The respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un made a meaningful congratulatory speech.

Saying that the we have achieved the successes, which it had earnestly wished and desired to surely attain, through a series of struggles and brought about significant events for opening up a new turning phase in the course of advance of the Korean revolution in 2023, he noted that such invaluable successes were achieved thanks to the painstaking efforts and boundless devotion of all the members of the leadership body of the Party Central Committee, appreciating their year-round efforts.

He affirmed that if our leading officials accelerate their pace with firm and active pioneering spirit in the new year, too, they would successfully carry out their important duty they have assumed before our revolution and people, and proposed a toast to the DPRK, health of all the people, all the Party members, service personnel of the Korean People's Army and happiness and peace of all families across the country seeing in the New Year.

All the participants drank their toasts, vowing to more thoroughly arm themselves with the revolutionary idea of Kim Jong Un, top representative of the absolute prestige and mightiness of the ever-victorious WPK, and more dynamically struggle for the prosperity and development of our great state and the well-being of our people.

Kim Jong Un had a significant photo session with the members of the leadership body of the Party Central Committee on that day.