An enlarged meeting of the Seventh Plenary Meeting of 10th Central Committee of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League took place on October 5.

It was attended by members and alternate members of the Central Committee of the SPYL.

Present there as observers were officials of the SPYL Central Committee and youth league officials of ministries and national agencies.

The meeting discussed the issue of thoroughly carrying out the important tasks set forth in the historic policy speech made by Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, at the Seventh Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK.

Mun Chol, chairman of the SPYL Central Committee, made a report.

He noted that the General Secretary’s historic policy speech which indicated the important tasks for achieving fresh innovations and development befitting the prestige of the state in every field is a practical weapon, the banner of struggle, for making a substantial leap forward in all fields of socialist construction, while giving fuller play to the mightiness and invincibility of the DPRK.

After analysing in detail the shortcomings revealed in the past work of the youth league organizations, he referred to the measures to powerfully arouse youth league officials and members to the struggle to open up a new phase of vigorous national development.

He stressed the need for youth league organizations at all levels to intensify the education to imbue youth league members with the immortal revolutionary achievements of the General Secretary who has provided a guarantee for the prosperity of all generations to come and their eternal happiness so that they support the idea and leadership of the Party Central Committee with every possible effort.

He said that all young people should more firmly establish a climate of prioritizing military affairs, regarding national defence as the greatest patriotic undertaking and the noblest duty and actively turn out in the movement to do various good things conducive to building up the national defence capability.

He noted that youth league organizations in key industry and agricultural sectors should keep raising the patriotic zeal of their members so that they take the lion’s share in dynamically promoting the development of the economy and powerfully accelerating the rural revolution and development in the new era.

He emphasized the need to intensify the struggle to root out the anti- and non-socialist practices that seriously endanger their ideology, system and culture so as to firmly defend their single-hearted unity and socialist system as precious as their lives.

He referred to the ways for youth league officials to sincerely carry out their revolutionary mission and decisively improve and strengthen the internal work of the league so as to further enhance its militant functions and role.

He stressed that all young people should fulfil their sacred mission and duty as youth vanguard in the great era of Kim Jong Un in the historic advance towards a new victory in the revolution, cherishing the Party Central Committee’s great trust in and expectation of them.

A relevant decision was adopted at the meeting after the study of its draft.