Among them were Li Yuanchao, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and vice-president of the People's Republic of China;Abdullah al-Ahmar, deputy general secretary of the Syria's Baath Arab Socialist Party; Edward Kiwanuka Ssekand, vice-president of the Republic of Uganda; Guy Scott, vice-president of the Republic of Zambia; Marie-Madeleine Mienze, deputy general secretary the People's Party for the Reconstruction and Democracy of Democratic Congo; Manuel Francisco Tuta, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Popular Liberation Movement of Angola; Paolo Romani, vice-president of the Senate Group from the Popular Liberty of Italy; Jose Ramon Balaguer, head of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba; Tran Quoc Vuong, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam; Cheuang Sombounkhan, secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party; Yu Zhenwu, former commander of the Air Force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army; Sayed Hamidreza Tabatabaei, deputy commander-in-chief of the Army of Iran; Luong Cong, deputy head of the General Political Department of the Vietnam People's Army; Ya. V. Kanov, vice-chairman of the Korean War Veterans' Council of Russia; Li Xiubao, deputy head of the Publicity Department of the General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army; Avirmed Battor, vice-minister of Defence of Mongolia; Agostinho Salvador Mondlane, vice-minister of Defense of Mozambique; Odongo Jeje, minister of state for the Ministry of Defense of Uganda. Present there were Kim Yong Nam, Pak Pong Ju, Choe Ryong Hae, Jang Song Thaek, Kim Kyok Sik, Jang Jong Nam, Kim Kyong Hui and Kim Ki Nam.

The guests warmly congratulated Kim Jong Un on the 60th anniversary of the victory in the war and wished him good health and greater successes in his work.

Kim Jong Un expressed thanks for this.

He welcomed the foreign guests on a visit to the DPRK to take part in the celebrations of the anniversary and hoped that they would spend comfortable and joyful days here.