The "statement supporting the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean people in their struggle for building a thriving nation and achieving the independent reunification of the country" was adopted at the congress on Feb. 6.

It said:

We, attending the 23rd Congress of the People's Socialist Party of Mexico, hope that the WPK and the Korean people will glorify this year marking the 65th anniversary of the founding of the WPK as a year of great changes to be specially recorded in the history of building a thriving nation under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.

We are convinced that the Korean people will bring about a radical turn in the people's standard of living by accelerating the development of light industry and agriculture once again this significant year.

We bitterly denounce the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK and the south Korean authorities' treacherous moves against reunification and extend full support and solidarity to the Korean people in their struggle to make new progress in the movement for national reunification under the banner of the north-south joint declaration.

We express conviction that the WPK and the Korean people will continue to consolidate and develop the DPRK into an invincible power and a socialist fortress under the experienced and seasoned leadership of Kim Jong Il.