Kim Yong Nam congratulated the persons of merits who brilliantly carried out the behests of leader Kim Jong Il and demonstrated the immense capabilities of the great Paektusan power before the world by successfully launching the first working satellite.

The successful launch is the greatest gift presented to Kim Jong Il by our people, he said, adding the scientists, technicians, workers and officials brought about a great jubilee of all the people.

He said that they should make the hot wind of pushing back the frontiers of the latest science and technology sweep across the country, further develop the country's space science and technology and glorify the DPRK looked up by the world into the most power in the world, true to the Songun leadership of the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un.