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Papers Hail Successful Election to Local Power Bodies

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

   Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) -- Papers today editorially hail the successful holding of the election of the deputies to the provincial (municipality directly under central authority), city (district) and county people's assemblies of the DPRK amid high political enthusiasm of all people in the DPRK.
    Kim Jong Il participated in the election of deputies to the local power bodies together with farmers of the Chusang Co-op Farm in Hamju County, South Hamgyong Province, greatly encouraging the voters across the country, papers note, and go on:
    99.82 percent of all the registered voters participated in voting and 100 percent of them voted for the candidates for deputies registered. This is a manifestation of the firm support and profound trust of all people in the socialist government in the DPRK under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    Rodong Sinmun says that this election fully demonstrated the firm confidence and will of the Workers' Party of Korea and the DPRK people to eternally hold President Kim Il Sung in high esteem as the father of the nation and the eternal sun of Juche and bring about a decisive turn in building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il and the might of the single-minded unity of the revolutionary ranks and advantages of the socialist system in the DPRK. This is the most shining success made by the election.
    The election strikingly demonstrated the fixed will of the people to defend and glorify the Korean-style socialism to the last.
    It helped lay a solid foundation for further increasing the function and role of the DPRK government as required by the Songun era.
    The editorial calls for achieving a new leap forward in the drive for building a socialist economic power by maintaining an uninterrupted surge in the revolutionary spirit that has grown stronger through this election.
    It goes on:
    It is essential to thoroughly ensure the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il over the building of the government and its activities.
    The immortal exploits performed by Kim Jong Il in the building of the government in the course of the Songun revolution should be defended and glorified to the last.
    It is necessary to give full play to the advantages of Korean-style socialism in all fields.
    An all-out charge should be waged for the building of an economic power in the revolutionary soldier spirit and the spirit of Thaechon.