The work, published on May 3, Juche 73 (1984), fully clarifies all theoretical and practical issues arising in the building and activities of the trade unions in the era of Juche including the nature, mission, objectives and tasks of the unions and the principles governing the activities of the unions.

The meeting was attended by officials of the trade unions and officials concerned and others.

Hyon Sang Ju, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, in his report said that publication of the work enriched the Juche-based idea and theory on the building of the federation and provided a landmark, a radical turning point to develop the work of the federation as required by the higher stage of the Korean revolution.

Thanks to the leadership and loving care of Kim Jong Il, the federation developed into an organization for ideological education boundlessly loyal to the leadership of the party and the leader, he said.

Kim Jong Il's idea on the building of the federation and his feats are being carried forward by supreme leader Kim Jong Un, he said, adding:

Kim Jong Un clearly indicated the tasks to be carried out by the federation and the ways to do so, attaching great importance to the position and role of the federation.

He underlined the need to steadily deepen the education in the Juche idea, the Songun idea, as guided by the spirit of the 8th Conference of Ideological Workers of the Workers' Party of Korea, and dynamically conduct ideological education such as the education in the party's policies and revolutionary traditions and thus prepare the union officials and members as Kimilsungists-Kimjongilists with ardent loyalty to the party and the leader, transparent revolutionary faith and high degree of class awareness.

He called on all the unionists to unite closer around Kim Jong Un under the uplifted banner of the great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and make vigorous endeavors for the final victory in the building of a thriving socialist nation and the revolutionary cause of Juche.