Pyongyang, September 22 (KCNA) -- Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, made an important speech at the closing ceremony of the Third Workshop for Officials in the Information Sector of the WPK on September 21.
He said in the speech:
Comrades,
I think that this workshop has been conducted well in keeping with the intended purpose of making it an important occasion for bringing about an innovation in the ideological work.
First, you must have acquired a full understanding of our Party's immutable ideology-first principle, the common aspiration to a new level of ideological work demanded by the times and its indispensability.
While attending the opening ceremony of the workshop and receiving the report on its daily course, I could feel the high degree of determination and passion of the participants who, with a unanimous awareness of the compelling mission of the times to transform the ideological work, have maintained self-consciousness and attitude to learn even one more thing.
Such attitude of yours has made me, General Secretary, quite pleased.
I could reaffirm that the information workers are surely higher in political awareness, more sensitive and more enthusiastic than the officials in other sectors.
I am convinced that as the ranks of information workers are so prepared ideologically and so exalted spiritually, I can expect more vigorous efforts and substantial changes in the strengthening of the ideological front, the ideological work, from now on.
You must not have learned all the contents of the practical information work in the few days of the workshop, and you will have to promote development while continuing to learn during your practical work. But I think this workshop must have been an important occasion for renewing your sacred revolutionary consciousness and sense of heavy responsibility that we should increase our ideological resources and consolidate the guarantee of succession to our cause.
This is important, I think.
What matters is how we apply this into practice from now on.
More important and valuable than countless oral determinations are propagation of truth that, even though once, raises and develops the consciousness of the masses and the high-pitched motivation work that inspires them with enthusiasm and courage.
Today, before the closing of the workshop, I would like to stress some more points for the information workers, the core frontline workers of our Party.
Comrades,
We need to be always aware of what we should be like as communists.
That is the Juche-oriented theory of ideology that should never change even though everything else in the world may change, and we are thoroughgoing advocates of the ideology-first principle.
Anything else cannot display the strength of the revolutionary ideology as much, nor can it overwhelm the strength.
We are now absolutely confident in our future because we have ideological assets that we have accumulated in the long course of the revolutionary struggle and that will display their inexhaustible might in the future, too.
The biggest asset of our Party is the great revolutionary ideology as well as the powerful forces for the information and motivation work that can turn the ideology into strength for transformation, and the ever-victorious leadership ability of our Party is just based on the strength of its peculiar information and motivation work.
We should prove this in the proud history of perfectly implementing what we aspire to and what we are going to achieve.
As we all experience, the struggle tasks we are faced with are not a representation of the goals we set in the past decades, but their striking development as well as another transformation in the dynamic course of our revolution.
As long as we have shaped the course and assumed the heavy tasks for ourselves, we must carry them out by our own efforts.
What are essential and urgent in the new struggle course are not any material foundations but the patriotic enthusiasm and extraordinary courage of all officials, Party members and other citizens and the strength of ideological motivation capable of amplifying the enthusiasm and courage for pioneering and creation.
Now is the time for all the people, ranging from leading officials to the citizens living in tips of this country, to stake their destiny and future on the development of the state, orient their wisdom and enthusiasm to the goals of a new stage, and overcome all challenges and obstacles with their indomitable fighting spirit and proactive creative initiative.
Being overpowered by objective factors and adapting to them is something that is alien to us, Korean revolutionaries. We should consistently maintain our unique principle of shaping our future and winning opportunities on the strength of the ideology-first principle whereby we synthesize all the people's great spiritual potentials and patriotic exertion in a concentrated way and bring them into full play.
We should harden our revolutionary stand to realize our ideals without fail by holding higher the banner of ideological oneness, which others cannot hold up even if they want to, namely, the philosophy based on the ideological theory that only our Party can advance in making the revolution with a great people.
Comrades,
After this workshop is over, the masses of Party members and other people will certainly focus their attention on our information workers' attitude and style of work, closely watching their future activities.
As a matter of fact, our people are now looking forward to new changes and innovations in the information and motivational work and cultural creation, which will inspire them in their struggle and enrich their life.
The tasks facing the Party's information sector are much heavier than they were in the past, and accordingly, the Party, the revolution and the times demand a great deal from its information workers.
The wider the area of our advance becomes and the faster we move forward, the greater challenges and difficulties we will inevitably face, Comrade Kim Jong Un said, stressing that responsible and sincere thinking and efforts are required to overcome one bottleneck after another.
He continued:
Our Party's information work should be improved remarkably and it should be more skilful, profound and effective than ever before.
This can be called a challenge for our information workers to overcome, or a big mountain for them to scale.
They should resolutely overcome this challenge with a renewed sense of their mission and through strenuous exertion, thus making sure that this workshop is recorded in our Party's history as a significant milestone in bringing about innovations and improvement in its overall ideological work.
We should, first of all, develop and enrich the contents of ideological education in keeping with the requirements and characteristics of the new era.
The might of ideological work is determined by its contents, and the development of its contents demands improvement of its forms, methods and means.
Sticking to the conventional contents and materials in disregard of the rapid and diversifying changes in the present era or repeating stereotyped logics and arguments cannot be called otherwise than an anachronistic error.
We keep setting ourselves greater ideals and goals in the economy, national defence, culture and all other realms of social life, which we translate into reality at a rapid pace, and our people are witnessing substantial changes in their living environment. Such being the case, the contents of our Party's ideological work should be composed and enriched in an innovative fashion.
By this I never mean that we should reject or reform the traditional contents of our ideological education, but that we should develop them in depth as required by the cause of the advancing revolution.
Therefore, achieving new innovations and a radical improvement in the information and education work should naturally begin with an in-depth development of the contents of the ideological education.
After referring to the importance of conducting the information and education work in a logical and realistic way, Comrade Kim Jong Un went on:
In ensuring that all the people cherish our truthful and advantageous ideology and policies as an element of their unshakeable faith, and in making our ideology and policies serve as a source of their great strength with which to brave difficulties and trials, no method is better than giving them a clear theoretical understanding of the justice of their cause and the inevitability of its victory.
If we adopt a schematic and cramming approach towards the information work, regardless of the principles of things and phenomena and the laws of life and cognition, the truth may be perverted or distorted, and this will finally evoke suspicion and denial.
It is beyond dispute that the ideological education should be not only logical but also down-to-earth.
Truth has an absolute power that defies description by any flowery language.
Comrade Kim Jong Un said that if there were ten or one hundred prescriptions for educating people in the past era, there should be one thousand or ten thousand prescriptions in the present era, and went on:
To base oneself on the concrete living conditions and environment of the people and their psychology is just to base oneself on the reality.
You, information workers, should prepare a lecture plan while always delving into people's inner thoughts and feelings and putting yourselves in their place, and give them an explanation in a way that you can build rapport with them through it and it can result in a substantial change in their cognition.
The forms and means of our information and education work should also steadily be updated in keeping with the development of the times.
The originality and influence of the ideological education work also depend largely on its forms and means, as well as its contents and methods.
As the saying goes, clothing makes the man. Even if it is a good material for information and education, it can neither draw the interest and attention of the masses nor have influence on their thoughts and feelings without the help of new forms and means.
People reject even the right words, if the method is trite. This is human psychology.
Comrade Kim Jong Un said it is a lesson of history that an ideology can either be a source of inexhaustible strength for victory and success or be a terrible toxin for frustration and failure, according to how much a party and a state that are building socialism attach importance to ideological work and how they conduct it, and continued:
If we do not pay attention to ideological education and arming of people with a spirit and to making constant innovations in this regard, while praising ourselves over the modern buildings rising up and the appearance of the country undergoing changes, it will be as good as building a castle on sand by depleting the foremost resources of the state.
The advance of the times is the flow of people's struggle and life and, therefore, in order to apply the character of the times to the ideological work, we should make an in-depth study of the people of today and explore and apply new forms, means and methods to suit them.
The information sector should concentrate the thinking and study on achieving greater effectiveness by finding out and grasping the forms and means that can attract the people, even if the contents of ideological education are on the same theme, and make the creation of new things a habitual trait.
It should not confine itself to conducting information and education work, but constantly improve it by making a scientific and quantitative analysis of how much it is effective and which means, forms and methods are most effective.
And efforts should be directed to the use of modern IT and other technical means in the direction of increasing the promptness and effectiveness of the information and education work and completely stopping the spread of reactionary ideology and culture.
Comrades,
The demand for innovation of ideological work boils down to the demand for the increasing of the awareness and capabilities of the officials in the information sector of the Party.
In order for our ideological work to raise the revolutionary spirit and revolutionary fighting morale of the masses and lead the times, information workers should be the first to have an extraordinary sense of responsibility and devotion.
As the information and education work is the work with the psychology of the people in all walks of life, even a lecture or motivation for increased production requires much effort.
The character of information workers, who can find the worth of making the revolution in doing difficult work without regarding it as trouble, is formed and consolidated just by an unusual sense of responsibility.
The mind of officials in the information sector should always be dominated by a sense of responsibility that if they fall back, their units, regions and sectors will collapse, and filled with the thinking and search as to how to improve the information work.
It is the responsible attitude of Party information workers to be able to feel the psychology of the masses even through a single word by them or a look of their eyes and promptly respond to the negative ideological elements with a keen sense as sharp as the blade of a knife touching the flesh.
They, whose life and blood can be said to be ideology, should fulfil their duty not only at work but also in their daily life. If they, who transmit the Party's ideas and policies, say this in front of the masses and act in a different way behind the scenes, it will foster distrust among the masses and cause the consequence of destroying the ideological position by themselves.
Officials in the information sector should not compromise with negative practices that are detrimental to the Party's ideology and the socialist principles, even if they may be struck by lightning or threatened with a dagger on their neck. In particular, they should never be involved in abuse of power, bureaucracy and accumulation of wealth by illicit means.
To decisively improve their level and abilities is a pressing task which has a direct bearing on the substantial innovation of the ideological work.
Recently it has been continually stressed that officials throughout the Party should acquire good writing and oratorical abilities, and these abilities are all the more vital and essential for information workers.
Party information workers should be fully versed in the Party's ideas and policies, ever prepared to influence the masses with the Party's intentions at any place and at any time and to give proper guidance and assistance to the work of primary information workers, and they should make steady efforts to improve their qualifications.
They should be all-round officials who are qualified politically and ideologically, well-versed in economic affairs and modern science and technology, and rich in cultural attainments and emotions.
Today, every field and unit needs talented personnel more than ever before, but the information sector demands that every worker be a talented person.
The information sector should take revolutionary measures to decisively improve the level of political and theoretical qualifications and practical abilities of its workers, and I think that it is natural that the endeavour to this end should begin in the Information and Publicity Department of the Party Central Committee.
It is natural that the department should plan and vigorously lead the innovative, creative and offensive ideological campaign required by the present era.
By forcefully pushing ahead with an all-out ideological campaign, it must restore its original features and resilience as the department which specializes in leading the Party's ideological work as a whole and conducting information and motivation work.
It should work out a scrupulous plan for innovating the Party-wide ideological work, adopt scientific, realistic and novel tactical measures, and make it its daily routine to strictly review information and motivation work on the basis of its efficiency and take relevant measures.
A change in the level and work style of its officials will bring about an improvement in the professional qualifications and work style of the information workers of the entire Party.
Comrade Kim Jong Un stressed the need to make every element of the ideological work an ideological and spiritual sustenance indispensable to everyone in the new era of transformation and a driving force of their genuine life and struggle, calling on all the participants to make their work run through with the principles, tactics and methods they acquired in the workshop, steadily learn and consolidate them through practice and constantly explore new keys to innovating the ideological work, thereby further enriching the wealth of the ideological work of the Party.
He continued:
Comrades,
Party information workers in all sectors and at all levels,
Ideology is, as has always been, fuel to the Korean revolution and the foremost resource for our state building.
It is a source of the greatest honour and special glory to live and work as an information worker of the Workers' Party of Korea which regards ideology as the first and foremost weapon and leads the revolution on its strength.
I am convinced that all the participants in the workshop will, by bravely shouldering their responsibility assigned by the times and revolution, play the vanguard role in dynamically writing textbooks for the ideological revolution which will be remembered in the history of our Party and handed down to posterity along with our era of transformation.
On this opportunity, I feel reassured to see your responsible attitude, overflowing vigour and pronounced confidence.
Greater successes and epochal achievements will continuously be etched on our journey for bringing earlier the attainment of our great ideals, a beautiful future, by dint of the invincible might of ideology.
Believing that all the participants and officials will open up the road of advance in the new era holding high the great banner of ideology-first principle and with enthusiasm and courage as befit ideological guards of the Workers' Party of Korea, I declare the Third Workshop for Officials in the Information Sector close. -
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