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Banquet Given on WPK Birthday

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

    Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea hosted a banquet here Monday in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the glorious WPK. Present at the banquet were senior cadres of the Party, the state and the army, chairpersons of the friendly parties, anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters and delegates to the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the WPK.
    On hand were members of a congratulatory group of Koreans in Japan to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the WPK and other congratulatory groups and visiting groups of overseas Koreans and other Koreans overseas.
    Invited there were party delegations and delegations and delegates of foreign countries, delegations and delegates of Juche idea study organizations, organizations for friendship and solidarity, the chief of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front, foreign diplomatic envoys here and foreign guests.
    Kim Yong Nam, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, made a speech at the banquet.
    He said that the foundation of the WPK by President
    Kim Il Sung 60 years ago was a historic event which brought a fundamental turn in the development of the Korean revolution and the political life of the Korean people and opened up a new era of building a revolutionary party of Juche type.
    Kim Il Sung pioneered the original path of building a revolutionary party and strengthened the WPK into a powerful guiding force of the socialist cause which is successfully realizing the popular masses' ideal of independence with its high revolutionary spirit, organization and tested leadership ability, the speaker noted, and went on:
    The revolutionary feats of Kim Il Sung who built the WPK into the revolutionary party of Juche type with his outstanding idea and leadership and ushered in a great heyday of national prosperity and development will be immortal as the eternal treasure which guarantees the victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche.
    Thanks to the outstanding and energetic leadership of Kim Jong Il the WPK could be strengthened into the glorious party of Kim Il Sung, a revolutionary and militant party remaining loyal to the idea and cause of the leader who founded the party despite the world-wide anti-socialist storms, and persistently advanced the socialist cause of Juche to victory.
    The immortal feats of Kim Jong Il will shine forever with the invincible future of the Party and Songun Korea as he has wisely led the Juche cause of party building for over 40 years to strengthen it into the party of Kim Il Sung, the invincible vanguard for the accomplishment of the socialist cause. The WPK led by Kim Jong Il who has led the socialist cause of Juche to victory century after century, breaking through the rough storms of history will be always invincible and only victory and glory is always in store for the Korean people advancing under the leadership of the Party.