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Increased Role of Youth Called for

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

    Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) -- The Koreans are foreseeing the bright future of Songun Korea with confidence in the proud appearance of the members of the young vanguard who are dedicating their youth to the party, the leader and the socialist homeland, says Rodong Sinmun Saturday in an article dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League. The youth represent the most militant force upholding the Workers' Party of Korea's revolutionary cause of Songun with loyalty and a reliable death-defying corps taking the lead in defending the headquarters of the revolution, the article says, and goes on:
    They are a powerful force defending and glorifying Korean-style socialism and the most vibrant and militant unit carving out the future of a prosperous country full of great ambition and ideal.
    Leader Kim Jong Il is a peerlessly great man as he has successfully carried forward and developed President Kim Il Sung's unique idea of attaching importance to the youth and his leadership exploits and trained a large contingent of members of the young vanguard of Songun with his experienced and tested leadership.
    Kim Jong Il set forth it as a strategic policy for the ultimate victory of the Songun revolution to develop the youth movement and enhance their role and has trained youth to be stalwart young vanguard members of Juche-type true to the Songun leadership while leading the fierce confrontation with the U.S. and the building of a great prosperous powerful country to victory.
    The history of Kim Jong Il's Songun revolutionary leadership represents an immortal history in which he has brought up the young people to be staunch revolutionary fighters in the sacred struggle to defend the country.
    It is his unshakable stand that training servicepersons to be staunch revolutionaries presents itself as a prerequisite to increasing the combat capability of the People's Army and a key link in the chain of efforts to convert the whole ranks of youth into elite forces and transform the whole society in a revolutionary manner.
    The People's Army has become a Songun revolutionary university where young soldiers are trained to be men strongest in idea and faith under the wise guidance of Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il just as the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Army served as a revolutionary university for training ardent fighters. In the DPRK servicepersons constitute a core and main force of the youth movement as they are firmly standing guard over the anti-imperialist military front, the most important lifeline in defending socialism, tightly holding the arms of the revolution in their hands.
    Proceeding from the stand of Juche, Kim Jong Il put forward servicepersons as a paradigm of the young vanguard in the Songun era and has energetically led all young people to actively learn from their noble thinking and mentality.
    It is the most shining exploit Kim Jong Il has performed for the eternal prosperity of the country and the nation that he has trained the younger generation of Songun capable of undertaking the huge task of building a great prosperous powerful nation in the 21st century despite the grim tempest of the revolution.
    The single-minded unity symbolizes the eternal prosperity of Songun Korea and serves as a treasured sword for victory, the article says, stressing that Korean-style socialism will always emerge victorious thanks to this unity as long as there is the large young vanguard of Songun intensely loyal to the party and the leader.