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Meeting Held to Observe Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Work

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 7 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held at the People's Palace of Culture on Thursday to mark the 30th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's work made public on May 7, Juche 63 (1974). The core idea set out in the work calls for building the media of the Workers' Party of Korea into those of the leader both in name and reality.
    Clarified in the work are the basic mission and the duty of the media of the WPK to help all members of the society to become Juche-type revolutionaries intensely loyal to the Party and the leader and positively contribute to transforming the society as required by the revolutionary idea of the leader and the principle governing media activities and policies for decisively breaking stereotyped formula in media activities and bringing about a revolutionary turn in the issue of newspapers, news service and press service as required by the work to model all the members of the society on the Juche idea.
    Jong Ha Chol, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, in a report recalled that the famous work was published on May 7, Juche 63 (1974), a stirring period when the Korean revolution started a historic march for modeling the whole society on the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung. This was a historic work which paved the way for bringing about a fundamental turn in making the media of the WPK faithfully serve as a powerful ideological weapon for carrying out the revolutionary cause of the leader, the reporter noted, and continued:
    The tremendous significance of the work lies in that the work serves as a library instrumental in building the Juche-oriented revolutionary media as it comprehensively clarified and systematized in an integral way the general direction and goal of building the media of the leader and the basic principle and ways for achieving them for the first time in the human history of the development of the theory of the progressive media.
    Kim Jong Il set out the Juche-based idea and theory of media, thus indicating the most correct way of building media in the present era, and has provided experienced and tested guidance to media activities.
    Under his wise guidance, an unprecedentedly great turn has taken place in the work of the media of the WPK for the last three decades.
    The reporter called upon all the journalists and other mediapersons to successfully carry forward the spirit and tradition displayed in the 70s of the last century when a revolutionary turn was effected in the issue of newspapers, news service and press service, and intensify the media activities for the victory of the Songun revolutionary cause, holding aloft the militant slogan "Let's become ideological standard-bearers who glorify the 21st century as one of great victory in the Songun revolution!', and thus bring about another revolutionary change in the media of the country.
    He also underlined the need for all of them to wield their pens as rifles to react to the high-handed policy of the imperialists with the toughest measure, as spearheads to foil the reactionary ideological offensive of enemies with a revolutionary one and bugles powerfully arousing all Party members, servicepersons and people to the confrontation with the U.S. and Japan.
    The media should explain in detail that the might of the Songun politics is vividly represented by the invincibility of Juche Korea that is dynamically pushing forward the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation while wining one victory after another in the fierce political and military confrontation with imperialists, the reporter said, adding that by doing so they should let all the people exert their utmost efforts to strengthen the People's Army, attaching importance to military affairs, and positively contribute to increasing the national defense capability.
    All the journalists and other mediapersons should acquire a high level of political insight, versatile knowledge and high writing skill through energetic endeavors to improve their political and professional qualifications under the uplifted slogan of ability-first and thus live up to the political trust and expectation of the Party with merits and resolutely uphold and glorify the immortal exploits performed by Kim Jong Il in building the Juche-based media and the tradition established by him in this course, the reporter concluded.