Officials of the youth league and the women's union, youth and students and women's union members in Pyongyang took part in the gatherings held at the Central Youth Hall and the Hall of Women respectively.

Speakers at the gathering of young people and students expressed their ardent yearning and boundless reverence for the Chairman who set forth the idea of valuing the youth as the most important state affair and a strategic line of the revolution, leading the Korean youth movement towards victory and glory.

The attendees expressed their will to fulfill their mission and duty as the reliable advancing group and wing of the Party in the historic advance towards a fresh victory in socialist construction, true to the idea and leadership of the respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un, as befitting young vanguards of the new era who have grown under the care of the great sun.

Speakers at the gathering of women's union officials and members passionately lauded the noble revolutionary career and immortal feats of the Chairman, a peerless patriot and the benevolent father of the people, who devoted his all to the development and prosperity of the socialist country and the happiness of posterity.

They talked with deep emotion about the boundless loving care and benevolence of Kim Jong Il who had always cared for the women and children of the country.