Pyongyang,
December 31 (KCNA) -- The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the great guide of our
country and people, has defended the eternal vitality of socialism, the ideal
and future of mankind, and vigorously led its steady development, while
confirming the validity of the sacred mission and idea specified in its
programme through the indomitable struggle and precious victories.
Through
the struggle in 2023, a crucial and vital one in the overall development of
Korean-style socialism, the WPK clearly directed the future trend of advance
towards the fulfillment of the five-year plan and put the overall state
activities and public life on a steady upward track. This is a clear
demonstration of the seasoned leadership and courageous practical ability of
the WPK.
Thanks
to the outstanding leadership of our Party and the indomitable efforts of our
people intensely loyal to it, precious ideological and spiritual asset was
provided to dynamically promote the development of the state in the new era, a
scientific guarantee was established to definitely set the goal and direction
of the new year's struggle and accurately attain them and the mightiness and
invincibility of our great state were strikingly proved by entities of the rich
country with strong army.
The
year 2023 was a year of the most encouraging change in which the valuable
successes achieved by the staunch and tireless efforts of the years following
the milestone of victory set by the Eighth Congress of the Party were
accumulated and their might began to be fully displayed. And this greatly
encourages the patriotic enthusiasm and efforts of the Korean people aspiring
for a leap forward to a new victory.
As
long as the militant banner of the glorious WPK is fluttering in the van, we
have nothing to fear and nothing is impossible for us to do and victory is
always in store for the DPRK though manifold trials are ahead of it. This is
the most precious review of the year 2023 and the unshakable will of our people
starting the march of the new year 2024.
The
historic 9th Enlarged Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the WPK
took place at the office building of the Central Committee of the WPK, the
supreme general staff of the revolution, from December 26 to 30, Juche 112
(2023) to proudly review the victory of 2023 achieved by the Party and the
people through their united struggle and to map out the orientation and
policies for the development of the Party and state work for the new year.
Kim
Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, was present at the
plenary meeting.
When
Kim Jong Un took the platform, all the participants broke into stormy cheers of
"Hurrah!", extending the greatest glory to him, outstanding leader of
our Party and state who ushered in a new era of great change on this land and
has demonstrated the dignity and prestige of powerful Korea before the whole
world with his noble mission of being responsible for the destiny of the
country and people through his energetic leadership activities day and night.
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 as observers were officials of departments of the Party
Central Committee, leading officials of ministries, national institutions,
leadership bodies of provincial level, cities, counties and major industrial
establishments and chairpersons of city and county agricultural management
committees who set an example in agricultural production.
The
presidium of the meeting was elected with members of the Political Bureau of
the Party Central Committee.
Upon
authorization of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Jong Un
presided over the plenary meeting.
The
plenary meeting put the following items on its agenda:
1. On the review of the implementation of
the Party and state policies in 2023 and the orientation of struggle in 2024
2. On increasing the sense of
responsibility in the implementation of the socialist policy for schoolchildren
3. On the work of the Central Inspection
Commission of the WPK for 2023
4. On the fulfillment of the state budget
for 2023 and the draft state budget for 2024
5. On a series of measures for
strengthening the leadership function of the Party at present
6. Organizational matter
The
plenary meeting unanimously approved the agenda items.
The
plenary meeting discussed the first agenda item "On the review of the
implementation of the Party and state policies in 2023 and the orientation of
struggle in 2024".
The
respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un made a historic report "On the
review of the implementation of the Party and state policies in 2023".
Referring
to the importance and realistic significance of the struggle of 2023, full of
great events and satisfactory results, in deciding the success of the work of
the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, he said in his report:
This
year was a very important year for our Party and people who are making a
stubborn advance to implement the struggle programme set forth at the Eighth
Party Congress.
In
this year’s struggle, decisive of the fate of the resolutions of the Party
Congress, we demonstrated once again the indomitable spirit peculiar to our
Party and people, who courageously carry out the revolutionary tasks which they
have determined by enlisting their own strength and potentiality to the
maximum, and in this course further augmented the overall national power of the
country.
In
a nutshell, we achieved epochal successes in providing favorable conditions and
a solid springboard for further accelerating the future advance in all aspects
of socialist construction and the strengthening of the national power through
this year’s struggle, not merely passing the third year of the implementation
of the five-year plan that we had planned.
Years
after the Eighth Party Congress were recorded with unprecedented miracles and
changes, but there had been no year full of eye-opening victories and events
like this year.
This
is by no means an easy change.
This
year we had to start the advance for one year under the very difficult trials
and situation.
Even
after the three-year international public health emergency was lifted, all
sectors were subject to a lot of restrictions because of the strict anti-
epidemic measures taken by the state, and efforts were made to cope with the
harsh sanctions and pressure of the hostile and obstructive forces and to deal
with dangerous security environment. Furthermore, the urgent problem was to
solve the serious food shortage caused by the last year's poor farming.
The
situation raised the alternative question of whether to continue to advance
towards the attainment of the third year’s goal for the implementation of the
resolutions of the Eighth Party Congress or to direct everything towards
overcoming the difficulties that we faced. The Party
Central
Committee's decision on it was, as we chosen together, an unremitting
continuous advance and a vigorous struggle.
On
the basis of scientific analysis of the unfavorable situation at home and
abroad and the essential important tasks, the WPK Central Committee, through
the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee, confirmed a
bold goal and positive strategy, assigned them to the whole Party and
forcefully promoted their implementation, thus ensuring the orientation of
development and successful implementation of this year’s struggle.
The
report reviewed the remarkable successes made in the overall national economy.
The
12 goals for the national economic development were all attained with 103
percent of grain production, 100 percent of electric power, coal and
nitrogenous fertilizer, 102 percent of rolled steel, 131 percent of nonferrous
metal, 109 percent of logs, 101 percent of cement and ordinary cloth, 105
percent of marine products, 106 percent of railway freight transport and 109
percent of houses under construction. And the overall economy witnessed clear
production growth, including 220 percent of motor production, 208 percent of
transformers, 121 percent of bearings, 140 percent of electric zinc, 121
percent of lead, 113 percent of paper, 110 percent of salt, 109 percent of
cosmetics, 100 percent of flat glass and 104 percent of magnesia clinker, and
plan discipline was established.
Compared
with the total growth of the economic sector in 2020, the previous year of the
8th Party Congress, the production of important indices largely went up in 2023
by raising the production of iron trioxide 3.5 times, pig iron 2.7 times,
rolled steel 1.9 times, machine tools 5.1 times, cement 1.4 times and nitrogen
fertilizer 1.3 times and the GDP grew up 1.4 times.
The
report estimated the over-fulfillment of the goal of grain production, the
dominant height of decisive significance in the overall economic development
and the guarantee of people's living, as the most precious and valuable success
achieved in the economic work for 2023.
The
General Secretary said that the meeting for year-end account settlement and
income distribution showing great enthusiasm and confidence of the officials
and working people in the agricultural sector took place in succession at farms
throughout the country, adding that it served as an important occasion in
bringing about a great revolution in the spiritual state of the farmers and
this is a genuine change of the greatest importance in the struggle for
attaining the grain production goal in 2023 and for the sustained agricultural
development in the future.
Referring
to the letters sent to the Party Central Committee by many units across the
country for donating the grain they prepared with sincerity as the patriotic
rice, he proposed with respect to extend thanks to those units in the name of
the plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee, saying that our Party holds
such simple and sincere patriotism of the agricultural workers more valuable
than myriads of tons of grain.
The
plenary meeting fully supported his proposal.
The
report noted that the Kwangchon Chicken Farm was built as a standard and
model of the modernization of poultry sector, modern wheat processing factories
were built in Sariwon and Haeju cities and Nampho Municipality, the
Hwangju-Kindung waterway project, the desalination project of Lake Kangryong
and the building of the surface setups in the tideland covering thousands of
hectares of area was completed and the solid foundation was laid for attaining
the goal of reclaiming 300 000 hectares of tideland. All those successes are a
clear proof of the validity of the rural revolutionary programme in the new
era, the agricultural policy of our Party and the leadership of the Party
inspiring the whole country to the struggle for the fundamental change in the
agricultural production without flinching from trials and difficulties, it
stressed.
The
report appreciated the remarkable successes made in the housing construction
for the people, an important state affair our Party has given top priority to
since the 8th Party Congress.
The
construction sector built another 10 000 flats in Hwasong District to provide a
guarantee for making citizens of the capital city move into new houses on the
occasion of the coming Day of the Sun and the young builders dynamically pushed
ahead with the construction of more than 4 100 flats in the Sopho area, thus
building a new youth monument called Jonwi Street.
Our
People's Army, which regards the infinite loyalty to the Party and the people
and the spirit of absolutely and unconditionally implementing the orders and
instructions as its lifeblood, not only conducted the housing construction in
the capital city but also built more than 20 000 flats in the Komdok area for
the past four years, thus forming a new mountain gorge city. They also made it
possible to perfectly complete the construction of the Kangdong Greenhouse Farm
by February holiday in 2024.
The
plan for rural housing construction this year is more than twice that of 2022,
more than 58 000 flats. At least 40 cities and counties have already completed
the construction and other cities and counties will finish the planned housing
construction by the spring of the new year as a whole.
The
report noted that the key industrial sector brought about a remarkable increase
in production and many readjustment and reinforcement projects were completed
and other encouraging successes were made in the course of the struggle to
attain the 12 major goals for national economic development.
The
workers of the Ryongsong Machine Complex made unprecedented innovations in
wonderfully manufacturing large compressors by turning the production of
machine products entrusted to them by the Party Central Committee into the
process of creating the second Chollima spirit and a process of mass
technological innovation. They thus dealt a telling blow to defeatism and
mysticism about technique in the economic field and proved the validity and
vitality of the Party's policies in a powerful practice.
The
Party Central Committee highly appreciated the heroic feats of the workers of
the complex who successfully finished the production of large compressors
before the plenary meeting by displaying the spirit of self- reliance and
fortitude while manufacturing lots of custom-built equipment.
Referring
to the fact that the construction of the energy-saving oxygen heat blast
furnace and the installation of oxygen separators with a capacity of 15 000
cubic meters per hour at the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex, the project for
building induction furnace at the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex, the
construction of a vertical furnace for oxidizing roasting pellet at the
Chongjin Steel Plant and the development of the Sohaeri branch mine under the
Unryul Mine were completed and went into operation, the report said that 2023
is a year in which the metal industrial sector made big strides in putting the
sector on a Juche and modern basis.
The
chemical industrial sector produced and supplied nitrogenous fertilizer before
farming process and built a nutrient solution factory at the Sunchon Chemical
Complex for greenhouse farms in the west coastal area. It also finished the
project for establishing urea synthesis process on an expansive basis and
reinforcing the cleaning process and completed the power transmission line
project at the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex to provide a practical guarantee
for considerably increasing the fertilizer production.
It
is a very significant success that the power industry has perfectly fulfilled
its monthly production plan according to demand while laying a solid material
and technical foundation for thermal power stations and increasing the
generating efficiency of hydroelectric power stations and pushed ahead with the
work to build an optimized power system on major transmission lines, thus
reducing the huge loss in transmission of electricity and establishing the
process of processing ultra-high-pressure towers.
The
torch of the socialist patriotic movement for increased coal production in the
new century was kindled at the Jagang Provincial Supply Coal Mine under the
Kaechon Area Coal Mining Complex and the flames of joint innovations flared up
in the coal-mining industry with the movement as a firing point. This was a
starting point for the overall drive for increased production of the national
economy and a great strength of our Party.
The
report said that the economic sectors including mining, building materials,
forestry, light industry, fishery and railway transport put spurs to
implementing the readjustment and reinforcement strategy while carrying out the
national economic plan without fail and thus make a breakthrough for definitely
increasing the present and long-term production, and the IT, land and
environment and urban management sectors pushed ahead with the urgent and basic
projects for boosting the material and technical potentials.
Reviewing
2023 as a year in which efforts to bring about new innovations and changes in
the field of science and technology have been intensified, the General
Secretary said that the proudest scientific and technological achievements were
made in the field of space science and technology.
Our
scientists and technicians, having accepted the Party's strategic plan and
intention as their unshakable faith, buckled down to conquering space with our
wisdom and technology at any cost and brought about an eye- opening event of
succeeding in the launch of reconnaissance satellites finally after repeated
failures.
This
is a perfect demonstration of the revolutionary mettle and clever brain ability
of our scientists and technicians who have surely occupied any fortress of
science to meet the demands of the Party and the revolution and increase the
national power of the country.
This
year, a great revolution has been made in the educational work for building an
educational power and a talented nation. This is a proud success that is
incomparable to anything.
The
educational sector, shouldering the responsibility for the far-reaching plan of
the country, the prospect of national development and prosperity, pushed ahead
in real earnest with the project for improving the educational structure, which
had existed for the past several decades, to give more advanced and practical
education to the students and brought about fresh and innovative, considerable
change in the contents, forms and methods of education.
And
the Pedagogical Institute, a centre for education scientific research which
reliably guarantees the development of the country's education, was newly built
and the science library of Kim Il Sung University was renovated on a modern
basis. More than 160 schools and kindergartens were built or renovated as model
standards throughout the country, and so on, significant progress was made in
consolidating the material and technical foundations of the educational sector
this year.
The
report noted that the public health and sports sectors also made unique
contributions to bringing the new change in 2023.
Pharmaceutical
factories, medical supplies factories and specialized facilities for preventing
diseases, which are of great significance in the promotion of people's health
and the preventive and curative medical care, were newly built to further
consolidate the material and technical foundations of the public health sector
and create a favorable environment for the economic development and the
people's stable life.
Our
sportspersons, who took part in international games nearly four years after the
outbreak of global health crisis, won many medals at the 19th Asian Games, the
22nd World Taekwon-Do Championships and the 2023 International Weightlifting
Federation Grand Prix and broke the world records one after another, thus
flying our national flags in the sky above the world to greatly encourage all
the people in the country.
The
report said that all provinces have made a great leap forward in developing the
regional economy and creating the people's living and high civilization by
dynamically conducting the work for implementing the Party's resolutions.
In
South Hwanghae Province in particular, the city and county Party committees and
party organizations of the agricultural sector and officials, agricultural
workers and other people in the province, the masters of farming, made special
efforts to carry out the plan for grain procurement by raising the strong wind
of education and struggle to eradicate various evils in the past farming and
enhancing the role of the group for the promotion of scientific farming.
Each
province has striven to build sci-tech library, school uniform factory,
footwear factory and standard pharmacies and to remodel and modernize Koryo
medicines factories and push ahead with the implementation of the childcare
policy, true to the resolutions of plenary meetings of the Party Central
Committee. Such stirring atmosphere of struggle and the style of work has been
maintained in a sustained way all the year round in every province and, it
resulted in the emergence of new power stations, stockbreeding farms,
children's camps, outdoor theatres, universities, epidemic prevention centers,
condiments factories, forest science institutes, dairy cattle farms, air clubs
and many other objects that meet the long-term and immediate economic demand
and provide convenience of the local people in life as well as the
architectural aesthetic requirements of the new era. Consequently, the year
2023 was a year of radical change in which lots of proud creatures appeared in
different regions, too.
The
General Secretary reviewed the remarkably increased politico- ideological might
of the DPRK as the most significant success in the 2023 struggle.
First
of all, radical advance was made in the state power activities and the work of
strengthening the people's power.
The
policy of strengthening the state nuclear force was enshrined in the
Constitution of the Republic at the 9th Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly
held in September. This will be proudly recorded in the history of the country
as it was a political event that laid a legal foundation for guaranteeing the
security of our state and people forever, put the dignity and strategic
position of the country on the highest level and at the same time, dealt a
deadly blow at the enemy.
As
a result of the active legal work to further subdivide and embody the laws and
regulations in conformity with the requirements of the Party’s policies and
reality and to find out all spaces in the legal regulation and take relevant
measures, more than 110 laws and regulations for every sector including the
laws of the DPRK on auditing, irrigation, education of prodigies, distribution
of production labor and public servants were newly enacted or amended and a
legal guarantee was established for further consolidating our advantageous
state and social system.
As
the method of electing deputies to the people’s assemblies at all levels was
improved in a more democratic way to highlight the popular character of the
Republic and further strengthen the work of the power organs, the elections of
deputies to the provincial, city and county people’s assemblies held in
November turned into a process of further enhancing the people’s civil
consciousness and patriotic enthusiasm to be actively concerned for and
participate in the state affairs.
Meanwhile,
the first short course for the chairpersons of Provincial, City and County
People’s Committees, who are wholly responsible for the work of the people’s
power organs before the Party, state and people, was conducted seriously as a
work of the Party Central Committee. This served as an important occasion for
further enhancing the role of our power organs.
Although
we did not hold many conferences this year, we started the new year with the
delegates of the members of Korean Children’s Union (KCU) who attended the
Ninth Congress of the KCU and had a significant time of the yearend with the
participants in the Fifth National Conference of Mothers. This is the important
features of this year and is of great significance in highlighting the true aim
and character of our struggle.
The
report said that the patriotic movement of donating cereals and the movement
for donating warships and other socialist patriotic movements and revolutionary
mass movements were brisk amid the great enthusiasm of all the people to defend
the country and revolution and that multiple rocket launchers, loading vehicles
and buses named "Sonyon" (child), "Taehaksaeng Chongnyon"
(university and college students), "Jikmaeng" (trade unions),
"Nonggunmaeng" (union of agricultural workers), "Nyomaeng "(women's
union) and "Pusasu" were presented.
The
large ranks of patriots with the warm mind to think first of the Party,
revolution and country and to be helpful to the country to relieve it of its
difficulties have grown up in the course of the vigorous mass patriotic
movement. This is the greatest political success that can never be compared
with anything else.
Three
grand military parades, which took place on the occasions of the 75th founding
anniversary of the Korean People's Army, the 70th anniversary of the victory in
the Fatherland Liberation War and the 75th founding anniversary of the DPRK,
continuously surpassing the successive levels, and other large political and
military festivals fully demonstrated before the world the dignity and prestige
of the Party, state and people and the true feature of our single- minded
unity.
The
report reviewed the fresh improvement in the work for further increasing the
revolutionary appearance and fighting efficiency of our Party in 2023.
In
the course of struggle to implement the five-point Party-building line in the
new era, the core and innovative system and methods of Party work were studied
and implemented to ensure the organizational and ideological consolidation and
far-sighted policy on strengthening the fighting efficiency of our Party.
The
work of organizing and dispatching powerful Party-member battalions throughout
the Party to help Ryanggang Province in the construction of rural houses and of
building up backward farms by departments of the Party Central Committee,
ministries and national institutions has been organized and conducted. This is
another precious stride forward in our Party work as it is a thoroughgoing
embodiment of our Party’s traditional work method to make superiors help the
subordinates and develop backward units together.
The
report said that great successes have been achieved in the struggle against the
enemy and in strengthening the defense capabilities for defending the
sovereignty and dignity of the country.
The
test-fires and launching drills of ICBM Hwasongpho-17 and Hwasongpho-18 were
successfully conducted several times in the course of further accelerating the
development of nuclear weapons, an important part of the national defense
capability and the super-powerful war deterrent. They verified their
reliability and superiority and confirmed the DPRK's long-term orientation for
building up the strategic force.
The
DPRK conducted in an offensive way major military activities including
launching drills of tactical ballistic missiles and cruise missiles to
overwhelmingly counter the enemies' frantic war drills, developed unmanned
reconnaissance planes and multi-purpose drones and launched a newly-built
submarine to strikingly demonstrate the matchless combat readiness and
development of the DPRK's armed forces.
Especially
the possession of space reconnaissance assets by successfully putting our first
reconnaissance satellite "Malligyong-1" into orbit is a great event
of making a decisive advance in carrying out the prior and important tasks for
modernizing the armed forces of the DPRK set forth by the 8th Party Congress
and putting the strategic strength of our state on a new high stage.
The
report said that the WPK has applied a proactive diplomatic strategy while
maintaining the strong independent stand and principle in its external work,
thus remarkably increasing the dignity and prestige of the country and reliably
defending the sovereign rights of our state from the vicious moves of the U.S.
and its vassal forces.
In
total, 2023 is a year of great turn and change both in name and reality when
the DPRK left a great footprint in the glorious course of its development in
the efforts to improve the national power and to enhance the prestige of the
country, the General Secretary said, expressing his high respect for the heroic
struggle of the Workers' Party members, sincere working people and service
personnel who have dynamically pushed forward a new phase of prosperity and
development with their strong redoubled efforts true to the Party's idea and
leadership.
He
extended warm thanks to the members of the entire Party, people across the
country and service personnel of the entire army who contributed to filling
2023 with successes of loyalty and patriotism, overcoming all sorts of
difficulties and hardships with firm trust in our cause and indomitable spirit.
He
said that our Party and people have been convinced that they can certainly
fulfill the five-year plan aimed at laying the foundations for the development
of the national economy and advancing towards the sustained development through
the past three-year stubborn struggle.
At
present, the revolutionary enthusiasm and fighting spirit of our people and
youths are very high and all sectors are rising vigorously with the great
positive changes made in their mental and moral state. This is a favorable
situation that has been won since the Eighth Congress of the Party as a result
of our strenuous and offensive struggle.
This
is the most precious and powerful asset for the future progress and
development, and we can now be confident that we have overcome the most
difficult and extreme points in the struggle to carry out the tasks of the
Party Congress.
In
general, our revolution opened up an era of the comprehensive development of
socialism, in which not only national defense but also all the economic and
cultural sectors arose simultaneously, the capital and the provinces have
changed all together and great changes have been made in the people’s
ideological and mental aspects as well as in cities, villages, mountains and streams
during the term of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party.
The
experience of the past three years is that if they work meticulously and
earnestly, maintaining the spirit of braving the manifold difficulties, under
the condition where the Party’s leadership system is strong and all the
people’s trust in it is steadfast, they can successfully accomplish the
important tasks of overcoming difficulties and developing changes.
All
this proves that the programme of struggle clarified by the Eighth WPK Congress
is the most correct and powerful banner which vigorously pushes forward and
develops our revolution despite unprecedentedly harsh difficulties, and
inspires us with optimism and conviction that it will be successfully realized
by two-year-long consecutive struggles in the future.
The
report comprehensively saw through the work of the year from a critical and
developmental point of view, proceeding from the revolutionary stand of the WPK
which is more concerned with defects and lessons than successes and experience
for the rapider progress and development of the future, and analyzed and
reviewed the defects in it in a level-headed way.
The
General Secretary called upon all the participants in the plenary meeting to
fully discharge their responsibility and role in the work for 2024 to create a
history of new victory for the overall national prosperity, with the high pride
and self-confidence in the struggle of 2023 and deeply aware of the problems to
be surely solved in our future work.
Speeches
were made on the first agenda item.
Kim
Tok Hun, premier of the Cabinet, Choe Ryong Hae, chairman of the Standing
Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, Ri Chol Man, department director of
the C.C., WPK, Kang Sun Nam, minister of National Defense, and Jo Yong Won,
secretary for Organizational Affairs of the C.C., WPK, examined and reviewed
the work in their fields and suggested the measures to the plenary meeting.
Leading officials in various sectors presented written speeches.
The
plenary meeting heard and analyzed the speeches and made relevant evaluations.
Kim
Jong Un made an important conclusion on the first agenda item "On the
orientation of struggle in 2024".
Saying
that the successes achieved in the course of implementing the Party and state
policies in 2023 serve as another precious asset for our advance and
development, he referred to the orientation of the future struggle.
We
have two years in carrying out the five-year plan.
In
these two years we must prove with redoubled efforts that the policy of
struggle decided by the Eighth Congress of the Party and the advance we have
made so far are perfectly correct, and we must achieve greater successes and
sum up our struggle before the Party Congress.
Our
general orientation of struggle is to further expand and actively apply the
favorable situation and phase which we have won through a stubborn struggle,
thus successfully implementing the fighting programme of the Eighth Party
Congress and laying a springboard for a new advance in the future.
On
the basis of the successes and experience of the past three years, we should
make the remaining two years an effective process of preparing for a new
development of the next stage, while steadily concluding the implementation of
the resolutions of the Eighth Party Congress sincerely.
In
particular, we should direct main efforts into solving the problems that are
incomplete or a stumbling block in implementing the resolutions of the Party
Congress, from next year so as to further expand the successes achieved till
now and prove their worth, and turn all the planned tasks into brilliant
fruitions.
The
year 2024 is a decisive year of confirming the victory in attaining the
fighting goal set by the Eighth Party Congress by heightening the offensive
spirit on all fronts of socialist construction.
In
other words, by the end of 2024, every sector and unit should secure an obvious
practical guarantee for the fulfillment of the five-year plan.
With
confidence in having braved the most difficult and severe trials, we should
glorify 2024 with new and significant successes through a more mounting and
strenuous struggle.
Noting
that the primary problem is to strengthen the administrative and economic work
system and order of the state, the General Secretary specified the principled
issues and practical ways for the Cabinet to enliven the lifeline of the
national economy and propel the purposeful economic development in line with
its duty as the overall state management institution endowed by the
constitution.
He
stressed the need for all sectors of the national economy to put spurs to the
growth of production, finish the work for readjustment and reinforcement and
concentrate efforts on 12 major goals by setting them in front in the new year,
too. He set forth the important tasks to be fulfilled in the key industrial
sectors including metal, chemistry, electric power, coal, machinery and railway
transport.
The
conclusion defined it as our Party's orientation of development for
machine-building industry at the present phase to make the Ryongsong Machine
Complex, a parent body of the machine-building industry, a standard and model
of modernization in the period of the Eighth Party Central Committee and, on
the basis of this experience, to modernize the Taean Heavy Machine Complex, the
Rakwon General Machine Enterprise and other major machine factories during the
period of the new five-year economic development plan and clarified the ways
for its implementation.
It
referred to all the tasks for more dynamically promoting the construction of
the capital city and the rural housing construction, an important task started
under the historic decision made at the Eighth Party Central Committee, and to
the practical issues for realizing the grand long-term construction plan
envisaged by the Party Central Committee.
It
also called on the land and environment protection and urban management sectors
to steadily push forward the phased tasks specified in the five-year plan and
on all the institutions and enterprises to dynamically conduct the work for
coping with disaster crisis on an annual basis.
The
General Secretary advanced the specific tasks and ways for steadily increasing
the agricultural productivity, including the work to definitely set the
strategy and the step-wise goals for the development of farm machines and
strongly promote the mechanization of the rural economy on the basis of survey
and evaluation of the country's overall agricultural infrastructure and
agro-technical capability, the work to complete the country's irrigation system
and the work to vigorously hasten the reclamation of tideland without letup.
He
called for further stirring up the social atmosphere and climate of active
support to the rural areas throughout the country, establishing the strict
disciplines of food administration, and building modern wheat processing
factories in various regions and improving the wheat processing technology to
raise the quality of products in keeping with the increase of wheat production.
The
conclusion stressed the need for the light industry in 2024 to set it as the
primary task for improving the quality of consumer goods and condiments and
struggle for realizing it and referred to the tasks for stepping up the
modernization of light industrial and regional industrial factories, developing
the sericulture sector and improving the commercial, public catering and
welfare service work.
It
also mentioned the tasks facing the fishing sector for activating the pelagic
fishing, increasing the varieties and species in the fish farming and
cultivation field and particularly conducting the offshore fishing on a mass
scale to boost the marine production, and the measures for providing the citizens
of the capital city with more civilized and affluent living conditions and
environment in the period of the 8th Party Central Committee.
The
General Secretary stressed the need for the cultural sector, which occupies an
important position in the present struggle towards the overall development of
socialism and should steadily advance in the van, to take a more vigorous step
forward in all aspects of cultural construction on the basis of the previous
experience and lessons gained in the last three years, especially in the work
of 2023.
The
conclusion set forth important goals and ways for accelerating the social
progress and the overall prosperity of the state with the steady development of
the sci-tech capability and practical vitality of attaching importance to
science and technology, including the establishment of a system for
purposefully setting up the pivotal and magnetic up-to-date sci-tech
development plan and concentrating scientific research forces on implementing
it and the integrated control over the country's development of science and
technology.
The
conclusion called for developing the contents and methods of education in a
more concrete, diverse and practical way including introducing the
research-type teaching methods and research-type study methods into specialized
subjects and in pedagogically ensuring the implementation of the Party's
policies and thus making the year 2024 a year of greater changes in putting the
country on the list of advanced states in education.
It
stressed the need to correctly enforce our socialist public health policies and
further consolidate the material and technical foundations of the public health
sector. It called upon the fields of literature and art and media, which stand
at the van of the ideological and cultural front, to usher in a new heyday of
their development in 2024 and thus continuously elevate the high spirit of the
entire Party, the whole country and all the people. It also stressed the need
to steadily expand the proud successes registered in the sports field in 2023.
The
conclusion indicated the policy-oriented tasks facing the people's power
organs, public prosecution, public security organs and other law enforcement
organs in consolidating and developing the state and social system of the DPRK,
precious gains of the revolution and powerful political weapon, and the practical
ways for conducting the work of working people's organizations more vigorously
and powerfully.
The
General Secretary analyzed and evaluated the dangerous security environment in
the Korean peninsula on the brink of a nuclear war and the nature of the
hostile forces' military confrontation moves and clarified the important policy
decision to further accelerate the radical development of the national defense
capabilities.
This
year, too, the U.S. and its vassal forces have still perpetrated vicious
anti-DPRK confrontational moves and the desperate efforts of the enemies have
reached the extremes unprecedented in history in their reckless, provocative
and dangerous nature.
The
U.S., which has caused instability and continued to aggravate the situation in
the Korean peninsula, is exposing various forms of military threat to our state
even at this moment when the year is falling.
The
U.S. has more persistently instigated the south Korean puppets and Japs, who
are playing the role as the most faithful stooge and "running-dog" in
carrying out its hostile policy towards our Republic, to seek to expand the
bilateral and tripartite cooperation and establish an anti-DPRK cooperation
system. Such moves have got more frantic this year, consonant with the
interests of the south Korean puppets who are seized with security uneasiness.
Openly
talking about "end of regime" in the DPRK, the U.S. president cooked
up the so-called "Washington Declaration", an anti-DPRK nuclear
confrontation program, together with the south Korean puppets and newly
organized and started the operation of the "Nuclear Consultative
Group" aimed at the joint plan and execution for the use of nuclear
weapons. Furthermore, he is zealously promoting the scenario for a nuclear war
against the DPRK under the eyes of the world by abusing the "NCG".
The
U.S. has frequently met with Japs and south Korean puppets to promise long-term
conspiracy and collusion against the DPRK, discuss the countermeasures and
enforce annual tripartite military drills. Such provocative attitude of the
U.S., which is getting frantic with the strengthening of the triangular
cooperation system on the unreasonable pretext of coping with so- called
"threat" from the DPRK, is driving the situation in the Korean
peninsula into more unpredictable and critical conditions.
What
should not be overlooked is the fact that the continuous introduction into the
Korean Peninsula of U.S. nuclear strategic means of all kinds, including the
super-large strategic nuclear submarine that entered the southern half of Korea
again in more than 40 years, the nuclear strategic bomber landed there for the
first time in history, and the frequent dispatch of super-large nuclear-powered
carrier task force, has turned south Korea completely into a forward military
base and a nuclear arsenal of the U.S. and joint military exercises of various
scales have been ceaselessly staged all the year round, setting the
"highest record" in history.
The
number of joint military exercises staged by the U.S. military gangsters with
Japs and south Korean puppets this year has doubled compared to that of last
year. This clearly shows that the U.S. aims at the military confrontation with
the DPRK at any cost and is getting more desperately hell-bent on the
preparations for it.
Only
a few days ago, the Yankees summoned south Korean puppets to Washington to hold
the second meeting of the "NCG" and announced to the world that they
would complete the "guidelines on nuclear strategic plan and
operation" and establish the "extended deterrence system" by the
middle of next year and conduct nuclear operation exercises during the
large-scale joint military exercises in forthcoming August. Timed to coincide
with this, they brought a nuclear-powered submarine into the Korean peninsula
again, making provocation even by the end of the year.
The
reality shows that the U.S. inveterate hostile acts against the DPRK are not
only confined to rhetoric threat or demonstration purposes but have evidently
evolved into a stage of execution which can lead to actual military actions and
thus trigger a conflict between the armed forces of both sides.
The
conclusion referred to the fact that the north-south relations, which had been
steadily deteriorating since the emergence of the Yoon Suk Yeol puppet regime,
have been further tainted with distrust and hostility due to the anti- DPRK
confrontation behavior of traitor Yoon getting evermore offensive recently and,
consequently, the September 19 North-South Military Agreement, which had been
playing a feeble mission of preventing armed conflict just for form's sake, was
scrapped.
What
merits attention is that the Yoon Suk Yeol group of puppets is making a
suicidal attempt to achieve the "balance of power" with the DPRK and
stand in confrontation with it to the last by expanding the "UN
Command", an illegal ghost body, into a multinational war organization for
provoking the second Korean war.
The
enemies' provocative acts are getting ever more pronounced in the area along
the Military Demarcation Line and the whole puppet army is being reorganized
and reinforced in general while the brass hats of the puppet military have been
recently replaced by extreme warmongers one after another. Such radical
military moves getting more undisguised are also evidently a revelation of the
sinister attempt for a war of aggression.
The
General Secretary said that as shown by all the facts, the confrontation nature
of the U.S. and its top-class stooges has not changed even in the least but is
getting more undisguised and more vicious.
When
we pay close attention to the confrontational military acts perpetrated by the
hostile forces while aggravating the dangerous security environment in the
Korean peninsula every moment, the word "war" is already approaching
us as a realistic entity, not as an abstract concept.
The
prevailing grave situation requires the DPRK to steadily step up the work for
getting the overwhelming war response capability and the full and perfect
military combat readiness to deter any form of provocation and action at a blow
since the enemies' desperate efforts get more serious.
The
People’s Army should closely watch and sharply control the hourly changing
acute security situation in the Korean peninsula and take more thorough
military measures to firmly safeguard the security of the state while always
coping with it in an overwhelming attitude. And it should rapidly respond to
any possible nuclear crisis and put continuous spurs to the preparations for a
great event to suppress the whole territory of south Korea by mobilizing all
physical means and forces including nuclear forces in contingency.
The
conclusion called on the munitions industry to reliably guarantee the
successful implementation of our Party's strategy for the development of the
national defense by further expanding the successes made in consolidating the
self-supporting foundation of the defense industry and in developing and
producing arms and equipment.
It
stressed the need for the nuclear weapons field to lay a reliable foundation
for steadily increasing the production of nuclear weapons and wage a vigorous
struggle for carrying out the nuclear weapons production plan in 2024.
It
also set forth the main targets and militant tasks for the field of missile
development and production.
The
conclusion clarified the task for the field of space development to launch in
addition three reconnaissance satellites in 2024 on the basis of the experience
gained in the successful launch and operation of the first reconnaissance
satellite in 2023 and referred to the nationwide full-scale measures for
dynamically accelerating the development of space science and technology.
It
set it as the main task facing the field of shipbuilding to enhance the
underwater and surface combat strength of the navy by bringing about the second
revolution of the warship-building industry and to carry out at an early date
the task incomplete in attaining the major five-point goals for developing the
national defense capabilities. It also stressed the need for the unmanned air
industry and the detected electronic warfare sectors to develop and produce
various kinds of unmanned military hardware and powerful electronic warfare
means in conformity with the characteristics of modern warfare.
The
conclusion set forth the tasks for the militia defense force in charge of a
wing of the national defence to complete the combat preparations, including the
work to further enhance the operational control level of commanding officers of
the Worker-Peasant Red Guards as well as the combat capabilities of its members
by steadily improving the training contents and methods so as to positively
cope with the enemies' combat action methods.
The
General Secretary made a detailed analysis of the gigantic geopolitical changes
in international geo-political situation and balance of forces in 2023, the
main features of present international situation and the external environment
of the Korean peninsula. And he advanced the strategic and tactical policies to
be held fast to in the external affairs and clarified the need to newly
formulate the stands on the north-south relations and reunification policy and
make a decisive policy change in the work against the enemy.
The
field of external affairs should actively and tactically cope with the changing
and developing international situation and write a diplomatic history of the
DPRK which accords with the position of a powerful country on the principle of
defending the dignity of the Party, raising the national dignity and protecting
the national interests.
He
set forth the tasks for concentrating the main efforts on the development of
relations with the ruling parties of socialist countries to further expand and
strengthen the external sphere of the country, further consolidating the
foundation of support and solidarity to the DPRK by further developing the
relations with the anti-imperialist independent countries opposed to the
hegemony strategy of the U.S. and the West under ever- changing international
situation and waging a dynamic anti-imperialist joint action and struggle on an
international scale.
We
should consistently adhere to the anti-U.S. and anti-enemy struggle principle
of power for power and head-on contest and pursue the high-handed and offensive
toughest policy.
This
year we reaffirmed the unshakable will to counter the frantic nuclear war
threat racket and all-out confrontation of the U.S. and its vassal forces with
nukes and all-out confrontation and inflicted insurmountable security crisis
and horror upon the enemies by the overwhelming exercise of the thorough war
deterrent.
Whatever
the enemies attempt and whatever they choose, it is our unshakable principle
and mode of struggle against the enemy to control by super-tough counteraction
beyond it and by the exercise of powerful ability overwhelming it.
The
conclusion put forward the line of making a fundamental turnabout in the sector
of work toward the south on the basis of a cool analysis of the bitter history
of the north-south relations which has repeatedly suffered only distrust and
confrontation.
The
Korean Peninsula is now constantly in the grip of an uncontrollable crisis due
to the reckless anti-DPRK confrontation hysteria and military provocations of
the U.S. and south Korean puppets.
It
is a well-known fact that physical clash can be caused and escalated even by a
slight accidental factor in the area of along the Military Demarcation Line where
large armed forces of both sides are standing in confrontation with one
another, and no one can deny the fact that the two states, the most hostile
toward each other, are coexisting in the Korean peninsula at present.
Such
abnormal situation is not a random phenomenon like mutation in the light of the
successive puppet regimes' extension of their policies but an inevitable result
of the history of the north-south relations.
For
a long period spanning not just ten years but more than half a century, the
idea, line and policies for national reunification laid down by our Party and
the DPRK government have always roused absolute support and approval of the
whole nation and sympathy of the world as they are most just, reasonable and
fair. But none of them has brought about a proper fruition and the north- south
relations have repeated the vicious cycle of contact and suspension, dialogue
and confrontation.
If
there is a common point among the "policies toward the north" and
"unification policies" pursued by the successive south Korean rulers,
it is the "collapse of the DPRK's regime" and "unification by
absorption". And it is clearly proved by the fact that the keynote of
"unification under liberal democracy" has been invariably carried
forward although the puppet regime has changed more than ten times so far.
The
puppet forces' sinister ambition to destroy our social system and regime has
remained unchanged even a bit whether they advocated "democracy" or
disguised themselves as "conservatism", the General Secretary said,
and went on:
The
general conclusion drawn by our Party, looking back upon the long- standing
north-south relations is that reunification can never be achieved with the ROK
authorities that defined the "unification by absorption" and
"unification under liberal democracy" as their state policy, which is
in sharp contradiction with our line of national reunification based on one
nation and one state with two systems.
Even
at this moment, the south Korean puppets are unhesitatingly contending that the
DPRK and its people are territory and population of the ROK that should be
reclaimed, and it is shamelessly specified in the constitution of the ROK that
"the territory of the ROK contains the Korean peninsula and its attached
islands".
The
reality urgently requires us to adopt a new stand on the north-south relations
and the reunification policy.
Now
we need to admit the reality and make the relations with the south Korean
puppets clearer.
I
think it is a mistake we should no longer make to regard the clan, who publicly
defined us as the "principal enemy" and is seeking only the
opportunity of "collapse of power" and "unification by
absorption" in collusion with foreign forces, as the partner of
reconciliation and reunification.
It
is not suitable to the prestige and position of the DPRK to discuss the issue
of reunification with the strange clan, who is no more than a colonial stooge
of the U.S., just because of the rhetorical word the fellow countrymen.
South
Korea at present is nothing but a hemiplegic malformation and colonial
subordinate state whose politics is completely out of order, whole society
tainted by Yankee culture, and defence and security totally dependent on the
U.S.
The
north-south relations have been completely fixed into the relations between two
states hostile to each other and the relations between two belligerent states,
not the consanguineous or homogeneous ones any more.
It
can be said this is the present address that shows the relations between the
north and the south today.
The
conclusion, lucidly looking into and recognizing the reality, stressed the need
to take measures for readjusting and reforming the organizations in charge of
the affairs related to the south including the United Front Department of the
Party Central Committee and to fundamentally change the principle and
orientation of the struggle.
Solemnly
declaring that if the U.S. and south Korean puppets stubbornly attempt a
military confrontation with the DPRK, the latter's nuclear war deterrence will
go over to a grave action without hesitation, the conclusion set forth the
important tasks for the fields in charge of the affairs with enemies and
foreign countries to make preparations in a foresighted way for keeping pace
with the powerful military actions of the Korean People's Army to subjugate the
whole territory of the south on the basis of making it a fait accompli that a
war may break out on the Korean peninsula any time due to the enemies' reckless
moves for invading the DPRK.
Expressing
belief that another great turn to be brilliantly recorded in the history of the
country would be effected in the overall work of the Party and the state and in
our socialist construction in 2024, too, by the indomitable fighting spirit and
efforts of millions of Party members, all the people and service personnel
across the country boundlessly loyal to the Party and the revolutionary cause,
the General Secretary ardently called upon all of us and other people of the
whole country to wage a more dynamic struggle with confidence in victory and
great enthusiasm.
All
the participants expressed their absolute support and approval with
enthusiastic cheers of "hurrah!" and warm applauses at his important
conclusion, the guidelines for continuous innovation and leap forward for the
accomplishment of the cause of the Party and the cause of socialism.
His
historic documents, which clarified the clear orientation of advance and
policies of struggle for the new year for surely implementing the strategy of
development of our own style through courageous and bold revolutionary
practice, will serve as an immortal militant banner in powerfully leading the
Korean revolution to a vigorous upsurge and bringing earlier a new era of
national prosperity.
The
plenary meeting discussed the second agenda item "On increasing the sense
of responsibility in implementing the socialist policy for
schoolchildren".
Kim
Jong Un made a report.
He
made a detailed analysis of the production and supply of school uniforms, bags
and shoes in 2023, going back to the situation of adopting the resolution to
supply school uniforms and bags of good quality for all the schoolchildren in
the country at the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee
and of pushing ahead with its implementation on an annual basis.
He
stressed once again that it is the consistent policy of the Workers' Party of
Korea and the eternal national policy of the DPRK that the Party and the state
supply necessities for schoolchildren in a responsible manner. He proposed the
principled issues to be maintained in the production and supply of school
uniforms, bags and shoes to be pushed forward by relevant organs including the
Ministry of Light Industry, Party and power bodies at all levels and school
uniform production units in different parts of the country as an undertaking
involving the entire Party and the whole country in the new year, too, and the
ways for implementing them.
Saying
that the work for our schoolchildren is a political work guaranteeing the rosy
future of the country before it is an economic and practical work and the
children's bright laugh is just a symbol of the socialist system and the image
of Korean-style socialism, he earnestly requested all officials to further
enhance their sense of responsibility and role in the important revolutionary
work that our Party takes all pains by maintaining the feature and fulfilling
the sacred duty of a genuine revolutionary.
The
plenary meeting discussed "On the work of the Central Inspection
Commission of the Party for 2023" as the third agenda item.
The
plenary meeting deliberated the work of the Central Inspection Commission of
the WPK for 2023 and recognized that the commission has successfully fulfilled
its duty in implementing the line of building discipline of our Party and in
guaranteeing the Party's work and activities financially and materially.
The
plenary meeting decided to form a state budget assessment group for examining
and deliberating the fulfillment of the state budget for 2023 and the draft
state budget for 2024 in the discussion for the fourth agenda item.
The
plenary meeting discussed "On a series of measures for strengthening the
leadership function of the Party at present" as the fifth agenda item and
unanimously approved a relevant resolution.
The
plenary meeting discussed the organizational matter as the sixth agenda item.
Members
and alternate members of the WPK Central Committee were recalled and
by-elected.
Sim
Hong Bin, Jo Yong Dok, Jong Yong Nam, Ri Chang Gil, Han Myong Su and Myong Song
Chol were by-elected as members of the C.C., WPK from alternate members. Pak
Jong Chon, Pak Song Chol, Choe Jun Ho, Kim Jong Sik, Jon Il Ho, Kim Myong Hun,
Jang Chang Ha, Ko Pyong Hyon, Ryu Sang Hun, Kim Chol Won and Kim Yong Hwan were
by-elected directly as members of the C.C., WPK.
Kim
Yong Su, Jo Yong Chol, Ri Chung Gil, An Kyong Gun, Ri Sun Chol, Kim Kwang Jin,
Paek Min Gwang, Jong Song Gil, Ok Chang Guk, Kuk Myong Ho, Ri Sang Do, Kim
Kyong Jun, Jong Mu Rim, Kim Yong Chun, Pak Myong Ho, Kim Chol Nam, Choe Kyong
Nam, Kim Jong Su, Ri Kyong Il and Kim Jong Gil were by-elected as alternate
members of the C.C., WPK.
Members
and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee were
recalled and by-elected.
Jo
Chun Ryong was by-elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the WPK
Central Committee from alternate member and Pak Jong Chon and Jon Hyon Chol
were by-elected directly as members of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central
Committee.
Kim
Chol Sam was by-elected as an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the
WPK Central Committee.
Secretaries
of the WPK Central Committee were dismissed and elected.
Pak
Jong Chon, Jo Chun Ryong and Jon Hyon Chol were elected secretaries of the WPK
Central Committee.
A
vice-chairman and member of the Central Military Commission of the WPK were
recalled and by-elected.
Pak
Jong Chon was by-elected as the vice-chairman of the Central Military
Commission of the WPK.
A
vice-chairman and members of the Central Inspection Commission of the WPK were
recalled and by-elected.
Kim
Chol Sam was by-elected as the vice-chairman of the Central Inspection
Commission of the WPK and Choe Jun Ho and Kim Chol Won as its members.
Department
directors of the WPK Central Committee were dismissed and appointed.
Kim
Jae Ryong, Jon Hyon Chol, Ju Chang Il, Kim Chol Sam and Ju Chol Gyu were
appointed as department directors of the C.C., WPK.
Chief
secretaries of the provincial Party committees were dismissed and appointed.
Kim
Yong Hwan was appointed as the chief secretary of the North Hamgyong Provincial
Committee of the WPK and Pak Song Chol as the chief secretary of the North
Phyongan Provincial Committee of the WPK.
Some
senior officials in government organs and major posts were dismissed and
appointed.
Ri
Chol Man was appointed as vice-premier of the Cabinet and chairman of the
Agricultural Commission, Kim Myong Hun as vice-premier of the Cabinet, Kim
Kyong Jun as minister of Land and Environment Protection, Kuk Myong Ho as
minister of Railways, Jong Mu Rim as minister of Public Health, Ri Sang Do as
minister of Mining Industry, Ri Chung Gil as chairman of the State Commission
of Science and Technology, Kim Chol Won as director of the Central Public
Prosecutors Office, Jon Il Ho as president of Kim Jong Un University of
National Defense and Ko Pyong Hyon as chairman of the Second Economy
Commission.
The
plenary meeting held panel study and consultative meetings for two days for
drafting a thorough and correct plan for carrying out the tasks for the new
year on the basis of the idea and spirit of the important conclusion made by
the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Members
of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee guided the panel study and
consultative meetings.
The
study and consultative meetings studied and discussed in an enterprising way
the issues of further consolidating and expanding the achievements made in the
struggle in 2023 for implementing the resolutions of the Eighth Congress of the
Party and raised innovative and constructive opinions.
The
18th Meeting of the Political Bureau of the 8th Central Committee of the WPK
was convened on Dec. 30.
The
Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee examined the opinions integrated
at the panel study and consultative meetings and decided to amend and
supplement the draft resolution to submit it to the plenary meeting.
It
also decided to examine the implementation of the state budget for 2023 and the
draft state budget for 2024 deliberated by the state budget assessment group
and to report them to the plenary meeting.
The
Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee decided to present the major
goals to the plenary meeting on the basis of the view that it is important for
ensuring the growth of the whole economy while consolidating and maintaining
the success of 2023 to put forward the 12 major goals of key importance in
developing the economy and improving the people's living standard and direct
efforts to them in the new year, too.
Kim
Tok Hun, premier of the Cabinet, reported the results of the meeting of the
Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee.
The
plenary meeting unanimously adopted a resolution "On carrying through the
year 2024 tasks for the five-year plan set forth by the Eighth Party
Congress".
The
plenary meeting finally examined the fulfillment of the state budget for 2023
and the draft state budget for 2024 and approved submitting it to the 10th
Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly.
Kim
Jong Un affirmed that the historic December Plenary Meeting decided on the
direction of the struggle for 2024 in a more prudent manner and adopted
relevant resolutions in conformity with the requirements of the revolution and
the objective and subjective situation, thus providing a powerful weapon of
struggle for making the overall development period of Korean-style socialism
have a firm aspiration and achieving greater successes by bringing about a
dynamic upsurge in the revolution.
Noting
that it is the main idea and main spirit of the current plenary meeting to more
dynamically struggle for attaining the goals set forth by the 8th Party
Congress in unity with patriotism, the General Secretary stressed that we
should carry forward to 2024 the 2023 glory of achieving the most valuable
victory and successes with redoubled courage and vigor, full of confidence in
our strength and our cause, together with the great people.
When
all the Party organizations and officials faithfully fulfill the sacred mission
and duty they have assumed before the state and people, rallied close around
the Party Central Committee, the manifold ordeals and difficulties will be
overcome and our cause of dynamically advancing for realizing the grand ideal
and goal will be further accelerated, he noted.
Taking
the oath solemnly on behalf of the Party Central Committee that he would always
be faithful to the revolutionary idea and cause of President Kim Il Sung and
Chairman Kim Jong Il, he expressed belief that the high enthusiasm of all the
participants ahead of the new struggle in 2024 would surely lead to bold
practice and proud fruition.
The
2023 December Plenary Meeting of the WPK Central Committee successfully
completed its historic and responsible discussion amid the high political
consciousness and surging enthusiasm of all participants to demonstrate to the
whole world the invincibility of the Korean revolution advancing with great
ambition and ideal and dynamically guide the successful implementation of the
programme of struggle of our Party.
The
members of the leadership body of the Party Central Committee, who stood at the
starting point of the important struggle to provide a sure guarantee for the
fulfillment of the five-year plan, take a firm pledge to fulfill their
responsible mission entrusted by the Party and the people by laying more
favorable foundations and circumstances for consolidating and further
developing the phase of overall development of socialist construction during
the term of the 8th Party Central Committee, true to the leadership of the
General Secretary of our great Party.
The
9th Plenary Meeting of the 8th WPK Central Committee that will shine along with
2023, the great year of victory, will be recorded long in the history of our
Party as a significant political event that redoubled the faith and optimism in
the truth of our idea and our cause and its bright future, proved through
trials and miracles, and fully demonstrated the unbreakable and proud might of
our state.
