Present at the meeting were Choe Ryong Hae and officials of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, exemplary officials of the youth league and chairpersons of the youth league primary organizations in the KPA companies.

The participants heard the recorded speech "Let Us Strengthen the People's Army to Defend the Socialist Fatherland Firmly" made by Generalissimo Kim Il Sung at the conference of officials of the league of Socialist Working Youth in the KPA on October 28, 1979.

The meeting reviewed achievements and experiences made in the youth league affairs of the army in hearty response to the historic letter Generalissimo Kim Jong Il sent to the participants in the meeting of exemplary secretaries of the youth league primary organizations in the KPA companies.

It also discussed tasks and ways for carrying out the tasks set out by the dear respected Supreme Commander of the KPA Marshal Kim Jong Un in the congratulatory message to the participants in the meeting for celebrating Youth Day and other youth across the country this year.

Om Hyang Chol, chairman of the Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League in the KPA, made a report to be followed by speeches.

The reporter and speakers recalled that Kim Il Sung started his revolutionary activities with the youth movement, laid deep and strong roots of the Korean youth movement and developed the youth league into invincible youth ranks taking the lead in the struggle for accomplishing the cause of the party.

They said that Kim Jong Il sent the historic letter to the participants in the meeting of exemplary secretaries of the youth league primary organizations in the KPA companies on Oct. 30, 2002, to open up a bright prospect for the Juche-oriented youth movement of the army.

The Korean youth movement which was started and led to victory and glory by the Generalissimos is making a steady advance at a new, higher stage under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Un, they said.

They referred to the great achievements made by the youth league primary organizations in the work to carry out the tasks set out in the historic letter of Kim Jong Il and the congratulatory message of Kim Jong Un.

They stressed the need for the passionate youth of the KPA to creditably fulfill the honorable duty they assumed before the era, revolution, country and its people, holding aloft the red flag of the Workers' Party of Korea as No. one colors.