Pyongyang,
October 18 (KCNA) -- Under the seasoned and experienced leadership of the great
Party Central Committee, the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is setting an
epochal example in the cause of party building and demonstrating the dignity,
honor and heroism of the powerful country all over the world along with the new
era of the Juche revolution.
The
immortal great programme guaranteeing the new century of our party building was
clarified at a time when the absolute trust of all the people in the great WPK
dynamically leading the Korean-style socialist cause to a new victory despite
unprecedented challenges and difficulties is being fully displayed.
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, visited the Central
Cadres Training School of the WPK, the highest seat for training party cadres,
on Oct. 17 to give a commemorative lecture to be specially recorded in the
history of development of our Party.
The
respected General Secretary was greeted by Principal Paek Hyong Chol and Party
Secretary Jang Song Ho of the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK on the
spot.
He
was presented with a fragrant bouquet by a senior official of the school.
All
the teaching staff and students of the school burst into stormy cheers of
"Hurrah!" for the General Secretary with high honor of holding him,
whom they yearn for so ardently, at the school on the significant day of
founding the DIU, the origin of our revolution and the glorious historical root
of our Party.
He
waved back to the enthusiastic cheers and sent warm greetings to the teaching
staff and students.
Accompanying
him were Secretaries Jo Yong Won, Ri Il Hwan, Kim Jae Ryong, Jon Hyon Chol and
Pak Thae Song and Department Director Ju Chang Il of the WPK Central Committee.
The
General Secretary first appreciated the fact that the Central Cadres Training
School of the WPK, which has fulfilled its important mission as a pedigree
establishment for training middle-ranking cadres along with the glorious
history of the WPK, is making positive contributions to strengthening the ranks
of Party cadres. And he had a significant photo session with its teaching staff
and students, expressing expectation that all of them would share intention,
will and practice with the Party Central Committee and more dynamically and
resolutely strive for the strengthening and development of the Party and the
brilliant realization of our sacred fighting programme.
He
looked round the monument inscribed with President Kim Il Sung's autograph
displayed at the school.
He
said that the precious autographic instructions the President, founder of the
WPK, personally wrote to the first graduates of the one-year class of the
Central Party School in August 1948 are the immortal masterpieces
comprehensively reflecting the immutable guidelines and principles that have
been maintained in the whole course of the Party building and activities.
He
said that when the proposition reflecting the character and style of the Workers'
Party is instilled into the hearts of the students as the basis of their life
and struggle, it is possible to train them into genuine officials of the Party
who have made absolute and devoted service to the people.
Going
round the room for education in the revolutionary history and other places of
the school, he learned about the educational situation.
Strengthening
the education of the Central Cadres Training School is a core issue related to
the future of the Party, he said, adding that in order to confidently foresee
its centuries-old history, it is necessary to renovate the pedigree work for
training reserve cadres of the Party as required by the changing era as it is
entrusted with the important mission and duty of training core elements to steadfastly
carry forward the building of the Party.
Referring
to the decision of the Party Central Committee to make the Central Cadres
Training School of the Workers' Party of Korea a university above the
university and dynamically push forward with the work for enhancing the
educational level and role of the Party cadre-training institutions at all
levels with it as its parent body, he called for making a great step forward in
improving the educational work of the school with the significant day when the roots
of the Korean revolution were laid as a new starting point so as to guarantee
the future of the Party.
Then,
Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, gave a historic
commemorative lecture titled "On the Orientation of the Building of Our
Party in the New Era and the Tasks of the Central Cadres Training School of the
Workers' Party of Korea" before the teaching staff and students of the
Central Cadres Training School.
The
lecture hall was filled with great joy and excitement of the participants
receiving his revolutionary lecture to be kept as the honor of their whole life
at the platform.
When
the General Secretary took the platform, the enthusiastic cheers of the
audience were bursting out in welcome of him, outstanding leader of the Juche
revolution who is devoting tireless thought and efforts to the development of
the WPK, eternal prosperity and glory of the country and the well-being of the
people.
He
gave thanks in the name of the Party Central Committee to the teaching staff and
students of the school who are striving to fulfill their revolutionary duty
with the sacred mission of training the core elements of the Party at a time
when the work for strengthening our great Party is getting more intensified
than ever before and is becoming more important as a historic task for the
future of our revolution, and started his lecture.
The
Central Cadres Training School of the Workers' Party of Korea is a pedigree
establishment for training Party cadres under the direct guidance of our Party
Central Committee.
Our
long and glorious history of Party building and struggle is associated with the
great contribution made by the Central Cadres Training School.
It
was a very just and wise step for our Party to have established the Central
Party School in the early days of its founding.
After
liberation, our Party, which had to guide the cause of nation building and army
building, was faced with the important task of rapidly expanding and
strengthening its forces and, at the same time, laying the indispensable
organizational and ideo-theoretical foundations for developing itself into a
socialist ruling party in the future.
Thanks
to the far-sighted initiative and leadership of the President, a permanent
Party school was established on June 1, 1946 to train Party cadres for the
first time in our country so as to fulfill the immediate tasks of the
revolution and its strategic and historic duty.
With
the founding of the Central Party School, our Party came to have a powerful
pedigree establishment able to train core cadres systematically from the outset
and solve theoretical and practical problems in depth even under the
complicated and difficult situation.
In
conformity with the mission assigned in each annals of the revolution, the
Central Cadres Training School of the Workers' Party of Korea has steadily
trained its competent cadres and systematized the Party's ideas, lines and
policies in a theoretical and comprehensive way, thus defending the Party's
organizational and ideological strengthening and leadership activities in
educational, practical and academic fields.
A
large number of Party officials and talented personnel produced by the school
have set an example in leading the masses through their effective and staunch
activities in the Party and state building and in all fields of the revolutionary
struggle, and contributed greatly to the victorious advance of our Party and
revolution.
It
has been a pride of our Party that there is a prestigious educational and
theoretical camp that reliably supports the struggle of the socialist ruling
party while maintaining a high sense of responsibility, a sincere approach to
the revolutionary cause and a substantial teaching strategy.
Today
our Party faces a responsible period when it has to inevitably link its
leadership history of nearly 80 years to 100 years or more.
The
position and duty of the Central Cadres Training School of the Workers' Party
of Korea are very important in this work.
It
is obvious that if the educational system is not perfect enough to train the
eminent reserves of the Party, even though the revolutionary idea of the Party
is great and its exploits are enormous, and if reserves to take charge of the
cause of the Party are not well prepared, the future of the Party, far from
inheriting its ideology and exploits, is inconceivable, he said, stressing the
need to give a new innovation and development to the system of training
reserves and the work for training cadres of the Party.
Saying
it is important to intensify the education and struggle for always maintaining
and displaying the noble idea and determination in the early periods of the
Party founding throughout the Party and, at the same time, push forward in a
responsible and strong way with the work to train Party officials who have
acquired the revolutionary climate of our Party, he noted that at present the
Party Central Committee has set forth clear ideas, theories and policies for
improving and strengthening the Party building and activities in view of the
practical requirements of socialist construction and the essential requirements
for the future development of the Juche revolution and made great efforts to
implement them.
He
said that the important ideas, theories and practical experience being
explored, formulated and implemented in the course of the historic struggle to
improve the leadership ability, fighting efficiency and leadership art of the
Party in conformity with the new era of the developing revolution should be
actively applied to the training of Party cadres and systematized and enriched
in a scientific way without delay to work for strengthening the whole Party and
developing it in a long-term way. And he referred to the successes achieved by
the WPK in its development course of the past decade and to the orientation of
the Party building in the new era and the tasks and ways for improving the
school work.
He
mentioned the last ten years of struggle for the strengthening of the Party.
The
ten years of struggle for modeling the whole Party on Kimilsungism-
Kimjongilism was the most crucial and decisive decade for the existence and
future of our Party, he said, and went on:
Our
Party and revolution have made remarkable progress and development in the past
decade, maintaining their fundamental character to the letter.
This
is by no means a result of the times.
It
is an outcome of the indomitable struggle of our Party which has been
resolutely engaged in the pursuit and application of correct solution to the
succession and development, deeply mindful of its important mission for them.
Without this, there would have been no great reality of today.
The
characteristics of our Party building in the last decade are the combination of
thorough succession and fresh innovativeness, and the combination of the
strengthening of Party work for the fulfillment of the immediate revolutionary
tasks and the long-term building of the Party which guarantees the future
development of the revolution.
Over
the past decade our Party has undergone a succession and a development of
historic significance in self-strengthening.
The
watershed, which classifies the process of change in our Party building by
large in this period, is one time of the Party conference and two times of
Party congresses.
For
our Party, the Fourth Party Conference and the Seventh and Eighth Party
congresses were not merely the highest meetings pursuant to the passage of time
and the change of generations, but an epochal occasion in which the essential
and active development stages were established in Party building.
The
Fourth Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea in April 2012, in line with
the historic task of carrying forward the revolutionary cause, defined the
Party's guiding ideology and supreme programme ensuring thorough inheritance
and formed a new leadership capable of confidently steering its implementation.
This
provided our Party with a firm political, organizational and ideological
guarantee for invariably carrying forward the cause of building the
Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist Party at the outset of the new century of Juche.
The Seventh Congress of the Workers' Party of
Korea in May 2016 was a congress held in 36 years in the history of our Party,
and it opened up a new stage in the strengthening and development of the Party.
The
Seventh Congress proudly reviewed the militant course of the WPK built into the
dignified Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist Party and advanced the tasks of struggle
for further strengthening the revolutionary character of the Party and steadily
enhancing its leadership role as required by the developing revolution. The
leadership and militant might of our Party was clearly demonstrated through it.
The
Eighth Congress of the WPK in January 2021 brought about a new revolutionary
turn in increasing the leadership and fighting efficiency of the Party in every
way.
With
the Eighth Congress as a starting point, our Party came to have its regular and
effective work system that leads the development of the revolution and its
self-strengthening with a cycle of five years, and to develop in a sustained
and innovative way the overall Party work on the basis of the Party's Rules,
revised in conformity with the principles of Party building and Party work, and
of the functions and role of the readjusted and rearranged Party central
organizations.
In
addition, the Party Central Committee plenary meetings and sectional meetings
aimed at enhancing the leadership role of the Party and reinforcing the
essential elements and links for strengthening the whole Party were held in a
planned way.
As
you see, on the principle of giving priority to its strengthening and
development, our Party actively set the major momentums that constitute the
milestone in the building of the Party and the development of its work and
passed through a significant course. That's why our Party could carry out in a
revolutionary way the important tasks of inevitable succession and development,
preventing the confusion and throes that may appear in the days of succeeding
the leadership of a socialist ruling party.
Looking
back on the past decade's militant course, which was by no means unusual, our
Party can be proud of the great triumphant successes of fundamental and key
significance in its development and in the accomplishment of the revolutionary
cause.
The
successes achieved by our Party in its building and work over the past decade
are three major ones: firstly, it has firmly defended and inherited the
monolithic ideology and leadership; secondly, it has remarkably enhanced its leadership
function and role; and thirdly, it has further strengthened its revolutionary
character of serving the people.
The
establishment of an eternal foundation for the continued development of our
Party into a revolutionary party with a firm oneness of ideology and leadership
is the most precious success made in Party building during this period.
If
the party that leads the revolution and construction is to overcome all
challenges of history and remain faithful to its mission to the last, it must
always ensure the unity of ideology and action thoroughly.
In
other words, the whole Party should unite in ideology and purpose and harmonize
action with practice on the basis of one ideology and one centre.
Such
demand entirely conforms to the general principle and reason; Just as a human
organism, if dominated by two brains, not a single brain, cannot perform normal
activities, a party cannot play its function as an organization and will be
divided if it is not guided by a single brain, a single centre.
Of
course, the WPK has long been built into a party with monolithic ideology and
leadership. But, such tradition can not be defended and maintained as it is by
nature and by inertia and hereditarily when generation is replaced by another.
If
the work of consolidating the party's ideology and leadership centre in the
period of succession to the revolutionary cause is not meticulously and
forcefully carried out, it is inevitable that the preceding leader's ideas and
exploits are distorted and destroyed and the party cannot prevent its
discoloration and division and will eventually perish. This is a serious lesson
taught in the world history of socialist ruling party.
The
reality proves the validity and vitality of building of our Party that has
consistently maintained the monolithic ideology and leadership without any
concession, and at the same time highlights the need to inherit it most
perfectly in any case, the General Secretary said, and went on:
In
the first period of the new century of Juche, our Party defined
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism as its unique guiding ideology and set it as its
strategic line of Party building to model the whole Party on Kimilsungism-
Kimjongilism. In this way it established a firm political backbone for
preserving its ideal and character forever and clearly defined the basic
orientation of its building.
And
the whole Party has waged a vigorous struggle to defend, add lustre to and
carry forward the exploits of the preceding leaders.
With
the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee in
February 2015 as an occasion, our Party comprehensively reviewed the successes,
experience, shortcomings and lessons gained in implementing the leader's
instructions and further intensified this work.
As
a result, firmly established was the unique climate of the Party in which all
its organizations in any sector and unit implement the instructions of the
preceding leaders in a perfect way at the level of the times after formulating
all of them.
The
monolithic leadership system was established more thoroughly in the Party and
strengthened in every way. This means that the fundamental issue has been
settled in carrying forward the cause of revolutionary party building.
The
fundamental issue in the succession of the revolutionary cause, the cause of
party building, is the succession to leadership, he said, stressing that our
Party vigorously conducted the work to thoroughly establish the monolithic
leadership system under the support of all its members at an important historic
period of succession to the revolutionary cause of Juche and, on this basis,
further consolidated the single-minded unity of the Party and the people and
firmly preserved the monolithic ideology and leadership within the Party.
He
said that the WPK has recently formulated a new definition of the work for
strengthening the monolithic leadership system and its goal to be achieved and
directed the overall practice of the Party work to its realization. He
continued:
It
is precisely the most important review of the building of our Party over the
past ten years that we have provided a decisive guarantee for accomplishing our
revolutionary cause without any change or deviation by carrying forward and
thoroughly ensuring the monolithic ideology and leadership.
Another
success achieved in our Party building over the past decade is that the Party's
leadership ability has been remarkably strengthened and the fighting efficiency
and activity of Party organizations have been enhanced.
The
authority and might of a socialist ruling party are clearly manifested in the
practice of leadership over the revolutionary struggle and construction work.
What
is important in fulfilling the mission of the Party to lead the revolutionary
cause without any twists and turns or deviations is to adopt correct lines,
policies, strategies and tactics, skillfully guide their execution and thoroughly
implement the fighting programme set forth by the Party to cope with the
changes in the situation in a skillful manner.
Entering
the new century of Juche, our Party was faced with the pressing tasks to
maintain the socialist path and steer the development of the times under the
manifold severe challenges and difficulties.
Through
its sincere ideo-theoretical activities, the Party Central Committee explored
scientific solutions to the new theoretical and practical problems arising in
Party building and activities and the revolution and construction and paid
great attention to formulating them as the organizational will of the whole
Party and realizing them through the struggle of the popular masses themselves.
What
was important here was to restore the system of regularly operating the Party
congresses, the Party Central Committee plenary meetings, its Political Bureau
meetings and other major Party meetings in conformity with the leadership
position and function of the Party, the general staff of the revolution, and
improve their operation.
At
important Party meetings, the Party's orientation, line and policy of struggle
have been agreed on in time and collectively to meet the requirements of the
developing revolution and the changing circumstances, and the implementation of
these policies has been reviewed periodically. As a result, the unity,
momentum, vigour and thoroughness have been firmly ensured in the overall Party
and state work and the leadership authority and role of the Party have been
raised remarkably.
In
order to strengthen the Party's leadership over socialist construction, it is
necessary to imbue the whole Party with one ideology and organize and mobilize
well the masses for the implementation of Party policies.
The
source of the Party's political leadership lies in the truth and validity of
ideas and policies, and in political and ideological work of making them the
ones of the masses themselves.
Our
Party has always given priority to equipping the masses with its ideas and
policies and rousing them to their implementation, and has achieved a number of
successes.
By
establishing a well-regulated system of immediately communicating the Party's
documents and policies to the whole Party and reinforcing the Party's study
network and other networks of internal education, it ensured that the Party's
revolutionary ideas, lines and policies are disseminated in time to the basic
organizations and the entire Party and all the people know well about the
fighting tasks set forth by the Party Central Committee.
In
accordance with the requirements of revolutionary practice, we enriched the
content of Party ideological education with the main emphasis on five- point
education and developed our state-first principle into an all-people patriotic
spirit to wage a vigorous ideological campaign for creating a new spirit of the
times.
Education
in the revolutionary traditions and revolutionary history has been more active
than ever before and the work of inheriting the fighting spirit and traits of
the preceding generations of the revolution is being conducted strategically
and step by step. This is also an important change and development in the field
of Party ideological work.
A
remarkable progress has also been made in exploring and applying new forms and
methods to raise the effectiveness of information and motivation work,
including raising the character of state political events, achieving the
maximum political and educational effect by making creative innovations, and
ensuring the ideological, political and contemporary features and unity in
visual information.
The
work that must be always prioritized and accompanied in strengthening the
Party's leadership is to consolidate the Party itself not only ideologically
but also organizationally as befitting the leading political organization, the
vanguard ranks of the revolution.
Saying
that our Party has readjusted its fighting efficiency and enhanced its activity
by organizationally consolidating itself in a comprehensive and detailed way
over the past decade, he summarized a series of measures taken by our Party
from the development point of view and the results of their implementation in
order to make the whole Party move smoothly in keeping with the reality, and
the results of their implementation.
He
said that the WPK defined the work of personnel administration, the work of
increasing the Party membership and the management of its ranks as the three
major axes to be channeled into strengthening the whole Party and has
intensified the work for building up and managing the ranks of cadres and party
members in a sound way, in conformity with the new fighting environment and
revolutionary tasks.
Noting
that the work for strengthening the basic organizations of the Party, to which
importance has been consistently attached in party building, has been further
intensified over the past decade, he continued:
Our
Party set it as an important link in strengthening the whole Party to cement
the Party cells and primary Party committees, and has regularly held the
meetings of cell secretaries and secretaries of primary Party committees every
five years to enhance the role of the chiefs of organizations.
Positive
change is taking place in the work of the basic Party organizations, through
those occasions in which the Party has correctly analyzed and assessed what was
improved and what is unsettled in the work of the party cells and primary party
committees throughout the Party, taken necessary measures and informed the
secretaries of party cells and primary committees of the intentions of the
Party Central Committee and indicated the clear orientation and tasks for their
future activities.
In
parallel with the strengthening of the basic organizations, the meetings and
short courses for different sectors of guidance and the work sectors were held
in a sequential and intensive way, including a short course for chief
secretaries of city and county Party committees, a special workshop for
officials in the Party life guidance sections of the organizational departments
of the provincial, city and county Party committees and a short course for
officials in the field of information. This was of weighty significance in
encouraging the leadership units and work departments at all levels to have a
good knowledge of their duties, principles of activities and fighting
directions and to improve the Party work.
Analyzing
the fact that our Party put forward the strengthening discipline as a
prerequisite and urgent task for building the Party soundly into the one of
eternal prosperity and has pushed ahead with the work to establish strict
discipline within the Party and, as a result, the solid climate of strictly observing
the Party Rules and regulations and thoroughly implementing the Party's
policies is being established throughout the whole Party, he said that our
Party has been further refined politically and developed organizationally and
ideologically by readjusting and strengthening its leadership ability and
fighting efficiency in every way in the key period when the most important and
difficult tasks are accumulated in carrying out the revolutionary cause.
It
is another precious success that the revolutionary nature of our Party as a
genuine people's party has been firmly preserved and further strengthened over
the past decade, he said, and continued:
Since
the revolution is a struggle to realize the independence of the masses, the
party that leads the revolution must never diverge from the fundamental idea,
the basic mission, of taking responsibility for the destiny of the people and
defending their interests in any case.
But
the longer the political history of the socialist ruling party grows, the less
the spirit of serving the people becomes, and the more the possibility of
bureaucratic practices reigning over the people become.
The
principle consistently maintained by the Party Central Committee from the very
day of its leadership activities was to highlight and sustain the true nature
of the Party which serves the masses absolutely and devotedly.
From
this point of view, we formulated the essence of Kimilsungism- Kimjongilism,
the guiding ideology of the Party, as the people-first principle and
purposefully and persistently pushed forward with the work to imbue the Party
and state activities with the people-first principle.
While
carrying out the heavy tasks arising in socialist construction by enlisting the
strength of the masses, our Party has directed great efforts to embodying the
Juche-oriented outlook on the people and philosophy of the people, the core of
which is the unconditional service to the people, in its activities in
particular.
The
idea of upholding our people sacred and the slogan "Everything for the
people and everything by relying on them!" and the call for making
selfless, devoted efforts for the good of the great people are an intensive
expression of our Party's noble outlook on the people, and they are regarded as
an unshakable creed of all Party organizations and officials in their work and
activities.
Today
our Party gives top priority to the people's will, demands, interests and
convenience and regards them as absolute in adopting and implementing all
policies, and in this course its organizations and officials are fully
displaying the spirit of serving the people.
It
has become a main climate of the Party for its officials to go closer to the
people when there are in hard time, and the brisk projects for providing the
people with a stable and highly-civilized life are worked out and realized.
The
main obstacle to the implementation of the people-first politics of our Party
was the wrong ideological viewpoint and style of work prevalent among
officials.
The
Party has steadily increased the degree of education and struggle, regarding
the work for correcting the wrong style of officials as a vital political issue
for keeping its peculiar character and nature and guaranteeing its existence
and development, and as an urgent task of maintaining a revolutionary and sound
political climate within the Party.
The
struggle to overcome all sorts of wrong ideological views and work-style,
including irresponsibility for entrusted duty and lacks of gumption, formalism
and self-protection and practices of carelessness about the people's living,
was strictly and in detail conducted in every respect throughout the whole
Party.
In
particular, we declared a war to wipe out abuses of power, bureaucratism,
irregularities and corruption, unit specialization and impositions outside the
taxes and took strong organizational and legal measures step by step.
This
has resulted in the suppression of anti-popular acts of insulting the popular
masses and violating their rights and interests, and most of officials have
become awakened to a great extent.
Our
Party has remarkably increased its leadership ability and fighting efficiency,
while steadfastly maintaining its revolutionary character and nature in the
period of great succession and development of the Juche revolution, thus laying
a springboard for building a promising Party and achieving great miraculous
successes that can be convinced of the future of socialism in the face of
severe difficulties.
The
proud successes and valuable experience gained in the building of our Party
over the past decade will serve as a solid foundation for promoting the
development of the Party in the future and be recorded clearly in the history
of the Juche-oriented revolutionary Party building.
The
respected Comrade Kim Jong Un clarified the orientation of the WPK building in
the new era.
Saying
that the heavy yet enormous task and subjective and objective situation facing
our revolution at present and the lawful course of socialist construction
require the steady development in party building, he continued his lecture:
As
I have mentioned before, the Party is the guiding force and organizer of the
revolution, so the work of strengthening the Party should always be ahead of the
times and certainly be successful.
The
cause of party building is precisely a revolutionary cause, and the level of
party building can be called the level of revolutionary development.
Our
Party has achieved valuable successes in Party building over the past decade,
but we should step up the modeling of the whole Party on
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism on a new, high stage with redoubled efforts.
What
is important for the socialist ruling Party in opening up its future is to
resolutely maintain its own duty and principles of activity without losing its
centre of development under any circumstances and conditions, continue to
intensify the struggle for uniting the whole Party around the Party Central
Committee and always root firmly among the working masses and gain the
unanimous trust of all the people.
In
particular, the greater tasks and the more difficulties the revolution face,
the more should we deepen the trust of the masses in the Party and consolidate
the cornerstone of their trust in it. This presents itself as a preferential
and core task.
Therefore,
the Party Central Committee considers it necessary and most appropriate to
strengthen our Party into a party that is politically mature, organizationally
sound, ideologically pure, strictly disciplined and sound in style as required
by the new era.
In
a word, we can say that political, organizational and ideological construction
and discipline and work style building are the directions for our Party
building in the new era.
The
new five-point construction direction is very important both in view of the
historical lessons of the world socialist movement and in view of the situation
in our Party.
The
history of the world socialist movement never knows that a ruling party which
is politically weak, organizationally and ideologically unsound and dominated
by indiscipline and wrong work-style had led correctly the revolution and
served the people with credit.
A
party which was vulnerable to self-building, without exception, lost the
people's trust and leadership, and failed to overcome the challenges and
offensive of the counterrevolution.
Our
Party has so far achieved a great victory, overcoming the grave difficulties,
through a tireless struggle to make the whole Party a powerful integral
organization and ideological pure entity and combine leadership with the masses
in the three aspects of organizational building, ideological building and
leadership art building.
Analyzing
the subjective and objective conditions of our revolution and the present
situation of Party work, he explained the issues arising in boldly overcoming
the outdated and backward things that put a brake on the building of the Party
and the development of its work and in building the Party in keeping with the
new era by not resting on its laurels but putting spurs to the strengthening of
the whole Party and by working with more appropriate and effective methodology.
He
said that we should effectively promote the development of the Party in line
with the party building orientation in the new era and thus establish the
appearance and traits of the Party guaranteeing its eternal prosperity and
confidently advance toward the building of socialism and communism. He went on:
We
must press ahead with the political construction of the Party.
The
Party's political construction is a central task in steadily enhancing the
Party's leadership ability and maintaining and consolidating its correct
political traits.
Our
Party has so far purposefully and consistently in a unique way conducted the
work to strengthen itself politically.
In
this way, we have set a world example in consolidating the revolutionary
political climate in the Party with the monolithic ideology and leadership as
the core and in equipping it with the appearance and prestige of a political
leadership organization.
There
is no reason to neglect or egotism with the great success our Party has
achieved in this field, and in reality there is an urgent need to raise the
Party's leadership authority and further improve its political spirit in the
Party work.
The
Party's political construction should always be given priority and
strengthened, and the other sectors of Party building, including organizational
and ideological building, should be led and defined by it.
The
basic requirement of political construction is to intensify the work for
establishing the monolithic leadership system of the Party Central Committee on
a new level.
The
monolithic leadership system of the Party Central Committee is the backbone of
our Party's leadership ability, the core of its political traits, and the root
of the high dignity and strong fighting efficiency of our Party envied by all
other revolutionary parties.
As
has already been clarified, the ideal goal of establishing the monolithic
leadership system of the Party Central Committee is to make the whole Party a
single-hearted entity with the Party Central Committee, one head and one body.
We
should firmly defend the authority of the Party Central Committee and
unconditionally implement its ideas, decisions and instructions, concentrate
all the issues arising in Party work and activities on the Party Central
Committee in a thoroughgoing way, and deal with them according to its
conclusion, and not to delay even a moment but continue to conduct in depth the
work of establishing strict order and discipline in which the whole Party moves
as one under the unified leadership of the Party Central Committee.
What
is important is to make the whole Party cherish faith and maintain pure
loyalty.
The
monolithic leadership system of the Party Central Committee will be further
consolidated when it is supported by loyalty emanating from the minds of
officials and Party members of its own accord.
True
loyalty to the Party does not come into being or harden into faith overnight.
Therefore, all Party organizations should not make pretence but conduct
effective cultivation of loyalty with great efforts, so as to make it a trait
of politico-ideological and moral obligation.
It
is important to make thinking and activities of all the officials and members
of the Party consistent with loyalty and thus ensure that the monolithic
leadership system of the Party Central Committee is steadily strengthened on
the basis of the intense loyalty of the masses, no matter how the situation may
change and how much water may flow.
Another
important requirement of political construction is to ensure that Party
committees at all levels perform their functions and role correctly as the
supreme leadership bodies and political staff of the units concerned.
The
Party committee concerned should thoroughly maintain the system and order of
controlling and guiding in a unified way all the organs and organizations in
its region and unit, and ensure that all work is conducted properly through the
collective leadership of the Party committee while giving full play to
inner-Party democracy.
In
particular, the work of the Party organizations should be turned into the one
with people and be consistent with political activities, so as to overcome the
tendency of Party work becoming administrative and practical and of Party
officials taking over administrative affairs.
Another
important requirement of political construction is to encourage all Party
members to play their role as political activists with a high degree of
political consciousness.
This
is precisely the task which our Party must tackle with a focus in political
construction.
It
is self-evident that the party can fully discharge its mission and role as the
political general staff only when every party member forming the Party has a
good understanding and struggle as a voluntary vanguard and political activist,
he said, explaining the issues for raising the political sensitivity and
political and theoretical level of the party members and enhancing the political
activities of the party members. He went on:
Another
important requirement of political construction is to steadily develop the
method of leadership on the revolution and construction.
The
proper combination of leadership with the masses is always essential in the
political guidance of the Party.
We
should actively apply to the Party work and activities of today the powerful
methods of leadership that have been created and whose vitality have been
displayed to the full by our Party in the course of its long struggle of
leading the revolution and construction, while enriching them in keeping with
the times and the development of the revolution.
We
should also make effective use of the method of creating and generalizing
innovative and leaping new standards of development and models that can be
representative of the times in each sector and the campaigns in which one
overtakes and learns from others and swaps experiences with each other and
other methods created in the new era, so as to enlighten, encourage and renew
the whole of society.
It
can be said that it is one of the leadership methods to steer the excellent
climate of the Party and the good tendency and atmosphere of the whole society
through the noble relations of trust, respect, devotion and obligation between
the Party and the masses in the glorious struggle of writing a new history of
the Juche revolution.
The
whole Party should actively encourage and cultivate such good traits as
respecting and giving prominence to revolutionary forerunners, pioneers of the
times and honest working people, loving children and caring for those in
difficulties, so as to ensure that positive influence prevails throughout
social life and that noble virtues and affections continue to develop into a
national custom.
He
stressed the need to continue to strengthen the organizational building of the
Party.
To
steadily strengthen the party organizationally is an essential requirement for
consolidating the organizational unity of the whole party centered on the Party
Central Committee and ensuring the sound metabolism and fighting efficiency of
the party, he said, referring to a series of deviations remaining in the work
of organizationally readjusting and strengthening the party, and elaborating on
the principles for steadily consolidating the party and revolutionary ranks in
an organizational way as the revolution and construction advance and struggle
deepens.
He
explained that it is an important task in organizational building of the party
to transform the party ranks into elites and it is achieved as the substantial
result of the work for increasing the party membership and managing its ranks.
He
stressed that the work with the masses is the work for consolidating the
party's mass foundation and strengthening the single-minded unity and at the
same time a vital issue related to the existence of the party. He also referred
to the issue of giving priority to the work for winning trust of the masses and
consolidating it, the issue of party organizations and officials for always
lending ear to the people's mindset, responding sensitively to and properly
coordinating their feelings and the issue of directing efforts to working with
the youth and students, an important guarantee for building the party in the
centuries.
He
called for further deepening and developing the party's organizational
construction to steadily strengthen the party into an integral organization and
a party which achieved the unity of actions dynamically advancing toward the
construction of socialism and communism purposed by us by overcoming any storm
and stress.
He
stressed the need to push ahead with the ideological building of the party more
dynamically.
Noting
that precedence should be naturally given to the party's ideological work
before all other works in view of its essential requirement and only then is it
possible to prevent the change and degeneration of the party and lead the
revolutionary and enterprising development, he set forth in detail the ways for
enhancing the penetration and effectiveness of the ideological work in
conformity with the revolutionary development, the change of the times and the
level of consciousness of the masses.
He
stressed the need to adhere to the principle of preserving the monolithic
management system of ideological work as the lifeblood and giving priority to
ideological work in all work, to conduct the work of developing and enriching
the contents of the Party's ideological education as required by the
revolutionary practice, to pay attention to regularly and substantially
operating the ideological work system and information and motivation forces and
means and actively using modern information means, to improve the form and
method of ideological work in keeping with the developing era and the change in
the people's consciousness, and to make the atmosphere of voluntarily studying
the party policy and new knowledge and working in a fresh way prevail in the whole
party by having the slogan for making the whole Party the studying party become
that of the masses themselves and to give vitality to the ideological position
and continue to rev up the revolutionary enthusiasm of the masses by increasing
the output and influence of media and bringing about innovations in creative
activities in the literature and art.
He
pointed out the issues of intensifying the struggle against anti-socialist and
non-socialist practices and the uncompromising struggle against all sorts of
opportunistic and counterrevolutionary ideological tendencies in the party's
ideological construction.
He
stressed the need to conduct in depth theoretical research for deeply
explaining and propagating the ideas and theories and policies of the WPK and
deepen it in a far-sighted way so as to lead the ideological building of the
Party by providing theoretical and profound clarification of the law of the
development of our Party and revolution and the prospect of socialist
construction in the theoretical study field and developing them systematically.
He
stressed the need to push ahead with the building of the party's discipline.
Only
when strict discipline is established within the party, is it possible to
thoroughly suppress all unorganized, undisciplined and negative elements in the
whole party work and propel and guarantee the sound development of the party,
he said, referring to the principled issues arising in putting spurs to the
building of party discipline and establishing an accurate and powerful
disciplinary system, including the strict establishment of the voluntary
discipline-observing trait and the discipline-supervising system and
discipline- applying system throughout the party.
He
explained the need to build the Party's style of work in a substantial way. He
clarified the necessity of improving the style of work throughout the
Party
and the purpose of building the style of the WPK, and said:
The
excellent style of work created by our Party while leading the arduous and
complicated revolutionary struggle and the building of a new society
constitutes a precious foundation for the building of the style of work in the
new era.
The
whole party should steadily and methodically conduct the work to make officials
acquire the revolutionary and popular work styles created by President Kim Il
Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and developed and enriched by our Party and apply
them to real life, so that the communist work style peculiar to our Party is
carried on.
The
Party's attention should be paid to establishing among officials the habit of
carrying out the tasks in a responsible way with revolutionary work attitude
and manner.
The
Party's fighting efficiency is precisely the ability of officials to develop,
struggle and practice.
We
should ensure that the whole Party is permeated with revolutionary and
responsible work styles, including the trait of unconditionally accepting the
Party's decisions and instructions and carrying them out in time by dint of
self- reliance and fortitude, the trait of disallowing self-complacency and
self-praise, encouraging self-reproach and reflection and always striving with
painstaking efforts, and the trait of carrying out work in a far-sighted way
and on a long- term basis, looking forward to the future.
At
the same time, we should wage a ceaseless struggle to overcome all kinds of
negative and varied ideological views and work style, including the
non-revolutionary and non-militant attitude, irresponsibility, self-protection,
formalism and expediency revealed in the practical struggle, so as to prevent
the wrong style of work.
What
should be particularly focused in the building of style of work is to ensure
that the correct viewpoint and attitude towards the people are always
prevailing in the Party.
For
our Party, which intends to be genuine servants of the people, a correct
viewpoint and attitude towards the people is a matter that cannot be conceded
in any case or under any circumstances.
As
I have said, our Party was born to defend the interests of the working masses
and has been working to provide the people with a happy life since its
foundation, and this is why the people call our Party their mother and follow
it.
Our
Party upholds the banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism in order to preserve its
character and fulfill its mission as a party serving the people.
He
said that if our Party, oblivious of its character and mission for a moment,
goes authoritarian to display a certain degree of isms, it will lose its
original nature and be forsaken by the people. He stressed that it should
become the mode of existence and mode of revolution of our Party to deepen the
trust of the people by regarding them as divine and devoting itself to them,
purify its climate and attain higher goals by dint of the single-minded unity
between the Party and the people, and went on:
To
this end, all officials should make our Party's outlook and philosophy on the
people the motto of their work and life and do their best to effectively
develop the work for absolutely serving the people and enrich the Party's
traditional method of work with the masses in keeping with the present
situation.
An
official to be trusted at any time and relied on by the masses without worry
are, above all, conscientious and honest.
Only
when a good style of work such as being unconventional, modest and setting an
example is supported by conscience and honesty, can it win the recognition of
the masses.
No
matter how the times develop and the circumstances change, we can maintain the
excellent work style of the Party and ensure its superiority if we have only
upright and honest officials.
Therefore,
in promoting the building of the Party's style of work, we should always give
prominence to and encourage the high sense of simplicity, honesty and purity
and take appropriate practical measures in all the processes of Party work so
as to make it an essential and consolidated trait of officials.
In
particular, we should not tolerate any practices of looking down on the people
and infringing upon their rights and interests such as abuse of power, bureaucratic,
irregularities and corruption and impositions outside the taxes contrary to the
sound style of the Party, but eliminate them resolutely.
At
the same time, it is necessary to further subdivide and actualize the rules of
life of officials working at Party organs at all levels, in keeping with the
new requirements of the building of style of work, and establish an order in
which they strictly observe it.
If
our Party is strengthened in the aspects of political, organizational and
ideological construction and building of discipline and style of work as above,
it will be possible to solve not only the immediate tasks for the party
building but also the long-term problems on its own initiative and
systematically, thus strengthening its leadership ability and fighting
efficiency and fulfilling its duty as a revolutionary party responsible for the
destiny and future of the people.
The
respected Comrade Kim Jong Un clarified the duty of the Central Cadres Training
School of the Workers' Party of Korea in improving the training of Party cadres
in keeping with the new requirement of Party building.
Noting
that the most knotty problem in strengthening our Party and implementing its
fighting programme at present is the shortage of cadres who are ready to carry
it out, he said it is very important that the Party cadre- training
institutions, the Central Cadres Training School in particular, fulfill their
responsibility and duty.
Noting
that how the school performs its duty is directly related to the long- term
development of the Party and the future destiny of the revolution, not just the
present party work, he referred to the tasks for reliably guaranteeing the
development and rosy future of the Party by making redoubled efforts with new
viewpoint and new readiness to put the educational work on the level required
by the Party and the revolution.
The
basic duty of the Central Cadres Training School of the Workers' Party of Korea
is to train all the students to be genuine revolutionaries and paramount
elements of the Party who are guided only by the revolutionary ideology of the
Party Central Committee and staunchly champion and implement it.
As
already written on the monument bearing on the inscription of his autograph at
the school, the President earnestly taught the students of Kim Il Sung Higher
Party School that they should become competent officials of the Party and the
state who are always working among the people, standing in the van of the
people for the independence and sovereignty of the country and the freedom and
happiness of the people.
The
Central Cadres Training School should orient all its work to training new-type
Party officials and servants of the people who are politically and ideologically
sound and have completely changed their work style and personality in
conformity with its basic tasks.
The
Party officials desired by our Party are, above all, officials of real ability,
equipped with high level of political and practical qualifications, who support
the Party Central Committee with a pure conscience, and think and act in
accordance with the ideas and intentions of the Party Central Committee under
any circumstances, and who are fully armed themselves with the Party's ideas
and theories and are well versed in the principles and methods of Party work
and have acquired the leadership skills of moving the masses. They are
officials who know how to find the worth and joy of life in embodying our
Party's outlook on the people and people-centered philosophy and in devoting
themselves to the people.
The
Central Cadres Training School should be well aware of the requirements of the
Party Central Committee for training cadres and further improve its education
and training in Party spirit so that a person who had shortcomings in work and
life before can be born and brought up in a new way in the political,
ideological, practical and mental and moral aspects once he has undergone the
school's educational process.
Another
duty of the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK is to study, explain and
propagate our Party's ideas and theories.
The
Central Cadres Training School is the basic base and the think tank of the
ideological and theoretical building of our Party.
The
Central Cadres Training School should study in depth in principle our Party's
revolutionary ideology and prove and explain the validity, scientific accuracy
and vitality of the newly advanced lines, policies and fighting policies, so as
to enrich the treasure house of our Party's ideology and theory.
The
respected General Secretary said that the Central Cadres Training School should
bring about a radical change in education in order to successfully carry out
its revolutionary tasks.
What
is most important is to improve the educational contents in conformity with the
mission and characteristics of the Party cadre training institution, he said,
adding that it is important to make the teaching contents run through the
Party's policies, to give effective education in the history of the Party, to
raise the students' high political consciousness and political sensitivity,
essential qualifications of Party officials, to give students proper Party work
business, to select the educational contents in conformity with the
characteristics of school educational system and to raise the level of
specialization in the teaching activities.
He
explained the need to improve the educational form and method of the school and
intensify the educational administration.
Saying
that teachers should not be mere conveyors of knowledge but guide and designer
of training talents developed politically and ideologically and intellectually,
he stressed the need to decisively turn from teacher-centered to
student-centered educational methods.
He
also referred to all the issues arising in actively exploring and introducing
new teaching forms and methods by applying modern science and technology,
including the VR technology and the augmented reality technology, and in fairly
and accurately assessing the students' ability.
It
is important to correctly define the school system and the criteria for
selecting students as required by the mission and duty of the school and the
times and intensify and correctly implement the educational programme so that
it can successfully conduct theoretical and practical education with the main
emphasis on tempering the Party spirit, he said, indicating the orientation and
ways for improving the educational administration and management.
He
stressed the need for the school, which is the core of the education of the
Party cadre training institutions at all levels, to be the sponsor in unifying
the education programme for the party building of the schools at all levels and
contribute to improving the education of the Party cadre training institutions.
He
said that the Central Cadres Training School should improve the quality of the
teacher camp in order to successfully discharge its mission and duty.
Strengthening
the school's teacher camp is not a mere practical work but a responsible work
for consolidating the foundation for training party cadres and guaranteeing the
future of the Party, he said, adding that the teachers of the school are career
revolutionaries training the Party's medium-standing cadres and political
activists.
Saying
that all teachers should consciously dip themselves into improving
qualifications and self-cultivation and prepare themselves politically,
ideologically in educational, practical, spiritual and moral aspects so as to
become genuine teachers who are respected and always remembered by students and
genuine mirrors for them, he clarified the principled issues arising in rapidly
raising the qualifications and abilities of teachers and building up the ranks
of teachers well.
He
set forth concrete tasks for decisively enhancing the function and role of the
school Party committee.
He
stressed the need for the school Party committee to focus on improving the
political and practical qualifications and party's cultivation of the teaching
staff and students and improving the organization and guidance of the Party
life and the supply service so that teachers and students can devote themselves
to education and study.
He
stressed that the departments of the Party Central Committee should attach
importance to the Central Cadres Training School, pay attention to the
education of the school and put efforts to selecting the enrolment and building
the teacher camp of the school.
Saying
that the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK is the party school of the
President and the Chairman and his dear party school both in name and reality,
he clarified the intention of the Party Central Committee to attach importance
to the Central Cadres Training School which should always share the destiny
with the WPK as an indispensable entity for the existence of the WPK.
He
expressed his determination to put forward the Central Cadres Training School,
which is arming and training reserves of the Party, as the university above the
universities in the future, give boost to the Party work, teaching
administration and management of the school while giving direct support to it
and make it a model of universities across the country in all aspects.
Expressing
expectation and belief that the Central Cadres Training School would train
competent Party officials and proficient political activists with whom our
Party can entrusted the future affairs without anxiety even after 50 years, 100
years and hundreds of years, true to the Party's idea of prioritizing party
building and its policy of training reserves, he called for working hard for a
fresh innovation in the work for training cadres of our Party and the steady
development of the great Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist Party and the victorious
advance of the revolutionary cause of Juche.
When
Kim Jong Un finished the lecture, the participants broke into stormy cheers and
loud applauses full of excitement to hear the unique idea and theory on party
building of Korean style in conformity with the requirements of the new era of
the Juche revolution.
All
the participants hardened their firm will to arm themselves with the
revolutionary idea and fighting policies of the great Party Central Committee
and work hard for the brilliant success and victory of our noble idea and
sacred cause, feeling with great excitement the moment of history when a
powerful weapon was born for steadily developing the dignified WPK, which has
recorded the longest history of power under the absolute support and trust of
the people, into the promising party.
The
great guidance of Kim Jong Un over the Central Cadres Training School of the
WPK will shine long in the history of the WPK as a historic guidance that
indicated the bright path for the party building in the new era and set up a
new turning point in the work for training the core of the WPK, thus
consolidating the organizational and ideological foundation of the Party in
every way and vigorously promoting the struggle to further strengthen the WPK into
a powerful political General Staff of the revolution, an elite and iron- willed
vanguard rank of the revolution and a genuine motherly party.
