The participants laid a floral basket before the statues of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il in Nampho City and paid tribute to them.

Present there were captains and crewmen of Chinese Taipei-flagged ship Zhang Hong 1 and Vietnamese-flagged ship Anthinh Phu 08.

The speakers said that Kim Il Sung led the hard-fought anti-Japanese armed struggle to victory to liberate the country and founded the DPRK, genuine people's country.

Thanks to the wise guidance of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il the DPRK could demonstrate its dignity and might as a people-centered independent state shedding its rays all over the world, they noted.

Stressing that rosy is the future of the DPRK led by Marshal Kim Jong Un, they wished the Korean people bigger success in their drive for the prosperity of the country and national reunification.

A letter to Kim Jong Un was adopted at the meeting.