A decision of the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea "On Election of the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea" was adopted on February 22.

The decision is as follows:

Today our revolutionary cause for the comprehensive socialist construction is making a dynamic advance, achieving unprecedented miracles at an extraordinary speed under the experienced and seasoned leadership of the ever-victorious Workers' Party of Korea.

At the current Congress held in the period of the stirring struggle for making great and epochal changes unprecedented in the history of the DPRK's growth and development while braving all challenges and difficulties of history, all the Party members and people are to make an important decision on electing the head of the WPK, the centre of leadership and unity who embodies the organizational will of the whole Party.

To elect the head of the WPK who assumes the heavy responsibility for guiding the state and the people to the victory of the socialist cause is of greatest significance in the work of the Party Congress, the supreme leadership body of the Party, as it is an important affair decisive of the Party's leadership ability and the future destiny of the country and the people.

The attention of millions of Party members and all other people is now focused on this decision.

The current Congress fully supported and approved the polite proposal for re-electing Comrade Kim Jong Un as the top leader of the WPK.

This is an appraisal of the history of the past five-year struggle, in which epochal changes were made with the august name of Comrade Kim Jong Un as an ever-victorious banner, and its great fruition and an expression of the responsible and solemn stand reflecting the choice and will of all the people.

At a turning point in which the noble ideology and ideal our Party has adhered to in its protracted and sacred history are being translated into a gigantic reality and the new era of building a strong and prosperous state is being ushered in on the path of the Juche revolution, all the Party members and other people of the country and all servicepersons of the armed forces of the Republic are making a pledge of loyalty to invariably hold in high esteem Comrade Kim Jong Un as the centre of unity and leadership, cherishing the immutable truth that the greatness of Comrade Kim Jong Un represents the guiding power of our Party, the might of our state and the glory of socialism.