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DPRK government hosts reception

KCNA

Release Date: 7/29/2003

Pyongyang, July 28 (KCNA) -- The DPRK government Sunday hosted a reception at the People's Palace of Culture on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War. Present there were senior officials of the party, state and army and chairmen of the friendly parties.

Also present were the chief of the Pyongyang mission of the National Democratic Front of South Korea and overseas Koreans visiting the socialist homeland.

Diplomatic envoys of various countries and staff members of foreign embassies were invited to the reception.

Kim Il Chol, vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and Minister of the People's Armed Forces, made a speech.

The victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War, he said, was a victory of President Kim Il Sung's Juche-oriented military idea, unique strategies and tactics and extraordinary commanding art and a historical event which proved that the people and army of a country, though small, could emerge victorious in a showdown with a formidable imperialist enemy, if they fought in do-or-die spirit, united in one body, holding their destiny in their hands under the leadership of a great leader.

Noting that a touch-and-go situation, in which a war may break out any moment, has been created on the Korean peninsula due to the U.S. frantic moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK, he stated that the revolutionary cause of the Korean people continues to vigorously advance at a higher stage, recording the chapter of new victories in the history of the anti-imperialist struggle under the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il, who is successfully carrying forward the exploits of the president in winning victory in the war.

He noted that Kim Jong Il with his outstanding stratagem and unexampled pluck is confidently leading the struggle for defending socialism and building a great prosperous powerful nation constantly to victory, breaking through the raging storm of history with the might of the Songun policy. The army and people of the DPRK are unshakable in their grit and the final victory is in store for them, as long as they are under the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il, he declared.