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National Meeting Held

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

    Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the May Day Stadium today to celebrate the 60th birthday of the Workers' Party of Korea. Leader Kim Jong Il was present at the meeting.
    Also present were leading cadres of the WPK, the state and the army and chairpersons of the friendly parties.
    Kim Yong Nam, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, made a report at the meeting.
    The WPK is the party founded on the basis of the organizational and ideological foundation personally provided by President Kim Il Sung in the course of waging a protracted anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle under the banner of the Juche idea after founding it, the reporter said, and continued: After liberating Korea, Kim Il Sung clearly saw through the complicated political situation in the country and the prospect of the revolution and declared the foundation of the WPK to the world on October 10, Juche 34 (1945) on the basis of the revolutionary traditions of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.
    The foundation of the WPK made it possible for the Korean revolution to have its reliable militant staff capable of victoriously pushing forward the cause of building a new society and for the Korean people to form a strong driving force of the revolution to create a proud history of independence and prosperity under the leadership of the Party.
    The history of building the WPK is a proud history in which the Juche idea founded by the President and developed in depth as a revolutionary philosophy by the Party has been applied to all fields.
    The President, on the basis of the Juche idea, set out the idea and theory of party building, which newly clarified the fundamental principles and methods of building a revolutionary party in the present times, and wisely led the struggle to implement them.
    The WPK has developed into the party which firmly established the monolithic idea and unitary leadership of the leader and their inheritance, the party which considers the interests of the people as the supreme principle of the revolution and faithfully serves the people and the party which gives priority to the army of the revolution in order to defend the sovereignty of the country and achieve its prosperity. Herein lie the true appearance, invincible might and high dignity of the WPK which has been strengthened under the wise guidance of the President and Kim Jong Il. The WPK has led the popular masses to record a proud history of great change and creation in the revolution and construction for the last 6 decades. True to the Juche-oriented revolutionary idea and line of the President, the Party successfully carried out the deep-going social revolutions at two stages and two rounds of difficult rehabilitation and construction to establish the progressive socialist system and sped up the three revolutions, ideological, technical and cultural, under the banner of uninterrupted revolution to build the socialist country of Juche shining with independence in politics, self-supporting in economy and self-reliance in national defence.
    Under the leadership of the President, the invincible and iron-willed commander, the Party led the fierce Fatherland Liberation War against the armed invasion of the U.S. imperialists and its stooges to victory to honorably defend the freedom and independence of the country and smashed the imperialists' every persistent move for aggression and war to resolutely defend the sovereignty of the country and the gains of the revolution. In the last one decade, the period of the most stern trial in particular, the Party held fast to the line of attaching importance to ideology, the political line of unity, the Songun revolutionary line in the revolution and construction to consolidate and develop the unity and cohesion of our society into the single-minded unity of the whole Party, the entire army and all the people based on comradeship centered on the leader and significantly strengthen the political and ideological position of the revolution and trained the Korean People's Army into a strong revolutionary army prepared politically and ideologically and in military technique on the basis of the successes achieved in the struggle to model the entire army on the Juche idea and thus consolidated the military position of the DPRK as an impregnable fortress.
    The Party has bravely smashed the imperialist reactionaries' vicious moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK in reliance on the political, ideological and military might of the country, achieved victory after another in defending socialism and waged a persevering struggle to build modern production bases and many monumental edifices of eternal value in different parts of the country and lay a firm material foundation for the building of a prosperous and powerful nation.
    The WPK has applied the idea of national independence to open up a turning phase in accomplishing the cause of national reunification and remarkably expanded the external relations of the country and boosted the international solidarity with the Korean revolution thanks to its independent foreign policy. We are faced with historic tasks to step up the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation, speed up the independent reunification of the country and achieve the final victory of the cause of Juche, the cause of Songun under the leadership of the great Party. We should uphold the President as the eternal leader of the Party and the people, glorify his idea and exploits performed in party building and more firmly establish the Party unitary leadership system.
    We should politically and ideologically defend the headquarters of the revolution with our lives and thoroughly implement the line and policies of the Party. The single-minded unity of the Party and the revolutionary ranks is the mainstay of the revolution.
    The whole Party, the entire army and all the people should unite close on the basis of the revolutionary comradeship to augment the might of our revolutionary ranks in every way.
    We should fully embody the Party's Songun politics, an all-powerful treasured sword for victory in our revolution, under any circumstances and conditions and direct primary efforts to the strengthening of the KPA and the development of the national defence industry to consolidate the military position of our revolution as firm as an iron-wall.
    We should step up the economic construction to bring about a surge on all the fronts of the socialist construction and occupy the high peak of a great prosperous powerful nation as early as possible.
    We will achieve the three forms of cooperation--national independence, peace against war and reunification and patriotism--under the banner of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration to build a powerful, independent and prosperous reunified country.
    We will firmly unite with the people of all the countries advocating independence in the idea of our foreign policy-- independence, peace and friendship-- to resolutely defend global peace and security and wage a vigorous struggle to build an independent, peaceful and friendly new world.