Present there were Kim Yong Nam, Choe Yong Rim, Choe Ryong Hae, Ri Yong Ho and other senior officials of the party, state and army, delegates to the celebrations of the centenary of the birth of the President, officials of the party and armed forces organs, ministries and national institutions, service personnel of the Korean People's Army and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces, officials in the fields of science, education, literature and arts, public health and the press, men of meritorious services, heads of overseas compatriots delegations, overseas Koreans and the chief of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front.

Present there on invitation were foreign diplomatic envoys, representatives of international organizations and members of the military attaches corps here, the participants in the World Congress on the Juche Idea and the international festival and other foreign guests.

Choe Thae Bok, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, in his speech referred to the grand celebration of the centenary of the birth of the President.

The President's revolutionary career was the sacred one of the peerless patriot and the great sage of revolution who opened the new era of Juche Korea and performed the undying great feats for the accomplishment of the cause of the popular masses for independence with his profound idea and theories and great revolutionary practice, the speaker said.

He noted that General Secretary Kim Jong Il, who regarded it as his lifelong mission to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche generation after generation, led the Korean revolution to a brilliant victory for decades.

The revolutionary cause of Juche and the Songun revolutionary cause are persistently advancing under the leadership of the dear respected Kim Jong Un, he noted.

We should thoroughly implement the behests of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il with the revolutionary faith and noble moral obligation that they will always live with us and thus give a steady continuity to their revolutionary history, he said.

We should certainly accomplish the historic cause of national reunification through the nationwide struggle under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration true to the behests of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il for national reunification, he stated.

We will invariably defend the idea of independence, friendship and peace, develop good-neighborly relations with all those countries which are friendly toward the DPRK and dynamically struggle for global independence, he concluded.

An art performance was given by the artistes of the Wangjaesan Art Troupe at the banquet.