Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- Youth and students had an evening gala at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Wednesday evening on the occasion of the New Year 2026.

When the song "Cheers of the People" resounded in the night sky of the square, a delightful and optimistic dancing party began.

Through the dancing party, the participants paid the highest glory to the respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un who is ushering in a new era of excitement and overall development in which the people's dreams and ideals come true with his extraordinary political ability and outstanding and seasoned leadership.

The participants danced to the tune of songs "Song of Youth" and "Let's Love Our Country". Their faces were full of determination to always march straight ahead and add luster to the precious name of the patriotic youth on the road of following the guiding Workers' Party of Korea.

The evening gala, which clearly demonstrated the revolutionary spirit of the young vanguard across the country to glorify the precious name of youth in the new year's journey which will be recorded in the glorious page of history on the road of development of the DPRK, beautifully decorated the night seeing the year out. -0-