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60th Anniversary of Korean Writers Union Observed

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

   Pyongyang, October 13 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held here on Thursday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Korean Writers Union (KWU). A congratulatory message of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Korea to the writers and officials of the union was conveyed by Secretary Kim Ki Nam.
    The KWU, founded on October 13, Juche 35(1946), has carried out its honorable mission and duty for the party and revolution, covering the proud path of development under the wise leadership and deep care of the party and the leader for the past 60 years, the message said, and went on:
    The writers and officials of the union conducted the dynamic activities of writing revolutionary literature, always sharing mind and destiny with the party in the annals of the building of a new country, the Fatherland Liberation War and socialist construction, and thus defended the party and the leader and contributed to educating the people politically and ideologically, culturally and emotionally and arousing them to the revolution and construction.
    They waged an active drive to carry through the party's policy of literary and art revolution in the historic work of modeling the whole society on the Juche idea and brought about a turn in writing literary works of different forms including literature portraying the leader, thus contributing to opening a new chapter of the development of Juche-based literature and stepping up the socialist construction.
    And they wrote many monumental epics and masterpieces of the times with their pen for devotedly defending the leader in the hard period of the "Arduous March", thus contributing to strengthening the single-minded unity of the revolutionary ranks and encouraging the army and the people to defend socialism and build a great prosperous powerful nation.
    A report was made by Vice-Chairman of the KWU Central Committee Jang Sang Ik, and then followed speeches.
    The reporter and speakers said that they would defend Kim Jong Il politically and ideologically with their lives and faithfully uphold the Songun leadership of the party with signal achievements in writing, holding President Kim Il Sung in high esteem as the eternal sun of Juche with their firm revolutionary faith and noble moral obligation.
    They called for thoroughly arming with the Juche idea, the Songun idea of the party and glorifying the honor of eternal companions, loyal helpers and good advisers to the party, sharing destiny with their leader in any adversity.