The Third Workshop for Officials in the Information Sector of the Workers' Party of Korea, which has added another brilliant page to the history of ideological work of the WPK, closed on September 21 after successfully concluding its scheduled work.

Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, attended the closing ceremony and made an important speech.

When he took the platform together with accompanying officials, the entire audience broke into enthusiastic cheers in reverence for the General Secretary who organized the workshop in the crucial historic period of deciding the brilliant success and future of our cause and is working heart and soul to make it an occasion of a radical turn in consolidating the politico-ideological might, the foremost national power of the DPRK, in every way.

In his speech, he expressed satisfaction over the fact that the workshop was successfully held in keeping with the intended purpose of making it a major process for innovating ideological work, which is geared to giving all the officials in the information sector of the Party a full understanding of the Party's immutable ideology-first principle and the mission for the times to transform the ideological work.

Saying that the officials in the information sector of the Party have renewed their sacred revolutionary consciousness and sense of heavy responsibility that they should increase our ideological resources and consolidate the guarantee of succession to our cause, he referred to the fundamentals the officials should always keep in mind as communists and to the absolute viability of the Juche-based theory of giving importance to ideology. And he clarified the steadfast stand of the Party Central Committee to realize our ideal without fail in the future dynamic struggle on the strength of the great revolutionary ideology, the greatest asset of the Party, and the might of the information and motivation work peculiar to the Party which turns the ideology into the might of transformation.

He set forth the principled issues to be adhered to in putting the contents, forms, methods and means of ideological work on the basis of progress and development in line with the expectations of the times, the revolution and the people waiting eagerly for fresh changes and innovations in information and motivation work and creation of cultures that will encourage and further diversify our struggle and life, and the important tasks and ways for ensuring the innovation in the ideological work of the whole Party.

Stressing that greater successes and epochal achievements will continuously be etched on our journey for bringing earlier the attainment of the great ideals, a beautiful future, by dint of the invincible might of ideology, he expressed the belief that all the participants would open up the road of advance in the new era holding high the banner of ideology-first principle and with enthusiasm and courage as befit ideological guards of the WPK, before declaring the workshop closed.

All the participants responded with stormy cheers and rapturous applause to his speech dramatically boosting their great honour, sense of mission for the times and revolutionary zeal as information workers of the ever-victorious WPK, which regards ideology as the foremost weapon and guides the revolution on the strength of ideology.

They loudly sang in chorus the song "Long Live the Workers' Party of Korea", in reflection of their faith and pledge to fulfil their duty as ideological guards in dynamically writing textbooks for the ideological revolution, which will be remembered in the history of our Party and handed down to posterity along with our era of transformation, by successfully carrying forward and developing the sacred history and tradition of our Party which pioneered a new era of Juche by rousing the people to the revolution on the strength of ideology.

The venue was filled with the revolutionary enthusiasm of all the participants to further consolidate our political and ideological position as solid as a rock and dynamically keep going the period of upsurge in the overall development of socialism through a powerful ideological offensive, holding aloft the red Party flag of Juche.