The Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea took place at the office building of the Central Committee of the WPK on Wednesday.

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and also supreme leader of the state and armed forces of the DPRK, guided the plenary meeting.

The plenum was attended by members and alternate members of the WPK Central Committee and members of the Party Central Auditing Commission.

Officials of departments of the Party Central Committee were present as observers.

The meeting discussed as the major agenda the issue of convening the Eighth Congress of the WPK in order to set forth a new line of struggle and strategic and tactical policies in keeping with the requirements of the developing Korean revolution and the changed situation and to further strengthen the Party organizationally and ideologically.

Upon authorization of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee, Chairman Kim Jong Un presided over the plenum and made a historic speech.

In the speech he analysed the subjective and objective environments this year in which the country faced unexpected and unavoidable challenges in different aspects and the situation in the region surrounding the Korean peninsula, and assessed the achievements and mistakes that have been made in the work of the Party and the state for the past four years since the historic Seventh Party Congress.

The Supreme Leader, based on data, made a detailed report on the goals achieved by different economic sectors in this year, the final year in attaining the goals of the five-year strategy for national economic development set forth at the Seventh Party Congress, in particular, and analysed the results.

He said that the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee suggested convening the Eighth Congress of the WPK in order to conduct a comprehensive, three-dimensional and anatomical analysis and review of the deviations and shortcomings that were revealed in the work for implementing the decisions of the Seventh Congress of the Party and to discuss and decide on the strategic tasks facing the Party and the government in the new stage of struggle in the crucial period of the Korean revolution.

He referred to the need to convene the Party congress, the supreme guidance organ of the Party, on a regular basis in order to confirm the line and strategic and tactical measures for steering the development of the times and the revolution, and adjust and reinforce the Party leadership body for guaranteeing their execution, and indicated the important guidelines for the running of the congress.

He said that the Eighth Congress would review this year's work and the work of the Party Central Committee in the period under review and set forth a new five-year plan for national economic development including the orientation of work for next year.

Noting that the Eighth Congress should become a congress of struggle, a working congress and a congress making a comprehensive review of Party work, he specified the agenda items to be discussed at the congress and the issues arising in the preparations for it.

He stressed the need to achieve new progress in advancing the revolution and construction and in strengthening the Party by making sure that all the sectors and units including Party organizations and government and military organs at all levels review their work in time and on a regular basis, positively promote, expand and develop good results, and promptly overcome shortcomings and take corrective measures, so that they would not deviate from the implementation of the Party's basic lines, policies and decisions.

He called on all the participants to greet the Eighth Congress with high political zeal and shining feats of labour by simultaneously pushing the development and strengthening of the internal potentials and the motive force for development as required by the frontal offensive to achieve a breakthrough and the major tasks set forth at Party Political Bureau meetings held this year.

The Supreme Leader read out a draft decision of the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the WPK on convening the Eighth Party Congress.

After he read out the draft decision on convening the congress which will be recorded as another special event in the militant course of the Party, all the participants burst into tumultuous cheers and applause in full support and approval of the agenda.