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Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Start of Study Tour of Mt. Paektu Area Marked

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

   Samjiyon, June 4 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at an educational ground in front of the Samjiyon Grand Monument in Ryanggang Province Sunday to mark the 50th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's start of study tour of the revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu. Attending the meeting were party, army and state officials, Cabinet members, leading officials of party and armed forces organs, ministries and national institutions, servicepersons of the Korean People's Army, members of the national excursion group of party information officials, members of the June 18 construction shock brigade and officials and working people in the province.
    Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, in a report said that Kim Jong Il's start of study tour of the revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu in June Juche 45 (1956) was a historic event of epochal significance in carrying forward the pure tradition of the Korean revolution started on Mt. Paektu and advancing the socialist cause of the Korean people along the road of Juche.
    He went on to say:
    The opening of the excursion route to the revolutionary battle sites in Mt. Paektu area provided a landmark for resolutely defending and carrying forward the glorious revolutionary traditions of the WPK established by President Kim Il Sung and guaranteeing the victorious advance of the Korean revolution.
    As Kim Jong Il opened up the excursion route, looking far into the future of the Korean revolution, the excursion along this route to the revolutionary battle sites centering on Mt. Paektu was briskly conducted with the attention of the whole party and the society. The Korean people and the rising generations have come to cherish the unshakable faith and indomitable will to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche to the end, while making a study tour of the revolutionary battle sites of Mt. Paektu.
    Thanks to the revolutionary traditions whose great attraction and vitality have been proven in the practice of the protracted Korean revolution, the Korean army and people could win one victory after another in the war to defend socialism, single-mindedly united around the headquarters of the revolution despite the grim and acute environment that prevailed the Korean revolution in the 1990s and pave the way for the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation, breaking through manifold difficulties and hardships with faith in sure victory and indomitable will.
    Thanks to Kim Jong Il's far-reaching plan and energetic leadership the revolutionary battle-fields and historic sites in the area of Mt. Paektu have been spruced up majestically and flawlessly as a center for the education on the revolutionary traditions. The area including Samjiyon Township has undergone changes beyond recognition and witnessed the fairyland of socialism, a miracle of history.
    We should hold Kim Il Sung in high esteem forever as the eternal leader of our party and revolution and the sun of Juche and defend and glorify his idea and revolutionary exploits for all ages.
    We should repose absolute trust in Kim Jong Il, destiny of the country and the nation and symbol of victory, and uphold his Songun idea and leadership with loyalty.
    We should wage an unflinching struggle under the uplifted banner of Songun to build a great prosperous powerful socialist nation, reunify the country and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche.