Jan. 1, Juche 109 (2020)
The 5th Plenary Meeting of the 7th Central
Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was held at the headquarters building
of the WPK Central Committee from December 28 to 31, Juche 108 (2019).
Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of
Korea, guided the plenary meeting.
Attending the meeting were members and alternate
members of the C.C., WPK and members of the Central Auditing Commission of the
WPK.
Present as observers were officials of the WPK
Central Committee, officials of ministries and national institutions,
chairpersons of the provincial people's committees, chairpersons of the
provincial rural economy committees, chairpersons of the city and county party
committees and officials of major fields and units and the armed forces organs.
Kim Jong Un presided over the meeting upon
authorization of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK.
The plenary meeting dealt with the following agenda
items:
1. On
the orientation of our immediate struggle under the present internal and
external situation
2. On an
organizational matter
3. On
modifying and supplementing the collection of the slogans set forth by the
Party Central Committee
4. On
celebrating the 75th founding anniversary of the WPK with splendor.
The first agenda was discussed.
Kim Jong Un made a report on the first agenda.
Saying that the period of the past eight months
since the 4th Plenary Meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the WPK was a
continuity of great intensified struggle and courageous advance, he referred to
the fact that the WPK has always established and maintained correct internal
and external political lines centered on the urgent demand, rights and
interests of our people and the sovereignty and security of the state and has
constantly struggled for them.
He noted that the Party Central Committee convened
the present plenary meeting for the purport of comprehensively and deeply
analyzing and assessing the subjective and objective obstacles and difficulties
faced in the course of the great and dynamic advance of our revolution and of
taking a decisive measure for further promoting the socialist construction.
Kim Jong Un advanced the revolutionary line on
launching an offensive for frontal breakthrough as required by the present
situation and the developing revolution.
Noting that our Juche-based might with
self-sufficiency and self-reliance as the motive power has been further
strengthened in the tense struggle for carrying out the decision of the 4th
Plenary Meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the WPK, he referred to the
fact that our state and people greatly demonstrated the strong spirit and
tremendous potentiality while proudly advancing and leaping in the difficult situation
true to the appeal of the Party to open up a great period of surge in the
socialist construction under the uplifted banner of self-reliance.
He said that the challenges faced by us for the
past several months were harsh and dangerous, which others would not withstand
even a single day but give up, but no difficulties can ever stop or delay the
rush of our people advancing as an integral whole, undaunted by whatever
hardships.
He added that great successes have ceaselessly been
made in bolstering up the strength of the state and in increasing defence
capabilities.
He noted that the huge and complicated work of
developing the ultra-modern weapon system possessed only by the countries with
advanced defence science and technology presupposed our own innovative solution
in terms of the scientific and technical aspect without anyone's help, and all
the research tasks were perfectly carried out by the driving force, i.e. our
reliable scientists, designers and workers in the field of the munitions
industry.
This means a great victory, and our possession of
promising strategic weapon system planned by the Party one by one serves as a
great event in developing the armed forces of the Republic and defending and
guaranteeing our sovereignty and right to existence, he noted.
He stressed that such a leap in developing the
ultra-modern national defence science would make our great military and
technical power irreversible, greatly promote the increase of our great
national power, raise the power of putting the political situation around us
under control and give the enemies the blow of big uneasiness and horror.
In the future, the more the U.S. stalls for time
and hesitates in the settlement of the DPRK-U.S. relations, the more helpless
it will find itself before the might of the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea getting stronger beyond prediction and the deeper it will fall into an
impasse, he noted.
He referred to a series of successes achieved in
the economic construction.
Analyzing the trend of the prevailing present
situation, he said the U.S. real intention is to seek its own political and
diplomatic interests while wasting time away under the signboard of dialogue
and negotiations and at the same time keep sanctions upon the latter so as to
weaken the latter. He stressed that we further hardened our resolution never to
barter the security and dignity of the state and the safety of its future for
anything else.
He said that the stalemate between the DPRK and the
U.S. can not but assume protracted nature as the U.S. is raising demands
contrary to the fundamental interests of our state and is adopting brigandish
attitude. He added that recently the U.S. is talking about continued dialogue while
peddling the issue of the resumption of the dialogue here and there but this is
just aimed to pass without trouble the year-end time-limit set by us and stall
for the time for evading a lethal attack as it now finds itself in a tight
corner, not out of the intention to withdraw the hostile policy toward the DPRK
and solve issues through improved relations. On the other hand, the U.S. has
openly revealed its provocative political, military and economic maneuvers to
completely strangle and stifle the DPRK. This is the double-dealing behavior of
the brigandish U.S., he added.
He said that we will never allow the impudent U.S.
to abuse the DPRK-U.S. dialogue for meeting its sordid aim but will shift to a
shocking actual action to make it pay for the pains sustained by our people so
far and for the development so far restrained.
He continued:
It is true that we urgently need external
environment favorable for the economic construction but we can never sell our
dignity which we have so far defended as valuable as our own life, in hope for
brilliant transformation.
The DPRK-U.S. stand-off which has lasted century
after century has now been compressed to clear stand-off between self-reliance
and sanctions.
If there were not the nuclear issue, the U.S. would
find fault with us under other issue, and the U.S. military and political
threats would not end.
The present situation warning of long confrontation
with the U.S. urgently requires us to make it a fait accompli that we have to
live under the sanctions by the hostile forces in the future, too, and to
strengthen the internal power from all aspects.
He said there are not a few problems that need to
be set right in state management, economy and other fields from the viewpoint
of strengthening our might.
He analyzed the present situation including state
management and economic performance which are insufficient for pulling and
spurring the great cause of self-reliance and self-development and which fail
to bring about a bold renovation but stay stagnant.
The victory of the revolution is inevitable but it
is not achieved without any difficulties and hardships, he said, and continues:
If we do not put spur to the struggle for
bolstering the power for self-development while waiting for the lift of
sanctions, the enemies' reactionary offensive will get fiercer to check our
advance.
The more we bolster our own strength and create
valuable wealth on the strength of self-reliance and self-sufficiency, the
deeper the enemies will be driven into greater agony and the earlier the day of
the victory of socialism will come.
All the Party organizations and officials have to
shoulder upon themselves the important duties entrusted to them by the times
and turn out in the offensive for frontal breakthrough to foil the enemies'
sanctions and blockade by dint of self-reliance.
"Let Us Break through Head-on All the Barriers
to Our Advance!" - this is the fighting slogan the entire Party and all
the people should put up today.
The key front in the offensive for frontal
breakthrough today is economic front, he said, setting forth it as an immediate
task for the economic field at present to rearrange the economic foundation of
the country and fully tap all the possible production potential and to fully
meet the demand needed for the economic development and people's life.
He advanced important tasks for putting in order
the economic work system and order.
He set forth the fundamental ways for strengthening
the Cabinet responsibility system, Cabinet center system as the Cabinet is the
nucleus of the state economic work system.
He advanced crucial issues in finding out the
correct way for improving the planning to meet the actual requirements, keeping
the overall balance between production and supply and decisively raising the
confidence of the national economic plan.
Emphasizing that the Cabinet work is precisely the
work of the Party Central Committee and the execution of the decision of the
Party Central Committee is the Cabinet work, he made an anatomical analysis of
the serious issues that need urgent solution in strengthening the state unified
guidance and management of the economic work after the plenary meeting.
After setting forth the innovative measures and
detailed plans for adjusting the overall state machinery to spur the economic
development and to enhance the role of officials, he specified realistic ways
for pushing forward the improvement of economic management based on them.
He specified the orientation of solving crucial
issues for economic growth which should be pushed forward by the whole Party
and state.
He set forth tasks faced by the major industrial
sectors of the national economy.
He made the overall analysis of the evil practices
and stagnation found in metal, chemical, power, coal, machine and building
materials industrial fields, railway transport and light industrial field, and
set forth one by one scientific and substantial measures to bring about a giant
stride forward in the economic work.
He said that we have to correctly set up index-wise
plans of ten long-term goals through scientific calculation to develop the
country's economy on a stable and long-term basis and consolidate one by one
the economic foundation of the country through the struggle to carry them out.
He stressed the need to drastically increase the
agricultural production.
He called for improving science, education and
public health.
The inexhaustible strategic asset which we should
rely on today is science and technology, he said, stressing that science and
technology should become the light that brightens the way ahead and pioneer the
development at a time like now when there are manifold hardships in the
economic work.
He set forth the tasks and ways for fundamentally
improving the education of the country as required by the era of the revolution
in education.
Kim Jong Un set forth the important matters arising
in the work for our socialist public health system, best in the world, provided
by President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il to preserve its original
character and intensify the material and technological foundation of public
health and train all the medical workers as loyal health workers of the WPK
with great human love and high medical qualifications.
He called for dynamically conducting the movement
for increased production, ensuring economy and raising quality and protecting
ecological environment and taking thorough-going measures for preventing
natural disasters.
He called for guaranteeing the offensive for
frontal breakthrough politically, diplomatically and militarily.
There have to be powerful political, diplomatic and
military guarantee for sure victory in the offensive for frontal breakthrough
to brave unprecedented harsh challenge and difficulties, he said, and advanced
the policy for strengthening the diplomatic front under the prevailing
situation.
With comprehensive and deep analysis of the stern
situation created on the Korean peninsula and complicated structure of the
current international relations, he set forth important tasks of taking
offensive measures to reliably ensure the sovereignty and security of our
state.
He said that the U.S. labeled our state as its
enemy, "axis of evil" and "target of its preemptive nuclear
strike" and applied the most brutal and inhuman sanctions against and
posed the persistent nuclear threat to the latter over the past seven decades,
and the current situation on the Korean peninsula is getting more dangerous and
reaching serious phase, owing to the former's hostile policy towards the
latter.
In the past two years alone when the DPRK took
preemptive and crucial measures of halting its nuclear test and ICBM test-fire
and shutting down the nuclear-test ground for building confidence between the
DPRK and the U.S., the U.S., far from responding to the former with appropriate
measures, conducted tens of big and small joint military drills which its
president personally promised to stop and threatened the former militarily
through the shipment of ultra-modern warfare equipment into south Korea, he
said. The U.S. also took more than ten independent sanctions measures only to
show before the world once again that it remained unchanged in its ambition to
stifle the former, he said.
He stressed that under such condition, there is no
ground for us to get unilaterally bound to the commitment any longer, the commitment
to which there is no opposite party, and this is chilling our efforts for
worldwide nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
Saying that the prevailing situation goes to prove
that the road of defending ourselves by bolstering up our power sufficiently
enough to keep the hostile forces at bay so that they would not dare provoke
our sovereignty and security as already clarified by us is the one to be
covered by us without any halt and hesitation, he clarified the policy of the
WPK towards the U.S.
Noting that it is the WPK's firm goal of building
national defence to possess the matchless military muscle and steadily bolster
it, he stressed that it is the core design in building defence power and firm
will of the WPK to make any force dare not to use its armed force against us.
Saying that we should more actively push forward
the project for developing strategic weapons, he confirmed that the world will
witness a new strategic weapon to be possessed by the DPRK in the near future,
declaring that we cannot give up the security of our future just for the
visible economic results and happiness and comfort in reality now that hostile
acts and nuclear threat against us are increasing and nothing has changed
between the days when we maintained the line of simultaneously pushing forward
the economic construction and the building of nuclear force and now when we
struggle to direct our efforts to the economic construction owing to the U.S.
gangster-like acts.
He solemnly declared that there is no need to
hesitate with any expectation of the U.S. lift of sanctions even now that we
had close look into the real intention of the U.S., adding if the U.S. persists
in its hostile policy towards the DPRK, there will never be the
denuclearization on the Korean peninsula and the DPRK will steadily develop
necessary and prerequisite strategic weapons for the security of the state
until the U.S. rolls back its hostile policy towards the DPRK and lasting and
durable peace-keeping mechanism is built.
He said that we will reliably put on constant alert
the powerful nuclear deterrent capable of containing the nuclear threats from
the U.S. and guaranteeing our long-term security, noting that the scope and
depth of bolstering our deterrent will be properly coordinated depending on the
U.S. future attitude to the DPRK.
He noted that our development of absolute weapons
possessed by big powers is the great success but the big contingent of
promising talents of science and technology in this course is more valuable
result dear to the WPK.
He said that the field of scientific researches for
national defence and the field of munitions industry should implement the WPK's
line of building national defence with loyalty and perfectly under the uplifted
slogan of Higher and Faster in order to attain the already-set stage goals
while maintaining the principle of self-reliance and Juche from A to Z.
He called on the officials and scientists in the
field of munitions industry to strive hard for the sacred activities for
bolstering up national defence capabilities in every way with invariable
loyalty to the Party and revolution in the spirit and mettle with which they
developed the nuclear war deterrent through three-year arduous struggle.
He tabled the issues of conducting an intensive
party-wide, nationwide and society-wide struggle against anti-socialist and
non-socialist deeds and strengthening the work of the working people's
organizations and tightening the moral discipline throughout society.
He mentioned about the need to strengthen the
Party, the General Staff of the revolution, and markedly raise its leadership
role.
He proposed principled matters and practical
measures for further strengthening the Party organizationally and ideologically
and heightening the role of cadres as required by the era and the developing
revolution.
Saying that our revolution is dynamically advancing
but the hostile forces' challenge to it gets more persistent, and current
difficulties are never easy to deal with, he stressed that the WPK decided to
wage another arduous and prolonged struggle in order to win the final victory
of the revolution and make our great people lead a good life.
Saying that whether we will emerge victorious or
not at the crossroads of the destiny of socialism only depends on the united
might of the Party and its guiding role, he stressed that the WPK will firmly
keep standing to steadily deal serious strikes at the U.S. and its followers
and always share joy and sorrow with our people.
Saying that our people learned a way of
self-sustenance, way of defeating enemy and overcoming difficulties and way of
defending their dignity and right in the prolonged and harsh environment
unknown by history, he clarified that it is our firm revolutionary faith to
defend the country's dignity and defeat imperialism through self-prosperity
even though we tighten our belts.
Confirming that if we continue to make a dynamic
struggle with the indomitable revolutionary faith, ardent patriotism and
indefatigable struggle spirit, we will overcome every difficulty and greet the
day of fresh victory when the song "We Are the Happiest in the World"
becomes the real life of the whole people, he ardently appealed to all to break
through head-on the grave difficulty faced in the revolution, and dynamically
open a road of advance of victory to become a pioneer and standard-bearer in
the current glorious struggle for realizing the aspiration and ideal of
building a powerful socialist country.
Then, written speeches on the first agenda were
presented at the plenary meeting.
The speakers fully supported and approved of the
WPK Chairman's outstanding idea and strategy of making frontal breakthrough and
the programme for their materialization that call for accomplishing earlier the
great cause of self-prosperity despite all challenges and difficulties in the
way of advance in the socialist construction.
They made solemn pledges before the plenary meeting
to uphold with proud practices the idea and intention of frontal breakthrough
set forth by the Party Central Committee.
The plenary meeting had an in-depth and positive
study and discussion of a draft resolution on the first agenda and adopted it
with unanimous approval.
The resolution carries the following decisions:
First, we will rearrange the economic foundation of
the country and enlist all possible production potentiality to fully meet the
demand for economic development and people's living.
Second, we will attach importance to science and
technology and improve the education and healthcare representing the image of
the socialist system.
Third, we will protect the ecological environment
and set up the national crisis control system against natural disasters.
Fourth, we will guarantee the victory in the
offensive for frontal breakthrough through powerful political, diplomatic and
military offensive.
Fifth, we will intensify the struggle against
anti-socialist and non-socialist deeds and tighten moral discipline, and the
working people's organizations will scrupulously carry out the ideological
education.
Sixth, we will strengthen the Party, the General
Staff of the revolution, and radically enhance its leadership role.
Seventh, officials, leading members of the
revolution, will make strenuous efforts to fulfill their responsibility and
duty before the Party, the revolution and the people in the offensive for
frontal breakthrough to overcome difficulties in the advance of the socialist
construction.
Eighth, Party organizations and political organs at
all levels will meticulously conduct the organizational and political work to
implement the resolution, and relevant organs like the Presidium of the Supreme
People's Assembly and the Cabinet take practical measures for thoroughly
carrying out the tasks set forth in the resolution.
Concluding the plenary meeting, Kim Jong Un
mentioned the significance and importance of the plenary meeting in making
frontal breakthrough under the prevailing situation and bringing about a new
surge in our revolution.
He clarified that the basic idea, the basic spirit
of the 5th Plenary Meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the WPK is to
conduct the offensive for frontal breakthrough, not to wait for the situation
to turn better.
In other words, we should never dream that the U.S.
and the hostile forces would leave us alone to live in peace, but we should make
frontal breakthrough with the might of self-reliance to tide over the
difficulties lying in the way of advancing the socialist construction, he said.
He said that we should not look for the way of
getting ourselves adapted to the objective elements to be controlled by them in
the current struggle, but should make a frontal breakthrough to put the
objective elements under our control.
