The statement recalled that he extended his warm greetings to compatriots in the south and abroad who are ringing in the New Year and the world's progressive people and foreign friends who love justice and peace.

In the address, he proudly reviewed historic events last year which fully glorified the immortal revolutionary activities of the Songun brilliant commanders of Mt. Paektu and demonstrated the might of Kim Il Sung's and Kim Jong Il's Korea and the great Paektusan nation before the whole world, the statement said.

The address clearly indicated the tasks to be fulfilled for building a thriving socialist nation, strengthening the Korean People's Army and achieving the country's reunification, it noted.

All the officials of the association and Koreans in China will keep pace with all service personnel and people in the homeland and carry on the dynamic struggle for building a thriving socialist nation and achieving the country's reunification in warm response to his New Year Address, it stressed.