The 24th Plenary Meeting of the 14th Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) of the DPRK took place at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Thursday.
Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, first vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and chairman of the SPA Standing Committee, presided over the plenary meeting.
Attending the meeting were members of the SPA Standing Committee.
Present as observers were officials of the SPA Standing Committee and officials concerned of the Cabinet Secretariat, ministries and national institutions.
Put on the agenda of the plenary meeting were such matters as the adoption of laws of the DPRK on protection of state secret, management of railway, education of prodigies, loaning and national symbols and the review of execution and supervision of the Law of the DPRK on Providing Living Conditions for Discharged Officers.
A report on the main contents of relevant draft laws deliberated by the SPA Legislation Committee was made at the meeting.
The plenary meeting studied and examined the opinions on the drafts before adopting the above-said laws as a decree of the SPA Standing Committee.
Then, the plenary meeting reviewed the execution and supervision of the Law of the DPRK on Providing Living Conditions for Discharged Officers and adopted a decision of the Standing Committee of the SPA reflecting the practical measures for executing the law thoroughly.
It stressed the need for the socialist law-observance guidance committees at all levels to conduct effective education in law observance through the newly-adopted laws and for the relevant organs to properly formulate and issue the regulations and rules for law enforcement as required by the law on legislation and thus legally guarantee the struggle for implementing the decisions of the Eighth Congress of the WPK and the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK.