No 46/25
June 24, 2025
1. Press Release for Enlarged
Meeting of Twelfth Plenary Meeting of Eighth Central Committee of WPK
2. Spokesperson for Foreign
Ministry of DPRK Strongly Denounces U.S. Military Attack on Iran
Press Release for Enlarged Meeting of Twelfth Plenary Meeting of
Eighth Central Committee of WPK
Pyongyang, June 24 (KCNA) -- 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.
A decision on convening the Ninth
Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, which would be another watershed
in the course of the development of our Party and revolution, received
unanimous approval, and practical measures were taken for the successful
opening of the historic Party Congress.
The plenary meeting discussed and
decided on the tasks for radically accelerating the revitalization and
modernization of major industrial sectors of the national economy standing in
the vanguard of further strengthening the independent character and development
potential of our national economy and guaranteeing the sustainable and stable
comprehensive rejuvenation and growth.
It discussed the tasks essential for
improving the fighting efficiency and activeness of the basic Party
organizations, which occupy an important position in the organizational
structure and system of the Party and for putting the work for the inner-Party
structure on a more streamlined and efficient basis as required by the line of
Party building in the new era, and adopted a relevant decision.
It dealt with the organizational matter.
The sector-specific study and
consultative meetings were held for two days under the guidance of members of
the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee to take measures for
correctly carrying out the plans for the second half of the year on the basis
of the main spirit of the plenary meeting for thoroughly attaining the goals
set for this year by making more courageous, effective and intensive efforts in
the most responsible course, in which the work for significantly celebrating
the 80th anniversary of national liberation and the 80th founding anniversary
of the WPK coincides with the campaign to greet the Ninth Congress of the WPK
as a congress of victors, a glorious congress, and thus bringing about epochal
achievements to be specially recorded in the history of the Party and the
country.
The draft decisions, amended and
supplemented on the basis of the constructive and dynamic opinions presented at
the consultative meetings, were discussed at the 25th meeting of the Political
Bureau of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK.
The finally confirmed decisions were
submitted to the plenary meeting and adopted with the unanimous approval of
members of the Party Central Committee.
Through the enlarged meeting of its
Twelfth Plenary Meeting, the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK discussed and
decided on practical measures for expanding the ideal and solid cornerstone for
the comprehensive prosperity of Korean-style socialism as soon as possible,
firmly maintaining the rising trend of the development of the state which was
achieved with the revolutionary spirit of self-sustenance and indomitable
courage of advance, and thus successfully went through an important process
essential for accelerating the advance towards a new victory.
The important speech made by Kim Jong
Un at the June 2025 Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the WPK and
the decisions adopted at the meeting will be published as inner-Party documents
and distributed to the Party organizations at all levels.
Spokesperson for Foreign Ministry of DPRK Strongly Denounces U.S.
Military Attack on Iran
Pyongyang, June 23 (KCNA) -- A
spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA on June 23 as
regards the U.S. military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities:
The Democratic People's Republic of
Korea strongly denounces the attack on Iran by the U.S. which severely violated
the UN Charter with respect for sovereignty and non-interference in internal
affairs as the basic principle and norms of other international laws and
violently trampled down the territorial integrity and security interests of a
sovereign state.
Opposing the threat and exercise of the
force blocking the territorial integrity and political independence of a
country in international relations is the purpose, principle and fundamental
spirit of the UN Charter reflecting the general will of the international
community.
The present situation of the Middle
East, which is wholly shaking the basis of international peace and security, is
an inevitable product brought by the reckless valor of Israel which has promoted
its unilateral interests through ceaseless war moves and territorial expansion
and by the Western-style free order that has tolerated and encouraged it.
Israel’s and the U.S. acts of
further aggravating the tension in the Middle East and causing serious negative
consequences to the global security structure by dint of physical strength
under the pretext of the so-called "peacekeeping" and "threat
removal" are amplifying serious concerns.
The just international community should
raise the voice of unanimous censure and rejection against the U.S. and
Israel's confrontational acts.
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