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National Meeting of Public Prosecutors and Judges Held

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

    Pyongyang, November 19 (KCNA) -- A national meeting of public prosecutors and judges was held at the People's Palace of Culture Friday. The meeting was attended by Kim Yong Nam, Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop, Choe Yong Rim and officials of prosecutor's offices and justice organs in Pyongyang and localities.
    A congratulatory message of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was conveyed to the participants in the meeting. The message recalled that the public prosecutor's offices and justice organs have developed to be dependable political defenders of the party and powerful weapons of people's democratic dictatorship under the wise guidance of the party and the leader and thus creditably discharged their noble missions before the party and the revolution.
    The message expressed the belief that the participants in the meeting and all other public procurators and judges across the country would register greater successes in implementing the party's judicial policy true to leader Kim Jong Il's Songun idea and leadership and thus repay the party's trust and expectation with loyalty.
    Panel meetings of public prosecution and justice fields were separately held during the meeting.
    Ri Kil Song, prosecutor-general of the Central Public Prosecutor's Office, and Kim Pyong Ryul, chief justice of the Central Court, made reports to be followed by speeches at the meetings.
    The reporters and speakers said that the glorious path covered by the prosecutor's offices and the justice organs to safeguard the WPK's revolutionary cause by law is associated with the wise guidance provided by the three generals of Mt. Paektu.
    They referred to the signal achievements made in the building and activities of the prosecutor's offices and justice organs under their energetic guidance and meticulous care.
    They called on all public prosecutors and judges to be bulwarks and shields devotedly defending the headquarters of the revolution in the van, reposing absolute trust in Kim Jong Il only in the worthwhile struggle to resolutely defend and glorify for all ages the immortal revolutionary exploits performed by the three generals for prosecution and justice fields and safeguard the socialist country.
    They also underscored the need to contribute to consolidating the single-minded unity of the society based on the party's Songun idea and consolidating the political and ideological positions of the Korean revolution as firm as a rock.
    They also underlined the need for all public prosecutors and judges to work hard to improve their work as required by the new century, raise their political and professional qualifications, enhance the function and role of people's democratic dictatorship and thus reliably defend the Songun revolutionary cause by law.