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45th Anniv. of Kim Jong Il's Start of Songun Revolutionary Leadership

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

    Pyongyang, August 24 (KCNA) -- A meeting of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces took place at the April 25 House of Culture Wednesday to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il's start of Songun revolutionary leadership. On Aug. 25, Juche 49 (1960) he visited the Guard Seoul Ryu Kyong Su 105 tank division and left the first giant footprint of the Songun revolutionary leadership, thus performing noteworthy exploits in the development of the revolutionary armed forces and the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche.
    Addressing the meeting, Kim Yong Chun, chief of the KPA General Staff, said this. He continued:
    Kim Jong Il had the Party's e leadership system established within the People's Army in the 1960s, set forth the programme of modeling the whole army on the Juche idea and the slogan of loyalty "Let's devote a life to the fight for the great leader!" before the army in the 1970s and thus provided a new landmark of building the Party's army of Juche type. In the 1980s, too, he wisely led the drive for further strengthening and developing the People's Army into a revolutionary army unfailingly loyal to the Party.
    Kim Jong Il developed in depth the Songun politics and Songun leadership to meet the requirements of the developing revolution and trained the army to be vanguard ranks of devotedly demanding the leader, a strong revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu in the 1990s. He is wisely leading the army holding higher the banner of Songun in the new century so that the army may form an integral whole with the supreme commander and fulfill its noble mission in the first line of the Songun revolution.
    The reporter said that all the officials and servicemen should prepare themselves as the first-line fighters, first-line human bombs in defence of the headquarters of the revolution headed by Kim Jong Il and strengthen the ideological might of arms. He underscored the need for serviceman to put spurs to strengthening the combat power of the army and completing preparations for fighting with firm anti-imperialist and working class consciousness and fighting spirit and mercilessly wipe out the enemies and accomplish the historic cause of national reunification if the enemies invade even an inch of sky, land and sea of the sacred country.
    The meeting was attended by KPA Vice Marshals Jo Myong Rok, director of the KPA General Political Department, Kim Yong Chun, chief of the KPA General Staff, and Kim Il Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces.