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Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Assumption of Supreme Commandership Celebrated

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

   Pyongyang, December 22 (KCNA) -- A meeting of workers and trade union members was held at the Central Workers' Hall Thursday to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's assumption of the supreme commandership of the Korean People's Army. Present at the meeting was Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.
    A reporter and speakers at the meeting said that with Kim Jong Il assuming the top post of the revolutionary armed forces, a decisive guarantee was provided to energetically carry forward the cause of Juche-oriented army building started by President Kim Il Sung and successfully bring the Korean revolution to accomplishment by steadily inheriting the tradition of Songun.
    They noted that Kim Jong Il has fortified the military position of the country by bringing up the KPA into the strong revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu with his unique Songun policy and, in reliance upon the invincible military force, boosted the self-defensive deterrent in every way and registered brilliant victories and changes in defending socialism and building a great prosperous powerful nation.
    The celebration poem "The General of Korea" was recited at the meeting.
    Stage performances were given by the workers' art squad of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea and the art squad of the Central Committee of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea on the same day to mark the 15th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's assumption of the supreme commandership of the KPA and the 89th birth anniversary of anti-Japanese war hero Kim Jong Suk.
    Performers sang in an excited tone of the glory and happiness in having Kim Jong Il as supreme commander of the revolutionary armed forces.
    Put on stage were the female chorus "Recollection of the Old Home," the female solo "Korea, Let Me Embrace You Again" and other songs which made the audience recall the immortal exploits of Kim Jong Suk and long for her more ardently.