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Meeting to Vow Loyalty to Kim Jong Il Held

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

   Samjiyon, February 12 (KCNA) -- A meeting to vow loyalty to Kim Jong Il was held at the secret camp in Mt. Paektu, a time-honored holy place of the revolution, on Tuesday with the approach of his birthday.
    Present there were senior party, army and state officials, officials of the party and armed forces organs, ministries, national institutions and working people's organizations, men and officers of the Korean People's Army and working people in Ryanggang Province.
    The meeting heard speeches reflecting faith and will to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche started in the thick forest of Mt. Paektu generation after generation. Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, noted that the birth of Kim Jong Il with the spirit and stamina of Mt. Paektu was the greatest fortune for the Korean nation as it promised rosy future in carving out the destiny of the Korean people and carrying out the revolution of Juche.
    He stressed the need for all the officials and other party members to devotedly defend Kim Jong Il in any storm and stress and strengthen the WPK into the Juche-oriented revolutionary party always shining with the august name of President Kim Il Sung and the invincible party demonstrating its dignity with the idea and will of Kim Jong Il.
    Kim Jong Gak, first vice-director of the KPA General Political Department, said that the KPA will wage the general offensive in response to the WPK's call for greeting the 60th anniversary of the DPRK with proud successes and increase in every way the might of the KPA, the backbone of the self-reliant national defence, thus reliably defending the socialist motherland.
    The KPA will continuously create examples for society in all fields as befitting the core rank of the revolution and the vanguard for prosperity of the country and perform feats in the main fronts for building an economic power with invincible might of the revolutionary army which does not know impossibility, he stressed.
    Ri Yong Chol, first secretary of the Central Committee of the youth league, said that the young people will become fortresses and shields that defend Kim Jong Il at the cost of their lives without hesitation by inheriting the spirit of devotedly defending the leader displayed by the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners.
    The entire youth vanguard of Songun will unite in one mind around Kim Jong Il and fully display the honor of being the reserve combat unit and detached force of the supreme commander in the worthwhile struggle to open wide the gate to a great prosperous powerful nation, he added.