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National Meeting Held to Mark 114th May Day

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the Pyongyang Textile Mill on Saturday to mark the 114th May Day. Present at the meeting were Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, and Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.
    Ryom Sun Gil, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, in a report said that the Korean working class has fulfilled its sacred mission and duty for the Party and the revolution in the whole historic course of resolutely defending and triumphantly advancing the socialist cause of Juche under the wise guidance of the great leader and Party.
    Though the struggle of the working class and people of Korea for sovereignty, independence and socialism was unprecedentedly arduous and hard, they could have created an ever-victorious history while overcoming manifold trials of history as they hold President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il at the head of the revolution, the reporter said, and continued:
    It is the greatest fortune and glory of the Korean working class to have Kim Jong Il, defender of the socialist cause and the sun of the 21st century, at the head of the revolution and advance with pride while glorifying the new era of the revolution of Juche as a sacred era of Songun under his leadership.
    He called for making a revolutionary offensive to occupy a high goal of building a great prosperous powerful nation under the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il, bringing about the heyday of the prosperous motherland and hastening national reunification and victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche.
    He said that all the working class should become vanguard fighters and Songun revolutionary comrades who defend Kim Jong Il politically and ideologically at the cost of their lives and implement his ideas and intention without an inch of deflection.
    The reporter called upon the working class to take the lead in strengthening the military power of the country in every way by organizing all the work on the principle of attaching priority to military affairs, firmly defend the socialist gains with thorough class consciousness and anti-imperialist fighting spirit and get ready for a sacred struggle for defending their motherland in any adversity by forming workers' divisions and regiments as in the 1950s.
    The Korean working class and people will as ever sternly struggle in defence of the sovereignty of the nation and global peace and against the U.S. imperialists' arbitrariness and high-handed practices in close unity with the world revolutionary people in the idea of independence, peace and friendship and fulfill their sacred international duty for human cause of independence and the socialist cause, he concluded.