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Meeting for General March of Songun Revolution Opens

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, February 2 (KCNA) -- A meeting for the general march of the Songun revolution, the first of its kind in Korea, was opened at the 6,000-seater theatre of the April 25 House of Culture here today. The meeting will discuss the matters arising in strikingly demonstrating the greatness and invincible might of the Songun idea and politics of the Workers' Party of Korea and encouraging the army and people in their new general march in the era of Songun.
    The general march of the Songun revolution is a great onward movement in the present times to attain a high goal of building a great prosperous powerful nation in all fields, political, military, economic and cultural, under the banner of the Juche idea, the banner of the Songun idea.
    At the meeting, Kim Yong Nam, member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, conveyed a congratulatory message of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the WPK to its participants.
    The message highly estimated the achievements the army and the people of the DPRK have made in defending socialism and building a great prosperous powerful nation by resolutely smashing the U.S. imperialists' moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK, true to the Songun leadership of the WPK.
    All the Party members, servicepersons and people should decisively foil the U.S. imperialists' moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK and bring about an epochal turning phase in building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation through the general march of the Songun revolution to glorify the era as heirs to the glorious tradition of the grand Chollima march made in the postwar period, it said, adding: For the present they should make this year, which marks the 60th anniversaries of the WPK and the liberation of the country, shine as the most fruitful year in the history of the country in which the might of Songun will be fully displayed.
    Pak Pong Ju, premier of the Cabinet, said in his report at the meeting that the present general march of the Songun revolution is a revolutionary all-out offensive of the army and people in the DPRK to finally conclude the confrontation with the U.S. and win a final victory in the struggle to protect socialism.
    The reality shows that though the U.S. imperialists are talking about "dialogue" and "negotiations," they have, in fact, no intention to give up their attempt to isolate and stifle the DPRK and co-exist with it in peace, but persistently seek to disarm it and bring down its system at any cost, he said, and went on:
    We should, therefore, counter the U.S. imperialists' moves for aggression with a decisive and merciless military strike, its political and diplomatic pressure with the toughest counter-action, its reactionary ideological and cultural poisoning with a revolutionary ideological offensive and its economic blockade with an overall revitalization of the socialist independent economy and a great revolutionary surge and thus victoriously conclude the struggle to defend socialism. Herein lies the great significance of the general march of the Songun revolution.
    He further said:
    All the Party members, servicepersons and people should firmly arm themselves with the Songun idea of the WPK and become ardent adherents to this idea, who think and act, guided by it, staunch defenders of the Songun policy and faithful implementers of the Songun revolutionary line.
    They should deeply trust leader Kim Jong Il only and unite closer around him and make the spirit and trait of the single-minded unity perfectly prevail throughout the society while decisively combating the enemy's vicious psychological warfare aimed at disintegrating our revolutionary ranks.
    All the people should attach importance to the military affairs and earnestly learn them to thoroughly implement the WPK's policy of putting all the people under arms and fortifying the whole country. They should give top priority to the development of the national defence industry in hearty response to the line of economic construction in the Songun era advanced by the WPK and thus make a positive contribution to increasing the nation's military power.
    Underscoring the need to reenergize the national economy as soon as possible and turn it into a modern economy in the 21st century by fully displaying the revolutionary soldier spirit, the reporter called for implementing to the letter the WPK's policy of the agricultural revolution, in particular, to solve the food problem our own way at an early date.
    It is also necessary to make a leaping advance and innovations in the economic construction in the spirit of self-reliance based on uptodate science and technology and make the spirit of the times and the revolutionary optimism and rich emotion of the revolutionary fighters of Songun prevail throughout the society, he noted.
    Attending the meeting were senior officials of the Party, the state and the army, chairpersons of friendly parties, Cabinet members, and officials of the army and various public circles.
    The meeting continues.