Rodong Sinmun says that all the service personnel and people of the DPRK who have created epics on steady victories under the leadership of the party, always sharing their destiny with it, are greeting its congress with the absolute trust in it, the general staff of the revolution which is the most tested one in the era of independence.

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Today the WPK which is having Marshal Kim Jong Un as the supreme leader is displaying its dignity as the great guiding force steering the development of the era and history while leading the popular masses' cause of independence and socialism to one victory after another.

The DPRK is the power of Juche leading the building of an independent new world after making a serious breakthrough in the unfair international political order centered on big powers, the order dominated by imperialism and hegemony, and a socialist prosperous power which is translating the people's desire for the greatest happiness into reality, racing against time. This is the dignified picture of the great Paektusan nation led by the WPK.

It has held aloft the red flag of the revolution generation after generation. This is the great victory which can be won only by the WPK, the genuine guide of the people.

Over the last more than three decades the WPK has firmly defended socialism, the life and soul of the people, successfully explored the road of the socialist prosperity in the Korean style and by its efforts and successfully carried forward and developed the great idea and cause of the leaders despite the severe tempest of history.

Through the congress, the WPK will strikingly demonstrate its might as an invincible guiding force successfully carrying out the cause of socialism by consolidating the whole party to be organism and veteran and tested political staff sharing thought, breath and pace with Kim Jong Un.

Minju Joson says that the world will witness what miracle Juche Korea works in the great era of Kim Jong Un in which the DPRK advances full of faith by regarding the immortal and great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism as the driving force of revolution, the single-minded unity as the invincible treasured sword and the strongest nuclear deterrent as a guarantee for prosperity.