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National Meeting Celebrates February 16

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

   Pyongyang, February 15 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the April 25 House of Culture on Friday to celebrate February 16.
    Present there were senior officials of the party, the army and the state, chairpersons of the friendly parties, officials of the party, armed forces and power organs, public organizations, ministries and national institutions, servicepersons of the Korean People's Army, officials in the fields of science, education, culture and arts, public health and media, labor innovators, working people in Pyongyang, congratulatory groups and delegations of overseas compatriots and other compatriot figures and the chief of the Pyongyang Mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front.
    A report was made by Kim Yong Nam, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly.
    The reporter noted that the birth of Kim Jong Il as son of the legendary guerrillas in the historic period when the dawn of the liberation of the country was at hand amidst fierce battles for the final victory of the anti-Japanese war was the greatest fortune for the Korean nation as it promised a rosy future of Juche Korea and a world historic event which opened a bright prospect for the human cause of independence.
    Every great social change and progress brought about by the army and people of the DPRK while steadily advancing the socialist cause of Juche generation after generation are closely associated with the distinguished ideological and theoretical wisdom and outstanding political caliber, iron-will and matchless grit and noble personality of Kim Jong Il, the reporter said, and went on:
    Kim Jong Il is the outstanding thinker and theoretician who has carried forward the immortal Juche idea in all fields and developed it in depth with fresh ideological and theoretical wealth, indicating the right way for the popular masses in the present era to accomplish the cause of independence.
    What is outstanding among the ideas and theories expounded by Kim Jong Il is that he has carried forward the idea of attaching importance to arms and military affairs, which President Kim Il Sung enunciated in the incipient period of the Korean revolution and invariably adhered to, and developed it in depth in all fields as required by the developing situation.
    Kim Jong Il formulated the philosophy on army that a revolution starts and advances by dint of arms and the principle of Songun that the army means the party, state and people, set forth the idea of putting the army ahead of the working class for the first time in the history of the revolutionary movement and defined the Songun politics as a main political mode under socialism, thus providing an all-powerful treasured sword in the struggle for independence against imperialism and for socialism.
    By establishing the Korean-style state leadership system with the National Defence Commission as its backbone under the veteran and tested leadership of Kim Jong Il the government of the Republic has grown stronger to be a powerful political weapon for fully embodying the Songun idea and line of the party in all fields of the revolution and construction and accomplishing the Juche revolutionary cause with the might of Songun.
    All party members, servicepersons and people should enshrine the truth that the prosperity of the socialist motherland and the genuine life and happiness of the Korean people are ascribable to Kim Jong Il as unshakable faith and protect him politically and ideologically at the cost of their lives.
    We will implement the October 4 declaration, holding aloft the banner of "By our nation itself" along the path indicated by the June 15 joint declaration based on Kim Jong Il's noble idea of achieving national reunification and surely achieve the historic cause of national reunification through a nationwide struggle for independent reunification and peace and prosperity.
    We are closely following the double-dealing attitude of the U.S. as it is employing double-edged tactics of appeasement and pressure, persistently trying to stifle the DPRK by force. We will not tolerate even a slight hostile action on the part of the U.S. but decisively react to it with a stronger measure.
    Only victory and glory are in store for the army and people of the DPRK as long as they have Kim Jong Il in the van of the revolution and there are the revolutionary party of Juche, the invincible revolutionary armed forces and the single-minded unity of the revolutionary ranks, he concluded.
    Meanwhile, similar meetings took place in every province, city and county across the country on the same day.