The 6th Enlarged Plenary Meeting of 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea

By: Agência Central de Notícias da Coreia (KCNA)  01/01/2023

Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- The Sixth Enlarged Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was held at the office building of the Party Central Committee, the supreme headquarters of the revolution, from December 26 to 31, to clarify the positive and scientific policy orientation for dynamically leading the Korean-style socialism to a fresh change and development by thoroughly applying the idea of independence, self-sustenance and self-reliance, the invariable guidelines of the Korean revolution.

The plenary meeting put the following matters on its agenda items:

1. On review of the implementation of major Party and state policies in 2022 and the work plan for 2023

2. Organizational matter

3. On the fulfillment of the state budget for 2022 and the draft state budget for 2023

4. On strengthening the Party guidance over the revolutionary schools

5. On the five-point line of party building in the new era

The plenary meeting unanimously approved the agenda items.

The plenary meeting discussed the first agenda item "On review of the implementation of major Party and state policies in 2022 and the work plan for 2023".

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the WPK, made a report on the first agenda item.

In his report he appreciated the successes made in 2022 in which our Party and people have made steady and powerful progress while waging an arduous struggle in firm unity.

Splendid successes symbolizing the struggle of the year 2022 have been made in the construction of the Hwasong (city of 10,000 housings) and Ryonpho (great farm of more than 850 modern and industrialized greenhouses covering 280 hectares), which were the most important tasks in the field of construction, and others projects of great significance in economic growth and improvement of the people's living standard were inaugurated.

Model houses representing the new era of rural development were built in cities and counties across the country and a positive drive was launched to improve economic management and raise the country's ability to cope with crisis and the country's level of civilization.

The General Secretary indicated all the tasks for ensuring stable development of the national economy and bringing about a substantial change in the improvement of the people's living standard in the new year 2023.

The report clarified the crucial policy resolution on giving spurs to strengthening the self-defensive capabilities on the basis of the analysis of the present situation of the inter-Korean relations and the external challenges seriously threatening regional peace and security.

In 2022 the U.S. frequently deployed various nuclear strike means in south Korea at the level of constant deployment, increasing the level of military pressure to the maximum. And, at the same time, it is pushing forward the realization of triangular cooperation with Japan and south Korea on a full scale while working hard to establish a new military bloc like Asian version of NATO under the signboard of "tightening alliance".

Stressing the importance of bolstering the nuclear force, the report made clear that our nuclear force considers it as the first mission to deter war and safeguard peace and stability and, however, if it fails to deter, it will carry out the second mission, which will not be for defense.

According to the strategy and plan for bolstering up nuclear force of the Party and the government to firmly safeguard the Republic's absolute dignity, sovereignty and right to existence, a task was raised to develop another ICBM system whose main mission is quick nuclear counterstrike.

Now that the south Korean puppet forces who designated us as their "principal enemy" and openly trumpet about "preparations for war" have assumed our undoubted enemy, it highlights the importance and necessity of a mass-producing of tactical nuclear weapons and calls for an exponential increase of the country's nuclear arsenal, the report said, clarifying the epochal strategy of the development of nuclear force and national defense for 2023 with this as a main orientation.