The First Session of the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK conducted the important and responsible work for electing the head of state on March 22.

Ri Il Hwan made a proposal for electing the president of the State Affairs of the DPRK.

The speaker stressed that the success of socialist construction at a new stage facing the Korean people as well as the future and development of the DPRK and its people will be decided by the result of electing the head of state, the most important agenda item of the 15th SPA.

Referring to the days that made the Korean people keenly realize that all of daily happiness, regarded as common things every day and every hour of the past years, were extraordinarily good fortune given to all of them and to the deep and great meaning of the powerful country that is being deeply cherished again today, he went on:

On this planet, only the strong has the right to defend the dignity and security of a state, and the greatness of Comrade Kim Jong Un is the most powerful national strength of the DPRK.

The DPRK’s mightiness is neither the strongest weaponry nor the one and only code itself, but the faith of self-respect and the political courage of Comrade Kim Jong Un that no one in the world can match.

Another strength that makes our state invincible, remaining unperturbed despite any world event or upheaval, is the single-minded unity in which the intention of the leader, who values the self-respect more than life, becomes the will of the people and the purpose of struggle and life.

The DPRK has the faithful people upholding in a single-minded and devoted manner the leader’s firm faith that the dignity of the state is the life and cannot be bartered for anything and the revolutionary armed forces regarding it as their true nature to remain absolutely loyal and obedient to the orders of the leader.

This nobility and tenacity have made our country powerful and pushed our revolution to victory in all decades.

The great feats, which can neither be performed in seven years nor be achieved even in 70 years, have been accomplished by the revolutionary spirit of the DPRK people closely rallied around Comrade Kim Jong Un .

The speaker said that now the DPRK people have keenly realized how the aspirations and wishes kept in the days of founding the Republic are being translated into brilliant reality, adding that this is a new phase of the people-first politics unprecedented in the history of building the state where the people’s aspirations and demands are reflected in the state’s policies and laws and the service for the people has been established as the mode of state activities. And he referred to the undying exploits Comrade Kim Jong Un performed for the times and the revolution, the country and the people, and to his personality as a great man.

All the things, which Comrade Kim Jong Un executed in the worst of hardships, were the start of the people's new life of enjoying beautiful new civilization and happiness, their centuries-old desire, and the new chapter in the history of building the most people-oriented socialist state.

The people clearly see what the country Comrade Kim Jong Un is building is like, keenly experiencing how the historic and epoch-making tasks, which others have never thought of or have regarded as impossible, are adopted as top priority state affairs and are being realized without fail.

The DPRK is a country where people lead a life of equality, a country where they live in harmony, helping and leading one another forward and a country where the results of the state affairs administration are reviewed with the laughter of the people as the standard. This is the image of the DPRK which the Korean people have seen under the care of Comrade Kim Jong Un .

The Korean people have turned out in a new advance to consolidate the successes achieved in the struggle to usher in a heyday of state development unprecedented in the history of nation building and continue to lead them on to greater and more substantial results, the speaker said, adding:

The great confidence in the unfailing success that our people have in the course for making great changes and development surpassing those in the past decades is based on the powerful executive ability and strong guiding force of Comrade Kim Jong Un , an outstanding politico-ideological theoretician, strategic designer for the building of a great state and great master of creation and change.

The outstanding leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Un , who arouses the patriotic consciousness and creativity of the masses and inspires the whole country to turn out for the struggle of the new era simultaneously, while effectively mobilizing the national forces and resources in doing any enormous work, has fully demonstrated the advantages of the socialist system and brought about miracles that can be achieved only by our own style of socialism.

Thanks to the road of development opened by him and the valuable and excellent wealth he built on this road, Korean-style socialism has been proved that it is a creative socialism with great might not only in overcoming difficulties and challenges but also in promoting progress and innovation, and a powerful and development-oriented socialism which is based on the ideological integration of all the people well versed in science and technology and in which the value and the quality of life as a social being are coincided with the results of labour.

Comrade Kim Jong Un has successfully led the first stage of the new revolution to definitely put socialism, defended through a bloody struggle, on the track of prosperity. This is the distinguished exploits that has destroyed all sorts of abuses and sophism about socialism and demonstrated the bright future of our state and the invincibility of the socialist cause.

There can be no other option for the people who are firmly convinced that their future will be filled with another new and eye-opening development, just as Comrade Kim Jong Un has made their present quite different from the past.

Ri Il Hwan courteously proposed to the Supreme People’s Assembly to entrust the heavy responsibility of the President of the State Affairs of the DPRK to Comrade Kim Jong Un again, representing the unanimous will of all the people, for the invariable might of the DPRK and the new era of its prosperity and for the future generations to be always happy in its embrace.

KCNA