KNA reported the support given by the delegates to the proposal to re-elect the chairman of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the top post of the Party.

Some 5,000 delegates, including 224 members of the governing body of the 8th Central Committee, 4,776 elected representatives from several party organizations, and 2,000 observers recommended by party organizations at all levels, attended the event.

The state-run news agency linked Kim’s re-election to the WPK’s achievements during the last five years and the leader’s strong sense of responsibility, his guidance, and his extraordinary ideological and theoretical insight.

It also acknowledged the people’s respect and affection for the statesman, his continuous service to the people, for the sake of the country’s progress, and his leadership of the revolution and the process of socialist construction.

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