All the citizens and families of the DPRK greeted the 78th national day amid ever-soaring patriotic enthusiasm of all the people to make great transformations and strides, true to the revolutionary programme unveiled at the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.

A national flag-hoisting and oath-taking ceremony took place solemnly at the Pyongyang Assembly Hall on September 9, the 78th founding anniversary of the glorious motherland, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, attended the commemorative event.

Present there were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and other leading cadres of the Party, government and armed forces organs, senior officials of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, the Cabinet, commissions, ministries and national agencies, commanding officers of the Korean People's Army and deputies to the SPA in Pyongyang.

The KPA guard of honour lined up at the venue for the commemoration.

A ceremony of hoisting the national flag of the DPRK took place.

Guards of honour of the KPA solemnly escorted the national flag of the DPRK to the venue of the ceremony.

All the participants paid high tribute to the sacred national flag symbolic of the pride and valiant spirit of heroic Korea and its heroic people that have won priceless victories and raised the dignity and honour of the Republic to the acme of the century, bravely following the untrodden path of history with a strong sense of patriotism.

The glorious national flag of the DPRK was hoisted.

The venue overflowed with an intense desire of the participants to devote all their strength, wisdom and enthusiasm to the glorious and worthwhile struggle for steadily leading the great history of the ever-victorious country to a brilliant future.