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Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Letter Marked

KCNA

    Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held in Pyongyang on Aug. 24 to mark the 10th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's historic letter "Let Us Further Speed Up the Modernization of Post and Tele-communications." The letter published on Aug. 25, Juche 82 (1993), elucidates the revolutionary essence and mission of telecommunications under socialism, its position and role in the revolution and construction and fundamental principles of telecommunication services and profoundly sets forth tasks and ways of modernizing telecommunications.
    It was stressed at the meeting that the letter was a historic milestone which brought a new turn in accelerating the modernization of telecommunications and thus further developing telecommunications of the DPRK into Juche-oriented telecommunications under socialism.
    The meeting reviewed proud achievements made by all the officials and working people in the field of telecommunications in the drive for the modernization of telecommunications over the past 10 years, remaining true to the letter.
    The meeting discussed matters of giving priority to the modernization of telecommunications to form nation-wide mobile communication networks at an early date, actively develop modern telecommunication and radio equipment and widely introduce advanced information communication system and methods to suit our specific conditions and the global trend.
    Present at the meeting were Ri Kum Bom, minister of Post and Telecommunications, and others.