The participants placed a floral basket and bunches of flowers before the mosaics depicting portraits of smiling President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in Chongjin City and paid tribute to them.

The captain and sailors of Kiribati-flagged ship HAO FAN 6 took part in the meeting.

Speeches were made there.

The speakers said Kim Jong Il built the WPK into the Juche-type revolutionary party and the powerful guiding force of the Songun revolution through his outstanding ideological and theoretical activities and energetic leadership for half a century.

They also said that the single-minded unity of the leader, party and masses has been strengthened in the DPRK and great achievements made in the efforts to defend the socialist homeland and build a thriving nation.

They noted that as led by Marshal Kim Jong Un, the WPK is ushering in a new heyday.

A letter to him was adopted at the meeting.