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Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Work Marked

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 24 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today dedicates an article to the anniversary of the publication of the historical letter of leader Kim Jong Il "On Developing the Movement of Koreans in Japan to a New, Higher Stage" on May 24, Juche 84 (1995), the 40th anniversary of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon). The author of the article says:
    The letter is an important work comprehensively indicating the main orientation and tasks for bringing about a new turn in the movement of Koreans in Japan to meet the changing international situation and developing realities and ways for their implementation.
    The letter sets it forth as the main direction of activities for Chongryon to carry out all its work as intended and desired by President Kim Il Sung and invariably hold aloft the Juche idea as its guiding idea and banner.
    And the letter puts it forward as the main tasks on which Chongryon should always keep a tight hold in its patriotic activities to protect the democratic national rights and interests of the compatriots, develop national education and boost national character, to defend the socialist homeland and make tangible contributions to its prosperity and development and to actively conduct the movement for national reunification.
    Shown in detail in the letter are ways for Chongryon to successfully fulfill its mission and duty to the country and the nation.
    The letter serves as a powerful ideological and theoretical weapon of the patriotic work of Chongryon and an invincible programmatic guideline which could be put forward only by Kim Jong Il who is leading and showing care for the 700,000 Koreans in Japan, true to the noble intention and deep benevolence of the President.
    Referring to the vitality of the letter, the article says that in the past nine years Chongryon have been able to wage more vigorously the movement of Koreans in Japan as required by its main mission without vacillation even in the desperate campaign to crush and destroy it by achieving the unity and cohesion of its ranks in idea and will based on the Juche idea and taking deep roots among the broad masses of compatriots.