The World Health Organization (WHO) plans to eliminate malaria in North Korea and two dozen other countries by 2025, the organization announced on Wednesday.

The initiative will use “substantial technical and on-the-ground support” to eradicate malaria in eight countries including the DPRK, as well as 17 countries selected from a previous malaria program, the WHO stated in a press release.

The WHO’s director of the global malaria program Dr. Pedro Alonso said that “success is driven, first and foremost, by political commitment.” According to the final reportfor a previous initiative called E-2020, countries in the so-called E-2025 program