80th Anniversary of Young Communist League of Korea Marked
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)
Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- A national meeting took place at the People's Palace of Culture on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the Young Communist League of Korea organized by President Kim Il Sung.
Present there were senior officials of the party, the army and the state, officials of party and armed forces bodies and the fields of science, education, culture and arts, public health and media, officials of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League and youths and students in Pyongyang.
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Ki Nam made a report there.
He said that Kim Il Sung is the founder and builder of the youth league in the DPRK and great leader who gave genuine origin to the youth movement of Juche and wisely led it along the road of victory.
He went on:
The President founded the Young Communist League of Korea on August 28, Juche 16 (1927) with core members of the Anti-Imperialist Youth League of Korea brought up by himself and young revolutionaries trained and tested through different revolutionary organizations.
The formation of the league made it possible to establish the unified leadership of the President over the overall Korean revolution and helped the revolutionary cause of Juche and the youth movement rooted in the Down-With-Imperialism Union make steady progress, having a powerful vanguard organization which has firmly united revolutionary young core elements.
It was the immortal exploit performed by the league for the country and the nation and the revolution that it held the President in high esteem as the sun of the nation and a central figure for unity and leadership over the Korean revolution.
His original idea of giving importance to the youth has been successfully carried forward and developed by Kim Jong Il, peerless illustrious commander of Songun.
The proclamation of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League was the brilliant fruition of the wise leadership and far-reaching plan of Kim Jong Il to further strengthen and develop the youth movement in Korea which was started and led by the President and glorify the youth league as an eternal youth organization of the President and the party.
The WPK took the historical measure of instituting August 28, the foundation day of the Young Communist League of Korea, as the Day of Youth.
This crystallized Kim Jong Il's idea of giving importance to the youth and his view on the younger generation as he is possessed of love for young people and trust in them as his inborn disposition and reflected his strong hope that the young people would inherit the glorious history and tradition of the youth movement in Korea and successfully carry forward generation after generation and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche which started from Mt. Paektu.
The reporter called on all the young people to bear in mind the Songun revolutionary line of the WPK as immutable truth, firmly arm themselves with the Party's Juche idea, Songun revolutionary idea and thus become ardent adherents to the idea and its steadfast champions and implementers who think and act as required by the Songun idea.
The reporter underscored the need for the young people to take the lead in implementing the tasks of giving importance to the nation, defending peace and achieving unity under the banner of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, fully support the young Koreans in Japan in their courageous struggle against the Japanese reactionaries hell-bent on the moves against the DPRK and the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan and boost the solidarity with world progressive young people, guided by the idea of independence, peace and friendship.
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