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National Meeting Held to Mark May Day

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

   Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the People's Palace of Culture Wednesday to mark the 118th May Day, the international holiday of the working people the world over.
    Present there were Kim Yong Nam, Kim Yong Il and others, the chairman of a friendly party, leading officials of working people's organizations, officials of ministries and national institutions, labor innovators and working people in the city.
    Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, in a report at the meeting said that General Secretary Kim Jong Il, basing himself on a deep analysis of the developing present times and the changed class relations, made sure that the May Day is commemorated as a holiday of the working people and thus performed another precious feat which will make an imperishable contribution to accomplishing the cause of independence of the working masses.
    Recorded in all shining annals of the Korean revolution adorned with victory and glory are the labor feats the working people have performed by devoting themselves to the country and the revolution, true to the leadership of the Party and the leader, the reporter noted.
    The course of the glorious struggle in which the working people of the DPRK have made great contributions to the Party and revolution, the country and the people while dynamically advancing the socialist cause of Juche represents the history of the outstanding and tested leadership of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, he said, and went on:
    The struggle of the Korean people for independence, sovereignty and socialism was unprecedentedly arduous and difficult but the working people of the DPRK could make an ever-victorious history, pulling through manifold difficulties and ordeals as they had Kim Il Sung, the peerlessly great man born of Heaven, in the van of the revolution.
    The undying feats Kim Il Sung performed by bringing up the workers, farmers and intellectuals as dependable pillars of the revolution and building a socialist power independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in national defence, devoting his all to the working masses while finding himself among them all his life, will remain shining for all ages with the eternal prosperity of Juche Korea.
    The revolutionary leadership of Kim Il Sung, who led the revolution to victory in reliance on the militant might and united strength of the working people as required by the era of Juche, the era of independence, is given steady continuity by Kim Jong Il, the Songun brilliant commander of Mt. Paektu.
    It was thanks to the wise guidance of Kim Jong Il that Korean-style socialism could demonstrate to the whole world its invincible might as it dynamically advanced along the road of Juche, firmly preserving the fundamental interests and principles of the revolution despite the grim situation in which the world socialist movement underwent failure and turns and twists.
    It is the greatest happiness and honor of the working people of the DPRK to glorify the new era of the Juche revolution as the annals of the most brilliant prosperity full of confidence of victory under the banner of Songun, holding Kim Jong Il, the great man of Mt. Paektu born of Heaven and the great defender of the socialist cause, in high esteem.
    The reporter called for pushing ahead with the general advance of the Songun revolution true to the leadership of Kim Jong Il and thus flinging open the gate to a great prosperous powerful socialist nation as early as possible and accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche.
    We will resolutely shatter the pro-U.S. sycophantic south Korean conservative ruling forces' moves for confrontation with the DPRK and vigorously struggle for independent reunification, peace and prosperity by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation and thus achieve the historic cause of national reunification without fail, the reporter said, extending positive support and firm solidarity to the south Korean working people in their just struggle for independence against the U.S. and for the democratization of society and the reunification of the country in the name of all the working people in the DPRK.
    The reporter declared that the working people in the DPRK would as ever discharge their historic mission in defending the world peace and security and promoting the human cause of independence and boost the international solidarity with the working people the world over in the idea of independence, peace and friendship.