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DPRK, Cradle of People's Eternal Life and Happiness

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

   Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- The joint New Year editorial noted that the DPRK is a great people's country which embodies the Juche idea, the most dignified, invincible socialist power and the cradle of the eternal life and happiness of its people.
    The Korean people are recollecting with deep emotion the founding of the DPRK and its popular policies on the occasion of its 60th birthday.
    The foundation of the DPRK by President Kim Il Sung was a historic event which opened up a new era in the building of a socialist state centered on the popular masses and brought about a fundamental turn in carving out the destiny of the Korean nation.
    With its foundation, the great people's country, the first of its kind in 5,000 year-long history of the nation, which embodies the Juche idea came into being.
    The Republic has always made the demand and interests of the people the first consideration and striven for their realization. It has provided them with genuine freedom and rights in all realms of social life. They have been enjoying a worthwhile and happy life as the master of the state and society, revolution and construction.
    The DPRK was the first in the world to have abolished the taxation, the legacy of the old society. It enforced the free medical care, a socialist policy during the hard-fought war. The schoolchildren throughout the country are receiving the universal 11-year compulsory education without paying even a penny with nothing to envy more in the world.
    Everything serves the people and they are the masters of all the things.
    Included in the names of many state organs and monumental edifices is the word "people". Among them are the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Supreme People's Assembly which is the supreme legislative organ, the Korean People's Army, the Grand People's Study House and the People's Palace of Culture. Even the emblem of the Workers' Party of Korea reflects marks representing the working people.
    The DPRK which embodies the President's view and motto "the people are my God" and pursues Kim Jong Il's policy of love for the people is, indeed, the people's country, the cradle of their eternal life and happiness.