Present there were officials of local party, power and economic bodies and working people's organizations and officials, working people and students of industrial establishments, farms and universities.

Reporters and speakers said that Kim Jong Un's New Year address serves as a militant banner as it instills into the service personnel and people of the DPRK firm confidence of victory and revolutionary enthusiasm and calls upon them to turn out in the general offensive for the dignity of the DPRK and its prosperity.

They went on:

They underscored the need to make patriotic devotion to the worthwhile struggle for the dignity of the country and its prosperity in the revolutionary spirit of Paektu, the spirit of the blizzards of Paektu.

They called for faithfully upholding the Songun revolutionary leadership of the party, assisting the People's Army with all sincerity and making the traits of attaching importance to the military affairs prevail in all fields and units.

All fields and units should regard science and technology as their life and soul and bring about a turn in building a socialist economic power and a highly civilized nation by actively introducing the valuable successes gained in science and technology, they noted.

They called for hastening the final victory under the leadership of the great party.