(MENAFN) North Korean President Kim Jong-un reportedly demanded the eradication of "non-socialist" elements while he struggles to restrict the ideological discipline in the midst of global sanctions about its nuclear and missile programs.

According to the official news agency KCNA, the president led the rank-and-file organizations to direct a "revolutionary offensive to uproot non-socialist practices" Saturday during his address to the Conference of Cell Chairpersons of the ruling Workers' Party.

The KCNA reported "he said the offensive should be launched in the party cells, the bases educating the party members and other working people and training them into revolutionaries and the lowest revolutionary posts defending Korean-style socialism."

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