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Anniversary of Kim Il Sung's Work Marked

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

   Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- A scientific symposium on President Kim Il Sung's idea of sports and his leadership exploits was held at the People's Palace of Culture on October 4 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of his famous work "For the Development of Physical Culture and Sports on a Mass Scale." The work, published on October 6, Juche 35 (1946), set out a unique idea of developing the sports of Korea into sports for all as part of the nation-building for the sovereignty and independence of the country and its democratic development.
    Mun Jae Dok, chairman of the Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Commission, and other speakers said that the President's line of developing sports for all, guided by the Juche idea, made it possible to fully convert sports into the work of the popular masses and put the nation's sports technique on a solid popular basis, thus laying an eternal foundation for developing the Juche-oriented sports.
    They said that the policy of intensifying sporting activities at schools and popularizing sports provides an important guarantee for rapidly developing the country's sports technique to suit the intrinsic nature of sports under socialism.
    They pointed out that under the wise guidance of Kim Jong Il DPRK sportspersons fully demonstrated the dignity and spirit of the Korean nation at many international games including three sports games held among armies of the world and the FIFA U-20 Women's Football Championship.
    They called on all the sportspersons to firmly arm with the idea and theory of developing sports enunciated by the President in the work and bring about a new turn in the development of the nation's sports under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    Present at the symposium were Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Korea, senior officials of the working people's organizations, officials of ministries and national institutions and officials and players of sports groups and juvenile sports schools in Pyongyang.