Among them were Choe Ryong Hae, Choe Thae Bok, Kim Phyong Hae, Jo Yon Jun and other officials of the WPK Central Committee and armed forces organs.

They congratulated the veterans who won a victory in the Fatherland Liberation War by beating back the U.S. imperialist aggressors under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung and devotedly worked in socialist construction and confrontation with the U.S. after the war.

The fighting spirit displayed by the country's defenders in the great years serves as a powerful ideological and mental weapon of the service personnel and people of the DPRK, they said, asking the veterans to always bear in mind the party's great trust and expectation and creditably perform their duties to bring up the younger generation as reliable successors to the revolution.