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Glorification of anti-Japanese patriotic traditions called for

KCNA

    Pyongyang, June 27 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today editorially calls for firmly upholding and successfully carrying forward the anti-Japanese patriotic traditions under the leadership of Kim Jong Il to build a great prosperous powerful socialist nation and achieve the historic cause of national reunification as early as possible. The editorial says:
    The anti-Japanese patriotic traditions were established by President Kim Il Sung while leading the great anti-Japanese war to victory. They are Juche-oriented patriotic traditions whereby the Korean people can hew out the destiny of their country and nation their own way and on their own, traditions of resolute anti-imperialist struggle for independence whereby they fight against imperialists in a do-or-die spirit tightly holding arms in their hands and patriotic traditions in which love for the country is blended with that of people.
    The Korean people built the republic and won a shining victory in the hard-fought fatherland liberation war in the same patriotic spirit with which the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners readily dedicated their lives to the liberation of the country. All miracles and victories achieved by the republic during a 55-year-long history are a precious fruition of those traditions.
    The present circumstances of our struggle are not different from those of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle where the Korean people could believe only in their own strength and they had to pull through indescribably rigorous trials.
    Everybody should uphold the Songun policy, the patriotic policy of the Workers' Party of Korea, with loyalty.
    All the officers and men of the people' army should become the first-line death-defying corps defending socialism, the contingent taking the lead in upholding Kim Jong Il's politics of giving priority to the army just as the anti-Japanese fighters did when hewing the untrodden path of revolution with arms.
    All the party members and working people should thoroughly implement the policy of putting all the people under arms and turning the whole country into a fortress, having warm love for the army, earnestly learning military affairs and consistently assisting the people's army.
    In order to firmly uphold and glorify the traditions it is necessary for all people to become true patriots who firmly maintain the principle of national independence in all fields and prove their real worth in the drive to build a great prosperous powerful nation.