Pyongyang, September 22 (KCNA) -- The Third Workshop for Officials in the Information Sector of the Workers' Party of Korea, which has added another brilliant page to the history of ideological work of the WPK, closed on September 21 after successfully concluding its scheduled work.
Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, attended the closing ceremony and made an important speech.
When he took the platform together with accompanying officials, all the audiences broke into enthusiastic cheers in reverence for Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un who organized the workshop in the crucial historic period of deciding the brilliant success and future of our cause and is working thoughtfully and painstakingly to make it an occasion of a radical turn in consolidating the politico-ideological might, the greatest national power of the DPRK, in every way.
In his speech, he expressed satisfaction over the fact that the workshop was successfully held in conformity with the desired purpose of making it a major process for innovating ideological work, whereby all the officials in the information sector of the Party have a full understanding of the Party's immutable ideology-first principle and their sense of duty to innovate the ideological work.
Saying that the officials in the information sector of the Party have hardened in a fresh manner their sacred revolutionary awareness and sense of heavy responsibility to increase our ideological resources a hundred times and consolidate the guarantee for carrying forward our cause, he referred to the fundamental principle the officials should always keep in mind as communists and to the absolute viability of the Juche-based theory of giving importance to ideology. And he clarified the firm stand of the Party Central Committee to realize our ideal without fail in the future dynamic struggle on the strength of the great revolutionary ideology, the greatest asset of the Party, and the might of the information and motivation work peculiar to the Party which turns the ideology into the might of transformation.
Comrade Kim Jong Un set forth the principled issues, to be adhered to in putting the contents, forms, methods and means of ideological work on the basis of progress and development in line with the expectations of the times, the revolution and the people waiting eagerly for fresh changes and innovations in information and motivation work and creation of cultures that will encourage and further diversify our struggle and life, and the important tasks and ways for ensuring the innovation in the ideological work of the whole Party.
He declared the workshop closed, stressing that a series of greater successes and innovations would be witnessed in our struggle for bringing earlier the great ideal and bright future with the irresistible might of ideology, he expressed the belief that all the participants would dynamically pave the avenue for advance in the new era with the zeal and courage befitting the ideological guards of the WPK under the uplifted banner of the ideology-first principle.
All the participants responded with stormy cheers and rapturous applause to his speech adding glory to their high honor as information workers of the ever-victorious WPK, which regards ideology as the most important weapon and guides the revolution by dint of ideology, and further hardening their sense of duty for the times and redoubling their revolutionary zeal.
They loudly sang in chorus the song "Long live the Workers' Party of Korea", in reflection of their faith and pledge to fulfill their duty as ideological guards in steadily writing textbooks on the ideological revolution, to be recorded in our Party history and handed down forever along with our era of transformation, by successfully carrying forward and developing the sacred history and tradition of our Party which pioneered a new era of Juche by rousing the people to the revolution on the strength of ideology.
The venue was filled with revolutionary enthusiasm of all the participants to further consolidate our political and ideological position and dynamically carry forward the upsurge in the overall development of socialism through a powerful ideological offensive, holding aloft the red Party flag of Juche.
The four-day workshop was held amid the extraordinary political consciousness and enthusiasm of all the participants to take the lead in the vigorous campaign for bringing about a radical change in ideological work and qualitatively strengthening the ideological position, an indispensable guarantee and key requirement for the steady succession to the cause of the WPK, with their fresh determination, redoubled efforts, mature qualifications and positive cultivation of traits.
There was an intensive study for deeply grasping the essence of the important speech made by Comrade Kim Jong Un at the opening ceremony of the Third Workshop for Officials in the Information Sector of the WPK.
Studying in depth the important document, which comprehensively deals with the precious guidelines for further developing the ideological resources, accumulated by our Party for a long time, the extraordinary potentials peculiar to the Korean revolution, at the level required by a new era, an era of comprehensive development when we have entered a new phase in the spheres of our struggle and in all our activities, all the participants hardened their revolutionary will to carry out without fail the policy of the Party Central Committee expecting positive changes in ideological work of the Party, which are stronger than the trend of the changing times and offensive-oriented in surpassing reality.
The workshop was held amid their high awareness that the success of ideological work depends on the qualifications and ability of them taking full charge of the ideological and information work.
Senior officials of the Information and Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the WPK and educational workers of the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK gave lectures at the workshop.
First, there was a lecture on concentrating all efforts of the ideological work of the Party on preparing all members of society as true loyalists and ardent patriots armed with the revolutionary ideas of great Comrade Kim Jong Un as their faith.
The lecturer theoretically explained that Comrade Kim Jong Un's revolutionary ideas are the guidelines of our Party and state in the new era and an encyclopedic action program for the revolution and construction as they comprehensively deal with the path and the strategy for carrying forward and accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche generation after generation under the banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
The lecture referred to the detailed issues for improving the effectiveness of the ideological and political work by further enhancing the sense of obligation and responsibility of the officials in the information sector of the Party in the struggle for modeling the entire Party and the whole society on the revolutionary ideology of great Comrade Kim Jong Un.
Then the workshop dealt with the issue of successfully conducting the education in the revolutionary relics and the leadership exploits of the Party, regarding it as the key point of ideological education.
The lecturer explained the methodological ways for further enhancing the cognitional and educational effect in education through the revolutionary relics and the leadership exploits of the Party, the root and starting point of the ideological work of the Party, and intensifying it in a substantial way on the principle of historicism and scientific accuracy.
There was a lecture on stepping up the information and publicity offensive to rouse the masses to implementation of the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the WPK.
Through the lecture, the participants kept deep in their minds the orientation of information and agitation work and all principled issues arising in making sure that the working spirit and traits, displayed in pioneering the era of comprehensive development, and the trend of gigantic changes prevailing in all sectors of socialist construction result in steady upsurge, and in properly setting the focus of ideological work in conformity with the specific conditions of every sector and unit to wage an intensive campaign for joint and collective innovations.
The workshop also dealt with the issue of studying fresh forms and methods of ideological work and conducting information work in a realistic and appealing manner and the issue of conducting motivation and agitation with visual aids as required by the Party's policy to maximize their effectiveness.
The lecturers explained the principled and theoretical issues, including the one of exploring and applying new forms and methods of ideological work while studying the Party's policies, the situation and the undertakings from an enterprising and positive standpoint, the one of thoroughly ensuring the politico-ideological characters, timeliness, visualization and culture in displaying political visual aids and preparing the information workers to be the ideological standard-bearers of our Party possessed of high political and professional qualifications and noble humanity.
The participants watched videos dealing with the successes, experience and lessons recently gained and drawn by information units at different levels and there was a question-and-answer session on the practical issues arising in the Party's ideological work.
While deeply studying the contents of the lectures during the workshop in organic correlation with the immediate practical requirements and the prospective requirements of the revolution, they focused their thinking and research on broadly acquiring the essence, exquisite principle and mature methodology of ideological work.
They actively exchanged and shared the good views and experience that would help acquire the innovative work style and manner of always aspiring after new things and development as a habit and ensure the purposeful and meticulous nature of ideological work under a good plan.
A letter of pledge to Comrade Kim Jong Un was adopted with fervent applause of the participants.
The Third Workshop for Officials in the Information Sector of the Workers' Party of Korea, held under the guidance of Comrade Kim Jong Un, marked a significant occasion in further strengthening the Party and the revolutionary ranks into a fortress of single-minded unity and an ideologically pure entity and reliably guaranteeing the steady advance and succession of our cause by boosting the might of the Juche-based theory of attaching importance to ideology in the course of opening up a new era and a new sphere of struggle. -0-
