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Papers Observe May Day

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

   Pyongyang, May 1 (KCNA) -- Papers today dedicate editorials to May Day, the international holiday of the working people the world over.
    Rodong Sinmun stresses that it is the steadfast will of all the working and other people of the DPRK to bring about ceaseless surge in the building of a great prosperous powerful nation under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il and thus glorify the country as a socialist power of Juche.
    In the DPRK May Day has been observed by the workers, farmers and intellectuals together as a holiday of the working people since the liberation of the country, the daily says, and goes on:
    The Workers' Party of Korea put forward the workers, farmers and intellectuals as a performer of the revolution and a master in charge of the building of a prosperous and powerful country and has inspiringly aroused them to the revolution and construction.
    Our history of building a prosperous and powerful country, a history woven with epoch-making creation and changes, is associated with the undying feats of all the working people, who have devotedly worked for the country and the revolution, true to the leadership of the Party and the leader.
    The revolutionary spirit and militant power of our working people have been fully demonstrated in the brisk drive to attain the high goal for building a great prosperous powerful nation under the Songun leadership of the Party.
    In this course, the single-minded unity of the army and the people around the headquarters of revolution has been further cemented and the powerful military deterrent provided to defeat any formidable enemy.
    It is the great pride of the WPK and the DPRK to have the large revolutionary and militant unit of working people who are intensely loyal to their leader and their cause and unhesitatingly go through fire and water for prosperity of the country, and it serves as a powerful driving force for building a great prosperous powerful nation.
    All the working people should work harder to turn Songun Korea into a prospering paradise of people by inheriting the proud tradition in which they have victoriously advanced the cause of building a prosperous and powerful country under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
    They should strengthen solidarity with the working people of the world aspiring after justice, peace and independence against imperialism.
    All the working and other people in the DPRK will as ever strengthen solidarity with the world progressive people who are struggling to build a free and peaceful, new world while opposing the arbitrary practices and aggressive moves of the imperialists.
    Minju Joson calls upon all the working people to contribute to the building of a prosperous and powerful country with their ardent enthusiasm and creative labor.