Pyongyang: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has vowed to "eliminate" movements that undermine the authority of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and called for strict discipline, the North's state media reported Thursday. Kim made the remark during a visit to the Party Founding Museum in Pyongyang the previous day, ahead of the 80th founding anniversary of the ruling party Friday.

According to Yonhap News Agency, Kim emphasized the importance of maintaining a strict order and discipline within the Party. He stressed the need to identify and eliminate elements and actions that could undermine the Party's leadership prestige. Kim's comments were delivered in an English-language transcript provided by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

Kim urged party officials to change their attitudes and warned against practices such as ignorance, incompetence, irresponsibility, self-protection, formalism, expediency, arbitrariness, high-handedness, and abuse of power. His visit to the museum was accompanied by members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK, along with officials from the WPK Central Committee and leading officials of the Party committees of ministries and national institutions.

The North is preparing to mark the upcoming party anniversary with a large-scale military parade, which will be attended by senior officials from China and Russia. North Korea typically holds military parades on party anniversaries that end in zero or five.