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Papers Observe DPRK's Birthday

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

    Pyongyang, September 9 (KCNA) -- Papers here today editorially call for fully demonstrating the might of the DPRK under the banner of great Songun on the occasion of the 57th birthday of the DPRK. Rodong Sinmun says that the founding of the DPRK by President Kim Il Sung marked a historic event which ushered in a new era of building the people-centered socialist state, stressing the need to glorify his exploits performed in the nation-building generation after generation.
    The Songun politics pursued by leader Kim Jong Il serves as an eternal banner for the DPRK in winning one victory after another, the paper says, and goes on: It is most ardent patriotism to uphold the Songun idea and leadership of Kim Jong Il with loyalty. All the servicepersons and people should prepare themselves as staunch fighters who absolutely believe in his Songun idea and politics and implement them to the letter and glorify his Songun revolutionary leadership exploits as the most precious treasure of the nation. They should unite closer around Kim Jong Il, holding higher the banner of devotedly defending the leader, and steadfastly follow the road of the Songun revolution indicated by him in any adversity.
    It is necessary to give full play to the advantages and vitality of the state structure with main emphasis put on national defence and hold fast to the principle of attaching importance to the army and the military affairs in all fields of state activities. The Korean People's Army, the main force of the Songun revolution, should be bolstered to be an invincible army strong enough to defeat any formidable enemy at one stroke and the whole country should be turned into an impregnable fortress. It is also necessary to thoroughly establish throughout the society the spirit of prizing arms and sincerely helping the army and achieve the perfect unity of the army and the people in thinking and fighting traits.
    The paper also stresses the need to thoroughly implement the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, a great programme for national reunification, and bring about a new turn in the movement for the country's reunification.
    Independence, peace and friendship is an invariable idea of the foreign policy of the DPRK, it notes, declaring that the DPRK government will as ever strengthen friendship and solidarity with the peoples of different countries aspiring after justice and peace against the aggression and war, holding aloft the banner of independence against imperialism.
    Minju Joson calls upon all the people to unite close around Kim Jong Il and wage a more dynamic struggle to achieve the prosperity of the DPRK and the victory of the socialist cause of Juche with the might of Songun.