‘It is known that in response to the central government’s request to ‘equip emergency disaster supplies properly’, the North Pyongan Provincial Party Committee has issued specific instructions to institutions and enterprises in the province to prepare emergency disaster supplies.
Daily NK, a source from North Pyongan Province, said on the 28th, “As the Disaster Prevention, Rescue and Recovery Act on the issue of creation and supply of emergency disaster materials was revised and supplemented at the standing meeting of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly last September, the central government issued an emergency plan until the end of November this year. “We have issued instructions to all provinces to carefully prepare disaster supplies,” he said.
It is said that the North Pyongan Provincial Party, which is the flood-affected area, followed these instructions and issued instructions to all units to prepare emergency disaster supplies through the North Pyongan Provincial People’s Committee in the middle of this month.
According to the source, a directive from the provincial party was delivered to the Provincial Commercial Bureau to require all commercial, volunteer, and welfare networks to raise emergency disaster funds in cash and deposit them in the provincial bank. This is to emphasize that it must be able to be used urgently when a disaster occurs, like this year.
In addition, the Yangjeong Management Bureau was ordered to secure additional stockpile rice and emergency rice in addition to the grain purchased from farms, emphasizing that grain is the most important material in an emergency, and prepare emergency disaster supplies to a satisfactory level without conditions or excuses.
Other institutions and enterprises were instructed to prepare emergency disaster supplies such as grain, cement, sand, bricks, tools, gasoline, and diesel oil. In relation to this, the provincial party reportedly stated that although it is difficult to stockpile grains, it is necessary, and that supplies needed for emergencies such as cement, sand, and gasoline should also be stockpiled to some extent.
The source said, “The North Pyongan Provincial Party sent out guidelines one by one regarding the creation of emergency disaster supplies, emphasizing that since these are national laws and decisions, they must be enforced, so all workers must concentrate on creating emergency disaster supplies in October and November.” He said, “I gave it to you.”
Meanwhile, provincial party workers responded to the central government’s instructions regarding the appointment of a new provincial party secretary following the flood at the end of July, saying, “In order not to offend the secretary, whose inclinations we do not yet know, we need to get things right from the start.” It is reported that they appear to be steadily working on execution.
In particular, the source added that party and administrative workers in the province are in a very tense atmosphere as the responsible secretary is being evaluated as a “complicated person compared to the previous responsible secretary” as each and every part of the emphasis in the creation of emergency disaster supplies is relayed.
Chairman Kim Jong-un presided over the 22nd Emergency Enlarged Meeting of the Political Bureau of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party in Sinuiju on July 29-30, and held the responsible secretaries of the North Pyongan Province and Jagang Provincial Party Committees and the Minister of Social Security responsible for failing to prepare for floods. A replacement was carried out. At that time, Ri Hi-yong, former first vice-director of the party’s Organization and Guidance Department, was appointed as responsible secretary of the North Pyongan Provincial Party.
Source: www.dailynk.com
