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National Meeting Celebrates DPRK Founding Anniversary

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, September 8 (KCNA) -- A national meeting celebrating the 56th anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was held at the April 25 House of Culture today. The meeting was attended by senior party, state and army officials and working people of all social standings in Pyongyang.
    Also present there were members of the congratulatory group of Koreans in Japan to celebrate the 56th anniversary of the DPRK and other overseas Koreans staying in the socialist homeland and the chief of the Pyongyang Mission of the National Democratic Front of south Korea.
    Present on invitation were diplomatic envoys of different countries and foreign guests. Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, made a report.
    He said that the foundation day of the DPRK has been brilliantly recorded in the modern history of Korea as an auspicious day when a genuine state for the people was founded for the first time in the 5,000-year-long history of the nation and radical changes were brought about in their efforts to carve out their destiny and in their socio-political life.
    With the foundation of the DPRK our country appeared in the international arena as a full-fledged sovereign and independent state to strikingly demonstrate the honor and might of Juche Korea and set an example of building a new form of a socialist state guided by the Juche idea in the history of human politics, the reporter said, and went on:
    After founding the DPRK President Kim Il Sung wisely led the Korean people in their efforts to develop the government into a genuine socialist government in which the Juche idea has been applied overall. This history of the DPRK has been successfully carried forward by leader Kim Jong Il.
    He has strengthened the DPRK into a powerful socialist country which has invincible might thanks to his great Songun politics.
    It is the proud fruition of his Songun leadership that the DPRK has emerged a political power in which the driving force of the revolution with the People's Army as its hardcore and main force has been built up strong enough to defend the dignity and sovereignty of the nation, an ideologically strong country where the Juche idea and the Songun idea based on it prevail and a militarily powerful country which has an invincible revolutionary army and powerful national defence industry.
    The DPRK is shining as the state of Kim Il Sung, the motherland of glorious Songun revolution and the invincible country with perfect unity. This represents the true picture of our Republic and the dignity and might of socialist Korea which no one dares provoke.
    The reporter called for firmly defending and constantly glorifying the idea and feats of Kim Il Sung in building a socialist state and exalting the DPRK as his glorious state under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    He called upon all the party members, servicepersons and people to become Songun revolutionary soldiers who defend Kim Jong Il politically and ideologically at the risk of their lives in the spirit of devotedly defending the headquarters of the revolution and share destiny with him to the end and to uphold his revolutionary leadership with loyalty.
    It is the supreme historic task of the DPRK to reunify the country, he said, stressing: We will shatter the moves of the splittists at home and abroad, certainly achieve the cause of national reunification and build a dignified and prospering, independent, reunified and powerful nation in the homeland without fail by the concerted efforts of all the fellow countrymen in the north and the south and overseas under the banner of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
    Referring to the situation on the Korean peninsula growing tense owing to the U.S. imperialists' heinous hostile policy toward the DPRK, the reporter stressed: If the U.S. imperialists ignite a new war while going against the trend of the times, the army and the people of Korea will wipe out all the aggressors with their inexhaustible ideological might and merciless striking capacity they have built for scores of years and win final victory in the long-standing confrontation with the U.S.
    The DPRK government will as ever consistently maintain the idea of independence, peace and friendship to strengthen solidarity with the people of all the countries defending independence and make positive efforts to build a new independent and peaceful world against aggression and war, the reporter concluded.