Ri Phyong Thaek, a workshop head of the Chollima Steel Complex, told KCNA:

I have a great pride at the news of a special event before the founding anniversary of the DPRK.

The successful test of H-bomb is an auspicious event of the Korean nation that humbled again the U.S. imperialists and other hostile forces threatening the sovereignty and the rights to existence and development of the DPRK. It is also an exciting event produced by the Workers' Party of Korea's line of simultaneously pushing forward economic construction and the building of nuclear force.

The fighting trait of scientists in the field of defence science encourages workers in the field of metallurgical industry to perform feats.

Ko Hyok Chol, first secretary of the youth league committee of the State Academy of Sciences, said:

The successful H-bomb test is a remarkable demonstration of our self-development-first spirit and a manifestation of the tremendous national power the enemy cannot calculate and analyze.

Picturing to myself the U.S., the cursed state of aggression, being submerged in a sea of fire by our H-bomb-loaded ICBM for its slightest provocation, I can not repress my excitement.

As the scientists in the field of defence science did, we, young scientists, will do our best to make more ultra-modern scientific researches to put the national economy on a Juche basis.