Present there were service personnel of the Korean People's Army, officials of local party and power bodies, working people's organizations, industrial establishments, co-op farms, universities and colleges and other people.

Reports were made to be followed by speeches.

The reporters and speakers hailed the successful launch of the scientific and technological satellite manufactured by the Koreans with their own technology and by their own efforts as a great auspicious event that fully implemented one of the last instructions of leader Kim Jong Il.

It was thanks to the intense loyalty, strong sense of moral obligation, matchless grit and outstanding strategy of the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un that the DPRK successfully put the satellite into its orbit and ranked itself with dignity among satellite possessors, they said.

They evinced their pledge to work hard to glorify the country with the pride of having demonstrated to the world the general capabilities of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il's Korea.