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Speeches Made at National Memorial Meeting

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, July 8 (KCNA) -- Vice-Marshal of the Korean People's Army Kim Il Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces, addressing the national memorial meeting held at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium on behalf of the KPA today on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the demise of President Kim Il Sung, said that Kim Il Sung was the invincible and iron-willed commander and peerless legendary hero who founded the revolutionary armed forces of Juche type, defeated the two ferocious and formidable imperialist enemies in one generation and built a self-defensive powerful country in this land. He continued:
    The army and people of the DPRK could overcome the bitter grief over the sudden loss of the great father of the nation and win a brilliant victory in the battle to defend socialism with the persevering will. This was possible thanks to the firm military guarantee provided by the President and the invincible Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    The servicepersons of the KPA are now firmly determined to hold Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il in higher esteem and remain single-heartedly united around him to complete with arms the Korean revolution started by the President with arms in order to honor the pledge made before his bier.
    The servicepersons will increase the combat capability and step up the combat preparations in every way under the uplifted slogan of a-match-for-a hundred to defend as firm as an iron wall the socialist motherland of Juche, a legacy bequeathed by the President to the people, and fully prepare themselves as the army of the Party and the people.
    The U.S. imperialists, robbers, are frantically stepping up the preparations for a war of aggression behind the curtain of the six-party talks in a bid to stifle the DPRK by a preemptive nuclear strike.
    The KPA is closely watching every move of the enemy, fully prepared to fight a final death-defying battle with him, confident of sure victory.
    If the U.S. imperialists start a war in the end, the KPA will mobilize the military deterrent force built up for years and thus conclude the confrontation with the U.S. with merciless crushing blows and accomplish the historic cause of national reunification without fail.
    Representing the unanimous resolution of all the servicepersons to hold Kim Il Sung in high esteem for all ages, Kim Il Chol solemnly declared that the KPA would invariably hold high the red flag associated with the whole life of the President and firmly guarantee the completion of the revolutionary cause of Juche with arms true to the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    Kim Kyong Ho, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, addressing the meeting on behalf of the youth, said that all the young people of the country, looking back on the proud path of victory and glory covered by the Korean youth movement under the wise leadership of Kim Il Sung, are always determined to uphold and further glorify his idea of the youth movement and his leadership exploits under the banner of Songun.
    He declared that the officials of the league and the entire youth would become five million powerful bullets and bombs as they had pledged themselves before the bier of the President and stand like an invulnerable fortress and an indestructible shield around the headquarters of the revolution and protect Kim Jong Il at the cost of their lives.
    The youth will become young heroes in the era of Songun who always breathe and dynamically advance in the spirit of the army at the posts defending the country and at the factories and in the rural villages, at the construction sites and in the field of scientific research and thus fully display their stamina and enthusiasm in all fields building a great prosperous powerful country, he noted.
    He evinced the determination of the youth to decisively frustrate the vicious moves of the imperialist reactionaries to isolate and stifle the DPRK with the transparent working class consciousness and in the anti-imperialist fighting spirit and mercilessly wipe out the enemies to protect the dignity of Juche Korea if an order comes from Kim Jong Il.