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National Meeting Held to Celebrate May Day

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

   Pyongyang, May 1 (KCNA) -- A national meeting took place at the Central Workers' Hall here Tuesday to celebrate the 117th May Day.
    Present there were senior party and state officials and working people in the city.
    Ryom Sun Gil, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, made a report at the meeting.
    The reporter noted that the Korean working people have creditably discharged their mission in the whole course of history of firmly defending the cause of Juche and victoriously advancing it, holding President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at the head of the revolution.
    It is thanks to the wise leadership of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il that the Korean working people could dynamically advance the socialist cause of Juche and greatly contribute to the party and the revolution, the country and the people, he said, adding:
    Our working people have led a worthwhile and proud life, fully displaying their revolutionary character and fighting spirit under the energetic leadership and deep care of Kim Jong Il.
    It is the greatest happiness and highest glory of the working people in Songun Korea to glorify the new era of the Juche revolution as the most brilliant era of prosperity with firm confidence in victory under the banner of Songun, holding Kim Jong Il in high esteem.
    All the working people should hold Kim Il Sung in high esteem as the sun of Juche, under the slogan of faith that "The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung will always be with us," and glorify his immortal revolutionary life and leadership feats forever.
    Kim Jong Il is the centre of unity and leadership, the reporter said, calling upon all the working people to defend him politically and ideologically and at the cost of their lives and strengthen the single-minded unity of the party, the army and the people in every way and thus fully display the political and ideological might of Korean-style socialism.
    All the working people should become an ardent adherent to the Songun idea and a staunch defender of the Songun politics and a strict implementer of it to protect the valuable achievements of the Songun revolution like the apples of their eyes and remain faithful to the Workers' Party of Korea's revolutionary cause of Songun, the reporter said.
    He also said that they should extend full support and solidarity to the south Korean working people in the just struggle to achieve the national reunification under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration and further strengthen the international solidarity with the working peoples the world over in the idea of independence, peace and friendship.