5th Conference of WPK Cell Chairpersons Opens

Pyongyang, December 22 (KCNA) -- The 5th Conference of Cell Chairpersons of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) opened with splendor here on Thursday.

The conference will analyze and review the achievements and shortcomings of the Party cells for five years after the 4th Conference of Cell Secretaries of the WPK and discuss the practical measures for making all the party cells faithful ranks taking the lead in upholding the idea and leadership of the Party and enhancing the role of the cell chairpersons.

Attending it are party cell chairpersons and branch committee chairpersons from various fields and units of the national economy and units of the armed forces organs and officials of the central and local party committees.

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, and members of the Executive Policy Council of the WPK Central Committee took the platform to guide the conference.

The platform was also taken by leading officials of the central and provincial party committees.

The Chairman of the WPK made an opening address.

Choe Ryong Hae, Presidium member of the Political Bureau and vice-chairman of the WPK Central Committee, made a report.

The reporter said that only when the Party cell, a center of the party life, main unit connecting the blood vessel between the Party and the masses and advancing group in implementing the Party policies, remains reliable, can the Party be firm and the revolution advance victoriously, adding it is the great truth proved by the history of Juche-based party building and accomplishing the socialist cause.

He noted that the Chairman of the WPK made a historic conclusion "Let Us Enhance the Militant Might of the Party in Every Way and Step Up the Building of a Thriving Country by Improving the Work of Party Cells" at the 4th Conference of Cell Secretaries of the WPK and set forth the orientation and tasks of building a basic party organization at several conferences including the First Conference of Chairpersons of the Primary Committees of the WPK, which have served as a new milestone for the strengthening of the Party cells.

The ideas and theories advanced by the Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, including the ideas of preparing all the party members to be genuine Kimilsungists- Kimjongilists, true comrades and comrades-in-arms of our Party, making the party cells blood vessel between the broad masses and the party by applying the people- first principle and intensifying the combat against abuse and bureaucratic practices, serve as very important guidelines that should be adhered to in the party cell work, he said.

The distinguished leadership and undying feats of the Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, who increased the working efficiency of the basic party organizations including the party cells in every way and thus made them gain very signal victories one after another on all fronts of building a powerful socialist country, will shine long in the history of Juche-based party building, the reporter said, and continued:

The past five years after the 4th Conference of Cell Secretaries of the WPK were the fruitful years in which our Party had steadily advanced the socialist cause, fully demonstrating its might as the revolutionary party of Juche under the wise leadership of the Chairman of the WPK.

The ongoing campaign to implement the grand programme of building a powerful socialist nation set forth at the 7th WPK Congress requires remarkably enhancing the leadership ability of the Party. Prerequisite for this is to enhance the function and role of the Party cell, the lower-echelon organization and main working unit of the Party.

The reporter referred to the defects manifested by the Party cells in failing to fully meet the high intention of the Party and the requirements of the developing revolution.

He called for making energetic efforts for the strengthening of the Party and the final victory in building a powerful socialist country, united close behind the Party Central Committee headed by the great Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Speeches were made at the conference.

Speakers noted that the Party cells have carried out their work with main emphasis on training Party members and other working people to be true revolutionaries who deeply grasped the greatness of the Party and the leader and acquired the indomitable revolutionary spirit.

They mentioned the achievements and experience gained in their work to make the organization and guidance over the Party life of its members aimed at implementing the behests of the leader and defending the Party policies and to arouse the masses to the drive for building an economic giant through active application of the precisely-targeted method of political work.

They also said that they have definitely turned the work with the masses into the one with their minds and feelings and emotion, true to the people-first principle of the Party, so as to resolve their inmost problems.

Some Party cells' shortcomings were referred to at speeches.

The conference continues.