On Report Made by
Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un at 8th Congress of WPK
Pyongyang, January 9
(KCNA) -- A report was made on the work of the 7th Central Committee of the
Party from Jan. 5 to Jan. 7, Juche 110 (2021) at the 8th Congress of the
Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), an important political event in the development
of our Party and revolution.
Kim Jong Un, chairman
of the WPK, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea (DPRK) and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK,
made the report on the work of the Central Committee of the Party.
Supreme Leader of our
Party, state and armed forces Kim Jong Un in his 9-hour report comprehensively
and deeply analyzed and reviewed the work of the 7th Central Committee of the
Party, laid down a fresh struggle line and strategic and tactical policies for
making a radical advance in the socialist construction and set forth important
tasks for advancing the cause of national reunification and external relations
and developing the Party work.
The report on the work
of the Central Committee of the Party is a great practical programme as it
admits subjective and objective factors checking our advance and serious
mistakes under the prevailing internal and external situation and indicates
clear struggle tasks and ways for innovating overall work of the Party and the
state and switching the socialist cause to the next stage of victory.
The gist of the report
which clearly indicates the path of the Korean revolution at the present stage
is that it is necessary to strengthen our own power and our own driving force
in every way and make a clear advance by boldly overcoming the existing threats
and challenges and making a new leap forward in the construction of our
own-style socialism.
The report which
comprehensively deals with our Party's outstanding ideology and theory serves
as a militant banner to be adhered to in the course of the struggle of new
stage for the prosperity and development of our state and happiness of the
people, and a revolutionary document which firmly links today and tomorrow with
the historic roots of the cause of Juche.
It is the greatest
honor for our Party and people and great encouragement for them to receive the
highly important guidelines for making an over-all development of our own-style
socialism in the path of indomitably and vigorously carrying on arduous
struggle with firm belief in the justness of their cause and its victory.
The report on the work
of the 7th Central Committee of the WPK consists of the following systems:
Achievements made in
the period under review
For an epoch-making
advance in socialist construction
For the independent
reunification of the country and development of external relations
For the development of
the Party work
Kim Jong Un in a
preface of his report generally mentioned the guidance provided by the Central
Committee of the Party during the period under review for fulfilling its heavy
yet honorable mission given at the 7th Congress of the WPK.
The Central Committee
of the Party took timely measures for implementing the decisions made at the 7th
Congress of the Party by regularly holding major Party meetings including the
plenary meeting of the Party and positively aroused the entire Party, the whole
state and all the people to their implementation and thus made great
achievements.
The report noted that
serious mistakes were made in the work of several fields including the economic
work under the grave internal and external situations but those were deviations
made in the stage of new development and the course of the advance of the
socialist cause and were matters which can surely be settled by our wisdom and
efforts.
1.
Achievements made in the period under review
Kim Jong Un in the
first system of his report reviewed with pride the proud achievements made by
our Party and people during the period under review.
The WPK has organized
and waged indomitable offensive struggle for turning every obstacle into great
victory for the past five years since the 7th Congress of the Party, and the
victory won in the course can be characterized by that it opened up the era of
fresh development and our state-first principle.
As mentioned in the
report, the era of the our state-first principle is a new era of
self-dependence and prosperity of our Republic that was born as a result of the
do-or-die struggle for exalting the dignity and position of the state, it being
a result of the WPK making all possible efforts for the people and determinedly
building up its own force, boldly facing all kinds of challenges of history.
The report firstly
reviewed the successes achieved in embodying the politics based on the
people-first doctrine in the period under review.
The biggest success
achieved in the past five years of struggle for implementing the decisions made
at the 7th Party Congress is that the politico-ideological strength, the first
motive force of our revolution, has radically been augmented.
During the period under
review the Party Central Committee has made remarkable successes in
consolidating the single-minded unity of the Party and the people as firm as a rock
and building up the driving force of the socialist cause and enhancing its role
by putting forward the politics based on the people-first doctrine as a
fundamental issue and a main political mode decisive of the survival or ruin of
the Party and the victory or failure of socialism and by vigorously and
consistently unfolding it.
"Everything for
the people and everything by relying on them!", this was a core of
leadership idea to which the Party Central Committee has held fast without an
inch of deflection and slightest concession during the period under review.
Through intensive
endeavors for thoroughly making the people-first doctrine run through the Party
and state activities, the Party Central Committee uninterruptedly carried out
the struggle for eliminating all kinds of unpopular factors laying obstacles in
realizing it.
The report analyzed the
scrupulous political offensive waged by the Party Central Committee to secure
the people-first doctrine as a firm political climate of the state and as the traits
of our Party and the state.
What was of special
significance in the work of the Party Central Committee for consolidating the
politico-ideological position was that it carried out further intensively the
education in the revolutionary traditions as required by the period of giving
succession to and developing the revolutionary cause of Juche.
It is one of major
successes achieved in the period under review that the Party Central Committee
established an all-Party and all-society habit of overcoming difficulties and
opening up the way of advance in the spirit displayed by the anti-Japanese
guerrillas, indomitable fighting spirit based on the great revolutionary
traditions created in Mt Paektu after firmly arming all the members of society
with them, and thereby ensured the noble fighting spirit and disposition of the
Korean revolutionaries were firmly inherited.
The Party Central
Committee staged timely and dynamic political activities for bringing the Party
members and other people to the knowledge of the demands of the situation,
Party's intention and revolutionary tasks, and powerfully arousing them to the
vigorous struggle.
The power of the
politics based on the people-first doctrine, that of finding the motive force
of the development of the revolution in the hearts of the people and arousing
them to action was vividly expressed in enlisting to the maximum the spiritual
strength and creativity of the people to deal with the difficulties and the
change of the situation.
The report referred to
the fact that the devoted service for the people thoroughly ran through all the
work of the Party and the state.
When establishing and
putting into practice its line and policies, the Party consistently maintained
the principle of carrying out all the production and construction while
respecting the urgent requirements of people in their living and their desire
and putting their convenience in the first place and with the people's
reflection and assessment as a yardstick. It also exerted special efforts to
the work of making all the Party organizations and national institutions highly
display the spirit of devoting themselves to the people.
It became an important
part of politics based on the people-first doctrine that the Party Central
Committee made the People's Army discharge its mission and duty as the driving
force of the national defence and a genuine army of the people which firmly
protects the country and the people from not only military threats but also
sudden nonmilitary threats.
The Party Central
Committee has achieved precious successes in uniting the society to be a large
family by making sure that all the party organizations sincerely help those
with ordeals and hardship in their life and lead them to a worthwhile life.
Thanks to the politics
of the WPK based on the people-first principle full of trust, devotion, reward
and obligation, the political and ideological position of our revolution has
been firmly consolidated, tremendous power that can break through any obstacles
and challenges accumulated and the superiority and vitality of Korean-style
socialism centered on the popular masses fully displayed.
The report stressed
that it is the valuable philosophy proved once again in the period under review
that it is possible to tackle any unfavorable subjective and objective factors
and easily carry out the huge tasks for the socialist construction despite any
stern situation, manifold trials and latent shortcomings if the politics based
on the people-first principle is thoroughly pursued.
The Supreme Leader reviewed
the achievements made by our Party and people in the struggle for boosting our
own power in the period under review.
The struggle of our
Party and the people for implementing the decisions made at the 7th Congress of
the Party was a positive offensive for paving a new avenue for the socialist
construction by breaking through manifold difficulties, holding fast to
self-reliance as the lifeline of self-existence and self-development and
powerful engine for development.
The spirit of
self-reliance and the policies for its embodiment stressed at the 7th Congress
of the Party were detailed and put into practice at Party plenary meetings. In
the course of this, the strategy of our Party for self-reliance has been
developed into the offensive one of making the sordid sanctions of the hostile
forces a golden opportunity for strengthening our self-development capability
and internal motive force and into a political line to be constantly preserved
in the socialist construction.
Through the all-people
struggle for hastening the socialist construction by enhancing the
self-development capability, self-reliance has developed into the national
customs of Juche Korea and the one and only fighting spirit of the Korean
revolution.
Although the economic
construction failed to reach the attainment of the expected strategic goals, a
precious foundation for making constant economic development with recourse to
our own efforts has been provided, the report said, adding: The greatest of
such successes is that the foundation of the self-supporting national economy,
the socialist economy, which is the material basis of the existence and
lifeline of the Korean-style socialism, has been maintained and its arteries
have been preserved.
The Party Central
Committee piled up new potentials for readjusting and developing the overall
economy by taking revolutionary measures for strengthening the united guidance
and strategic management of the state over the economic work and making sure
that the socialist principle is thoroughly observed in the economic field.
The Party gave
importance to the construction work as an important political work for building
up overall national power and leading the people to the socialist civilization
and radically changed the appearance of the country by vigorously accelerating
the construction work in the period under review.
The agricultural field
waged a hot drive for scientific farming and high yield despite persistent and
severe drought, flood and all kinds of shortages and thus brought about an
unprecedented increase in grain production.
A breakthrough has been
made to put metal industry and chemical industry, the twin pillars for
self-supporting economy, on a Juche and self-supporting basis and a series of
achievements registered in the technical preparations and building of
foundations for developing the fields of electricity, coal, machine and railway
transport and information and communications.
Major factories and
enterprises in the field of light industry have been remodeled to secure
potential for radically improving the quality and production of consumer goods
and a foundation for boosting production systematically laid in the fishery.
Amid the nationwide and
all-people campaign for afforestation, forests of over a million hectares have
been newly created and the forces and means for afforestation and
water-conservancy, land and environment protection and urban management
prepared.
In the field of science
and technology the tasks for projects of national importance have been carried
out and other valuable sci-tech successes and inventions made. In the field of
education the campaign for reforming the contents and methods of education and
improving its conditions and environment has been brisk.
The material and
technical foundation in the field of public health has been further
strengthened and a well-regulated working system and foundation has been laid
in the hygienic and anti-epidemic field through the preemptive and hard-hitting
emergency anti-epidemic campaign for checking the inroads of worldwide
pandemic.
Works for putting
sports on a scientific basis and raising a hot wind of sports have been brisk
and the work for establishing a national system for disaster prevention and
crisis control has been accelerated to make it possible to flexibly cope with
all sorts of disasters including natural disasters.
The successes made by
our own efforts during the past five years of struggle for constantly
augmenting our own strength in the face of lingering harsh sanctions and
blockade and severe disasters are fruitions of our strenuous efforts and
development capacity, which are scores of times greater than any economic
construction successes in normal time. Thanks to the enormous power of
self-development accumulated in the face of difficulties, the great advance of
our Party and people toward the eminence of a powerful socialist nation will be
more vigorously accelerated in greater scope and depth.
The Supreme Leader in
his report referred to the successes made in the struggle for consolidating the
state's nuclear war deterrent and the capabilities for national self-defence.
To accomplish the great
cause of building the state nuclear force was a strategic and predominant goal
to be primarily attained by our Party and people without fail in the course of
building an ideal powerful socialist state.
The peculiarities of
the Korean revolution, which has to be carried out in centuries-old direct
confrontation with the aggressor forces of the U.S., the world's first user of
nukes and war chieftain which divided the Korean territory and nation, and the
geopolitical features of our state called for pushing ahead with the
already-started building of the nuclear force without interruption for the
welfare of the people, destiny of the revolution, existence and independent
development of the state.
The Party Central
Committee headed by the Supreme Leader planned a breakthrough operation for
carrying out the great cause of building the nuclear force, inspired the entire
party and all people to implementation of the line of simultaneously pushing
forward the two fronts and organized and launched an intensive ideological
campaign for preparing the national defence scientists and nuclear scientists
as genuine revolutionaries, patriots and members of death-defying corps.
The energetic and
outstanding guidance and activities conducted by the Party Central Committee to
safeguard the destiny of the country and the nation open up a history of
miracles in which a strategic weapon of the WPK's style was born.
The report detailed the
historical course of steering a great revolutionary turn for rounding off
completely new nuclear capabilities in order to attain the goals of modernizing
the nuclear force.
Under the direct
guidance of the Party Central Committee, medium-range and intercontinental
ballistic rockets of "Hwasong Rocket" series and submarine-based and
ground-based ballistic rockets of "Pukguksong" series were produced
in our own style to meet their peculiar operational missions. This gave a
clearer description of the status of our state as a nuclear weapons state and
enabled it to cement its strong and reliable strategic deterrent for coping
with any threat by establishing a perfect nuclear shield.
In the period under
review the already accumulated nuclear technology underwent a rapid development
to minimize and standardize nuclear weapons and make them tactical ones and
complete the development of a super-large hydrogen bomb. By succeeding in the
test-fire of the ICBM "Hwasong-15" on November 29, 2017, the Party
Central Committee declared with pride to the world the accomplishment of the
historic cause of building a state nuclear force and the cause of building a
rocket power.
The accomplishment of
the great cause of building a state nuclear force, which is impossible even in
20 to 30 years in terms of existing formula, was witnessed four years after the
line of simultaneously pushing forward the economic construction and the
building of a nuclear force was set forth and one year after the 7th Congress
of the Party. This is a miracle unprecedented in history and the exploit of
greatest significance in the history of the Korean nation the 7th Central
Committee performed for the Party and the revolution, the country and its
people and posterity.
The Party Central
Committee achieved new great victories by vigorously leading the struggle for
rapidly developing the nuclear force even after the great historic November
event in 2017.
Recalling that the
Party Central Committee decided to develop a global strike rocket with more
powerful warheads and an improved warhead control system and carried out this
historic task by relying on the patriotism and loyalty of the national defence
scientists, the report affirmed that the new type gigantic rocket on a 11-axis
self-propelled launcher displayed during the military parade marking the 75th
founding anniversary of the Party fully demonstrated the strike capability of
our ultra-modern nuclear force.
The accomplishment of
the great cause of building a state nuclear force and its continued development
is a victory of the organizing ability and leadership of the Party Central
Committee headed by the Supreme Leader and a great victory of the national
defence scientists and all Koreans who waged a death-defying struggle with an
indomitable faith in independence and strong spirit.
The report reviewed the
fact that new cutting-edge weapon systems were developed in the field of
national defence science one after another to cope with the enemy's desperate
arms buildup, thus making our state's superiority in military technology an
irreversible one and putting its war deterrent and capability for fighting a
war on the highest level.
The super-large MLRS, a
super-power attack weapon never to be seen in the world history of weapons, was
developed in the field of national defence science, which was followed by the
development of ultra-modern tactical nuclear weapons including new type
tactical rockets and intermediate-range cruise missiles with the most powerful
warheads in the world. This enabled us to seize a creditable edge in military
technology.
National defence
scientists and workers in munitions industry properly fixed the orientation of
developing main tank of our style following the world's development trends,
remodeled production processes and began to enter a new phase of its
development. They also achieved such successes as developing world-class
anti-air rocket complex, self-propelled gun howitzer and anti-armor weapons.
The report also noted
that in the period under review the field of national defense scientific
research has conducted the research for perfecting the guidance technology for
multi-warhead rocket at the final stage, finished the research into development
of warheads of different combat missions including the hypersonic gliding
flight warheads for new type ballistic rockets and is making preparations for
their test and production.
It was made public with
pride that the standard of the goal in the modernization of medium-sized
submarine was set correctly and it was remodeled experimentally to open up a
bright prospect for conspicuously enhancing the existing subsurface operational
capabilities of our naval forces, that the study of the designing of new
nuclear-powered submarine was in the stage of final examination after its
completion and the designing of diverse electronic weapons, unmanned striking
equipment, means of reconnaissance and detection and military reconnaissance
satellite were completed, and that other achievements were made in the national
defence researches of gigantic significance in developing the People's Army
into a powerful one equipped with the strongest military muscle in the world.
The report evaluated
that the bold leaping development made in the national defence science and
munitions industry made sure that state defence capabilities ranked among those
of the greatest in the world, and it was, at the same time, of great
significance in realizing the strategic plan of the Party Central Committee to
develop the overall Korean revolution.
The report said that
the great advance was made in the work of turning the People's Army into the
elite forces in the period under review.
Under the leadership of
the Party, the People's Army has performed feats and miracles on two fronts of
national defence and socialist construction to faithfully accomplish its
revolutionary duty, and reliably defended the land, the air and the seas of the
country and put the provocative threats by the enemies under definite control
and ensured peaceful environment for socialist construction through impregnable
guard and with full combat posture in the last five years of the most acute and
stern trials.
As the Party Central
Committee successfully carried out the great cause of building a state nuclear
force and brought about a great change in the strengthening of the state
defence capabilities in the period under review, it upraised the country to the
position of a world nuclear power and military power in both name and reality
and put an end to the era in which big countries tended to make bargain with the
interests of our state and nation.
The most significant
and proud victory achieved by the 7th Central Committee headed by the Supreme
Leader in implementing the decisions of the Party Congress is that it made sure
that the people and posterity of the DPRK would create prosperity and happiness
to the full in the dignified strong country free from terrible disaster of the
war forever.
The Supreme Leader in
his report reviewed the rapid development of the DPRK's external position in
the period under review.
After the great victory
in the line of simultaneously pushing forward the economic construction and the
building of a nuclear force, the Party Central Committee has stepped up
external activities to place the state's dignity and prestige on a high level.
In the period under
review, the external environment encircling the DPRK was severe, unprecedented
in its history since its founding, due to the desperate offensive of the U.S.
and its followers characterized by frantic maneuvers to pressurize and blockade
the DPRK.
The Party Central
Committee has resolutely rejected any attempt to hurt the supreme interests and
dignity of the country and never made even a slightest concession in the
revolutionary principle, while more firmly adhering to the independent stand despite
the worst situation, which made it clear all over the world that the
sovereignty of the DPRK can never be infringed upon and the improved relations
with it is absolutely impossible without the respect for its sovereignty.
The Party Central
Committee has created a trend towards peace and the atmosphere of dialogue,
which is accepted by the international community, by making a bold switchover
in its line and pursuing offensive strategy, and organized and led adroit
external activities to elevate the status of the DPRK in the international
arena.
Our Party has
prioritized the development of the long-standing and special DPRK-China
relations to develop the friendly relations with China as required by the new
century and open a new chapter in the DPRK-China friendly relationship with
socialism as its core, the report said.
The Party Central
Committee has strengthened the strategic communication, promoted mutual
understanding and deepened comradely trust between the two parties and thus
provided a firm guarantee for fresh development of the DPRK-China relations
through five rounds of the DPRK-China summits, based on the demand of the times
that required giving continuity to the fraternal friendship and unity between
the two parties and two peoples of the two countries which are inseparably
bound up with each other in the struggle for common cause.
The Party Central
Committee has also provided a cornerstone for the expansion of friendly
relations between the DPRK and Russia through external activities for the
development of friendly and cooperative relations with Russia, while attaching
importance to the fresh development of the traditional DPRK-Russia relations.
Through the DPRK-Cuba
Pyongyang summit and the DPRK-Vietnam Hanoi summit, the Party Central Committee
developed the bilateral relations, forged and verified in the common struggle
for accomplishing the cause of socialism, into the special ones between
comrades, the strategic ones, thus rapidly strengthening the unity and
solidarity with socialist countries.
The active external
activities carried out by the Party Central Committee have given a strong
impetus to the socialist cause and demonstrated the prestige and authority of
our Party and state, which steer the new political trend of safeguarding
independence, justice and peace, all over the world.
The Party Central
Committee has brought about a dramatic change in the balance of power between
the DPRK and the U.S. during the period under review, thereby wonderfully
demonstrating the dignity and prestige of our state.
At the face-to-face
meetings of the top leaders of the two countries, the first of its kind in the
hostile relations between the two countries, the Party Central Committee
yielded with strong stand of independence the joint declaration that assures
the establishment of new DPRK-U.S. relationship.
The several rounds of
DPRK-U.S. summit talks came to be event of the greatest concern in the history
of world politics, through which the strategic position of the DPRK, which
defends its independent interests, peace and justice against a superpower, were
manifested worldwide.
During the period under
review, the Party Central Committee has exceedingly raised the strategic
position and prestige of the DPRK on the basis of the indomitable and transparent
independent spirit of our people and the great might stockpiled by the DPRK.
And this symbolizes the dignity and authority of the WPK and the position of
our great people.
Saying that the rapid
rise of the external position of the DPRK, though it is small in territory and
population, has been witnessed in the face of the encirclement by the
imperialist reactionaries, the report stressed that it is a precious fruition
of the long-running hard-fought struggle waged by our Party and people, and a
great historic miracle made by the great unity of the people who have believed
and upheld the line and policies of the Party as absolute truth and more
closely rallied around the Party despite the worsening difficulties.
2.
For Epochal Progress in Socialist Construction
It is an important task
set forth by the 8th Congress of the WPK to clearly decide on the correct
direction of struggle and tasks for continuously winning new victories in
socialist construction and to take substantial measures for it.
The Supreme Leader in
the second system of his report, analyzing and reviewing the economic and
cultural construction, building of national defence, management of the state
and the society and work of the working people's organizations in the period
under review, mainly dealt with the mistakes and lessons in those affairs. He
also set forth important tasks for making new progress and development in the
future.
He, first of all, made
a strict and detailed analysis of the current situation in the work for the
implementation of the 5-year strategy for national economic development and of
a new long-term plan.
The report strictly
reviewed the fact that the attainment of the goals for the growth of the
national economy was seriously delayed and the people's living standard failed
to be improved remarkably owing to the failure in the revolutionary improvement
of the economic work under lingering severe external and internal situations
and in the face of unexpected challenges. It also dealt with depression in
different sectors and its causes.
Analyzing the
subjective and objective factors which affected the implementation of the
5-year strategy for national economic development, it pointed out the aftermath
of the most barbarous sanctions and blockade by the U. S. and other hostile
forces as an objective factor.
Besides, the terrible
natural disasters which hit the country every year and the protracted global
public health crisis which broke out last year were termed severe obstacles to
the economic work, it analyzed.
The report said that
due to such obstacles, state investments and supply planned to improve the
major sectors of the economy in the implementation of the 5-year strategy for
the national economic development could not be carried out properly.
The report made an analysis
and appraisal of the Party Central Committee on the reason of non-fulfillment
of the 5-year strategy for the national economic development in the period
under review, making a serious judgment that drawn is the conclusion that if
one finds the excuse of failure in objective conditions, one can do nothing and
the action and role of the driving force will be unnecessary, and it is
impossible to accelerate the revolutionary struggle and construction unless the
unfavorable external factor disappears.
The Party Central
Committee analyzed the current situation that the 5-year strategy for national
economic development had not been properly set on the basis of scientific
calculation and grounds, science and technology had not actually played their
role for propelling the economic work of the country and the work for
readjusting and reinforcing the irrational economic work system and discipline
had not been properly done.
The report referred to
the general lesson that it is impossible to boost the economy of the country
without breaking with current wrong ideological viewpoint, irresponsible
working attitude, incompetence and obsolete working manner.
Stressing the need to
take steps for successfully switching the overall work of the Party and the
state to the one for aspiring after and facilitating fresh innovation, bold
creation and steady advance and resolutely getting rid of outdated work system,
unreasonable and inefficient way of work and obstacles disturbing our advance,
the report noted that only when doing so, it is possible to turn our struggle
for socialist construction, including the struggle for attaining the future
long-term goals of the national economy, into the great revolutionary work
bringing substantial well-being to the people.
It clarified the
strategy for the struggle in the economic field in the future five years.
It stressed that our
Party's economic strategy at the present stage is the one for readjustment and
reinforcement and it aims at putting our economy on a normal track, which means
to smoothly operate the economy without being influenced by any external
factors, by restoring and readjusting the organic relations between the
economic work system and sectors and pushing ahead with the work for cementing
the self-supporting foundations.
The general orientation
of the 5-year plan for national economic development is to establish firm
foundation for activating the overall national economy and improving the
people's standard of living by concentrating efforts on the main links of
economic development.
The major task of the
new 5-year plan was set up as to focus investment with the metal industry and
chemical industry as key links so as to normalize the production in all sectors
of national economy, and as to consolidate the material and technical
foundations of the agricultural field and supply enough raw and other materials
to the field of light industry so as to increase the production of consumer
goods.
The report brought the
new five-year plan up for discussion which had it as its goal to advance toward
the steady economic growth and vivid improvement of the people's standard of
living on the basis of the present situation and potentiality of the national
economy.
The new 5-year plan
mainly presupposes that the Cabinet, as the economic headquarters of the
country, properly enforce the Cabinet-responsibility system and
Cabinet-centered system for economic work, vigorously accelerate the work of
strengthening the essential lifeline and integrity of the country's economy,
definitely improve the economic management, actively promote the normalization
of production, reconstruction and modernization and local provision of raw and
other materials by dint of science and technology and orientate the external
economic activities toward the reinforcement of foundation and potentiality of
the self-supporting economy.
And the new plan
reflected the demand for perfecting the self-supporting structure of the
state's economy, lowering the proportion of dependence on import and
stabilizing the people's living by taking the actual possibilities into
consideration.
The main seed and theme
of the plan are, as always, self-reliance and self-sufficiency.
From the requirements
of our developing revolution and from urgent requirements of the socialist
construction, self-reliance during the period of new long-term plan should
develop into nationwide, planned and scientific self-reliance.
Supreme Leader Kim Jong
Un in his report referred in detail to the present condition of the major
economic sectors, and the issues of their readjustment and development.
The report presented
the situation of the key industrial field which forms the lifeline of the
national economy and which must be propped up on a priority basis for the
overall economic development and the improvement of people's standard of
living, and ways of their readjustment and development.
It was stressed to
perfect the Juche iron production system technologically and expand capacity to
radically increase the production of iron and steel in the metal industrial
field.
It was noted that in
order to attain the goal of production of iron and steel mentioned in the new
five-year plan, scientific and technological problems must be solved to equip
the existing production processes with advanced technology in major iron works
and steel plants and expand production capacity by building new energy-saving
iron blast furnaces, to invigorate the production of iron ore and to use brown
coal in the northern areas for the production of pig iron.
The report also
referred to the direction of the development of chemical industry, core
industry of the country which is like the lifeline for the construction of
self-supporting economy and the improvement of people's standard of living.
The main task of the
field of the chemical industry in the new five-year plan period is to give
precedence to building our own force of technicians, step up the improvement of
structure of the country's chemical industry and drastically increase the
production of chemical goods necessary for the economic construction and
improvement of people's standard of living.
The field of chemical
industry has to make sure that the whole process of the struggle for founding
Juche-based chemical industry becomes the process of holding a firm grasp on
the eminence of the up-to-date technology and push forward the work of shifting
the structure of the country's chemical industry into the Juche-based industry
relying on our own raw materials.
The report set it as a
precondition for stepping up the economic construction and enhancing the
standard of people's living to increase the generation of electricity, key
power of the self-supporting economy.
The major task facing
the field of electric power industry during the new five-year plan period is to
readjust and reinforce the overall production foundation and expand it on a
long-term basis while waging increased production drive for meeting the
immediate demand for electricity so as to reliably guarantee the stable
development of the national economy and good material and cultured living of
people.
The report mentioned
the plans for concentrating the state efforts on the construction of tidal
power stations under long-term and medium-term strategies, and launching in
real earnest the founding of atomic industry to cope with long-range demands
and subjective and objective changes in the future.
It put an emphasis on
important issues for developing coal industry, an outpost for the development
of self-supporting economy.
Referred to were the
issue of boldly unfolding and powerfully propelling the work of intensively
supplying equipment, materials, labor and funds to the coal industrial field,
the issue of securing more coal pits by giving precedence to prospecting and
tunneling in the coal industrial field, the issue of putting efforts into the
development of soft coal industry, the issue of pushing forward the work of
improving the working and living conditions of coal miners as a priority task
for increased coal production and the issue of taking measures for the
effective use of coal.
The report defined the
machine industry as the important industry sector to lead and haul the overall
economic sectors, and set forth the immediate orientation of development after
probing the present situation facing the machine industry of the country and
its cause.
The basic task facing
the machine industry sector during the period of new five-year plan is to make
the machine industry of the country a basically solid industry and develop it
into a development-and-creation-oriented industry.
The machine industry
sector should positively develop and produce modern and efficient machine
products including machine tool, rolling stocks, building machine, electric
machine, mining machine and hydraulic machine.
The report stressed the
need to attach importance to the mining industry and shore it up for the sake
of the normal development of the national economy.
The basic task of the
mining industry sector is to reinforce and expand the production foundation and
to meet the needs of national economy for nonferrous metal and non-metal
minerals in the main during the new five-year plan period.
To this end, it is
necessary to realistically promote the work of strengthening the force in the
geological prospecting sector and effectively developing and using the underground
natural resources of the country in a unified way, and to expand the production
capacity of the mines, smelteries and factories in the mining industry sector.
The report underlined
the need for the forestry sector to strengthen its own material and
technological foundation and satisfactorily meet the need for timber of the
national economy while keeping the balance of the timber production and
afforestation.
The orientation of
development of the sectors of the key industry mentioned in the report
indicated the scientific and innovative way out to powerfully pull the overall
economic construction by further strengthening the potential and might of the
self-supporting economy, and it also provided a firm policy guarantee to
promote the sustained development of economy in any condition and environment.
The report referred to
the present situation in the field of transport and the tasks for bringing
about obvious improvement.
The basic target of the
railway transport field during the new five-year plan period is to positively
promote the modernization of railways, improve transport in a revolutionary way
and thus satisfactorily meet the need for railway transport.
The field of railway
transport should provide the security of railways and make them heavy-duty,
increase the sections of standard railways and, moreover, staunchly push ahead
with the work for re-laying all railways in a planned way.
At the same time, the
projects for updating the Pyongyang Metro and modernizing its stations should
be pushed forward and the level of its management and operation be decisively
raised.
The field of land and
maritime transport faced the tasks of continuing to make large cargo ships
suited to the world trend of the development of ship-building technology, building
the comprehensive management system of automotive transport and putting the
transport command on an IT basis to ease the strain on transport.
It is necessary to
produce more public transport means including new-type subway train,
trolleybus, tramcar and passenger bus and promote the conveniences of the
people.
The report evaluated
the remarkable development and achievements made in the construction field
during the period under review, pointed to a series of deviations and raised
new tasks and targets.
The basic task facing
the construction field during the new five-year plan period is to massively
carry out the capital construction including the construction of dwelling
houses to provide the people with more highly civilized living condition and
radically change the appearance of the country.
The construction field
should powerfully push forward the two fronts simultaneously; the industrial
construction for strengthening the economic foundation of the country and the
construction for meeting the material and cultural needs of the people.
It should set the
annual plans for building 10 000 flats of dwelling houses each year starting
from this year by concentrating efforts on the construction of 50 000 flats in
Pyongyang, scrupulously organize the construction operation and guidance for
implementing the plans and thus basically settle the issue of dwelling houses
for the Pyongyang citizens.
25 000 dwelling houses
have to be built in Komdok area, a leading nonferrous mineral producer where a
large contingent of workers reside, and thus build the mining city with no
comparison in the world.
It is imperative to
build strong professional construction units and actively develop and produce
equipment and gears and tools necessary for construction at the construction
machine factories.
The report raised the
tasks for further developing the building materials industry in keeping with
the demand of the situation in which the construction is progressing at an
unprecedented speed.
The basic tasks facing
the building materials industry during the new five-year plan period is to
attain the goal of producing 8 million tons of cement and ensure
self-sufficiency of finishing building materials.
It is necessary to
update the existing cement factories and, at the same time, build new
large-capacity cement factories, to which advanced technology is introduced, in
the areas with favorable conditions of materials, power and transport and thus
further expand the cement production capacity of the country.
It is imperative to
work hard to meet the demand for finishing building materials determining the
appearance of buildings through home production, more firmly consolidate the
bases for producing paint and distemper paint with locally available raw
materials, raise their quality and develop the technology for producing roofing
materials.
It is necessary to
properly push ahead with the preparations for producing building materials
under a well thought-out plan to construct more zero-carbon buildings and
zero-energy buildings in keeping with the world trends of architectural
development, and for all provinces to produce lots of various building
materials by constructing various profitable building material production bases
relying on their locally available materials.
The report set forth the
tasks for the communications field to make uninterrupted leaps forward and
innovations in positive response to the demand of the times.
The communications
field should step up the technical updating of its infrastructure and turn
mobile communications into the next-generation ones as early as possible by
developing relevant technology.
It is needed to
readjust the wire broadcasting and TV broadcasting systems, put the relevant
technology on a higher level and provide full conditions for the people in all
parts of the country from cities to remote mountain villages to enjoy better
cultural and emotional life.
The report raised it as
a very urgent issue at present to develop the state-run commerce and preserve
the socialist nature of public catering and welfare service and set forth the
tasks for restoring our commerce to the public service activities for
supporting the people's life and promoting their material well-being, true to
its name.
The important tasks to
be surely carried out by our commerce at present is to restore the state's
leading role and control in the overall commerce service activities and
preserve the nature of socialist commerce serving the people.
Commerce service units
should put their service activities on a popular, cultural, modern and diverse
basis with correct management strategy and thus create new socialist service
culture of our own style.
The report presented
land management and ecological environment protection as important affairs for
protecting the life and health of the people and better the appearance of
mountains and rivers of the country and a strategic work related to the future
of the country.
The tasks facing the
land management field during the new five-year plan are to bring about a
decisive advance in land development and ecological environment protection,
thus steadily pushing ahead with the work for transforming the whole country
into a socialist fairyland, the beautiful land representing the era of the
Workers' Party.
It pointed out the
issues of surveying and grasping the overall situation of the ecological
environment including forests, making correct and prompt responses according to
the results of analysis on its seasonal and annual change, properly instituting
the laws and regulations regarding the protection of land and environment and
strictly observing them, preventing natural disasters by directing efforts into
forest and water conservation, steadily putting much effort into road
construction and management and pushing ahead with eastern and western coastal construction
in a big way as a national project to protect the life and security of the
people and land, and spruce up the country's coastal areas to be the ones
befitting the maritime state.
The report stressed the
importance of the work in the field of city management which is directly linked
with the life of the people from A to Z, and set forth relevant tasks.
The field of city
management should take strong measures for repairing dwelling houses, expand
the capacity for producing drinking water, improve its quality and newly build
more sewage treatment plants to prevent environmental pollution.
It is necessary to
decisively enhance the level of the afforestation design, spruce up the parks
and recreation grounds and plant good species of trees, flowers and creeping
plants in a harmonious manner to give face-lifts to cities.
The report, based on a
detailed analysis of the external economic work and the subjective and
objective conditions and environment of the country, raised the issues of
orientation to set a scientific strategy in the external economic field and
purposefully develop the external economic work.
The report suggested
revitalization of tourism as an important work for providing our people with a
more civilized life and showing the world the ever-changing appearance of our
state.
It is necessary to
spruce up tourist resorts, improve the methods of advertisement and organize
tourist course and guidance in a diverse way.
It is also important to
turn the Mt Kumgang area into modern cultural tourist resort of our style.
The report advanced the
tasks for removing all the facilities including Haegumgang Hotel at a wharf of
Kosong Port and constructing the buildings of typical architecture of our
style, which match well the scenic Mt Kumgang and reflect the emotional and
aesthetic feelings of our people.
According to the master
plan for the development of Mt Kumgang tourist area, the work to build the
Kosong Port coastal tourist area, Pirobong mountaineering tourist area,
Haegumgang coastal park area and sports cultural area in a peculiar way should
be carried out on a yearly basis and in a phased way during the period of the
new five-year plan.
The report importantly
referred to the tasks of improving the economic management.
Our national economy is
the self-supporting and planned one serving the people.
To strengthen the
independent, planned and popular nature of the national economy, it is
necessary to raise the state's function as economic organizer and realize the
unified management of products on the principle of making sure that the
fruition of the economic work is directed to the well-being of the people.
The fundamental
requirements and direction for improving the management of the socialist
economy are to give priority to the desire and interests of the people
centering on the popular masses, master of society.
The report also
stressed the need to hold fast to the cost cutting and raised quality as the
keystone for improving the economic management.
The state organs for
economic guidance should substantially conduct the work for readjusting and
reinforcing the economy in line with the fundamental requirements and direction
for improving the management of the socialist economy.
The report underscored
the need to tighten the discipline for realizing the unified guidance of the
state on the economic work, strengthen the national system for the unified
statistics, correctly wage the work for boosting the arteries of the national
economy and improve the conditions for management activities of the industrial
establishments.
The productive forces
should be redistributed in a reasonable way to improve economic efficiency, the
weak links in the economic sectors be found out and the sectors urgent for the
balanced development of the economy be reinforced to raise the economic
efficiency in the national economy as a whole.
Planning should be
improved and economic leverage including finances, money and price should be
put into the correct use for the reasonable management of the economy.
The scientific analysis
and clear policies clarified in the report on the present situation of the
major economic sectors and their readjustment and development serve as a
powerful practical weapon for consolidating the material and technical
foundation of the self-supporting economy and propelling the economic
construction in a planned and stable way irrespective of the change of the
external environment.
The Supreme Leader
clarified in the report the unshakable determination of our Party to make a
breakthrough in solving the people's food, clothing and housing at any cost and
making practical changes and innovations which the people can keenly feel, in
the period of the new five-year plan.
The report set forth
pro-active measures to increase the agricultural production so as to decisively
settle the food provision for the people.
The main target facing
the agricultural field in the five-year plan is to unconditionally attain the
eminence of grain production already set forth by the Party and to consolidate
the material and technical foundation for the sustained development of
agriculture.
In order to increase
agricultural production, it is important to put efforts into drastic
improvement in seed selection, scientific farming, increased output in
low-yielding field, cultivation of new land and tideland reclamation, to
develop agriculture, stock-breeding and fruit farming and to hold fast to
irrigation and mechanization of agriculture as important strategic tasks.
The report stressed
policy issues to take scientific and technical measures and lay material and
technological foundation for ensuring safe growth of agricultural production
despite unfavorable climatic and weather conditions, to boost the zeal of
agricultural workers for production and to strengthen state assistance to the countryside.
The important targets
set forth before the agricultural sector are important state affairs that must
be done whatever the cost in order to ensure self-sufficiency in food and to
step up the socialist construction.
The report referred to
the importance of light industry which holds an absolute share in providing
people with affluent and highly civilized life, and the direction of its
development.
The light industrial
field faced the tasks to step up modernization with main direction given to ensuring
the local provision of raw and other materials and recycling, regarding them as
a lifeline, and to steadily round out the field by reinforcing weak fields and
processes and setting up those unavailable at the moment.
Also stressed was the
issue of raising the quality of goods on the principle of giving priority to
quality over quantity and directing efforts into development of new goods.
The report defined the
fishing sector as one of three fields directly related to the people's diet.
The fishing sector
should modernize fishing boats and implements, put fishing on a scientific
basis and build reliable fishery stations and ship repairing yards.
It is necessary to
substantially conduct the work of conserving and propagating marine and
freshwater resources on a planned way and systematically increase the
production of seafood by launching a massive fish-breeding and cultivation of
fishery products.
Raised in the report
were important policy issues for self-reliant and multi-lateral development of
cities and counties.
It is the consistent
strategic policy of our Party in the socialist construction to consolidate the
revolutionary position and push ahead with the development of the rural
management and local economy and improvement of the people's living standard
with cities and counties as firm bases.
Cities and counties are
the lowest-level units for the execution of our Party policies, regional bases
guiding the rural economy and local economy and strong fortresses supporting
the overall development of the country.
The general goal
clarified in the report for boosting cities and counties is to turn every city
and county into strategic bases of highly civilized and prosperous socialist
state and developed regions with their own peculiar characteristics.
Cities and counties
should set their strategies for development and long-term objectives in
conformity with their regional characteristics in a realistic way and
persistently carry them out purposefully and consciously and in a planned way
and on an annual basis.
Cultural development
peculiar to rural areas and our own-style new development should be made by
directing efforts to the socialist rural construction, holding aloft the slogan
"Forward to Fresh Victory!"
The long-term
objectives for rural construction is to eliminate differences between the
working class and the peasants, the industry and agriculture and the urban and
the rural areas by pushing ahead with three revolutions in rural areas and
thoroughly implementing the Thesis on the Socialist Rural Question, and the
immediate tasks are to put the work of transforming peasants on a revolutionary
and working class pattern above all, boost the state support to rural areas and
build villages in rural areas in a balanced way while preserving regional characteristics.
The report stressed the
need to pay attention of the Party and the state to strengthening the core
position in rural areas.
It raised it as a
persistent political demand to develop the local economy by making the use of
locally available raw and other materials in relevant area in line with the
regional characteristics.
It noted that it is
necessary to push ahead with the work of changing the appearance of city and
county seats and direct great efforts to improving the afforestation and water
conservation and environmental protection.
Mentioned in the report
was a task for city and county Party committees and people's committees to
become a powerful locomotive guiding the development of their regions and the
carer of cities and counties and house-holder responsible for the people's life
in their regions.
Kim Jong Un solemnly
clarified the revolutionary stand on steadily bolstering up the national
defence capabilities, the cornerstone for the existence of the state and a
reliable guarantee for defending the dignity and security of the country and
people and peace.
The report analyzed
that our Party and the government of the Republic made good-will efforts and
showed the greatest patience to prevent the escalation of regional tension with
the single mind to ensure peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in the
rest of the world but the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK has become more
violent, not getting weak.
Nothing is more foolish
and dangerous than to fail to steadily build our muscle and to while away time,
while clearly seeing the enemies increasing ultra-modern weapons aiming at our
state.
The reality shows that
only when we bolster up the national defence capabilities without a moment's
halt, we can contain the military threat from the U.S. and achieve peace and
prosperity on the Korean peninsula.
Stressing that the
strong defence capabilities of the state never precludes diplomacy but serves
as a great means that propels toward the correct orientation and guarantees its
success, the report analyzed that the prevailing situation proves once again
that there can never be satisfaction in boosting the military strength.
As long as the
imperialists exist on the earth and the danger of aggression war by the hostile
forces against our state continues, the historic mission of our revolutionary
armed forces can never be changed and the defence capabilities of our state
must be steadily bolstered along the new orbit of development.
The report set forth
important tasks for the People's Army to more firmly prepare to be the
revolutionary army of the WPK, modern army with the latest military hardware
and reliable defender of our state and people, while regarding it as the
general duty in the army-building to model the entire army on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
The report mentioned
the core plan and important strategic tasks for rapidly developing the defense
industry.
It is necessary to
develop tactical nuclear weapons which can be used for various missions
according to the purpose of operational duty and target of strike in a modern
war by further developing the nuclear technology and making nuclear weapons
smaller, lighter and tactical and steadily push ahead with the production of
super large nuclear warhead and thus thoroughly contain, control and handle
various military threats on the Korean peninsula which inevitably accompany the
nuclear threat on our own initiative.
It set forth the goal
to improve the capabilities of preemptive and retaliatory strike of nuclear
forces by further raising the hit rates to correctly strike and annihilate any
strategic objects within the 15 000 km of range.
Also raised were the
tasks to develop and introduce the hypersonic gliding flight warhead in a short
period, to push ahead with the work of developing inter-continental ballistic
rocket with the use of underwater or ground solid-fuel engine as planned and to
access to nuclear-powered submarine and underwater-launch nuclear strategic
weapon which are of important significance in raising the long-range nuclear striking
capability.
It referred to securing
the ability of reconnaissance and information gathering with the operation of
reconnaissance satellite for military purposes in the near future and
conducting in real earnest the most important research of developing
reconnaissance drones and other reconnaissance means capable of conducting
precision reconnaissance of up to 500 km depth from the front.
It defined it as the
main task facing the field of defense science at present to make the People's
Army an elite one technically advanced in view of the conventional structure by
highly developing the science and technology for national defense and studying
and developing more latest weapons and combat equipment.
Putting the arms and
equipment on an intelligent and IT, precision, unmanned, high-performance and
lighter basis should be set as the core goal of munitions industry, and study
and development be oriented to it.
The report dealt in
depth with the task to complete the preparations of all-people resistance, the
crucial work that can never be neglected in firmly consolidating the national
defence capability.
The important tasks for
strengthening the national defence capability raised in the report are an
expression of iron-willed faith and will to continuously strengthen the
country's military capabilities till when the vicious cycle of the brink-of-war
and detente, dialogue and tension is removed once and for all and such phrases
as the threat and blackmail by the hostile forces are terminated on this land,
under the situation where the equilibrium of forces in the world is being
disturbed owing to the reckless arms buildup of the U.S. and the hostile
forces.
Kim Jong Un in the
report set forth the tasks to promote the development of science and technology
and confidently open the broad venue of achieving prosperity by dint of
self-reliance.
The report defined
development of science and technology as a crucial task, policy of utmost
importance in the socialist construction, comprehensively analyzed deviations
revealed in the course of implementing the line of attaching importance to
science and technology and raised targets for the development of science and
technology to be attained by each field during the period of the new five-year
plan, and ways of putting them into practice.
It is important to
actively solve urgent scientific and technological problems in the
implementation of the new five-year plan for the national economic development
and promote the development of core and advanced ultra-modern technology.
It is essential to set
up proper Party, state, administrative guidance and management system for the
development of science and technology and keep pushing forward the work of the
sharing of scientific and research achievements and making all the people well versed
in science and technology.
The Supreme Leader in
the report referred to the achievements, experience, mistakes and lesson drawn
in the construction of socialist culture during the period under review.
It is the far-reaching
goal and ideal of our Party to create new period of efflorescence of socialist
culture and lead our people to our-style high civilization in the new century.
The report analyzed and
assessed the work of education, public health, literature and art, public
health, media and sports in the period under review which hold an important
share in bringing up all members of society to be powerful beings, adding
vitality to the advancing revolution and successfully stepping up the socialist
construction.
The general goal of
education to make it the one which our future can be fully entrusted to was
earnestly reiterated, and goals and detailed tasks for the development of
education for turning our country into education power with lots of talents by
effecting a drastic turn in education in the new century were also mentioned.
In the secondary and
higher educational field the methodological work should be carried out to
steadily update the educational contents and methods and education management
system and to enhance the ability and qualifications of teachers who are
responsible for bringing about a radical turn in education to meet the trend of
development of education in the modern days and to meet the pedagogical demand.
The nationwide
investment and support for the educational field should be strengthened in
order to powerfully conduct the work to spruce up the educational conditions
and environment including the building of schools.
The report dealt with
detailed plans for providing people with better medical benefits by developing
socialist healthcare into the most advantageous and advanced public health.
The public health field
should substantially carry out the work of updating treatment and prevention
institutions and pharmaceutical and medical appliances factories and firmly
build the ranks of medical workers and create strong anti-epidemic basis for
coping with whatever health crisis of the world.
The report also made
serious analysis of the work in the field of literature and art and set forth
tasks for unfolding the new era of efflorescence of the Juche literature and
art by effecting a radical turn on all fronts of literature and art.
Creation-guidance
officials, creators and artistes in the field of literature and art should
display the enterprising working spirit with high discernment to produce good
works consistent with the Juche character, national identity and modernity,
give peculiar performances and purposefully carry out the training of reserves
on a long-term basis by establishing proper systems and setting development
strategy and clear goals.
Such tasks were set
forth for the mass media as raising the fierce flames of new revolution in
newspapers, news services, broadcasting and publications as required by the new
period of drastic change and upsurge in socialist construction so as to wage a
vigorous reportorial and wordy campaign to deeply instill into all the people
the core of the ideas, lines and policies of the Party Congress and inspire
them to the implementation of the decisions of the Party Congress, and for the
field of physical culture and sports as making redoubled efforts for making our
country join the ranks of advanced sports nations to be well-matched to the
prestige and position of our dignified state.
The innovative
orientations for building socialist culture are a reflection of grandiose plan
for creating a new Korean-style civilization by bringing about a great
revolution in all sectors of socialist culture with successes, experience,
mistakes and lessons gained in the period under review as a springboard for advance
and leap forward.
The report put an
emphasis on the issue of effecting a revolutionary change in the mental and
moral life of the people by pushing ahead with the eradication of
non-socialist, anti-socialist practices and thorough establishment of socialist
lifestyle throughout the country as a work of the whole Party, state and
society.
All the people should
create and develop the noble and civilized new life of our own style and stage
a powerful mass campaign against the practices running counter to the socialist
lifestyle, deeply bearing in mind faith in socialism and love for and trust in
theirs.
In his report, the
Supreme Leader set forth tasks for further consolidating the state social
system in response to the reality that witnesses a radical rise of our
Republic's position and the revolution entering a new stage.
The report underscored
the need to strengthen the popular nature of the state befitting the intrinsic
character of our-style socialist system, realize the unified, scientific and
strategic control and thoroughly establish a revolutionary spirit of law
observance throughout the society as required by the building of a socialist
law-governed state, and called on judicial and procuratorial organs and public
and state security organs to fulfill their sacred mission and duty they assume
for defending the system, policy and people as reliable defenders of the
socialist system.
The Supreme Leader in
his report put forward the important tasks for strengthening the working
people's organizations, a link between the Party and the masses and the fringe
organization of the Party, into powerful political ones and powerful forces for
building socialism.
The report stressed the
need for the working people's organizations to hold fast to their internal work
as befitting their duty as the organizations in charge of ideological education
to firmly arm all their members with the Party's revolutionary idea and, in
particular, the need to prepare the youth league as the reliable shift and
reserves of the Party.
The report, that
indicated the road towards dramatic progress in socialist construction, serves
as a militant banner powerfully inspiring the people to a next-stage new
victory by giving full play to the advantages and might of our-style socialism
in the overall state affairs, including the building of economy, national
defense and culture and sci-tech development, under the prevailing situation.
3. For Independent
Reunification of Country and Development of External Relations
Supreme Leader Kim Jong
Un mentioned in the third system of his report the important issues for
independent reunification of the country and development of external relations.
The report studied the
issues concerning the south in view of the prevailing situation and the changed
times and clarified our Party's principled stand on the north-south relations.
As specified in the
report, our nation is now standing on the crucial crossroads; whether to
advance along the road of peace and reunification after breaking the serious
deadlock in the north-south relations or continuously suffer the pain resulting
from division in the vicious cycle of confrontation and the danger of war.
It is not exaggeration
to say that the current inter-Korean relations have been brought back to the
time before the publication of the Panmunjom Declaration and the dream for
national reunification has become more distant.
Hostile military acts
and anti-DPRK smear campaign aggravating the situation of the Korean peninsula
are still going on in south Korea, dimming the future of the inter-Korean
relations.
Judging that the
present frozen north-south relations can not thaw by the efforts of one side
nor be resolved by themselves with the passage of time, the report stressed
that if one sincerely aspires after country's peace and reunification, being
concerned of the destiny of the nation and the future of posterity, one should
not look with folded arm on this grave situation but take proactive measures to
repair and improve the present north-south relations in catastrophe.
The report clarified
the principled stand on the inter-Korean relation as follows:
It is necessary to take
stand and stance to solve the basic problems in the north-south relations, halt
all acts hostile toward the counterpart and prudently deal with and honestly
implement the north-south declarations.
The report referred to
the main cause why the north-south relations which had developed on good terms
in the past were frozen abruptly and brought back to confrontation.
Currently, the south
Korean authorities are giving an impression that they are concerned about
improvement of north-south relations by raising such inessential issues as
anti-epidemic and humanitarian cooperation and individual tourism.
They are going against
the implementation of the north-south agreement on guarantee of peace and
military stability in the Korean peninsula in disregard of our repeated
warnings that they should stop imports of latest military hardware and joint
military exercises with the U.S.
Worse still, they are
getting crazier about modernization of armed forces, labeling our development
of various conventional weapons, which pertains entirely to the just exercise
of our sovereignty, a "provocation."
If they want to find
fault with it, they should first give an explanation for the chief executive's
personal remarks calling for furthering the efforts for securing and developing
latest military assets, saying that ballistic and cruise missiles with more
correct and stronger power and longer range than the existing ones will be
developed and a ballistic missile with the world's heaviest warhead was
developed. They should also provide a convincing explanation for the purpose
and intention in their continued introduction of cutting-edge offensive
equipment.
The report seriously
warned the south Korean authorities that if they continue to label our action
"provocation" with a double-dealing and biased mindset, we have no
other choice but to deal with them in a different way.
A new road toward
improvement of the north-south relations based on firm trust and reconciliation
can be paved only when the south Korean authorities strictly control and root
out any abnormal anti-reunification conducts.
Whether the north-south
relations can be restored and invigorated or not entirely depends on the
attitude of the south Korean authorities and they will receive as much as they
pay and try.
The report stressed
that at the present moment there is no need to unilaterally show goodwill to
the south Korean authorities as done in the past, and that we should treat them
according to how they respond to our just demand and how much effort they make
to fulfill the north-south agreements.
It made an analysis
that whether the north-south relations may return to a new starting point of
peace and prosperity in the near future as they were in spring 3 years ago, as
desired by all compatriots, or not depends on the south Korean authorities'
behavior.
The Supreme Leader in
the report clarified the general direction and policy stand of the WPK on the
overall development of external relations.
The report analyzed in
depth the current international situation and the external environment of our
Republic.
The major review and
conclusion of our Party's external activities in the period under review are
that the strategy of countering toughness in kind should be consistently
adhered to against the hostile forces unwarrantedly running amuck and the big
powers using high-handed practices.
After affirming this
stance, the report set it as the general direction of the foreign affairs at
present to extensively develop the foreign relations on a par with the
strategic position of our state and thus reliably guarantee the socialist
construction in political and diplomatic aspects.
Hence, it clarified the
principled matters to be maintained in the field of foreign affairs.
It is needed to hold
fast to the principle of independence in external activities, regarding it as
the first mission of the Republic's diplomacy to defend the majesty of our
Party, enhance the national prestige and champion the interests of the state.
We should wage
offensive diplomacy to smash the maneuvers of the hostile forces seeking to
violate our sovereignty and defend our state's rights to normal development.
We should put the focus
of foreign political activities on containing and subduing the U.S., the
fundamental obstacle to the development of our revolution and our foremost
principal enemy.
The report stressed the
need for the field of external affairs to adopt the strategy toward the U.S. in
a tactical way and steadily expand the solidarity with the anti-imperialist
independence forces, noting that the entity of the U.S. and the real intention
of its policy toward the DPRK will never change, whoever comes into power in
the U.S.
It also referred to the
issue of frustrating the reactionary offensive of the enemies and exalting the
position of our state by enhancing the role of the foreign propaganda sector.
It stressed the need
for the field of foreign affairs to further develop the relations with
socialist countries, consolidate the unity and cooperation with the
revolutionary and progressive parties aspiring after independence and
resolutely wage the joint struggle against imperialism worldwide so as to make
the external environment of the state more favorable.
The report expressed
the steadfast will of our Party to reliably defend peace and stability of the
Korean peninsula and other parts of the world.
In this planet, there
is no such country as the DPRK always exposed to war threat, so its people's
desire for peace is very strong.
We have stored and
steadily bolstered up the strongest war deterrent in order to defend ourselves
and open up an era of genuine peace knowing no war forever.
Now that our national
defence capabilities are in the level of preemptively containing the hostile
forces' threat outside our territory, the future escalation of tensions on the
Korean peninsula will lead to the instability of security on the part of the
forces posing threat to us.
The report solemnly
clarified the stand of the WPK to approach the U.S. on the principle of
answering force with toughness and good faith in kind in the future, too,
stating that a key to establishing new relationship between the DPRK and the
U.S. lies in the U.S. withdrawal of its hostile policy towards the DPRK.
It reaffirmed that the
DPRK, as a responsible nuclear weapons state, would not misapply the nuclear
weapon unless the aggressive hostile forces try to use their nuclear against
the DPRK.
The report on the work
of the 7th Central Committee of the WPK clarified the foreign policy stand of
the WPK to strengthen friendship and solidarity with all the countries in the
world respecting the sovereignty of the DPRK and realize a genuine
international justice. This, therefore, provided the strategic and tactical
guidelines to further increase the DPRK's international authority and influence
in the new forthcoming period.
4.
For development of Party work
In the fourth system of
the report Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un summed up successes gained in the work
for developing the Party during the period under review and set forth the tasks
and ways arising in improving the Party work as required by the times and
developing reality.
The report evaluated
that it were precious successes achieved in the Party work during the period
under review that the unified leadership system of the Party Central Committee
was firmly established in the entire Party, the fighting efficiency and
leadership ability of the Party remarkably developed and the Party's foundation
readjusted and developed in a comprehensive and detailed way.
It said that the WPK
has fully discharged its mission and duty regarding the people-first principle
as its political idea.
When the Party's
fighting efficiency and leadership ability are steadily developed, the cause of
building socialism can be led to victory with pluck all the time amid the
absolute trust of the people despite any obstacles and difficulties-this is the
main review and precious experience gained in the Party work during the past
five years.
The report set forth
important tasks and ways for bringing about radical innovation in the Party
work in line with the present situation, in which the Korean revolution has
entered the period of new development and leap.
It clarified it as the
first task to attach primary importance to establishing the monolithic
leadership system and further develop it.
As mentioned in the
report the Party organizations and officials should ensure the absolute
authority of the Party Central Committee always and everywhere and staunchly
safeguard it. And they should never tolerate or connive at even the slightest
tendency to undermine the authority of the Party Central Committee, but wage
uncompromising struggle against it.
They should
consistently push forward with the efforts to defend and glorify the Party's
leadership feats, particularly give a facelift to the units associated with the
leadership exploits and the ones inspected by the great leaders, and ensure
that they become the model units in carrying out the Party policies.
Party organizations
should scrupulously organize the work to carry out the Party policies, learn in
detail about how it is done, and review it, so as to thoroughly implement the
policies.
To cement the
single-minded unity of the Party and the revolutionary ranks in every way by
doing the Party's internal work effectively was raised as an important task in
the report.
The report underscored
the need to put major efforts on the building up of the ranks of the cadres,
the hard core of the Party and the leading officials of the revolution, to
steadily strengthen the education and control of them to prevent them from
getting ideologically degenerated and to improve the quality of the ranks of
the Party by strictly adhering to the Party principle of increasing Party
membership, the one on which the people recognized by everyone else are
selected carefully.
The report underlined
the need to continue directing big efforts to strengthening the primary Party
organizations and Party cells, the lower-echelon organizations of the Party, to
effectively press ahead with the organization of and guidance on the Party life
as a main link in the whole chain of the Party work and to rally the broad
masses more closely behind the Party by concentrating on the work with the
masses.
The Party's ideological
work is one of the main tasks of the Party leading the revolution; it is also
an important work which should not be neglected in the whole period when the
Party leads the revolution and construction.
The report advanced the
tasks of strictly adhering to the principle of unitary management in the Party
ideological work, of correcting the deep-seated shortcomings revealed in the
Party information field, and of fundamentally improving the forms and ways of
the ideological education work in line with the developing reality.
It also put forward the
task of strengthening the Party guidance and policy-oriented guidance over the
revolution and construction; it stressed the need to improve the quality of
Party committees, the political general staffs of relevant units, and enhance
their roles; it underlined the need for Party organizations to establish the
revolutionary traits of adopting proper decisions and implementing them
unconditionally, and the need for them to resolve all the problems in the Party
way, the political way while thoroughly guarding against such practices as
taking administrative functions upon themselves and conservatism of following
others at the back rather than leading them in front.
The report set forth
ways of improving the Party work fundamentally.
First of all, the
irrational Party work system and methods should be done away with in line with
the developing reality, and the Party work replaced with the popular and proper
work true to the Party's idea of believing in the people as in Heaven.
The more thoroughly the
popular and realistic character is applied to the Party work, the closer the
whole party will get to the fact and the truth, and the more successfully the
fighting efficiency of the Party will be redoubled-these are an important idea
of the report.
The report stressed
once again that abuse of power, bureaucracy, irregularities and corruption are
what the Party must most strictly guard against and its primary struggle target
at present, and that Party organizations should carry on an uncompromising
struggle against even any iota of them.
Calling for thoroughly
establishing the revolutionary discipline of intensifying criticism,
ideological struggle and study and of working according to functions, the
report stressed that it is a way of improving the Party work to decisively
improve the level and ability of the Party officials.
The Supreme Leader in
the last part of the report said that through the report on the work of the
Party Central Committee, an in-depth understanding of successes and
shortcomings in our work and their causes and lessons and the future struggle
orientation and detailed ways was given, and that through collective
discussion, it was possible to confirm strategic and tactical policies based on
the common opinions.
He expressed his
expectation that all the delegates would make a profound study and discussion
of the issues dealt in the report in line with the leadership idea of the Party
and with a high sense of Party responsibility, and he ardently called on them
to vigorously work for a fresh leap forward and victory in the socialist
construction, for our great state and for our great people, uniting closely
around the Party Central Committee under the uplifted banner of great
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
His historic report
that comprehensively clarified the important guidelines for bringing about a
new upswing in overall work of the Party and revolution aroused full support
and approval of all the participants in the congress, and adds confidence to
the victorious advance and bright future of our socialist cause.
His report on the work
of the 7th Central Committee of the WPK will always shine as a lasting monument
in the sacred chronicle of the WPK leading the Juche revolution to the most
brilliant victory along the glorious road with its great ideology and
leadership.
The detailed text of
the report will be distributed to the Party organizations at all levels as a
text for internal use. -0-
(2021.01.09)
