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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.

The four-day workshop proceeded amid the extraordinary political awareness and enthusiasm of all the participants to lead the vigorous campaign for bringing about a radical change in ideological work and qualitatively strengthening the ideological position, an indispensable guarantee and key requirement for the steady succession to the cause of the WPK, with their fresh determination, redoubled efforts and the positive cultivation of mature qualifications and traits.

There was an intensive study for deeply grasping the essence of the important speech made by Comrade Kim Jong Un at the opening ceremony of the Third Workshop for Officials in the Information Sector of the WPK.

Studying in depth the important document, which comprehensively deals with the precious guidelines for further developing the ideological resources, accumulated by our Party for a long time, the extraordinary potentials peculiar to the Korean revolution, on to the level of a new era, the era of comprehensive development when we have entered a new phase in the spheres of our struggle and in all our activities, all the participants hardened their revolutionary will to carry out without fail the intention of the Party Central Committee which expects a positive change in ideological work of the Party, which is more powerful than the trend of the changing times and which goes ahead of reality in an offensive manner.

The workshop was held amid their heightened awareness that the success in ideological work depends on the qualifications and abilities of them in full charge of the ideological and information work.

Senior officials of the Information and Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the WPK and education workers of the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK gave lectures at the workshop.

First, there was a lecture on concentrating all efforts of the ideological work of the Party on preparing all members of society as true loyalists and ardent patriots armed with the revolutionary ideas of great Comrade Kim Jong Un as an element of their faith.

The lecturer theoretically explained that Comrade Kim Jong Un's revolutionary ideas are the guidelines for our Party and state in the new era and an encyclopedic action program for the revolution and construction as they comprehensively indicate the path and the strategy for carrying forward and accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche generation after generation under the banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.

The lecture referred to the detailed issues for improving the effectiveness of the ideological and political work by further enhancing the sense of mission and responsibility of the officials in the information sector of the Party in the struggle for modelling the entire Party and the whole society on the revolutionary ideology of great Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Then the workshop dealt with the issue of efficiently conducting education through the revolutionary relics and the leadership exploits of the Party, regarding it as the key point of ideological education.

The lecturer explained the methodological issues for further enhancing the cognitional and educational effects in education through the revolutionary relics and the leadership exploits of the Party, the root and starting point of the ideological work of the Party, and intensifying it in a substantial way on the principle of historicism and scientific accuracy.

There was a lecture on stepping up the information and motivation offensive to rouse the masses to the implementation of the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

Through the lecture, the participants kept deep in their minds the orientation of information and motivation work and all matters of principle arising in making the fighting spirit and traits, displayed in pioneering the era of comprehensive development, and the trend of gigantic changes prevailing in all sectors of socialist construction take a steady upturn, and in properly setting the focus of ideological work in conformity with the specific features of every sector and unit to wage an intensive campaign for joint and collective innovations.

The workshop also dealt with the issue of studying fresh forms and methods of ideological work and conducting information work in a realistic and appealing manner and the issue of conducting information and motivation work by means of visual aids as required by the Party's policies to maximize its effectiveness.

The lecturers explained the principled and theoretical issues, including the matter of exploring and applying new forms and methods of ideological work while studying the Party's policies, the reality and work in an enterprising and positive manner, the matter of thoroughly ensuring the politico-ideological characters, timeliness, visual impact and cultural level in displaying political visual aids and preparing the information workers to be the ideological standard-bearers of our Party possessed of high political and professional qualifications and noble humanity.

The participants watched videos dealing with the successes, experience and lessons recently gained and drawn by information units at all levels and there was a question-and-answer session on the practical issues arising in the ideological work of the Party.

While seriously studying the contents of the lectures during the workshop in organic correlation with the immediate practical requirements and the prospective requirements of the revolution, they focused their thinking and research on broadly acquiring the essence, exquisite principle and mature methodology of ideological work.

They actively exchanged and shared the good views and experience that help acquire as a habit the innovative work style and manner of always aspiring after new things and development, conduct ideological work in a planned way and ensure the purposefulness and meticulousness of the work.

A letter of pledge to Comrade Kim Jong Un was adopted amid the enthusiastic applause of the participants.

The Third Workshop for Officials in the Information Sector of the Workers' Party of Korea, held under the guidance of Comrade Kim Jong Un, marked a significant occasion in further strengthening the Party and the revolutionary ranks into a fortress of single-minded unity and an ideologically pure entity and reliably guaranteeing the steady advance and succession of our cause by boosting the might of the Juche-based theory of attaching importance to ideology in the course of opening up a new era and a new sphere of struggle.