The statement said that the Supreme Leader in his New Year Address reviewed the proud successes registered by the Korean people last year and set forth the militant tasks for this year.

It stated that thanks to Kim Jong Un's bold decision and energetic activities, remarkable events were witnessed in ensuring peace and stability in the Korean peninsula and the rest of the world and amazing progress was made in the Korean people's socialist construction last year.

Kim Jong Un in his New Year Address called for further accelerating the nationwide advance for implementing the north-south declarations, and thus glorifying this year as a historic one when another radical change is brought about in the development of inter-Korean relations and implementation of the cause of national reunification, the statement stressed.

It expressed full support to the New Year of Kim Jong Un illuminating the way of developing the inter-Korean relations and reunifying the country.

It called on the international community to join with the Korean people in their peace-loving efforts.

It extended firm solidarity to the Korean people in their struggle, expressing the belief that they would make bigger success in the economic construction and accomplishment of the cause of national reunification by their own efforts under the guidance of Kim Jong Un.