Pyongyang, December 31 (KCNA) -- A ceremony for awarding certificates to delegates to the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) took place on Wednesday.

Seen at the venue of the ceremony were sacred red flags of the WPK.

First, certificates were courteously awarded to President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il, founder and builder of our glorious Party, at the ceremony, reflecting the unanimous will and ardent desire of millions of members of the entire Party and all other Korean people.

When it was declared that certificates were awarded to the President and the Chairman, all the participants in the ceremony passionately applauded in token of support.

They were gripped by great emotion that they are to greet the Party Congress, invariably upholding the President and the Chairman as great delegates to our Party Congress as in their lifetime.

Kim Jae Ryong, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and vice-chairman of the Party Central Committee who is the chairman of the preparatory committee for the 8th Congress of the WPK, said in excitement that the hearts of all the participants were full of ardent yearning for the President and the Chairman, peerlessly great men and patriots, great sages of revolution and the sun of Juche, at the time of glory when they were awarded the certificates.

It is the requirement of our Party and revolution and the unanimous aspiration and will and right obligation of all the Party members and other people to uphold the President and the Chairman, who are always alive in our hearts as spiritual mainstay and instilling the indomitable faith and the will to struggle into us, as the great delegates to the Party Congress as in their lifetime to adopt the line and strategy for a new victory in the revolution, he stressed.

He said that the 8th Congress of the WPK comes to be an important political event which will make another milestone for a fresh turn in the history of the glorious Party as it will set forth the line of struggle and strategic and tactical policies to surely put the cause of building a socialist power onto the next stage of victory.

He stressed that the certificates to delegates to the 8th Congress of the WPK are the reflection of deep political trust and expectation of the Party Central Committee that expects them to display boundless devotion and self-sacrificing spirit in implementing the Party's policies, being conscious of important responsibilities before the Party and revolution with the great honor and pride.

He called upon all the delegates to make positive contribution to glorifying the Congress as a historic one for fully demonstrating the dignity and prestige of the WPK before the world and for laying a firm springboard for a new victory of the revolution.

Awarded to the participants were the certificates that carry the portraits of smiling President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il along with our sacred Party emblem, symbol of all victories and glory.

All the participants were fully determined to take an active part in the Party Congress amid high political enthusiasm, bearing deep in mind the great trust of the great Party Central Committee which put them forward as delegates to the Party Congress, the supreme guidance organ of the WPK, and the expectation of all the Party members. -0-