Kim Jong-un, general secretary of the North Korean Workers' Party, held a meeting of the party's secretariat to crack down on discipline within the party, urging that the 'non-revolutionary behavior' of the cadres should be corrected.



The Korean Central News Agency announced today (13th) that General Secretary Kim presided over the meeting of the Party Secretariat yesterday.



The Central News Agency reported, "The secretariat discussed the importance of establishing a strong discipline-abiding ethos within the party and conducting a more intense struggle targeting unwholesome and non-revolutionary acts, including bureaucracy, which appears among some cadres."



At the meeting, General Secretary Kim said, "It is an essential prior task to strictly establish a supervisory work system and a corrective system for a stronger ethos of observing Party rules and regulations, the implementation of the Party's lines and policies, the implementation of a sound style and the shaping of a moral life." known to be



The Central News Agency also reported that "the important strategic party building idea of ​​Comrade General has been declared," and that the Secretariat will come up with measures to implement it.



The fact that General Secretary Kim convened a meeting of the Secretariat immediately following the plenary meeting of the party and mentioned the issue of discipline within the party seems to be judging the issue of discipline among cadres seriously.



Previously, General Secretary Kim pointed out the passivity and irresponsibility of the executives in the phase of the spread of the Corona 19 mutant virus in North Korea and strongly rebuked that overall problems were revealed in various parts of the national crisis response system.



In response, Unification Ministry spokesperson Cho Jung-hoon said in a regular briefing that "the intention is to strengthen the control mechanism at the party level first so that the party can play a central role in implementing the decisions of the party plenary session."



(Photo = Chosun Central TV screen, Yonhap News)