Congratulatory letter to General Secretary Kim Jong Il from NDFSK Central Committee
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- The respected comrade Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, received a congratulatory letter from the Central Committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea on October 9.
The NDFSK Central Committee wholeheartedly extended highest glory and warmest congratulations to the great comrade Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the WPK, representing deep reverence and best wishes of the vanguard fighters and other people in the south.
To have general Kim Jong Il, who is a distinguished leader of the era and a rare great man, as General Secretary of the WPK is an expression of the absolute and immovable respect and boundless trust of the entire fellow countrymen and humankind, the letter said, and continued:
"You have performed immortal feats in the history of the nation and the history of humankind by valiantly pushing through the vicissitudes of history and leading the people's cause of independence, the socialist cause, to victory with your outstanding idea and leadership."
"With you at the head, the leadership role and might of the WPK will be strengthened a thousandfold and the people-centred socialism of Juche will throw brighter rays all over the world and the reunification of the country, the cherished desire of the nation, will be promoted vigorously, our country will prosper forever as a strong state that the world people look up to and the cause of global independence will be further accelerated.
"We will open a radical phase for the national democratic movement and bring earlier a new day of independence and democratisation of society and the independent reunification of the country at any cost under the banner of the great Juche idea in conformity with the requirement of the glorious Kim Jong Il era which is advancing with your iron will."
Congratulatory message to General Secretary Kim Jong Il from Chongryon Central Standing Committee
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- The great leader marshal Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, received a congratulatory message from the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) on October 8.
The message says that the Chongryon Central Standing Committee sincerely extends the highest glory and warmest felicitations to the respected general Kim Jong Il on his election as WPK General Secretary , representing the intense loyalty and filial piety and unbounded reverence of all Chongryon officials and Koreans in Japan.
"You, who are the greatest thinker, the greatest statesman and the greatest military commander and who have the noblest virtues in the world, effected epoch-making changes and opened a new era of great changes on this land, in the sacred course of carrying forward the revolutionary cause of Juche started by the fatherly leader Generalissimo Kim Il Sung," the message notes, and goes on:
"You have taken care of Koreans in Japan, an alien land far away from the motherland, trusted them as the eternal companions and faithful helpers in the noble cause of Juche and wisely led them to perform patriotic feats and create true happiness never witnessed among overseas nationals all over the world, with your great idea and loving care."
"Come what may, all Chongryon officials and Koreans in Japan will entrust their life and future wholly to you and uphold and follow you with unfailing loyalty and filial piety and with pure conscience and moral obligation."
"We will keep alive the patriotic traditions of Chongryon and Koreans in Japan and strengthen and develop the movement of Koreans in Japan onto a new, higher stage, work harder to exalt the brilliance of the great Kim Jong Il era and remain loyal to you so as to decorate the the 21st century as Kim Jong Il's century, more thriving and glorious."
Cuban Ambassador to Korea gives reception
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- Cuban Ambassador to Korea Jose Ramon Rodriguez Varona gave a reception at his Embassy on October 9 to mark the 52nd anniversary of the foundation of the Worker's Party of Korea.
Speaking at the reception, the Ambassador said that the election of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il as General Secretary of the WPK is a new milestone in the Korean revolution. Comrade Kim Jong Il, who takes after the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung, performed undying feats in socialist construction of Korea, devoting his all to the revolutionary struggle, he noted.
The capital of Korea which has been built grandiosely and mondernly, the development of literature and art and the powerful defence capacity--these are attributable to the wise leadership of the great comrade Kim Jong Il, he said, adding that comrade Kim Jong Il put the WPK on the highest position among the world revolutionary parties.
Kye Ung Thae, politburo member and Secretary of the WPK Central Committee, in his speech sincerely hoped that the 5th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba will be held with success.
He said that under the leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba the fraternal Cuban people have smashed the repeated aggression and heinous blockade policy of the U.S. imperialists, firmly defended the gains of revolution achieved with blood and thus held high the banner of revolution, the banner of socialism, in the western hemisphere of the earth.
As long as there is the tested leadership of comrade Fidel Castro, the supreme leader of the Cuban revolution, and the CPC, no one will block the victorious advance of the fraternal Cuban people who are marching under the banner of anti-imperialist struggle, the banner of socialism, he stressed.
National photo exhibition
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- A national photo exhibition was opened at the People's Palace of Culture on October 9 to congratulate the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il on his election as General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea.
Displayed at the exhibition hall were more than 100 photos which show the revolutionary activities of comrade Kim Jong Il and the unshakable will and faith of the Korean people to carry to completion the revolutionary cause of Juche started by the great leader President Kim Il Sung, under comrade Kim Jong Il.
Kim Ki Nam, Secretary of the WPK Central Committee, in his opening address said that through the exhibition the Party members and other working people should more deeply cherish the greatness and undying feats of the respected general Kim Jong Il, the great master of the idea and leadership and an ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander, triumphantly conclude the "Arduous March" and vigorously make the general march of socialism by upholding him with loyalty and filial piety.
At the end of the opening ceremony the participants looked round the photos on display.
Floral basket from CPC Central Committee
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- A floral basket came to the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the occasion of the 52nd anniversary of the foundation of the WPK.
It was handed to an official concerned by Chinese Ambassador to Korea Wan Yongxiang on October 9.
Sungri Lubricating Oil Processing Plant commissioned
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- A commissioning ceremony of the Sungri Lubricating Oil Processing Plant was held on October 9.
Built on modern lines in one year or so, the plant will produce various kinds of goods.
Present at the ceremony were Kim Jong U, Vice-Chairman of the State External Economic Affairs Commission, officials concerned and the members of a joint venture delegation of China led by Cai Bingheng.
The construction of the plant clearly showed the will and desire of the peoples of the two countries to value and exalt the Korea-China friendship generation after generation.
A party was given that day.
Friendship gathering with Danish guests
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- The Korea-Denmark Friendship Association sponsored a friendship gathering with the members of the visiting delegation of the Denmark-DPRK Friendship Association at the Pyongyang Embroidery Institute on October 9.
Present on invitation were the members of the delegation led by chairman of the association Anders Kristensen.
The participants in the gathering deepened friendly feelings, conversing with each other, singing and dancing.
Prior to the gathering, they went round handicraft rooms of the institute.
Invincible is WPK with General Secretary Kim Jong Il at head
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il's election as General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea just before the 52nd founding anniversary of the WPK is a demonstration of the greatest potentials of the WPK rallied close around the great leader and an expression of the unshakable will of the WPK and the people to carry to completion the revolutionary cause of Juche generation after generation.
Papers here today stress this in their editorials.
Rodong Sinmun says comrade Kim Jong Il's election as WPK General Secretary is a product of the protracted history of struggle to carry forward the revolutionary cause of Juche.
Tens of years ago, the WPK and the people held him in high esteem as the only successor to the revolutionary cause of the respected leader president Kim Il Sung and as their great leader on the efforts to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche, the paper says, and continues:
His position has always been absolute in the WPK as the centre of leadership and unity.
His absolute authority prevented any slightest political confusion but guaranteed high stability and unity in Korea even after the President's death.
Realities prove that comrade Kim Jong Il's election as WPK chief is the summing-up of the history in which the WPK has been built under a far-sighted plan.
With comrade Kim Jong Il elected WPK General Secretary , representing the unanimous desire of the whole Party and all the people, his greatness has been fully demonstrated.
His election as WPK General Secretary at a time when the great historic march is going on to complete the cause of Korean-style socialism in an all-round way and build a powerful country of Juche is of great historic significance in shaping the future of the revolution and destiny of the people.
We now have a decisive guarantee for strengthening and developing the WPK into an invincible revolutionary Party of Juche type forever.
Comrade Kim Jong Il is just the WPK and vice versa.
The WPK's features are that it conducts the Party building and activity and pushes ahead with the revolution and construction as comrade Kim Jong Il intends and as he did in practice, that is, the way he does.
The revolutionary character of the WPK led by him will remain unchanged no matter how much water may flow under the bridge and in any adversity.
The WPK and the people will carry to completion the socialist cause of Juche under the guidance of the respected comrade Kim Jong Il, a cause that the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung started and led for a long period.
Minju Joson notes that comrade Kim Jong Il's election as General Secretary of the glorious WPK, which is linked with the august name of comrade Kim Il Sung, is the highest honor and pride of the WPK and the people as well as the common happiness and joy of the progressives of the world.
Celebrations continue in Korea
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- Korea is overwhelmed with emotion and joy at the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il's official election as the General Secretary of
the Worker's Party of Korea, which is one more great fortune.
All the people in Pyongyang, Hyesan, a border city, Kaesong near the Military Demarcation Line and a beacon village on an island are dancing in squares and plazas, the streets and yards.
On October 9, too, art performances were given and youths, students and working people danced at Kim Il Sung Square and plazas in front of the Tower of the Juche idea, the monument to Party founding, the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium and other places.
The Phibada Opera Troupe, the Pyongyang Circus, the youth song and dance ensemble, art troupes, art propaganda squads, mobile art agitation teams gave performances and youths, students and working people continued dancing in celebration of comrade Kim Jong Il's election as WPK General Secretary .
In the industrial city of Hamhung, workers sang songs of joy and danced.
The farmers in Sukchon, Sinchon, Yonan and Paechon counties and other places in the plain areas on the west coast danced to the tune of music at worksites and public places.
The songs and dances represent all the people's greatest congratulations and glory to comrade Kim Jong Il.
General Secretary Kim Jong Il pays homage to President Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace today, the 52nd anniversary of the WPK, to pay homage to the great leader President Kim Il Sung.
He was accompanied by senior officials of the Party, the State and the army.
He entered the hall in which the Statue of President Kim Il Sung stands. The statue was flanked by flags of the Party and the State and colors of the army.
A guard of honor of the three services of the KPA was lined, looking up to the statue.
A floral basket was laid before the statue in joint name of the Worker's Party of Korea Central Committee and Central Military Commission, the DPRK National Defence Commission, Central People's Committee and Administration Council.
"The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung is immortal" was inscribed on the ribbon hanging from the basket.
Comrade Kim Jong Il, together with senior Party, State and military officials, made respects to the statue.
He then mounted the stairs and entered the hall where the President lies in state. Together with senior officials, he paid highest tribute to the President.
Korean cadres vow to remain loyal to WPK General Secretary Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- The Koreans are happy to hear the special communique of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee and Central Military Commission on the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il's election as WPK General Secretary .
Choe Thae Bok, alternate politburo member and Secretary of the WPK Central Committee, said the Party members, officers and men of the People's Army and other people are filled with self-confidence, enthusiasm and pride of making revolution under the great comrade Kim Jong Il, the leader of the nation and kind teacher.
While covering the protracted and glorious road of the revolution under the guidance of the great general Kim Jong Il, the Korean people keenly felt that he is a rare statesman with distinguished clairvoyance and insight, Choe said.
Choe vowed to remain faithful to him to the end of the world.
Vice Marshal of the Korean People's Army Kim Il Chol, First Vice-Minister of the People's Armed Forces, said all the officers and men of the KPA extend the highest glory to the respected general Kim Jong Il.
"Led by him, we will always win and only when we advance along the road indicated by him, can we achieve greater prosperity of the country and open bright vistas for the independent reunification of the country. This is the unshakable faith of the officers and men of the People's Army," he noted.
Kong Jin Thae, Vice-Premier of the Administration Council, said, "We are optimistic about the future as we are making progress with the respected general Kim Jong Il as WPK General Secretary ."
He expressed his determination to work harder for greater prosperity of the country and the motherland and for a bright future.
Chairman Ri Yong Mu of the State Transport Commission said, "the respected comrade Kim Jong Il's election as WPK General Secretary is a significant event that fulfils the intention of the fatherly leader President Kim Il Sung and the unanimous cherished desire of the Korean people."
Chief Secretary Choe Mun Son of the North Hwanghae Provincial Committee of the WPK said "there is no greater honor and happiness to the Korean people than to hold the respected general Kim Jong Il in high esteem."
"There is no change in the Korean people's willingness to make revolution to the end, entrusting the destiny of the Party, the State and the army to him," he added.
Congratulatory message to General Secretary Kim Jong Il from Chongryon Chairman Han Tok Su
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- The great leader marshal Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, received a congratulatory message from Han Tok Su, Chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), on October 8.
Han Tok Su in the message extended highest glory and warmest congratulations with a loyal heart to the respected general Kim Jong Il on his election as General Secretary of the glorious WPK amid the absolute support and desire of all the Party members and other people and the blessings of the whole world.
Han said:
"The Chongryon officials, compatriots in Japan and I are very happy to have you as the great leader.""You are a great man who is highly praised as the most distinguished statesman in the present era, a military strategist and veteran statesman of the socialist movement by all people in the world as well as the Korean people, for he devoted himself to the happiness of the country and the people during 30 odd years, and performed immortal feats for realizing the cause of the immortality of the leader."
"Brighter is the future of the country that is advancing with you as the recognized supreme leader of the WPK, and bright is the road of the movement of Koreans in Japan in the new century."
"You are the only sun of guidance in the world, the hope of humankind and the life and soul of the country and Chongryon."
Han Tok Su wholeheartedly wished marshal Kim Jong Il a long life in good health for the final victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche.
Diplomatic envoys visit the Party Founding Museum
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- Diplomatic envoys of many countries including Iran, India, Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia visited the Party Founding Museum to mark the 52nd anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea.
The guests looked round with keen interest mementoes, being briefed on the fact that the great leader President Kim Il Sung founded the Party and led the building of a new Korea to a brilliant victory, staying there right after the liberation.
Floral baskets to General Secretary Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il received a floral basket from the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries on his election as General Secretary of the Workers' Party Of Korea.
The floral basket was handed to an official concerned by President of the association Qi Huaiyuan on a visit to Korea on October 9.
Comrade Kim Jong Il also received a floral basket and a congratulatory letter from the visiting delegation of the Denmark-DPRK Friendship Association on the same day.
They were handed to an official concerned by chairman of the association Anders Kristensen, who is heading the delegation.
Joint national meeting of KCU organisations
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- A joint national meeting of the organisations of the Korean Children's Union took place at the Kim Il Sung Stadium today to congratulate the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il on his election as General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea.
Present there were KCU delegates from across the country and more than 60,000 schoolchildren in Pyongyang.
Pak Song Chol, politburo member of the WPK Central Committee and Vice-President, and other senior officials were on hand.
A ceremony of the KCU was held at the meeting.
Flags bearing portraits of the great leaders President Kim Il Sung and comrade Kim Jong Il entered the meeting place.
A congratulatory poem of three million KCU members to comrade Kim Jong Il was recited.
The poem recalls the deep loving care of the fatherly general Kim Jong Il who has brought up the children across the country in his bosom to be successors to the revolution and expresses the resolution to grow to be sunflowers of loyalty with the honor and pride of having him as General Secretary of the motherly Party and the sun of humankind.
A "Letter of Blessing" of the three million KCU members to comrade Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.
The letter says that their happiness is eternal under the leadership of the general who is the best in the world.
It wholeheartedly wishes him a long life in good health for the bright future of the country and the eternal happiness of the KCU members.
KCU members made a pledge to be always ready for the respected general Kim Jong Il.
Then a brass band of Pyongyang schoolchildren marched, congratulating the general on his election as WPK General Secretary.
NDFSK mission lays floral basket before the Statue of President Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- A floral baskek was laid before the Statue of the President Kim Il Sung on Mansu Hill on Thursday by Chief Ri Jong Sang and officials of the Pyongyang mission of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) to mark the 52nd anniversary of the founding of the Worker's Party of Korea.
Also Thursday they visited the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetary on Mt. Taesong to lay floral bouquets before the bust of comrade Kim Jong Suk, a great communist revolutionary fighter, and pay silent tribute to her.
52nd anniversary of WPK celebrated in Moscow
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- Meetings were held in Moscow to mark the 52nd anniversary of the founding of the Worker's Party of Korea.
Boris Zanegin, Doctor of History of the Russian Institute of the U.S. and Canadian studies, said in his speech at the meeting sponsored by the union of communist parties-the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on Oct. 7 that the WPK is enjoying public approval and praise from the world people as the most revolutionary and powerful Party due to its leaders, the respected comrade Kim Il Sung and comrade Kim Jong Il. The speaker referred to the long and victorious course covered by the WPK under their leadership.
Konstantin Nikolayev, First Vice-Chairman of the Council of the Union of communist parties-the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, said the brilliant successes achieved by the WPK for 52 years are the exploits of leadership of the great leaders comrade Kim Il Sung and comrade Kim Jong Il.
Marshal Dmitri Yazov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communists Union of Russia Vladimir Markov and many people made speeches at the meeting sponsored by the Russian Public Circles Committee for Liaison with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea held on Oct. 6.
They stressed that all the achievements made by the Korean people and the absolute prestige of the DPRK in international arena are associated with the great exploits and wise leadership of comrade Kim Il Sung and comrade Kim Jong Il, who developed and strengthened the WPK, the guiding force of the Korean revolution, into invincible ranks.
Letters to comrade Kim Jong Il were adopted at the meetings.
Art performance "Honor of Korea" given to congratulate General Secretary Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- Artists in Pyongyang gave a performance "Honor of Korea" at the Pyongyang Circus Theatre today to congratulate the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il on his election as General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea.
Seeing the performance together with working people in the city were Ri Jong Ok, Pak Song Chol and other senior Party and State officials.
Also seeing the performance were overseas Koreans staying in the socialist homeland.
Invited to see the performance were members of foreign delegations and foreigners on a visit to Korea and foreign diplomatic envoys here.
Put on the stage were numbers including chorus "Song of General Kim Jong Il," mixed duet and chorus "Fortune of Korea," dance "Today's Happiness," orchestral music "We Pledge" and acrobatic piece "Following O Jung Hup's Seventh Regiment".
The performers showed well the absolute trust of the Party members and all other people in comrade Kim Jong Il, who is the greatest thinker and leader and who has the noblest virtues in the world and Korea's fortune and the happiness and honor of the nation in having him at the head of the Party.