Commemorations held
Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- An evening gala of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces was held at Jonsung Square on Dec. 23 on the occasion of the 9th anniversary of the great leader Kim Jong Il's election as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army.
It was attended by Jo Myong Rok, director of the KPA general political department, Kim Yong Chun, chief of the KPA general staff, Kim Il Chol, Minister of the People's Armed Forces, leading officials of the People's Armed Forces, KPA generals, officers and soldiers.
The square turned into a veritable sea of soldiers dancing to the tune of such songs as "Glory to the Dear Leader," "Song of Best Wishes," "Song of Three Prides," and "the Guerrilla March," etc, vice marshals and generals of the KPA joined dancers, thus bolstering up the festive atmosphere.
A music and dance performance was given by the song and dance ensemble of the Ministry of People's Security at the Ponghwa Art Theatre on the same day on the occasion of the 9th anniversary of his election and the 83rd birth anniversary of the great communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk.
Commemorative seminars held abroad
Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- Seminars were held in different countries from Dec. 10 to 15 to commemorate the 9th anniversary of the great leader Kim Jong Il's election as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and the 83rd birth anniversary of the great communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk.
The seminars were sponsored by the Peruvian Association for the Study of Revolutionary Activities of Comrade Kim Jong Suk, the Peruvian Committee for Supporting the Independent and Peaceful Reunification of Korea, the Association for the Study of Self-reliance of Pakistan, the Egyptian Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea and the Catania branch of the Italian Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea.
Present there were prominent figures of political, social and academic circles in those countries, among them Victor Oliva Miguel, secretary general of the revolutionary socialist party of Peru.
Akrak Aktar Hamidi, chairman of the Association for the Study of Self-reliance of Pakistan, said that Kim Jong Il is a veteran and seasoned political leader, an outstanding military strategist and iron-willed commander.
Amata, chief of the Catania branch of the Italian Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, noted that Kim Jong Il's army-first politics is a lifeline of the Korean people in their struggle for the building of a powerful socialist nation.
Teresa Otidiano, chairperson of the Peruvian Association for the Study of Revolutionary Activities of Comrade Kim Jong Suk, said that it is a great pride and glory for the women revolutionaries around the world to deeply study the revolutionary history of Kim Jong Suk, comrade-in-arms intensely loyal to the great leader Kim Il Sung and an anti-Japanese heroine. Her revolutionary feats will shine long with history, she stressed.
Epic praising feats of Kim Jong Suk created
Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- An epic "the Cause of Kim Jong Suk Will Be Everlasting" (written by Li Pom Su) was published on the occasion of the 83rd birth anniversary of the great communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk.
Singing of Kim Jong Suk's feats for the building of the army, the epic says that her cause of building the army will shine for all ages.
After the liberation of Korea she, true to the idea and line of the army building advanced by the great leader President Kim Il Sung, led officials to build the army in a Korean way, by rooting out flunkeyism and dogmatism, it notes.
She was always with arms in her lifetime and was the first to hold aloft the banner of devotedly defending the leader.
Learning from her spirit, many devoted guardians have grown up, the epic says.
It tells about the motherly love shown by her for soldiers, which is carried forward by the respected marshal Kim Jong Il.
The greatest feat she performed for the revolution is that she gave birth to Kim Jong Il, successor to the cause of the Korean revolution. In the crucible of the hard-fought anti-Japanese war she brought up him as a son of guerrillas and commander, it says.
Papers observe anniversary of Kim Jong Il's election as KPA Supreme Commander
Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- Papers here today editorially observe the 9th anniversary of the great leader Kim Jong Il's election as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army.
Rodong Sinmun, the organ of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea, says that the Korean revolution has been safeguarded by the matchless armed forces and the KPA is the army of Kim Jong Il.
It goes on:
He set forth the original idea that the army represents the party, the state and the people, and has glorified the new history of army-first politics.
The Korean people and people's army have been able to glorify the 20th century thanks to the ever-victorious army-first politics of Kim Jong Il, who has steered all affairs related to the revolution and construction, attaching great importance to the military and depending on the KPA.
The revolutionary armed forces of Korea are ideologically strong as the spirit of devotedly defending the leader prevails in it.
They are a matchless army which fights, inspired by the unparalleled pluck and will of the Supreme Commander, and is fully prepared in military technique.
The staunch spirit of the revolutionary army is precisely based on the spirit of its Supreme Commander.
The grit of Kim Jong Il represents the iron will to courageously confront even millions strong enemy coming in attack and valor to strike merciless blows to them with his correct judgement and resolute determination.
The KPA fights, inspired by this grit and spirit.
Minju Joson, the organ of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and the cabinet of the DPRK, says that Kim Jong Il considers the military affair as the most important state affair and the people's army as the lifeline of socialism.
The KPA is the backbone of the self-reliant defensive forces and the main force in building a powerful nation, the paper notes, and stresses:
Only victory and glory are in store for the Korean people as long as there are the army and people single-heartedly united around Kim Jong Il.
Wreaths laid
Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- Party and state leading officials, servicepersons of the people's army, working people, school youth and children and overseas Koreans today visited the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery on Mt. Taesong to lay wreaths before the bust of the great communist revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk on the occasion of her 83rd birth anniversary.
A wreath sent by the great leader Kim Jong Il was seen standing before her bust.
Guards of honor of the Korean People's Army lined up on either side of the bust.
Present at the wreath-laying ceremony were Kim Yong Nam, Jo Myong Rok and other party and state leading officials.
Amid the playing of music wreaths were laid in the name of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea, the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and its cabinet.
Also placed there were wreaths and bouquets in the name of the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters, the joint organization of the Korean Children's Union, the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, working people's organizations, commissions and ministries of the cabinet, national institutions, KPA units, scientific, educational, cultural, art, public health and media institutions, party and power organs, factories and farms in Pyongyang.
A wreath in the name of the delegation and visiting groups of overseas Koreans was also laid.
Written on the ribbons hanging from the wreaths were letters reading "may the revolutionary exploits of the great communist revolutionary fighter comrade Kim Jong Suk be immortal "
Meanwhile, members of the Pyongyang mission of the National Democratic Front of South Korea laid bouquets before the bust of Kim Jong Suk.