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National Meeting Held

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 7 (KCNA) -- A national meeting to celebrate the 6th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's election as general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea took place in front of the Monument to Party Founding today. Choe Thae Bok, alternate member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, in a report said that the past six years of the Korean revolution since Kim Jong Il's election as general secretary of the WPK were years of victory and glory which witnessed fundamental changes in all fields to carry out the revolutionary cause of Juche, overcoming rigorous difficulties under the banner of Songun idea.
    The revolutionary turn in party building in this period under Kim Jong Il's leadership was that the party developed into an invincible party which guides the Songun revolution to victory for the first time in history, the reporter said, and continued:
    It was thanks to his Songun leadership that the WPK has turned to be an invincible party which administers politics by dint of revolutionary arms, forming a harmonious whole with the People's Army.
    Kim Jong Il put forward the People's Army as the leading political force in the idea of putting the army before the working class, materialized the party's leadership over the revolution and construction on that basis and led the whole party to acquire a high degree of organization and discipline, political ideological trait and leadership art with the People's Army as a model, which was of decisive significance in developing the party into a revolutionary party in Songun era.
    He built the WPK as a revolutionary party to realise the Songun leadership, thus providing our people with a strong guiding force that would victoriously wind up the historic confrontation with imperialism and the U.S. and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche to the last.
    The destiny of the party, revolution, the country and the nation rests on Kim Jong Il and upholding him with loyalty and devotedly defending him are a decisive guarantee for strengthening the party and accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche to the end.
    We should solve all problems on the principle of attaching importance to arms and giving priority to military affairs and build up the self-reliant military deterrent force, giving primary attention to the development of the national defense industry.
    We will take the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration as a landmark for national reunification, foil the moves of separatists at home and abroad and achieve the historic cause of national reunification with the concerted efforts of the Korean nation.
    Referring to the U.S. imperialists' new moves for military aggression on the DPRK, the reporter stressed that if the U.S. bellicose forces ignite a war of aggression against the DPRK in defiance of our warnings, the army and people of Korea will mercilessly wipe out the aggressors with a powerful strike and win a final victory in the standoff with the U.S.
    The WPK will as ever boost friendly and cooperative relations with the peoples of all the countries on the principle of independence, equality and mutual benefit and make efforts to build a new peaceful, friendly and independent world free from domination and subjugation in firm unity with the progressives of the world, said the reporter.
    Present at the meeting were senior officials of the party, the state and the army, chairmen of the friendly parties and others.