The statement was read out to be followed by speeches by representatives of the KPA, the Worker-Peasant Red Guards, the Young Red Guards and the discharged soldiers.

The speakers said that all the service personnel and people are turning out in the all-people final decisive battle to defend the sovereignty of the country and the dignity of its supreme leadership, upon hearing the statement of the KPA Supreme Command and the news that the dear respected Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un made an important decision at the operation meeting on the Strategic Rocket Force's performance of duty for firepower strike.

The important decision made by Kim Jong Un is a decisive declaration of justice to provide a landmark occasion in putting an indefinite end to the long-standing history of showdown with the U.S. imperialists and open a new page of history, they noted.

The desperate moves of the U.S. and south Korean puppet forces would only harden the DPRK's will to take a thousand-fold revenge upon them and precipitate a miserable end of the foolish warmaniacs who have pushed the situation to an extreme phase, they said.

The meetings were followed by demonstrations staged by their participants, shouting slogans.

Present at the meetings were officials of the local party and power organs and working people's organizations, service personnel of the KPA and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces, officials and other people of industrial establishments and farms and teachers and students of universities and colleges.