May 12, Juche 111(2022)
On switching over the state anti-epidemic work to the greatest emergency anti-epidemic system in line with the prevailing situation of anti-epidemic crisis.
As regards the grave situation that stealth omicron variant has come into the boundary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea amid the ever-worsening world health crisis, the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee decides as follows:
1. The state anti-epidemic work shall be switched over to the greatest emergency anti-epidemic system.
2. The State Emergency Anti-Epidemic Headquarters shall take practical measures to transfer the state anti-epidemic work into the greatest emergency anti-epidemic system and strictly control and command the overall anti-epidemic work of the country.
3. All the institutions and sectors including the Party, administrative and economic organs, public security, state security and armed forces organs shall unconditionally accept the instructions of the State Emergency Anti-Epidemic Headquarters as the demand of the Party Central Committee and thoroughly carry them out and establish well-organized work system in conformity with the switch over to the greatest emergency anti-epidemic system lest there should be any trifling deviations in the whole state affairs.
The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea