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National Meeting Celebrates DPRK's Birthday

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

    Pyongyang, September 8 (KCNA) -- A national meeting took place at the April 25 House of Culture here Thursday to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The meeting was attended by senior officials of the Party, the State and the army and chairpersons of the friendly parties, leading officials of the working people's organizations, officials of the armed forces and power organs, exemplary officials, heroes and people of meritorious services.
    Also present on invitation were overseas Koreans, the chief of the Pyongyang Mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front, diplomatic envoys of different countries here and foreign guests.
    Premier Pak Pong Ju in a report said that President Kim Il Sung founded the DPRK on September 9, Juche 37 (1948) which emerged a full-fledged sovereign state in the international arena and demonstrated the honor and might as a country guided by Juche. Its founding meant the appearance of a new type socialist state in the human political history, which strives to materialize the independent idea of the popular masses, and helped the world progressive people find the most correct way of building a people's government guaranteeing the successful implementation of the cause of independence, he noted, and went on:
    Under the outstanding leadership of Kim Il Sung the DPRK came to develop into a genuine people's government which always placed the interests of the popular masses above anything else and worked hard to meet them and turned into a socialist state of Juche type undisputably supported and trusted by them.
    The glorious history of the DPRK has been successfully carried forward by leader Kim Jong Il, a reliable successor to Kim Il Sung's revolutionary cause. Kim Jong Il has built the DPRK to be Kim Il Sung's state both in name and reality. He took the historic measure of legislating on holding Kim Il Sung in high esteem as eternal President of the Republic. It was the most vivid manifestation of intense loyalty and the noblest sense of moral obligation towards the leader, unprecedented in the world's history of socialist movement, and a great deed to be specially recorded in the nation's history, which made it possible for the DPRK to steadily advance on the permanent basis of the President's Juche idea and his feats performed in the nation-building.
    Kim Jong Il has converted the DPRK into a powerful socialist state with invincible might. He has applied the fundamental idea of socialist politics and met the law-governed requirements of the Songun revolution, thus successfully building the driving forces of the Korean revolution with the People's Army as a core and main force and achieving the steel-like unity of the servicepersons and people. He, at the same time, achieved the single-minded unity of the whole party and army and all the people based on the comradeship centered on the leader with his noble benevolent politics, thus significantly consolidating the socio-political foundation of the DPRK and augmenting its politico-ideological might.
    Kim Jong Il has increased the potentials of the DPRK in all fields by enforcing the ever-victorious Songun politics. This exploit serves as the most precious treasure as it has paved the most correct way of building a socialist state in our era by embodying the Juche revolutionary principle that the government is maintained and grows stronger thanks to the army.
    It is the fundamental requirement for the development of the DPRK to firmly preserve Kim Il Sung's Juche-based idea on nation-building and his feats performed in it and glorify them, the reporter said, calling for making the DPRK shine forever as the glorious state of Kim Il Sung and upholding Kim Jong Il's Songun idea and politics with loyalty.
    The Koreans will foil the moves of the separatists at home and abroad by their concerted efforts and achieve the country's reunification without fail under the banner of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and certainly build an independent and prosperous reunified powerful state on the Korean Peninsula. Turning to the prevailing situation, he said:
    The DPRK is standing in acute stand-off with the imperialist reactionaries. The army and people of the DPRK will never tolerate the enemies' moves to isolate and stifle it but mercilessly foil them.
    The denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was one of the last instructions of the President and it still remains an ultimate goal of the DPRK.
    The DPRK government has consistently maintained the stand to seek a negotiated peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue and will strive to realize the denuclearization of the peninsula.
    The DPRK will as ever unite close with the peoples of all countries advocating independence, resolutely foil the U.S. imperialists' ambition to dominate the world and their brigandish state-sponsored terrorism and firmly preserve peace and security in Asia and the rest of the world, the premier noted, and continued: The DPRK will boost solidarity and the relations of friendship and cooperation with all the countries and peoples that respect its sovereignty and support its just cause and work hard to build an independent and peaceful new world.