(2022.10.10.)

An emergency consultative meeting of senior officials of the WPK Central Committee and the provincial Party committees took place on June 7, Juche 110 (2021) to deal with a problem regarding improvement of the people’s standard of living. At the meeting General Secretary Kim Jong Un emphasized again the importance of the task of providing dairy products to children at nurseries and kindergartens.

He didn’t want to leave the task of supplying goat’s or cow’s milk to the children at nurseries and kindergartens unfulfilled during the term of the 8^th Party Central Committee and let it be dealt with by the Ninth Party Central Committee, he said. He emphasized over and over again the need for the State to take decisive measures to increase dairy production nationwide before the Ninth Party Congress. Hearing his ardent care for the children the officials felt a surge of admiration.

Kim Jong Un expressed his firm resolve to have the policy of providing the children at nurseries and kindergartens with dairy products all year round adopted at the Third Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee.

Then, he proposed tasks of increasing milk production as much as possible in the country and importing powdered milk in the season when the dairy production falls so as to provide the children at nurseries and kindergartens with milk without fail, and gave an assignment to a relevant unit to study and complete a powdered milk-sterilizing method as soon as possible.

He continued to say: At the coming Third Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea we should show the world how we advance the revolution to a new stage even when we are in a difficult situation.

We are going to declare to the world that the times have come when our children are provided with dairy products instead of soya milk. In this way we should mark the coming Party plenary meeting as an occasion to make Party plenary meetings no longer deal with immediate tasks alone but adopt hopeful, optimistic, revolutionary and proactive decisions to move ahead with confidence.

Yet, Kim Jong Un seemed to be feeling there was something still to be done for the children, for he stressed again that the work of providing the children at nurseries and kindergartens with dairy products is much more important than building several atomic-powered submarines and that the secretaries of the Party Central Committee and chief secretaries of the provincial Party committees should keep it in mind.

This is how the historic Third Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee discussed the task of consolidating the childcare policy of the Party as an important of the agenda items and adopted it as part of the policy to supply nutritious foodstuff including dairy products to all the children across the country.