editorial

The Workers’ Party of Korea invariably upholds the idea of “The people are god” during the ninth term of its Central Committee.

This is the immutable idea of the WPK.

At the Eighth Congress of the WPK, the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un said that the important historic tasks facing the Korean revolution require the whole Party to deeply cherish again and uphold higher the ideas of “The people are god”, single-minded unity and self-reliance, adding that the idea of “The people are god” reflects the permanent demand for the whole Party to strictly maintain its revolutionary traits of making devoted service for the people the starting point and invariable principle in its building and activities.

As it had done in its 80-odd-year history, the WPK continued to adopt and implement the policies regarding the people as god and giving top priority to and absolutizing the demands and interests of the working masses in the past five years.

According to its policies, the construction of dwelling houses was pushed ahead in the capital and the provinces, large-scale vegetable greenhouse farms were built, various construction projects were pressed on for regional development and the programme for the rural revolution in the new era was promoted actively. 

All these policies reflect the unshakable will of the General Secretary to bring the greatest happiness in the world as soon as possible to the faithful Korean people, who have consistently followed the WPK in the face of severe hardships, the patriotic people who firmly support the country with diligent efforts.

That is why he uninterruptedly continues the journey of devotion to the people.

During the construction of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang, he attended the groundbreaking ceremonies to shovel the first spadeful of earth and press the button for blasting, and when dwelling houses were completed, he took part in their inauguration ceremonies to congratulate the people who were provided with new flats.

When modern regional-industry factories, public health facilities and leisure complexes were to be built in different parts of the country in accordance with the Party’s Regional Development 20x10 Policy, large-scale greenhouse farms in Ryonpho, Kangdong and Sinuiju areas and an excellent tourist resort and holiday camp respectively in the Myongsasimni area on the east coast and the Onpho hot spring area, he examined the designs and formation plans for them and visited the construction sites of them repeatedly to give detailed instructions in order to build them as flawless structures. 

The Korean people still remember July 2024 when an awful natural disaster struck the Amnok River basin in the northwestern tip of the country.

At that time, he visited Sinuiju City and Uiju County, which suffered flood damage, to command a rescue and evacuation operation for the inhabitants. He went round the dangerous submerged area on a rubber boat to work out a plan for turning the disaster-stricken area into a paradise for the people.

At the 22nd emergency enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK held on a flooded paddy field in the afflicted area, he took an important measure for disaster recovery and visited the rehabilitation site repeatedly to provide detailed guidance.

As a result, splendid dwelling houses were newly built in the islet area of North Phyongan Province, where suffering from flood had been regarded as a fate, in only a few months and, later, a super-large greenhouse group was completed, and thereby the island of disaster was turned into a fairyland, an ideal “modern rural town”.

As seen above, the WPK is always invincible together with the people as it regards “The people are god” as its political idea and making selfless, devoted efforts for the good of the people as the mode of its existence.