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Workers and Trade Union Members Hold Celebration Meeting

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, February 14 (KCNA) -- A meeting of workers and members of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea took place in front of the Monument to the Party Founding on Sunday to celebrate the significant February fete, the birthday of leader Kim Jong Il. Present there were Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, leading officials of the Central Committee of the federation and trade union officials and members and other workers in the city.
    Ryom Sun Gil, chairman of the Central Committee of the federation, addressed the meeting and then followed speeches.
    Speakers called upon the workers and trade union members to unite as one in mind around Kim Jong Il and turn out with redoubled vigor in the drive to build a great prosperous powerful nation and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche under the uplifted banner of the great Songun.
    All of them should consolidate as firm as a rock the single-minded unity of the revolutionary ranks based on revolutionary comradeship with the leader as the center, speed up the general march for the Songun revolution, decisively foiling the imperialists' moves for aggression, thoroughly establish the traits of attaching importance to the military affairs in the whole society and bring the revolutionary soldier culture into full bloom, they said.
    They urged them to give top priority to the supply of everything needed for the development of the defense industry, powerfully support the agricultural front and bring about a big revolutionary upsurge in all fields of the national economy, notably the power, coal and metal industries and railway transport so as to perform heroic feats.
    The celebration poem "Song of Best Wishes to the Great Sun" was recited at the meeting.