NK Cabinet reviews way to grant businesses more autonomy at plenary session
by Yonhap
North Korea convened an extended plenary session of its Cabinet to discuss ways to give businesses greater independence as part of efforts to achieve the economic goals set forth at last month's rare party congress, state media said Friday.
convene : (회의 등을) 소집하다
a plenary session(meeting) : 본회의, 총회
Cabinet : (정부의) 내각
set forth : (의견을) 피력하다, 개진하다
party congress : (공산당의) 당대회
The Cabinet meeting took place Thursday via a "teleconference system" to discuss a series of important tasks set forth at the party congress and the following parliamentary session, the official Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) reported.
paliamentary session : 국회 회기
At Thursday's meeting, Pak Jong-gun, vice-premier of the Cabinet and chairman of the State Planning Commission, made a report calling on the need to guarantee independence to North Korean businesses.
call on : 요청하다, 촉구하다, 시키다
"It set forth tasks for taking stronger measures to make constant efforts to complete the method of planning in accordance with the changing reality, level of development in productivity and the development of science and technology, and to ensure the economic condition and legal environment for enterprises to independently and proactively conduct production and management activities, give full play to their creativity and promptly react to changing environment," the KCNA said.
in accordance with : ~에 따라, ~에 의하여, ~에 부합되게
proactively : 능동적으로, 상황을 앞서서 주도하는, 사전 대비한
conduct : (특정한 활동을) 하다
give full play to ~ : ~을 맘껏 펼치다, 발휘하다
Officials also discussed ways to improve the "Cabinet-responsibility system," which grants businesses more autonomy in their production and management.
autonomy : 자치권, 자율성
They also called on the Cabinet's stepped-up role "as the economic headquarters of the country."
stepped-up : 강화된
"The report analyzed and reviewed the reasons why the Cabinet and state economic guidance organs revealed again passive and self-protectionist tendency in drawing up this year's national economic plan for implementing the decisions made at the Party congress," the KCNA said. North Korean Premier Kim Tok-hun presided over the meeting.
guidance organs : 지도 기관
draw up : 작성하다
preside over : ~의 사회를 보다, (회의를) 주관하다
The North appears to be seeking ways to achieve its recently unveiled five-year economic scheme, stressing the Cabinet's central role and improving the economic system to allow autonomy to private businesses amid economic woes from global sanctions.
sheme : 계획, 제도
stress : 강조하다
private businesses : 민간 기업
amid : 가운데에, 속에
economic woes : 경기 침체, 경제난
sanctions : 제재
At the eighth congress of the ruling Worker's Party last month, Kim admitted the failure to meet the country's previous five-year development goals and put forward a new five-year plan focusing on self-reliance. (Yonhap)
ruling : 지배(통치)하는
admit : 인정(시인)하다, 자백하다
put forward : 제안하다, 앞당기다, 내세우다, 지명하다
self-reliance : 자립
