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Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Assumption of KPA Supreme Commandership Marked

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

   Pyongyang, December 18 (KCNA) -- Working people's organizations held meetings on Monday to commemorate the 16th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's assumption of office as supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.
    At a meeting of workers and trade union members, the reporter and speakers said that Kim Jong Il's assumption of KPA supreme commandership was a great national auspicious event which provided a firm guarantee for the future destiny of the Workers' Party of Korea, the country and the people and it was an epoch-making event as it brought about the victorious future of the Juche revolution.
    Elaborating on the undying feats performed by Kim Jong Il in developing the KPA into an army of the leader and the party with his distinguished Songun revolutionary idea and leadership, they stressed that the military position of the Korean revolution has been impregnably cemented under the care of the brilliant commander of Mt. Paektu.
    At a meeting of agricultural workers, the reporter and speakers noted that Kim Jong Il assumed a heavy responsibility of the KPA supreme commander with the deep trust of the whole party and army and all the people. They also said that he formulated the Songun politics as a basic political mode of socialism and successfully solved the matter on the main force of the revolution in keeping with the demand of the times.
    At a meeting of women's union members, the reporter and speakers said that Kim Jong Il is an ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander as he has strengthened and developed the KPA into the vanguard of the Songun revolution and achieved the great victory in the struggle to defend socialism and build a great prosperous powerful nation.
    Reporters and speakers at meetings expressed their firm determination to contribute to accomplishing the cause of building a great prosperous powerful nation in the near future by building up the organizations as required by the developing realities and bringing about a new upsurge in the efforts to build an economic power, true to the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    The poem "General is our supreme commander" was recited at the above-said meetings.