Press Release on Enlarged Meeting of 13th Plenary Meeting of Eighth Central Committee of WPK
Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- The Enlarged Meeting of the 13th Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was held from Dec. 9 to 11 to sum up the major Party and state affairs in 2025 and to decide on a series of important issues at present including the preparations for the Ninth Congress of the WPK.
Present there were members and alternate members of the Central Committee of the WPK and, as observers, officials of the departments of the Party Central Committee, leading officials of ministries, national agencies and provincial-level guidance bodies, chief secretaries of the Party committees and chairpersons of the people's committees in cities and counties, leading officials of the Party and administrative bodies of major industrial establishments and the relevant commanding officers of the Korean People's Army.
A presidium of the plenary meeting was elected.
The Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee authorized the respected Comrade
Saying that the greater steps we take forward for the development of the state and the well-being of the people across the country, the more we should never be conceited ourselves over the initial achievements and only when we correctly find out the factors creating artificial difficulties in our way ahead, fiercely struggle against the negative phenomena and elements, regarding them as the main target, and draw lessons in time, can the Party lead the revolution and construction properly, he stressed the need for the members of the central leadership body of the Party to take an active part in the discussion of agenda items with a deep understanding of the purpose of convening the plenary meeting and the importance of the issues to be discussed.
The plenary meeting brought up the following agenda items:
1. On the review of the implementation of the policies of the Party and the state in 2025
2. On the work of the Central Inspection Commission of the Party in 2025
3. On the important issues related to the preparations for the Ninth Congress of the Party
4. On the implementation of the state budget for 2025 and the draft state budget for 2026
5. Organizational matter
The plenary meeting unanimously approved the proposed agenda items.
It discussed the first agenda item "On the review of the implementation of the policies of the Party and the state in 2025".
There was a report on the first agenda item.
The report introduced the remarkable successes made in this year's struggle in which significant changes were made in the overall work of the state under the correct leadership of the Party Central Committee and analyzed in detail a series of shortcomings revealed by some Party organizations, state economic organs and others in the course of implementing the policies of the Party and the state, their causes and the lessons drawn from them.
After the report, leading officials at all levels made speeches and presented written speeches.
The speakers made reports on the work of their sectors to implement the important tasks set forth at the eleventh and twelfth plenary meetings of the Eighth Party Central Committee and suggested the measures to the plenary meeting.
The plenary meeting discussed the second agenda item "On the work of the Central Inspection Commission of the Party in 2025".
The report on the item referred to the successes made in the struggle for implementing the line of building the Party discipline in the new era and cited, based on data, the deviations revealed by the Party inspection committees at all levels.
The plenary meeting discussed the third agenda item "On the important issues related to the preparations for the Ninth Congress of the Party".
Presented to the plenary meeting were a series of issues related to the preparations for successfully holding the Ninth Congress of the Party which will serve as a signal turning point in dynamically promoting the development of our Party and further amplifying the motive force for the comprehensive development of the socialist construction.
The report referred to the issues including those of forming the preparatory committee for the Party Congress, organizing groups according to panels and sectors, drafting the amendments to the rules of the Party to be proposed for the approval of the Party Congress and reviewing the work of the leadership bodies of the Party committees at all levels, and to the method of electing the delegates to be sent to higher Party conferences and the Party Congress.
He gave the Party Central Committee's appraisal of the execution of the Party and state policies in 2025 and summarized major successes.
The general appraisal of this year's work is the accelerated speed of advance and redoubled self-sustenance.
In despite of various challenges and difficulties, the major industrial sectors of the national economy carried out their highly-set production plans in a responsible manner through the vigorous campaign for increased production and economization, the agricultural sector recorded higher grain yields over last year and a lot of major construction projects were successfully completed, and thus the five-year plan was carried out along with the achievement of the objectives of this year's economic development.
The modernization of major sectors of the national economy and the reinforcement of technical infrastructure have reached the final stage and it provided possibility and guarantee for more confidently entering into the fulfillment of the long-term goals for the next stage.
In particular, the important success is that we achieved proud results in realizing the ideal and well-being of the people and demonstrated to the full the simultaneous development of our state by launching and completing the projects stipulated in more expanded and advanced regional development policy within this year.
The significant achievements gained in accordance with the Party's policy on modernizing overall components of the national defence capabilities made it possible to solve many issues effectively and correctly and advance along the exact direction to ensure the security and defence of the country and protect its interests despite the global geopolitical and technological changes.
The signal military gains made by units of different arms of the Korean People's Army in the overseas military operations over the past nearly one year demonstrated to the world the prestige of our army and state as the ever-victorious army and genuine protector of the international justice.
The celebrations of the 80th founding anniversary of the WPK held this year showed to the world the absolute dignity and irresistible might of our Party, state and people and redoubled the strong will of all the people to build a socialist society with their wisdom and efforts and in their own way.
The field of sports, too, contributed good results to highly enhancing the prestige of the country.
The plenary meeting unanimously recognized that the key to adorning the year with gigantic successes while advancing along the course of development set by itself, remaining unfazed by worldwide confusion and change and any challenge and obstacle, lies in holding aloft the banner of ideology. It also recognized that it is important to consistently maintain and further develop the unique mode of struggle and revolution of working miracles by dint of ideology in the future advance.
The conclusion assessed in detail the work of the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee and the state leadership organs this year, analyzed the factors creating artificial obstacles to the development of the revolution, and strictly criticized the wrong ideological viewpoint and inactive and irresponsible work attitude of some leading cadres and senior officials.
He referred to some major tasks facing the Party, government and state organs at present.
Noting that provinces, cities, counties and the agricultural sector should draw up correct plans for farming well next year on the basis of this year's farming experience and push ahead with the preparations for farming, the conclusion set forth the tasks for boosting agricultural production and accelerating rural development including the issue of increasing the area under wheat cultivation until the people's dietary structure is changed, the issue of enhancing the wheat-processing capacity and the issue of reforming the distribution system to strictly observe the socialist principle of distribution.
The conclusion called on provinces, cities and counties to take part in the work to strengthen the material foundation of the education sector and develop regional areas with the attitude befitting masters.
It called upon other provinces to make many changes suited to their regional characteristics simultaneously by learning from the experience of Kangwon Province which wonderfully built six power stations by its own efforts to provide a great asset for the development of the economy and the improvement of the people's living standard in the province and of South Phyongan Province which constructed the Unsan Paper Mill as a model of the country.
It referred to the principled issues and tasks arising in strengthening the country's financial and foreign trade disciplines.
He said that the industrial development and independent economic development of the country are unthinkable without the improvement of the living environment and culture of the coal-mine villages and the change of the people's understanding of the coal front. He noted that various undertakings have been carried on in several aspects at an accelerating pace to eliminate the gap between towns and villages in recent years, adding that the additional forming of another new front for the improvement of the coal-mine areas is an important task facing us at present for the long-term development of the country.
The conclusion referred to the tasks for protecting the ecological environment and the measures for preserving the true nature of the socialist society with absolute service to the popular masses as its physiology by ensuring that the Party organizations at all levels thoroughly observe the policy requirement of giving priority to the popular things for the people.
He clarified the tasks for ensuring the successful holding of the Party Congress including the issue of completing pending major projects until the Ninth Congress of the Party, the issue for all sectors of properly setting the next five-year plans for qualitative development and proposing scientific and realistic ways for their implementation, the issue of heightening revolutionary vigilance and intensiveness and thoroughly establishing discipline and order in all fields, the issue for the Party organizations and working people's organizations at all levels of conducting the propaganda offensive for enhancing the political enthusiasm and spirit of advance peculiar to our people in various forms and methods and the issue of making full preparations for various political and cultural events.
Noting that the period until the Party Congress is a very important and responsible time for successfully concluding the work of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party and for the transition to a new phase of change thereafter, he stressed the important role of the leading cadres and senior officials at all levels including the members of the central leadership body of the Party.
He ardently called for putting more spurs to the daring and offensive fighting spirit and dynamically advancing to a new phase of change with the great pride and honour of turning the past five years into the great pioneering days of comprehensive rejuvenation.
All the participants fully supported the conclusion of
The plenary meeting discussed the fourth agenda item "On the implementation of the state budget for 2025 and the draft state budget for 2026".
It decided to organize a state budget deliberation team for examining and discussing the implementation of the state budget for 2025 and the draft state budget for 2026.
It discussed the organizational matter as the fifth agenda item.
It decided to recall one member of the Party Central Committee and five alternate members of the Party Central Committee.
Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet of the DPRK, informed the plenary meeting of the work of the state budget deliberation team.
The plenary meeting made a final discussion of the implementation of the state budget for 2025 and the draft state budget for 2026 and approved the submission of the documents on them to the Supreme People’s Assembly.
During the plenary meeting, a consultative meeting was held to select cities and counties where structures under the regional development policy are to be built in 2026.
Jo Yong Won reported the results of the above-said consultative meeting to the plenary meeting.
The plenary meeting confirmed the 20 cities and counties where the structures under the regional development policy are to be built in 2026 and approved them with unanimous approval.
The Eighth Central Committee of the WPK successfully went through the preparatory processes necessary to substantially complete the work of its term and enter the next stage of development.
The Enlarged Meeting of the 13th Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK marked an important political occasion in clearly defining the road for new progress in socialist construction and vigorously promoting the all-people advance. -0-
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