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Seminar Held on Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Start of Study Tour

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

   Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- A seminar in the field of social sciences was held at the Korean Revolution Museum Thursday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's start of the study tour of revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu. Present there were Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Korea, Thae Hyong Chol, president of the Academy of Social Sciences, officials concerned and officials, researchers, teachers, journalists, editors and lecturers from the fields of science, education, media, and the preservation of revolutionary and historic sites and party cadre training institutions.
    Presented at the seminar were five papers that deeply explained and proved the undying exploits Kim Jong Il performed by exploring the road of the above-said study tour and successfully carrying forward the revolutionary traditions of Juche.
    The floor was taken by Dr. and Associate Prof. Song Tong Won, director of an institute of the Academy of Social Sciences, Dr. and Associate Prof. Pak Kyong Sik, department director of the Korean Revolution Museum, and Candidate Academician, Prof. and Dr. Hwang Sin Ryul, head of a chair of Kim Il Sung University, and others.
    The speakers said that Kim Jong Il's start of the study tour of the revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu in June Juche 45 (1956) marked a great event as it opened a new history in preserving the revolutionary traditions of Juche and carrying forward them. They also explained the reason to say so. They went on to say:
    He was the first in history to explore the road of the above-said study tour and in this course created peculiar educational forms and methods of teaching the visitors the revolutionary traditions. He, at the same time, provided a sure guarantee for turning the area of Mt. Paektu into a center for the education in the revolutionary traditions.
    The path of study tour explored by Kim Jong Il meant a road to great inheritance as it demonstrated his unshakable faith to give steady continuity to the march to Mt. Paektu President Kim Il Sung staged while making a long journey of anti-Japanese bloody battles for twenty years. And it was a historic journey in which he created fresh styles and methods of the party's ideological work to bring up the younger generation into reliable heirs to the Juche cause by thoroughly arming them with the glorious revolutionary traditions of the WPK.
    They called upon the officials and researchers in the field of social sciences to further deepen the researches into the greatness of the three generals of Mt. Paektu and their undying exploits and briskly explain theories to help people and school youth and children deeply grasp the revolutionary traditions of Juche and thus positively contribute to training them into vanguard fighters in the Songun revolution.