Pyongyang, June 19
(KCNA) –
At
a time when the invincibility and fortitude of our cause have been further
demonstrated all over the world and the all-people struggle for ushering in a
new upsurge in socialist construction is gaining momentum thanks to the
scientific and strong guidance and practice by the ever-victorious Workers' Party
of Korea (WPK), the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee convened a
plenary meeting to promote the perfect and substantial attainment of the grand
goals of national prosperity.
The
8th Enlarged Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the WPK was held
at the office building of the WPK Central Committee, the supreme general staff
of the Korean revolution, from June 16 to 18, Juche 112 (2023) to arouse
stronger enthusiasm of all the Party members and other people for the struggle
to consolidate the precious victory and the dignity and position of our
powerful state, which they achieved by boldly breaking through all difficulties
under the leadership of the great Party Central Committee, with steady advance
and continuous leaps.
The
plenary meeting made an interim summing-up of this year's work for implementing
the major policies to firmly preserve the interests and security environment of
the country and bring about a fresh upswing in the overall development of
Korean-style socialism in line with the goal for progress and strategic and
tactical principles set forth at the 6th and 7th plenary meetings of the 8th
Party Central Committee. It discussed and decided on the important policy
issues to be addressed without fail and further spurred in the advance in the
second half of the year.
Attending
the meeting 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.
Present
there as observers were officials of the relevant departments of the WPK
Central Committee and the Cabinet, chairpersons of the provincial, city and
county people's committees, chairpersons of the provincial rural economy
committees and leading officials of ministries, national institutions and major
industrial establishments.
The
respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of
Korea, was present at the plenary meeting.
The
presidium of the meeting was formed with members of the Political Bureau of the
C.C., WPK.
The
plenary meeting put the following items on its agenda:
1. On launching a bolder struggle for
implementing the major policies for this year
2. On the epoch-making measures for
developing education
3. On decisively enhancing the role of the
officials of people's committees at all levels
4. On the issues arising in strengthening
the people's power
5. On the important measures for
intensifying the building of Party discipline
6. Organizational matter
The
plenary meeting unanimously approved the agenda items.
The
first agenda item "On launching a bolder struggle for implementing the
major policies for this year" was discussed.
The
participants heard a report.
The
report reviewed the signal successes achieved by our Party and people through
their arduous and fierce struggle in the first half of the year.
The
adventurous military moves and reactionary offensive of the U.S. imperialists
and the south Korean puppet cliques going unprecedentedly reckless have
seriously threatened the security environment, development and interests of our
state, laying a grave stumbling block to our advance.
Though
the subjective and objective circumstances were unfavorable, the WPK and the
people of the DPRK have overcome difficulties through proactive and positive
struggle under the outstanding and tested leadership of the respected Comrade
Kim Jong Un and achieved encouraging and progressive successes to be proud of
in all fields including the Party building, protection of national interests,
economic construction and building of civilization.
The
report summarized the work of the Party Central Committee for wisely organizing
and guiding the all-people struggle for achieving substantial successes in the
national economy development and providing a decisive guarantee for the
fulfillment of the five-year plan.
It
recalled that the Party Central Committee set it as a key issue to ensure
self-sufficiency in food supply by increasing the country's agricultural
production, opened up an epoch-making prospect for providing farming materials
and strengthening the material and technical foundations of the countryside,
and took every possible measure to successfully attain this year's grain
production goal.
The
Party Central Committee also took important measures to enable the major
sectors of the national economy, including coal-mining, machine- building,
forestry and railways, to make progress, and took revolutionary steps to
tighten discipline in implementing the national economy plan. Such efforts brought
about considerable results in tackling the unstable fluctuations manifested in
various sectors at the outset of this year, remarkably increasing the growth
rate of production in all fields of economic construction.
The
report briefed the participants on the successes achieved in the struggle to
attain the 12 major goals for national economic development.
This
year's goal of irrigation construction, set at the 7th Plenary Meeting of the
8th Central Committee of the WPK, has been fulfilled in the main, and the
socialist patriotic movement for increased coal production pioneered by the
coal miners of South Phyongan
Province is spreading on a larger scale to all sectors and units across the
country. The metallurgical and chemical industries, the twin pillars of the
economic development, are taking the lead in the drive, staunchly tiding over
the ordeals and difficulties and over- fulfilling their higher plans.
In
the construction sector, the construction of the first-stage 10,000 flats in
the Hwasong area was successfully
completed to be followed by inauguration. The construction of additional 2,000
flats in the area and of 1,400 flats in the Taephyong
area were completed and new rural villages were built one after another,
instilling joy and confidence into the people across the country.
Now,
the construction of second-stage 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area, the construction of a new street in the Sopho area, the construction of the Kangdong Greenhouse Farm and the housing
construction in the Komdok area are
progressing apace.
The
firm faith of all the people that the leadership of the Party is science and
victory gets stronger amid the struggle for implementing the resolutions of the
plenary meetings of the Party Central Committee, and the will to pave a broad
avenue toward self-reliant prosperity with the great might of loyalty and
patriotism has developed into the all-people ideological sentiments. This is a
great success incomparable with any economic growth.
The
report referred to the analysis made by the Political Bureau of the Party
Central Committee of some shortcomings and wrong attitudes revealed in the
struggle for implementing the state economic policies in the first half of the
year, and the ways for overcoming them.
The
Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee importantly put forward the
realistic tasks to be fulfilled immediately for the sustainable and long-term
development of agriculture.
The
report rigorously analyzed a series of wrong attitudes - failure in
establishing strict discipline of unconditionally carrying out the national
economic plans in the economic work for the first half of the year and in
building self-supporting foundations of the economy in a substantial way.
The
high goals of struggle for this year and the reality oriented to the
comprehensive development require the major industrial sectors, the pillars of
the state economy, to overcome the one-sidedness in production, consolidate the
already-reached growth line and bring about a fresh upsurge in the overall
economy through a more vigorous struggle.
The
Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee intends to put spurs to
completing the projects for the maintenance and reinforcement, updating and
modernization being promoted at the key industrial sectors and other sectors in
order to make significant successes of completion for consolidating the
backbone of the self-supporting economy one after another in the second half of
the year.
The
Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee in the report stressed the need
for all construction project headquarters to take thoroughgoing measures for
supplying building materials in consideration of the builders' ever-growing
enthusiasm for struggle this year that witnesses the largest- ever projects in
the country's history of construction and to invariably push ahead with the
projects as scheduled through a strenuous offensive while perfectly ensuring
the quality of design and construction.
In
particular, the report underlined the need for all sectors and units to
responsibly conduct the work for proactively encouraging and supporting the
young people ideologically, morally, materially and technically to ensure that
their high patriotic enthusiasm result in shining feats and miracles, true to
the noble intention of the Party Central Committee which entrusted the young
people with the whole project for building a new street in the Sopho area of Pyongyang Municipality.
In
the report, the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee paid attention
to the accounts of the work for carrying out the policy-oriented tasks
prioritized by the Party at present.
In
particular, it analyzed and reviewed in detail the execution of a new childcare
policy set forth at the Third Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central
Committee.
In
the past two years, provinces, cities and counties have made much effort to
increase milk production and provide facilities for producing dairy products
along with the establishment of the well-organized system and order for
supplying dairy products. This made it possible to regularly supply dairy
products to all the children at nurseries and kindergartens every day, which is
one of the most remarkable changes made in the life of our people by the Eighth
Party Central Committee.
The
Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee correctly found out and
reviewed the advantages and shortcomings manifested in the execution of the
Party's childcare policy by classifying them according to different units and contents,
and stressed the need to take practical measures for increasing the production
of dairy products and promote them consistently.
The
report referred to the issue of pushing forward with the work for land
administration and ecological environment protection in a long-term and
development-oriented way, the issue of scientifically intensifying the work for
financially and monetarily guaranteeing the economic development and the
improvement of the people's living standard, and the issue for the Cabinet to
establish a well-regulated unified commanding system and controlling and
reporting system of the economic work as befitting the economic headquarters of
the country.
The
report said that in order to confidently pave the path for achieving prosperity
of the country by dint of self-reliance, it is necessary to hold fast to the
development of science and technology as a core strategy in all fields and
sectors and focus efforts on it.
The
Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee put forward the ways for
training the scientists and technicians, who are the scouts and main forces of
the country's sci-tech development,
into revolutionary and patriotic scientists, and mobilizing and using the sci-tech talents in a unified and
effective way, and specified the major goals and tasks of sci-tech development at present.
To
dynamically push ahead with the expansion and development of the space industry
as a national affair is arising as an urgent task, the report pointed out.
The
Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee proposed an essential
structural measure to be referred to the Supreme People's Assembly in the light
of the view that the nationwide space science and technology potentiality
should be fully mobilized to pave the path to development of space industry in
a far-sighted way and turn the country into a world-class space power by
steadily expanding and increasing the sci-tech
successes made at the early stage for exploring the space field.
The
Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK stressed the important mission of security
organs to thoroughly guarantee the implementation of the policies of the Party
and the government with the security work and in a legal way, and underlined
the need for relevant sectors to more offensively, tactically and powerfully
conduct the work for reliably defending the single-hearted unity, the
irresistible might of the DPRK.
The
report referred to the analysis and evaluation of the Political Bureau of the
C.C., WPK on the justification for directing greater efforts to bolstering up
the capabilities for self-defence in conformity with the present changed
security situation of the DPRK and steadily updating the military hardware of
the DPRK armed forces.
The
complicated and serious situation on the Korean peninsula which is getting out
of control requires the DPRK to ceaselessly renew its military potentials and
make a faster advance toward the bolstering up of its capabilities for
self-defence.
The
practical actions which turned the core tasks for bolstering up the defence capability
set forth at the 8th Congress of the WPK into successful entities, pursuant to
the solemn declaration of the WPK that the DPRK will counter the enemies' nukes
and policy of frontal confrontation in kind, have demonstrated the rapid
building speed of the ever-developing strategic force of the DPRK and its
powerful military technical capabilities and have exposed the U.S. imperialists
and the south Korean puppet forces to the insurmountable security crisis.
The
Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK appreciated that the strategic force of the
DPRK has made progress recognized by the world in the light of the high-level
military technical capabilities and the development speed of weapon systems and
has developed into an existing powerful entity. On the other hand, it strictly
reviewed the shortcomings that were revealed in some fields and that cannot be
overlooked.
The
most serious one was the failure of the military reconnaissance satellite
launch, the important strategic work in the field of space development, on May
31.
The
five-point major goals for developing the defence capabilities set forth by the
8th Congress of the Party are all important, but the development of military
reconnaissance satellite is of very great significance in prospect of the development
of the armed forces of the DPRK and in making full preparations for combat.
The
report bitterly criticized the officials who irresponsibly conducted the
preparations for satellite launch, and set forth the militant task for
officials and scientists in the relevant field to make a thorough analysis of
the cause and lesson of the recent failure, successfully launch the military
reconnaissance satellite in a short span of time and thus make a shortcut to
improving the capabilities of the Korean People's Army's reconnaissance
intelligence and achieving a greater leap forward in the field of space
development, bearing deep in mind their important mission.
All
the successes made in the field of developing various weapon systems including
nukes and missiles are a big stride forward in the important and critical
situation of bolstering up the nuclear war deterrent of the country, the
Political Bureau affirmed, calling on the national defence field to
consistently adhere to the orientation of developing nuclear weapons and the
line of bolstering up the nuclear force set forth by the Party Central
Committee and reliably defend the sacred cause of the Juche revolution by
increasing the production of powerful nuclear weapons.
The
report seriously analyzed and evaluated the extremely deteriorating security
situation on the Korean peninsula due to the reckless war moves of the hostile
forces in disregard of the patience and warning of the DPRK and referred to the
urgency to swiftly respond to them in a military technical, political and
diplomatic way.
The
Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee recognized that the principle
of action for action should be strictly adhered to and the overwhelming and
offensive countermeasures should always be taken forcefully without delay
against the enemy's intentional and undisguised escalation of military tension.
And the plenary meeting unanimously approved concrete plans and modes of
counter-action for their implementation.
The
Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee set forth important tasks for
conducting external activities independently and more actively on the principle
of defending the sovereignty and national interests to cope with the swirling
international military and political situation such as further strengthening
solidarity with the countries which are opposed to the U.S. brigandish strategy for world supremacy.
The
report referred to the issues essential in remarkably increasing the leadership
ability and fighting efficiency of the Party as required by the enormous
revolutionary tasks facing the DPRK at present and the urgent requirements of
the subjective and objective environment.
The
Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee analyzed and reviewed the
successes, made in the work for actively promoting the qualitative
consolidation of the Party and enhancing the fighting efficiency and activity
of the Party organizations in the first half of the year, and the shortcomings
that should be immediately overcome in the Party work.
The
report referred to the new Party measures to firmly guarantee the sound
political climate and development of the Party by energetically organizing and
conducting the work to implement the five-point line of party building in the
new era and indicated the orientation of work to be given priority to by the
party organizations at all levels in carrying out the goals of this year's
struggle and the strategic tasks.
Expressing
belief that the Korean revolution will surely enter a new phase of development
as all the Party members and other people are making redoubled efforts by dint
of their unity in the face of the worst difficulties, the Political Bureau of
the Party Central Committee called upon all sectors and units to put spurs to
successfully attaining the goals of this year's struggle and courageously
shoulder the mission and important duty they have assumed.
All
the participants expressed with loud applause their full support and approval
to the report of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee which set
forth the policies for dynamically putting the Korean-style socialist
construction on a certain track of upswing according to our timetable.
Kim
Tok Hun, premier of the Cabinet, and Ri Il Hwan and Jon Hyon Chol, secretaries
of the Party Central Committee, made speeches on the first agenda item.
Speakers
expressed their determination to dynamically propel the implementation of the
resolutions of the Party, always aware of their heavy responsibility for the
important affair directly related to the dignity and might of the Party and the
state during the most important and responsible period in the history of the
development of the DPRK. They presented to the plenary meeting for deliberation
the measures that should be taken in the course of the struggle to enhance the
role of the Party organizations and attain the 12 major goals for national
economic development.
The
plenary meeting discussed the second agenda item "On the epoch- making
measures for developing education".
Pak
Thae Song, secretary of the Party Central Committee, made a report on the
research made by the relevant field true to the Party's policy on adjusting the
educational structure of the country to ensure advanced education and improving
the contents and methods of education in keeping with the world-wide trend of
educational development and submitted it to the plenary meeting for
deliberation.
The
plenary meeting discussed the third agenda item "On decisively enhancing
the role of the officials of people's committees at all levels".
Jo
Yong Won, secretary of the Party Central Committee, said that very great are
the trust and expectation reposed by our Party on the officials of the
provincial, city and county people's committees, who are powerful locomotive
leading the development of their regions and are in charge of the people's
living.
The
meeting stressed the principled issues to be maintained by the chairpersons of
the people's committees in fully displaying the initiative, creativity and
activity in their work with the firm viewpoint and stand that they are totally
responsible for their regions before the Party and the state. The participants
heard a briefing on the chairpersons of some people's committees who failed to
conduct the work in a responsible manner by indulging in defeatism.
The
plenary meeting discussed the fourth agenda item "On the issues arising in
strengthening the people's power".
Choe
Ryong Hae, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly,
made a speech.
He
referred to the importance of improving the method of electing deputies, who
are the people's representatives responsible for state affairs, to the effect
that they can display high political consciousness, initiative and ingenuity,
aware of their sacred and responsible position given by the state and people.
There
was a briefing on the new method of electing deputies which was studied in the
orientation of helping the working masses fully exercise their responsibility
and rights as genuine masters of the state and society in conformity with the
popular character of our state power and of further consolidating and
developing the democratic election system based on the principle of centralism.
Choe
Ryong Hae presented to the plenary meeting for deliberation a plan for studying
the method of electing deputies.
The
plenary meeting discussed the fifth agenda item "On the important measures
for intensifying the building of the Party discipline".
Jo
Yong Won, secretary for Organizational Affairs of the Party Central Committee,
made a speech.
Noting
that Kim Jong Un advanced the unique idea of party building that the building
of party discipline should be put forward as a crucial priority task and
important line of party building and activities in order to give full play to
the WPK's might as a party making revolution and struggle, Jo Yong Won stressed
the significance and importance of establishing more thoroughly the party
discipline at present when the Party is advancing towards the attainment of the
great goal of overall development and overall prosperity of socialist
construction.
He
made a report on the accounts of research for the ways of improving the new
machinery and work system in the field of discipline supervision on the basis
of the theory of party building in the new era.
Presented
to the plenary meeting for deliberation was a measure of realistic significance
in strengthening the institutional mechanism for thoroughly guaranteeing the
realization of the monolithic leadership of the Party Central Committee and the
broad political activities of the Party and invariably maintaining the WPK's
pure political climate through iron discipline by further intensifying the
building of party discipline on a new level.
The
plenary meeting held panel study and consultative meetings to draw up positive
and detailed measures for thoroughly implementing the tasks for the second half
of the year and to put together and examine the issues that were raised in the
discussion of the agenda items.
Senior
officials of the Party and the government guided the panel study and
consultative meetings.
At
the study and consultative meetings, constructive measures were brought up on
the basis of sincere and dynamic study of the tasks reflected in the draft
resolutions and the plans, whose scientific accuracy and feasibility were
strictly examined, deliberated.
The
Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee submitted the finally confirmed
draft resolutions to the approval of the plenary meeting.
The
plenary meeting adopted the relevant resolutions with unanimous approval.
It
discussed the organizational matter as the sixth agenda item.
It
recalled and by-elected members and alternate members of the WPK Central
Committee.
Choe
Hui Thae and Kim Son Uk were by-elected as members of the Party Central
Committee from alternate members. Kim Yong Chol and Kim Yong Gyu were
by-elected directly as members of the Party Central Committee.
Hong
Pyong Chol, O Yong Jae and Kim Pong Chol were by-elected as alternate members
of the Party Central Committee.
It
recalled and by-elected members and alternate member of the Political Bureau of
the WPK Central Committee.
Kang
Sun Nam was by-elected as member of the Political Bureau of the Party Central
Committee from alternate member and O Su Yong was by- elected directly as
member of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee.
Kim
Yong Chol was by-elected as alternate member of the Political Bureau of the
Party Central Committee.
It
dismissed and elected a secretary of the WPK Central Committee. O Su Yong was
elected as secretary of the Party Central Committee.
It
dismissed and appointed a department director of the WPK Central Committee.
O
Su Yong was appointed as department director of the Party Central Committee. It
recalled and by-elected a member of the Central Inspection Commission of the
WPK.
Choe
Kun Yong was by-elected as member of the WPK Central Inspection Commission.
The
enlarged plenary meeting, at which policy issues of important significance in
radically advancing the Korean revolution were discussed and decided earnestly
in a detailed, special and innovative way amid the high political consciousness
and enthusiasm of the participants, finished its work, being convinced that our
huge goals of the struggle for this year will be successfully attained with the
ardent loyalty of all the people to the Party Central Committee headed by Kim
Jong Un.
All
the participants pledged to fulfill their important mission in further
propelling the overall prosperity and development in a more prudent way through
the stubborn struggle based on the single-hearted unity, further hardening
their self-confidence to make our noble idea and sacred cause reach the high
eminence of success and victory as early as possible.
The
8th enlarged plenary meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the WPK served as
an important political occasion which strikingly demonstrated once again high
enthusiasm and advance spirit of the whole Party to consolidate the militant
might of the Party in every way and to steadily accelerate the dynamic general
advance for attaining the grand goals of struggle by remaining loyal to the
idea and leadership of Kim Jong Un.
