North Korea’s Workers’ Party of Korea(WPK) finished its four-day congress on Monday, naming Kim Jong-un to the newly-created highest position of the party.

The North’s state-run Korean Central Television on Monday night aired a recording of the seventh party congress, showing Kim speaking after being unanimously named the "Chairman of the WPK."

[Sound bite: N. Korean leader Kim Jong-un (May. 9 / KCTV)]
“I heartily accept the highest trust and hopes thrust upon me by the peoples’ representatives, party members, the peoples’ army and citizens by naming me to the Committee Chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea." 

The position appears to be similar to the "Chairman of the Central Committee of the WPK," which was created by Kim's grandfather and North Korean founder Kim Il-sung after merging the Workers' parties of the North and the South in 1949.

The young North Korean leader has so far been working under the title of the "First Secretary of the WPK."

At the party gathering, the North also reelected Kim, Kim Yong-nam and Hwang Pyong-so as standing members of the WPK central committee politburo.

Premier Pak Pong-ju and Party Secretary Choe Ryong-hae were newly chosen as the politburo standing members. Foreign Minister Ri Su-yong, Secretary for South Korea affairs Kim Yong-chol and 17 others were added to the politburo.