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Diamond Jubilee of Kim Il Sung University Marked

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

   Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the April 25 House of Culture Saturday to mark the 60th anniversary of Kim Il Sung University. The meeting was attended by Kim Yong Nam, Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop, Kim Ki Nam and other senior officials, members of the Cabinet, officials of Party, armed forces and power organs, ministries and national institutions and teachers, employees and students of the university and university graduates.
    A congratulatory message of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea to the teachers, employees and students of the university was read out at the meeting.
    The message said that President Kim Il Sung founded the university as a mother university in the country on Oct. 1, Juche 35 (1946), clearly indicated the way to be followed by the university in each period and at each stage of developing revolution and looked after the life and work of the teachers, employees and students of the university with fatherly loving care.
    It referred to the fact that the university has creditably discharged the honorable mission and duty it assumed before the Party, the revolution, the homeland and the people for the past six decades, making the proud educational history and tradition and exploits performed in education shine in the annals of the Korean revolution.
    It is a great pride of our Party and the people to have the university, the message noted, highly estimating the teachers, employees and students of the university for having performed noble exploits for the Party, the revolution, the country and the people.
    President of the University Song Ja Rip in his report said that the six decade-long history of the university is a glorious one in which the university has been consolidated as the highest seat of Juche education and a reliable centre for training native cadres, keeping pace with the advance of the Juche revolution thanks to the wise guidance and warm care of the three generals of Mt. Paektu.
    He underlined the need for officials and educators of the university to uphold Kim Il Sung as the eternal sun of Juche and fully apply the Juche-based idea on education of the three generals of Mt. Paektu and immortal leadership exploits performed by them in all fields of the university work, considering them as an eternal cornerstone.
    He called on all the teachers, employees and students to single-mindedly unite around Kim Jong Il and effect a fresh turn in education and scientific researches as required by the era of Songun and thus glorify the proud tradition of the university which regards loyalty to the Party and the leader as its life and soul.