Present there were Kim Ki Nam and Kim Yong Chun, officials of the party and armed forces organs, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions, service personnel of the Korean People's Army and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces and people from all walks of life.

Speeches were made there.

Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, said Kim Jong Il developed the WPK into the glorious party of President Kim Il Sung, the invincible guiding force and laid an eternal foundation for accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche.

He stressed the need to achieve the final victory in an all-out action against the U.S. in the new century and build the most powerful country and the people's paradise on this land looked up to by the world, under the uplifted banner of the WPK led by the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un.

KPA General Kang Phyo Yong said that the revolutionary feats of Kim Jong Il who provided the invincible military muscle and single-minded unity, holding arms and with intense love for the country and people, will shine long.

Choe solemnly pledged to clearly show the invincible might of the revolutionary army which has grown under the care of the commanders of Mt. Paektu and fly higher the flags bearing the beaming images of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and the red flag of the WPK.

Jon Yong Nam, chairman of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, said that Kim Jong Il enforced the policies of attaching importance to youth and loving youth and brought them up to be the reliable political reserves of the party and the successors of the revolution.

He resolved to display the pride of being reserve combat unit and detached force of Kim Jong Un and win the final victory in building a thriving nation, holding high the torch of revolution given by Kim Jong Il.

Fireworks were displayed in the sky above the Paektusan Secret Camp.