All the Party members and other people in the DPRK, absolutely convinced that the Korean revolution would always emerge victorious thanks to the outstanding ideas, strong fighting efficiency and seasoned leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea, are extending the highest tribute and warm congratulations to the Ninth Congress of the WPK, a political event to be specially recorded in the Party’s history of ever-victorious leadership.

The Ninth Congress of the WPK opened with splendour in Pyongyang, the capital of the revolution, on February 19.

The Party Central Committee, which has perseveringly guided the first-stage pioneering struggle for transformation aimed at achieving the comprehensive development of socialism by holding higher the banner of the idea of “The people are God”, single-hearted unity and self-reliance, convened the Party Congress, the ninth of its kind in the history of the WPK, to review its work in the period under review and set scientific struggle objectives and policies in line with the requirements of the new stage of the revolution.

The Ninth Party Congress, convened to indicate a new bright prospect in the stirring period faced with the crucial changes and the era of great prosperity unprecedented since the founding of the Party and the state, is a manifestation of the solemn intention of the WPK to remain boundlessly faithful to the general will of the people and vigorously guide the cause of Juche to a fresh victory and steady upsurge.

The past five years, which witnessed the forward movement along the milestone of the struggle set up by the Eighth Congress of the WPK, were the most responsible and acute process decisive of the long-term development of the Party and the state, and the Party powerfully demonstrated the prestige and heroism of the state and the people by maintaining its definite strategic edge and accelerating the advance of socialism in the grim situation characterized by unprecedented arduousness and fierceness.

Thanks to the revolutionary and scientific leadership of the WPK, the state and the people entered the phase of radical turn to the overall national development with historic delight, brought about a great transformation practically proving the socialist cultural efflorescence and won a great victory of providing a decisive guarantee for the next-stage upsurge.

For the WPK which proves the mightiness and invincibility of the cause of Juche with entities of a rich country with a strong army under the banner of the great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, it is the most sacred duty entrusted by the country, revolution and people to unveil a blueprint for the continuous new victory of Korean-style socialism on behalf of the destiny, future, faith and resourcefulness of millions of Party members and tens of millions of people.

Delegates of the whole Party entered the venue of the Ninth Party Congress with active enthusiasm to faithfully perform and exercise the honourable mission and rights they have assumed before the Party and the revolution.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, took the platform of the Congress together with members of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee.