The Enlarged Meeting of the Twelfth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea was held from June 21 to 23, 2025.

The plenary meeting was convened to conduct an interim review of the implementation of the major Party and state policies for this year, which were assigned by the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, to reconfirm the central tasks of the work and the orientation of the struggle for the second half of the year and to discuss and decide on the issues arising in the course of expanding and deepening the short-, intermediate- and long-term plans for economic construction.

Present there were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau, members and alternate members of the Political Bureau and members and alternate members of the Central Committee of the WPK.

Present there as observers were officials of the departments of the Party Central Committee, leading officials of ministries, national agencies and provincial-level guidance bodies, chief secretaries of city and county Party committees, leading Party and administrative officials of major industrial establishments and major commanding officers of the Korean People’s Army.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, presided over the plenary meeting.

The meeting heard a report on the successes made in all fields of socialist construction, including politics, the economy, culture, science, education and national defence, in response to the call of the Party Central Committee for glorifying the year 2025 as an epochal year of fulfilling the grand revolutionary programme set forth at the Eighth Party Congress and a year of eye-opening turn in bringing about an upward trend towards a new stage of development and on the work of the Party organizations at all levels in the period of the first half of the year.

The Party Central Committee made a very affirmative appreciation of the remarkable results achieved in the struggle to implement the major Party and state policies in the first half of the year and the spirit of vigorous advance definitely prevailing in overall socialist construction.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made an important speech at the meeting.

The meeting examined and approved strategic adjustment of a series of the Party and state policy tasks and proposals for their timely implementation on the principle of positively promoting successes and experiences and steadily drawing lessons and solutions in keeping with the features of the times, in which a gigantic struggle unprecedented in terms of the width and depth of the state development and the immensity of its goal is being waged, and with the changing objective situations.

A decision on convening the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, which would be another watershed in the course of the development of our Party and revolution, received unanimous approval, and practical measures were taken for the successful opening of the historic Party Congress.

The plenary meeting discussed and decided on the tasks for radically accelerating the revitalization and modernization of major industrial sectors of the national economy standing in the vanguard of further strengthening the independent character and development potential of our national economy and guaranteeing the sustainable and stable comprehensive rejuvenation and growth.

It discussed the tasks essential for improving the fighting efficiency and activeness of the basic Party organizations, which occupy an important position in the organizational structure and system of the Party and for putting the work for the inner-Party structure on a more streamlined and efficient basis as required by the line of Party building in the new era, and adopted a relevant decision.

It dealt with the organizational matter.

The sector-specific study and consultative meetings were held for two days under the guidance of members of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee to take measures for correctly carrying out the plans for the second half of the year on the basis of the main spirit of the plenary meeting for thoroughly attaining the goals set for this year by making more courageous, effective and intensive efforts in the most responsible course, in which the work for significantly celebrating the 80th anniversary of national liberation and the 80th founding anniversary of the WPK coincides with the campaign to greet the Ninth Congress of the WPK as a congress of victors, a glorious congress, and thus bringing about epochal achievements to be specially recorded in the history of the Party and the country.

The draft decisions, amended and supplemented on the basis of the constructive and dynamic opinions presented at the consultative meetings, were discussed at the 25th meeting of the Political Bureau of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK.

The finally confirmed decisions were submitted to the plenary meeting and adopted with the unanimous approval of members of the Party Central Committee.

Through the enlarged meeting of its Twelfth Plenary Meeting, the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK discussed and decided on practical measures for expanding the ideal and solid cornerstone for the comprehensive prosperity of Korean-style socialism as soon as possible, firmly maintaining the rising trend of the development of the state which was achieved with the revolutionary spirit of self-sustenance and indomitable courage of advance, and thus successfully went through an important process essential for accelerating the advance towards a new victory.

The important speech made by Kim Jong Un at the June 2025 Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the WPK and the decisions adopted at the meeting will be published as inner-Party documents and distributed to the Party organizations at all levels.