NORTH KOREA celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Workers’ Party tomorrow.

An array of North Korean allies arrived on Thursday to join in the celebrations including Chinese Premier Li Qiang, Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president who serves as deputy head of the country’s security council and Vietnam’s Communist Party general secretary To Lam.

Ahead of the celebration North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gave a speech to the Party Founding Museum, where he urged his party to eradicate all bureaucratic vices, including opportunism and abuse of office, according to the Korean Central News Agency.

He said: “Our party will accelerate the advance of the revolution, sweeping away all evil practices such as ignorance, incompetence, irresponsibility, self-protection, formalism and expediency, as well as arbitrariness, high-handedness and abuse of power which are rejected by the people and cause damage to socialism, the practices revealed among officials.

“Only excellent cadres who live with the revolution, defend the revolution and lead their work correctly to the goals set, persons who are enterprising, heroic and staunch enough to brave any difficulties, can lead this current era.”

Mr Kim insisted that North Korea is marking the 80th anniversary of the party’s founding on the threshold of a new era of development and prosperity.