Report on Meeting of Political Bureau of C.C., WPK

A meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was held here on Friday.

Present there were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and members and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the WPK.

The meeting courteously proclaimed that the dear respected Kim Jong Un, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the WPK, assumed the supreme commandership of the Korean People's Army according to the behest of leader Kim Jong Il on October 8, Juche 100 (2011).

All the participants stood up to welcome him with enthusiastic applause.

The meeting adopted the decision of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the WPK "On Effecting a Great Surge in Building a Thriving Nation True to the Behests of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il".

The decision said that the army and people of the DPRK are overcome with pain and grief over so early demise of Kim Jong Il to their regret and are renewing their firm pledge to carry forward and accomplish the cause of building a thriving socialist nation and the revolutionary cause of Juche under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, at the behest of Kim Jong Il.

Born as a son of guerrillas in Mt. Paektu, the holy mountain of revolution and grown up to be a great revolutionary, Kim Jong Il suffered all sorts of the most unbearable hardships in the world for the prosperity of the country and its people's happiness for decades since he made a historic declaration that he would glorify Korea all over the world on Ryongnam Hill in his early years. He breathed his last at work on a train while making the most arduous forced march till the last moments of his life.

He formulated the revolutionary ideas of President Kim Il Sung as an integral system of Juche-based ideas, theories and method and comprehensively developed them in depth as required by the era and the developing revolution. He strengthened and developed the WPK, army and state into the party, army and state of the President under the uplifted banner of modeling the whole society on the Juche idea and put the dignity of the nation and state power on the highest level.

It was under his wise leadership that the WPK could display its might as an invincible party which firmly established a monolithic ideological system and achieved a harmonious whole with the popular masses, our revolutionary armed forces could demonstrate its might as a matchless revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu, the world-startling miracles and changes could be created in economic construction and a new era of literary and art renaissance in the 20th century could be ushered in.

Kim Jong Il, the supreme incarnation of the revolutionary moral obligation, set a noble example in accomplishing the cause of perpetuating the memory of the President, the cause unprecedented in the human history of politics, thus making sure that his noble and august name and his immortal revolutionary career and feats always shed rays along with the eternal history of Juche Korea.

He honorably defended the socialist gains, the precious legacies of the President, by dint of Songun despite the collapse of the world socialist system, the great loss to the nation, the vicious offensive of the imperialist allied forces to stifle the DPRK and severe natural disasters. He performed undying feats by turning the DPRK into an invincible political and ideological power united single-mindedly and a powerful nuclear weapons state and a state capable of launching satellites which no enemy dares provoke.

In the era of Kim Jong Il the DPRK emerged a great independent power which no one dares provoke after putting a final end to the history of all sorts of foreign aggression and intervention and embarked upon the road of pushing forward the building of a socialist economic power in all fields with a sure political and military guarantee.

The decision noted that Kim Jong Il, the genius of creation and construction, unrolled a grandiose blueprint for building an economic power, foreseeing victory in future in the grim days of the struggle for defending socialism, and wisely led an all-people general onward movement to carry it out.

On the basis of his lucid insight into the trend of economic development in the 21st century he explored the untrodden path of the CNC-based industrialization in the days of the Arduous March, the forced march and worked heart and soul to realize it. Thanks to his clairvoyant foresight and wise leadership, an exciting gun roar was sounded for the industrial revolution in the new century and the DPRK's economy was transferred into the age of knowledge-based economy, a stirring reality.

He visited again and again every nook and corner of the country including underground mining face with water dropping from its ceiling and windy construction sites of power stations despite sweltering weather and torrential rain in the hottest period of summer, intense cold and strong snowstorm of midwinter. He thus energetically led the all-people onward movement for a great surge to greet 2012. Thanks to his forced march, victories and changes heralding happiness and prosperity in future took place one after another and torch lit in South Hamgyong Province calling upon the whole party and country and all the people to make a final charge raged fiercely.

The whole life of Kim Jong Il was the most brilliant life of the peerless legendary hero born of Heaven and peerless patriot who laid an ever-lasting foundation for the eternal prosperity of the country and the nation, spending all his life under a program for field work with the supreme command on the forefront of the revolution.

Standing at the helm of the Korean revolution is Kim Jong Un, the only successor to Kim Jong Il, the decision said, calling upon all the party members, servicepersons and people to turn sorrow into thousand-fold strength and courage and more dynamically struggle to win a great fresh victory in the Juche revolution under the leadership of Kim Jong Un.

Underlining the need to hold Kim Jong Il in high esteem as the eternal leader of the WPK and revolution and glorify his sacred revolutionary life and undying revolutionary feats forever, the decision referred to the relevant decisions.

The decision also called for more dynamically accelerating the cause of building a thriving socialist nation true to the behests of Kim Jong Il.

It underlined the need to hold Kim Jong Un in high esteem as the only center of unity, cohesion and leadership of the WPK, devotedly defend him politically and ideologically and give fuller play to the might of the political and ideological power.

It called for giving fuller play to the might of the socialist military power and firmly defend the gains of revolution, invariably adhering to the Songun idea and the Songun revolutionary line of Kim Jong Il.

Stressing the need to make the torch lit by Kim Jong Il in South Hamgyong Province, the torch for the industrial revolution in the new century, flare up all over the country to effect a great surge in building a socialist economic power, the decision set forth relevant tasks.

The decision called for turning the country into a highly civilized power in the 21st century where Kim Jong Il 's Juche-based idea of cultural construction is blooming in all fields.

The meeting discussed the joint calls of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the WPK on the centenary of birth of Kim Il Sung.

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Joint Calls of Central Committee, Central Military Commission of WPK on Centenary of Birth of Kim Il Sung Issued

Embassy of the DPRK in Bangladesh

The joint calls of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and its Central Military Commission were published on Saturday on the centenary of birth of President Kim Il Sung.

The calls appeal to the whole party and army and all the people to turn sorrow into thousand-fold strength and courage to increase the political and military power of the country in every way and wage a more dynamic drive for a great revolutionary surge under the wise leadership of the dear respected Kim Jong Un and thus glorify significant Juche 101 (2012) as a year of great victory demonstrating before the whole world the steady succession and invincibility of the Korean revolution and a year of great prosperity opening up the gate to a thriving nation.

The centenary of birth of the President and the 70th birth anniversary of Kim Jong Il should be greeted with a high degree of political enthusiasm and shining labor achievements, the calls say, underlining the need to successfully realize their behests, taking them as a militant programme of the WPK, army and people.

Noting that Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il's country should be glorified all over the world under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, the calls stress the need to devotedly defend the Party Central Committee headed by Kim Jong Un and appeal to the whole party and army and all the people to unite close around him.

They stress the need to enhance the militancy and leadership role of the WPK and more thoroughly establish the monolithic leadership system of Kim Jong Un in the whole party and society.

All the servicepersons should become a mainstay and main force of revolution upholding in the van the Songun politics of Kim Jong Un, the calls note.

They declare that it is necessary to turn Chongwadae and the stronghold of aggression into a sea of fire and accomplish the historic cause of national reunification without fail if the enemies dare mount an attack.

Underscoring the need to bring about a decisive turn in the efforts to build an economic power and improve the standard of people's living, the calls say it is necessary to make 2012 a year in which the light industry makes a signal success, people benefit from it, Changsong shouts hurrah and changes are effected in the development of local industry.

They refer to the tasks for developing the power, coal and metal industries, railway transport, machine-building industry and chemical industry, boosting the production of aquatic products, expanding foreign trade and turning the city of Pyongyang into a world class city based on the revolutionary outlook on the leader.

The calls also stress the need to abide by the socialist principles in economic management, ensure profitability and radically improve the economic performance of the country, upholding the torch of the industrial revolution in the new century.

They note that the drive for a great revolutionary surge should be dynamically waged in the fields of education, public health, sports, literature and arts and media.

The calls stress the need to bring about a new phase of independent reunification in 2012, the 40th anniversary of the publication of the three principles for national reunification and the 5th anniversary of the publication of the October 4 declaration.

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Kim Jong Un Assumes KPA Supreme Commandership

Embassy of the DPRK in Bangladesh

The dear respected Kim Jong Un, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, assumed the supreme commandership of the Korean People's Army at the behest of leader Kim Jong Il on Oct. 8 Juche 100 (2011).

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Title of DPRK Hero Awarded to Kim Jong Il

Embassy of the DPRK in Bangladesh

The title of the DPRK Hero was awarded to Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.

Kim Jong Il performed undying revolutionary feats for the country and its people, the times and history by wisely leading the WPK, army and people for decades since he embarked upon the road of revolution in his early years.

He developed in depth the Juche idea, the Songun idea founded by President Kim Il Sung with his clairvoyant wisdom and energetic ideological and theoretical activities, thus glorifying them as an encyclopedic ideological and theoretical boon indicating the road to be followed by the WPK, revolution and the era of independence. He gave a steady continuity to the tradition of the Korean revolution by upholding and carrying forward the revolutionary tradition of Mt. Paektu.

He developed the WPK, army and state bequeathed by the President into his party, army and state shining with his immortal name and placed the country's dignity and power onto the highest level in the history of the Korean nation spanning five thousand years.

True to the last instructions of the President for national reunification, Kim Jong Il led all the fellow countrymen along the road of independence and great national unity, ushered in the June 15 era of reunification advancing in the spirit of "By our nation itself" and made a great contribution to achieving the victory of the socialist cause and accomplishing the just cause of the world peace and stability and friendship and solidarity among peoples under the uplifted banner of independence against imperialism.

He devoted all his efforts and wisdom and energies for building a thriving nation and improving the standard of people's living, regarding the idea of believing in the people as in Heaven as his maxim in the whole period of his revolutionary activities. He breathed his last at work on a train due to manifold mental and physical strain while making the most arduous forced march for field guidance without having any good rest.

A decree of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly on awarding the title of the DPRK Hero to Kim Jong Il was promulgated on Dec.

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