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National Meeting Marks Kim Jong Il's Election as NDC Chairman

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

   Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the April 25 House of Culture Sunday to celebrate the 14th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission.
    Vice Marshal of the Korean People's Army Kim Il Chol, member of the NDC of the DPRK and minister of the People's Armed Forces, in a report said that the election of Kim Jong Il as the top leader of the state politics responsible for increasing the country's defence capacity and the state power as a whole provided the servicepersons and people of the DPRK with a sure guarantee for glorifying generation after generation President Kim Il Sung's idea of building self-reliant national defence forces and the exploits performed by him in the field and the cause of building a rich and powerful country and achieving the final victory of the Juche-oriented revolution.
    The reporter continued:
    The path of revolution covered by the DPRK, having Kim Jong Il at the head of its NDC, is a praiseworthy and proud one along which it has firmly defended Korean-style socialism of Juche, standing in confrontation with the U.S.-led imperialist allied forces single-handed and ushered in a dawn of a great prosperous powerful country on this land through world-startling tremendous creations and changes.
    It is under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il that an all-people and nationwide defence system has been reinforced and the social trait of attaching importance to the military affairs and the army prevails in the country, converting the whole country into an invulnerable fortress and augmenting the DPRK's military muscle to be stronger than ever before.
    No force on earth can match the army and people of the DPRK single-mindedly united around the headquarters of Songun revolution on the basis of their absolute trust in the leader. This single-minded unity represents a great symbol of the invincibility of Songun Korea dynamically advancing toward the high peak of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation despite worldwide great political upheaval and provides a sure guarantee for achieving the victory of the Juche revolution.
    The DPRK has legitimately ranked itself among the nuclear weapons states. This was a great victory of the Songun idea, the Songun revolutionary line of the Workers' Party of Korea and a praiseworthy historic event as it translated into reality the centuries-old desire of the nation to have national power strong enough not to allow anyone to dare provoke it and provided a fundamental guarantee for dynamically advancing the cause of building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation despite the imperialists' threat of a nuclear war and their moves for aggression.
    Kim Jong Il's Songun politics consistent with the principle of national independence and patriotism ushered in the June 15 era of reunification, an embodiment of the idea of "By our nation itself", and brought about a landmark phase in the movement for national reunification. It, at the same time, helped the DPRK exalt its dignity and prestige on the international arena higher than ever before and significantly boost the international solidarity with the Korean revolution.
    The reporter called for attaining a new target of building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation, stepping up the cause of national reunification and achieving the final victory of the Juche-based revolution, drawing on the victories and achievements of national historic significance made in the course of the great Songun revolution.
    The situation on the Korean Peninsula still remains tense due to the U.S. incessant military provocations, he said, and went on: The DPRK is following with a high degree of vigilance the reckless moves of the U.S., Japan and other hostile forces. Should anyone infringe upon the sovereignty and the dignity of the DPRK even a bit, the DPRK will sternly punish it with the matchless armed forces built under the Songun leadership.
    Present at the meeting were senior party, army and state officials.