to the political and moral incentives and reasonably combining them with material incentive with a view to correctly enforcing the socialist system of paying for the work done. As a result, the labor process has turned into the process of effecting innovations and performing feats and, at the same time, the process of training true human beings of Juche type, the process of consolidating the foundation of the society based on collectivism in the DPRK.
    The process in which the socialist labor system has steadily grown strong has brought about a signal turn in the work of the working people in the DPRK and their social position.
    All those who are able to work are given stable jobs according to their hopes and skills by the state. And they work without any inconvenience at the safe places where cultured practice is ensured as safety arrangements for labor protection and industrial hygienic conditions are provided thanks to the popular labor protection policy of the Workersf Party of Korea and the state.
    The working people receive a lot of benefits from the state and the society thanks to the free education system, the system of free medical care, the social insurance system and the social security system enforced by the state and the system of recuperation at the state expense. Not only the disabled citizens but old men or children without any protectors enjoy a happy life under the warm care of the state and the society.
    All this is the real picture of the most advantageous socialist labor system of the DPRK established by Kim Il Sung and developed by Kim Jong Il.
    To thoroughly enforce the Socialist Labor Law at present by strengthening the labor administration is an important requirement for giving fuller play to the advantages and vitality of the socialist labor system to speed up the building of a great prosperous powerful nation, the reporter noted, referring to the tasks to implement it.