North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaks during a party meeting in Pyongyang, June 12. Yonhap

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called on officials at a party meeting to root out "unrevolutionary" acts such as bureaucracy, state media said Monday.

The secretariat of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party convened the meeting the previous day in Pyongyang to discuss immediate tasks faced by the party, according to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

During the party, Kim urged party officials to wage a more intense battle against unhealthy acts and bureaucracy, it said.

The meeting also discussed the issue of strengthening the role of the party to implement the national tasks discussed at the fifth enlarged plenary meeting of the party's eighth Central Committee last week.

At a party congress last year, the North revised the ruling party's rules to reinstate the secretariat that was scrapped in 2016 and elected Kim as "general secretary" of the party. (Yonhap)