DPRK's Successful H-bomb Test Hailed by Pyongyangites and Service Personnel

Pyongyang, January 9 (KCNA) -- A joint army-civilian meeting for welcoming Juche Korea's first successful H-bomb test took place here on Friday. The Pyongyangites thronged various places such as Kim Il Sung Square and plazas before the Tower of the Juche Idea, Monument to Party Founding, April 25 House of Culture and Arch of Triumph and Pyongyang Indoor Stadium. Present at the meeting were Kim Yong Nam, Hwang Pyong So, Pak Pong Ju and other senior party, state and army officials, service personnel of the Korean People's Army and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces, officials, working people, youths and students in Pyongyang. On hand were the chief of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front and overseas compatriots. Present on invitation were diplomatic envoys and military attaches here and other foreigners. Pak Pong Ju, member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and premier of the DPRK Cabinet, read out the statement of the DPRK government on the successful H-bomb test. Congratulatory speeches were made by Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the C.C., WPK, No Kwang Chol, first vice-minister of the People's Armed Forces, Jon Yong Nam, chairman of the C.C., Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, and Jang Chol, president of the State Academy of Sciences. At the end of the meeting there were dancing parties of youths, students and other people and fireworks were displayed in the sky above Pyongyang. -0-