The meeting started with women's chorus "Let's Love Our Country", amid the warm applause to the meritorious persons.

The meritorious persons explained about the ideological and moral source that made them go along the road of patriotism for scores of years.

They said that the embrace of the Workers' Party of Korea, which put forward them, making their deeds known to the whole country, though they just fulfilled their duty for the society and collective as citizens, is the great one bringing all of them up into ardent patriots and taking warm care of our people.

They expressed their will to invariably go along the road of repayment and patriotism, never forgetting even a moment the great loving care shown by the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un who gave them a noble honor of meritorious person of socialist patriotism.

Attending the meeting were Pak In Chol, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, trade union officials and workers and trade union members in Pyongyang.