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, had a photo session with the participants in the Tenth Congress of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea on November 9.

All the participants paid high tribute to Comrade Kim Jong Un as a token of their deep thanks to him who ushered in a great new era of socialist rural development and has bestowed profound trust and honour upon the agricultural workers' union so that it can play the role of an advance unit, the vanguard in it.

Comrade Kim Jong Un congratulated the chairman and the vice-chairmen of the Tenth Central Committee of the UAWK elected at the congress.

He extended warm encouragement to the participants who fully demonstrated the firm faith of the agricultural workers, determined to always remain loyal to the ideology and leadership of the Party, through the congress, which was held in the first year for implementing the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the Party and the significant year marking the 80th founding anniversary of the UAWK, and glorified the congress as an occasion for making new leaps forward in the gigantic transformation of all rural villages across the country.

Saying that the patriotic farm workers of the country, who single-mindedly upheld the intention of the Party and shared their destiny with the country, have firmly propelled the advance of the socialist cause with increased grain production for the past five years, too, he highly appreciated the great efforts and exploits of the agricultural workers and UAWK members who are working sweating in every field of socialist farms with their pure civic conscience.

Stressing that the Party Central Committee remains unshakable in its plan and decision to make the faithful agricultural workers enjoy the benefits of ideal society, highly civilized and prosperous, earlier than anyone else as they are the direct embodiment and implementers of the immutable revolutionary principle that rice just means socialism and communism, he underlined the need for the UAWK to play the role of the ideological agitator and standard-bearer that accelerates the rural development, fully conscious of the original heavy duty it has assumed in the historic course of opening up a new stage in the state development.

Noting that it is the primary duty of the UAWK in the period of the new long-term plan to further accelerate the drive for transforming the rural areas in line with the demands of the three revolutions, he urged the UAWK to thoroughly ensure the implementation of the Party policy by promoting its qualitative development and constantly enhancing its activity and working efficiency as required by the current reality witnessing unprecedented changes in socialist rural construction.

He had a photo taken with the participants, expressing expectation and belief that they would successfully carry out their honourable mission and duty for the times and the revolution by regarding the programme for rural revolution in the new era as the aim of innovation and progress and turning all the organizations of the union into a strong fortress for implementing the Party's plan.