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National Meeting Held to Mark Diamond Jubilee of DPRK

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

   Pyongyang, September 8 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium Monday to mark the 60th birthday of the DPRK.
    Present there were senior party, army and state officials, chairpersons of the friendly parties, deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly, officials of party, armed forces and power bodies, social 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, bereaved families of revolutionary martyrs, labor innovators and working people in Pyongyang, the chief of the Pyongyang Mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front, the congratulatory group of Koreans in Japan and other congratulatory groups and delegations of Koreans and compatriots in different parts of the world.
    Present there on invitation were representatives and staff members of foreign embassies and representatives of international organizations here and delegations of different countries, delegations and delegates of Juche idea study organizations and friendly and solidarity organizations and other foreign guests.
    A congratulatory message presented to General Secretary Kim Jong Il on behalf of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the Central Military Commission of the WPK and the National Defence Commission, the SPA Presidium and the Cabinet of the DPRK was conveyed by Kim Yong Nam, member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly.
    Premier of the Cabinet Kim Yong Il delivered a report at the meeting.
    The reporter said that the six-decade-long history of the DPRK was a course of victory in which its army and people paved a new path for building a state centered on the popular masses under the uplifted revolutionary banner of the Juche idea, single-mindedly united around President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il, and fully demonstrated the might of a socialist power, independent in politics, self-supporting in economy and self-reliant in national defence, and a glorious path along which they strikingly showcased the validity and invincibility of the ideology, system and cause of the DPRK despite the stern tempest of the anti-imperialist struggle.
    He went on:
    Since the foundation of the DPRK Kim Il Sung energetically led the work to shape all lines and policies in line with the requirements and interests of its people and the specific conditions of the country and push ahead with the revolutionary struggle and construction in an independent and creative manner according to their own faith and viewpoint.
    Kim Il Sung, founder of the Songun idea and pioneer of the Songun revolution, paid primary attention to military affairs in the whole course of leading the DPRK and exerted great efforts for augmenting the military capability of the country in each period of the revolutionary development and at its each phase.
    The Juche-based cause of nation-building which has victoriously advanced under the banner of Songun has developed in depth to reach a new higher stage as Kim Jong Il established the Songun politics as a main socialist political mode as required by the changed environment of the times and the revolutionary development in the 1990s and embodied it in all fields.
    The reporter called for achieving the eternal prosperity of the country and the nation with the tremendous might of the servicepersons and people single-mindedly united around the headquarters of the revolution headed by Kim Jong Il, reunifying the country and wining a final victory in the revolutionary cause of Juche.
    The Korean people will wage a dynamic nationwide struggle to usher in a new era of independent reunification, peace and prosperity by their concerted efforts under the uplifted banner of the historic June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration and thus surely achieve the cause of national reunification, the reporter noted, and went on:
    The situation still remains tense on the Korean Peninsula due to the hostile moves of the U.S. imperialists and their satellite forces against the DPRK.
    The army and people of the DPRK are closely watching with a high degree of revolutionary vigilance the moves of the U.S. and its followers to stifle the DPRK and will resolutely and mercilessly retaliate against any slightest provocative act of infringing upon its sovereign dignity and interests.
    The DPRK government will in the future, too, further develop solidarity and cooperative relations with all countries that remain friendly to it in the idea of independence, peace and friendship and make positive efforts to achieve stability and development of Asia and the rest of the world, opposing and rejecting imperialists' domination, interference and moves for a war.