General Secretary Kim Jong Un and Party Building in New Era

In the first half of this year Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, visited many units for personal guidance. Among them he went to a place four times. It was the WPK Central Cadres Training School.

What made him show such special concern about the school?

Over the past decade the WPK has passed through the stages of historic change of succession and development. In the course of this it confirmed its guiding ideology and ultimate fighting programme and set up a new leadership body capable of confidently leading the efforts to realize them. It has also developed its work as a whole in a sustainable and innovative way according to its amended Rules and on the basis of the functions and role of its readjusted and reorganized central organizations.

But the gigantic tasks it faced and the subjective and objective situation as well as the law-governed course of socialist construction demanded steady development in Party building. Thus, the General Secretary clarified the line of Party building in the new era and set forth the tasks for bringing about a fundamental improvement in the political, organizational, ideological, disciplinary and work-style building at the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth WPK Central Committee. Since then he has pushed the effort to fulfil the tasks in every way.

In this effort he attached special importance to training talented Party officials who are to play a leading role in Party building in the new era. He believes that talented Party cadres capable of leading the development of all fields of politics, military, the economy and culture and of all regions constitute the most valuable and decisive resources, and their role grows more important with the progress of the cause of the socialist construction.

From this point of view Kim Jong Un ensured that the school was admirably built as the best university and delivered a congratulatory address at its opening ceremony. At that event he said it is a very significant course in strengthening the whole Party that all the officials, especially the members of the leadership body of the Party Central Committee, steadily train and develop themselves politically and ideologically and constantly improve their work method and style through regular retraining at the Party school, a furnace for the training in the Party spirit and the revolutionary spirit.

The opening of the school heralded the start of a new era in the building of the WPK and a heyday of its strengthening.

The WPK has been constantly promoting its building, availing itself of several occasions including the 10th Plenary Meeting of its 8th Central Committee which underlined the need to improve the working methods and styles of its officials. In July when disastrous floods hit the northern part of the DPRK Kim Jong Un took all possible measures for the victims, as part of his effort to ensure that the WPK plays its mission as a party for the people.

The vigorous promotion of the cause of Party building in the new era under his energetic guidance suggests that the WPK will wage a ceaseless and determined struggle to realize its dream and ideal of building a socialist power by steadily enhancing its leadership function and role in the future, too.