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Academic Symposium Held

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 28 (KCNA) -- An academic symposium marking the tenth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's visit to King Tangun's Mausoleum on October 29, Juche 83 (1994) was held here Wednesday. Speeches were made there on the subjects "The great leader and the respected general are the fathers of the nation who found and have glorified the history of our nation", "The culture of the River Taedong newly formulated under the wise guidance of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Il" and "King Tangun's Mausoleum rebuilt into a grand monumental edifice under the wise guidance of the great general".
    The speakers said King Tangun's Mausoleum was discovered and ascertained under the meticulous guidance of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, noting they found Tangun, who had been conveyed only in a myth in the history of storm and stress, as the founding father of the nation, anxious to glorify the time-honored history of the Korean nation. With this, the speakers added, it has been scientifically confirmed that Pyongyang is the cradle of the Korean nation and the historical holy land which heralded all origins of the Korean nation.
    Tangun's Korea was one of the ancient states founded early in the 30th century B.C. in the basin of the River Taedong around Pyongyang and a civilized state which took shape on the basis of developed bronze culture, they said, and proved on a scientific ground that the culture of the River Taedong holds a cultural historic position equal to or ahead of the world's four cultures in view of the period of its formation and the level of its development.
    They called for invigorating the excavation and studies of historic relics, true to the instructions given by Kim Jong Il while going round the mausoleum, and thus adding shine to the time-honored national history spanning 50 centuries.
    Present at the symposium were Thae Hyong Chol, president of the Academy of Social Sciences, Kim Sok Hwan, director of the Bureau for Direction of Cultural Preservation, and officials concerned.