The Third Workshop for Officials in the Information Sector of the Workers’ Party of Korea was opened in Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK, on September 18 amid the traditional work being intensified in every sector to understand once again and rearm with the Party’s ideas, theories and strategic policies in an overall and profound way to thoroughly guarantee the successful implementation of the revolutionary programme set forth at the historic Ninth WPK Congress.

The WPK Central Committee organized the workshop for the third time in the WPK’s history to amplify the absolute superiority and spiritual and moral advantages peculiar to the DPRK emerging ever-victorious by dint of the ideology-first principle and to more thoroughly prepare the information workers of the whole Party into competent political activists and men of ability with matured qualifications and traits corresponding to the requirements of the new phase of development.

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

When he appeared on the platform, the participants burst into stormy cheers of “Hurrah!” as a token of their highest tribute to the outstanding political strategist, the great master of ideology and theory, who is glorifying the DPRK as a dignified politico-ideological power in the whole world.

He warmly waved back to the officials in the information sector of the whole Party, who are devoting all their wisdom and enthusiasm to the sacred work of consolidating in every way the single-minded unity, the foremost might of our Party and our social system, while linking the Party and the masses with one ideology and breath.

The first row of the platform was taken by Ri Il Hwan and Ju Chang Il, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, Pak Yong Il, secretary of the Korean People’s Army Committee of the WPK, and First Deputy Director Choe Chang Hak and other leading officials of the Information and Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the WPK, and the second row by secretaries in charge of information work at the provincial and provincial-level committees of the WPK and leading officials of the relevant sectors.

Attending the workshop were officials of the Information and Publicity Department and relevant departments of the Central Committee of the WPK, officials in the information and publicity sector of provincial, city and county committees of the WPK and the Party committees performing the same functions, information workers of ministries, national agencies and other institutions, industrial establishments and farms, officials in the fields of revolutionary relics, theoretical information, class education, art, literature and mass media, and officials of Party cadre training institutions and working people’s organizations.

Comrade Kim Jong Un made an important speech on the occasion of the opening of the Third Workshop for Officials in the Information Sector of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

The Ninth Congress of the WPK indicated the direction of work covering an extensive sphere and the goals to be attained in view of the development phase of the Korean revolution and the requirements of the times and now our struggle is entering a new phase in its sphere and all activities, Comrade Kim Jong Un said, adding that we are waging a new struggle as we have made progress in all fields as much and, therefore, a higher stage of struggle is needed.

Referring to the view of the Party Central Committee on the importance of the workshop, organized to more strictly adhere to the Party’s consistent principle and stand of attaching importance to ideology and giving precedence to the ideological work in the course of pioneering a new era and a new sphere of struggle, he went on: