Present there were the captain and crewmen of Kiribati-flagged ship Hongru.

Describing Kim Jong Il's start of work at the WPK Central Committee as a historic event that opened up an era of great changes for the WPK and the Korean people, speakers at the meeting noted that he has developed the WPK into a revolutionary party of Juche type, an ever-victorious powerful party.

He has built up the WPK as the mother party devotedly serving the people, they said, and went on: What is noteworthy in the history of his leadership over the WPK is that he strengthened the WPK into the powerful guiding forces for the revolutionary cause of Songun by carrying forward the history and traditions of the Korean revolution pioneered with arms and thus provided a firm guarantee for accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche.

They stressed that victory and glory are always in store for the Korean people as they are led by Kim Jong Il.