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National Meeting Held to Mark 48th Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Start of Songun Revolutionary Leadership

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

  Pyongyang, August 24 (KCNA) -- A national meeting took place at the April 25 House of Culture Sunday to mark the 48th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's start of the Songun revolutionary leadership.
    Present there were cadres of the Party, army and state, chairpersons of friendly parties, officials of the Party and armed forces and power bodies, public organizations, ministries and national institutions, officers and men of the Korean People's Army, officials of the fields of science, education, culture and art, public health and media, heroes, men of merits and working people in the city.
    KPA General Kim Jong Gak, first vice director of the General Political Department of the KPA, made a report at the meeting.
    He said:
    On August 25, Juche 49 (1960) Kim Jong Il left the noble footprint of on-the-spot guidance to Guard Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Tank Division 105 of the KPA. This was the striking manifestation of his steadfast faith and will to accomplish with arms the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered by President Kim Il Sung with arms.
    Kim Jong Il's start of the Songun revolutionary leadership helped start the history of the great succession successfully carrying forward the Songun idea and leadership of the President and bring about a new turning-point in strengthening and developing the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK and accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche.
    Out of the original view and standpoint on the issues of the position and role of the revolutionary army he advanced the idea of putting the army before the working class for the first time in the history of the revolutionary movement, put forward the People's Army as the main force of the revolution and made sure that the Songun policy is comprehensively applied in all fields of the revolution and construction.
    With the Songun policy established as the basic political mode of socialism, the original way was opened to facilitate the balance of the revolutionary forces in our times and realize the socialist politics. It also helped the army and people of the DPRK confidently advance the revolutionary cause of Juche despite international political upheavals and the DPRK shed its rays over the world as the country of the great Songun idea and policy.
    He visited anywhere soldiers are despite the biting cold in midwinter and the sweltering weather in the hottest period of summer to take deep care of the soldiers of the People's Army ranging from the political and ideological education of the servicepersons and the combat and political training to the economic, cultural and entertainment life of units. His fatherly love and trust were the basic motive force which helped firmly arm the People's Army with the Juche idea and the Songun idea and strengthen it into the strong revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu with the transparent spirit of devotedly defending the headquarters of the revolution, the peculiar strategy and tactics of our style and the invincible combat capability.
    Kim Jong Il established new state system of our own style with the National Defence Commission as a pivot as required by the developing revolution in the Songun era and strengthened the single-minded unity of the revolutionary ranks with the army as its core in every way.
    It was thanks to the Songun policy of the Workers' Party of Korea consistent with the spirit of genuine patriotism and staunch idea of independence against imperialism that the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and the October 4 declaration, the programme for its implementation, were provided, the desire of all the fellow countrymen to achieve the national reunification by their concerted efforts has become an irresistible trend and the prestige, position, influence and attraction of the DPRK has risen exceptionally high in the international arena and the international solidarity with the Korean revolution has grown stronger.
    Shining victories and changes made in the fields of politics, military affairs, economy and culture and national reunification and the external relations despite all challenges of history vividly prove that the Songun revolutionary leadership and Songun politics of the Workers' Party of Korea serve as an ever-victorious banner of ushering in a new great era of the Juche revolution and an all-powerful treasured sword helping powerfully step up the revolution and construction and successfully transform all fabrics of social life.
    The reporter underlined the need to stage an all-out offensive on all fronts of socialist construction based on the historic victory of Songun revolution and its achievements and thus fling open the gate of a great prosperous powerful nation, accelerate national reunification and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche.
    He went on:
    The army and people of the DPRK will never remain an onlooker to the U.S. military and the south Korean bellicose forces staging frantic anti-DPRK war moves swimming against the trend of the times. Should the U.S. imperialists and their following forces misjudge the DPRK's will and act rashly, they will mercilessly wipe out the aggressors to the last man and certainly achieve the historic cause of national reunification by dint of the might of Songun they have built up century after century.
    The DPRK will exert positive efforts to reject the imperialists' domination, interference and war moves and protect peace and security of Asia and the rest of world in firm unity with peoples of all countries advocating independence in the idea of independence, peace and friendship.