He said:

The Korean nation with a long history of five thousand years has undergone sufferings resulting from the territorial division into the north and the south caused by the U.S. imperialists even in the 21st century.

The day is sure to come when the fraternal Korean people put an end to the artificial division of the country, the height of shamelessness of imperialism.

We highly praise the Korean people for working astonishing miracles before the world.

Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, said in his New Year Address that all Koreans should unite and open a new phase in the country's reunification through a nationwide patriotic struggle for reunification.

I pay tribute to him for exerting efforts for achieving the independent and peaceful reunification of the country true to the intentions of the preceding leaders.

Korea will become a reunified country and demonstrate its might before the world as Kim Jong Un is standing at the helm of the revolution.