Hailing the test-fire of Pukguksong-2 and extending warm congratulations to the defence industrial scientists and technicians in the homeland, the statement said:

We will intensify the mass movement for ensuring peace of the Korean peninsula and achieving the unified development and co-prosperity of the nation and conduct a vigorous struggle for national security and reunification, with pride of being overseas citizens of the DPRK which displays its dignity as an earth satellite manufacturing and launching state and a nuclear weapons state.