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Banquet Given to Celebrate DPRK Birthday

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

   Pyongyang, September 9 (KCNA) -- The DPRK government gave a banquet at the People's Palace of Culture on Sunday evening on the occasion of the 59th anniversary of the foundation of the DPRK.
    Present there were senior Party, army and state officials, chairman of a friendly party, leading officials of party, armed forces and power organs, public organizations, ministries and national institutions, anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters, former unconverted long-term prisoners who are pro-reunification patriotic fighters, officials in the fields of science, education, culture and arts, public health and the press, heroes, men of merits, members of the congratulatory group of Koreans in Japan, overseas Koreans and the chief of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front.
    Present on invitation were diplomatic envoys of various countries and staff members of foreign embassies and representatives of international organizations here and foreign guests.
    Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, made a speech at the banquet.
    He in his speech said that the whole historic course covered by the DPRK is a glorious history in which it has been developed into a strong socialist power and invincible Songun Korea, overcoming all ordeals and difficulties of history.
    Noting that today the DPRK is dynamically advancing toward the bright future of prosperity thanks to the ever-victorious Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il, he said that all the servicepersons and people would share their destiny with the DPRK forever and more dynamically struggle for the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation, the independent reunification of the country and the final victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche.
    The DPRK government will wage a nationwide powerful struggle for attaching importance to the nation, defending peace and achieving unity in the spirit of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and in the spirit of "By our nation itself" and thus smash the moves of the separatists at home and abroad and achieve the historic cause of national reunification without fail, he stated, and went on:
    The DPRK government will unite with the peoples of all countries defending independence in the idea of independence, peace and friendship to oppose and reject the imperialists' moves for domination, intervention and war and make positive efforts for stability and development in Asia and the rest of the world.