They are now spending pleasant days in Pyongyang, given greatest favor and privilege.

Kim Yong Nam and Choe Yong Rim visited the hotel to warmly congratulate the praiseworthy heroes.

They said that the spectacular success made in the underground nuclear test represented a signal victory in the history of the nation as it clearly showed that Korea does what it is determined to do.

They noted that the whole country respects the nuclear weapons developers as genuine patriots because they dealt telling blows at the U.S. imperialists and their followers through their independent nuclear test.

They called on them to further develop the nation's nuclear technology.

Senior state officials asked them to make positive contributions to bolstering up the nuclear deterrent, the greatest patriotic legacy of Generalissimo Kim Jong Il, in every way and glorifying the DPRK as a matchless nuclear weapons state.

Prior, Secretary Pak To Chun and other officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea visited the hotel.