8th Enlarged Plenary Meeting of 8th WPK Central Committee Convened

Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) -- The 8th Enlarged Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) opened at the office building of the WPK Central Committee on June 16.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was present at the plenary meeting.

Attending the meeting were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, members and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and members and alternate members of the WPK Central Committee.

Attending the meeting as observers are officials of the relevant departments of the WPK Central Committee and the Cabinet, chairpersons of the provincial, city and county people's committees, chairpersons of the provincial rural economy committees and leading officials of ministries, national institutions and major industrial establishments.

A presidium of the meeting was elected with members of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee.

The plenary meeting will review the work of all sectors including the economic sectors in the first half of 2023 for implementing the resolutions of the 6th and 7th plenary meetings of the 8th Party Central Committee and take relevant measures. It will also discuss and decide the policy issues of weighty significance in developing the Korean revolution including the issue of strengthening the Party and building the state and the issue of the state diplomatic and defence strategy to cope with the changed international situation.

The agenda items were unanimously approved at the plenary meeting.

The plenary meeting entered the discussion of agenda items amid high political consciousness and enthusiasm of all the participants to glorify this significant year of key importance in implementing the resolutions of the 8th Congress of the WPK as a year of great changes and leaps forward to be specially recorded in the history of the country. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2023.06.17.)