6th Meeting of Leading Personnel of Worker- Peasant Red Guards

 

Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- The 6th Meeting of Leading Personnel of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards took place at the April 25 House of Culture on Monday and Tuesday.

The Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) convened a gathering of leading personnel of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards in order to review the work of the Party organizations at all levels and the paramilitary sector for implementing the Party's military line, further enhance the operational and combat capability of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards, the basic force for defending the homeland, as required by the ever-changing situation and to bring about a new turn in completing the preparations for all-people resistance.

Attending the meeting were Kim Tok Hun, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and premier of the Cabinet, Jo Yong

Won, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretary for Organizational Affairs of the WPK Central Committee, Pak Jong Chon, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Jo Chun Ryong, department director of the WPK Central Committee, and Pak Su Il, minister of Public Security.

Present were leading personnel at all levels of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards, officials of public security organs and officials of units supporting the paramilitary forces and other relevant units.

A letter from Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, to the participants in the 6th Meeting of Leading Personnel of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards was read out.

Kang Sun Nam, department director of the WPK Central Committee, made a report.

The reporter said that our paramilitary forces, founded and strengthened by President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il, have entered into a new stage of their development and are vigorously advancing toward the higher target under the outstanding leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

The report referred to the achievements made in strengthening the combat efficiency of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards in the past period.

It analyzed and reviewed a series of defects of the paramilitary sector, which has failed to measure up to the Party's intention and the requirement of the prevailing situation in its work, and their causes and set forth the tasks and ways for overcoming them.

Noting that to strengthen the paramilitary forces and make full preparations for all-people resistance in our country where a constant threat of war lingers is an essential important task for thoroughly defending the sovereignty and rights to existence and development of the state and people, the reporter called on all the leading personnel to fulfill their important duty.

Then speeches were made.

The speakers hardened their resolution to fulfill their sacred mission and duty on the two fronts of defending the country and building socialism with the pride and self-confidence, conviction and pluck of a citizen of the great powerful country and to emerge ever-victorious with the heroic spirit and mettle of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards prepared as a-match-for-a- hundred combatants at the time of the life-and-death battle.

At the meeting, Pak Jong Chon announced a prospective plan for perfecting the combat preparations of the paramilitary sector.

Citations of the Central Military Commission of the WPK were conferred on the units of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards that took the lead in strengthening the state defence capabilities and making preparations for all- people resistance in hearty response to the Party's idea of attaching importance to the military affairs.

A letter of pledge to Kim Jong Un was adopted at the meeting.