Let Us Guarantee Victorious Advance of Revolution by Strong and Sound Order and Strict Legal Discipline
Report on Joint Meeting of Party, Government and Army of DPRK
Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- The Workers' Party of Korea and the DPRK are carrying out the most righteous mission and great historic cause, taking full responsibility for the destiny and future of the people. Their prestige and mightiness are based on the strict national law and strong and sound discipline system.
The Ninth Congress of the WPK put forward it as the foremost requirement of the times to ensure the complete unity of action and establish the strong discipline in socialist construction as a whole. And the state law of the DPRK is directing the spearhead of resolute struggle to the acts of exercising privilege, abusing power and resorting to illegalities and corruption which destroy the basis of the Korean revolution and erode socialist state system.
A joint meeting of the Party, the government and the army took place in Pyongyang on July 10 to give a warning to all sorts of anti-revolutionary, anti-socialist, anti-people acts going against the trend of the times when the whole Party and the entire people are going all out for implementing the decisions of the Party congress, and signify the intensified high-intensity struggle.
The respected Comrade
Present at the meeting were senior officials of the Party, government and armed forces organs, commanding officers of the Korean People's Army units at all levels, leading officials of the ministries, national agencies, Party and power organs and major industrial establishments and officials in the discipline inspection sector and law enforcement organs.
Put on the agenda at the meeting was the issue of drawing a serious lesson from the crimes committed by corrupt elements in the political organ of the People's Army who were engrossed in high-profile irregularities and corruption.
The joint meeting informed the participants of the data exposing high-profile irregularities and corruption committed by Pak Hui Chol, former vice-director in charge of organizational affairs of the General Political Bureau of the People's Army and his followers.
The Central Military Commission of the WPK took a measure in late June to bring a charge of irregularities and corruption against Pak Hui Chol and investigate him.
Pursuant to the measure, the Second Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK decided to dismiss him from the Party central leadership body and refer him to a law enforcement organ.
The highest law enforcement organ of the DPRK examined the crimes of the accused, who engaged in acquiring ill-gotten wealth by various means while holding an important post in the political organ of the People's Army, and accomplices who catered to his heinous irregularities and corruption.
All the crimes committed by the accused were clearly proved by objective evidence under trial.
The accused Pak Hui Chol committed scandals and illegally acquired wealth by abusing his power of organizational work and appointing cadres, seriously disappointing the trust and expectation of the Party Central Committee and the people and challenging to the Party's line of strengthening discipline. He exerted a very harmful influence on strengthening the ranks of cadres of the People's Army in a qualitative way, enhancing its fighting efficiency and establishing sound military traits by receiving a large amount of bribes and leading a dissipated life.
During the past four years when he had been in a responsible post of the political organ, he created special illusions about him while being engrossed in all sorts of abuses of authority and arbitrariness, and received a large amount of bribes from dishonest elements obsessed with greed and thirst for a high post and embezzled them.
In the course of it, he made a tendency of buying and selling post, receiving bribes and committing political fraud be rampant in the army and seriously checked the establishment of the Party's monolithic command system across the entire army while appointing those who served him faithfully, offering bribes, to important posts.
He neglected every affair related with the implementation of the Party's command policy across the entire army while plundering the maximum amount of state funds, materials and dwelling houses and squandering them in dissolute and depraved life.
Pak Hui Chol's scandals are extra-large crimes that go beyond imagination in view of their dangerousness and harmfulness.
As a result of the strict struggle against scandal, our army came to be provided with a powerful motive force capable of removing the poison and evil practices lurking inside the military and political guidance organ at the right time and further renewing its militant prestige.
Through the serious political struggle, the People's Army has made a stride forward in making the entire army ideologically elite. The practice proved that the further the struggle against scandals is intensified, the stronger the army becomes, the cleaner its purity becomes and the deeper the trust of the Party and the people in the heroic strong army becomes.
The participants in the meeting got newly aware of the necessity and urgency of observing the strict political and moral discipline and intensifying the uncompromising struggle, which have defended the qualitative growth and firm union of the revolutionary ranks, in the present important historical course.
A verdict on the accused was issued.
The Supreme Court of the DPRK sharply condemned extra-large scandal corrupt elements for their crimes and passed punishment on them.
Comrade
The essence of the recent case lies in the fact that the person in a responsible position, who has heavy duty and authority to contain, detect and eradicate such an act as illicit accumulation of wealth so despised by the Party and the people, abused the authority as a weapon for his own interests and emerged the chief culprit of irregularities and corruption, Comrade
Seriously pointing to the gravity of this high-profile corruption that occurred when our Party declared an all-out war against the abuse of power, bureaucratism and irregularities and corruption and has steadily enhanced the intensity of the struggle, he called attention to the discipline inspection units at all levels.
Saying it is a lesson taught by the recent case that if we fail to steadily intensify education and control to prevent the officials from getting contaminated with irregularities and corruption and abandoning Party principles, it is impossible to prevent such wrongdoings, he stressed that all the officials should keep principle and uprightness as their lifeblood and should be mindful of the Party's trust and think of the people first.
Comrade
The joint meeting strongly signaled that there is no place for irregularities and corruption harmful to the developing revolution and the elements infected by them to exist. And it re-expressed the unshakable will of the Workers' Party of Korea and the DPRK government to proactively and positively suppress and repel all sorts of corruption and violations of discipline and thus open up a new phase of building a ruling party, strong and sound in discipline and full of a vital revolutionary climate, and dynamically accelerate the building of a powerful nation under the strict legal discipline. -0-