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Papers Hail Opening of National Meeting of Intellectuals

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

   Pyongyang, November 30 (KCNA) -- Papers Friday editorially hail the national meeting of intellectuals opening today.
    The national meeting of intellectuals is a historic meeting which will mark an occasion of a decisive turn in the work to thoroughly implement the Workers' Party of Korea's unique idea of attaching importance to the intellectuals, the idea propounded by President Kim Il Sung for the first time in history and has been carried forward by Kim Jong Il, and bring earlier the victory of the cause of building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation, Rodong Sinmun says, and goes on:
    The President, with a deep insight into the position and role of intellectuals in the revolutionary struggle and building a new society, considered the intellectuals as an important part of the driving force of the revolution and made sure that the emblem of the WPK was emblazoned with a writing brush along with a hammer and a sickle. This was the most unique and revolutionary idea and policy of attaching importance to the intellectuals which could be laid down only by the President, the founder of the immortal Juche idea and a genius of creation and construction.
    Kim Jong Il, successfully carrying forward the above-said idea of the President, has attached great importance to the position and role of intellectuals and placed them on the forefront of the work for modeling all of society on the Juche idea since the very day he began leading the WPK and the revolution.
    He has always found himself among intellectuals. Over the past more than a decade, they have achieved great success in the struggle to defend the socialist system and lay a springboard from which to build a great prosperous powerful nation, bravely overcoming hardships and ordeals. This is a brilliant fruition of the experienced and tested leadership of Kim Jong Il as he made a glorious history of valuing intellectuals with warm comradeship and trust, providing them with the most revolutionary ideological pabulum.
    Our intellectuals, deeply aware that the grandeur and prosperity of the country and the people's happiness are guaranteed by the latest science and technology, will powerfully demonstrate through the meeting their determination to take the lead in implementing the WPK's plan for building a great prosperous powerful nation with science and technology.
    Minju Joson notes that the national meeting will strikingly prove the validity and vitality of the WPK's policy on intellectuals and the undying exploits performed by the WPK in settling the issue of intellectuals.