Report on Enlarged Meeting of Tenth Plenary Meeting of Eighth

Central Committee of WPK

Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- The mature and seasoned leadership of the
great Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, which dynamically
guides the sacred revolutionary cause of Juche to victory and glory, is
putting the honour and dignity of an independent power on the highest stage
of century and expanding the phase of national development and
rejuvenation to a wide scope, and such a soaring spirit of advance and upturn
constitutes the mainstream of the times that can neither be checked nor be
reversed.
The eternal vitality of Korean-style socialism, the precious appellation
"heroic people," the prosperity of the country and the happiness of posterity
are defended and guaranteed only under the banner of the ever-victorious
WPK. This iron faith and will is firmly cherished by the Korean people as an
unshakable cornerstone in the course of their grandiose struggle
unprecedented in history for ushering in a new heyday of overall
efflorescence by upholding single-mindedly the far-reaching plan of the
Party Central Committee.
The revolutionary enthusiasm of the entire Party and all the people is
surging remarkably to translate into brilliant reality and eye-opening changes
the action programmes, adopted and set forth at the Eighth Congress and
plenary meetings of the WPK Central Committee, by steadily displaying the
inexhaustible strength of loyalty and patriotism and the invincible might of
the single-hearted unity peculiar to the Korean revolution. In this situation,
another plenary meeting was convened to coordinate and broaden in scope
the short-, intermediate- and long-range plans for national rejuvenation and
to promote their perfect implementation in a far-sighted way.
An enlarged meeting of the Tenth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central
Committee of the WPK was held from June 28 to July 1, Juche 113 (2024),
to inject great vitality into the all-people advance for confirming the victory
in attaining the goals set forth at the Party Congress by further raising the
offensive spirit on all the fronts of socialist construction.
In order to successfully follow the orientation of state affairs and carry out
all the tasks decided at the Ninth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central
Committee of the WPK, the plenary meeting reviewed the work in the first
half of the year, set the main orientation of the work and policies of struggle
for the second half of the year and discussed and decided on the important

issues of practical significance in preserving the original features and
people-oriented character of Korean-style socialism.
The meeting was attended by 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.
Present as observers were officials of relevant departments of the WPK
Central Committee, leading officials of ministries, national agencies and
provincial-level leadership bodies, chief secretaries of city and county
committees of the WPK and leading Party and administrative officials of
major industrial establishments.
Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, was present
at the plenary meeting.
When the General Secretary took the platform, all the participants broke into
cheers of "Hurrah!" looking up to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the
supreme leader of the Party, state and people, who is bringing about a new
turning point of gigantic creation and changes for the building of a powerful
socialist country with his outstanding ideas and leadership abilities, firmly
taking the helm of the Juche revolution.
A presidium composed of members of the Political Bureau of the Party
Central Committee was elected.
The presidium of the plenum authorized Kim Jong Un to preside over the
meeting.
Saying that the present work system, whereby a plenary meeting is convened
in June as an interim review meeting for implementing the decisions adopted
at a previous plenary meeting held at the end of every year, is beneficial to
our work, he stressed that the current plenary meeting should also make a
correct appraisal of the successes made and shortcomings revealed in the
work in the first half of the year and their causes and pay attention to
scrupulously planning and organizing the work for the second half of the
year.
After referring to the agenda items to be dealt with at the plenary meeting,
including the issue of improving the work style and leadership abilities of
leading officials and the issue of supplementing and perfecting the judicial
system of the country, he declared the plenary meeting open, hoping that it
would serve as another important occasion in developing the revolution.

The following agenda items were brought up at the meeting:
1. On the interim review of the implementation of the major Party and state
policies for 2024 and measures
2. On improving the officials' method and style of work
3. On enforcing strict work discipline in the key sectors
4. On some tasks for the consolidation and development of the judicial
system
5. Organizational matter
The plenary meeting unanimously approved the presented agenda items.
The participants heard a report on the first agenda item.
The report referred to the remarkable successes made by the WPK and the
Korean people in the first half of the year by waging a courageous struggle
for translating into brilliant reality the major policy-oriented tasks of the
Party and the state despite the extremely acute internal and external
environment of the country.
It informed the participants, based on data, of some shortcomings and
mistaken practices revealed in the course of implementing the Party and
state economic policies in the first half of the year.
It was followed by speeches made by Kim Jae Ryong, secretary of the WPK
Central Committee, Pak Jong Gun, vice-premier of the Cabinet and
chairman of the State Planning Commission, Ri Chol Man, vice-premier of
the Cabinet and chairman of the Agricultural Commission, Jo Chun Ryong,
secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Pak Thae Song, secretary of the
WPK Central Committee, Kim Song Nam, department director of the WPK
Central Committee, Kim Myong Hun, vice-premier of the Cabinet, Pak
Chang Ho, chief secretary of the North Hwanghae Provincial Committee of
the WPK, An Kyong Gun, minister of Machine-building Industry, and Ri
Thae Sop, minister of Public Security.
The leading officials analyzed the successes and deviations made in the
course of implementing the decisions of the previous plenary meeting in
their fields and brought before the current plenary meeting the issues that
await an immediate solution.
Kim Jong Un made a concluding speech on the first agenda item "On the
interim review of the implementation of the major Party and state policies
for 2024 and measures".

In the concluding speech, he referred to the successes achieved in the course
of attaining the struggle goals decided on at the Ninth Plenary Meeting of
the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK and their factors and significance,
adding:
Four and a half years have already passed since we started the struggle for
implementing the fighting programme set at the Eighth Party Congress.
What I am clearly convinced of in the course of our struggle that has been
carried on while overcoming many challenges and obstacles is the fact that
the whole motive and accelerating force of the advance towards the
comprehensive development of socialist construction is further increasing
and growing.
The review of the work of the Party and the state in the first half of this year
enables us to come to such a conclusion.
Early this year, our Party approved the great plan for regional development
that is unprecedented since the founding of the country and entered a stage
of its full-scale implementation.
There still exist formidable subjective and objective factors obstructing our
advance, and the tasks facing this year as part of the five-year plan are
daunting. Despite these conditions, we have launched another huge
construction project for removing the centuries-old regional backwardness.
This testifies to the weight and value of the historic decision of the Party for
improving the living standard of all the people across the country and proves
that our own strength and political and economic potentials are rapidly
growing stronger enough to develop all parts of the country at once to meet
the requirements of the new era.
At present, the frameworks of regional-industry factories, whose
construction started in different parts of the country this year, have been
completed and the manufacture of the equipment for them is being pushed
forward. And the end of the year will witness the completion of new modern
production bases in 20 cities and counties.
A definite upturn can be felt in the economic situation in the first half of the
year, as compared with the same period of last year.
Last year, the discipline in implementing the national economic plans as a
whole was loose from the outset, so urgent measures had to be taken at a
plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee. But this year, metal,
chemical, power and other major industrial sectors related to the 12 major

goals have carried out their monthly and quarterly plans without big
deviations in the first half of the year.
It can be said that the farming situation throughout the country up to now is
also fairly good.
The huge irrigation project for this year has been completed in time on a
nationwide scale, fertilizers, agricultural chemicals, fuel and other farming
materials have been supplied, and wheat and barley yields have increased
compared to last year and transplanting of rice seedlings was completed in
the right season thanks to the soaring enthusiasm of the agricultural workers
throughout the country.
If we direct our efforts to minimizing the effects of abnormal weather
conditions and to manuring and cultivating crops in a scientific and technical
way, we will be able to bring about results as satisfactory as last year's.
Nowadays, remarkable successes are being made in the construction field
one after another across the country and significant new projects are
underway. This boosts the people’s hope for, self-confidence in and
enthusiasm for a new life and new happiness.
A remarkable improvement has also been made in implementing the
socialist policy for the students, the top priority task for the Party and the
government, evoking a positive response from students and their parents.
This is a clear change and a proud result.
Land administration, urban management, education, public health, sports
and several other fields have pushed ahead with their policy-oriented tasks,
opening up definite prospects, and the role of law-enforcement organs to
ensure the implementation of the Party’s decisions and social stability has
also been enhanced markedly.
Saying that the economic field is achieving a positive trend and growth
speed, clearly distinguishable from the past ones， and different sectors of
the country are striving for their revitalization in the face of quite a few
obstacles and difficulties in the state work and social life as a whole, Kim
Jong Un affirmed that this proves that the potentials of the country for tiding
over any difficulties and its unique capability of developing in its own way
are increasing more rapidly in a many-sided and multiple manner.
He said that the comprehensive upsurge in socialist construction in the first
half of this year is an upward trend brought about by the strong fighting
spirit and inexhaustible strength of all the Party members and other people,

firmly united around the Party Central Committee with patriotism, which is
developing into the Chollima spirit in the new era. He called for fully
demonstrating the country's inexhaustible development capability and spirit
of advance by successfully attaining the planned goals through a dynamic
struggle in the second half of this year to provide a reliable practical
guarantee for implementing the decisions of the Eighth Party Congress with
stronger confidence in our cause and the prospects of our struggle.
In the speech, he made a serious review and analysis of the deviations and
shortcomings revealed in different sectors of the national economy and
specified the tasks to be fulfilled to effectively and steadily push forward
with the work of reaching the level of economic development envisaged in
the five-year plan and place the overall economy on a track of stable and
sustainable development.
On the basis of a scientific and detailed analysis of the present economic
work，the concluding speech indicated the clear practical ways for the
Cabinet to organize and direct the economy as a whole in a responsible
manner and conduct the work of developing the country‘s economy in a
long-term, foresighted and methodological way.
The Cabinet should first design a clear-cut roadmap for increasing the
executive ability to proactively improve economic management，work out a
step-by-step plan, and then push ahead with the ensuing undertakings with
proper method．Meanwhile, it should give priority to the opinions of the
field officials and working people directly in charge of production and
construction, and on this basis, find out ways to manage the economy in
conformity with the actual conditions and improve economic management in
a feasible and progressive way, and take other effective and practical
economic measures.
It should promote the improvement of economic management prudently and
step up the implementation of the economic tasks for the second half of the
year dynamically so as to make this year a year of new changes, filled with
significant successes greater and more notable than those of last year.
It should also direct its main efforts to establishing strict discipline in
implementing the national economic plan, while giving priority to
strengthening its unified guidance over the national economy as a whole,
and overcome the shortcomings and difficulties latent in the economic work
in time and effectively，and actively propel the production growth and
technological development.

In order to secure a clear practical guarantee for carrying out the five-year
plan this year, it is important for the state to powerfully push ahead with the
major projects including the building of an energy-saving oxygen heat blast
furnace at the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex and the establishment of
C1 chemical industry so as to complete the planned tasks without fail.
In the second half of the year, key industrial sectors should play a leading
role in high spirits in achieving significant innovative successes in 2024.
The power industry sector should finish the first-stage construction of the
Tanchon Power Station within the year, speed up the construction of new
power stations, put in efforts to raise the efficiency of existing power
stations and ensure a rational supply of electricity. And the whole society
should strive to economize on electricity so as to make effective use of the
produced electricity.
The machine-building industry sector should press on with the
modernization of the Ryongsong Machine Complex, which is already
underway, so as to properly accumulate experience in boosting the machine-
building industry as a whole, and actively research and introduce innovative
technologies.
The railway sector should take positive measures necessary for increasing
the safety of train operation and maintaining and reinforcing the serviceable
life of railways and structures, and improve the quality of the overhaul of
locomotives, manufacture of rolling stock and repair of railways.
The construction sector should direct main efforts to strengthening the
construction forces both in quality and quantity at all construction units and
more actively conduct the work for building up the designing forces in the
fields of furniture and greening design and in local areas and for developing
and producing a variety of quality building materials.
The concluding speech presented the immediate tasks facing the sectors of
land and environment protection, urban management and disaster prevention
including the protection of the marine ecology of the country, preservation
of the landscape of the capital and establishment of a well-regulated system
for materials storage and supply necessary for disaster recovery.
It specified the most important and key issues in this year's farming and the
ways to ensure the stability of agricultural production.
It pointed to the need to make preparations for building a large-scale
greenhouse farm in the Thaegam area next year in a far-sighted way and

push ahead with the work of additionally building modern chicken farms in
Pyongyang and every province in a long-term and planned way.
It stressed the need for the Cabinet, the Agricultural Commission and the
Vehicle-building Industry Bureau to achieve without fail their yearly targets
according to the plan for the development of farm machines by 2030 and
radically increase the rate of farm work done by machines by transforming
the farm machine-building industry.
Stressing the need to direct the Party's and state's efforts to dynamically
organizing and conducting the work for developing the regional
economy, Kim Jong Un called on the Organizational Leadership
Department of the Party Central Committee, the Cabinet, the non-permanent
committees for promoting the Regional Development 20×10 Policy and the
relevant provinces, cities and counties to take thorough measures for
supplying equipment in keeping with dynamic progress in the construction
projects for regional-industry factories and to get ready raw and other
materials in a responsible manner in order to give full play to the vitality of
the Party's policy on regional development from the first year of production.
He clarified detailed and scientific practical measures to be taken in
selecting cities and counties to be involved in the construction next year,
making thorough preparations and vitalizing regional economy.
He also stressed the need to carry out a project for laying a foundation for
developing national light industry according to a well thought-out plan, for
the Cabinet and Pyongyang Municipality to unconditionally implement the
projects for improving the living standard of the citizens of the capital city
this year and for provinces, cities and counties to keep hold on solving
difficulties in living of inhabitants as an important policy task.
He advanced giving priority to enlisting and increasing scientific and
technological abilities as a primary task for successfully attaining the goals
planned for this year, including the 12 major targets for developing the
national economy and leading the ongoing key projects of national
importance to a successful conclusion.
The sci-tech field should make efforts to resolve the issues arising in the
economic work as immediate bottlenecks, issues calling for urgent solution
in current production and practicable issues directly related to the
stabilization and improvement of the people's living standards. The principle
to be adhered to in resolving these issues is to intensify and perfect

researches in the direction of minimizing cost and improving quality by
optimizing all processes in production and construction, he said.
Ministries, national agencies, industrial establishments and organizations
should play the role of a motive force in sci-tech development, actively
develop and effectively mobilize their own technical forces, talented
personnel, and create an atmosphere of competition for mass technological
innovation with them as the core and axis, so as to resolve the sci-tech
problems arising in this year's production and construction and in
implementing the year's plan for readjustment and reinforcement and
modernization projects, he said.
Kim Jong Un referred to the detailed tasks to be carried out by the field of
culture including education, public health, literature and arts, the media and
sports and principled issues for their implementation.
He stressed that the functions and role of law should be further enhanced to
establish a revolutionary work system and discipline throughout all fields of
state administration and social life and create a favourable environment for
development.
The Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly should actively
conduct on its own initiative the work of enacting, amending or
supplementing sector-specific laws related to different issues arising in the
revolution and construction, including the work of revising the Socialist
Constitution and providing a legal guarantee for further enhancing the
prestige of the state, promoting regional economic development and
encouraging scientific and technological innovations and their successful
implementation in a way of making them have enough executive abilities
and binding force, he said.
Judicial and prosecution organs should properly conduct legal supervision
and control with correct methodology to satisfactorily solve the important
problems arising in stabilizing and improving the country's economic work
and people's living standards, including the issue of establishing strict
discipline in the planning, financial and monetary sectors at all levels and the
issue of legally guaranteeing the implementation of the Party's childcare and
regional development policies.
The concluding speech stressed the importance of organizing and conducting
the work of the working people's organizations more purposefully and
vigorously so that the traditional spirit and mettle of patriotism of the youth
and other members of the working people's organizations, which are now

prevailing in the whole of society, are given uninterrupted play till the end of
the year.
In the concluding speech, Kim Jong Un clarified the orientation of the
military and political activities of all the armed forces of the DPRK,
including the KPA.
Stressing once again that success in this year's work entirely depends on the
activities of the Party organizations and officials at all levels, he called upon
all the members of the leadership body of the Party Central Committee to
fulfill the heavy responsibility they have assumed before the country and
people and thus bring about substantial improvements in the country's
economic development and the people's living standards.
And he went on:
As mentioned above, our cause of vigorously advancing towards a sacred
goal to achieve the prosperity and development of the Republic and the well-
being of the people has further developed in all aspects of the course of this
year's advance, but it faces important tasks to be carried out without fail and
serious shortcomings that require proper correction and overcoming.
As you all remember vividly, the December Plenary Meeting of the Party
Central Committee in 2023 accepted the solemn pledge of the participants to
unconditionally carry out the tasks set forth in the meeting's decisions
whatever the conditions and circumstances, and members of the leadership
body of the Party Central Committee declare to the people and the world the
pledge they made before the flag of the glorious Party, greeting the new year.
We now have half a year in our struggle to fulfill our firm pledge to hasten
the pace with a steady and active pioneering spirit and make 2024 a year of
redoubled efforts for our great state and people.
In order to bring substantial changes and results, which our people who
firmly believe in the true intentions of their Party and government as their
own and painstakingly follow all their policies and plans whatever the
difficulties and hardships, can feel with pride and pleasure this year, too, the
entire Party should wholeheartedly make redoubled efforts to spur the
struggle for the second half of the year and make a vigorous advance.
Always mindful of the weight of the revolutionary tasks we have determined
to carry out unconditionally before the people and with the unrivalled
driving power of vigorously opening up the comprehensive development
phase and confidence in the prospect of revolution getting ever brighter, let

us all strive harder to successfully conclude this year with proud and
innovative achievements.
When Kim Jong Un finished the concluding speech, loud applause broke
out.
All the participants expressed full support to his concluding speech which
clearly indicates the most correct path for dynamically advancing toward the
successful conclusion of the year 2024 and the struggle strategy for bringing
about uninterrupted innovations and successive leaps forward on the upward
track in socialist construction.
The concluding speech serves as a precious action programme and a
powerful militant banner as it clarifies the clear guidelines and scientific
ways for strengthening the leadership abilities and fighting efficiency of the
Party in every way and for accelerating the advance of the revolution with
the extraordinary consciousness and perseverance of all Party members and
other people in conformity with the requirements of the times, when a
crucial turning point has been brought about in the sacred course of
development of the DPRK.
The plenary meeting discussed the second agenda item "On improving the
officials' method and style of work."
The report, advancing the issue of improving the officials' method and style
of work as an urgent task facing the overall work of the Party and the state at
present and an important one directly related to the prospect of the
revolution and the development of the Party, made a critical review and
analysis of the seriousness and consequences of some officials' improper
work style devoid of the revolutionary mass viewpoint, such as mechanical
and stereotyped work attitude, formalism, whitewashing work results,
subjectivism, arbitrariness, abuse of power, and bureaucratism that run
counter to the attitude, traits and people-oriented method and style of work
appropriate to the hard core of the Party, who have to work to achieve the
ennobling ideals the Party set forth at its founding.
The reporter presented to the plenary meeting concrete ways of ensuring that
all officials acquire the qualifications and traits of a genuine communist by
further revving up the atmosphere of the ideological campaign for
fundamentally transforming the method and style of work within the Party
and intensifying ceaseless education and dynamic struggle.
The plenary meeting discussed the third agenda item "On enforcing strict
work discipline in the key sectors."

The report, by referring to the facts, made an analysis of a series of
deviations revealed owing to the irrationality of the working system in the
key sectors, which should orient the economy, science and technology
towards prospective and practical development, and presented relevant
measures.
The plenary meeting discussed the fourth agenda item "On some tasks for
the consolidation and development of the judicial system".
The report presented to the plenary meeting the result of studying of the
draft ways of supplementing and perfecting the judicial system in an
innovative way so that it can defend the political stability of our state and the
rights and interests of the masses and firmly guarantee the comprehensive
rejuvenation of socialism by law in line with the requirements of the Korean
revolution that has entered a new period of development.
The plenary meeting discussed the organizational matter as the fifth agenda
item.
It recalled and by-elected members and alternate members of the Central
Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Kim Chung Song, Sung Jong Gyu and Kim Jong Sun were by-elected as
members of the WPK Central Committee from alternate members, and Ri
Yong Sik was by-elected directly as a member of the WPK Central
Committee.
Twelve alternate members of the WPK Central Committee were recalled and
Jong Myong Su, Ri Myong Guk, Jon Hyang Sun, Jo Sok Ho, Choe Hyok
Chol, O Myong Chol, Kim Song Chol, Ju Hyon Ung, Kim Chol, Choe Yong
Il, Ri Yong Hyop and Ri Song Bong were by-elected as alternate members
of the WPK Central Committee.
It dismissed and appointed a department director of the WPK Central
Committee.
Ri Tu Song was dismissed and Kim Jong Sun was appointed as department
director of the Central Committee of the WPK.
Cadres of government organs and at a key post were dismissed and new ones
appointed.
Jong Myong Su was appointed as vice-premier of the Cabinet, Ri Myong
Guk as minister of Finance and Jon Hyang Sun as chairwoman of the
Central Committee of the Socialist Women's Union of Korea.

The plenary meeting organized sector-specific consultative meetings to draw
up the proactive and detailed measures for thoroughly carrying out the tasks
for the second half of 2024 and comprehensively deliberate on the issues
that arose in the discussion related to the agenda items.
Members of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee guided the
consultative meetings.
At the consultative meetings, constructive opinions based on a serious and
dynamic study of the draft decisions were fully proposed, and they were
strictly examined in the light of scientific accuracy, objectivity and
feasibility.
The 21st Meeting of the Political Bureau of the Eighth WPK Central
Committee was convened on July 1.
The Political Bureau reviewed the opinions raised at the sector-specific
consultative meetings and decided to submit the finally confirmed draft
decisions to the plenary meeting.
The plenary meeting adopted three decisions with unanimous approval.
All the participants renewed their firm determination to powerfully lead and
propel the successful implementation of the decisions of the Party plenary
meeting by displaying their utmost redoubled efforts and devotion in the
vanguard of carrying out the great revolutionary cause, reliably shouldering
the heavy responsibility entrusted to them by the Party and the revolution.
Convinced that the high struggle goals facing us this year will be
successfully attained by dint of the unity and unyielding patriotic struggle of
the whole Party and all the people closely rallied around Kim Jong Un, the
enlarged meeting of the plenary meeting, which seriously discussed and
decided the policy-oriented tasks and practical ways of great significance in
pushing forward our revolution without a moment's stagnation, concluded its
work.
The enlarged meeting of the Tenth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth WPK
Central Committee will be recorded in history as a significant occasion of
further displaying the revolutionary features and militant spirit of the WPK,
which is carrying forward the history of the development of the Republic
with eternal dignity, glory and prosperity by dint of absolute prestige of the
respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and the invincible might of his great
revolutionary ideas and is building an ideal society of the people where
socialist civilization is in full bloom. -0-