Present there on invitation were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, Jong Yong Su, minister of Labor who is chairman of the DPRK-Iran Friendship Association, Kim Jong Suk, chairwoman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, and other officials concerned.

The ambassador said that thanks to the President the Korean people could achieve progress and prosperity while foiling threat and blackmail of the hostile forces and their moves to stifle the DPRK.

He expressed belief that the Korean people would translate the noble desires of Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il into reality thanks to the wise guidance of Marshal Kim Jong Un.

He said that the Iranian people would always support and encourage the Korean people in their struggle to oppose outsiders' interference and defend the sovereignty of the country and the gains of revolution.

Yang Hyong Sop said that the President was a great master in ideology and theory who founded the immortal Juche idea steering the era of independence, peerless patriot and founding-father of socialist Korea, he noted.

The reunified thriving socialist nation will certainly be built as desired by the President and Kim Jong Il as Kim Jong Un is leading the Korean revolution, he said.

The Korean people will always extend invariable support and solidarity to the Iranian people in their just struggle to achieve the development and prosperity of the country, he concluded.