Streets are garbed in festive attire and decorated with national flags, red banners, placards and posters calling for consolidating the people's power.

Polls are crowded by people in their best clothes.

They are waiting for the election to begin, some of them finding out their names in voters' lists and others dancing to the tune of drums and gongs.

Art troupes at all levels are joining them in livening up the atmosphere of election.

Reflected in their faces is a firm determination to, through the election, demonstrate the might of the Korean people closely rallied around the Workers' Party of Korea and the advantages of Korean socialism and glorify the hundred-year history of Kim Il Sung's Korea.

The election begins at 9 a.m.