Kim Tu-bong
The 1st session was presided over by Kim Tu-bong, Chairman of the 1st Central Committee, and Chu Yong-ha, a Deputy Chairman of the 1st Central Committee, and it lasted for two hours. The first order of business was to elect the officers of the congress; a 57-member executive committee, a 7-member credentials committee, a 9-member secretariat, and a 15-member committee responsible for drafting party documents. As in the previous congress, the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was elected the congress' honorary chairman. A resolution extolling Stalin's achievements was adopted shortly afterwards. A 3-point agenda was approved by the delegates, and the rest of the time was spent on congratulatory messages from other mass organizations and parties (the most notable one being the one from the Workers' Party of South Korea, read out by Ho Chong-suk). In total 5,287 letters and 5,515 telegrams were received by the congress to congratulate its convening.