The second-day sitting of the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea took place on Feb. 20. The congress will mark a new milestone in the development of the Party and the history of comprehensive socialist construction.

The congress continued its discussion on the first agenda item "Review of the Work of the WPK Central Committee" as it did in its first-day sitting.

After hearing about the implementation of the Party and state policies during the period under review, the congress appreciated that the remarkable successes, experience and lessons, gained in the overall work of the Party and the state in politics, economy, culture, defence, diplomacy and other fields under the leadership of the eighth-term Central Committee of the WPK headed by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, serve as the precious foundations for putting the struggle onto the next-stage development process and as a springboard for making leaps forward in guaranteeing greater changes and successes.

The past five years, which witnessed the strenuous efforts to go through the first-stage course towards the comprehensive development of Korean-style socialist construction, were a period of great transformations and turns of profound significance in building up the Party struggling to realize the independence of the popular masses and developing the revolution.

The Party Central Committee has consistently adhered to the responsible working attitude of finding shortcomings first rather than successes and learning the secret to development from lessons in adopting Party policies and drawing up and carrying out work, and to the principle of attaching absolute importance to the interests of the state and the people. It has also opened up a new chapter, in which the whole country undergoes progress in a simultaneous and balanced way, steering the trend of accelerated changes in all fields of socialist construction.

Amid the struggle for implementing the five-point Party-building line in the new era, the Party's leadership, organizing ability and fighting efficiency have been further strengthened, alongside the creation of appearance and traits for ensuring the eternal continuity of the glorious 80-year-long ruling history of the Party. Furthermore, the five-year plans in all fields, decided by the Eighth WPK Congress, were successfully carried out and creations of prosperity built in all parts of the country to fully demonstrate the daily-growing political and economic potentials of the DPRK, thanks to the great spirit and irresistible might of all the Party members and other people united with patriotism.

The congress acknowledged that through the struggle, guided by the eighth-term Central Committee of the WPK, for fresh innovation, bold creation and steady advance, the internal force has remarkably increased to lay a scientific development foundation for putting all fields of socialist construction on a new stage and secure confidence and sufficient ability for further accelerating the struggle for the prosperity of the state.

The second-day sitting of the congress heard an important report of weighty historic and practical significance in making the pioneering period of the comprehensive development of socialism lead on to the greatest-ever upsurges.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un started the report on the review of the work of the eighth-term Central Committee of the WPK.

All the participants listen carefully to the historic report on the review of the work of the WPK Central Committee which proudly reviews the five years when it brought about eye-opening development and change by waging an offensive struggle with absolute trust in its cause and strong fighting spirit.