Present there were senior party, state and army officials including Kim Yong Nam and Choe Yong Rim, chairperson of a friendly party, officials concerned and the delegates of war veterans to the celebrations.

Kim Yong Nam, Choe Yong Rim, Kim Ki Nam, Choe Thae Bok and Pak To Chun made speeches at the banquets.

Speakers at the banquets warmly welcomed the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters, war veterans and indomitable pro-reunification patriotic champions who were invited to the banquets arranged under the care of the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un who is first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.

The war veterans should hand over to the younger generations the ardent loyalty, collectivism and popular heroism which they displayed for the party, leader, country and people in the flames of the crucial war so that the cause of the WPK can be carried forward to the last through generations, they stressed.