Students' group for "250-Mile Journey for Learning" arrives
KCNA
Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held at the playground of the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School on March 28 to welcome the arrival in Pyongyang of the group of students from across the country for "250-Mile Journey for Learning" to mark the 80th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's "250-Mile Journey for Learning".
Conveyed at the meeting was a congratulatory letter of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea to the participants in the journey.
The letter said that the journey made by the group holding high a red flag on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Kim Il Sung's "250-Mile Journey for Learning" marked a significant occasion of fully demonstrating their firm confidence and will to follow the party to the last along the road of revolution of Juche.
It expressed the firm belief that all the students would become the young vanguard and children's guards loyal to the party who hold leader Kim Jong Il in high esteem and follow him with loyalty.
Speeches were made by its participants at the meeting.
Present there were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Jung Rin, Secretary of the WPK Central Committee, and others.
The study group of at least 3,000 excellent students from across the country left Phophyong on March 16 and travelled 200 miles on foot from Kim Hyong Jik county, Ryanggang Province to Kaechon city, South Phyongan Province along the course covered by Kim Il Sung 80 years ago in order to deeply grasp his noble idea associated with the historical course. They journeyed between Kaechon and Pyongyang by train.
