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Banquet Given by DPRK Government

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

   Pyongyang, September 9 (KCNA) -- The DPRK government arranged a banquet at the People's Palace of Culture on Sept. 9 on the occasion of the 60th birthday of the DPRK.
    Present there were senior officials of the Party, the army and the state, chairpersons of friendly parties, deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly, officials of party, armed forces and power organs, public organizations, ministries, national institutions, anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters, servicepersons of the Korean People's Army, officials of scientific, educational, cultural and arts, public health and media institutions and persons of distinguished services. The chief of the Pyongyang Mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front, the congratulatory group of Korean residents in Japan and other overseas compatriots were among those present there.
    Present there on invitation were foreign delegations, the delegations of friendly organizations and solidarity organizations of various countries on a visit to the DPRK, diplomatic envoys of different countries and representatives of international organizations here and foreign guests.
    Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, made a speech at the banquet.
    The speaker said that under the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung the DPRK has turned into an invincible power demonstrating its might with independence in politics, self-support in economy and self-reliance in national defence and a genuine cradle of the Korean people, courageously weathering out stern tempest and trials of history.
    The President's cause of building a rich and powerful country is now being successfully carried out at a new higher stage and the DPRK has a rosy future of a great prosperous powerful nation under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    It is the great fortune and the highest honor for the army and people of the DPRK to have Kim Jong Il at the helm of the Juche-based revolution, the speaker noted, and continued:
    A great prosperous powerful socialist nation of Juche is sure to emerge on this land to shed its rays all over the world and the dignity and might of the Republic will be further exalted thanks to the experienced and tested leadership of Kim Jong Il, the mental power of all the servicepersons and people single-mindedly united around the headquarters of the revolution and the invincible armed forces demonstrating their might as the strong revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu.