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National Meeting Held

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, June 18 (KCNA) -- A national meeting to celebrate the 40th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was held at the April 25 House of Culture Friday. Present there were senior officials of the Party, the state and the army, chairpersons of friendly parties, members of the Cabinet, senior officials of Party organs, military organs, working people's organizations, power bodies, ministries and national institutions, party officials, former unconverted long-term prisoners who are pro-reunification patriotic fighters, servicepersons of the Korean People's Army, personages of merits and working people.
    Also present were overseas compatriots staying in the socialist homeland.
    Choe Thae Bok, alternate member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, delivered a report. The reporter recalled that Kim Jong Il considered it as his lifelong task to develop the WPK into an eternal party of President Kim Il Sung and has wisely led the struggle to accomplish the sacred cause over the last 40 years.
    He went on:
    Kim Jong Il confirmed the profound idea and perfect logic that the Juche idea, the revolutionary idea of the President, is the only guiding idea which would lead the people's cause of independence in our era to victory, thus achieving the unity and cohesion of the whole party based on the idea.
    He has led all the Party members to learn from the experience gained by Kim Il Sung in the party building and the method of the party work created by him, thereby laying a solid organizational and ideological foundation for developing the WPK into a glorious party of the President.
    What is of special significance in Kim Jong Il's history of immortal leadership is that he laid a firm foundation for accomplishing the cause of the Party generation after generation under the banner of modeling the whole party and the society on the Juche idea, turned the WPK into a revolutionary party strictly based on the monolithic ideological and leadership system and brought about great changes in the revolution and construction.
    Early in the 1970s the WPK held Kim Jong Il in high esteem as the successor to the President, thus finding a successful solution to the issue of succession to the leadership of the Korean revolution.
    Thanks to his wise leadership the WPK has grown to be a powerful party creditably carrying forward the tradition of Juche and steadfastly preserving its revolutionary character.
    His history of immortal guidance is shining with proud victory as he developed the WPK into an invincible socialist ruling party remaining unshaken in any storm and stress and firmly defended Korean-style socialism in the grim period when the socialist system of the world collapsed due to the imperialists' anti-socialist offensive and the counter-revolutionary moves of the renegades of socialism.
    Basing himself on a scientific analysis of the reason why socialist ruling parties collapsed in different countries at that time, he established throughout the Party the revolutionary leadership system whereby all its members act as one under the leadership of the WPK Central Committee and made sure that the principle of definitely keeping the ideological work ahead of all other work was abided by.
    His history of immortal leadership has been recorded as a great revolutionary history in which he successfully accomplished the cause of perpetuating the memory of the President and built the WPK into a revolutionary party winning one victory after another under the banner of Songun.
    He clarified the revolutionary philosophy that the army represents the Party, the state and the people and, on this basis, pursued the Songun politics and has strengthened the WPK as required by it. His ideas and theories based on the Songun idea of Juche are shedding bright rays as a banner for winning a sure victory in the Juche-oriented revolution in the 21st century.
    The reporter called on the entire Party and the army and all the people to strengthen the Party organizationally and ideologically under the uplifted banner of the great Songun in order to pave a wide avenue for winning a new victory in the struggle to build a great prosperous powerful socialist nation, bring earlier the independent reunification of the country and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche.