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Meeting Held to Celebrate Kim Jong Il’s Birthday |
Pyonyang, February 15
(KCNA).
A national meeting was held at the April 25 House of Culture on Feb.
15 to celebrate the birthday of leader Kim Jong Il. Kim Jong Il was born
on February 16, Juche 31 (1942). The Korean people celebrate this day as
the greatest holiday of the nation and the world progressives, too,
significantly mark the day as a holiday common to humankind. Present at the meeting were
senior party and state officials. Director of the general
political department of the Korean People’s Army Jo Myong Rok, who is
first vice-chairman of the DPRK National Defense Commission, made a
report “Let’s brilliantly accomplish the cause of building a
powerful nation under the leadership of comrade Kim Jong Il, the sun of
the 21st century.” He said the birth of Kim Jong
Il, the bright star of Mt. Paektu, was a great fortune of the Korean
people and it heralded the bright future of the nation. With his birth
the Korean revolution could make great strides, withstanding storm and
stress of the 20th century, to record a glorious history of the powerful
and prosperous nation at present, he said, and went on: Kim Jong Il has led the struggle
to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche for many years and
performed immortal feats on behalf of the party, the revolution, the
country and the people.
It was thanks to his outstanding
ideo-theoretical activities and exploits that the workers’ party and
the people of Korea had dynamically advanced along the road of Juche
without the slightest vacillation and deviation holding tight the helm
of the history in the latter half of the 20th century, a period of trial
and complexity.
Under his benevolent politics
based on love and trust the single-hearted unity of the party, the army
and the people has been cemented as firm as a rock in the DPRK so that
no force on earth can break it.
Recalling that “live, work and
create our own way” is a political ideal and faith of Kim Jong Il, the
reporter referred to the epochal progress made by the Korean people in
building a powerful socialist country under his tested leadership.
The army-first politics is a
strategic political mode to be constantly held fast to by the WPK as
long as there exists imperialism on the earth, he said, stressing: The
people’s army should not only defend the defense lines of the
fatherland but also instill the revolutionary ideology and fighting
spirit into the people.
The reporter called for
glorifying this year as a year of a new advance, a year of an overall
revival, in building an economically powerful country in the 21st
century and bringing about a decisive progress in accomplishing the
cause of national reunification by implementing the June 15 North-South
Joint Declaration to the letter.
He stressed that all the people
should work hard for the building of a powerful and prosperous nation
and the human cause of independence under the ever-victorious leadership
of Kim Jong Il, a peerlessly prominent statesman and iron-willed
commander, and thus glorify the 21st century as a glorious Kim Jong Il
century.
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Democratic People's Republic of Korea
