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Korea holds meetings to discuss production quotas with factories, enterprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suffering from COVID-19-inspired economic troubles, North Korea recently held meetings to diagnose issues facing the nation\u2019s factories and enterprises and pressed for measures to expand production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking on condition of anonymity, a reporting partner in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Tuesday that the Cabinet held teleconferences to discuss the matter from Apr. 26 to Apr. 29. Participating in the meetings were the heads of large enterprises (Class 1 and above), as well as the department heads of provincial, city and county people\u2019s committees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A notice that the meetings would be held was given in an expanded plenary meeting of the Cabinet in early April.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main focus of the meetings was to review how well economic plans were carried out in the first quarter. That is to say, officials from each department, sector and province announced their plans and results before facing criticism about their results from the Cabinet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cabinet took serious issue with how there were too many instances of people carrying out plans on paper with no substantive results, the reporting partner said. The Cabinet has long criticized false or exaggerated reports, but things have yet to improve on the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The meetings also compared the results achieved by privately-run companies and state-run enterprises. Officials noted how services and supply networks that depend on market activity or operate under state agencies met their quotas because sales were brisk. In response, Cabinet officials said: \u201cThat the workplace managers in state-run enterprises can\u2019t fulfill plans is because they lack work ethic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cabinet called for careful inspections of workplaces that carried out their plans well and those that could not, and ordered that the reasons for failures be reported up the line.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the meetings, the people\u2019s committee of North Hamgyong Province sternly warned the managers of workplaces that had achieved less than 70% of their planned production to prepare to step down from their positions if they lag behind in their second-quarter reviews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of reporting partners who live inside North Korea and China. Their identities remain anonymous due to security concerns. More information about Daily NK\u2019s reporting partner network and information gathering activities can be found on our FAQ page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/faq\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20230509-3\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suffering from COVID-19-inspired economic troubles, North Korea recently held meetings to diagnose issues facing the nation\u2019s factories and enterprises and pressed for measures to expand production. 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