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Report on Enlarged Meeting of Eleventh Plenary Meeting of Eighth Central Committee of WPK

The noble idea and mature leadership ability of the great Workers’ Party of Korea, which is determined to bring earlier the final completion of the sacred revolutionary cause of Juche under the uplifted banner of the people-first principle, are bringing a great change and vigorous leap forward in all fields of state building, making each year of this land a brilliant peak of success and victory in the history.

The Party Central Committee solemnly declared in front of the glorious Party flag the commitment to repay with absolute devotion the heavy responsibility assigned by the times and the people at the start of 2024 when the victory in the implementation of the five-year plan would be confirmed. It turned this year into a year of change and leap forward full of expanded successes despite the severe ordeals, with clear-cut fighting policies, strategic decisions and power of perfect execution.

This year made the people actually sense the advent of a new heyday of socialist construction and the important change of the comprehensive development and rejuvenation both in the capital and the provinces. These glorious achievements serve as an inspiring cornerstone for the brilliant implementation of the fighting programme of the Eighth Congress of the Party and the victory to be achieved steadily.

While going through the innumerable challenges and the processes of fresh innovations, bold creation and steady progress with indomitable and persistent struggles and efforts, people have kept in their minds more deeply the unshakable faith and dignified self-confidence that our Party and system are the best in the world and an absolute trust and conviction that today’s happiness and future glory are achieved and guaranteed only in the embrace of the Party.

Members of the whole Party and other people and service personnel of the whole country, who are clearly foreseeing the successful fruition of their cause and ideal, are eager for a dynamic advance and development toward a greater victory as they harden their confidence in and optimism about the invincibility and bright prospects of Korean-style socialism dynamically advancing along the road of independence in politics, self-sufficiency in the economy and self-reliance in national defence under the guidance of the great Party Central Committee.

Press release of Eleventh Plenary Meeting of Eighth Central Committee of the WPK

December 29, 2024

Members and alternate members of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee, members and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and Presidium member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK by-elected at the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK are as follows:

Members of the WPK Central Committee

Jong Myong Su, Yun Jong Ho, No Kwang Chol, Ri Hi Yong, Song Jun Sol and Kang Myong Chol

Well over 1 000 new houses built in Komdok area

December 29, 2024

New dwelling houses have appeared in the Komdok area.

Present at the ceremonies for moving into those houses were Ri Kwang Hyok, vice-chairman of the South Hamgyong Provincial People's Committee, officials of the General Bureau of the Tanchon Area Mining Industry, officials concerned, builders and working people.

Licences for the use of new houses were handed over.

Experimental station of animal husbandry institute, black swan branch farm completed

December 29, 2024

An experimental station of the Animal Husbandry Institute of the Academy of Agricultural Science and a black swan branch of the Tonghan Livestock Farm under the provincial rural economy committee have newly been built in North Hwanghae Province.

Built in areas favourable for livestock farming, the experimental station and the black swan branch have conditions and facilities for conducting scientific research into raising the scientific level of animal husbandry and increasing poultry production.

They will be helpful to the development of livestock farming and the improvement of the people's diet.

New production line established at Paegunsan General Foodstuff Factory

December 29, 2024

An instant noodles production line has newly been added to the Paegunsan General Foodstuff Factory in South Hamgyong Province.

The automated production line provides another foundation for the improvement of dietary life of the people in South Hamgyong Province.

Wi Chol Su, secretary of the South Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Hwang Myong Chol, vice-chairman of the provincial people's committee, and officials concerned looked round the instant noodles production line. 

China decries US’ hostile policy

December 29, 2024

A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry criticized the US’ hostile policy in a routine news briefing on December 24.

The US persistently adopted the national defence authorization act for the 2025 fiscal year containing the negative content against China as a law and has clamoured against the “threat from China” every year, he said.

China strongly demands that the US drop Cold War thinking and ideological prejudice and do not seek an excuse for expanding armament and maintaining hegemony, he stressed.

Putin refers to tasks facing economic sector

December 29, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned the tasks facing the economic sector at a conference on economic issues on December 23.

He said that the state has important and systematic tasks of solving the problems of inflation and unemployment and achieving the balanced growth of the economy in the economic sector.

It is a guarantee and prerequisite for attaining goals for national development and ensuring the successful implementation of national plans, he noted.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un receives New Year greetings from Russian President

December 28, 2024

Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, received a congratulatory letter from V. Putin, president of the Russian Federation, on December 17.

In his letter, the Russian president extended the most sincere New Year greetings to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

The talks between me and you held in Pyongyang in June put the Russia-DPRK relations onto a new qualitative level, he said, and went on:

Meetings held to mark anniversary of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's assumption of supreme commandership of DPRK armed forces

December 28, 2024

Events were held by working people's organizations of the DPRK on December 26 to celebrate the 13th anniversary of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's assumption of the supreme commandership of the armed forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Present there were officials of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea and the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea, officials concerned, workers and trade union members, agricultural workers and UAWK members.

Choe Jong Chol, vice-chairman of the GFTUK Central Committee, made a report at the meeting of workers and trade union members held at the Central Hall of Workers and then speeches were made.

Resident UN missions pay floral tribute to President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il

December 28, 2024

Baskets of flowers in the name of the UN resident coordinator office and the missions of UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, FAO, WFP and WHO in Pyongyang were laid at the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill on December 26 on the occasion of the New Year 2025. 

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