Nicaragua accuses Germany before the ICJ of facilitating genocide in Gaza by sending weapons to Israel and demands reparations for Palestinian victims.

Nicaragua filed its Memorial in the case before the International Court of Justice against Germany regarding its failure to comply with international obligations regarding the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the supply of arms to Israel to carry out genocide in Gaza.

In its Memorial, Nicaragua demonstrates that Germany's violations date back decades, and points out that these include violations of international humanitarian law and the Palestinian people's right to self-determination.

Nicaragua has also detailed before the court the support that Germany has provided to Israel, not only military but also political and economic, which has facilitated violations of peremptory norms of international law.

Nicaragua has also requested that Germany cease its violating conduct, including military supplies, the distinction in its commercial and other activities between Israeli and occupied Palestinian territory, non-repetition, and reparations for Palestinian victims.

Carlos Daniel Jarquín, Managua.

Georges Abdallah, one of the most prominent Arab pro-Palestinian freedom fighters, has arrived in his homeland Lebanon on Friday, July 25, after being freed from French prisons, where he was held for over 40 years.

Large crowds gathered on the road leading to Beirut’s airport to celebrate the arrival of the anti-imperialist patriot, who sacrificed his youth as part of his nation’s struggle for the liberation of Palestine from Israeli occupation.

Resistance is freedom, says Abdallah from Beirut

Surrounded by thousands of his countrymen, Abdallah delivered powerful statements, reaffirming his unwavering commitment to the principles of resistance.

Abdallah saluted and thanked the crowds, and the martyrs who were killed by Israel in the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut (Dahiyeh).

He also hailed Hezbollah’s late Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah: “I salute the martyred leader”.

The veteran freedom fighter called for rallying around Gaza and the resistance, asserting that “resistance is freedom”.

His call came at a critical time, during which the US and Israel have been exerting maximum pressure on the Lebanese state to disarm Hezbollah, while Israel continues with its brutal genocide and deliberate starvation of the Palestinian people in Gaza.

“The resistance in Palestine must continue, and we must act in a way that lives up to the misery of children who turned into skeletons,” Abdallah emphasized, referring to the starved children in Gaza.

Georges Abdallah: from pro-Palestinian sympathizer to Europe’s longest-held political prisoner

Georges Abdallah began his activism in the 1970s as a sympathizer within pro-Palestinian and Arab nationalist circles. It is believed that he joined the armed struggle against the Israeli occupation in 1978, the same year he was wounded during Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. He also joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) that year.

At the end of the 1970s, the Lebanese freedom fighter founded the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions (LARF), which launched attacks against US and Israeli officials in France in the 1980s.

US Military Attaché Charles Robert Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov were assassinated in the French capital, Paris, in two of these attacks in 1982. Consequently, Abdallah was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

In 1999, Abdallah completed the minimum portions of his life sentence, which made him eligible for parole, but the court rejected the successive requests submitted to it since that year.

In 2013, he was granted a release order on the condition of being deported from France, but French authorities then refused to implement the order on seemingly political grounds, reportedly under pressure by the US.

On July 17, the Paris Appeals Court ordered that Georges Abdallah, 74, be freed from a prison in southern France on July 25, provided that he leaves France and never returns.

In a new privatization push, the government of Javier Milei has begun the sale of Energía Argentina SA (Enarsa), the main state-owned company in the energy sector . The announcement comes just one day after the dismantling of the Belgrano Cargas state-owned railway.

Through Resolution 1050/2025, published this Friday, July 25, in the Official Gazette, the Ministry of Economy formalized the beginning of the privatization process with the sale of 100 percent of Enarsa's shares in Citelec SA (the company that controls Transener), which is responsible for transmitting electricity throughout the country.

Transener operates more than 12,000 kilometers of high-voltage power lines, connecting generating plants with electricity distribution centers. The Argentine State, through Enarsa, controls 52.65 percent of this key infrastructure.

The plan calls for a national and international public tender to complete the sale within a maximum period of eight months . The Agency for the Transformation of Public Enterprises was designated to coordinate the transaction, and a public banking institution will be responsible for appraising the shareholding.

The privatization of Enarsa was authorized by the Basic Law, approved in 2024, which included this and other state-owned companies as "subject to privatization." According to the government, the goal is to reduce public spending and open the way for private capital in sectors considered strategic . "For years, ENARSA required multimillion-dollar transfers from the Treasury without achieving efficiency or quality of service," the Ministry of Energy explained.

Enarsa was created by law in 2004, during the presidency of Néstor Kirchner , as a key tool for state intervention in the energy sector. Its portfolio includes key projects: the Perito Moreno Gas Pipeline (formerly Néstor Kirchner), the Santa Cruz dams, the Northeast Argentine Gas Pipeline (GNEA), 50 percent of the Escobar liquefied natural gas terminal (shared with YPF), and the majority stake in the Manuel Belgrano and José de San Martín thermal power plants.

This announcement is only the first step in a broader plan aimed at the complete disintegration of Enarsa, separating its business units to facilitate their sale in parts. While the government promises continuity of works and services, various voices warn of the loss of energy sovereignty and public control of critical infrastructure.

In an exclusive interview with teleSUR , the leader of Peru's Socialist Left Party, Martín Guerra, warned that the recent visit by former Blackwater boss and Academi founder Erik Prince represents "a key step toward the privatization of repression" in the Andean country, with the support of the mining industry and the direct sponsorship of economist Hernando de Soto .

“What the Peruvian state is doing is outsourcing repression ,” Guerra denounced, referring to Prince's arrival and his offer of “training” for police, military personnel, and civilians in regions affected by organized crime and informal mining. Former presidential candidate De Soto, known for his neoliberal stances, has acted as host to the controversial contractor, which for Guerra represents “ a second phase of his bloody formalization project .”

For the socialist leader, Prince's presence "will produce a paramilitary system in Peru ," serving national and transnational economic interests: "To recap: the law facilitates the existence of mafias, the extractive monopoly is in the hands of oligarchies, the flight of natural resources destroys jobs... what's missing? Well, parallel armies to repress disaffected populations."

Guerra refers specifically to Law 32108, approved in 2024 by Congress, which, according to legal experts, " dangerously modifies the concept of a criminal organization " and, in practice, paves the way for private actors to intervene in security matters without effective judicial oversight.

The Peruvian politician emphasized that Prince's visit comes amid growing state repression , with more than 70 deaths in social protests in 2022 and 2023 , as well as the rise of mafias and parallel economies linked to informal mining. "In May, 13 miners were murdered in a mine in the north. On July 12, another died during protests. Prince has already offered his services in all of these settings," he said.

In this context, Guerra warns: " Neo-fascism does not aspire to solutions but rather to the extermination of dissent . Private militarization will exacerbate social conflicts and serve to allocate territories to foreign interests, flouting all human rights."

Repercussions after Prince's arrival

Asked about the public's reaction, Guerra lamented that "the news has gone unnoticed in Lima ," where the dominant media narrative presents Prince as "a foreign vigilante" amid a crime crisis. " Boluarte lacks public approval, but since it's a de facto government, it doesn't need it ," he stated.

Guerra also blamed the Latin American governments that recognize Dina Boluarte as the legitimate president: " This dictatorship is a reign of impunity . Not only did they murder dozens of Peruvians, but Ms. Boluarte also raised her salary, receives perks, and enjoys the complicit silence of countries like Chile and Brazil."

From a regional perspective, the Peruvian leader warned that Prince's arrival fits into a strategy of continental neoconservatism promoted by Donald Trump , in alliance with figures such as Nayib Bukele, Javier Milei, Daniel Noboa, and Boluarte herself.

“Trump needs more leaders who don't disrupt the dynamics of capital in the region. It's no longer about bombing countries, but about using mercenaries to control populations, as the SS did in Germany or the fasci di combattimento in Italy ,” Guerra said, drawing a disturbing historical parallel.

Finally, Martín Guerra issued a warning to rural, indigenous, and popular communities that have historically been marginalized: " You will be the primary targets of the new privatized repressive apparatus . It's no longer just the state; now there's also the foreign mercenary company targeting the heart of Peru."

Weapons purchased in Israel by authorities ended up in the hands of Mexican cartels, activists say.

At the end of 2020, the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights revealed which gunsmiths based in Europe and Israel exported thousands of weapons to the country for use by state and municipal police. However, their use has not been exclusive to security forces, but has also been used by organized crime groups in Mexico that use the borders to smuggle illegal weapons.

Activists point out that, in the context of the massacre in Gaza and growing international condemnation of the Israeli regime's war crimes and acts of genocide, the authorities should not purchase weapons from a flagship company of the Zionist regime's military-industrial complex.

Organized crime stole or repurchased weapons from police officers to use against them. Rifles, submachine guns, and handguns with high-precision Israeli technology have been found in recent years, in the hands of hitmen, in safe houses and warehouses, mainly in Mexican states where cartels control large areas.

Activists point out that it is worrying that the weapons available to organized crime have increased exponentially, and even more worrying that they originate from Israel, which is now playing a genocidal role in Palestine since the resumption of hostilities on October 7, 2023.

Lizeth Coello, Chiapas, Mexico.

Suspicion is growing among Brazilian intelligence agents that the Bolsonaro supporters' actions are not being organized by organic movements within the country, but rather by a meticulously rehearsed script by the White House, with the participation of the CIA.

In recent days, Eduardo Bolsonaro's aggressiveness against the Federal Police, against Supreme Court justices, his attitude of defying even the rules of his mandate, and his increasingly radical rhetoric have raised alarm bells.

The first of these is due to the certainty of being able to speak and misinform, without any fear of facing justice.

The second suspicion concerns the aggressiveness of Donald Trump 's own actions . He reserved the highest tariffs and harshest rhetoric for Brazil, and closed the door to any dialogue with the Lula administration.

"This is a typical script drawn up by the CIA, feeding national actors to justify a foreign strategic interest," said an Abin agent abroad.

In 2022, in the midst of Jair Bolsonaro's preparations for a coup d'état, the then CIA chief appointed by Joe Biden traveled to Brazil to deliver a message to the Brazilian military: an adventure against the country's democracy would not have American support .

Today, the suspicion is that the new Trump administration has a different stance. Indeed, the White House's efforts are to assert that actions are being taken to "defend" Brazilians, not against them. The Bolsonaro clan is the straw man. The sanctions would be implemented, officially, not to serve US strategic interests, but supposedly to enforce "freedom in Brazil."

The script has all the necessary ingredients to construct a rhetoric suitable for action. There is a group of supposed "exiles"—such as Eduardo Bolsonaro, Allan dos Santos, and Paulo Figueiredo—there is a "wronged" individual who is "loved by the people"—former President Jair Bolsonaro—and there is a supposedly dictatorial regime, represented by Alexandre de Moraes and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

" The key word is destabilization ," said a seasoned national intelligence agent. Weakening a government in a divided country and thus paving the way for the US to have a powerful ally in the emerging world by 2026.

There was no shortage of warnings about the risk Brazil faced. In August 2024, before the elections, a delegation sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs mapped out who would be the influential players in a future Trump administration and suggested opening channels of dialogue with them. The strategy was to build bridges so that, in the event of a crisis, mediation could take place.

On Abin 's side , it was suggested to draw up a psychological and behavioral profile of Trump to identify vulnerabilities in his character and interests that could be exploited.

For everyone, this effort should have occurred before Bolsonarism created its own access points to the Oval Office. Some of these reports and suggestions, however, remained in drawers at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Planalto Palace, never implemented.

Among diplomats , there is also a perception that the attacks and measures adopted in recent days are just the beginning of a long period of political instability.

In government, everyone awaits further action from the White House, both individually and against the country. With misinformation, control over social media, and real economic damage, a scenario is gradually unfolding in which a democratically elected government takes on the appearance of "illegitimacy."

"All that's missing is a Brazilian Juan Guaidó to solidify the existence of a coup attempt," said an experienced diplomat, referring to the Venezuelan opposition leader.

There is no shortage of candidates for the position.

Retirees are protesting again in Buenos Aires, rejecting the use of pension funds for Israeli citizens who want to live in Argentina.

This is Peter Lamela, Donald Trump's ambassador to Argentina, who has been open about his interventionist plan and support for President Javier Milei, which did not go unnoticed at the recent retirees' march in Buenos Aires. However, in this context, Javier Milei's government has decided to provide benefits to Israeli citizens who wish to come and live in Argentina, obtaining the funds from the same ANSES fund.

In this way, Minister Patricia Bullrich's security protocol prevents the free movement and demonstration of Argentine retirees trying to reach Plaza de Mayo.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson expressed deep concern over current developments between Thailand and Cambodia on Thursday, urging both parties to resolve the issue through dialogue and negotiation after fresh clashes broke out along their border.

Thailand and Cambodia exchanged fire on their border Thursday in a sharp escalation of their conflict that killed at least 11 civilians, according to the Al Jazeera update. Both nations accused each other of starting the military clashes and have downgraded their diplomatic relations since Wednesday, according to the media reports.

Thailand is closing all border crossings with Cambodia, a spokesperson of Thailand's Ad Hoc Center for Thailand-Cambodia Border Situation told a press briefing on Thursday, the Xinhua News Agency said.

The two countries' foreign ministries issued statements condemning the situation "in the strongest terms," while calling on each other to cease the hostile acts.

Cambodia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a statement condemning Thailand's aggression. Since the early morning of Thursday, Thai armed forces launched "unprovoked, premeditated and deliberate attacks" on Cambodian positions along the border areas, including Tamone Thom Temple, Ta Krabey Temple and Mom Bei, in the provinces of Preah Vihear and Oddar Meanchey, it said.

The Thai government also condemned on Thursday "in the strongest terms the violations of Thailand's sovereignty and international law" and urged Cambodia to cease its repeated act which constitutes a severe violation of international law, according to a statement issued by the Thai foreign ministry.

At a press conference on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun, when responding to a question on the Thailand-Cambodia border clash, stated that Thailand and Cambodia are both China's friendly neighbors and important members of ASEAN. Good-neighborliness and properly settling differences serves the fundamental and long-term interests of the two sides.

He added that we are deeply concerned over the ongoing developments and hope that the two sides will properly address issues through dialogue and consultation. Bearing in mind the common interest and concerns of regional countries, China upholds a just and impartial stance. We have and will continue to promote talks for peace in our own way and play a constructive role in promoting deescalation.

The strikes come a day after a Thai soldier lost his leg to a landmine on the border, prompting a downgrade of diplomatic ties by both Bangkok and Phnom Penh as relations collapse to their lowest level in years, CNN said.

Worrying escalation

The Chinese Embassy in Cambodia on Thursday reminded Chinese citizens in the country, especially those near the conflict zones, to closely monitor the local security situation, remain vigilant, take precautions, and stay safe. They should also avoid traveling to the Cambodian-Thai border areas, according to a statement issued by the embassy.

A Chinese citizen living in Bangkok, surnamed Qian, who had planned to fly back to Beijing in two days, told the Global Times on Thursday that after learning the conflict had escalated to airstrikes, she was worried that if the situation worsened further, Thai airspace might close, leaving her unable to return home.

Zhou Yingping, General Manager of China Southern Airlines Company Limited's Phnom Penh Office, told the Global Times on Thursday that the company has contacted Cambodian air traffic control authorities and confirmed that there are no disruptions so far to current flight operations. However, Zhou expressed worries about the conflict escalating out of control and said they are closely monitoring the situation.

Cambodian media outlet Khmer Times described the clashes on Thursday as having "escalated into one of the most serious military standoffs between the two countries in recent years," drawing regional and international concern.

Thailand's Ministry of Education ordered all 582 schools on Thursday in the Thai-Cambodian border conflict zone to temporarily suspend classes, according to CCTV News.

The ministry said the suspension was for safety reasons, with all students currently returning home. If the situation continues to worsen, students will be instructed to seek shelter in bunkers, CCTV News said.

With the conflict escalating through the deployment of heavy weapons such as fighter jets and rocket artillery following landmine incidents along the disputed border, a Chinese military affairs expert said the clashes were intensifying, and warned of further escalation between China's two neighbors.

Ritcha Suksuwanon, Thai military deputy spokesperson, said six Thai F-16 fighter jets were deployed from Ubon Ratchathani province, hitting two "Cambodian military targets on the ground", according to the Al Jazeera. The report also said that Cambodia fired artillery shells and rockets into Thailand, per the update report.

Both countries seek to communicate with the UN urgently on Thursday. Thai Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampong arrived at the UN Headquarters in New York City on Thursday afternoon to urgently communicate with the international community regarding "Cambodia opening fire on Thailand," Bangkok-based media Khaosod English reported.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has formally requested the UN Security Council to urgently address what he described as a "premeditated military aggression" by Thai armed forces along the Cambodian-Thai border, Khmer Times reported.

CNN, citing an analyst, predicted on Thursday that the conflict between Thailand and Cambodia is "likely to get worse before it gets better," and the next few days could see more "confrontation, clashes, escalation."

Thailand and Cambodia have had a complicated relationship of both cooperation and rivalry in recent decades, CNN said, pointing out that the two countries share an 817-kilometer land border — largely mapped by the French when they controlled Cambodia as a colony — that has periodically seen military clashes and been the source of political tensions.

"Many of the issues are not due to deep-rooted animosity between Thailand and Cambodia themselves, but rather stem from the lingering problems left behind when French colonialists withdrew," Song Zhongping, a Chinese military affairs expert, told the Global Times on Thursday.

The border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia involves complex historical issues. The two countries should actively seek more dialogue and communication, and work together to create favorable conditions for easing the situation, Bao Zhipeng, an assistant researcher at the Department for Asia-Pacific Studies of the China Institute of International Studies, told the Global Times on Thursday.

Bogotá (EFE).- Seven former executives of Banadex, a subsidiary of the banana multinational Chiquita Brands International, were each sentenced to eleven years and three months in prison by the Sixth Criminal Court of the Specialized Circuit of Antioquia, which found them guilty of financing the paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC).

Those convicted of aggravated criminal conspiracy are Reinaldo Elías Escobar de la Hoz, John Paul Olivo, Charles Dennis Keiser, Álvaro Acevedo González, José Luis Valverde Ramírez, Víctor Julio Buitrago Sandoval, and Fuad Alberto Giacoman Hasbún, according to a ruling released Wednesday.

"We welcome this decision, which comes two months after the statute of limitations expired, and which recognizes the multinational's ties to the AUC through more than 100 illegal payments," said Senator Isabel Zuleta of the ruling Pacto Histórico party on Wednesday.

In addition, the Court imposed a fine of 13.879 billion pesos (approximately $3.4 million).

"The ruling identifies paramilitary Raúl Hasbún, alias 'Pedro Bonito,' as the link between Chiquita and the AUC's Banana Bloc," Zuleta added.

According to the ruling, the company had ties to paramilitaries and financed paramilitary groups that operated in the Urabá region and the department of Magdalena, and was involved in crimes committed by this criminal group between 1997 and 2004.

The litigation

The ruling made clear that the "Prosecutor's Office proved that Chiquita Brands (through its subsidiary Banadex), believing the extortion was not punishable, authorized the transfer of funds to the AUC."

He explained that the company used organizations known as Convivir, which were the seed of paramilitary groups, which, although "on the date of the events they enjoyed legal presumption," had already "been infiltrated by the Self-Defense Forces" to obtain those resources.

"This financing was known to all executives, who had a necessary participation in accordance with their role in the company and duly approved by their superiors at the parent company," the ruling states.

The conviction of the Colombian executives follows the ruling issued by a federal jury in Florida (USA) in June 2024 that the banana multinational Chiquita Brands International, accused of financing paramilitary groups in Colombia that left thousands dead in that country, will have to pay $38.3 million to plaintiffs and families of the victims.

The ruling in a civil lawsuit filed in a West Palm Beach court, following a decade of litigation, states that Chiquita failed to demonstrate that "the assistance it provided" to the AUC to protect its employees from violence was the result of an "unlawful, immediate, and imminent threat" from the terrorist group.

The ruling also noted that Chiquita's assistance to the AUC constituted "a dangerous activity" that increased the risk to community members beyond the dangers to which they were normally exposed.

The first-ever China-Vietnam joint army training kicked off at a training base in South China on Tuesday, official media reported on Wednesday. A Chinese expert said the joint training will contribute to the safeguard of peace and stability in the region.

The opening ceremony for the joint army training was held in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the military channel of China Central Television reported on Wednesday.

The training will focus on four key areas: joint reconnaissance, joint strikes, joint rescue, and joint support. It will be conducted in a mixed-unit format, with modularized exercises covering eight courses, including camouflage reconnaissance, drone reconnaissance, and live-fire shooting.

After the opening ceremony, the Vietnamese personnel participating in the training were given a tour to observe various types of Chinese weapons and equipment, including wheeled vehicles, light weapons and drones.

The Chinese Defense Ministry first announced the joint army training on Sunday. According to its statement, the event is themed around joint border patrol trainings, and aims to enhance mutual learning and exchange of border patrol experiences while further deepening pragmatic cooperation between the two militaries. It is scheduled to last until late July.

Zhang Junshe, a Chinese military affairs expert, told the Global Times that the joint army training between the Chinese and Vietnamese armies is an important move to deepen pragmatic cooperation between the two countries' militaries.

It shows that areas of cooperation between the Chinese and Vietnamese militaries are continuing to expand, further enhancing mutual understanding and traditional friendship between the two armed forces, the expert said. He noted that the join training holds significant positive implications for maintaining peace and stability along the two countries' borders as well as in the whole region.

China and Vietnam have been boosting military ties over recent years.

Zhang Xiaogang, a Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson, said at a media briefing in April that in recent years, the Chinese and Vietnamese militaries have enhanced their long-standing friendship featuring "camaraderie plus brotherhood".

The two sides have maintained frequent high-level engagements, established a "3+3" strategic dialogue on diplomacy, defense and public security, conducted joint counter-terrorism exercises, organized activities such as border defense friendship exchanges, joint patrols in the Beibu Gulf, and young military officer exchanges, the spokesperson said, adding that the military-to-military relations have achieved high-level and steady development.

JERUSALEM, July 23 (Reuters) - An anti-government activist in her 70s has been placed under investigation on suspicion of plotting to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, police said on Wednesday.

The suspect is accused of having expressed her intent to kill Netanyahu and sought assistance from other activists to obtain weapons and gather information about the prime minister’s security arrangements, police said.

The National Unit for Serious and International Crime Investigations and the Shin Bet internal security agency have passed their evidence on to the State Attorney's office pending possible formal charges. Israeli newspaper Haaretz, quoting sources familiar with the case, said the woman had recently fallen ill and told people she planned to "take Netanyahu with her".

Several people who heard her remarks contacted police, prompting the opening of the investigation. She was arrested around six weeks ago and has been released to house arrest.

Haaretz said the woman, who comes from Tel Aviv and was not identified, was suspected of wanting to target Netanyahu with an explosive device or rocket-propelled grenade.

In 1995 the then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was killed by a right-wing extremist opposed to his peace efforts with the Palestinians. In 1957, Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, narrowly escaped a grenade attack.

Pyongy6ang, July 20 (KCNA) -- In the new era of rural rejuvenation ushered in by the great Workers' Party of Korea, a great change is taking place in the direction of agricultural production of the DPRK and the material and technical foundations guaranteeing sustainable and stable growth are further being strengthened.

The Party Central Committee set it as the main task of the strategy for developing the countryside to completely solve the country's food problem by increasing agricultural production. It made a crucial decision on pushing ahead with rice and wheat farming by changing the crop distribution and led the struggle for realizing it, thus opening a new history of the bumper harvest of wheat and barley.

The work to implement the Party's policy of changing the structure of grain production set forth in the programme for the rural revolution in the new era has been launched on a nationwide scale. In the course, a change in the understanding of wheat farming among agricultural officials and working people bas been taken place, scientific farming methods, experience and solid foundations for the growth of wheat production laid and the area of wheat cultivation increased every year. This year alone, 30 000 more hectares of cultivation areas were turned into the ones for growing wheat as compared with last year.

Thanks to the completion of the harvest of wheat and barley in the right season this year, the state grain production plan was over-fulfilled and the wheat yield of this year is expected to be increased more than three times than 2021. Thirty-four high-yield counties and 664 high-yield farms were produced, and many high-yield workteams and sub-workteams and bumper croppers were produced.

Rich harvest in wheat and barley farming made in a major thrust front of socialist economic construction is a clear proof of the validity and vitality of the new agricultural policy of the WPK. It is also a brilliant fruition of the revolutionary creation and thoroughgoing spirit of implementation of the DPRK people who are upholding the plan and decision of the Party Central Committee with one mind and loyalty, cherishing the firm faith that the plan and decision of the Party Central Committee are science, practice and victory.

In his policy speech at the Fifth Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un advanced the policy of boldly changing the crop distribution and turning into rice farming and wheat and barley farming. At the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee, he clarified the programme for the rural revolution in the new era and underscored the need to change the people's dietary culture into the one with the main stress on white rice and flour dishes as the main.

Thanks to the great fatherly leader who has always discussed the issue of wheat farming and taken necessary measures to steadily increase the area of wheat cultivation and output every year at important meetings and wisely led to their execution, a unified system of command and supply of necessary farming materials for expanding and developing the wheat and barley farming was established throughout the country and a new turn was brought about in agricultural production.

Thanks to the active efforts of the officials and working people in the agricultural sector, the area for growing wheat has increased more than twice than four years ago.

As the area of wheat cultivation increased, a high-yield movement has been waged in different parts of the country to increase productivity.

The countryside set a bold goal of breaking through the national per-hectare yield standard and took measures to secure high-yielding wheat seed, improve fertility of fields, introduce advanced cultivation methods, manufacture grain dryers and cope with disastrous abnormal weather.

The scientific farming promotion teams have taken sci-tech measures to produce high yields and disseminate advanced agricultural knowledge to the sub-workteams, further increasing the enthusiasm for scientific farming.

With the change in the structure of grain production and farming methods and the growth of wheat production throughout the country, the number of high-yield units has increased, resulting in a special change in the history of socialist rural construction in the country.

In the course of pushing ahead with and reaping rich harvest in wheat farming in the rural areas across the country for the past four years, the agricultural working people have redoubled their confidence and enthusiasm that they can attain any goal of grain production if they do all the things according to the Party's policy.

All the officials and working people in the agricultural sector, not content with the successes they have achieved, are putting spurs to the struggle for attaining this year's goal of grain production set forth by the Party with loyalty and patriotism to make redoubled efforts to implement the Party's policy on ensuring the overwhelming proportion of rice and wheat farming in grain production.

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