When respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue of the photo session, the participants enthusiastically welcomed him, extending the greatest honor and deepest thanks to him.

He warmly waved back to the participants.

He warmly congratulated once again the participants in the conference reliably defending the major bases for strengthening the Party and building a powerful socialist country, before having a photo session with them.

He expressed expectation and belief that the participants in the conference and all other chairpersons of the Party primary committees would regard the behests of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il as lifeline and creditably discharge their honorable mission and duty for the Party, the revolution, the country and the people as befitting political commissars of the major units defending the forefront of the drive to implement the ideas of the Party and uphold its policies.

Accompanying him were KPA Vice Marshal Hwang Pyong So, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK, vice-chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and director of the KPA General Political Bureau; Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK, vice-chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and vice-chairman of the C.C., WPK; Kim Ki Nam, Choe Thae Bok, Ri Su Yong, Kim Phyong Hae, Ri Man Gon, O Su Yong, Kwak Pom Gi and Kim Yong Chol, members of the Political Bureau and vice-chairmen of the C.C., WPK.