Ri Il Hwan, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, addressed the party.

He said that Marshal Kim Jong Un who is always paying deep attention to the development of the country's sports made sure that the 7th National Meeting of Sportspersons was convened and the birthday party was given for the participants on their birthdays during the meeting.

He called upon officials and sportspersons to devote themselves to successfully implementing the party's plan to put the country's dignity on the position of the dignified sports power in near years by bringing about the revolutionary turn in the physical culture true to the historic letter of Marshal Kim Jong Un.