First Conference of Chairpersons of WPK Primary Committees Opens

   Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- The First Conference of Chairpersons of the Primary Committees of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) opened at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium on Friday.

   The conference will analyze and review the successes and experience, defects and lessons witnessed in the past drive of the primary party committees for turning themselves into the invincible integral ones in which the oneness of ideology and leadership is strictly ensured and which form a harmonious whole with the popular masses, and for carrying out the Party's line and policies. And it will discuss the tasks and ways to improve their work as required by the new era of the Juche revolution.

   Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, was present at the conference.

   Also attending it were Vice Marshal of the KPA Hwang Pyong So, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, vice-chairman of the State Affairs Commission (SAC) and director of the KPA General Political Bureau, Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK, vice-chairman of the SAC and vice-chairman of the C.C., WPK, Kim Ki Nam, Choe Thae Bok, Ri Su Yong, Kim Phyong Hae, Ri Man Gon, O Su Yong, Kwak Pom Gi and Kim Yong Chol who are members of the Political Bureau and vice-chairmen of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Su Gil, Kim Nung O, Pak Thae Song and Jo Yon Jun who are alternate members of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, chairpersons of the primary committees of the WPK and party officials in Pyongyang and provinces.

   Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of the party, army and state, made an opening address.

   Kim Ki Nam made a report.

   Noting the history of the WPK is shining with the undying exploits of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il who advanced and perfectly applied the Juche-based idea of building basic party organizations, the reporter said:

   The great leaders' idea of prioritizing the primary party committees and guidance over them has been successfully carried forward and developed by supreme leader Kim Jong Un.

   The history of the ever-victorious WPK is a sacred history in which the validity and vitality of the Juche-based party-building idea of attaching importance to the basic party organizations have been clearly proven. It also constitutes proud annals in which the primary party committees have remained true to the idea and cause of the WPK by performing feats through a heroic struggle.

   In particular, the past five years, during which the era of a new historic turn was opened in accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche, were the days of victory and glory when the role of the primary party committees had been enhanced remarkably and the indomitable spirit and might of the WPK strikingly demonstrated.

   The most important success made in the work of the primary party committees is that they have been imbued with the idea of the leader and turned into strong militant ranks that move as one under his guidance.

   The primary party committees have enthusiastically mobilized the party members and other working people to the drive for carrying out the revolutionary cause of Juche and the cause of building a socialist power.

   All the primary committees of the WPK have been firmly consolidated as the ones strong in faith that remain loyal to the idea and will of the leader only, vanguard ranks of loyalty that make a breakthrough in the van of the drive for upholding the Party policies while linking the leader and the masses with blood ties. The Party takes special pride in this as it is a great victory achieved in accomplishing the cause of building the Juche-based party.

   Stressing the need to steadily strengthen the WPK into an indomitable and militant party and further enhance its leadership role in order to speed up the building of a socialist power and successfully accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche by implementing the decision made at the 7th WPK Congress, the reporter said:

   What is most important to this end is to strengthen the primary committees, the principal militant units of the Party, in every way and herein lies the reason why the First Conference of Chairpersons of the Primary Committees was convened by the WPK.

   At present the WPK requires every primary party organization to meticulously guide the organizational and ideological life of its members and vigorously conduct the drive for implementing the behests of the leaders and upholding the Party's policies so as to accelerate the modeling of the whole Party and society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and make a breakthrough in the all-out offensive for the final victory in the revolutionary cause of Juche.

   The reporter called for going all out to carry through the decision of the 7th WPK Congress and hasten the final victory in the development of the great Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist party and the revolutionary cause of Juche, the cause of building a socialist power, rallied closer around Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea.

   Speeches were made at the conference.

   Speakers mentioned the achievements and experience gained in the work of primary committees.

   They also referred to the defects found in the work of some primary committees.

   They expressed their resolve to bring about a great turn in the work of primary party organizations as demanded by the period of a new leap forward in carrying out the revolutionary cause of Juche and thus turn all the basic party organizations into the first death-defying corps in the drive to implement the idea of the Party and uphold its policies.

   The conference continues.

Kim Jong Un Makes Opening Address at First Conference of Chairpersons of WPK Primary Committees

   Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, made an opening address at the First Conference of Chairpersons of the Primary Committees of the WPK on Friday.

   He said that the Conference of Chairpersons of the Primary Committees of the WPK is held for the first time in its history amid the grandiose struggle to carry out the decision of its 7th Congress.

   He paid the highest tribute and extended eternal glory to President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il, the founder and builder of the glorious WPK and the symbol of the dignified DPRK, representing the boundless reverence of the participants in the conference, all other party members, service personnel and people of the country.

   He offered warm gratitude and militant salute to the participants of the conference and all other chairpersons of the primary committees of the Party who are reliably defending the main combat positions for implementing the Party policies, regarding absolute loyalty to the Party and the boundless devotion to the people as their life and keeping pace with the Party Central Committee despite any difficulties and trials.

   After informing the participants of the overall international political situation including the one prevailing in Northeast Asia and the situation in south Korea, he said that the prevailing international situation more clearly proves how just and correct the WPK's idea and line of simultaneously developing the two fronts were.

   He noted that scared by the remarkably increasing strategic position of the DPRK, the imperialist reactionary forces are making desperate efforts, cooking up the UN "sanctions resolution" and even crying out for "independent sanctions", stressing that this is the most vivid proof of the victory of the DPRK. He said with pride that great progress was made in the development of the revolution under the correct leadership of the Party this year.

   Thanks to ardent patriotism and loyalty and devoted struggle of all officials and working people, unprecedented production successes were made in the fields of industry, agriculture, pomiculture and fishery, the first-stage project for recovering from the flood damage in the northern part of North Hamgyong Province was successfully completed and the construction of Ryomyong Street made rapid progress during the 200- day campaign and is nearing completion, he pointed out.

   He said that the DPRK bolstered up its nuclear force both in quality and quantity by succeeding in developing Korean-style latest strategic weapons in the field of national defence science and achieved a lot of successes in the fields of science, education, public health and sports, adding that all of them were possible because all chairpersons of the primary committees of the WPK powerfully aroused all their members and other working people to the struggle for devotedly upholding the Party's line and policies and implementing them to the letter.

   Kim Jong Un extended once again the warm congratulations to the chairpersons of the primary party committees participating in the conference with pride and honor of having successfully concluded the 200-day campaign, true to the call of the Party Central Committee, and all the party members and other people.

   Referring to the Party's intention of regarding the Conference of Chairpersons of the Primary Committees of the WPK as important as the Party Congress, he emphasized that to raise the role of the primary committees is an important guarantee for strengthening the Party and victoriously advancing the revolution and construction.

   Attaching weighty importance to the role of the chairpersons of the primary committees of the WPK, in particular, he noted that whether the Party's line and policies are correctly implemented or not depends on the politico-ideological preparation, organizational ability, revolutionary spirit and strong capabilities of the chairpersons of the primary committees.

   The source of the strength of our Party and its invincible might lie in the close bonds of kinship with the broad popular masses and their full support and deep trust, he said.

   He stressed the need for the conference to critically make a deep-going analysis and review of not only achievements and experience gained in the work of the primary party organizations in the past but also their shortcomings and their chairpersons' role and work-style and make an exhaustive discussion on the issue of enhancing the function and role of the primary party organizations in every way in the drive for developing it and implementing its policies.

   He noted that the main purpose of the conference is to help all the participants reflect upon themselves with party conscience and make efforts to boldly rectify their shortcomings so that the conference may offer an opportunity of effecting such a great turn as bringing about a radical change in the work of the primary committees of the WPK.

   He declared the conference open, expressing belief that it would be successfully held thanks to high political enthusiasm and active participation of all its attendants and thus mark a historic milestone in strengthening the WPK and accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche.

Kim Jong Un Makes Concluding Speech at First Conference of Chairpersons of WPK Primary Committees

   Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, made a concluding speech "On Strengthening the Primary Party Committees" at the 3rd-day meeting of the First Conference of Chairpersons of the Primary Committees of the WPK on Sunday.

   He said that the Central Committee of the WPK convened the Conference of Chairpersons of the Primary Party Committees for the first time in its history in keeping with the requirement of the developing revolution and attached importance to the conference as much as to the Party Congress.

   He referred to some important matters arising in improving and strengthening the work of the primary Party committees in the future.

   He underscored the great importance of the position and role of the primary Party committees in further developing the WPK into the great Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist party as required by the new era of the Juche revolution and energetically promoting the building of a powerful socialist country.

   He went on:

   Only when the primary Party committees are strengthened, is it possible to train all party members as genuine Kimilsungists-Kimjongilists faithful to the idea and leadership of the WPK and develop the Party into a revolutionary party with the invincible might by consolidating its foundation.

   To strengthen the primary Party committees and increase their militancy now presents itself as a more urgent issue in the struggle to smash the ever-more undisguised and persistent anti-socialist moves of the imperialists and all other hostile forces, carry out the line of modeling the whole Party on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism laid down at the Seventh Congress of the WPK and accomplish the socialist cause of Juche.

   The primary Party organizations should consolidate themselves to be the most elite militant ranks in line with the Party Central Committee's intention of attaching importance to them and powerfully mobilize the officials, Party members and other working people to the drive for carrying out the cause of building a powerful socialist country and thus usher in a new heyday in strengthening the primary Party committees.

   The basic duty of the primary Party organizations at present is to creditably fulfill their responsibility and role as the main militant sub-unit of the WPK in the struggle for implementing the decision of the Seventh Congress of the WPK under the uplifted banner of modeling the whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.

   The primary Party organizations should, first of all, satisfactorily perform their mission and duty as a political staff at the relevant units in the drive for implementing the ideas of the Party and upholding its policies.

   They should focus their efforts on carrying out the Party's policies and the main revolutionary tasks facing their own sectors and units, in particular.

   The primary Party organizations in the field of supply service of the armed forces including the People's Army should conduct the party work in a dynamic and militant manner and make positive contributions to further improving the standard of living of the service personnel.

   All the primary Party organizations should thoroughly carry out the military tasks facing their units, true to the Party's line of prioritizing military affairs.

   If they are to successfully carry out their revolutionary tasks, they should increase the self-development capability to the maximum, considering the mental power of the masses, science and technology and supply service as a main link in the chain efforts.

   They should sincerely help and encourage the administrative and economic officials as a party work so that they may creditably perform their duties in carrying out their revolutionary tasks.

   They should direct big efforts to the internal party work, holding fast to the work to establish the unitary leadership system of the Party as a main line, and thus increase the militancy of the Party and the revolutionary ranks in every way.

   Vigilance should be heightened against the enemies' moves to destabilize our society and all sorts of unsound practices disturbing people's mind-set and a struggle be intensified against them.

   A proper guidance should be given to the work of the working people's organizations so that they may creditably play their role as the transmission belts and peripheral organizations of the Party.

   Big efforts should be channeled into guiding the work of the Youth League, in particular, so that its organizations may fully demonstrate their might as the advancing group and a wing of the Party in the struggle to implement the decision of the Seventh Congress of the Party.

   The main point in the rural ri-Party committees' work at present is to strengthen the base in the socialist rural areas politico-ideologically and attain without fail the goal of agricultural production set by the Party.

   For the primary Party committees to creditably discharge the mission and duty they assumed before the Party and the revolution, their chairpersons should decisively enhance their responsibility and role.

   Departments of the Party Central Committee and the provincial, city and county Party committees and those Party committees performing similar functions should put main emphasis on the work for strengthening primary Party organizations, true to the Party's idea and policy of prioritizing and strengthening them.

   It is necessary to raise a strong wind for decisively combating administrative bureaucratic tendencies in the Party work.

   Kim Jong Un appealed to the participants of the conference and the chairpersons of the primary committees of the WPK to devote themselves to the great Party and the great people and to the victory of the sacred cause of the Juche revolution.

Received from the DPRK Embassy