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8th Congress of WPK to Be Convened

Date: 20/08/2020 | Source: KCNA.kp (En) | Read original version at source

Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- A decision of the 6th Plenary Meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was made on August 19.

The decision is as follows:

Our Party and people are carrying out the historical task set forth at the Seventh Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea while breaking through head-on all the barriers to our advance by organizing and launching an arduous revolutionary struggle.

Through this indomitable struggle for implementing the decision made at the Seventh Congress of the WPK the dignity and position of our state has been remarkably raised, the single-minded unity of the Party and the people further consolidated and a great revolutionary turn made in the building of the Party and its overall activities.

On the other hand, economy was not improved in the face of the sustaining severe internal and external situations and unexpected manifold challenges, thereby planned attainment of the goals for improving the national economy has been seriously delayed and the people's living standard not been improved remarkably.

The plenary meeting, after analyzing and reviewing the experience and lessons from the work of the past five years for building a powerful socialist country, decided to convene the Eighth Congress of the WPK as follows to set forth a correct line of struggle and strategic and tactical policies on the basis of the new requirements of our developing revolution and the prevailing situation:

The Eighth Congress of the WPK will be convened in January, Juche 110(2021).

The agendas of the Eighth Congress of the WPK are as follows:

Review of the work of the Central Committee of the WPK

Review of the work of the Central Auditing Commission of the WPK

On revising the rules of the WPK

Election of the leadership organ of the WPK Central Committee

3. One delegate with the right to vote to the Congress will be appointed among every 1 300 Party members and one delegate with the right to speak among every 1 300 candidate Party members. -0-

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