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Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Election as WPK General Secretary Observed

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 8 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il's election as general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea on October 8, Juche 86 (1997) was a historic event that opened a bright prospect of the Party and the revolution, say papers today in editorials dedicated to the day. Rodong Sinmun says that his election provided a sure guarantee for strengthening and developing the Party into an eternal Juche-type revolutionary party and accomplishing the Songun revolutionary cause that started on Mt. Paektu.
    Noting that he is a peerless statesman who has led the Korean revolution to victory with his outstanding political ability, the paper goes on: The past six years of his activities are recorded as an immortal epic as he has developed the Party into a strong political organization steering the Songun era.
    It is a historic feat he has performed for the past 6 years that he has intensified the work to imbue the whole Party and society with the Songun idea as required by the prevailing situation and the new higher stage of the Juche-oriented revolution and consolidated the single-hearted unity of the revolutionary ranks at a new level.
    All the servicepersons and people should become staunch fighters upholding his idea and prestige and self-blasting soldiers defending the security of the headquarters at the risk of their lives and remain true to his Songun idea and leadership.
    The editorial calls on all the Party members and other working people to actively learn from and thoroughly embody the revolutionary solider spirit based on the spirit of devotedly defending the leader, the do-or-die spirit and the heroic self-sacrificing spirit created and highly displayed by the People's Army, and effect a new surge in the building of a great prosperous powerful nation under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    Minju Joson says that a bright future is in store for the Korean revolution advancing under the guidance of the Party holding Kim Jong Il in high esteem.