North Korea has dispatched central party inspection teams to major factories in Sinuiju, the capital of North Pyongan province, in a sweeping audit of compliance with resolutions adopted at the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK).
According to a source in North Pyongan province on Monday, inspection teams composed of officials from the WPK’s Organization and Guidance Department and Propaganda and Agitation Department, accompanied by provincial party officials, arrived unannounced this month at the Sinuiju Pulp Factory and the Rakwon Machine Factory. The Organization and Guidance Department is the WPK body responsible for monitoring party discipline and personnel across all sectors of North Korean society.
The teams are examining the factories’ internal party management structures and scrutinizing documents stored on factory computers. The source said the intensity of the inspections has left local officials in a state of extreme anxiety.
“An inspection group from the central party has been suddenly deployed to the Sinuiju Pulp Factory and the Rakwon Machine Factory,” the source said. “They are going through every organizational management system inside the factories and searching computer files thoroughly, driving local officials to the edge.”
Factories under fire over party cell meetings
The inspections are focused on whether party cell meetings — held at the cell level, the basic organizational unit of the WPK, where policy directives are reviewed and resolutions formally adopted — conducted between late March and mid-April were carried out in strict accordance with party rules and procedures. The source said inspectors are also assessing whether the resolutions passed at those meetings are being implemented on the factory floor.
The audit covers the period from March to the present and is intended to verify whether WPK policy directives issued since the Ninth Party Congress, held in 2025, have been properly followed at the enterprise level.
Inspectors arrived at offices without warning, cross-referencing officials’ personal notebooks against organizational record books in what the source described as a high-intensity investigation. The source said the operation reflects a direct order from Kim Jong Un.
“Behind these inspections is the Supreme Leader’s strong determination to ensure that the decisions of the Ninth Party Congress do not end up as empty words on the factory floor,” the source said.
The source added that the central party’s demands now go beyond vague expressions of loyalty. “The party center is now demanding practical precision from local officials — from managing documents on computers to fully implementing party cell meeting resolutions,” the source said.
Provincial officials draw resentment
Officials at the factories targeted by the inspections are said to be walking on thin ice. One official at the Rakwon Machine Factory reportedly trembled visibly after inspectors confiscated his personal notebook without notice.
The official was reported to have told colleagues that the experience was stifling. “The eyes of the people who came down from the central party are completely different from before,” he reportedly said. “They asked about specific figures and procedures in such detail that I could barely breathe — you can’t even answer if you don’t know the practical details.”
The source also noted that provincial party officials accompanying the central party teams have drawn particular resentment from factory workers for aggressively going along with the inspections.
“Until yesterday they were close comrades, but in front of the central party officials they were eager to please and ended up being even harsher,” the source said. “People are saying they resent the provincial party officials more.”
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