General Secretary Kim Jong Un’s Revolutionary Activities

The Second Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea was held from June 20 to 22 to conduct an interim review of the implementation of the Party and state policies for 2026, a year of key importance when a breakthrough should be made in carrying out the strategic tasks and the new five-year plan set forth at the Ninth Congress of the WPK, confirm the central points of work and the orientation of struggle for the second half of the year, and discuss and decide on the pending issues urgently needed for putting overall socialist construction on a stable and sustained development track.

The plenary meeting took place in the form of an enlarged meeting with the attendance of members of the Party central leadership as well as leading officials of guidance organs in Pyongyang and the regions, senior Party and administrative officials of major industrial establishments and major commanding officers of the Korean People’s Army.

Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, presided over the meeting.

The meeting presidium was composed of members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and members of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee.

The following agenda items were brought up for discussion at the meeting:

First, Interim Review of the Implementation of the Major Party and State Policies for 2026

Second, On Shoring up the Coal-mining Industry and Remodelling the Coal-Mining Villages across the Country

Third, On a Series of Measures for Enhancing the Role of the City and County People’s Committees

Fourth, Organizational Matter

The plenary meeting heard and deliberated on the report on the implementation of the Party and state policies in the first half of the year.

The WPK Central Committee made a positive appreciation of the important successes achieved in all fields of socialist construction in the first half of 2026, the compelling beginning of the struggle for implementing the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the WPK, and the redoubled spirit of exertion and advance of the Party members and other working people that are leading the state and social trend as a whole.

The plenary meeting called for adhering to the revolutionary ideology and spirit and struggle principle, the basic guarantee of the ever-victorious leadership ability and fighting efficiency of the WPK, thoroughly fulfilling the requirements of the era of comprehensive development in all sectors and units and steadily boosting the spirit of fresh innovation and the trend of continuous transformation while overcoming and eradicating some shortcomings and negative and evil practices revealed in the first half of the year at their early stage.

The meeting heard the report and speeches on the measures for thoroughly carrying out the technological and cultural upgrading of the coal-mining industry, which was designated as an important strategic task for the Party and the state in the period of the new long-term plan.

The reporter and speakers unanimously stressed that the measures for boosting the coal-mining industry are the most realistic ones for successfully solving the key problem for the completion of the new five-year plan and ensuring the stable and sustained development of our economy.

In particular, they expressed full support and approval for the plan for completely renovating the coal-mining areas across the country and bringing about a dramatic change in them as it is the brilliant embodiment of the noble outlook on the people and the people-first politics of Comrade Kim Jong Un, which are run through with his boundless love for the working people and absolute service for them, and the most revolutionary policy and a bold decision that can be made only by Comrade Kim Jong Un.

The reporter and speakers said that the great transformation to be made in the coal-mining areas clearly teach once again what should be the vision and attitude of the officials working for the prosperity of the state and the well-being of the people. They solemnly pledged before the plenary meeting to uphold the noble intention of Comrade Kim Jong Un with perfect practice and continuous successes.

Comrade Kim Jong Un emphasized that the issue of eliminating the centuries-old backwardness remaining in the coal-mining industry in the era, when the whole country is undergoing changes and advancing, is a strategic task of weighty significance not only in successfully fulfilling the new five-year plan but also in carrying out the next medium- and long-term plans for the prospective development of the national economy and a promise our Party made with the coal miners and an urgent project that should be launched without delay. He referred to the orientations for forming another new front for technologically and culturally transforming the coal-mining sector as a whole, along with the construction projects for the Regional Development 20×10 Policy. And he continued:

The task to which our Party should give special importance and direct efforts for the development of the coal-mining industry at the present stage is to decisively solve the housing problem of coal miners, the masters of coalfields and the producers. The transformation of coal-mining areas across the country is as gigantic and huge construction work as the transformation of rural dwellings across the country, as well as a new realm which holds an important place in the struggle for regional development; therefore, it is necessary to make thorough preparations from the beginning and give precedence to meticulous planning and preliminary arrangements.

To this end, it is needed to organize powerful coal-mining area construction headquarters in Pyongyang and provinces, build up reliable design and construction forces and make good preparations for the equipment, materials and transport so as to launch into construction on a full scale next year.

This construction project should be a crucial process for the coal miners, who have devoted their precious sweat and passion to defending the lifeline of the national economy in the annals of the revolution, and for transforming the coal-mining industry as a whole in line with the demands of the three revolutions.

He then set forth detailed tasks for ensuring the successful implementation of the project including those of designing houses and public buildings well in conformity with the characteristics of the coal-mining areas and with the modern and advanced character and powerfully launching the project for turning the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine into a modern and standard one and transforming the area into a new model of coal-mine culture.

The plenary meeting expressed conviction that technological and cultural upgrading of the coal-mining industry would be of historic significance in rapidly boosting the overall economy by accelerating the solution of the long-term problem of industry, and it would serve as a great auspicious event when the new life and new culture of the most advanced working class will clearly take their place at the centre of the times and as a new change of our state favoured most by the people during the ninth term of the Party Central Committee. It confirmed the unshakable will of the whole Party to bring the revolutionary plan and intention of Comrade Kim Jong Un into a brilliant reality without fail.

The meeting heard and deliberated on the result of the study of establishing a rational and well-regulated system and order in the work of the city and county people’s committees and improving their relevant authority to meet the practical requirements so that they can powerfully lead the new stage of development of Korean-style socialist construction in their regions.

The meeting reviewed and criticized the deviations revealed in the course of the study contrary to the intention of the Party, which set as an independent agenda item of the major Party meeting the issue of decisively enhancing the functions and role of the city and county people’s committees, which are the administrative and executive organs of state power at the corresponding levels and responsible for leading the independent and multifaceted growth of the cities and counties, the strategic fortresses supporting the comprehensive development of the country.

The meeting recognized that the measures brought up for deliberation were studied and worked out in conformity with the policy-oriented intention of the Party Central Committee and the Party principle.

The plenary meeting discussed the organizational matter.

Members and alternate members of the Central Committee of the WPK were recalled and by-elected.

Han Sang Man and Kwon Song Hwan, alternate members of the WPK Central Committee, were by-elected as members of the WPK Central Committee, and Kim Yong Ul was by-elected directly as a member of the WPK Central Committee.

Paek Un Chol, Ri Yun Su, Choe Chol Ung, Ko Han Sop and Jang Kyong Nam were by-elected as alternate members of the WPK Central Committee.

A member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee was recalled.

Kim Jae Ryong was recalled from membership of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee due to the change of position.

An alternate member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee was recalled and by-elected.

Ri Ho Rim was by-elected as an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee.

A secretary of the WPK Central Committee was recalled and elected.

Kim Jae Ryong was dismissed from his post as secretary of the Party Central Committee.

Comrade Kim Jong Un proposed at the meeting to recall Jo Yong Won, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly, and elect him as a secretary of the Party Central Committee.

The proposal, Comrade Kim Jong Un made as an exercise of the authority of the President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on the basis of Article 90 of Chapter 6 of the Constitution of the DPRK, was passed with the approval of all members of the Party Central Committee.

In accordance with Article 96 of Chapter 6 of the Constitution, the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly will be elected at the Supreme People’s Assembly to be convened in the future, and on the basis of Article 99 of the Constitution, the Vice-Chairman of the SPA Standing Committee will be in charge of the Standing Committee work during the recess of the SPA.

Department directors of the WPK Central Committee were dismissed and appointed.

Kim Jae Ryong and Han Kwang Sang were dismissed from the posts of department director of the Party Central Committee, and Jo Yong Won was appointed as director of the Organizational Leadership Department of the Party Central Committee and Ri Ho Rim as director of the Light Industry Department of the Party Central Committee.

The Central Military Commission of the WPK decided to refer Major General Pak Hui Chol, vice-director for organizational affairs of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People’s Army, to the law-enforcement organ in order to investigate the allegations of corruption and to appoint Major General Kim Yong Ul as vice-director for organizational affairs of the General Political Bureau.

At the plenary meeting, Comrade Kim Jong Un made an important concluding speech to clarify the orientation of the Party and state policies at the present stage and the short-, intermediate- and long-term future struggle tasks.

Referring to the character and significance of this year’s struggle of key importance in successfully attaining the five-year long-term goals set forth by the Party Congress, Comrade Kim Jong Un reviewed the first half-year work of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK, which confirmed the orientation of development and the goals at the new stage and organized and guided essential work for enlisting the entire Party and all the people to implement them, and the successes achieved in all sectors of socialist construction.

In particular, he highly appreciated that the great enthusiasm and collective innovation of the working class and young people, who turned out in response to the decisions of the Party Congress, are giving a great encouragement to the present new phase of development. 

We are now paving a new way which can be pushed through only with an iron will and indefatigable efforts and our struggle, which started vigorously for attaining the new long-term goals, can lead to the meaningful first success only when we perfectly carry out this year's tasks with all our courage and energy in the second half of the year, Comrade Kim Jong Un said, stressing once again that all the sectors and units should continue to display the high fighting spirit and redouble their efforts, just as they did in launching their struggle in hearty response to the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

The concluding speech referred to all the tasks facing the economic guidance organs and the national economy sectors and ways for implementing them in more dynamically promoting the first year's struggle for implementing the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

It also underscored the need for the ecological environment protection organs and law enforcement agencies to enhance their roles in preventing the environmental pollution nationwide, for the disaster prevention agencies at all levels to increase their ability to cope with disasters and crises, and for the light industry sector to improve the quality of consumer goods and push ahead with the construction of modern light industry factories in a planned way.

The concluding speech called on all fields of science and culture to make dynamic efforts to successfully fulfil this year's work plans and policy-oriented tasks and thus open up a turning phase for the development of their fields and make a positive contribution to national rejuvenation and prosperity and the promotion of the people's wellbeing.

Comrade Kim Jong Un in his concluding speech reaffirmed the steadfast policy-oriented stand of the Party and state to accelerate the build-up of the national defence capabilities.

This year, too, the US and the ROK are pushing forward with the latter's possession of a nuclear submarine while getting evermore undisguised in their moves towards the reinforcement and modernization of armed forces in the region, and they have so often staged military drills and espionage activities against the DPRK, extremely aggravating the situation on the Korean peninsula.

What is more dangerous is that the US and the ROK held again a military confab of the "Nuclear Consultative Group(NCG)”, a nuclear war machine which is aimed at attacking the DPRK with nuclear elements such as nuclear and conventional integration posture.

So far there were six rounds of such confab at which they drew up nuclear war scenarios that were fractionalized and concretized ranging from war mode to sequence of missions, drills and operation elements. This clearly proves the criminal nature of the above machine pushing moment by moment the Korean peninsula situation to the brink of a nuclear war.

Referring to the peculiarities of the Korean revolution inevitably accompanied by confrontation with imperialism, Comrade Kim Jong Un clearly clarified once again the steadfast stand of the Party and government to make more proactive efforts to further expand and strengthen the powerful and absolutely reliable deterrent for self-defence in order to cope with the prevailing geopolitical crisis.

The plenary meeting unanimously recognized that to steadily expand and strengthen the nuclear forces, the core of the military sovereignty of the DPRK and the pivot in implementing the strategy of deterring and fighting a war, and to thoroughly exercise the position of it as a nuclear weapons state is the most correct and sole way to actively and confidently cope with the unpredictable international military and political situation changing in a composite way.

After evaluating the position and role of the more sophisticated nuclear technology in the prospective development of the DPRK’s war deterrent, the concluding speech stressed that, with the nuclear technology as a basis, more extensive, innovative and encouraging plans would be carried out with increased speed.

Comrade Kim Jong Un set forth the tasks of dynamically carrying out the work to further increase powerful national defence assets without pause, in a thoroughly Korean way and with a goal of surpassing the world’s level.

In particular, it is necessary to put spurs to the building of a 10 000-tonnage strategic guided missile cruiser to be carried out according to the April 4 decision of the Central Military Commission of the Party, and to direct great efforts to developing and producing powerful conventional weapons of great significance in increasing the combat capability of the Korean People’s Army.

It is important to draw up detailed plans for building or modernizing munitions industry enterprises and major munitions production enterprises, which play an important role in boosting the core combat capability of the army, and push ahead with them on an annual basis.

The concluding speech also advanced all tasks for bringing about a qualitative change in improving the combat capability of KPA units at all levels.

In particular, it stressed the need for the Party committees and political organs at all levels to intensify the Party political work for building up the spiritual strength of the service personnel so as to train all of them to be the ones strongest in ideology and faith and possessed of boundless loyalty to the Party and the country and steadfast class consciousness and outlook on the arch enemy.

It underlined the need to qualitatively complete the ongoing project for fortifying the southern border and build new bases for naval fleets and other military bases and structures essential for bolstering up the national defence capability.

Comrade Kim Jong Un clarified once again the steadfast foreign policy stand of the Party and the DPRK government to firmly adhere to the principle of struggle against the enemy, strengthen the united front with the anti-imperialist, independent forces and resolutely fight against the imperialists' moves for aggression and war.

Unimaginably astonishing incidents and events beyond the common conception and knowledge are taking place one after another and wars, bloodshed and political and economic instabilities are becoming commonplace on a worldwide scale due to the gangster-like and unlimited geopolitical greed of and misuse of strength by the hegemony-seeking forces, unprecedented since the Second World War. As a result, an inter-camp confrontation between the forces aspiring to independence and those seeking domination is getting heated. This is a feature of the extremely acute and variable international situation at present.

The US’ indiscriminate high-handed practices have had very dangerous influence on its following forces and resulted in further deterioration of the bloody situation in Europe and the Middle East. In the meantime, Japan, a defeated country in Asia, is openly turning itself into a war state by taking the present chaotic situation as a golden opportunity to get rid of all shackles restricting its moves to become a military power. This is causing a strong backlash and serious concern from the international community.

Today, such types of ultra-nationalism of modern version as "America First" idea, Zionism, Ukrainian neo-Nazism and Japanese militarism are becoming more rampant and colluding with one another to create international instability reminiscent of the appalling scene a century ago when the whole world was involved in wars and tragic bloodshed and a certain country is riding roughshod over international law. This reality goes to prove once again the justness of all the DPRK’s choices of policies and the path it has followed.

Comrade Kim Jong Un said: We have no right to disregard this complicated situation and stark geopolitical reality and should not look away from them. Strength is precisely the sovereignty and prestige of a country. The sovereignty and security of our country have been firmly guaranteed by its great strength and so will they be in the future, too. 

He emphasized that there is nothing to revise or supplement in such view and that this is a general conclusion made by the protracted history of anti-imperialist struggle of the WPK.

The foreign affairs sector should vigorously promote all the external relations on its own initiative from the viewpoint of subordinating and orienting them to protecting the national interests and building a rich country with a strong army.

In particular, it should thoroughly adhere to the principle of struggle against the enemy set forth by the Party which defined the ROK as the most hostile state.

Comrade Kim Jong Un said that the Party organizations at all levels should ensure the successful fulfilment of the tasks for this year, the first year of implementing the decisions of the Party Congress, by holding fast to the work of giving the fullest play to the inexhaustible strength, the ideological and spiritual strength, of the masses as the core of their activities, and definitely turning Party guidance on the economic affairs into the guidance by the political work method and directional and methodological guidance.

The conclusion repeatedly highlighted the matters of principle to be adhered to in bringing about an epochal change in the coal-mining industry sector without fail and decisively enhancing the functions and role of the city and county people's committees during the ninth term of the Party Central Committee.

Each year is precious for us always advancing with a high aim to realize the most just and sacred ideal and months and days forming a year are dear, said Comrade Kim Jong Un. He ardently called on everyone to wage a more dynamic struggle by unsparingly displaying their unflagging spirit of serving the country and people and unbounded enthusiasm for the revolutionary cause on the proud journey for gigantic creation and transformation.

His important speech enjoyed the full support of all the participants.

The full text of the important conclusion he made at the plenary meeting will be published as an inner-Party document and distributed to the Party organizations at all levels.

Sectoral consultative meetings were held, guided by the members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee, based on the basic spirit of the plenary meeting which called for pioneering a new phase and bringing about a new change with the fighting spirit and mode of uncompromisingly and thoroughly implementing the Party decisions adopted for the country and the people, determinedly overcoming obstacles without vacillation and unhesitatingly and resolutely rectifying mistakes and deviations.

The Third Meeting of the Political Bureau of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK was convened on June 22.

The Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee examined the constructive opinions the sectoral consultative meetings raised for deliberation after collective discussion and the report on the work of a group for reviewing the budget for the major construction projects. And it finalized the draft decisions and reported the result to the plenary meeting.

The plenary meeting unanimously adopted the decisions "On shoring up the coal-mining industry and remodelling coal-mining villages across the country in a modern style" and "On taking a measure for enhancing the functions and role of the city and county people's committees".

The plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea held in June 2026 clearly demonstrated the solemn political will and seasoned leadership ability of the Party Central Committee which intends to substantially guarantee the successful fulfilment of this year's major policy-oriented tasks aimed at attaining the innovative goal of a new stage and further consolidate in every way the absolute dignity and irreversible status of the DPRK by keeping to the positive trend of the country's development and with the scientific and offensive mode of advance, fighting principle and the ability of thoroughgoing execution.