Agricultural workers and members of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea held a meeting to pledge to thoroughly implement the decisions made at the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea at Oguk-ri, Anak County, South Hwanghae Province on January 12.

Present there were Ri Tu Song, department director of the WPK Central Committee, Pak Thae Sop, secretary of the South Hwanghae Provincial Committee of the WPK, officials from the UAWK and relevant sectors, and agricultural workers and UAWK members.

Han Jong Hyok, chairman of the Central Committee of the UAWK, delivered a report.

He said the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth WPK Central Committee, at the proposal of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un , general secretary of the WPK, extended thanks in the name of the Party Central Committee to the exemplary agricultural officials, workers, scientists and technicians who made a tangible contribution to doing farming well last year.

He stressed that the General Secretary, on behalf of the Party Central Committee, highly praised all the Party members and other working people across the country and service personnel of the People’s Army for making indomitable and strenuous efforts to glorify last year as a year of proud victory to be specially recorded in the history of socialist construction, and sent warm greetings to them.

Today the agricultural workers and the UAWK members are faced with a weighty and yet honourable task to write a noteworthy page in the history of the country by kindling the fierce flames of the rural revolution, true to the great fighting programme which unfolded a bright blueprint for the settlement of socialist rural question in the new century, he said.

The reporter underscored the need to make a substantial contribution to the struggle to effect drastic development of the Korean-style socialist countryside under the uplifted slogan of “For the new victory of socialist rural construction!”

He ardently called on all agricultural workers and UAWK members to hit the agricultural production target set forth by the Party without fail by waging a vigorous struggle to realize the programme for socialist rural construction advanced by the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee, and thus glorify this significant year marking the 110th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung and the 80th birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il as a year of revolutionary, auspicious events.

Speeches were made at the meeting.

A letter of pledge to Kim Jong Un was adopted there.