An enlarged joint meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean People's Army Committee of the WPK took place in Pyongyang on February 2-3. Kim Jong Un, First Secretary of the WPK, First Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of the KPA, presided over the enlarged joint meeting. Attending it were officials of the WPK Central Committee and members of the Party Committee of the KPA. Leading Party officials of commissions and ministries and local areas and officials of armed forces organs were present as observers. The meeting had an in-depth discussion on the principled issues arising in further strengthening the WPK into the glorious Party of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il as required by the developing revolution on the occasion of the 7th WPK Congress to be recorded as a new landmark in the history of the Party. It criticized mainly the practices of seeking privileges, misuse of authority, abuse of power and bureaucratism manifested in the Party and proposed tasks and ways for thoroughly overcoming them.

Before declaring the meeting open, Kim Jong Un noted that it is the first time in the history of the WPK to have this meeting. A report and speeches were made at the meeting. The reporter and speakers said that the meeting is a historic event in further developing the WPK into the powerful political staff of the Songun revolution and a motherly Party sharing its fate with the popular masses and consolidating the integrated whole of the Party and the people as firm as a rock, true to the leadership ofKim Jong Un. Kim Jong Un made a conclusion. He said that the meeting is of weighty significance in further strengthening the Party organizationally and ideologically, rallied close around its Central Committee with one thought and purpose, with the whole Party moving as one under the monolithic leadership of the Party.