Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- The vigorous development of the sacred Korean
revolution pioneered and advancing with the most just mission and far-reaching ideal is firmly
guaranteed by the wise guidance of the Workers' Party of Korea which sets forth scientific path and clear practical
strategy at each period and at every stage and
leads to thorough
and perfect implementation.
Our Party members, working
people and service
personnel have honorably
defended the year 2022 full of all the unprecedented challenges and
threats with the indomitable spirit
and perseverance peculiar to the great Korean people under the militant banner of the ever-victorious
WPK. They are recollecting with great pride and self-confidence the days when they have overcome the most
difficult hardships with stubborn
wisdom in the gigantic course for a comprehensive development of socialist construction.
In
2022 filled with manifold trials, our Party members, working people and
officers and men of the People's Army have waged a heroic struggle to defend the validity of their cause and their dignity and
honor, thus powerfully demonstrating the potentiality of the DPRK, its spirit
and the staunch
character of the Korean revolution. And through the
process of making remarkable and meaningful progress, they came to believe their own strength more firmly, find out the main links of changes more clearly and map
out the road of overall
development more vividly.
Under the present situation
of aspiring after a new advance after successfully overcoming the dangerous and urgent
difficulties decisive of the existence of the state, the Korean revolution has persistently faced unavoidable obstacles
which can be overcome
only by the correct and seasoned leadership of the WPK and the united, powerful and courageous struggle of the Korean
people.
The Sixth Enlarged Plenary
Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK was held at the office building of the Party Central Committee, the supreme headquarters of the revolution, from
December 26 to 31, Juche 111 (2022) to clarify
the positive and scientific policy orientation for dynamically leading
the Korean-style socialism to a fresh
change and development by thoroughly applying the idea of independence, self-sustenance and self-reliance, the invariable guidelines of the Korean revolution.
Kim Jong Un,
general secretary of the WPK, was present at the plenary meeting.
When Kim Jong Un appeared at the platform,
stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" broke out
in the meeting hall.
All the participants extended
the highest glory to
the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un,
the great leader of our Party and revolution and the banner of all glories and victories of our state and
people, who has confidently led the socialist
cause to radical
overall development while ushering in a heyday of
strengthening the whole Party with his transparent idea of independence and distinguished leadership activities, holding fast to the helm of the Juche revolution.
Present there
were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, members and alternate
members of the Political Bureau of the WPK
Central Committee and members and alternate members of the WPK Central Committee. Officials of the departments of
the Party Central Committee and leading officials of ministries,
national institutions, provincial level leadership bodies and cities and counties
and major industrial establishments were present
as observers.
The presidium of
the meeting was elected by members of the Political Bureau of t h P aty Central Committee.
The Political
Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK authorized Kim Jong Un
to preside over the meeting.
Kim Jong Un appreciated that the WPK has pushed ahead with socialist construction more dynamically and extensively by further increasing the enthusiasm of the whole Party and all the people for struggle, while overcoming the difficulties
and hardship equivalent to the ten-year struggle
since the 8th Congress of the WPK. He said it is the most precious experience that the WPK correctly grasped
the peculiarities of the
internal and external environment of the Korean revolution during this course and confirmed our
revolutionary principle, methodology and orientation of advance.
He said that the
plenary meeting should serve as an occasion for opening a wide avenue for the development of the state
and giving the people greater confidence and
optimism by clarifying the path of new leap forward and mapping out the
most correct and effective strategy
on the basis of the experience, lessons and substantial advance accumulated through the stubborn struggle in 2022.
Stressing the
need for the members of the leadership body of the Party Central Committee to display a high sense of
responsibility and activeness to this end, he
declared the 6th Plenary
Meeting of the 8th Party Central
Committee open.
The plenary meeting put sth efollowin gmatter so nit sagenda items:
1. 
On
review of the implementation of major Party and state policies in 2022 and the work plan for 2023
2. Organizational matters
3.
On the fulfillment of the state
budget for 2022 and the draft state budget
for 2023
4.
On strengthening the Party guidance
over the revolutionary schools
5.
On the five-point line of party building in the new era
The plenary
meeting unanimously approved
the agenda items.
The plenary
meeting discussed the first agenda item "On
review of the implementation of Major Party and state policies in 2022 and the work plan for 2023".
Kim Jong Un made a report on the first agenda item.
In his report he
appreciated the successes made in 2022 in which our Party and people have made steady and powerful
progress while waging an arduous struggle in
firm unity.
The remarkable
successes and progress have been made in the activities of our Party and its
self-strengthening.
The Party Central
Committee directed the general orientation of the Party activities to the thorough
implementation of the decisions of the Fourth and Fifth plenary meetings of the Eighth Party Central
Committee, and powerfully led the whole Party
and all the people to continuous advance and development with its
leading and superb leadership practice
in the face of the sudden and severe changes in internal
and external situation. It also further
refined its leadership ability by thoroughly maintaining its leadership traits of responding courageously and promptly,
and developed the united might of
the revolutionary ranks onto a remarkably high level.
Substantial measures were taken to reinforce the key links in strengthening the Party work throughout the Party and a theory of party building in the new era guaranteeing the eternal future of the
Party was established, providing a powerful weapon
for the rosy development of the Party.
The settlement of the historic
task of making the world clearly recognize
the strategic position of the
DPRK to provide an eternal security through the official legalization of the DPRK's policy on its nuclear force at the
most appropriate and crucial
time--this is a demonstration of the transparent stand of independence and the idea of self-defense of the WPK, which has
greater significance than any political event
in the view of steering the change of the world political structure and in the
view of putting the track of the development of the
state on a new high level.
The report
analyzed and evaluated the dramatic changes made in developing the defencedefensecapabilities and in the struggle against the enemy.
It is the great pride of the
Party, the DPRK government and the people to make the DPRK's great power more certain
and build up powerful and matchless military
muscle by making
a strenuous struggle
for bolstering up the defence
capabilities.
The basic
principle of defending the national interests and raising the national prestige of the WPK was successfully
implemented despite the trend of the eventful
and changeful international political situation, thus dealing a severe
blow at the U.S. imperialists'
high-handed and arbitrary practices and policy toward the DPRK in line with the Party's strategic plan and resolution.
The report
referred to the remarkable progress made in the economic construction and cultural construction in the
year 2022.
Splendid
successes symbolizing the struggle of the year 2022 have been made in the construction of the Hwasong and Ryonpho
areas, which were the most important tasks
in the field of construction, and projects of great significance in
economic growth and improvement of the people's living standard
were inaugurated.
The drive for implementing the new programme
for rural revolution started dynamically,
model houses representing the new era of rural
development were built in cities and
counties across the country and a positive drive was launched to improve economic management and raise the
country's ability to cope with crisis and the
country's level of
civilization.
2022 was a time
which was by no means meaningless and we have made clear advance, the General Secretary said, adding that certain
successes made in all the work of
the Party and state are a praiseworthy victory won only by our great people who have displayed the spirit of self-reliance
and fortitude and the creativity while stoutly
enduring the grave national crises, and the immortal feats to shine long in the history
of the country forever.
He extended warm
thanks to all the Party members and other people across the country
on behalf of the Party Central Committee
for having firmly defended and implemented the Party policies
with the most powerful and courageous struggle
unprecedented in history, thus demonstrating the honor, dignity and
prestige of the state before the
whole world and glorifying the year 2022 as a year of an important milestone
in opening a new surging
phase of our revolution.
Saying that 2023,
which is to carry out the tasks of the third year of key significance in implementing the five-year plan set
forth at the Eighth Congress of the Party and
mark the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation
War and the 75th founding anniversary of the Republic,
is an important year in the course of our socialist
development and the history of the DPRK, he set it as the general direction of new year's work to further expand and
develop the all-people struggle to open a new
phase in socialist construction
so as to lay a decisive
guarantee for the fulfillment of the five-year plan.
He stressed the need to turn the
year 2023 into a year of great turn and change to be remarkably recorded in the course of development of the DPRK by
redoubling the fighting spirit
displayed in 2022 and making all efforts to attain this year's goal and fulfill
the new long-term tasks.
The General
Secretary indicated, all the tasks for ensuring stable development of the national economy and bringing about a
substantial change in the improvement of the
people's living standard.
The report
defined the year 2023, which faces the higher goals and huge tasks for accomplishing the five-year plan for
national economic development, as a year of making a big stride
in the development of the national economy,
a year of attaining key goals in increasing production,
carrying out the strategy of readjustment and
reinforcement and improving the people's living standard, and set it as
the main task of economic work to mainly complete the plan for readjustment and reinforcement decided
by the Party Congress while peppingpoppingup production in all sectors
and units.
The General
Secretary said that the WPK has made strenuous efforts to thoroughly embody the idea of self-sustenance laid
down by President Kim Il Sung and
eliminate defeatism and mysticism
in technology in the whole course of socialist construction since the foundation of the state. He
reprimanded that, however, the tendency of such
old idea still remains among some economic officials as incurable and
indigenous diseases with clever disguise.
The plenary meeting dealt a resolute
and heavy blow to the outdated idea of trying
to bargain the principle of self-reliance, not abandoning dependence on
the technology of others,
and recognized that it is necessary to continue the struggle to wipe out all the remnants of wrong ideas which are
obstructing our work under the pretense of objective circumstances.
The General
Secretary ardently and militantly called upon the workers, scientists and technicians of core sectors
for the successful development of the national
economy to overcome the difficulties of the revolution by their own efforts,
holding high the fighting
spirit and banner of the 1960s
and 70s once again.
The report set as
the main targets the economic indices and 12 major goals to be attained by all sectors of the national
economy in the New Year and specified the ways
for attaining them. It stressed the need to focus the operation and
guidance on making the implementation
of this year's plan lead to the implementation of the medium- and long-term
strategy for economic
development.
Setting it as the
first major policy task to build more dwelling houses, a revolution that brings about epochal changes and a project
greatly favored by the people, the report
stressed the need to build a new street composing of 3 700 flats along with the construction of 10 000 flats of the second stage in the Hwasong
area by building up the capital city
in a bolder way in the third year of the construction of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang City. It also stressed the need
to direct greater efforts to the construction of rural dwelling houses on the basis
of the experience accumulated in the
year 2022.
The report raised it as a policy task
to bring about a substantial change in the people's
living which the Party attaches most importance to and is pushing forward with much effort, and detailed the
important tasks and ways to which the agricultural sector should give priority.
It called for finding
a realistic and rational work system and method and unconditionally
carrying them out in light industry, regional industry, public service, fishery, urban management and other
sectors directly related to the people's living so that the policies of the
Party and state can reach
the people correctly.
The report stressed the need to thoroughly adhere to the Party's principle
of attaching importance to and
prioritizing science and technology, clearly understanding the importance of science and technology
playing a locomotive role in developing the national economy
and improving the people's living standard, and set forth the orientation of innovation to raise the
country's scientific and technological level to a new higher level.
It dealt with the
principles and ways to amplify the successes and experience gained in education, public health and all
other fields for developing socialist culture in the course of the struggle of the
year 2022 and to overcome
deviations.
The General Secretary
stressed the need to actively organize and properly lead the socialist
patriotic movement and the revolutionary mass movement, the powerful driving force for the prosperity and development of the state.
Noting that
priority should be paid to firmly adhering to and inheriting the tradition of loyalty peculiar to the Korean
revolution and the tradition of patriotism peculiar to our state, and the revolution should be advanced by dint of
loyalty and patriotism, he clarified
the principled issues arising in actively organizing and conducting various popular
patriotic movements to be conducted
by the Party and working
people's organizations.
The report
clarified the crucial policy
resolution on giving spurs to strengthening the self-defensive capabilities on the basis of the analysis
of the present situation of the
inter-Korean relations and the external challenges seriously threatening
regional peace and security.
The U.S. and other hostile forces have recently
been hit hard by the rapid development of the military muscle of the
DPRK and the promulgation of the peerless nuclear
law in the world. Though seized with fear and uneasiness due to the DPRK's toughest
counteraction, they are now keen on isolating
and stifling the DPRK, unprecedented in human history.
In 2022 the U.S. frequently
deployed various nuclear strike means in south Korea at the level of constant deployment, increasing the level of military
pressure on the DPRK
to the maximum. And, at the same time, it is pushing forward the realization of triangular cooperation with Japan and
south Korea on a full scale while working hard
to establish a new military bloc like Asian version of NATO under the
signboard of "tightening
alliance".
Under the pretext of coping with any "threat", south Korea is hell-bent on imprudent and dangerous arms buildup while busying itself with hostile
military moves to pose a confrontational
challenge.
The prevailing
situation calls for making redoubled efforts to overwhelm beef up t h mili try muscle to thoroughly guarantee the sovereignty, security and fundamental interests of the Republic in
response to the worrying military moves by the U.S. and other
hostile forces precisely targeting the DPRK.
Stressing the
importance of bolstering the nuclear force, the report made clear that our nuclear force considers it as the
first mission to deter war and safeguard peace and stability and, however, if it fails to deter, it will carry out
the second mission, which will not be
for defense.
According to the
strategy and plan for bolstering up nuclear force of the Party and the DPRK government to firmly safeguard
the Republic's absolute
dignity, sovereignty and right
to existence, a task was raised to develop another ICBM system whose main mission is quick nuclear counterstrike.
Now that the south Korean puppet forces who designated the DPRK as their "principal enemy" and openly
trumpet about "preparations for war" have assumed our undoubted enemy, it highlights the
importance and necessity of a mass-producing of tactical nuclear weapons and calls for an exponential increase
of the country's nuclear arsenal, the
report said, clarifying the epochal strategy of the development of nuclear force and
national defence for 2023 with this as a main orientation.
The National
Aerospace Development Administration will launch the first military satellite of the DPRK at the earliest date
possible by pushing ahead with the full preparation
for a reconnaissance satellite and its vehicle in progress at the final stage, the report pointed
out.
The report raised
it as a major task to boost the political and ideological and military and technical strength of the People's
Army, the main force of the national defense
capabilities.
In accordance
with the army-building orientations put forward at the 8th Party Congress and major Party meetings, it is
necessary to make the year 2023 marking the 70th
anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War and the 60th anniversary of advancement of the slogan "A-match-for-a-hundred" as a year of strengthening the political and ideological might of the armed forces of the Republic in every way and a year of bringing
about a change in making preparations to mobilize for war and enhancing the actual war capacity.
The report highly appreciated the
devoted efforts and feats by the workers, scientists and officials in the munitions industrial sector who
creditably carried out the major national
defense policy-oriented tasks set forth by the Party through the whole year's super-intense drive for production and
scientific research, and laid down next year's
goals of developing and producing
weapons and equipment.
The report made
clear the main tasks faced by the sectors in charge of affairs with the south and foreign affairs on the basis
of the analysis of the external circumstances
of the Korean revolution.
As the structure
of international relations has been apparently shifted to the "new Cold War" system and a push for multi-polarization
is further expedited, the report stressed
the principles of external work to be thoroughly adhered to by the Party and the DPRK government to raise national
prestige, defend national rights and safeguard
national interest and to protect regional
peace and security.
Notably, the
report put forward the detailed orientations of responding to the U.S. and other enemy on shifting to the actual
action of more reliably and surely cementing
our physical force on the principle of struggle against the enemy -
might for might, frontal match - and
it sounded a note of warning against those countries which started joining the U.S. with its partnership
strategy to deprive the DPRK of its sacred dignity and sovereignty.
The General
Secretary in his report raised the important issues arising in solidifying and developing our state and social system
and giving play to its advantages
and might.
When the
socialist legal system has been further improved and strengthened, the original features of our system as the
genuine people's country that the law defends the people and the people observe the law can be preserved, Party
policies and state policies can be
properly implemented and the purity of the revolutionary ranks and the consolidation of the Korean-style socialism can be defended
and maintained.
Raised in the report were the principled issues arising in readjusting the state management structure system in a practical
way and in improving the work attitude
and style of officials as required by the changing
and developing circumstances and the intensified struggle for socialist construction.
The General
Secretary indicated important items, orientations of improvement and principled issues for preserving and
solidifying the political climate peculiar to the Party and substantially guaranteeing the prospective development
of the Party by boosting the combat
efficiency of Party organizations at all levels and improving Party work and personnel management in a fundamental manner.
A change should
be made in the work of all the Party organizations and officials and, in particular, the provincial Party committees, the political staff of relevant
regions and their chief
secretaries.
The General Secretary concluded
his three-day report, warmly appealing to the
leading officials, who are fully responsible for the work of all fields
of the revolution and the destiny of
Party policies, to make decisive progress in carrying out their duties to live up to the trust and expectations
of the Party and the people with their high sense of loyalty and devoted service at the most critical
and responsible time in the history of the development of the Republic and
thus powerfully demonstrate to the world how
the WPK shouldering the destiny of the country and the people overcomes
trials and advance towards
a greater victory
through new year's struggle.
All the
participants expressed full support and approval with a big clap to the report which proudly reviewed
the all-people struggle
of 2022 that made brilliant
achievements in the spirit of fortitude and clearly indicated our
advance orientations and keys to making a leap forward under the changing
revolutionary situation.
The General
Secretary's passionate report full of confidence in victory that calls for shaping
the future of socialist construction in our
own way and by our own efforts
from A to Z serves
as an undying militant banner
that makes it possible to further boost the great and inexhaustible
strength of single-minded unity between the Party and the people, thus using the absolute power and admirably
steering the struggle, dynamically achieve
substantial change of development for national prosperity.
The propositions
put by Premier of the Cabinet Kim Tok Hun to the measures taken for improving and cementing the overall state affairs including
the economic field
were heard and leading officials of various fields made speeches and
written speeches at the meeting.
Based on the idea
and spirit of the important report by the General Secretary, two- day sectional workshops and consultative
meetings took place to establishing, in a scientific
and detailed way, a thoroughgoing and correct implementation plan for next year's colossal fighting tasks.
The cadres of the
Party and the government guided the sectional workshops and consultative meetings.
The Political
Bureau of the Party Central Committee finally deliberated the opinions on the draft decision, examined the
deliberation of the draft state budget for the new year and discussed the issue of taking important measures for
the development of major sectors
of the national economy.
The plenary
meeting unanimously adopted
the resolution on the first agenda item.
The
plenary meeting discussed the organizational matter as the second agenda item. Members
and alternate members
of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK)
Central
Committee was recalled
and by-elected.
Jon Sung Guk, Kim
Tu Il, Song Yong Gon and Pak Song Chol were by-elected as members of the C.C., WPK from alternate
members and Pang Tu Sop, Choe Chol Ung, Pak Myong Son, Ri Yong Sik, Paek Song Guk, Kim Yong Su, Kim Yong Hwan, Ri Ho
Rim, Ho Chol Yong, Yu Jin, Sin Ki Chol, Kim Sang Gon and Ri Hye Jong as members of the C.C., WPK.
By-elected as alternate members
of the C.C., WPK were Kim Yong Sik, Thae Hyong
Chol, Kim Chang Sok, Jo Sok Chol, Jong Yong Nam, Ri Song Bom, Kim Phyong Hyon, Won Kyong Mo, Sin Song Guk,
An Sung Hak, Ho Chol Ho, Song Myong
Hun, Pae Song Guk, Kim Kum Chol, O Chol Su, Choe Son Il, Kim Son Guk, Jang Se Il, Ri Kyong Il, Jon In Chol, Kim
Tu Hong, Pak In Gi, Yu Chol U, Kim Song Chol, Choe Tu
Yong and Ryang Kil
Song.
Recalled and by-elected were members and alternate members
of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK.
Pak Su Il was by-elected as member of the Political
Bureau of the C.C., WPK and Ju Chang Il, Ri Hi Yong, Kim Su Gil, Kim
Sang Gon and Kang Sun Nam as alternate members
of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK.
Dismissed and elected were secretaries of the C.C., WPK.
Pak Jong Chon was
dismissed and Ri Yong Gil was elected as secretary of the C.C., WPK.
Recalled and by-elected were vice-chairmen of the WPK Central Military
Commission.
Pak Jong Chon was recalled
and Ri Yong Gil was by-elected as vice-chairman of the WPK Central Military
Commission.
Recalled and by-elected were vice-chairmen of the WPK Central Inspection Commission.
Kim Sang Gon was
by-elected as vice-chairman of the WPK Central Inspection Commission.
Dismissed and appointed were department directors
and first vice department director
of the C.C., WPK.
O Il Jong, Kim
Sang Gon, Kim Yong Su and Ri Hye Jong were appointed as department directors of the C.C., WPK, and Kim Yong Sik as first
vice department director of the C.C., WPK.
Dismissed and appointed were chief secretaries of provincial Party
committees.
In particular,
the struggle to open up a new era of strengthening the whole Party provided a solid springboard for steadily
and stably developing the Party building, including
the overall and detailed refinement of the fighting capabilities of the Party organizations at all levels and the
intensification of the political awareness and role of the party officials
and members.
It is a reliable
force and a solid foundation for strengthening the party that the Party has its organizations and millions of its
members, who are working hard to establish a
sound and clear political climate,
rallied close around its Central
Committee organizationally and
ideologically and in moral obligation, and tens of millions of people have absolutely trusted the Party
as the ever-victorious guide and the great mother, following
it in one mind.
A resolution on
defining the five-point orientation based on the General Secretary's unique
idea and theory
of party building
as the WPK's line of party building
in the new era was adopted with unanimous applause.
Our struggle is
an unprecedented great cause of not only enduring the difficulties facing it and maintaining itself but
advancing toward new changes and development
and the overall development of socialist construction.
In the new year,
too, our struggle will face trials and difficulties which are not easy to overcome, but we should vigorously advance
towards a new horizon of development
of the state with firm confidence in our cause and faith in our own strength.
We will
resolutely tide over the challenges and difficulties facing us by our own efforts and accelerate the advance into a
new era as planned, decided and scheduled by
us, not by any fortunes
or help from outside.
The General
Secretary declared the plenary meeting closed, expressing firm belief that its decisions would lead to steady
implementation and substantial changes and a
new heyday of the development of the Party
and the revolution would be ushered in forever thanks to the high Party
spirit, revolutionary spirit and devotion of all the participants.
