The participants in the Ninth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and participants in the New Year celebrations laid floral baskets at the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill on New Year's Day.

The guard of honor of the Korean People's Army lined up there.

A floral basket in the name of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was placed before the statues.

Seen before the statues were floral baskets in the names of the WPK Central Committee, the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the DPRK.

The participants made a deep bow to the statues of the great leaders, reporting that they wrote another brilliant chapter in the course of achieving the overall development of socialist construction and started a new struggle under the outstanding revolutionary idea and energetic leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Floral baskets in the names of Party, power and armed forces organs, social organizations, ministries, national institutions, enterprises, units of the Korean People's Army and the Public Security Forces, and industrial establishments at all levels and universities in Pyongyang Municipality and bouquets were placed at the statues of the great leaders.

Officials, working people, service personnel, youth and students across the country paid tribute to the statues of the great leaders and the portraits depicting their smiling images in their residential areas.

All the participants were full of revolutionary enthusiasm to display their loyalty and patriotism and elated fighting spirit in the advance for a great upsurge to successfully carry out the fighting programme set forth at the historic December 2023 Plenary Meeting of the Party Central Committee.