Attending the rallies were leading officials of local party and power organs, economic institutions and working people's organizations, people from all walks of life and youth and students.

The reporters and speakers said that the successful satellite launch marked a great auspicious event of the nation as it demonstrated the dignity and invincible might of Songun Korea and a historic event which made the first gun salute heralding the victory in the drive for building a great prosperous powerful nation.

The satellite launch strikingly demonstrated the might of the Juche-based industry and the nation's level of science and technology the Korean people secured under the leadership of the great leaders and the great Party and clearly proved that their cause of building a thriving nation is sure to triumph, they noted, and continued:

The fact that the nation's space technology has reached a world level is a shining fruition of the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il who has exerted utmost efforts for bolstering the country's political and military potentials and developing science and technology, foreseeing a rosy future of the country.

They underscored the need to give fullest play to the inexhaustible mental power and all the potentials which have been augmented thanks to the successful launch of satellite Kwangmyongson-2, a shining product of self-reliance, true to the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il in order to work a new miracle in building a great prosperous and powerful nation.