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Pyongyang City Mass Rally Held

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

   Pyongyang, January 4 (KCNA) -- A Pyongyang city mass rally was held at Kim Il Sung Square Friday to vow to thoroughly implement the militant tasks set forth in the joint editorial this year.
    Kim Yong Il, Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop, Kim Jung Rin, leading officials of ministries, national institutions and working people's organizations, officials of party and power organs, economic institutions and working people's organizations in Pyongyang, and labor heroes and labor innovators were among more than 100,000 working people present at the rally.
    Pak Pyong Jong, first vice-chairman of the Pyongyang City People's Committee, in a report recalled that last year the citizens in Pyongyang grandly commemorated the 95th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung and celebrated significant revolutionary holidays including the 75th birthday of the Korean People's Army as great auspicious events of the nation and made positive contributions to making great progress in building a rich and powerful country.
    The political events last year strikingly demonstrated once again the Korean people's absolute trust and reverence for the headquarters of the revolution and their unshakable faith and will to carry forward the ever-victorious history and traditions and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche started on Mt. Paektu under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea, he said, adding that all the achievements are the shining fruition of Kim Jong Il's energetic leadership.
    The reporter underscored the need for all the citizens of the capital to turn out as one in the struggle to bring about a fresh turn in building a great prosperous powerful country in the same spirit as displayed in the post-war days when the Korean people built a socialist power by leaps and bounds through the grand march of Chollima, in hearty response to the militant slogan of the party "Glorify This Year of the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the DPRK as a Year of Historical Turn Which Will Go Down in the History of the Country!"
    Saying that it is the determination and will of the WPK to put the national economy and the standard of the people's living on a high level and thus open wide the door to the prosperous and powerful country in 2012 without fail, he called for making fresh leaping progress on all fronts of the socialist construction.
    He called on all the citizens to greet with dignity the grand festival in September with proud labor achievements dedicated to the motherland.
    The floor was taken by Sin Yong Chol, manager of the Pyongyang Thermal-power Complex, Mun Kum Nyo, chairwoman of the management board of the Namsa Co-op Farm in Rakrang District, Ri Kwan Ho, head of a department of Kim Il Sung University, and Kim Song Chol, first secretary of the Pyongyang City Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League.