Noting that the Korean people and the world's progressives have read his New Year Address with great excitement, the statement said:

We warmly congratulate the Korean people on having realized the great, historic cause of perfecting the national nuclear forces in the face of the imperialists' vicious anti-DPRK moves.

We are convinced that they will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the DPRK with splendor by making signal successes in the efforts to consolidate the independence and Juche character of the national economy and improve the people's standard of living.

We extend full support to the righteous proposals set forth by Comrade Kim Jong Un for the sake of improvement of inter-Korean relations and reunification of the country.

We flatly reject any attempt to disturb the peace of the Korean Peninsula, let alone joint military exercises.

We bitterly blast the UNSC "sanctions resolutions" against the DPRK, a full-fledged member of the UN, as they only inflict pain on the Korean people.

We appeal to all progressive peoples around the world opposing the imperialists' high-handed and arbitrary practices and loving independence, peace and justice to extend support and solidarity to the Korean people in the heroic struggle for protecting the country's sovereignty and national right to existence.