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Oath-Taking Rally Held in Secret Camp in Mt. Paektu

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

   Samjiyon, February 12 (KCNA) -- An oath-taking rally to celebrate February 16 took place with splendor in the secret camp in Mt. Paektu, the holy place of the sun, on Monday.
    Present there were senior party, army and state officials, members of the Cabinet, leading officials of the party and military organs and working people's organizations, servicepersons, members of the June 18 Construction Shock-Brigade and working people in Ryanggang Province.
    Speeches were made there.
    Choe Thae Bok, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and secretary of its Central Committee, addressing the rally, said that thanks to the historic day when Kim Jong Il was born as a bright star over Mt. Paektu Juche Korea could greet the present with a high pride and have a rosy future. The WPK has demonstrated its dignity as a great guiding force of the Songun revolution, he added.
    He called upon all officials and other party members to devotedly defend Kim Jong Il with a transparent revolutionary outlook on the leader and develop the glorious WPK into the eternal party of President Kim Il Sung.
    Vice Marshal of the Korean People's Army Kim Il Chol, member of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and minister of the People's Armed Forces, said that the birth of Kim Jong Il was the nation's great event as it promised a bright future of the cause of Juche.
    He underscored the need to thoroughly establish the revolutionary commanding system of Kim Jong Il and dye the whole army with the Songun idea and thus eternally add shine to the glorious history and tradition of the elite revolutionary army which has won victory after victory under the leadership of the three generals of Mt. Paektu.
    Kim Kyong Ho, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, said that Kim Jong Il is a symbol of all victories and glory of the Korean youth, adding that they would single-mindedly uphold his Songun politics and firmly defend socialism of Korean-style centred around the people.
    Gorgeous fireworks were displayed in the sky above the forest of Mt. Paektu as if representing the emotion and joy of all the servicepersons and people at celebrating the February holiday.