Present there were officials concerned and officials of the unions.

The statement of the DPRK Government was read out at the rallies before speeches.

The speakers expressed absolute support to the statement of the government which solemnly declared it would settle accounts with the U.S. for its hideous crimes against the DPRK and the Korean people.

The DPRK's access to the strongest nuclear force is a legitimate step for self-defense taken to defend the country's sovereignty and the nation's right to existence from the gangster-like U.S. imperialists' high-handed and arbitrary practices, they stressed.

They scathingly denounced the UNSC "sanctions resolution" as a hideous unethical crime unprecedented in history.

They said that the "resolution" cooked up by the U.S., the worst rogue state in the world, is no more than a last-ditch effort of those frightened at the might of the DPRK which rose to the high strategic position as a nuclear power of Juche and world-level military power.

They underscored the need to go all out for the final victory of socialism under the banner of the great Workers' Party of Korea's line of simultaneously developing the two fronts, rallied closer around respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.