Politics

Military-civilian meetings took place in North Phyongan, South Hwanghae, Kangwon and North Hamgyong provinces and Nampho and Kaesong municipalities on March 4 and 5 to vow to implement the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Present at the meetings were officials and working people of institutions and industrial establishments, service personnel, youth and students.

Speakers noted that all the Party members and other people and service personnel of the Korean People's Army have turned out in the general advance for implementing the decisions of the Ninth Party Congress with the honour and revolutionary pride of having held the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un in high esteem as the general secretary of the WPK.

They called upon all the sectors and units to draw up detailed yearly plans for the struggle for the next five years, give priority to the ideological and political work to enlist the spiritual strength and creativity of the masses and thus achieve successes from this year's struggle without fail.

They said that it is the unanimous mind and firm faith of the Korean people to entrust their destiny entirely to the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un and remain single-mindedly loyal to him.

They called for correctly carrying out the tasks set forth at the Party Congress and thereby surely achieving gradual and stable progress in all spheres.

They expressed the determination to glorify the era and bring more and better precious wealth and fruits supporting the prosperity of the country with great enthusiasm for the revolution and extraordinary creativity, holding higher the banner of the ideological, technological and cultural revolutions, the general line of the WPK.

Letters of pledge to Kim Jong Un were adopted at the meetings.

Then there were public processions.

The participants marched through squares and streets, chanting revolutionary slogans.