North Korea’s Kim Jong Un talks food not nukes for 2022
Al JazeeraKim says he wants to jump-start economic development and improve people’s lives as he marks 10th anniversary of his leadership. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un capped off his 10th year in power with a speech that made more mention of tractor factories and school uniforms than nuclear weapons or the United States, according to summaries by state media on Saturday. North Korea’s main goals for 2022 will be jump-starting economic development and improving people’s lives as it faces a “great life-and-death struggle,” Kim said in a speech on Friday at the end of the 4th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, which began on Monday. The domestic focus of the speech underscored the economic crises Kim faces at home, where self-imposed anti-pandemic border lockdowns have left North Korea more isolated than ever before. Kim spent the majority of his speech detailing domestic issues, from an ambitious plan for rural development to people’s diets, school uniforms and the need to crack down on “non-socialist practices”.
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