Pyongyang, June 29 (KCNA) -- An enlarged meeting of the Tenth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was convened on June 28 to facilitate the successful implementation of the orientation of the Party and state policies and all the tasks for 2024 at a time when a period of the upswing of comprehensive efflorescence in socialist construction has been ushered in and the far-reaching ideals, ambitions and indomitable heroic mettle of a powerful country have been highlighted dramatically by the epoch-making entities symbolic of national rejuvenation, thanks to the ever-victorious leadership of the great Party Central Committee.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, was present at the plenary meeting.

On hand were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, members and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and members and alternate members of the WPK Central Committee. Present as observers were officials of relevant departments of the WPK Central Committee, leading officials of ministries, national agencies and provincial-level leadership bodies, chief secretaries of city and county committees of the WPK and leading officials of major industrial establishments.

A presidium composed of members of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee was elected.

The Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee authorized the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un to preside over the plenary meeting.

The plenary meeting is to review the work done in the first half of the year and discuss and decide a series of important immediate issues arising in maintaining the upturn in the comprehensive development of Korean-style socialism.

The five items placed on the agenda of the plenary meeting were approved by all members of the Party Central Committee.

Discussion related to the agenda items is underway amid the great political enthusiasm of all the participants. -0-