Second-day Sitting of Ninth Congress of WPK Held Comrade Kim Jong Un Starts Report Reviewing Work of Eighth-term WPK Central Committee

 Second-day Sitting of Ninth Congress of WPK Held

Comrade Kim Jong Un Starts Report Reviewing Work of Eighth-term WPK Central Committee

Pyongyang, February 21 (KCNA) -- The second-day sitting of the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea took place on Feb. 20. The congress will mark a new milestone in the development of the Party and the history of comprehensive socialist construction.

The congress continued its discussion on the first agenda item "Review of the Work of the WPK Central Committee" as it did in its first-day sitting.

After hearing about the implementation of the Party and state policies during the period under review, the congress appreciated that the remarkable successes, experience and lessons, gained in the overall work of the Party and the state in politics, economy, culture, defence, diplomacy and other fields under the leadership of the eighth-term Central Committee of the WPK headed by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, serve as the precious foundations for putting the struggle onto the next-stage development process and as a springboard for making leaps forward in guaranteeing greater changes and successes.

The past five years, which witnessed the strenuous efforts to go through the first-stage course towards the comprehensive development of Korean-style socialist construction, were a period of great transformations and turns of profound significance in building up the Party struggling to realize the independence of the popular masses and developing the revolution.

The Party Central Committee has consistently adhered to the responsible working attitude of finding shortcomings first rather than successes and learning the secret to development from lessons in adopting Party policies and drawing up and carrying out work, and to the principle of attaching absolute importance to the interests of the state and the people. It has also opened up a new chapter, in which the whole country undergoes progress in a simultaneous and balanced way, steering the trend of accelerated changes in all fields of socialist construction.

Amid the struggle for implementing the five-point Party-building line in the new era, the Party's leadership, organizing ability and fighting efficiency have been further strengthened, alongside the creation of appearance and traits for ensuring the eternal continuity of the glorious 80-year-long ruling history of the Party. Furthermore, the five-year plans in all fields, decided by the Eighth WPK Congress, were successfully carried out and creations of prosperity built in all parts of the country to fully demonstrate the daily-growing political and economic potentials of the DPRK, thanks to the great spirit and irresistible might of all the Party members and other people united with patriotism.

The congress acknowledged that through the struggle, guided by the eighth-term Central Committee of the WPK, for fresh innovation, bold creation and steady advance, the internal force has remarkably increased to lay a scientific development foundation for putting all fields of socialist construction on a new stage and secure confidence and sufficient ability for further accelerating the struggle for the prosperity of the state.

The second-day sitting of the congress heard an important report of weighty historic and practical significance in making the pioneering period of the comprehensive development of socialism lead on to the greatest-ever upsurges.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un started the report on the review of the work of the eighth-term Central Committee of the WPK.

All the participants listen carefully to the historic report on the review of the work of the WPK Central Committee which proudly reviews the five years when it brought about eye-opening development and change by waging an offensive struggle with absolute trust in its cause and strong fighting spirit. -0-

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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Receives Congratulatory Message from Chongryon Central Standing Committee

Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received a congratulatory message from the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) on February 19.

In the message the Chongryon Central Standing Committee paid the noblest tribute to the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, the founder and builder of the Workers' Party of Korea, and extended the highest glory and warmest congratulations to the great Marshal Kim Jong Un, symbol of the dignity and invincibility of the WPK, on the occasion of the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

The historic Ninth Congress of the WPK, to be held in the dynamic period when our country is making a series of advance for gigantic creation and changes, is a political event that marks an epochal landmark in increasing the dynamic driving force for the strengthening of the Party and the comprehensive rejuvenation of our socialist country, the message said.

It stressed that the red flag of the glorious WPK, which organizes and guides all victories of the Korean people, is obviously associated with the matchless greatness and immortal revolutionary exploits of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

The WPK led by the great Marshal Kim Jong Un is now demonstrating to the whole world its might as an invincible guiding force successfully carrying forward the ever-victorious history despite harsh difficulties and challenges, the message stressed, adding:

The great Marshal Kim Jong Un repeatedly sent historic letters, congratulatory messages, New Year messages and important teachings to further consolidate Chongryon, a precious patriotic legacy of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and a part of the socialist homeland, into a dignified overseas revolutionary organization of the DPRK, clearly showing the road ahead of Chongryon and Koreans in Japan.

The message expressed the will to make a tangible contribution to the building of a thriving nation by sharing the destiny with the motherly Party under any circumstances, firmly defending the dignity and prestige of the DPRK and devoting their pure patriotic sincerity unsparingly, keeping pace with the people in the homeland who turned out in the new general advance toward the comprehensive development of socialist construction with the Ninth Congress of the WPK as the starting point. -0-

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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Receives Congratulatory Message from GAKC

Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received a congratulatory message from the General Association of Koreans in China on Feb. 19.

The GAKC in its congratulatory message paid the highest tribute to the great leader Generalissimo Kim Il Sung and the great leader Generalissimo Kim Jong Il, founder and builders of the Workers' Party of Korea, and extended the greatest glory and the warmest congratulations to the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the WPK and benevolent father of overseas compatriots, on the occasion of the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

The Ninth Congress of the WPK is a glorious congress which will proudly review the past five years developed into a great pioneering period of the overall development of socialism and provide an epochal milestone in increasing the dynamic driving force for the development of the Party and the comprehensive rejuvenation of the state, the message said.

The proud course covered by the WPK over the past five years since its significant Eighth Congress is shining as a proud history in which the DPRK has surely entered the orbit of comprehensive development of socialism as the fighting efficiency of the Party has been remarkably strengthened and a new era of bolstering up the national power and enhancing the prestige of the state to be specially recorded in the history of the development of the Republic has been ushered in under the outstanding and seasoned leadership of the respected Marshal, it noted.

All the officials of the GAKC and Koreans in China are full of ardent enthusiasm to firmly arm themselves with the ideas and spirit of the Ninth Congress of the WPK and further consolidate the GAKC into a reliable overseas compatriots' organization of the DPRK single-mindedly faithful to the leadership of the respected Marshal, it stressed.

The message expressed the will to raise the hot wind of the patriotic movement to make a tangible contribution to the comprehensive rejuvenation and development of the socialist homeland and positively contribute to glorifying the DPRK-China friendly relations developed onto a new high stage by the respected Marshal and his undying feats of external activities. -0-

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Ninth Congress of WPK Opens with Splendor

Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- All the Party members and other people in the DPRK, absolutely convinced that the Korean revolution would always emerge victorious thanks to the outstanding ideas, strong fighting efficiency and seasoned leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea, extend the highest tribute and warm congratulations to the Ninth Congress of the WPK, a political event to be specially recorded in the ever-victorious history of the Party's guidance.

The Ninth Congress of the WPK opened with splendor in Pyongyang, the capital city of the revolution, on February 19.

The Party Central Committee, which has perseveringly guided the first-stage pioneering struggle for transformation aimed for achieving the comprehensive development of socialism under the uplifted banner of the idea of believing in the people as in Heaven, single-hearted unity and self-reliance, convened the Party congress, the ninth of its kind in the history of the WPK, to review its work in the period under review and set scientific goals for struggle and policies in line with the requirements of the new revolutionary stage.

The Ninth Party Congress, convened to indicate a new bright prospect in the stirring period faced with the crucial changes and the era of great prosperity unprecedented since the foundation of the Party and the state, is a manifestation of the solemn intention of the WPK to remain boundlessly faithful to the general will of the people and vigorously guide the cause of Juche to a fresh victory and steady upsurge.

The past five years, which witnessed the forward movement along the milestone of the struggle set up by the Eighth Congress of the WPK, were the most responsible and acute process decisive of the long-term development of our Party and state, and our Party powerfully demonstrated the prestige and heroism of our state and people by maintaining its definite strategic edge and accelerating the advance of socialism in the grim situation characterized by unprecedented arduousness and fierceness.

Thanks to the revolutionary and scientific leadership of the WPK, our state and people entered the phase of radical turn to the overall national development with historic delight, brought about a great transformation to practically prove the socialist cultural efflorescence and won a great victory in providing a decisive guarantee for the next-stage upsurge.

For the WPK which proves the mightiness and invincibility of the cause of Juche with entities of a rich country with a strong army under the banner of great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, it is the most sacred duty entrusted by the country, revolution and people to unfold a blueprint for continuous new victory of Korean-style socialism on behalf of the destiny, future, faith and resourcefulness of millions of party members and tens of millions of people.

Delegates of the whole Party entered the venue of the Ninth Congress of the WPK with active enthusiasm to faithfully perform and exercise the honorable mission and rights they have assumed before the Party and the revolution.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, took the platform of the congress together with members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK.

All the participants raised stormy cheers of "Hurrah!", looking up to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who is leading the revolutionary cause of Juche along the road of one victory after another with his gifted ideo-theoretical wisdom and extraordinary leadership practice and making our Party and people have the dignity and honor that will shine for all ages.

Present at the congress were members of the eighth-term Party central leadership and delegates and observers elected from organizations at all levels of the whole Party.

Kim Jong Un made an opening address at the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

He said that the past five years since the Eighth Congress of the WPK was a proud period when the whole Party and all the people brought about an epochal turn in implementing the socialist cause of our own style on the strength of solid unity. We convened the Eighth Congress of the WPK five years ago with the conviction, will and determination to break through the worst difficulties facing the revolution by our own efforts and usher in a new era of advance and development without fail, but we are here at the Ninth Congress filled with optimism and confidence in the future, he said, adding that this is a great change and development as well as a success we can be proud of at the present stage.

He declared the congress open, solemnly pledging on behalf of all the participants in the congress that the Congress will be absolutely faithful to the great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.

The national anthem of the DPRK was solemnly played.

Upon authorization of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, Jo Yong Won presided over the congress.

The congress elected its presidium.

The presidium of the congress is as follows:

Kim Jong Un,

Pak Thae Song, Choe Ryong Hae, Jo Yong Won, Ri Il Hwan, Pak Jong Chon, Ri Hi Yong, Jo Chun Ryong, Kim Tok Hun, Choe Tong Myong, Choe Son Hui, No Kwang Chol, Ri Pyong Chol, Jong Kyong Thaek, Ri Yong Gil, Kim Jae Ryong, Pak Jong Gun, Kim Jong Gwan, Ju Chang Il, Kim Hyong Sik, Han Kwang Sang, Ju Chol Gyu, Kim Song Nam, Ri Chol Man, Ri Chang Dae, Pang Tu Sop, Kim Chol Won, Kim Su Gil, Kang Yun Sok, Jon Sung Guk, Kim Myong Hun, Jong Myong Su, Kim Jong Sun, O Il Jong, Kim Jong Sik, Kim Yo Jong, Ko Pyong Hyon, Jang Ki Ho and Choe Kun Yong

The congress recommended members of the platform.

The platform of the congress was taken by the chief secretaries of the provincial committees of the WPK, members of the Party central leadership who faithfully fulfilled their duties in implementing the decisions of the Eighth Congress of the WPK, and officials who performed distinguished feats amid the enthusiastic applause of the participants.

Present there on invitation were Kim Ho Chol, chairman of the C.C., Korean Social Democratic Party, and Ri Myong Chol, chairman of the C.C., Chondoist Chongu Party.

The congress elected its secretariat.

The secretariat of the congress is as follows:

Kim Pong Chol, Ju Un Chol, Sin Chol Man, Choe Chang Hak and Choe Hak Gun

The congress approved the following agenda items.

First, Review of the work of the WPK Central Committee

Second, On the revision of the WPK rules

Third, Election of the central leadership body of the WPK

The Ninth Congress of the WPK started the discussion of the first agenda item amid the extraordinarily high political awareness and enthusiasm of all the delegates. -0-

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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's Opening Address at Ninth Congress of WPK

 

Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made an opening address at the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.

The full text of his opening address is as follows:

Dear delegates,

Today, we are opening the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, which will set up another new milestone in the sacred struggle for the development of our Party and socialist construction.

The past five years since the Eighth Congress of the WPK was a proud period when the whole Party and all the people brought about an epochal turn in implementing the socialist cause of our own style on the strength of solid unity.

Our socialist construction spanning long years has not been plain sailing, but never has there been such a period as this one, in which we achieved so great successes despite the severity of trials and difficulties.

When we convened the Eighth Party Congress, the subjective and objective conditions of our revolution were literally so harsh that we could hardly maintain our own existence.

The hostile forces grew more reckless in their schemes for harsh blockade and sanctions against us, and we were also confronted with successive natural calamities and the global public health crisis. This severely hindered the development of all our sectors, and it also seriously threatened the security of our state and the safety of our people.

Worse still, economic work in the country was being conducted in transitional and temporary ways just as it had been since several decades ago; all economic sectors were struggling to maintain the status quo without the orientation of their development.

Consequently, we were compelled to conclude the seventh term of the Party Central Committee as we fell fairly short of attaining the goals of the five-year strategy for national economic development that had been decided upon by the Seventh Party Congress.

However, everything has fundamentally changed today, five years from then.

The Eighth Party Congress critically reviewed and analyzed the unscientific nature of the above goals that had been pursued during the seventh-term Party Central Committee, before resolutely scrapping all that had gone out of date.

Given the then circumstances, it clarified the objectives of its work for the coming years and the direction for its development, and to this end put forward reasonable policies as regards the major theoretical and practical matters.

The plans for all the sectors were ambitious yet clear.

The work plans were drawn up and decided upon through strict scientific review and discussions, and they were based on the principle that we should achieve all that was within our power at the moment and do so without fail by making the seemingly impossible possible.

Even though they were facing difficult circumstances, the Party, the people and the army hardened their determination and made proactive efforts to this end; by successfully carrying out the Party's decisions in all realms such as politics, the economy, national defence, culture and diplomacy, they achieved notable, comprehensive and radical successes, and in the course of this, they substantially increased our country's internal forces.

In particular, the economic sector, which is the major front of socialist construction, fulfilled the five-year plan for national economic development in the main and made dynamic progress in reinforcing and readjusting the technical infrastructure and functions of the key industries. As a result, not a few sectors of our economy have freed themselves from the protracted obsolescence and stagnation, and instead built up their foundations and potentials to achieve significant growth under a plan.

And gigantic plans for transforming the capital city and the regions simultaneously and bringing about a substantial improvement in the people's living standards were pushed forward vigorously by the Party and the state; thus, the expected successes were achieved in these undertakings and a correct direction was confirmed for carrying them on more proactively.

In view of the external relations, too, the position of our state was firmly consolidated as an irreversible one, bringing about a great change in the global political landscape and in the influence on our state. This created favourable conditions and circumstances for giving a greater spur to our socialist construction.

Now all the people are witnessing every moment of the day the reality changing at a speed incomparable with that of the past, and have a clear understanding of and conviction about the road they should take and the prospect of the development of our state.

Five years ago we convened the Eighth Congress of the Party with the conviction, will and determination to break through the worst difficulties facing the revolution by our own efforts and usher in a new era of advance and development without fail, but today we are here at its Ninth Congress, filled with optimism and confidence in the future.

This is indeed a great change and development, as well as a success we can be proud of at the present stage.

Moreover, the precious successes achieved and monumental structures created in the course of the efforts to greet this Congress with high political enthusiasm and labour achievements rounded off the struggle of the past five years, thereby making this a congress that signifies a success and promises a greater success, both in name and in reality.

All the successes achieved during the period under review are a great gain from the devoted struggle our Party members, working people and service personnel have waged supporting the Party's lines and policies unyieldingly with one mind in the face of all difficulties.

I extend my heartfelt and warmest thanks to all the Party members, working people, service personnel and citizens for having turned the eighth term of the Party Central Committee into a period of great upsurge in socialist construction and made contributions to greeting the Ninth Party Congress as a precious one of reviewing, as a glorious one, with a staunch and proactive pioneering spirit and indomitable fighting spirit.

I also pay ennobling tribute to the revolutionary comrades and martyrs who dedicated their valuable lives to the sacred cause of achieving the prosperity of the country and the happiness of the people during the period under review.

And my warm greetings go to Chongryon (General Association of Korean Residents in Japan) and other overseas compatriots' organizations and all the overseas compatriots that share will and mind for the prosperity and development of their socialist homeland.

Comrades,

This Congress will correctly review and analyze the work done during the period of the eighth term of the Party Central Committee, establish the lines and policies for developing our socialist construction onto a higher stage, and take organizational and institutional measures for readjusting and consolidating the Party's leadership ability.

Today, our Party is faced with heavy and urgent historic tasks of boosting economic construction and the people's standard of living and transforming all realms of state and social life as early as possible. This requires us to wage a more active and persistent struggle without allowing even a moment's standstill or stagnation.

In particular, the period of the new long-term plan is a crucial period when we should push forward full steam with the regional development policy in the new era, the rural revolution programme and other intermediate- and long-range plans we adopted and have launched to realize the centuries-old desire of the people.

In contrast, not a few serious shortcomings and negative elements, such as deep-rooted defeatism, irresponsibility, conservatism, formalism and immaturity in leadership ability, are latent at present in the work of the Party and government organs and officials, and this constitutes an artificial obstacle to the work of our Party and state which aspire to rapid development in all fields.

Therefore, we should not only take pride in the successes we achieved during the period under review but also review shortcomings from a critical and developmental point of view, work out the struggle plan for the next stage in an elaborate and scientific way and strengthen the leadership forces capable of leading the implementation of the plan.

Therefore, in preparing the Ninth Party Congress, the Party Central Committee focused on correctly drawing experience and lessons from the successes and shortcomings during the period under review and taking appropriate measures accordingly.

In order to make substantial preparations for the Party Congress, the Party Central Committee organized a non-permanent preparatory committee for the Congress, set up necessary panels and dispatched fact-finding groups according to directions and sectors to get them to gain a full understanding of the five-year work of the relevant sectors and units and to make a correct analysis of problems and their root cause.

And on the basis of their activities it assessed how the members of the eighth-term Party central leadership played their role and whether they correctly guided the development of their sectors and units.

Each field and each sector carried out the work of scientifically setting the goals and working out the plans for development to be achieved in the period of the new long-term plan and presenting them to the preparatory committee, and the departments of the Party Central Committee also presented innovative and detailed suggestions on the future plans and measures for carrying them out.

And there was an in-depth study of the issues arising in further enhancing the leadership functions of the Party in line with the requirements of the five-point Party-building line in the new era, including the issues related to the revision of Party Rules and the reorganization of the leadership forces of the Party.

In the run-up to the Party Congress, Party organizations at all levels reviewed the work of their leadership bodies by focusing on correctly drawing experience and lessons, and the election of delegates to the Party Congress and the nomination of observers were also completed.

Accordingly, the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee carried out a rigorous final examination of the qualifications of the delegates to the Party Congress who had been elected at provincial Party conferences.

The result of the examination appraised that all the comrades elected as delegates are fully qualified as they are core elements of our Party who have so far achieved marked results in improving the work of their sectors and units and who are capable of playing a significant role in the struggle to implement the decisions of the Ninth Party Congress in the future.

Participating in this Congress are 5 000 delegates in total--224 members of the eighth-term Party central leadership and 4 776 delegates elected by all Party organizations.

Among them are 1 902 delegates of Party and political workers, 747 delegates of state administrative and economic officials, 474 delegates of service personnel, 32 delegates of officials of working people's organizations, 321 delegates of officials in the sectors of science, education, public health, sports, culture and art and the mass media, and 1 524 delegates of officials and hard-core Party members involved in field labour.

Of them 413 are women.

The Congress is also attended by 2 000 observers nominated by Party organizations at all levels, including officials from the departments of the Party Central Committee.

Dear delegates,

We are now at this significant venue with the high honour and heavy mission of being delegates to the Party Congress, entrusted by all the Party members in reflection of their organizational will.

So great are the concern and expectations of all the Party members and other people across the country for the Ninth Party Congress, which will mark another watershed in our Party's sacred struggle to realize the rights, interests and long-cherished desires of the people. And all of us have shouldered a heavy mission of making sincere, active and responsible efforts to ensure that the Congress does its work satisfactorily.

Solemnly pledging, on behalf of all the participants in this Congress, the ninth of its kind in the glorious history of the Workers' Party of Korea, that the Congress will be absolutely faithful to the great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism,

And fully convinced that the Congress will be a significant, historic occasion vigorously guiding the victorious advance of the revolutionary cause of Juche thanks to the high political consciousness and enthusiasm of all the delegates,

I declare the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea open. -0-

BGSJI and KFA UK support statement of comrade Kim Yo Jong

  BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA

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London 19th February

The  British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea(BGSJI) and  the  Korean Friendship Association of the UK(KFA UK))issued a joint statement in support of the press statement of comrade Kim Yo Jong vice-department  director of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea made on the  18th of February ;

In her statement comrade Kim Yo Jong highly appreciated the fact that the ROK puppet Minister of  Unification Jong Tong Yong formally admitted the drone intrusion into DPRK airspace and gave assurances that it would not be repeated .

However comrade Kim Yo Jong warns the ROK puppets sternly against any possible future recurrence of such foolish and provocative actions pointing that terrible consequences will result from such actions.

The military leadership of the DPRK will take steps to heighten vigilance.

Believing that the DPRK has a right to defend itself and its sovereignty is sacred we support the statement .

BGSJI

KFA UK  

Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK

Pyongyang, February 19 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, released the following press statement on February 18:

I highly appreciate that Jong Tong Yong, minister of Unification of the ROK, officially acknowledged the ROK-born drone's provocative intrusion into the airspace of our country, expressing regret once again and willingness to prevent reoccurrence on February 18.

Such a foolish act of imperiling oneself should not be repeated.

Terrible consequences will be entailed if such violation of the sovereignty of the DPRK reoccurs, no matter whom the mastermind is and by what means it is carried out. I stress this once again.

This is not a threat but a strong warning.

To take a measure for surely guaranteeing the prevention of reoccurrence of such serious violation of our sovereignty is entirely for the ROK's existence.

Our military leadership will take a step for heightening vigilance in all sectors along the southern border with the ROK.

The borderline with the enemy should be firmly guarded. -0-

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