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Rodong Sinmun Calls for Upholding Songun Banner

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

   Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today dedicates an editorial to the 42nd anniversary of Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. Kim Jong Il is a great leader who recorded the long history of his leadership of revolution as one of the most brilliant victories and miracles of the century, gifted with rare great man's traits and qualities previously unknown in history, says the daily in the editorial, a summary of which reads:
    A fundamental turn was brought in party building and overall party work under the energetic leadership of Kim Jong Il who has always put greatest efforts in strengthening the party and steadily increasing its leading role.
    He has created the model of the times in succeeding the idea and cause of the leader under the banner of modeling the whole society on the Juche idea, reared our revolutionary armed forces into an invincible strong army and built so many great monumental edifices of the Workers' Party era all over the country, and words fail to describe all the immortal feats he has performed in those days.
    The cause of the Party is the cause of the Songun revolution and the history of his revolutionary leadership is resplendent as a noble history in which Kim Jong Il has created an ever- victorious heroic epic under the Songun banner.
    It is entirely a brilliant fruition of his Songun politics that the lifeline of the Korean revolution pioneered in Mt. Paektu has been steadily succeeded and the dignity and unconquerable features of socialist Korea have been strikingly demonstrated to the world despite the ceaseless war provocation moves of the imperialists and complicated political situation of the world.
    It is a miracle in history that he firmly defended the banner of socialism and opened a new era of building a great prosperous powerful nation with the original Songun policy in the last decade of the 20th century when the Korean revolution faced a grim test.
    The whole party, whole army and all the people should more firmly arm with the greatness of the Songun policy of Kim Jong Il, unite ever closer around the headquarters of the revolution, holding ever higher the slogan "Let us defend the revolutionary headquarters headed by the great Comrade Kim Jong Il with our lives!" and resolutely defend his undying leadership exploits in party building and thoroughly apply them to the party work and activity.