Pyongyang, January 3 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un , general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, called labor innovators and persons of merit to the headquarters building of the Central Committee of the WPK and had a photo session with them on January 2 on the occasion of the new year 2025.

The participants were filled with great emotion and joy as they entered the yard of the Party Central Committee with boundless gratitude to the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un who values the life and struggle of ordinary working people devoting themselves to the prosperity of the country, shows warm benevolence for them to participate in the significant New Year celebrations and puts them on the peak of glory again.

When the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un appeared, all the participants broke into thunderous cheers of "Hurrah!", looking up to Kim Jong Un , symbol of our great Party, the absolute dignity of our powerful state and the invincibility and whole destiny and happiness of all our people.

Kim Jong Un extended warm greetings to the labor innovators and persons of merit in various fields who made contributions to bringing about the great changes in 2024 which are of epochal significance in the historic struggle toward the comprehensive development of socialism.

He highly appreciated their efforts, saying that great successes and proud edifices symbolic of the self-respect and prosperity of the DPRK are clearly associated with the pure conscience and devoted efforts of the patriotic working people who have become reliable cornerstones supporting the country.

Thanks to the large contingent of genuine patriots with strong will and ardent enthusiasm to bring earlier the future of a powerful country through their dynamic labor efforts, only victory is always in store for our glorious motherland, the DPRK which is making a dynamic advance and leap forward, ushering in a new era of national prosperity, he said.

Expressing the belief that the participants would glorify their worthwhile life as creators of heroic feats and the first standard-bearers of the collective innovation movement in the vanguard for increased production campaign and the patriotic struggle for accomplishing the fighting tasks set forth by the Eighth Party Congress, he had a significant photo session with them.

On the same day, Kim Jong Un met female footballers and coaches who won the first place in the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, congratulated their successful matches which fully demonstrated the honor of the DPRK and added national pride and self-esteem to the people across the country and encouraged them to make continuous develop in the future.

The labor innovators and persons of merit made a firm pledge to record in the history the significant year 2025 as a year of great victory of fully demonstrating the validity and vitality of the fighting programme of the Party and a watershed of history that provides a phase of upturn for a higher stage of development, by dedicating themselves to the sacred patriotic cause for the prosperity of the socialist country, true to the idea and leadership of the Party Central Committee. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.01.03.)