In the DPRK a national meeting took place on May 1 at the People’s Palace of Culture in Pyongyang in commemoration of the 129th anniversary of May Day, the international holiday of working people throughout the world.
The meeting was attended by senior officials of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the government, officials of working people’s organizations, ministries and national agencies and officials and working people from institutions and industrial establishments in Pyongyang.
A report was delivered at the meeting.
Warmly congratulating all the working people in the country, he called on them to give full play to the potentialities of the self-supporting economy and demonstrate the heroic spirit and mettle in the grand march for ushering in a golden age of socialist construction by holding the militant slogan “Let us open a new road of advance for socialist construction under the uplifted banner of self-reliance!”