REPORT ON ENLARGED MEETING OF POLITICAL BUREAU OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF WPK

Pyongyang, December 9 (KCNA) -- A report on the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was released on December 8.

The following is the full text of the report:

An enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK was held in Pyongyang, the capital of the revolution, on Dec. 8.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the WPK, guided the meeting.

Present there were members and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK.

Leading officials of the Central Committee of the WPK, provincial party committees and armed forces organs attended it as observers.

Our party members, service personnel and all other people have made energetic efforts to implement the behests of leader Kim Jong Il, entrusting their destiny entirely to Kim Jong Un and getting united close around the Central Committee of the WPK since the demise of Kim Jong Il, the greatest loss to the nation.

In this historic period for carrying forward the revolutionary cause of Juche the chance elements and alien elements who had made their ways into the party committed such anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional acts as expanding their forces through factional moves and daring challenge the party, while attempting to undermine the unitary leadership of the party.

In this connection, the Political Bureau of the C.C., the WPK convened its enlarged meeting and discussed the issue related to the anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional acts committed by Jang Song Thaek.

The meeting, to begin with, fully laid bare the anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional acts of Jang Song Thaek and their harmfulness and reactionary nature.

It is the immutable truth proved by the nearly 70-year-long history of the WPK that the party can preserve its revolutionary nature as the party of the leader and fulfill its historic mission only when it firmly ensures its unity and cohesion based on the monolithic idea and the unitary center of leadership.

The entire party, whole army and all people are dynamically advancing toward the final victory in the drive for the building of a thriving nation, meeting all challenges of history and resolutely foiling the desperate moves of the enemies of the revolution under the leadership of Kim Jong Un. Such situation urgently calls for consolidating as firm as a rock the single-minded unity of the party and the revolutionary ranks with Kim Jong Un as its unitary centre and more thoroughly establishing the monolithic leadership system of the party throughout the party and society.

The Jang Song Thaek group, however, committed such anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional acts as gnawing at the unity and cohesion of the party and disturbing the work for establishing the party unitary leadership system and perpetrated such ant-state, unpopular crimes as doing enormous harm to the efforts to build a thriving nation and improve the standard of people's living.

Jang pretended to uphold the party and leader but was engrossed in such factional acts as dreaming different dreams and involving himself in double-dealing behind the scene.

Though he held responsible posts of the party and state thanks to the deep political trust of the party and leader, he committed such perfidious acts as shunning and obstructing in every way the work for holding President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in high esteem for all ages, behaving against the elementary sense of moral obligation and conscience as a human being.

Jang desperately worked to form a faction within the party by creating illusion about him and winning those weak in faith and flatterers to his side.

Prompted by his politically-motivated ambition, he tried to increase his force and build his base for realizing it by implanting those who had been punished for their serious wrongs in the past period into ranks of officials of departments of the party central committee and units under them.

Jang and his followers did not sincerely accept the line and policies of the party, the organizational will of the WPK, but deliberately neglected their implementation, distorted them and openly played down the policies of the party. In the end, they made no scruple of perpetrating such counter-revolutionary acts as disobeying the order issued by the supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.

The Jang group weakened the party's guidance over judicial, prosecution and people's security bodies, bringing very harmful consequences to the work for protecting the social system, policies and people.

Such acts are nothing but counter-revolutionary, unpopular criminal acts of giving up the class struggle and paralyzing the function of popular democratic dictatorship, yielding to the offensive of the hostile forces to stifle the DPRK.

Jang seriously obstructed the nation's economic affairs and the improvement of the standard of people's living in violation of the pivot-to-the-Cabinet principle and the Cabinet responsibility principle laid down by the WPK.

The Jang group put under its control the fields and units which play an important role in the nation's economic development and the improvement of people's living in a crafty manner, making it impossible for the economic guidance organs including the Cabinet to perform their roles.

By throwing the state financial management system into confusion and committing such act of treachery as selling off precious resources of the country at cheap prices, the group made it impossible to carry out the behests of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on developing the industries of Juche iron, Juche fertilizer and Juche vinalon.

Affected by the capitalist way of living, Jang committed irregularities and corruption and led a dissolute and depraved life.

By abusing his power, he was engrossed in irregularities and corruption, had improper relations with several women and was wined and dined at back parlors of deluxe restaurants.

Ideologically sick and extremely idle and easy-going, he used drugs and squandered foreign currency at casinos while he was receiving medical treatment in a foreign country under the care of the party.

Jang and his followers committed criminal acts baffling imagination and they did tremendous harm to our party and revolution.

The ungrateful criminal acts perpetrated by the group of Jang Song Thaek are lashing our party members, service personnel of the People's Army and people into great fury as it committed such crimes before they observed two-year mourning for Kim Jong Il, eternal general secretary of the WPK.

Speeches were made at the enlarged meeting.

Speakers bitterly criticized in unison the anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional acts committed by the Jang group and expressed their firm resolution to remain true to the idea and leadership of Kim Jong Un and devotedly defend the Party Central Committee politically and ideologically and with lives.

The meeting adopted a decision of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee on relieving Jang of all posts, depriving him of all titles and expelling him and removing his name from the WPK.

The party served warning to Jang several times and dealt blows at him, watching his group's anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional acts as it has been aware of them from long ago. But it did not pay heed to it but went beyond tolerance limit. That was why the party eliminated Jang and purged his group, unable to remain an onlooker to its acts any longer, dealing telling blows at sectarian acts manifested within the party.

Our party will never pardon anyone challenging its leadership and infringing upon the interests of the state and people in violation of the principle of the revolution, regardless of his or her position and merits.

No matter how mischievously a tiny handful of anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional elements may work, they can never shake the revolutionary faith of all party members, service personnel and people holding Kim Jong Un in high esteem as the unitary centre of unity and unitary centre of leadership.

The discovery and purge of the Jang group, a modern day faction and undesirable elements who happened to worm their ways into our party ranks, made our party and revolutionary ranks purer and helped consolidate our single-minded unity remarkably and advance more dynamically the revolutionary cause of Juche along the road of victory.

No force on earth can deter our party, army and people from dynamically advancing toward a final victory, single-mindedly united around Kim Jong Un under the uplifted banner of great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.

KIM JONG UN CALLS FOR USHERING IN PERIOD OF GREAT PROSPERITY IN CONSTRUCTION

Pyongyang, December 9 (KCNA) -- Supreme leader Kim Jong Un sent a letter "Let Us Usher in the Period of Great Prosperity in Construction by Thoroughly Embodying Party's Idea on Juche-based Architecture" to participants in the great workshop for officials in the field of construction on Sunday.

Noting the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) has attached great importance to the work in the field of construction, Kim Jong Un in his letter said it is a firm determination of the party to create a new history of construction in Songun Korea by giving a momentum to the present heyday of construction to develop it into the period of greater prosperity and further the campaign for innovation in the field of construction into the high-pitched drive for great leaps on all fronts of socialist construction and thus bring about a new era of country's prosperity.

The history of construction in our motherland is a proud one in which its people performed miracles and achieved eye-opening changes while racing against the time in the spirit of Chollima spurred on by the speed campaign, true to the outstanding idea of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il on architecture and under their wise leadership, he noted, adding:

Today under the leadership of the WPK a great heyday of construction was opened up in the country and Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il's plan for building a thriving nation is being translated into an eye-opening reality.

The builders including the service personnel of the People's Army are heroes in the era of Songun and treasures of the WPK as they proved in practice that the DPRK does whatever it is determined to do by devoting themselves to carrying out the party's plan of construction and demonstrated before the whole world the great wisdom and high spirit of the dynamically advancing motherland.

Clarifying that the party's idea and theory of Juche-based architecture and its policy of construction serve as guidelines for successfully carrying out the grand blueprint and goals for construction facing us, he went on:

The Juche-based socialist architecture is, in essence, popular masses-first architecture.

As the popular masses are creators of architecture and enjoyers of it, the desire, demand and convenience of people should be placed above all in construction, and ideological value, artistry and practicality should be thoroughly ensured in it to meet their emotion and sense of beauty.

We should firmly preserve the Juche character in construction by embodying the popular masses-first idea, properly combine national character with modernity and erect at a remarkably high speed monumental buildings surpassing the world standard and to be impeccable even in the distant future.

This is the fundamental principle we should adhere to in construction and the basic core of the idea on Juche-based architecture.

"Let us usher in the period of great prosperity in construction by thoroughly embodying party's idea on Juche-based architecture!" is the slogan to be upheld by officials and workers in the field of construction at present, he said, indicating the tasks to be carried out by the field of construction and ways do so. He continued:

The field of construction should put the construction work throughout the country on a world level by bringing about a revolutionary turn in design, construction and production of building materials.

The policy put forward by the party in developing design and construction and improving the work in the field of building materials is to strictly abide by the principles of convenience first and architectural beauty next, infrastructure first and superstructure next, carry out the specialization, industrialization and modernization at high level and complete projects in a brief span of time by applying finish-one-by-one tactics and employing three-dimensional methods.

It is important to remarkably develop the field of architectural design before any others.

Designers should ensure the design at the highest level as intended by the party and as desired by the people, bearing in mind that the future of a highly civilized nation is shaped by their work.

It is necessary to bring about new innovations in construction.

If construction is not properly done, however good the design is, it is impossible to create an excellent building as desired by the party and people.

A drastic turn should be effected in the production of building materials.

Building materials are to construction just as ammunition is to army.

The work for ushering in the period of great prosperity in construction calls for increasing responsibility and roles of officials and workers in the field of construction.

It is important to develop science and technology in construction onto a higher phase.

Science and technology are the driving force ceaselessly accelerating the development of construction, and a shortcut to the period of great prosperity in construction is to rapidly develop science and technology.

Big efforts should be directed to the work for training able scientists and technicians in the field of construction.

It is necessary to improve and intensify the work for supervising and controlling the construction.

Kim Jong Un underscored the need for officials and workers in the field of construction to fully demonstrate the might of the great Paektusan nation and the spirit of Songun Korea before the world by bringing about great leaps and innovations at every construction site with ardent will to translate the far-reaching construction plan of the party into a proud reality.