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Third National Meeting of Mothers Held

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

    Pyongyang, November 23 (KCNA) -- The third national meeting of mothers was held in Pyongyang on Nov. 22. The meeting reviewed the successes and experience gained by Korean women in the last period in their devoted services for the Workers' Party of Korea and the leader, the country and the people and discussed tasks to be fulfilled by the mothers and all other women to prepare themselves as revolutionaries intensely loyal to the Party and bring up the younger generation as reliable pillars of Songun Korea and perform their missions and roles in achieving the prosperity and development of the socialist country and ways to do so.
    Present there were Kim Yong Nam, Kim Jung Rin and others.
    Also attending it were a delegation of the Union of Democratic Korean Women in Japan and a delegation of Korean women in China who are staying in the socialist homeland.
    Conveyed there was a congratulatory message of the Central Committee of the WPK to the meeting.
    Highly praising the participants of the meeting and all other mothers and women across the country for having made devoted efforts to bring up the rising generation as true successors to the Juche-oriented revolution and build a rich and powerful socialist country, true to the Songun leadership of the Party, the message expressed the belief that they would single-mindedly unite around leader Kim Jong Il to train the younger generation as reliable pillars of Songun Korea and creditably fulfill their responsibility and role in speeding up the building of a great prosperous powerful nation. Pak Sun Hui, chairperson of the Central Committee of the Korean Democratic Women's Union, made a report there.
    The reporter referred to the great achievements made by the Korean mothers and other women in their efforts to prepare themselves as women revolutionaries in the Songun era, train the rising generation and build a great prosperous powerful socialist nation over the last seven years since its second meeting held under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il and his deep loving care.
    They have fully prepared themselves as fighters devotedly defending the headquarters of the revolution and soldiers true to the WPK's Songun revolutionary cause by revolutionizing themselves in stern trials, the reporter noted, and went on to say: They gave birth to many babies and brought up them as reliable successors to the revolutionary cause of Juche and heroes ready to be human bullets and bombs to devotedly defend the Party and the leader, keenly aware of the noble mission they have assumed before the country and the nation.
    Many women have become soldiers, officials, heroes, heroic mothers who gave birth to many babies, able scientists, educators, persons of literature, artistes and sportswomen, bringing joy to Kim Jong Il. Many of them have proceeded to society to devote themselves at industrial establishments and on farms and in various other places to the prosperity of the country. This is the true picture of our country.
    She called on them to fully display their wisdom and heroic spirit in revolutionizing themselves, training the younger generation and in the present general march of Songun revolution to conquer the high peak of a great prosperous powerful nation, keenly aware of the high honor and the mission they have assumed before the times that they live in the Songun era and make revolution under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    Speakers at the meeting expressed their firm resolution to fully implement the militant tasks laid down in the message and carry out their honorable mission and role as women of Songun Korea.