Update: State media reported on Monday, Nov. 22 that the conference ended over the weekend and attendees adopted a resolution on carrying out Kim Jong Un’s instructions.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wants to expand a loyalty reward system to spur development as a core ideological movement is “losing steam,” according to new instructions released by state media Friday.

The instructions were reportedly read to attendees of a conference for exemplary workers that kicked off in Pyongyang on Thursday, called the “5th Conference of Frontrunners of the Three Revolutions.” 

Pyongyang has long demanded citizens uphold the “Three Revolutions,” or