North Korea hopes to build ‘socialist dream country’ with new laws

North Korea’s parliament met this week to pass legislation aimed at transforming the country into a “beautiful and civilized socialist dreamland”, state media reported on Thursday.

North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly met for its first session this week and adopted laws on landscaping and rural development, state news agency KCNA reported.

The two laws will help advance the ruling party’s efforts to bring “a radical turn in the rural community and its landscaping policy to achieve rapid development of the Korean-style rural socialist community and grace the country into a beautiful and civilized socialist community.” A dream country,” KCNA said, citing a speech by a deputy at the meeting.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who did not attend the session, vowed to improve people’s lives and boost rural development amid spiraling economic crises caused by self-imposed Covid-19 lockdowns, international sanctions on the weapons program. country’s nuclear power plants and natural disasters.

Many of Kim’s economic promises have yet to be fulfilled, analysts say, and aid organizations have warned of rampant food shortages and other hardships.

According to a report last month by 38 North, a US-based website that tracks North Korea, Kim’s pledge to rebuild a typhoon-ravaged province in the north of the country and turn it into a mining community ” model” has made little progress.

The United States has accused Kim of pouring resources into military projects at the expense of the nation’s people. He said this week that Russia had approached North Korea about buying ammunition, potentially providing an unexpected advantage for the cash-strapped government in Pyongyang. Russia said the US report was “false”.