In this regard, KCNA met employees at the Rangnang Disabled Soldiers' Essential Plastic Goods Factory.

Kwon Jong Chol, a worker of the factory, said:

"The successful launch representing the great pluck and courage of Marshal Kim Jong Un astonished the whole world.

The DPRK is demonstrating its dignity as a satellite manufacturing and launching state."

Another worker Kim Myong Suk said:

"The launch displayed the inexhaustible potentials of the DPRK's self-reliant economy while turning it into a full-fledged satellite launcher.

I'll work hard to contribute to building a thriving nation as the space scientists and technicians did."