National Meeting Held

Pyongyang, October 8

A national meeting was held at the April 25 House of Culture today on the occasion of Kim Jong Il’s election as General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea. Present there were senior officials of the party, the state and the army.

At the meeting Jon Pyong Ho, member of the political bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, delivered a report titled “the cause of our party led by the great brilliant commander is sure to win”.

The reporter recalled that by having Kim Jong Il at the head of the WPK it has been able to develop into an ever-victorious revolutionary party which firmly preserves its revolutionary nature as the great revolutionary party of Juche type, the glorious party of President Kim Il Sung, and leads the socialist cause of Juche in the era of the army-based policy to brilliant victory despite the rapidly changing political situation in the world.

The WPK is leading the march under the socialist red flag in the 21st century to victory after radically changing its appearance as a militant party for the army-based revolution, an invincible party in which all its members form a harmonious whole with its leader, he noted, and continued:

It is the brilliant result of the great leadership, rare creative wisdom and tireless efforts of Kim Jong Il, who has strengthened the WPK into a powerful force steering the era of the army-based policy, that the army and people of the DPRK have fully demonstrated their revolutionary spirit and creative ingenuity, the power and high civilization of Korea of Juche. Thanks to his noble great patriotic decision, distinguished far-sightedness and independent external activities, the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, a landmark of national reunification in the new century, was published, the DPRK-Russia friendly ties have grown stronger again recently and a turning-point was brought about in improving the DPRK-Japan relations, which have remained in an extremely abnormal state for one century due to discord and confrontation.

He underscored the need to model the whole party on the Juche idea with a view to eternally glorifying the party as the party of Kim Il Sung and vigorously accelerating socialist construction and thus building up powerful state economic power commensurate with the era of army-based revolution.

The workers’ party and people of Korea will surely achieve the historic cause of national reunification by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation in the spirit of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, he noted, and declared: The WPK will in the future, too, firmly unite with all the people of the world advocating independence and carry on the vigorous struggle to build a free and prosperous new world free from domination and subordination.