The Ninth Congress of the Journalists Union of Korea took place on April 3 4 in Pyongyang. The congress held a comprehensive and in depth review of the work of the union in the period under review and discussed the tasks and ways to wage a media and ideological campaign to powerfully lead the advance of the era stirring with the implementation of the decisions of the Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea and attainment of the grand long term goals by radically improving the work of the union. It was attended by delegates selected at journalists union organizations at all levels. Present there as observers were officials of relevant departments of the WPK Central Committee and the information field of provincial Party committees and officials, journalists and men of the press in the central and local media and relevant sectors. The platform was taken by Ri Il Hwan, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, executive committee members of the Central Committee of the Journalists Union of Korea, leading officials of the central newspapers, news agency, broadcast and publication field and exemplary officials, journalists and men of press in the media organizations. As the congress was declared open, the national anthem of the DPRK was played. The meeting elected the presidium and secretariat. It approved the following agenda items: 1. Review of the work of the Central Committee of the Journalists Union of Korea 2. On the revision of the Rules of the Journalists Union of Korea 3. Election of the central leadership body of the Journalists Union of Korea Ri Il Hwan, secretary of the Party Central Committee, read out the instructions of Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the WPK and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, on improving and strengthening the work in the field of the media. Pak Tong Sok, chairman of the Central Committee of the Journalists Union of Korea, delivered a report on the first agenda item “Review of the work of the Central Committee of the Journalists Union of Korea”. The report was followed by speeches on the first agenda item. Speakers analyzed and reviewed the successes, experience and shortcomings achieved and revealed in the period under review and their causes on the basis of the detailed work of relevant units. The meeting discussed the second agenda item “On the revision of the Rules of the Journalists Union of Korea”. A report was made on the revision of the rules of the union amended and supplemented according to the fighting tasks facing the union in the new era, and a decision was adopted with unanimous approval of the participants. The congress discussed the third agenda item “Election of the central leadership body of the Journalists Union of Korea”. The Central Committee of the Journalists Union of Korea was elected. Nominated candidates for the membership of the Central Committee of the JUK were all elected as members of the JUK Central Committee with unanimous approval of the participants. The First Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the JUK was held. Ri Il Hwan announced the results of the first plenum. The executive committee of the JUK Central Committee was elected. Pak Tong Sok and Ryom Chol Ho were elected chairman and vice chairman of the JUK Central Committee respectively. A letter of pledge to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was adopted amid the enthusiastic applause of the participants at the meeting.

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The Ninth Congress of the Journalists Union of Korea took place on April 3 4 in Pyongyang. The congress held a comprehensive and in depth review of the work of the union in the period under review and discussed the tasks and ways to wage a media and ideological campaign to powerfully lead the advance of the era stirring with the implementation of the decisions of the Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea and attainment of the grand long term goals by radically improving the work of the union. It was attended by delegates selected at journalists union organizations at all levels. Present there as observers were officials of relevant departments of the WPK Central Committee and the information field of provincial Party committees and officials, journalists and men of the press in the central and local media and relevant sectors. The platform was taken by Ri Il Hwan, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, executive committee members of the Central Committee of the Journalists Union of Korea, leading officials of the central newspapers, news agency, broadcast and publication field and exemplary officials, journalists and men of press in the media organizations. As the congress was declared open, the national anthem of the DPRK was played. The meeting elected the presidium and secretariat. It approved the following agenda items: 1. Review of the work of the Central Committee of the Journalists Union of Korea 2. On the revision of the Rules of the Journalists Union of Korea 3. Election of the central leadership body of the Journalists Union of Korea Ri Il Hwan, secretary of the Party Central Committee, read out the instructions of Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the WPK and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, on improving and strengthening the work in the field of the media. Pak Tong Sok, chairman of the Central Committee of the Journalists Union of Korea, delivered a report on the first agenda item “Review of the work of the Central Committee of the Journalists Union of Korea”. The report was followed by speeches on the first agenda item. Speakers analyzed and reviewed the successes, experience and shortcomings achieved and revealed in the period under review and their causes on the basis of the detailed work of relevant units. The meeting discussed the second agenda item “On the revision of the Rules of the Journalists Union of Korea”. A report was made on the revision of the rules of the union amended and supplemented according to the fighting tasks facing the union in the new era, and a decision was adopted with unanimous approval of the participants. The congress discussed the third agenda item “Election of the central leadership body of the Journalists Union of Korea”. The Central Committee of the Journalists Union of Korea was elected. Nominated candidates for the membership of the Central Committee of the JUK were all elected as members of the JUK Central Committee with unanimous approval of the participants. The First Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the JUK was held. Ri Il Hwan announced the results of the first plenum. The executive committee of the JUK Central Committee was elected. Pak Tong Sok and Ryom Chol Ho were elected chairman and vice chairman of the JUK Central Committee respectively. A letter of pledge to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was adopted amid the enthusiastic applause of the participants at the meeting.