Pyongyang, January 6 (KCNA) -- Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un made an opening speech at the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
The full text of the speech is as follows:
Dear delegates,
The Eighth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea,
for which millions of our Party members have made preparations with sincerity
and to which they have so looked forward with their hearts burning with
patriotism and loyalty, has been convened at an important and crucial time in
the development of our revolution.
First, in reflection of the boundless loyalty of
you, dear delegates, and all other Party members, people and service personnel
across the country, I pay the noblest respect and greatest glory to the great
Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, the founder and builder of the Workers'
Party of Korea and the eternal leaders of our Party, state and people.
Dear delegates,
Five years have passed since our Party and all our
people started a new advance to attain the immediate goals and tasks the
Seventh Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea set forth for socialist
construction.
In this period the unprecedented, worst-ever trials
put great obstacles on the road of advance of our revolution, but our Party
achieved great successes through tenacious and accurate practical activities
aimed at implementing its fighting programmes.
During the period under review our internal force
further expanded and strengthened, and the external prestige of the country was
raised remarkably. This is a clear signal that a period of a new upsurge, a
period of gigantic transformation, has arrived for socialist construction.
The Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central
Committee of the WPK held in August last year made an in-depth analysis and
judgment of the new trend of our developing revolution and the demands of the
prevailing objective and subjective situations, and decided to convene the
current congress of the WPK.
The convocation of the congress in the present-day
arduous circumstances is a noteworthy political event of great significance in
view of the influence it would exert on the change and development of the
internal and external situations and of the future struggle of our Party, a
socialist ruling party.
When the decision on holding this congress was made
public, all the people across the country, engulfed by a great emotion, warmly
supported it, and it dealt a telling blow to the reactionary forces of all
hues, who were hostile to our cause and attempted to check its advance.
It was because the convocation of the highest-level
meeting of the WPK was an expression of its definite self-confidence in its
capability for leading the revolution to another stage of victory, and
constituted demonstration of its ardent will and solemn pledge to live up to
the people's great trust and expectations by shouldering the future of the
state and fully discharging its responsibilities and duties.
The Central Committee of our Party made it clear at
home and abroad that it would make this congress a congress for work, struggle
and progress.
This was a promise to the Party members and other
people that it would strictly review its work in the period under review;
explicitly decide once again the correct orientation and tasks of struggle for
achieving fresh victories in building our style of socialism and take
substantial measures to this end.
Never little are the successes our Party achieved
in the revolutionary struggle and construction work over the last five years of
arduous, yet glorious struggle.
By achieving miraculous victories and events
noteworthy in the 5 000-year history of our nation after its Seventh Congress,
the WPK provided a sure guarantee for reliably defending the destiny of the
country and the people generation after generation and simultaneously achieved
some meaningful and precious successes and foundations on which to promote
economic construction and improve the people's standard of living.
However, though the period of implementing the
Five-Year Strategy for the National Economic Development ended last year,
almost all sectors fell a long way short of the set objectives.
Still existing are the various external and
internal challenges that hamper and hinder our efforts and advance for fresh
and continuous victories in socialist construction.
The key to breaking through the existing manifold
difficulties with utmost certainty and speed lies in consolidating our own
strength, our internal force, in all respects.
Proceeding from the principle of finding the cause
of mistakes not in the objective conditions, but in the subjective conditions,
and resolving all problems by enhancing the role of our motive force, the
current congress is going to make a comprehensive and profound analysis and judgment
of the experiences, lessons and mistakes we have made during the period under
review and, on this basis, define the scientific goals and tasks of struggle,
which we can and must accomplish without fail.
The successes we have already achieved are
priceless for us, and so are the bitter lessons that have been accumulated.
All these are things that cannot be bartered even
for gold, and constitute valuable assets for achieving fresh victories in the
future.
We should further promote and expand the victories
and successes we have gained at the cost of sweat and blood, and prevent the
painful lessons from being repeated.
In particular, we should be bold enough to
recognize the mistakes which, if left unaddressed, will grow into bigger
obstacles and stumbling blocks, and take resolute measures against their
repetition.
This congress has been convened on the basis of
this pluck and commitment.
If the Eighth Party Congress, a congress for
struggle, carries out its work in a substantial manner and puts forth a correct
line and strategic and tactical policies, the Korean revolution will greet an
era of a new leap forward and upswing.
Also, the WPK's struggle for achieving national
prosperity and people's happiness will switch over to a new stage with the
congress as a watershed.
Dear delegates,
To make this congress a substantial congress for
work, struggle and progress, the WPK Central Committee focused on the following
issues over the past four months.
First, it conducted the work of making a
comprehensive, three-dimensional and detailed analysis and review of how the
decisions of the Seventh Party Congress were implemented and drawing
experiences and lessons for future progress and development.
To this end, the Party Central Committee formed a
non-permanent central inspection committee and sent it to lower units on a
mission to learn about the actual situations there and carefully listen to the
opinions of workers, farmers and intellectuals who are Party members and work
in the field.
The non-permanent central inspection committee
conducted the work in the way of dispatching its teams to provinces and, after
grasping the actual situations there, dispatching them to ministries and
central institutions by direction and sector to make brisk, comprehensive and
detailed inspections.
The teams thoroughly examined all aspects of the
actual situation including what was wrong, what was neglected among what could
be carried out and what was implemented in a profitable way or formalistic way
in executing the decisions of the Seventh Party Congress, and if there were
shortcomings, what were their causes and what were the defects in Party
guidance.
During the days when the Party congress was
prepared, departments of the Party Central Committee and other Party
organizations across the country submitted to the Political Bureau of the Party
Central Committee and the preparatory committee of the congress reports of
their work over the last five years and innovative and detailed opinions on the
goals and plans of struggle in the future.
In the course of this, we confirmed once again the
priceless truth that the masses are excellent teachers, and were convinced that
it was right indeed that we had decided to take heed of the opinions of Party
organizations and its members for the preparation of the congress.
What we did is of great significance in making this
congress a revolutionary and militant one, both in name and reality, in which
the general will of all the Party members, will be embodied, and the decisions
to be adopted by it become an organizational will of the entire Party.
As part of the preparations for the Party congress,
we analyzed and reviewed the finances of the Party over the last five years and
studied the measures for improving them.
And we made a profound study aimed at putting to
rights the problems in Party Rules, which were a mechanical repetition of the
outdated of the past or of others' and did not suit the present reality, in
conformity with the requirements of the developing revolution and the
principles of building a Juche-oriented party.
We also comprehensively appraised the work of the
members of the leadership body of the Seventh Central Committee of the WPK, and
evaluated how much contribution they made to strengthening and developing the
Party and the revolution.
In the lead-up to this Party congress, the basic
Party organizations, provincial, city and county Party committees and the Party
committees performing the same functions as the latter reviewed the work of
their leadership bodies in an effective way and held successful meetings for
electing delegates to the Party congress with the main emphasis on selecting
the Party members who could play core roles in implementing the decisions of
the Party congress in the future.
For the Eighth Party Congress, which would
illuminate the road ahead of a new struggle for the Korean revolution, all the
Party members and all other people across the country achieved brilliant
successes by turning out as one in the 80-day campaign of loyalty after
glorifying the 75th anniversary of the Party founding as a great auspicious
event through a frontal attack for achieving a breakthrough, thus ensuring its
successful opening.
The high political zeal of our Party members and
other people, who made sincere efforts to add glory and strength to their
dignified Party before its congress, is an eruption of their extraordinary
revolutionary spirit which can never be found elsewhere in the present world.
Last year was a quite difficult year; in the
circumstances of the world public health crisis that lasted unprecedentedly
long in history, they consistently ensured a thoroughgoing stable situation in
infectious disease prevention by stubbornly overcoming the difficulties,
maintaining the conscious unity of all the people in the effort and regarding
it as a patriotic duty devolving on them; they also rose up in the struggle for
recovering from the natural disasters and built more than 20 000 new splendid
houses in different parts of the country. This great achievement left another
proud page in our Party's record of struggle.
In addition, our Party members and other working
people from all walks of life sent to the Party Central Committee the reports
full of valuable successes they made at many theatres of struggle across the
country.
I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks and
militant greetings to all the Party members and other people and service
personnel across the country, who firmly defended the Eighth Congress of the
Party with burning patriotic devotion and great victory by demonstrating on a
higher level the might of their firm unity around the Party in the flames of
arduous struggle for overcoming manifold difficulties.
And as I stand on this glorious podium, I would
like to extend warm greetings to the organizations of our overseas compatriots,
including the General Association of the Korean Residents in Japan, and all
other overseas compatriots.
On behalf of the Eighth Congress of the Workers'
Party of Korea, I extend a noble tribute to all the patriotic martyrs,
recollecting with deep reverence the revolutionary comrades who devoted their
precious lives to the development of the Party, the prosperity of the country,
the happiness of the people and the future of posterity, the unforgettable
comrades-in-arms who failed to be present here.
Dear delegates,
Now we have gathered at this significant venue at a
quite important and crucial moment with a very honourable and sacred mission.
We stand at a great turning point of leading the
revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered in Mt Paektu to another fresh victory
and at a decisive moment of firmly linking the 75 years of ruling history of
the glorious Workers' Party of Korea to its 80 years; we are here representing
the destiny, future, resourcefulness and wisdom of millions of members of the
Workers' Party of Korea and tens of millions of the Korean people.
We are all entrusted with an important mission to
make our country more powerful and wealthy and indicate to our people a
shortcut to happiness in this world full of severe challenges and instability.
At this moment, the interest, expectations and hope
of all the Party members and other people across the country are very great and
high for this congress which will review the revolutionary work of the last
five years and decide the lines of struggle and strategic and tactical policies
for opening up a new road.
We should display the highest sense of
responsibility and passion in the work of the congress in order to live up to
the great trust and expectations of the people who have always shared their
destiny with the Party, absolutely trusted and supported the Party and defended
the Eighth Congress with unsparing, devoted efforts.
Attending this congress are 250 members of the
leadership body of the Seventh Party Central Committee and 4 750 delegates
elected by organizations at all levels throughout the Party.
Among them, 1 959 are delegates of Party and
political workers, 801 delegates of state administrative and economic
officials, 408 delegates of service personnel, 44 delegates of officials of the
working people's organizations, 333 delegates of officials in the sectors of
science, education, public health, art, literature and the mass media and 1 455
delegates of hardcore Party members involved in field labour.
Of them, women delegates number 501 and account for
ten per cent.
Present at the congress are 2 000 observers.
Solemnly pledging, on behalf of all the
participants in this congress, which constitutes the eighth one in the sacred
history of the Workers' Party of Korea, that the current congress will remain
thoroughly faithful to the revolutionary ideas and cause of the great Comrades
Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il,
Fully convinced that this congress will serve as a
stepping stone and a historic milestone in making a radical leap forward in the
struggle for strengthening and developing our Party, accomplishing the
socialist cause, building up the national strength and improving the people's
living standards, and
Hoping that all the delegates will participate in
the congress with sincere, responsible and proactive attitude,
I declare the Eighth Congress of the Workers' Party
of Korea open. -0-
(2021.01.06)
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