National Meeting Held to Commemorate Birth Anniversary of Kim Il Sung
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)
Pyongyang, April 14 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium today to commemorate the 96th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.
Present there were senior officials of the party, army and state, chairpersons of friendly parties, officials of party, armed forces and power bodies, 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 the press, bereaved families of revolutionary martyrs, labor innovators, working people in the city, delegations of overseas Koreans and compatriots and the chief of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front.
Present there on invitation were diplomatic envoys of various countries and representatives of international organizations here and foreign guests.
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 Supreme People's Assembly, delivered a report at the meeting.
The reporter referred to the fact that Kim Il Sung, born in a patriotic and revolutionary family in Mangyongdae for several generations, led the historic struggle from the revolution for national liberation to socialist construction to victory for nearly a century, performing undying feats before the country and the revolution, the times and humankind.
Kim Il Sung was an outstanding thinker and theoretician who founded the immortal Juche idea, thus glorifying the DPRK as a homeland of the idea guiding the times and indicating the most correct way of accomplishing the popular masses' cause of independence, the reporter stressed.
Pointing to the fact that the President successfully accomplished the historic cause of national liberation through an anti-Japanese armed struggle and built the party, state and army after liberation, the reporter went on:
The army and people of the DPRK could defeat the two most ferocious and formidable imperialist enemies and emerge eternal masters of the country and their own destinies who successfully make a new history of national independence and the country's prosperity. This was entirely possible thanks to Kim Il Sung's extraordinary political and military wisdom and outstanding Songun revolutionary leadership.
The President led the deep-going social revolution of the two stages and the struggle for socialist construction to victory, thus freeing the Korean people from exploitation and oppression once and for all and building the socialist country of Juche shining with independence in politics, self-support in economy and self-reliance in national defence on this land where centuries-old backwardness and poverty once prevailed.
The President was the lodestar of the nation and the benefactor of human emancipation who paved a wide avenue for realizing the historic cherished desire for national reunification and made an undying contribution to the cause of global independence.
The reporter noted that the revolutionary idea and feats of the President have been firmly defended and successfully carried forward and developed by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Pointing out that the revolutionary idea of the President, the Juche idea, serves as the steadfast guiding idea of the party and the state and an invincible banner of the Korean revolution, the reporter stressed the need to carry out the revolution and construction only as required by the Juche idea and the way the President did and hold him in high esteem as the sun of Juche for all ages.
He called for glorifying this year of the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the DPRK as a year of historical turn which will go down in the history of the country and flinging open the gate to a great prosperous powerful nation without fail in 2012 which will greet the centenary of birth of the President.
The DPRK will resolutely shatter the south Korean conservative ruling forces' sycophancy towards the U.S. and confrontation with the north and usher in a new era of independent reunification, peace and prosperity, he declared.
The DPRK will oppose and reject the imperialists' moves for domination, intervention and war and strive hard to defend the peace and security in Asia and the rest of the world, he added.
Similar meetings took place in provinces, cities and counties on the same day.
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