Politics 2024.1.3.

Banquets in celebration of the new year 2024 were held in Pyongyang, the capital city of the DPRK, on Monday.

The Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) invited to the banquets as guests the labor innovators who made contributions to glorifying last year as a year of great change to be specially recorded in the history of the country by devoting themselves at all worksites for implementing the fighting programme of the Eighth WPK Congress.

Present at the significant banquets together with those innovators were Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK, first vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly, and Kim Jae Ryong, Jon Hyon Chol, Pak Thae Song, secretaries of the WPK Central Committee, and other senior Party and government officials.

Congratulatory speeches were made at the banquets held at the People’s Palace of Culture, Okryu Restaurant, Chongryu Restaurant, Pyongyang Noodle House, Yanggakdo International Hotel, Sosan Hotel, Pyongyang Taedonggang Seafood Restaurant and general-service ship "Mujigae".

The speakers warmly congratulated the labor innovators who made great contributions to attaining the goals set forth by the Party Central Committee by working devotedly at the posts and worksites with their strong revolutionary faith and fortitude.

They said that the highest dignity and honor and the proud economic achievements won by our state last year to make one optimistic about the implementation of the five-year plan are an outcome of the precious blood, sweat, wisdom and strenuous efforts of the patriotic working people who have shared intention and will with the Party Central Committee.

Thanks to the heroic struggle of tens of millions of people who redoubled the revolutionary spirit with the Party’s idea of self-respect and self-support and displayed the proud toughness and indomitable spirit of advance all the year round, the surging might and prestige of the DPRK have been fully demonstrated and 2023 could be recorded in the history as a year of changes full of eye-opening successes, they said.

When all the people are united with the Party’s intention and revolutionary will and turn out in the general drive with the single mind of patriotism, the resolutions of the 9th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the WPK will be perfectly carried out, they said, expressing belief that all the participants would continue to perform distinguished feats in the van of the all-people advance in the new year, too.

All the participants hardened their will to successfully carry forward the glory of 2023 to 2024 by upholding the leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un with single mind and purpose and turning out in the general advance for a leap forward toward new victory.

Rodong Sinmun

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