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Eternal Memory of President Kim Il Sung

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- July 8 is the tenth anniversary of the death of President Kim Il Sung. The last decade since his passing away is a historical period of perpetuating his memory.
    In this period the Kumsusan Memorial Palace made its appearance as the sacred temple of Juche where Kim Il Sung lies in state.
    The palace reflects the Korean people's faith and will to always revere him.
    The palace is characterized by a hall where he lies in state, a hall where his statue is standing, rooms where the car he used in his last years and orders he received from other countries are on display, a nearly 1,000-meter-long corridor, a square covering nearly 100,000 square meters, a granite fence extending hundreds of meters, a stone gate, an arboretum covering a hundred hectares, etc.
    The Juche year was instituted with 1912, Kim Il Sung's birth year, as the first year, and April 15, his birth date, was named the Day of the Sun. The constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was amended to hold him in high esteem as the eternal president of the DPRK and his ideas and exploits have been defended and his behests implemented successfully, ensuring the continuity of his history.
    Highlighted in streets, institutions and enterprises throughout the country are pictures of Kim Il Sung with a broad smile on his face and slogans reading "The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung will always be with us".
    Also seen in every corner of the country are such slogans reflecting the Korean people's unshakable faith as "Long live the revolutionary ideas of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung!" "Let us hold the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung in high esteem for ages!" "Let us usher in an era of the country's prosperity, true to the great Comrade Kim Il Sung's ideas and cause!"
    A great progress has been made in the cause of national reunification, a life-long desire of Kim Il Sung. A historic inter-Korean summit meeting took place in Pyongyang in 2000 and the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration was made public and all the Koreans are pooling efforts for the country's reunification under the motto of "By our nation itself".
    The Chongnyu Bridge, Kumnung Tunnel No. 2, the Monument to Party Founding, Youth Hero Motorway, Anbyon Youth Power Station, Kaechon-Lake Thaesong Waterway, Kwangmyongsong Saltern and many other monumental edifices have been built. And a nationwide land rezoning has been carried on successfully, more than 1,600 modern villages constructed in rural communities and minor power plants with the capacity of hundreds of thousands of kilowatts built.
    The song "Our Leader Will Always Be with Us", the epic "Comrade Kim Il Sung, Our Eternal Leader", the full-length novel "Immortality" and many other masterpieces created in this period portray the Korean people's invariable will to carry forward the cause of Juche , holding high the red flag of the revolution associated with the life of the President.