The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea convened its fourth enlarged meeting on August 25 to take more political and practical measures for guaranteeing the successful implementation of the major policy tasks for 2026, the first year of implementing the new five-year plan set forth by the historic Ninth Congress of the Party.

Present there were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, and members and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee. Present as observers were vice-premiers of the Cabinet, major ministers, commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence and senior officials of relevant departments of the WPK Central Committee.

Comrade Kim Jong Un guided the meeting.

The Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee first heard a report on the progress made in this year's major policy-oriented construction projects, adopted and assigned by the first and second plenary meetings of the Ninth Central Committee of the Party, and on the current situation of major economic sectors.

The Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee positively appreciated the important changes and successes demonstrating the transition to a new phase of development, being made in overall state work from the first year of implementing the decisions of the Party Congress.

The enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau underlined the need to set clear goals and orientation of the struggle and secure a scientific and efficient guarantee for surely achieving them, now that the valuable successes, achieved by strenuous efforts, are being accumulated and the plans, greater than the past ones, are being worked out.

The meeting recalled the character and significance of this year's struggle, which is crucial in successfully attaining the gigantic long-term goals set forth by the Party Congress, and stressed the need for the Cabinet, the State Planning Commission and other economic guidance organs and the policy-oriented guidance departments of the Party Central Committee to display an extraordinary sense of responsibility and high prudence.

The Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee examined the strategic coordination and timely measures for perfectly completing the projects for this year and strengthening the capability for implementing short-, intermediate- and long-term tasks on the principle of encouraging successes and experience, constantly drawing lessons and finding solutions in conformity with the characteristics of the times and the requirements of the reality, in which a creative struggle, unprecedented in terms of the width and depth of state development and the extensiveness of its long-term goals, is underway.

The enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau specified the principles and a series of policies for the state economic guidance organs to prudently and strategically overcome the unfavourable conditions and difficulties arising alongside the ever-changing circumstances, and to fully ensure concentration in the construction of major policy-oriented objects, in particular.

Pointing out a series of deviations revealed in the course of implementing the decisions of the Party Congress, Comrade Kim Jong Un said that they are the consequences of the immature operation and leadership of the economic guidance organs failing to keep abreast of our higher ideals and greater power of advance and such shortcomings can well be overcome and eliminated by the efforts redoubled with new determination and fighting will.