The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech during a visit to the Party Founding Museum.

The full text of his speech is as follows:

Comrades,

Let us think about why we have gathered in front of this house in the lead-up to the 80th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Today our visit here is very significant, since this is the historic house which witnessed the great event of the founding of our Party.

As I stand in front of the birthplace of our Party that still retains its old appearance despite the passage of time, telling of the great history of Party founding, it is quite moving to recollect the emotions of the day of 80 years ago.

This small and simple house is where the ever-victorious history of the WPK, which has greatly transformed the destiny of our country and our people, started; and this humble place housed the supreme General Staff of the Korean revolution, which led them to make a grand start towards building a powerful socialist country. To think of this, I cannot suppress the surging emotion.

This is a sincere and warm feeling that can be felt only by the later generation who, cherishing the value of the ennobling soul embodied in the birth of the revolutionary Party and the first pages of its great history, have left proud imprints for the present and future of our country through a worthwhile struggle to carry forward its original will.

Availing myself of this significant opportunity, I, reflecting the unanimous feelings of all our Party members and other people, pay the most ennobling tribute to the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners who paved an original way for building a revolutionary party during the bloody struggle for liberating the country, accomplished the historic cause of founding our revolutionary Party and laid a solid cornerstone for its durable existence and victorious development.

I also express deep appreciation for the contribution made by the Party central leadership members present here, other leading cadres of our Party and state and all the Party organizations and officials, who are doing their utmost to perform the weighty yet honourable missions and duties entrusted to them by the Party and the revolution, and on the 80th anniversary of the Party I extend heartfelt greetings and warm encouragement to all the Party members, who have powerfully propelled the advance of our revolutionary cause with pure Party conscience and through a vanguard role as befitting members of the WPK.

My thanks go to the officials and other employees of this Party Founding Museum and other officials and working people in the revolutionary relics administration sector, who are devoting their sincerity to conveying the glorious history of our Party to posterity.

Comrades,

To proudly open the first pages of the sacred history of the founding of their party and recollect the indelible historic traces of exploration for a great ideology, strenuous exertion and heroic struggle-this is not something that anyone can do.

It is a special honour given only to the revolutionaries who can review with invariable inheritance the secret behind the glory of the victorious 80-year course they have traversed from one century into the next.

Our Party is proud that it laid the foundations of socialism on this land in the face of manifold challenges and trials, that it is striving hard to build a powerful country, which no one would dare to provoke, and that it has defended the glory of socialism, which must never be buried in history, through an indomitable struggle over the past arduous 80 years. This pride defies any description.

What did make our Party so strong and what did give it the fame of achieving one victory after another without any frustration? This thought leads us to solemnly look up at this low-roofed house and look back upon the annals of those great decades.

At this special and auspicious moment of greeting the 80th anniversary of the Party at a watershed of new development and prosperity, looking back upon the decades of Party founding and inheritance will serve as an occasion for renewing the understanding and awareness of the revolutionary obligations and duties of our generation, who have to reach without fail the finish line of the socialist cause that was launched and advanced by the forerunners.

Comrades,

The 80-year history of our Party is so great not only because it was founded in an original way but also because it etched in its banner the socialist ideals of achieving the independence of the masses and invariably held fast to them.

The socialism the generation opted for in the days of taking the first step towards building our Party in the liberated country was Korean-style socialism that conforms to our actual conditions, and the way of building it was from A to Z self-sustenance and self-determination, i.e., believing in the people and relying on their strength.

Having etched the socialist ideology in its guiding ideology on the first day of its founding, our Party has always remained faithful to its ideals and paved an original way for advancing socialist construction in the tempest of such arduous and complicated history.

The Juche-oriented socialist ideology and theory which have displayed their scientific accuracy and vitality in the whole historic course of the socialist revolution and construction in our country demonstrated their unique power in fusing socialism and the people into one and oriented the history of our Party's administration in power towards a history of advancing and emerging victorious together with the people.

The key secret behind our Party's recording of the longest ruling history in the socialist movement lies in the immortal vitality of the people-centred socialist ideology and the thoroughgoing and perfect succession of it.

Our Party's guiding ideology is the socialist ideology which has been further enriched, developed and perfected through the 80-year-long struggle and by the transformations and victories our people and officers and soldiers of our army achieved at the cost of blood.

The acme and true weight of the 80-year history of our Party just lie in having proved that the path we follow together with the people is the road to victory of socialism.

Comrades,

The other important factor that enabled our Party to lead the socialist cause along the most correct road, while recording legendary victories and miraculous events for the past 80 years, is that it has given definite precedence to the building of an original ruling party that makes selfless, devoted efforts for the good of the people by regarding them as the source of its life in carrying on the revolution and construction.

The history of our revolution and socialist construction gives clear answers to the questions of how a party, the people and socialism can be bound together with shared destiny, how the party can gain the dignity and fame as an ever-victorious guide and how the ordinary and simple people can become a great people with a strong character and temperament.

Only when it is steadily strengthened and developed politically, organizationally and ideologically and cultivates people-oriented leadership traits and styles of work, can a party fighting for the people can form one organism with them and organize and give the fullest play to their inexhaustible resourcefulness and strength and thus lead the socialist cause to ultimate victory.

The main feature of our Party building is that it has been strengthened and developed into a political General Staff fused with the people, while forming the most solid body that is ideologically pure and integral whole in organization and action and conducting its activities among the masses of the people by putting forward the people-centred revolutionary ideology as its guiding ideology and ideals.

As it has oriented everything to definitely ensuring the uniformity of ideology and leadership and fully embodied the people-oriented leadership traits in its work and activities, our Party has been able to develop into the most powerful and prestigious political force in the history of revolutionary party building and achieve the historic cause of training the people to be the independent driving force of socialism.

Our Party formulated the people-first principle as its political ideals and mode, made sure that making selfless, devoted efforts for the good of the people was established as its unchangeable trait, and particularly brought the discipline building and work style building to the fore, as its ruling history got longer, socialist construction intensified and generations changed, thereby making it possible to overcome laxity of discipline, abuse of power, bureaucracy and accumulation of wealth by illicit means which might be revealed within the Party.

Also, historically, our Party was strengthened into a more militant leading political organization through the struggle for establishing the Juche orientation in ideology in the postwar days and different rounds of self-purification process including the anti-factionalist struggle, and every time the people came to infinitely trust and support it and brought about periods of upsurge unprecedented in the history of socialist construction, being rallied firmly behind it.

It is a distinguished feat our Party etched in the human history of political parties that it created a new appearance of a genuine party that all the people love and defend like their own lives by throwing in their lot with it.

The five-point line of Party building in the new era constitutes a permanent charter for its building which enables our Party to boost its fighting efficiency and leadership abilities in every way while enjoying the high prestige as the guide for the people and the political General Staff in implementing the socialist cause.

In the course of reversing adversity and ordeals into victory and miracles, there were formed the purest and most powerful lineage of ideology and revolutionary traditions peculiar to the WPK, which can never be swayed, revised or discoloured.

The 80-year history of the WPK which has led the state and the people to socialism has left an iron truth of victory to be immortal for all ages and precious spiritual wealth.

It is that the Party, socialism and people are a community of shared destiny and that a party that always relies on the people and serves them and regards their trust and expectations as its lifeblood wins victory after victory forever enjoying their absolute support.

Along with this great truth, the ability of courageous leadership and the mode of struggle of the WPK, which has put the prestige of our state and people on the apex of the world and is ushering in an era of unprecedented transformations for the comprehensive development of socialism, illuminate the road of victory and glory that the present generation is following and our coming generations will continue to follow.

Comrades,

Since its eighth-term Central Committee, our Party has followed a new trajectory to achieve the comprehensive development of socialism.

In view of our ideals and objectives, we should innovate at a much faster pace than now; we should adopt a bolder approach and make redoubled, devoted efforts to transform all realms, all sectors and all regions in a decade.

The extraordinary political awareness and strenuous exertion of all the people, who have achieved unity on the strength of patriotism and turned all out in this endeavour, constitute the greatest of our capabilities, the most definite of our advantages and the highest of our potentials.

The speed and quality of our state's comprehensive development are determined by how much its citizens, linking their destiny to their country's and taking on the responsibility for the present and future of their state, display patriotism and loyalty in making efforts to produce the best possible results of their work.

Ours is a state of all the people, one being built by them all; as in the past, so in the future, too, it will be.

In the future, too, as we find solutions to all the theoretical and practical problems concerning Party and state affairs, our supreme principle and our cardinal standard should be to prepare all our people as befitting a powerful dynamic force opening up the present era.

The primary task facing us in leading all the people to advance along the road of victory for the cause of achieving the comprehensive development of socialism is to intensify, at a new high, the efforts to implement the five-point line of Party building in the new era, with a view to improving our Party's features, organizing abilities and fighting efficiency.

We should steadily step up political building to improve the Party's fighting efficiency and leadership abilities in every way. By doing so, we can ensure that all the people's patriotic enthusiasm and resourcefulness, as well as all the sectors' capabilities and potentials, are committed to achieving the comprehensive development of socialism under the unified leadership of the Party Central Committee.

To streamline the ranks of cadres and build up Party ranks as an elite force should be our crucial, core task for defending the lineage of the Party; we should ensure utmost prudence and perfection in carrying out this task so that ours will become a steel-strong party on a solid organizational and ideological basis.

What is important in this respect is to adopt an innovative approach towards improving the methods of Party work as required by the changing circumstances of the times and the level of the people's consciousness. In this way we can develop Party work into something novel and proactive, which is effective in understanding the public sentiments and leading them.

We should continually bolster and refine the Party's leadership abilities, fighting efficiency and art of leadership.

How seasoned a revolutionary party is depends not on the long span of its history, but on how hard it works to improve its leadership abilities and fighting efficiency, always aware of the weighty mission it has to perform in leading the cause of socialism as the political General Staff.

We should formulate in a systematic way, and use to good effect, the skills and methods of leadership, the traits of Party work and the habits of Party life, all of which have been displayed by our Party in its ruling history spanning eight decades. Furthermore, we should be active in creating and applying exemplary methods and styles of Party leadership in the new era to make our Party's ruling power absolute.

We should continue to firmly consolidate strict order and sound discipline climate within the Party, while giving precedence to the process of finding out and eliminating in time all sorts of elements and acts that undermine the Party's leadership prestige.

As I have emphasized on various occasions, cadres have very heavy and important responsibilities and duties in giving a strong impetus to the comprehensive development period which can be called the second era of nation building.

Today we need the same spirit, courage and self-confidence as we had at the time when the Party and a new country were built.

Leading officials of the Party and the state should keep the Party's original ideals and spirit as their mental attributes, have a correct understanding of the requirements of the times and reality and the essence and core of the Party's policies, and firmly cherish the intrinsic nature of the communists who shoulder their responsibilities while directly connecting all issues to the future of the Party and the state.

Success in work depends on how cadres play their role.

They should regard it as their political principle and iron rule to assume full responsibility for the work of their sectors and units.

They should lead the masses to have firm confidence from the outset through correct planning and organizational work for the implementation of the Party's policies, not by words. They should have the ability to organically combine Party guidance with economic and technical guidance to give the fullest play to the masses' strength and wisdom. They should also encourage the masses, through principled and fair reviews and appraisals, to feel by themselves the worth of and pride in their life and make redoubled efforts. Only such officials can lead the masses and make all of them genuine masters of their workplaces.

The change in the cadres' viewpoint on the masses, moral traits and style of work should precede the change in their way of thinking and abilities.

Our Party will accelerate the advance of the revolution, sweeping away all evil practices such as ignorance, incompetence, irresponsibility, self-protection, formalism and expediency, as well as arbitrariness, high-handedness and abuse of power which are rejected by the people and cause damage to socialism, the practices revealed among officials.

Only excellent cadres who live with the revolution, defend the revolution and lead their work correctly to the goals set, persons who are enterprising, heroic and staunch enough to brave any difficulties, can lead this current era.

When we feel tired and when we need greater courage, we should take to heart the spirit and fighting will of the Party-founding generation, who held high the red flag only in their empty hands and cut their way through bloody battles to bring about a new world of communism, and should display high enthusiasm for the revolution.

We should not suspend our struggle but continue to wage the revolution until we achieve the complete victory of socialism, successfully realize the ideals of our people and attain the ultimate goal of our revolution.

We are endeavouring for the loftiest cause and willingly sacrificing everything for the sake of it.

Let us struggle more staunchly for the great prosperity of our state with ardent revolutionary enthusiasm and courage to advance towards a greater victory, finding the worth of waging the revolution in overcoming difficulties without fearing hardships.

Comrades,

Indeed, it is a proud thing that, at this historic house where the Party was founded, we can recall the course the Party has followed from one century to the next and make a pledge to give steady continuity to the great course forever at this house.

Just as we proudly recall here today the road we have followed, we will continue to greet the days when we will look back with pride here again upon the arduous road ahead of us.

This historic house will shine forever as a sacred sanctuary which carries on the lineage of the WPK and its ever-victorious traditions for all ages.

Long live the Workers' Party of Korea!