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Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Work Observed

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 17 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il's work "On Learning from the Revolutionary Soldier Spirit" published on March 17, Juche 86 (1997) is a highly important work giving our people ideological pabulum to defend the sovereignty and dignity of the country and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche despite the most rigorous ordeals, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. It goes on:
    Expounded in the work are ideas including the issue of learning from the ideological and spiritual world displayed in the struggle and life of the servicepersons of the People's Army and applying it to the work and life, the issue of improving the content and methods of the information service and agitation of the Workers' Party of Korea and the issue of conducting effective education in the revolutionary faith and will among the Party members and other working people. These ideas served as a militant banner as they indicated the way of overcoming grim ordeals during the "Arduous March" and steadily advancing the revolutionary cause of Juche.
    The work, among other things, serves as a banner encouraging the efforts to train all members of the society as genuine revolutionaries required by the era of Songun.
    Stressing the need to learn from the revolutionary soldier spirit possessed by the servicepersons of the People's Army, Kim Jong Il in the work said that this spirit is a militant spirit the officials, Party members and other working people should learn from. It is the People's Army that personifies the spirit of devotedly defending the headquarters of the revolution on the highest level.
    The idea set out in the work which calls for learning from the spirit displayed by the servicepersons in their struggle and life and applying it to the work and life serves as an ideological source of imbuing the whole society with the spirit of devotedly defending the headquarters of the revolution.
    The work, at the same time, serves as a powerful motive force which makes it possible for all the people to display matchless heroism and self-sacrificing spirit on all fronts of building a great prosperous powerful nation and precious guidelines in making the whole society pervade with the revolutionary spirit and optimistic cultural and emotional life as is the case with the People's Army.