Attending it were senior party, army and state officials, leading officials of party, armed forces and power organs and working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions, officials of organs and enterprises in the city, persons of merits and citizens of different circles.

Choe Thae Bok, alternate member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, in a speech said that the nuclear test was a grand undertaking to protect the supreme interests of the DPRK and defend the dignity and sovereignty of the country and nation in face of the U.S. imperialists' unabated threat to mount a preemptive nuclear attack and sanctions and pressure upon it.

The army and people of the DPRK defending the destiny of the country and the nation and socialism and opening a great heyday of prosperity unprecedented in the history spanning 5,000 years demonstrated the dignity of the nation and the strong national power through the successful nuclear test, he noted, and went on:

The successful nuclear test powerfully encourages the servicepersons and people of the DPRK all out in the 150 day-campaign, effecting a new revolutionary surge to open the gate to a great prosperous and powerful nation. It will contribute to defending the sovereignty of the country and nation and socialism and ensuring peace and security in the Korean Peninsula and its vicinity with the might of Songun.

The situation of the country is growing tenser as the days go by owing to the vicious hostile policy toward the DPRK pursued by the U.S. imperialists and the Japanese reactionaries and their lackeys the south Korean conservative forces. But the army and the people of the DPRK with the strong nuclear deterrent for self-defence will make steady advance along the road of independence, the road of Songun full of the faith and optimism without the slightest vacillation, he added.

Representatives of the Korean People's Army, scientists, workers and agricultural workers also made speeches at the meeting.

They called on all the party members and other working people to work hard to effect a new great revolutionary surge by giving full play to the potentials built up in the crucible of the Songun revolution and thus open the gate to a thriving nation in 2012, the centenary of birth of President Kim Il Sung.