The Enlarged Meeting of the Twelfth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea was held from June 21 to 23, 2025.

The plenary meeting was convened to conduct an interim review of the implementation of the major Party and state policies for this year, which were assigned by the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, to reconfirm the central tasks of the work and the orientation of the struggle for the second half of the year and to discuss and decide on the issues arising in the course of expanding and deepening the short-, intermediate- and long-term plans for economic construction.

Present there were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau, members and alternate members of the Political Bureau and members and alternate members of the Central Committee of the WPK.

Present there as observers were officials of the departments of the Party Central Committee, leading officials of ministries, national agencies and provincial-level guidance bodies, chief secretaries of city and county Party committees, leading Party and administrative officials of major industrial establishments and major commanding officers of the Korean People’s Army.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, presided over the plenary meeting.

The meeting heard a report on the successes made in all fields of socialist construction, including politics, the economy, culture, science, education and national defence, in response to the call of the Party Central Committee for glorifying the year 2025 as an epochal year of fulfilling the grand revolutionary programme set forth at the Eighth Party Congress and a year of eye-opening turn in bringing about an upward trend towards a new stage of development and on the work of the Party organizations at all levels in the period of the first half of the year.

The Party Central Committee made a very affirmative appreciation of the remarkable results achieved in the struggle to implement the major Party and state policies in the first half of the year and the spirit of vigorous advance definitely prevailing in overall socialist construction.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made an important speech at the meeting.

The meeting examined and approved strategic adjustment of a series of the Party and state policy tasks and proposals for their timely implementation on the principle of positively promoting successes and experiences and steadily drawing lessons and solutions in keeping with the features of the times, in which a gigantic struggle unprecedented in terms of the width and depth of the state development and the immensity of its goal is being waged, and with the changing objective situations.