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Congratulatory Message to Kim Jong Il

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

  Pyongyang, September 9 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il was presented with a congratulatory message in the joint name of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, the National Defence Commission, the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Tuesday on the occasion of the 60th birthday of the DPRK.
    It said:
    The proclamation of the founding of the DPRK by President Kim Il Sung on Sept. 9, Juche 37 (1948), right after the country's liberation was a solemn declaration of the birth of socialist Korea, the first people's country in the former colony in the East, and marked a great event that opened up a new era of building a socialist state centered on the popular masses.
    Thanks to his outstanding leadership, the army and people of the DPRK could defeat the U.S. imperialists who had boasted of being the "strongest" in the world and honorably safeguard the freedom and independence of the country and the gains of the revolution and eradicate century-old backwardness and poverty and build a socialist power, independent in politics, self-supporting in economy and self-reliant in national defence, by successfully carrying out the post-war rehabilitation and construction, socialist revolution and gigantic socialist construction on debris.
    The President clarified the unique theory of power building which calls for making the state power a representative of the sovereign rights of the popular masses, an organizer of the creative ability and activities, a house-holder responsible for the people's living and protector of the interests of the people for the first time in the history of the building of the socialist government and successfully embodied it, building on this land the best socialist system centered on the popular masses where they have become masters of the country and society and everything serves them.
    Noting that the DPRK is greeting its best day in its development, demonstrating its invincible might under the experienced and tested leadership of Kim Jong Il, the message continued:
    Thanks to your leadership, the government of the Republic has developed to be a powerful political weapon for dynamically advancing the cause of building socialism centered on the popular masses as intended by the President, regarding the immortal Juche idea fathered by him as unshakable guidelines.
    You made sure that the Kim Il Sung Constitution was instituted and promulgated, a constitution which codified Kim Il Sung as the eternal President of the DPRK reflecting the unanimous will and desire of the army and people after the nation was seized with the profound grief over his demise. This was the most vivid manifestation of the revolutionary ethics and morality in the history of the constitution under socialism and marked a historic event that made the Republic shine forever with the august name of the President and enabled it to dynamically advance with the great revolutionary idea of the President and his undying exploits performed in the nation-building as an eternal foundation.
    The DPRK could steadily advance along the road of socialism of Juche despite the tempests of the complicated politics in the world where socialist power got degenerated and collapsed in various countries. This was the result of the revolutionary leadership of you who have strengthened and developed the government of the Republic as the state of its founder Kim Il Sung in name and reality with the iron faith that socialism is a science and the firm will that no change should be expected from you.
    It was thanks to your outstanding foresightedness and strong resolution that the Songun politics was formulated as the main political mode under socialism and the Korean-style state leadership system was established with the National Defence Commission as its core to develop the DPRK as a powerful socialist state which always emerges victorious thanks to the treasured sword of Songun.
    Never has there been such a time in the history of the Korean nation spanning 5,000 years as now when the position of the country has reached the level of a dignified power and the dignity and honor of the nation have been demonstrated to the whole world thanks to your Songun politics.
    You are, indeed, a peerless patriot and a great man without parallel as you have wisely led the country to victory and glory with noblest patriotism and outstanding political caliber.
    It is the unshakable faith and will of the army and people of the DPRK to totally entrust their destinies to you, a symbol of all victories and glory and future of Songun Korea, and achieve its eternal prosperity, single-mindedly remaining true to your idea and leadership.
    All the party members, servicepersons of the People's Army and people will hold the President in high esteem as the founder of socialist Korea and eternal President of the DPRK and steadily carry forward his idea and cause and thus glorify the country as Kim Il Sung's Korea, the everlasting country of the sun.
    We will decisively foil the anti-DPRK and anti-reunification moves of the separatist forces at home and abroad, holding fast to the three charters for national reunification, and surely build an independent and prosperous reunified powerful nation on this land of three thousand ri through the concerted efforts of all Koreans.
    We will boost international solidarity with the world progressive people desirous of independence and wage a positive struggle to build an independent and peaceful new world.