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Memorial Meetings Held

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, July 9 (KCNA) -- Memorial meetings and memorial services were held in every province, city and county and at every complex and enterprise and every unit of the three services of the Korean People's Army Thursday on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the demise of President Kim Il Sung. All the participants paid a silent tribute to the President.
    Memorial addresses were made to be followed by speeches at the meetings and services.
    Speakers recalled that the President had devoted his all to the freedom and liberation of the people, prosperity of the country, the people's cause of independence and the victory of the socialist cause till his advanced age of over 80 since he embarked upon the road of the sacred struggle for the liberation of the country.
    The President victoriously led the whole historical course of revolution from the struggle for national liberation to socialist construction, overcoming all sorts of rigorous trials and difficulties in the periods of the sanguinary revolutionary war, fierce class struggle, gigantic construction work under the complicated international situation, etc. and struggling through troubles, they noted, and continued:
    The President established the glorious revolutionary traditions of the Workers' Party of Korea including the idea and line of attaching great importance to the army and the military affairs in the practice of the Korean revolution. Thanks to these great traditions, the entire Party and the whole army and all the people could make a steady and dynamic advance winning sure victory despite the tempest of history.
    Under the leadership of Kim Jong Il the revolutionary history of the President steadily advances thanks to the sacred struggle to implement the idea and cause of the President.
    The speakers called for devotedly defending the headquarters of the revolution headed by Kim Jong Il, consolidating the single-hearted unity of the Party, the army and the people as firm as an iron wall, more thoroughly establishing the traits of attaching great importance to the military affairs throughout the society and performing new feats in production and construction to accelerate the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation, true to the last instructions of the President.