Party and State Commendations Awarded to Contributors to H-bomb Test

Pyongyang, January 13 (KCNA) -- A ceremony of awarding party and state commendations to nuclear scientists, technicians, soldier-builders, workers and officials who contributed to demonstrating the dignity and might of Kim Il Sung's and Kim Jong Il's Korea through Juche Korea's first successful H-bomb test took place with splendor at the meeting hall of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) on Jan. 12. Present there was supreme leader Kim Jong Un. Prior to the ceremony, he made a congratulatory speech. He underlined the need for the participants to bear deep in mind the pride and self-respect today, turn out as one in the campaign of brains and ability to bolster up both in quality and quantity the nuclear force, the greatest patriotic legacy of the great leaders, and thus thoroughly implement the WPK's idea and line on building the nuclear force. Then a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK was read out. Kim Jong Un personally awarded party and state commendations to the nuclear scientists, technicians, soldier-builders, workers and officials who contributed to the successful H-bomb test of Juche Korea. Pointing out that the U.S. imperialists and their followers are now bringing dark clouds of a nuclear war, rendering the situation on the Korean Peninsula extremely tense through sanctions and introduction of strategic weapons into south Korea, he called for bolstering up both in quality and quantity the nuclear force capable of making nuclear strikes at the U.S.-led imperialists any time and in any space according to the order of the WPK Central Committee if they encroach upon the sovereignty of the DPRK and make threatening provocations. He set forth the important tasks to be fulfilled to bolster up the nuclear force. -0-