Pyongyang, September 8 (KCNA) -- A meeting of service personnel of the Korean People's Army (KPA) was held on September 7 to adopt a letter of loyalty to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un on the occasion of the 80th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Present there were No Kwang Chol, minister of National Defence of the DPRK, Jong Kyong Thaek, director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army, Ri Yong Gil, chief of the General Staff of the KPA, and other commanding officers of the armed forces organs and service personnel of the KPA.

A letter of loyalty to Kim Jong Un was read out at the meeting.

Hearing the letter line by line, all the participants shouted slogans reflecting the unshakable will to defend the ideology and cause of the Central Committee of the great Workers' Party of Korea with invincible arms.

Speakers at the meeting expressed their determination to concentrate all their efforts on making the units the heroic ones which are ever-victorious with their unique ideological and spiritual advantages, matchless bravery, heroic sacrificing spirit and sure superiority of Juche-oriented strategy and tactics, saying that they would vigorously advance along the road of upholding and defending the ideology and cause of the Party while changing the emotion of making brave stride into redoubled strength and courage with a letter of loyalty.

A letter of loyalty presented by the KPA officers and men to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was handed over to the letter relay team.

The relay team left for Pyongyang. -0-