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Anniversary of DPRK Marked

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

   Pyongyang, September 9 (KCNA) -- Leading papers today dedicate editorials to the 60th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK.
    President Kim Il Sung's founding of the DPRK on September 9, Juche 37 (1948) marked a significant event in ushering in a new era for building a rich and powerful country for the people on this land under the banner of the Juche idea, Rodong Sinmun says, and goes on:
    The foundation of the DPRK meant the birth of a new Korea for the people, the greatest and the most dignified one in the history of the nation spanning 5 000 years and the beginning of a glorious history of building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation in our era.
    The DPRK has recorded great victories and miracles by bravely overcoming all kinds of tempests and trials of history with the might of the single-minded unity under the leadership of the party and the leader during the past six decades.
    The Korean people have spared no precious blood and sweat in the struggle for the sovereignty, independence and the prosperity of the country sharing their destiny with the party both during difficult days and days of glory and victory, and firmly defended the government and the socialist system of the DPRK, valuing them more precious than their own lives. The single-minded unity has grown stronger in the victorious course of history under the sacred blue and red flag of the Republic. Herein lie the key to the mightiness of the DPRK, its high dignity and honor and immensely bright future.
    The feats performed by the President, who bequeathed the socialist power to the Korean people and glorified the dignity and honor of the nation, working heart and soul for the prosperity of the country and the happiness of people throughout his 80 odd-year-long revolutionary career, will shine long along with the history of the country.
    The prospect of the DPRK dynamically advancing toward the bright future full of confidence is firmly guaranteed by General Secretary Kim Jong Il's scientific revolutionary idea, the politico-ideological might and the might of the single-minded unity of all servicepersons and people firmly rallied around him as one.
    Thanks to the tremendous mental power of all servicepersons and people upholding the leader's idea and policy in single mind while devotedly safeguarding him at the cost of their lives the DPRK will continue to win victories and work miracles startling the world and exalt its might as an invincible power which no one dare provokes.
    Minju Joson editorially stresses that the DPRK will certainly scale the eminence of a great prosperous powerful nation and shine as the country of Kim Il Sung forever as it is led by Kim Jong Il.