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Centenary of Birth of Choe Hyon Commemorated

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

   Pyongyang, June 7 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the People's Palace of Culture Thursday to commemorate the centenary of the birth of revolutionary fighter Choe Hyon.
    Present there were Kim Yong Nam, Ri Yong Mu, Choe Thae Bok and other cadres, officials of the party and armed forces organs, public organizations, ministries and national institutions, servicepersons of the Korean People's Army, bereaved families of revolutionary martyrs and working people in Pyongyang.
    KPA Vice Marshal Kim Il Chol, member of the DPRK National Defence Commission and minister of the People's Armed Forces, made a report at the meeting.
    Noting that either a nation or an individual can glorify its destiny only when they are led by a great leader, a great party and they have a genuine homeland, the reporter said the entire career of anti-Japanese revolutionary fighter Choe Hyon clearly proved the philosophy on carving out the destiny of a man, expounded by the immortal Juche idea.
    He went on:
    Choe Hyon, born into a family of a fighter of the Korean Independence Army in Jiandao, an alien land, on June 8, 1907, embarked on the road of struggle for the country's independence prompted by his anti-Japanese patriotic desire. However, he experienced a miserable end the units of the Korean Independence Army met, chased by the Japanese imperialists armed to the teeth, because they lacked an outstanding leader. He was arrested by the enemy before serving more than seven years in prison.
    He heard the news behind bars that President Kim Il Sung founded the Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army and declared a great anti-Japanese war. After his release from prison, he joined the army after finding himself under the care of the President.
    Firmly believing in Choe Hyon's rare courage and ardent patriotism, the President took warm care of him from the early period of his activities and trained him as a competent commanding officer of the revolution in the crucible of the anti-Japanese war.
    After the country's liberation the President assigned him to important posts for building the Party, the regular revolutionary armed forces and a new country and appointed him as a divisional commander and an army corps commander in charge of the most difficult front during the Fatherland Liberation War.
    The worthwhile revolutionary career of Choe Hyon, who dedicated his life to protecting the party and the leader with arms on the first line of building the revolutionary armed forces, is also associated with the benevolent care of Kim Jong Il who looked after in a responsible manner the life of the veteran fighter whom the President trusted and treasured so much.
    The whole life of Choe Hyon was, indeed, a glorious life of a revolutionary of Juche type trained thanks to the profound trust and great favor of the great persons of Mt. Paektu.
    Choe Hyon was a model of revolutionary soldiers loyal to the leader as he worked heart and soul to uphold the leader and his cause with the transparent revolutionary outlook on the leader.
    His intense loyalty to the President was fully displayed in devotedly defending the headquarters of the revolution.
    He braved any sacrifice to ensure the personal safety of the President from the period of the anti-Japanese armed struggle.
    After the country's liberation Choe Hyon always placed the safety of the President above anything else and subordinated everything to it as he did during the great anti-Japanese war.
    He held Kim Jong Il in high esteem as a great successor to the revolutionary cause of Juche, remaining true to his revolutionary activities.
    Choe Hyon said it was the only job to be done by the elder generation after liberating the country and building the new country under the leadership of the President to take the lead in upholding Kim Jong Il. He worked heart and soul to ensure the safety and activities of Kim Jong Il and rendered distinguished services for finding a successful solution to the issue of succeeding the leadership of the Korean revolutionary cause.
    Choe Hyon, a brave and competent military commanding officer, made an outstanding contribution to carrying out the Songun revolutionary cause of the party with arms.
    He wholeheartedly upheld Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il with intense loyalty and fixed faith and performed great exploits for the homeland with arms. He was a typical revolutionary of Juche type and genuine man as he was possessed of noble traits as a leading member of the revolution.