Present at the rally were Kim Yong Nam, Choe Yong Rim, Choe Ryong Hae and other senior officials of the party, state and army, service personnel of the Korean People's Army and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces, officials of institutions at various levels, working people, teachers and students here.

Present there on invitation were delegations of overseas Koreans and other compatriots, the chief of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front, diplomatic envoys of various countries and members of the military attaches corps here and other foreign guests.

The floor was taken by Kim Ki Nam, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, on behalf of the WPK, General Yun Tong Hyon on behalf of the service personnel the KPA, Jon Yong Nam, chairman of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, on behalf of youth and students, Hyon Sang Ju, chairman of the C.C., the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, on behalf of the working class, Ri Myong Gil, chairman of the C.C., the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea, on behalf of agricultural workers, and Jang Chol, president of the State Academy of Sciences, on behalf of the intellectuals to congratulate the successful 3rd underground nuclear test.

The speakers warmly hailed the successful nuclear test which resolutely frustrated the brigandish campaign of "sanctions" launched by the U.S. in wanton violation of the DPRK's right to satellite launch for peaceful purposes and significantly decorated the February jubilee with another great victory of Songun Korea.

The nuclear test was a decisive and just step for self-defence to cope with the hostile policy of the U.S. with much fuss about "harsher sanctions" and "preemptive strike" over the satellite launch of the DPRK, they noted, and continued:

It serves as a striking demonstration of the might of a scientific and technological power and a military power capable of manufacturing any strike means if it is determined to do.

They extended warm congratulations to the heroic scientists, technicians, workers and officials on their great success in the nuclear test at a high level.

The successful nuclear test is the brilliant fruition of the extraordinary decision and matchless gut of the dear respected Kim Jong Un, peerless statesman and brilliant Songun commander of Mt. Paektu, who put the dignity and stamina of Kim Il Sung's and Kim Jong Il's Korea on the highest level, the speakers added.

It is the DPRK's mode and mettle of counter-action and confrontation to settle accounts with the barbaric hostile forces with a barrage of fire. If the U.S. continues going reckless, the DPRK will deal unpredictable merciless retaliatory blows at the U.S.

The speakers stressed that the service personnel and people of the DPRK would glorify this year marking its 65th founding anniversary and the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War as great festival of victors and triumphantly build on this land the most powerful country in the world.