The First Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea took place at the conference hall of the office building of the Central Committee of the Party on January 10.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, guided the plenary meeting.

Attending the meeting were members and alternate members of the Party Central Committee who were elected at the Eighth Congress of the Party.

Present there as observers were leading officials of the departments of the Party Central Committee, provincial, city and county Party committees, ministries and national agencies.

The First Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party elected the Political Bureau and the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee headed by the General Secretary of the WPK.

The meeting elected secretaries of the Party Central Committee and organized its Secretariat.

It also elected the Central Military Commission of the Party and held an election of the Central Auditing Commission of the Party according to the revised Party rules.

It appointed department directors of the Party Central Committee and editor-in-chief of Rodong Sinmun, the organ of the WPK Central Committee.

The other important agenda item studied and discussed at the plenum was on establishing a new discipline and supervision system within the Party.

Saying that tightening discipline is the precondition for displaying the leadership abilities and fighting efficiency of the Party, the General Staff of the revolution, General Secretary Kim Jong Un said that it is necessary to newly establish a discipline and supervision system in order to establish within the Party the firm discipline of strictly observing the rules and policies of the Party and to root out the abuse of power, bureaucratic practices, irregularities and corruption.

The boosted power of the Central Auditing Commission of the Party at the Eighth Congress of the Party is mainly aimed at further developing the WPK into the one which makes revolution, struggles and advances by setting up strict discipline and revolutionary discipline throughout the Party, he noted.

The General Secretary said the mission of the Party Central Auditing Commission has newly been regulated so as to make it further tighten the centralistic discipline in the Party, supervise and investigate all the violations of the Party's discipline, abuse of power, bureaucratic practices, irregularities and corruption and high-handed and arbitrary practices which impede the unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, examine the problem of Party discipline, deal with complaints and petitions and check the Party’s financial management.

The plenary meeting, given that the authority of the Party Central Auditing Commission has been raised so that it can specialize in supervision and investigation for tightening the discipline within the Party, decided to create an executive department as an organizational measure to guarantee its realization.

The meeting analysed that when the department in charge of the Party's discipline issue is established from the Party Central Committee to provincial, city and county Party committees and begins its work, practices of violating and challenging the Party’s organizational discipline and breaking the rules and functions and all sorts of practices of tarnishing the revolutionary traits of the Party will be constrained a lot.

Clarifying the principle and methods of work to be maintained and the main tasks to be carried out by the department in charge of supervising Party discipline, the General Secretary referred to the need to strengthen Party guidance for bringing about an improvement in the enforcement of state discipline and law so as to push ahead with the work of establishing the discipline of the Party and state in a unified and simultaneous way.

He put an important emphasis on always organizing and conducting work in the interests of the Party and the revolution and for the purpose of defending and firmly consolidating the single-minded unity of the Party and the masses when dealing with the breaking of rules and complaints and petitions.

The establishment of a new machinery and work system for practically supervising and controlling the work of enforcing discipline within the Party with the Eighth Party Congress as an occasion provided a significant starting point and turning point for the Eighth Party Central Committee to powerfully conduct the work for tightening the discipline in the whole Party.