He was greeted on the spot by Ju Sang Song, member of the NDC of the DPRK and minister of the People's Security, Ri Pyong Sam, director of the Political Department of the ministry, and other commanding officers of the ministry.

After receiving a salute, he went round the room for technological research and other places to acquaint himself in detail with the ministry's performance of duty.

He expressed great satisfaction over the fact that all commanding officers and public security persons of the ministry have performed their duties in a responsible manner, deeply aware of the sense of their honorable mission as the first line unit in the class struggle and the interior force of the Party and praised the efforts made by them.

The interior force having the more than six decade-long brilliant tradition of devotedly defending the leader has reliably protected the gains of the socialist country and the peace of the people by standing firm guard over the outpost of the class struggle, thus making great contributions to the prosperity and development of the country, he noted, highly estimating the shining exploits performed by them in the past.

Our socialist country is sure to win as the defence line of the country is defended as firm as an invulnerable fortress by the heroic KPA which has grown to be a-match-for-a-hundred ranks and the security of the country and its people is reliably protected by the interior force intensely loyal to the Party and the leader, the country and its people, he stressed.

Expressing the expectation and conviction that the public security persons, the political defenders of the Party and vanguard fighters in the class struggle, would protect the gains of the revolution and lives and properties of the people with their lives in the future, too, he set forth important tasks which would serve as guidelines for further increasing the combat capability of the interior force.

He was accompanied by Kim Ki Nam, secretary of C.C., the WPK, Jang Song Thaek, member of the NDC of the DPRK and department director of the C.C., the WPK, and its other leading officials.