Secy. Kim Jong Il recommended as WPK General Secretary
Pyongyang, September 22 (KCNA) -- A south Phyongan Provincial Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was held in Phyongsong city on Sunday.
The agenda of the conference was "On recommending comrade Kim Jong Il, the great leader of our Party and people, as General Secretary of our Party."
The conference coincided with a new era of the Juche revolution in which the Party and people of Korea were carrying forward the revolutionary cause of President Kim Il Sung under the leadership of the respected Secretary Kim Jong Il.
Present at the conference were Ri Jong Ok, politburo member of the WPK Central Committee and delegate of the Phyongsong City Party Organisation= So Yun Sok, politburo member of the WPK Central Committee, Chief Secretary of the South Phyongan Provincial Party Committee and delegate of the Sukchon County Party Organisation= and other delegates from Party organisations in the Province.
So Yun Sok said in his report:
"The conference will discuss the important question of recommending comrade Kim Jong Il as General Secretary of our Party and will be a historic meeting that mark a turning point in carrying forward President Kim Il Sung's revolutionary cause generation after generation.
"Comrade Kim Jong Il with literary and military accomplishments, talent and virtues has perfect qualities and qualifications as the people's leader. For a long time, he has wisely led the general affairs of the Party, state and army, together with the president, waged energetic revolutionary activities and performed immortal feats in carrying forward the Juche revolution.
"It is thanks to his leadership that our party has become famous as a revolutionary party of Juche, the wholehearted unity of the leader, the Party and the masses has been consolidated, the driving force of the revolution has been strengthened in every way, the foundation for the independent economy has been cemented and a revolutionary change has taken place in literature and arts.
"He has given personal guidance to more than 300 units in the province and important instructions to the province on more than 6,700 occasions, saying that the province should make more progress than other provinces because it is a satellite province near to the revolutionary capital of Pyongyang and a miniature of the development of the national economy as a whole.
"Under his wise leadership and great favors, all the Party organisations in the Province have grown strong and militant and the province has become an industrial centre with Juche-based modern production bases of fuel, electric power, building-materials, chemical goods and machines and a dependable grain producer of the nation. The province holds a big share in the nation's output of coal and electricity.
"Comrade Kim Jong Il enjoys absolute trust and respect from the Korean people and the progressives around the world for the immortal exploits he has performed for the people's revolutionary cause, the cause of socialism.
"The historic changes and amazing events in Korea prove that he is the most distinguished leader and greatest statesman in the present time.
"Recommending him as General Secretary of our Party reflects the wishes of our revolutionary forerunners who laid down their lives for the victory of the Juche revolution, the purest conscience of our people and rising generations determined to achieve eternal prosperity in a reunified country and the unanimous desire of the progressive people to create a bright future under the banner of socialism."
Ri Jong Ok said in his speech:
"All our Party members and people have long since venerated and upheld comrade Kim Jong Il as a brilliant man who will carry forward the Juche revolution generation after generation with highest loyalty and filial piety to the leader and as the great leader of our party and revolution.
"If we are to complete the president's revolutionary cause, we should elect comrade Kim Jong Il, intensely loyal to the leader's cause and possessed of brilliant wisdom and extraordinary leadership ability, as our Party's General Secretary. This is the unanimous desire of our people as well as the unshakable will of us officials who have worked at important posts of the party and the state by his side for a long time."
Fifteen other delegates took the floor, expressing full support to the recommendation of Secretary Kim Jong Il as General Secretary of the Party. They described it as a great event to meet the unanimous desire and will of the Party members and other people, who have absolutely trusted and upheld him as the great leader of the party and revolution.
The speakers vowed to uphold him as General Secretary of the Party, remain loyal and devoted to his leadership, demonstrate the might of the singlehearted unity of the leader, the Party and the masses and the grand appearance of a prosperous nation and achieve the final victory of the Juche revolution at an early date.
The conference adopted with unanimous approval a resolution on recommending Secretary Kim Jong Il as General Secretary of the WPK, reflecting the will and desire of the Party members and other people in the province.
The participants rose to their feet and warmly welcomed the adoption of the resolution with loud applause and cheers, greatly happy that their earnest desire is met.
Russian delegation visits Statue of President Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, September 22 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Agrarian Party of Russia visited the Statue of President Kim Il Sung on Mansu Hill on Sept. 21.
Members of the delegation led by its chairman Mikhail Lapshin laid a floral basket before the President's Statue and made bows.
The delegation arrived here on Sunday.
Kim Jong Suk, anti-Japanese heroine
Pyongyang, September 22 (KCNA) -- An endless stream of people, servicemen and children has been visiting the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery on mt. Taesong.
Standing in the centre of the top column, against the background of a red flag, is a bust of comrade Kim Jong Suk, an anti-Japanese heroine.
She was an indomitable communist revolutionary fighter who was unfailingly loyal to President Kim Il Sung.
She performed heroic feats in many battles in the period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, devotedly safeguarding the President.
She set examples in military trainings and political studies. She won a large-scale shooting contest of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army units held on march 8, 1944.
She also successfully performed underground operations.
She conducted activities in Sinpha and other areas of the homeland, expanding and developing party cells and the association for the restoration of the fatherland branches.
While conducting underground activities, she took good care of people so that she was deeply loved and respected by them.
The KPRA soldiers and people highly praised comrade Kim Jong Suk as anti-Japanese heroine, anti-Japanese heroine of mt. Paektu and General of Korea.
Korean nation should be reunified without fail
Pyongyang, September 22 (KCNA) -- The 36th-37th issue of the Russian newspaper "Patriot" carried an article entitled "The demarcation line can not divide the people", written by Mikhail Zemskov, editor-in-chief of the paper, to mark the 49th founding anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The United States should be blamed for the division of one country into two on the Korean Peninsula, the article said, and went on:
Though the DPRK suffered a big loss through the war imposed by the United States, it defended its sovereignty and dignity and has been turned into a powerful country with advanced industry and independent politics under the leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
The DPRK owes such achievements directly to President Kim Il Sung and Secretary Kim Jong Il and singlehearted unity is precisely the secret of vigorous advance of socialist Korea.
Some time ago Secretary Kim Jong Il, who is creditably carrying forward President Kim Il Sung's idea for the country's reunification, published a famous work "Let Us Carry Out the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's Instructions for National Reunification" to newly indicate solutions to the problems arising in the relations between the north and the south and the relations between the DPRK and the United States.
Korea is the biggest divided nation as the United States refuses to withdraw its troops from south Korea.
It is a wrong, unethical intention to divide people by the demarcation line and force them to forget their bloodline and ancestors, the article noted, adding that the Korean nation should be reunified without fail.