The statement said:

The Korean people are accelerating their general offensive for building a thriving socialist nation in the high spirit of victors who have demonstrated the dignity and might of the great Paektusan nation.

The Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK released a decision to convene the 7th Congress of the WPK early in May next year.

The WPK has formed unbreakable kinship with the popular masses by pursuing benevolent politics of love and trust and all-embracing politics and worked hard to provide the people with a bountiful and happy life.

The 7th Congress of the WPK will mark an epoch-making occasion in laying a new landmark in the struggle of the Korean people to add glory to the tradition of victory in the confrontation with imperialism that has lasted for centuries, honorably safeguard the dignity and sovereignty of the country and gains of the revolution, achieve prosperity of the country and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche.

We wish the great Korean people bigger successes in their struggle to build a thriving socialist nation, achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of the country and bring earlier the final victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche, united close around the party and the leader in thinking and purpose.