They laid bouquets before the statues of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il in Hamhung City, South Hamgyong Province and paid tribute to them.

Present at the meeting were the captain and crewmen of the Panama-flagged ship Sea Star 7.

Speeches were made there.

The speakers referred to the fact that Kim Il Sung founded the DPRK and wisely led it and Kim Jong Il successfully carried forward the revolutionary cause of Juche and glorified the DPRK as a dignified socialist power.

The happiness and all valuable wealth of the Korean people are the precious results brought about by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il all their lives, the speakers said, and went on:

Thanks to supreme leader Kim Jong Un the dignity and might of the DPRK have been put on the highest level startling the world.

The speakers wished Kim Jong Un good health.

A letter to Kim Jong Un was adopted at the meeting.