Ceremony of Welcoming Return of KPA Unit of Engineers Held with Splendor

Pyongyang, December 13 (KCNA) -- The Korean People's Army regards the absolute loyalty to the Workers' Party of Korea and the revolution as its sacred mission and duty and keeps performing brilliant military exploits with its unparalleled fighting spirit and through mass heroism, adding luster to the prestige and honor of our state.

The officers and combatants of the KPA unit of engineers who had been dispatched to an overseas operational area by the order of the Central Military Commission of the WPK returned home in triumph after fulfilling the assigned military task.

A ceremony took place with splendor at the plaza of the April 25 House of Culture in the capital city of Pyongyang on Dec. 12 to welcome the 528th Regiment of Engineers which returned home after carrying out the combat order of the Party in the overseas operational area.

The plaza was overflowing with great enthusiasm for welcoming the officers and combatants of the unit of engineers who demonstrated the irresistible might of our army again after the officers and men of the KPA special operations force performed legendary combat feats in an alien land to shine long in the history of building the Juche-oriented army.

The proud sons of the people who entered the plaza with the great pride of defending the absolute prestige of our state were warmly welcomed by officers and men of the KPA and citizens of the capital city.

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, attended the welcoming ceremony.

Present there were participants in the 13th Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK and the large combined units of the KPA, families of the combatants of the regiment of engineers, service personnel, citizens and youth and students in Pyongyang.

When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived, service personnel and people raised stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" to reverberate throughout the sky of December, looking up to the ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander who has trained our armed forces into an invincible strong army, which is winning only victories by means of definite superiority in ideology, spirit and strategy and tactics, with his outstanding military strategic idea, rare commanding art and great trust and love.

Kim Jong Un sent a militant salute to the officers and men of the unit of engineers who defended the immortal reputation and prestige of the KPA and returned home with honor.

A commanding officer of the overseas engineers combat unit courteously reported to the Supreme Commander of the armed forces of the DPRK that the unit carried out the Party's combat order.

Kim Jong Un warmly congratulated the regiment on its proud combat achievements.

He made a speech in congratulation of the homecoming of the unit of engineers.

He warmly encouraged the officers and soldiers of the regiment of engineers who came back to the motherland after fully discharging their combat orders from the Party by displaying matchless bravery and specialized features and referred to pain of waiting for one hundred and twenty days in which he had never forgotten the beloved sons even for a moment and to the combat feats the regiment performed to shine forever in the history of the overseas military operations.

He said that the blood and sweat the soldiers of our armed forces shed and the sacrifice they made in the overseas operational area will never remain in vain and the feats the officers and soldiers of the 528th Regiment of Engineers performed will shine forever along with the fame of our powerful army.

Expressing gratitude and paying ennobling respect to the devoted service of the officers and soldiers who are always faithful to the country, he ended his speech.

When he finished his speech, all the participants raised stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" once again, looking up to him with the boundless excitement and happiness of returning to the embrace of the father whom they yearned for and the greatest honor and pleasure of being blessed by the great brilliant commander.

Kim Jong Un proclaimed that the motherland decided to award the regiment the Order of Freedom and Independence 1st Class and nine combatants fallen in the course of completing their military missions the title of the DPRK Hero, the Order of National Flag 1st Class and the Order of Soldier's Honor 1st Class in order to highly appreciate and add eternal luster to the bravery displayed by the unit and its brilliant combat feats.

Upon the authorization of the Party and the government of the Republic, he fixed the order awarded by the motherland to the colours of the unit shining with the immortal feats.

The venue of ceremony was full of great emotion and joy of all the officers and men of the regiment of engineers.

Kim Jong Un warmly congratulated the soldiers of the regiment upon receiving the thanks and worthy honor offered by the Party, motherland and people.

There took place a march-past of the columns of the overseas engineers unit of the KPA with their glorious colours.

The participants enthusiastically applauded the soldiers of the unit of engineers who were granted a special favor of being reviewed by their supreme commander after making a report on victory.

Kim Jong Un met with the exemplary officers and combatants of the regiment of engineers and warmly encouraged them, highly appreciating the moral world and military feats of them who absolutely remain faithful to the order of the Party and the motherland.

The emotional scene of the venue of the ceremony in which the leader shared noble fraternal feelings with his soldiers was an impressive picture eloquently showing what made our motherland great and what made our army strong.

Kim Jong Un said that the motherland and people would always remember the military feats of the combatants of the unit of engineers who showed the feature of the true soldier, officer and human being who remain faithful to the motherland and people and are proud before them with their transparent faith and will and self-sacrificing efforts in battlefields, not with words and the bravery and heroism displayed by our soldiers in the sacred war for defending justice and dignity would be kept as the greatest pride of our state.

Expressing the belief and conviction that the brave combatants, who fully proved the law of the victory and development of the revolutionary army invincible with ideology and getting stronger by dint of it in overseas battlefield, would vigorously glorify the dignity and honor of the KPA with the worthwhile military feats of our generation, he had significant pictures taken with them, which will be eternally recorded in the history of army building.

At the end of the photo session, the venue of the ceremony resounded with the enthusiastic cheers reflecting the transparent faith and will of the combatants to more bravely struggle for the great Comrade Kim Jong Un and our great state and people.

Kim Jong Un visited the memorial wall erected at the central hall of the April 25 House of Culture.

Reverently recollecting the noble life of the martyrs who dedicated their lives to the sacred war for defending the honor and dignity of the country, he fixed the medal of the DPRK Hero, order of national flag and the order of soldier's honor beside their portraits.

He laid a white flower before the memorial wall and observed a moment's silence, hoping that the noble soul and spirit of the martyrs will be immortal along with their honor.

And flowers were placed before the memorial wall by commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK and the large combined units of the KPA, commanding officers of the regiment of engineers and the bereaved families of the martyrs.

Kim Jong Un met the bereaved families of the martyrs and warmly consoled them, sharing with them the pain of loss.

A performance was given to congratulate the return of the combatants who devotedly carried out the Party's combat order in the overseas operational area.

When Kim Jong Un appeared in the auditorium together with the commanding officers of the unit of engineers, the combatants broke into cheers, overcome by deep emotion of being honored with the highest glory and happiness in their lives under the care of the country and the great father whom they longed for even in their dreams.

The performers put on the stage songs of best wishes for the well-being of the motherland sung by the brave soldiers in battlefields of the alien land and the songs of the revolutionary army which always inspired them with unyielding courage and encouraged them to win victory.

The audience was filled with deep emotion by the images showing the self-sacrificing combat spirit, the loyalty and patriotism of the combatants of the unit of engineers, who dash into a mine field or a hail of bullets without hesitation and open the road of advance for victory to carry out the order of the leader and the Party.

Deeply moved by the traces our soldiers left in every bloody battlefield and their warm feelings, the audience was more firmly convinced that the motherland will be always strong as it has the reliable lifeguards who are possessed of the pure mind of remaining absolutely loyal to the Party, matchless heroism, ardent patriotism and comradeship as their mental qualities.

The performance was acclaimed by the audience as it reflected the firm will of the service personnel of the People' Army to reliably defend the security of the country and the people, holding the arms of the revolution more firmly while highly displaying the ideological and mental superiority peculiar to our army, through fine ideological and artistic depictions.

When the performance was over, the audience broke into stormy cheers again, looking up to Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong Un warmly waved back to the officers and combatants of the unit of engineers as an expression of encouragement.

All the officers and men of the unit of engineers firmly pledged to cherish the heavenly love and trust of the great Party Central Committee as a vein of their destiny and nutrition fostering heroism and record only victories on the glorious colours shining with proud military feats of defending the motherland and revolution.

A reception was given in the evening to welcome the soldiers' homecoming.

Present on invitation were the officers and combatants of the 528th Regiment of Engineers, their families and officials concerned.

Also present there were leading officials of the Party and the government.

The spirit of carrying out the order of the Party unto death, mass heroism and unparalleled self-sacrificing spirit displayed by the officers and combatants of the 528th Regiment of Engineers of the KPA will be handed down forever along with the history of eternal victory of the powerful revolutionary army of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un. -0-

Speech of Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un at Ceremony of Welcoming Return of KPA Overseas Engineers Unit

 

Pyongyang, December 13 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech at the ceremony of welcoming the return of the overseas engineers unit of the Korean People's Army.

The full text of his speech is as follows:

Dear officers and soldiers of the 528th Regiment of Engineers of the Korean People’s Army,

I warmly welcome all of you, officers and soldiers of the regiment, back to your country. In performing your overseas mission you demonstrated the heroic spirit of our army and its specialized features with credit, and carried out your combat tasks in a responsible manner.

I really appreciate you all for coming back in good health.

Just as you yearned, every moment of the day on the foreign battleground, for all the precious things in your country, everyone in your country have never forgotten their beloved sons even for a moment.

Upon receiving the daily reports about your combats, I was deeply moved by the unyielding mettle you displayed in executing the orders from your Party and country death-defyingly. And each time, my wish grew stronger for every one of you to return safely and gladly.

In retrospect, for me, this can be said to be a year of longing; to the marrow of my bone, I have felt the pain of waiting that I have never experienced before.

One hundred and twenty days have passed since the moment when I had to dispatch you, combatants of this regiment, to the dangerous battleground; every day of this period seemed like a decade, just as when I had been waiting for the combatants of the special operations units, who had been involved in the liberation battles.

As the days went by, I found myself unable to accustom myself to, or get used to, worrying about the safety of the precious sons of this country who were fighting on the foreign battleground.

Now I feel at ease.

I am fairly relieved to see all of you come back like this.

You have fought very bravely.

True to the expectations of the Party, the country and all who are dear to your hearts, you displayed your mettle befitting true combatants, to the admiration of the world. Now you look more robust and dignified, and once again I warmly congratulate you, all the combatants of the regiment of engineers, for returning home with pride.

Comrades,

The 528th Regiment of Engineers is another proud combat unit that justly represents the matchless bravery and powerfulness of our army and its specialized features.

This regiment was formed on May 28 according to the decisions and orders of our Party Central Military Commission to build on the valuable victory in the overseas military operations. Early in August you, engineers of the regiment, left for the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, which your comrades-in-arms had retaken at the cost of their lives, and you achieved brilliant results in the course of performing your combat tasks there.

You fought in a life-and-death situation, braving the grave invisible dangers here and there, and your faith and willpower were tested every step of your way. Despite the harshness of the circumstances on the battleground, our engineers of the regiment never vacillated or hesitated, but all of you were courageous and responsible all the time.

As all of you, both officers and soldiers, displayed mass heroism overcoming unimaginable mental and physical burdens almost every day, you could work a miracle of turning a vast area of danger zone into a safe and secure one in a matter of less than three months, the task which was believed to be impossible to be carried out even in several years.

The cardinal importance of the battle results the regiment achieved this time lies evidently in that they were not feats performed by a few well-trained fighters but the fruition of mass heroism displayed by all the officers and soldiers.

In the rigorous battleground, where even a trifle slip or carelessness was not allowed and where even going to and from the battleground was accompanied by combats, you, caring for your comrades-in-arms first, shielded one another from the bursting shrapnel, and fulfilled your missions unto death even when you were critically wounded. Your ennobling comradeship, matchless self-sacrificing spirit and indomitability deserve everybody’s admiration, I believe.

I was convinced that our regiment of engineers would fight like that as they were ordered by the Party Central Committee.

Your brilliant battle results were also associated with the devoted efforts of the signalmen and medics who accomplished their tasks faithfully risking their lives almost every day.

All the officers and soldiers were equally brave, competent, devoted and heroic, indeed.

The fundamental key to the invincible fighting strength our regiment of engineers demonstrated in the alien battleground lies in the revolutionary fighting spirit that prevailed in the entire unit.

As definite precedence was given to political work, which was conducted in an ingenious, fresh and prompt way to suit the frontline situation, the spiritual and moral merits of our army were fully displayed typically to demonstrate the unconditional implementation of orders, loyalty, patriotism, unity between officers and soldiers, and comradeship.

What impressed me particularly were the performances given by company art groups in humble barracks on the holidays of September 9 and October 10, and the soldiers singing revolutionary songs on their way to the battleground and reciting the poems of their creation and writing letters to their home towns and villages at breaks of the mine-clearing hours.

Such a way of life could hardly be seen in such deadly circumstances unless they are men of optimism who are strong in faith and will as they are entirely filled with affection and respect for their Party, their country, their home towns and their parents and siblings and are firmly convinced of their victorious cause.

No other armies could imitate our service personnel’s ennobling ideological mentality of considering it a source of their honour instead of death to sacrifice themselves for their country, nor could they produce at any exorbitant cost mass heroism, a powerful weapon unique to our army.

The armed villains of the West, armed with whatever latest military hardware they are, cannot match this revolutionary army with an unfathomable spiritual depth.

It is regrettable that I cannot enumerate now all the combat feats performed by the hundreds of officers and soldiers of the regiment of engineers.

However, these feats will shine forever in the history of our army’s overseas military operations as well as in the history of the unit of engineers.

Comrades,

You left your homeland without much fanfare on receiving the order of the Party, but you have returned with something really great that adds to the glory of your country, your fellow people and army.

Your regiment accomplished the order unto death, but there was no reward or remuneration for it. Yet, it has earned the most valuable thing in the world that cannot be bartered for anything else.

That is the trust and confidence of the Party, the country and the people in our army.

Our army should expect nothing other than the trust of the Party, the country and the people.

By displaying an unrivalled fighting spirit and writing legendary tales in your combat records, you have faithfully and wonderfully lived up to the trust and confidence of your Party, your state and your fellow people in you.

The regiment of engineers has once again etched in history and highlighted in front of the world the unique mightiness of our army that has held ideological and spiritual perfectness, the core of which is the absolute loyalty to the Workers’ Party of Korea, as a banner of making itself a strong army. Herein lies the special significance of the feats performed by the regiment.

I, in the name of the Party and the country, extend thanks to all the officers and soldiers of the 528th Regiment of Engineers, who, by displaying matchless mass heroism and indomitable fighting mettle, carried out to the death the combat order issued by the Party and fully demonstrated once again the prestige of our state and the fame of the Korean People’s Army.

Comrades,

The priceless blood and sweat the regiment shed and the invaluable sacrifice it made in the course of perfectly carrying out the combat order of the Party will never remain in vain.

The immortal feats and exploits you performed will shine forever along with the fame of our powerful state and army and with our socialist country that will prosper infinitely.

Except the heartrending loss of nine lives, all the officers and soldiers of the regiment have returned to the motherland, and I express my thanks to you for this.

All the officers and soldiers of the armed forces of our Republic will regard the fighting spirit and exploits of the 528th Regiment of Engineers as another model. And your parents, siblings, wives and children, and the teachers of your alma maters will feel greatly proud of you.

I really feel proud of you, ranks of stalwart soldiers, and your powerful combat unit.

I hope that in the future, too, you will continue to perform brilliant exploits on the sacred road of safeguarding our great state and people.

The motherland decided to confer the Order of Freedom and Independence on your regiment in order to highly appreciate and add eternal glory to its bravery and brilliant combat feats.

In addition, it decided to award the title of Hero of the DPRK, Order of the National Flag 1st Class and Order of Soldier’s Honour 1st Class to the nine engineers who, to our regret, fell in the course of carrying out their combat orders.

Today I, upon authorization of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the government of the Republic, will confer the Order of Freedom and Independence 1st Class on the colours of your regiment, its banner of victory and glory, and fix the orders on the portraits of our fallen comrades-in-arms.

I express my gratitude and pay ennobling respect to you, who are always faithful to your country, for your devoted service.

Long live the heroic Korean People’s Army! -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.12.13.)

Human Rights - No Tool for Political Motive

2025.12.10.
http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/23628
Seventy-five years have passed since the United Nations designated December 10 as Human Rights Day and appealed for prevention of human rights violations across the world. However, the world now witnesses violation of rights to life and development of human beings, and never-ending crimes against human rights such as racial discrimination, xenophobia and human trafficking.

The Western forces are to blame for all this as they have reduced “human rights” to political plaything and a pair of scales weighing others for the purpose of realizing their geo-political superiority and global hegemony, a far deviation from the sacred intrinsic purpose of human rights and contradiction to the current trend of modern civilization.

Turning a blind eye to their own human rights situation where grave violations of human rights like poverty, unemployment, murder and discrimination are being systematically perpetrated, the West are abusing “human rights” as a tool for naming and blaming those countries of their dislike and for interfering in their internal affairs. What’s worse, they are overthrowing legitimate governments of developing countries, resulting in such human rights catastrophe as refugee crisis.

What unmistakably lurks behind all the distrust, discord, confrontation and separation in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and many other parts of the world is the crooked hands of the U.S. and the West.

That such countries arbitrarily judge and slander human rights situation in other sovereign states with its own yardstick is indeed an insult to the sacred notion of human rights.

Such behaviour of the U.S. and the West of abusing the universal concept of human rights and international human rights norms for the sake of their sinister geopolitical purposes is now working as a harmful element running counter to the aspirations and efforts of the international society for the protection and promotion of genuine human rights.

Two Different Realities on Campus

 

2025.12.2.
http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/23610
A recent Tokyo Shimbun editorial on spiking violence and maltreatment on campus is drawing the attention of the world people. Violence and maltreatment reported in primary, middle and high schools all across Japan in 2024 hit a record high of more than 128,800 and 769,000 cases respectively. They were confirmed in 80 per cent of all schools in Japan. The number of absent students has increased for 12 consecutive years to over 353,970 – 3.9% of the total number of students.

More ridiculous is what the article recommends – actions need to be taken not by the state or community, but the school authorities and teaching staff. After all, it is the admission that violence and maltreatment on campus are incurable social ills.

However, thanks to the free compulsory 12-year education system in the DPRK, all the schoolchildren are growing up into reliable pillars of the country possessed of noble morals, profound knowledge and strong physique, giving full play to their potential in standardized schools, marvelous palaces and holiday camps for schoolchildren.

Thanks to the great care of the State and society, our schools provide campus for future generation, where teachers are committed to their students while students cultivate noble view of life and patriotism to respect their teachers and devote themselves to the society, the collectives and to their comrades. The schools are regarded as ideal places where anyone can entrust their children’s education.

Thanks to the benevolent love of the great father who regards it as his immovable creed of life to pluck even a star from the sky, if it’s for posterity, the happy smile will never fade away from the faces of our children and the sound of school bells will resonate far and wide in all schools across the country promising the prosperous future of the country.

Press Release on Enlarged Meeting of 13th Plenary Meeting of Eighth Central Committee of WPK

Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- The Enlarged Meeting of the 13th Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was held from Dec. 9 to 11 to sum up the major Party and state affairs in 2025 and to decide on a series of important issues at present including the preparations for the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, attended the plenary meeting.

Present there were members and alternate members of the Central Committee of the WPK and, as observers, officials of the departments of the Party Central Committee, leading officials of ministries, national agencies and provincial-level guidance bodies, chief secretaries of the Party committees and chairpersons of the people's committees in cities and counties, leading officials of the Party and administrative bodies of major industrial establishments and the relevant commanding officers of the Korean People's Army.

A presidium of the plenary meeting was elected.

The Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee authorized the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un to preside over the plenary meeting.

Kim Jong Un referred to the main features of this year's struggle in which more gigantic projects were launched and great changes were made compared with any other year.

Saying that the greater steps we take forward for the development of the state and the well-being of the people across the country, the more we should never be conceited ourselves over the initial achievements and only when we correctly find out the factors creating artificial difficulties in our way ahead, fiercely struggle against the negative phenomena and elements, regarding them as the main target, and draw lessons in time, can the Party lead the revolution and construction properly, he stressed the need for the members of the central leadership body of the Party to take an active part in the discussion of agenda items with a deep understanding of the purpose of convening the plenary meeting and the importance of the issues to be discussed.

The plenary meeting brought up the following agenda items:

1. On the review of the implementation of the policies of the Party and the state in 2025

2. On the work of the Central Inspection Commission of the Party in 2025

3. On the important issues related to the preparations for the Ninth Congress of the Party

4. On the implementation of the state budget for 2025 and the draft state budget for 2026

5. Organizational matter

The plenary meeting unanimously approved the proposed agenda items.

It discussed the first agenda item "On the review of the implementation of the policies of the Party and the state in 2025".

There was a report on the first agenda item.

The report introduced the remarkable successes made in this year's struggle in which significant changes were made in the overall work of the state under the correct leadership of the Party Central Committee and analyzed in detail a series of shortcomings revealed by some Party organizations, state economic organs and others in the course of implementing the policies of the Party and the state, their causes and the lessons drawn from them.

After the report, leading officials at all levels made speeches and presented written speeches.

The speakers made reports on the work of their sectors to implement the important tasks set forth at the eleventh and twelfth plenary meetings of the Eighth Party Central Committee and suggested the measures to the plenary meeting.

Kim Jong Un made relevant evaluation of the presented issues.

The plenary meeting discussed the second agenda item "On the work of the Central Inspection Commission of the Party in 2025".

The report on the item referred to the successes made in the struggle for implementing the line of building the Party discipline in the new era and cited, based on data, the deviations revealed by the Party inspection committees at all levels.

The plenary meeting discussed the third agenda item "On the important issues related to the preparations for the Ninth Congress of the Party".

Presented to the plenary meeting were a series of issues related to the preparations for successfully holding the Ninth Congress of the Party which will serve as a signal turning point in dynamically promoting the development of our Party and further amplifying the motive force for the comprehensive development of the socialist construction.

The report referred to the issues including those of forming the preparatory committee for the Party Congress, organizing groups according to panels and sectors, drafting the amendments to the rules of the Party to be proposed for the approval of the Party Congress and reviewing the work of the leadership bodies of the Party committees at all levels, and to the method of electing the delegates to be sent to higher Party conferences and the Party Congress.

Kim Jong Un made an important conclusion related to the discussion of the first, second and third agenda items.

He gave the Party Central Committee's appraisal of the execution of the Party and state policies in 2025 and summarized major successes.

The general appraisal of this year's work is the accelerated speed of advance and redoubled self-sustenance.

In despite of various challenges and difficulties, the major industrial sectors of the national economy carried out their highly-set production plans in a responsible manner through the vigorous campaign for increased production and economization, the agricultural sector recorded higher grain yields over last year and a lot of major construction projects were successfully completed, and thus the five-year plan was carried out along with the achievement of the objectives of this year's economic development.

The modernization of major sectors of the national economy and the reinforcement of technical infrastructure have reached the final stage and it provided possibility and guarantee for more confidently entering into the fulfillment of the long-term goals for the next stage.

In particular, the important success is that we achieved proud results in realizing the ideal and well-being of the people and demonstrated to the full the simultaneous development of our state by launching and completing the projects stipulated in more expanded and advanced regional development policy within this year.

The significant achievements gained in accordance with the Party's policy on modernizing overall components of the national defence capabilities made it possible to solve many issues effectively and correctly and advance along the exact direction to ensure the security and defence of the country and protect its interests despite the global geopolitical and technological changes.

The signal military gains made by units of different arms of the Korean People's Army in the overseas military operations over the past nearly one year demonstrated to the world the prestige of our army and state as the ever-victorious army and genuine protector of the international justice.

The celebrations of the 80th founding anniversary of the WPK held this year showed to the world the absolute dignity and irresistible might of our Party, state and people and redoubled the strong will of all the people to build a socialist society with their wisdom and efforts and in their own way.

The field of sports, too, contributed good results to highly enhancing the prestige of the country.

Kim Jong Un said that 2025 is, indeed, a historic year of great change that broke through the last line of carrying out the five-year plan with confidence in the dynamic spirit of advance for the comprehensive development and charged the motive power for vigorously going over to a new stage.

The plenary meeting unanimously recognized that the key to adorning the year with gigantic successes while advancing along the course of development set by itself, remaining unfazed by worldwide confusion and change and any challenge and obstacle, lies in holding aloft the banner of ideology. It also recognized that it is important to consistently maintain and further develop the unique mode of struggle and revolution of working miracles by dint of ideology in the future advance.

Kim Jong Un pointed out the shortcomings and evil practices that must be corrected for the higher qualitative development of the socialist construction.

The conclusion assessed in detail the work of the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee and the state leadership organs this year, analyzed the factors creating artificial obstacles to the development of the revolution, and strictly criticized the wrong ideological viewpoint and inactive and irresponsible work attitude of some leading cadres and senior officials.

Kim Jong Un stressed the need to have greater confidence in and courage for the future of our cause and struggle, boldly rectify the shortcomings and deviations and continue to advance to carve out the future by dint of the unique mode of struggle and the might of self-sustenance.

He referred to some major tasks facing the Party, government and state organs at present.

Noting that provinces, cities, counties and the agricultural sector should draw up correct plans for farming well next year on the basis of this year's farming experience and push ahead with the preparations for farming, the conclusion set forth the tasks for boosting agricultural production and accelerating rural development including the issue of increasing the area under wheat cultivation until the people's dietary structure is changed, the issue of enhancing the wheat-processing capacity and the issue of reforming the distribution system to strictly observe the socialist principle of distribution.

Kim Jong Un analyzed in detail the present situation of the tideland farms and clarified the intention of the Party Central Committee to take a revolutionary step to transform the newly organized or the most backward farms among the tideland farms on the west coast into modern and civilized ones symbolizing the new transformation of rural development.

The conclusion called on provinces, cities and counties to take part in the work to strengthen the material foundation of the education sector and develop regional areas with the attitude befitting masters.

It called upon other provinces to make many changes suited to their regional characteristics simultaneously by learning from the experience of Kangwon Province which wonderfully built six power stations by its own efforts to provide a great asset for the development of the economy and the improvement of the people's living standard in the province and of South Phyongan Province which constructed the Unsan Paper Mill as a model of the country.

It referred to the principled issues and tasks arising in strengthening the country's financial and foreign trade disciplines.

Kim Jong Un put special emphasis on directing nationwide efforts to the transformation of coal-mine villages.

He said that the industrial development and independent economic development of the country are unthinkable without the improvement of the living environment and culture of the coal-mine villages and the change of the people's understanding of the coal front. He noted that various undertakings have been carried on in several aspects at an accelerating pace to eliminate the gap between towns and villages in recent years, adding that the additional forming of another new front for the improvement of the coal-mine areas is an important task facing us at present for the long-term development of the country.

The conclusion referred to the tasks for protecting the ecological environment and the measures for preserving the true nature of the socialist society with absolute service to the popular masses as its physiology by ensuring that the Party organizations at all levels thoroughly observe the policy requirement of giving priority to the popular things for the people.

Kim Jong Un stressed the need to make good preparations for the Party Congress and clarified the measures for organizational and political work to be taken throughout the Party.

He clarified the tasks for ensuring the successful holding of the Party Congress including the issue of completing pending major projects until the Ninth Congress of the Party, the issue for all sectors of properly setting the next five-year plans for qualitative development and proposing scientific and realistic ways for their implementation, the issue of heightening revolutionary vigilance and intensiveness and thoroughly establishing discipline and order in all fields, the issue for the Party organizations and working people's organizations at all levels of conducting the propaganda offensive for enhancing the political enthusiasm and spirit of advance peculiar to our people in various forms and methods and the issue of making full preparations for various political and cultural events.

Noting that the period until the Party Congress is a very important and responsible time for successfully concluding the work of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party and for the transition to a new phase of change thereafter, he stressed the important role of the leading cadres and senior officials at all levels including the members of the central leadership body of the Party.

He ardently called for putting more spurs to the daring and offensive fighting spirit and dynamically advancing to a new phase of change with the great pride and honour of turning the past five years into the great pioneering days of comprehensive rejuvenation.

All the participants fully supported the conclusion of Kim Jong Un.

The plenary meeting discussed the fourth agenda item "On the implementation of the state budget for 2025 and the draft state budget for 2026".

It decided to organize a state budget deliberation team for examining and discussing the implementation of the state budget for 2025 and the draft state budget for 2026.

It discussed the organizational matter as the fifth agenda item.

It decided to recall one member of the Party Central Committee and five alternate members of the Party Central Committee.

Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet of the DPRK, informed the plenary meeting of the work of the state budget deliberation team.

The plenary meeting made a final discussion of the implementation of the state budget for 2025 and the draft state budget for 2026 and approved the submission of the documents on them to the Supreme People’s Assembly.

During the plenary meeting, a consultative meeting was held to select cities and counties where structures under the regional development policy are to be built in 2026.

Jo Yong Won reported the results of the above-said consultative meeting to the plenary meeting.

The plenary meeting confirmed the 20 cities and counties where the structures under the regional development policy are to be built in 2026 and approved them with unanimous approval.

Kim Jong Un concluded the plenary meeting.

The Eighth Central Committee of the WPK successfully went through the preparatory processes necessary to substantially complete the work of its term and enter the next stage of development.

The Enlarged Meeting of the 13th Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK marked an important political occasion in clearly defining the road for new progress in socialist construction and vigorously promoting the all-people advance. -0-

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