Before having a photo session with them, Kim Jong Un warmly congratulated them on their big successes in the creative work to portray the leaders including the erection of the statues of President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill and in the drive to thoroughly implement the WPK's Juche-oriented literary and art policy.

He expressed expectation and conviction that they would bring about a fresh turn in the work to portray the leaders and create many more masterpieces fully reflecting the Korean people's thoughts and feelings and the spirit of the times and thus creditably discharge their mission and duty they have assumed before the party and the revolution.

Present at the photo session were Kim Yong Nam, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, Premier Choe Yong Rim, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, Jang Song Thaek, member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission, Kim Ki Nam, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Ri Jae Il, first vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, and Kwon Hyok Bong, vice department director of the WPK Central Committee.