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National Meeting Marks 60th Anniversary of Korea's Liberation

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- A national meeting took place at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium on Sunday to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Korea's liberation. Attending it were senior party, state and army officials, chairpersons of the friendly parties, anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters, leading officials of working people's organizations, citizens and overseas compatriots.
    Present on invitation were foreign delegations and delegates and including various delegations of Russia on a visit to the DPRK, diplomatic envoys of different countries and representatives of international organizations here and foreign guests. Kim Yong Nam, politburo member of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee and president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, made a report at the meeting.
    The reporter stressed that the liberation of Korea is a cause of national history accomplished by President Kim Il Sung, a peerless patriot and national hero for the century, and his most precious and brilliant exploit in the history of the Korean people's protracted revolutionary struggle for independence.
    The President led the armed struggle and the overall Korean revolution always to victory with Juche-based revolutionary idea and line, unique strategy and tactics and superb commanding art to wipe out the Japanese imperialist colonial rule and achieve the historic cause of national liberation in August Juche 34 (1945), he said, and went on: The historic victory of national liberation is a vivid evidence of the President's Juche idea that the independence of the country and the nation and victorious revolution are guaranteed by the powerful driving force of the revolution and the army, the lifeline, and the absolute truth of the Songun leadership and the might of certain victory. The liberation of the country marked a historic milestone in putting the revolutionary struggle of the popular masses in the era of independence on a new higher stage as it provided a correct guiding idea, revolutionary forces and method of struggle with which to pave the way of achieving the victory in the revolution for national liberation against imperialism under the banner of Juche, the banner of Songun, and made the first breakthrough in the imperialist colonial system in the world.
    The army of the former Soviet Union joined in the final offensive operation of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army for the liberation of Korea to give valuable assistance. The Korean people will always remember the feats of the officers and men of the former Red Army who shed their blood in battles to defeat the Japanese imperialist aggressor troops in Korea.
    With the liberation of the country the Korean people put a period to the nearly half a century-long colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists and retook the sovereignty of the nation and a broad avenue for building an independent and prosperous, new Korea was opened ahead of the Korean people.
    It was thanks to the President's idea and leadership that after the liberation Korea witnessed a man-centred socialist country where the people enjoy an independent and creative life as genuine masters of the state and society, a big harmonious and happy socialist family where all the members of the society help and lead each other forward and bring the common idea into full bloom, firmly united as one in mind and purpose around the Party and the leader, and socialism has become the life and soul of the Korean people.
    A century ago, Korea had to be disgraced as a ruined nation owing to the exhausted national power. But, it is now shining as a politically, ideologically and militarily strong country in the world. The credit for this goes to leader Kim Jong Il who is glorifying the President's revolutionary idea and exploits down through generations. All the Party members, servicepersons and the people should protect the headquarters of the revolution headed by Kim Jong Il politically and ideologically and at the cost of their lives and build up the politico-ideological and socialist working class positions as firm as a rock.
    He stressed the need to channel big sustained efforts into the strengthening of the People's Army and solve all the problems arising in the revolution and construction on the principle of attaching importance to military affairs and putting military affairs above anything else.
    At present we are faced with an important task to mobilize the entire strength increased under the great Songun politics for building an economic power of the 21st century at an early date, the reporter said, calling upon all the Party members and other working people to give full play to the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance in every worksite and bring about a revolutionary surge of Songun on all fronts of socialist economic construction with a high degree of consciousness of citizens to contribute to the prosperity of the country of Juche and burning patriotic zeal.
    We will hold fast to the three charters for national reunification laid down by the President and realize the three forms of cooperation--national independence, peace against war and reunification and patriotism--under the banner of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration to achieve the independent reunification of the country without fail, the reporter stated. We are now in acute showdown with the imperialist reactionaries, he noted, adding: The army and people of the DPRK will mercilessly smash the moves of the enemies to isolate and stifle the DPRK any time and finally conclude the stand-off with the United States.
    We constantly maintain the stand on the peaceful negotiated settlement of the nuclear issue and will continue to work hard for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, he said.
    The reporter expressed the resolution to strive to decisively foil the U.S. imperialists' ambition for world supremacy and their brigandish state terrorism in firm solidarity with the world people advocating independence, protect peace and security in Asia and the rest of the world, boost the friendly and cooperative relations with all the countries that respect the sovereignty of the DPRK and build an independent, peaceful and friendly, new world.