9th Congress of Journalists Union of Korea Held

                                                              

Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- The 9th Congress of the Journalists Union of Korea (JUK) took place in Pyongyang on April 3 and 4.

The congress comprehensively and deeply reviewed the work of the union during the period under review and discussed the tasks and ways for conducting the media offensive and ideological offensive to dynamically lead the advance of the era seething with the implementation of the resolutions and the grandiose long-term objectives unveiled at the Eighth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) by fundamentally improving the work of the union.

Attending it were delegates selected from organizations of the union at all levels.

Present as observers were officials of relevant departments of the WPK Central Committee, information officials of provincial Party committees and officials and journalists and other persons from media and relevant fields in Pyongyang and local areas.

Taking the platform of the congress were Ri Il Hwan, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, executive members of the JUK Central Committee, leading officials in the fields of newspapers, news services, broadcasting services and publishing houses at the central level, and exemplary officials, journalists and other media persons.

The congress approved the following agenda items:

1. Review of the work of the Central Committee of the Journalists Union of Korea

2. On amending the rules of the Journalists Union of Korea.

3. Election of the Central Leadership Organ of the Journalists Union of Korea

The important instructions of 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, on improving and strengthening the work of media were courteously conveyed by Ri Il Hwan, secretary of the Party Central Committee.

Pak Tong Sok, chairman of the JUK Central Committee, made a report on the first agenda item.

The reporter noted that the DPRK's media have powerfully demonstrated their inexhaustible attraction and vitality as the pacesetter of the times and bugler of the revolution under the energetic and meticulous guidance of the great and outstanding leaders who vigorously advanced the revolution and construction by dint of justice and truth, holding high the banner of the theory of giving importance to ideology.

He said that the media guided by our Party greeted a revolutionary turning point in the new century of Juche under the guidance of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Underlining the need to make radical changes in the field of media obliged to tangibly promote and pioneer all changes and development at present when new innovations, bold creation and steady progress are required by the revolution and the times, the report analyzed and reviewed the shortcomings, causes and lessons, whereby the union work failed to meet the demands of the Party and the revolution during the period under review.

The reporter called on the journalists and other media persons, who play an important role that no others can play in inspiring all members of society to fulfill the single goal of implementing the Party's policies by linking the Party with the masses in one idea and breath, and to arouse the masses' stronger revolutionary zeal and patriotic enthusiasm with extraordinary determination and fighting spirit.

The report touched on the ways of giving full play to the power of pen and bugles of advance for strongly encouraging the all-people advance toward opening a new phase of a fresh upsurge in socialist construction, true to the resolutions of the Eighth Congress of the Party and the plenary meetings of the Party Central Committee.

It also set forth the tasks for bringing about fresh innovations and changes in the media work by decisively improving the work of the union committees at all levels.

Speeches were made on the first agenda item.

The speeches analyzed and reviewed the successes, experience and shortcomings and their causes, manifested in the period under review, on the basis of the detailed accounts of relevant units' work.

Introduced were the experiences gained in pioneering and renewing a series of masterpieces and popular editions demonstrating the prestige of the Party and highlighting the national dignity and glory in the course of firmly arming the whole Party and all the people with the revolutionary idea of the Party Central Committee and increasing the efficiency of the work for disseminating the Party policies and educating the public in them.

Speakers underscored the need to steadily improve the contents and forms of articles and editions in keeping with the intensified revolution in order to turn our media into an ideological weapon for inspiring all the people to strenuously perform feats. They also seriously analyzed the reasons why they failed to keep abreast of the changing reality in their mode of thinking and creation, and referred to the measures to be taken to tackle them immediately.

Then the congress discussed the second agenda item "On amending the rules of the Journalists Union of Korea".

A report on the rules of the Journalists Union of Korea, amended and supplemented in keeping with the struggle tasks facing the JUK in the new era, was made. And a resolution was adopted with unanimous approval.

The third agenda item "Election of the Central Leadership Organ of the Journalists Union of Korea" was discussed.

The Central Committee of the Journalists Union of Korea was elected.

All candidates for the members of the Central Committee of the union were elected as members of the Central Committee of the union.

The First Plenary Meeting of the 9th Central Committee of the Journalists Union of Korea was held.

Ri Il Hwan, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, made public the results of the plenary meeting.

The executive committee of the JUK Central Committee was elected.

Pak Tong Sok and Ryom Chol Ho were elected as chairman and vice-chairman of the JUK Central Committee.

A letter of pledge to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was adopted at the congress. -0-

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