Enlarged plenary meetings of Pyongyang municipal and provincial committees of the Workers' Party of Korea were held on March 5 and 6 for implementing the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the WPK and the First Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK.

Members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and members of the Political Bureau and leading officials of the WPK Central Committee guided the plenary meetings.

Present there were members and alternate members of the provincial Party committees and, as observers, officials of the Party and power organs and administrative and economic organs in the relevant regions.

The plenary meetings discussed and decided on the ways and practical issues for making more substantial progress in the economic development of the provinces and the improvement of the people's living standards while further consolidating the successes and experience of the past five years.

They stressed that the long-term plans and tasks set forth at the Ninth Congress of the WPK and the First Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK are the most scientific and revolutionary struggle strategies and grand action programmes to hasten the comprehensive rejuvenation of the DPRK and provide the people across the country with more improved and civilized, new life and well-being as much as possible and at an early date by their own strength, wisdom and strenuous efforts.

They set forth the tasks and ways for the provincial Party committees to direct their main efforts to establishing the unified leadership system of the Party Central Committee more thoroughly and push ahead with the implementation of the Party's decisions.

They indicated the ways for bringing about a clear result in attaining this year's goals, invariably holding aloft the ideas of “The people are god”, single-minded unity and self-reliance as the banner of struggle and advance.

The plenary meetings stressed the need to apply the principles and requirements of the five-point Party-building programme in the new era to the Party work and activities and fulfil them perfectly.

At the plenary meetings, speakers expressed the determination to conduct the work of their regions and units in a scientific, foresighted and profitable way and prove their loyalty to the Party, the revolution and the people with clear-cut results.

There were sectional consultative meetings to define the future goals of struggle on the basis of the idea and important tasks set forth at the Ninth Congress of the WPK and implement them thoroughly.

At the plenary meetings, decisions were adopted with unanimous approval amid the participants' high political enthusiasm.