The meeting also aimed to confirm the major work and the orientation of struggle for the second half of the year and discuss and decide on the pending issues urgently needed for putting the overall socialist construction on a stable and sustained development track.

The plenary meeting took place in the form of an enlarged meeting with the attendance of members of the Party central leadership as well as leading officials of guidance organs in Pyongyang and local areas, senior Party and administrative officials of major industrial establishments and major commanding officers of the Korean People's Army.

brought up for discussion at the plenary meeting included the interim review of the implementation of the major Party and State policies for 2026, boosting the coal industry and remodeling the coal-mine villages across the country, and a series of measures for Enhancing the Role of the City and County People's Committees.

The plenary meeting heard and deliberated on a report on the implementation of the Party and state policies in the first half of the year.

The WPK Central Committee positively appreciated the important successes achieved in all fields of socialist construction in the first half of 2026, the responsible beginning of the struggle for implementing the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the WPK, and the redoubled spirit of exertion and advance of the Party members and other working people that are leading the state and social trend as a whole.

The plenary meeting called for adhering to the revolutionary ideology and spirit and fighting principle, the basic guarantee of the ever-victorious leadership ability and fighting efficiency of the WPK, thoroughly meeting the requirements of the era of comprehensive development in all sectors and units and steadily boosting the spirit of fresh innovation and the trend of continuous transformation while overcoming and eradicating some shortcomings and negative and evil practices revealed in the first half of the year at their early stage.

The plenary meeting heard a report and speeches on the measures for thoroughly carrying out the technical and cultural upgrading of the coal industry sector, which was designated as the important strategic work of the Party and the state in the period of the new long-term plan.

The reporter and speakers unanimously stressed that the measures for boosting the coal industry sector are the most realistic ones for successfully solving the linchpin of the completion of the new Five-Year Plan and ensuring the stable and sustained development of our economy.

In particular, they expressed full support for and approval to the plan for completely renovating the coal-mining areas across the country and bringing about a dramatic change in them as it is the brilliant embodiment of the noble outlook on the people and the people-first politics of General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Jong Un, which are consistent with boundless love for the working people and absolute service for them, and the most revolutionary policy and a bold decision that can be made only by Kim Jong Un.

The reporter and speakers said that the great changes to be made in the coal industrial areas clearly teach once again the right vision and attitude of the officials struggling for the prosperity of the state and the well-being of the people. They solemnly pledged before the plenary meeting to uphold the noble intention of Kim Jong Un in perfect practice and with continuous results.

Kim Jong Un emphasized that the issue of eliminating the centuries-old backwardness remaining in the coal industry sector in the era when the whole country is undergoing changes and progressing is a strategic issue of weighty significance not only in successfully fulfilling the new Five-Year Plan but also in carrying out the next medium- and long-term plans for the prospective development of the national economy and a promise the Party made with the coal miners and an urgent project that should be launched without delay.

KPL