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National Symposium Held

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

   Pyongyang, October 12 (KCNA) -- A national symposium was held at the People's Palace of Culture on October 11 to mark the 80th anniversary of the formation of the Down-with-Imperialism Union. Thae Hyong Chol, president of the Academy of Social Sciences, and other speakers said the formation of the union, the first vanguard organization of the Korean revolution, was a historical event which declared a new start of the Korean revolution under the outstanding leadership of President Kim Il Sung.
    The formation of the union, they stressed, opened a new era of the Juche revolution in which the Korean revolution is advancing with a correct goal and strategy and tactics based on the principle of independence, breaking with all hues of outdated ideas such as flunkeyism and dogmatism.
    With the formation of the union, a great origin was given to the unity and solidarity around the leader in the Korean revolution and a new path of revolution was hewn so that it could be pushed ahead in reliance upon the internal revolutionary forces. It was led to the creation of a unique way of revolution to win victories by Songun with belief in the might of the people, they noted.
    The principle of independence put forward by the union, they added, became the starting point of the struggle for founding in Korea a revolutionary party of Juche type, a party of new type different from the parties of bygone days, and, it has been kept in the whole course of the party building and activities.
    The idea of anti-imperialism, independence and sovereignty, and socialism held aloft by the President in the union is wholly embodied in the Songun policy pursued by Kim Jong Il to display ever-victorious might in the military confrontation with the U.S. imperialists without gun reports and open a new era of the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation of Juche, they said.
    The Workers' Party of Korea, they stressed, has fully inherited the ideology and fighting spirit of the union whose justice and unbreakable might have been fully verified on the prolonged and arduous road of revolution spanning 80 years and its cause of Songun revolution will be all triumphant in the future, too.
    Present at the symposium were officials of the central and Pyongyang city party and administrative organs and working people's organizations, men of science, education, party official training institutions, the press, literature and arts and officials preserving revolutionary historical sites.