Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- The central election committee for the election of deputies to the 15th Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued the following report on March 15:

The election of deputies to the 15th Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is being held amid the solemn atmosphere in which all the people across the country and service personnel of the People's Army successfully pioneered the unprecedented changes and development through their arduous struggle and entered a new stage of struggle for transformation.

All the voters are participating in the voting with their enthusiasm to make a genuine contribution to the prosperity of the country and the development of the people's government with the high pride of being a citizen of the dignified DPRK where the popular masses have become true masters of the state and society.

As of 12:00, 38.21 percent of all the electors registered on the voter rolls attended the voting.

Overseas citizens of the DPRK staying in the homeland, too, are taking part in the voting at their wishes. -0-