KIM JONG UN HAS PHOTO SESSION WITH IDEOLOGICAL OFFICIALS

Pyongyang, February 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, had a photo session with the participants in the 8th Conference of the Ideological Officials of the WPK.

When Kim Jong Un came to the venue of the photo session, all the participants broke into cheers of "hurrah!"

Waving back to their enthusiastic cheers, he extended warm greetings to them.

Noting that the conference unprecedented in its scale in the history of the WPK marked a significant occasion of making a new milestone in glorifying for all ages the immortal exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il who always led the WPK and the Korean revolution to victory by dint of ideology and in raising a strong wind of ideological campaign, information and agitation as required by the developing reality, he congratulated the participants on successfully holding the conference amid high enthusiasm.

Very great are the trust and expectation of the party for the ideological officials, he said. Expressing expectation and conviction that they would arouse all the service personnel and people to the grand drive for ushering in a golden age of Songun Korea by launching a campaign all at once on the party ideological front, he had a photo session with them.

Present there were Kim Ki Nam, Choe Thae Bok, Kim Phyong Hae, Kwak Pom Gi, Kim Chang Sop, Jo Yon Jun, Kim Kyong Ok, Ri Jae Il, Choe Hwi, Hwang Pyong So, Tong Yong Il and chief secretaries of the provincial committees of the WPK.

CONFERENCE OF IDEOLOGICAL OFFICIALS OF WPK CLOSES

Pyongyang, February 26 (KCNA) -- The second-day session of the 8th Conference of Ideological Officials of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was held with splendor on Tuesday.

Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the WPK, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, was present at the conference.

When he appeared on the platform of the conference hall, all participants broke into loud cheers and enthusiastic applauses.

He warmly acknowledged them and extended a warm salute to the participants who have devoted themselves to developing the party ideological work.

More speeches were made.

Speakers said that they have fully prepared all party members and other working people as vanguard fighters who devotedly protect the leader, deeply trusting and following the party and the leader only by relying on the well-regulated ideological work system, information and agitation methods and education bases, true to President Kim Il Sung's and leader Kim Jong Il's line of attaching importance to ideology.

They noted that they have deeply grasped the validity and vitality of the theories and methods of the party ideological work in the period when they have powerfully encouraged the masses in the drive for embodying the Party's ideology and upholding its policies by giving play to their revolutionary enthusiasm and creative ingenuity through the thorough application of the information and agitation methods of the anti-Japanese guerrilla style and a brisk three-revolution red flag movement.

They emphasized the immortal leadership exploits the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu performed in the drive for modeling the whole society on the monolithic idea by setting forth the Juche-oriented theory of ideology and the greatness and great vitality of their ideas and theories and analyzed and reviewed the successes, experience and shortcomings gained in the party ideological work in the past.

They called on the ideological workers to understand and confirm once again the importance of the party ideological work in the important historic period of carrying forward the revolutionary cause of Juche and successfully realize the modeling of the whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism by concentrating every effort on more thoroughly establishing the monolithic leadership system of the party and consolidating the unity and cohesion of the party and revolutionary ranks in thought and purpose as firm as a rock.

They renewed their determination to make a positive contribution to giving fullest play to the mental power of Kim Il Sung's nation and Kim Jong Il's Korea in building a thriving nation by successfully turning the party ideological work into the one instilling the fighting spirit and patriotism into the popular masses.

Kim Jong Un made a very important speech there.

As his speech was over, the participants again broke into rousing cheers.

After listening his speech, all participants renewed their loyal pledge to become political activists of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il type and give full play to the might of the revolutionary idea of the party and mental power of all service personnel and people and thus creditably fulfill their honorable mission and duty as ideological officials of the party in the glorious era of Kim Jong Un.

A letter of pledge to the WPK was adopted there.

Choe Thae Bok made a closing address.