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30th Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Instruction Marked

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the Central Youth Hall on April 18 to mark the 30th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's instruction on intensifying after-school sports activities. After learning about the results of the basketball game played by the basketball team of Taejong Middle School in Singye County, North Hwanghae Province, on April 18, Juche 63 (1974) Kim Jong Il highly praised it and gave all schools across the country a precious instruction on specializing in a certain sports event following its example.
    Kim Kyong Ho, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, made a report at the meeting.
    He said that Kim Jong Il's policy calling on all after-school sports groups to specialize in a certain sports event is the most just one as it lets every student acquire at least one sports technique and makes it possible to massively train skilled sports reserves who got systematic sports education and training from childhood.
    He went on:
    Thanks to the wise guidance and meticulous care of the leader the last three decades witnessed the appearance of after-school sports groups at thousands of schools across the country to specialize in one or two sports events. As a result, millions of students are now involved in football, basketball, volleyball and other sports activities after school hours to place sports on a popular and regular basis and put spurs to the development of the nation's sports technique.
    He called on the educational workers at all schools and officials of the league to thoroughly implement this policy of the Workers' Party of Korea and thus creditably fulfill the honorable mission and tasks they have assumed for the era and the revolution through their present worthwhile struggle to glorify the Songun era.
    Present at the meeting were Secretary of the WPK Central Committee Kim Jung Rin, Minister of Education Kim Yong Jin, Chairman of the Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Commission Mun Jae Dok, officials concerned, officials of the youth league, teachers and members of the after-school sports groups at different schools.