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National Meeting Held to Mark 55th Anniversary of Victory in War

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

   Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the April 25 House of Culture on Saturday to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.
    Present at the meeting were senior officials of the party, the army and the state, the chairman of a friendly party, officials of the 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 media, persons of distinguished services in the war, servicemen's families, those who distinguished themselves in assisting the army, working people in Pyongyang, overseas 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, representatives of international organizations and members of the military attaches corps here.
    A report was delivered by Vice Marshal of the KPA Kim Il Chol, member of the DPRK National Defence Commission and minister of the People's Armed Forces.
    July 27, Juche 42 (1953) is shining as the day of the second liberation of the country in the annals of the sacred struggle of the Korean people for sovereignty, independence and socialism as they defeated the U.S. imperialist aggressors and defended the sovereignty of the country and the nation, the reporter said, and went on:
    The army and people of the DPRK inflicted a shameful defeat upon the imperialist aggressor forces including the U.S. imperialists in the Fatherland Liberation War. This was a shining victory of the revolutionary faith, prodigious grit, the Juche-oriented military idea and outstanding commanding art of President Kim Il Sung.
    Kim Il Sung developed and enriched the unique military theories and war methods which he put forward during the anti-Japanese armed struggle, as required by the modern warfare and in conformity with the specific conditions of the war. He thus defeated the enemies' numerical and technical superiority with the strategic and tactical superiority based on the political and ideological advantages, leading the hard-fought war to victory.
    During the war the KPA firmly held the initiative in it, inflicting an irretrievable politico-military defeat upon the aggressors and winning signal successes in every battle that startled the world people. This was a clear proof of the Juche-oriented military idea and matchless wisdom, the might and invincibility of the outstanding commanding art of Kim Il Sung who frustrated the "weapon all-mighty theory" of the imperialists and set a genuine example in the anti-imperialist revolutionary war by skillfully applying the original military theories in every period of the war and at its each phase.
    During the last Fatherland Liberation War, many peace-loving countries and progressive peoples of the world actively supported the army and people of the DPRK in their just war both materially and morally. The Chinese people sent volunteers to help them with blood. The Korean people always remember this.
    General Secretary Kim Jong Il has firmly preserved and successfully carried forward the undying exploits Kim Il Sung performed by winning the victory in the war. Kim Jong Il has pursued the Songun policy in all fields by most correctly reflecting the requirements of the times and the revolutionary development in the 1990s of the last century when the DPRK was undergoing manifold rigorous trials. This marked an event to be specially recorded in the history of the development of the Korean revolution and the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. struggle.
    Today our revolutionary armed forces are providing a sure military guarantee for the victory in the struggle to build a rich and powerful country and in the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. standoff, having war deterrent powerful enough to deter any aggressor forces from daring attack them.
    The reporter called on all party members, the servicepersons of the KPA and other people to firmly preserve and uphold the exploits Kim Il Sung performed by winning the victory in the war and carry forward the cause of the President and thus glorify the present era of Songun as an era of fresh victory in the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. standoff and a new era of prosperity of the DPRK.
    A grave situation is now prevailing in Korea due to the moves of the U.S. imperialists and their followers to start a new war, the reporter noted, and went on to say:
    If the U.S. conservative hardliners and south Korean warlike elements ignite a new war of aggression seeking confrontation in spite of our repeated warnings, the army and people of the DPRK will mobilize to the maximum the military potential built up generation after generation to deal at the aggressors blows a thousand times heavier than those done to them during the last Korean war and surely achieve the historic cause of national reunification and conclude the confrontation with the U.S. with a final victory of Songun Korea.
    The reporter also demanded the Japanese reactionaries properly understand the will of the DPRK and behave themselves, pondering over the disastrous consequences to be entailed by their hostile policy towards the DPRK.
    He declared that no force on earth can block the revolutionary advance of the KPA and people under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il and their just cause is sure to triumph.