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February Holiday Celebrated

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

    Pyongyang, February 16 (KCNA) -- Meetings were held at the units of the three services of the Korean People's Army and in every province, city and county on Feb. 15 to celebrate February 16, the auspicious holiday. At the meetings, the reporters said that thanks to the auspicious day in February when leader Kim Jong Il was born as the bright star over Mt. Paektu, there opened a rosy prospect of carving out the destiny of the nation and accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche and the army and people of the DPRK came to be blessed with the illustrious leaders generation after generation and there began a new history of Kim Il Sung Korea winning one victory after another under the ever-victorious banner of the Juche idea, the Songun idea.
    Kim Jong Il was the first in history to make a scientific clarification of the undisputed position of the leader and his decisive role in the revolutionary movement, they noted, adding that on this basis, he has developed in depth the Juche-oriented revolutionary theories on a new higher stage and successfully carried forward and enriched President Kim Il Sung's precious Songun revolutionary exploits and tradition. They said that in the last more than decade, the most difficult period of the Korean revolution, Kim Jong Il provided a powerful military guarantee for accomplishing the cause of Juche, consolidated the unity of the Workers' Party of Korea and the revolutionary ranks as firm as a rock and strengthened the driving force of the Korean revolution into the strongest militant force with the KPA as its core and main force, while making endless long journeys for great Songun revolutionary leadership. They called upon the Party members, KPA servicepersons and people to protect Kim Jong Il politically and ideologically with their lives in any adversity and remain true to the ideology and leadership of the WPK.
    Present at the meetings were servicepersons of the KPA three services, officials of the respective local Party and power bodies and social organizations and people from all walks of life.