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National Meeting Marks Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Work
Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the People's Palace of Culture Saturday to mark the 35th anniversary of the publication of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's work (August 2, 1974).

In the work Kim Jong Il defined it as a prerequisite for modeling the whole society on the Juche idea, the general task of the party work, to model the whole party on the Juche idea and clarified all the principled matters including the issue of firmly building the ranks of the party and the revolution, the issue of strengthening the party guidance to the socialist economic construction and the issue of improving and strengthening the party work system and work method.

Among those present at the meeting were senior party, army and state officials, leading officials and party officials of party, armed forces and power organs, social organizations, ministries and national institutions and party officials and persons of merits in Pyongyang.

Choe Thae Bok, alternate member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, made a report at the meeting.

The reporter said that in the work Kim Jong Il clarified a unique line on modeling the whole party on the Juche idea, thus successfully carrying out the historic task for the fulfillment of the programme for building a revolutionary party in order to accomplish the cause started by the leader, an issue raised by the era.

He further said: The period since the advancement of the policy on modeling the whole party on the Juche idea represented a history of the sacred struggle in which the WPK has laid an eternal cornerstone for preserving and carrying forward and developing the revolutionary idea and immortal exploits of President Kim Il Sung in the party building and revolutionary leadership. This period is recorded as glorious decades in which the WPK has demonstrated the dignity and might of the country and the nation before the world and led the socialist cause of Juche to shining victory.

Kim Jong Il has led the historic struggle to model the whole party on the Juche idea, thus bringing about a great revolutionary turn in building the WPK, the reporter said, and went on:.

It was thanks to his experienced and tested guidance that the DPRK emerged a political, ideological and military power and, at the same time, a scientific and technological power, getting closer to the gate to a great prosperous and powerful nation.

The WPK ushered in a new era of reunification in which the Koreans are advancing the national reunification movement, guided by the idea and will of "By our nation itself" under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, strikingly demonstrated the sovereignty and dignity of the country and boosted international solidarity with the Korean revolution.

The reporter underscored the need for all the party members, servicepersons and other people to step up the drive for modeling the whole party on the Juche idea and thus glorify the WPK as the eternal party of the President, accelerate the building of a thriving nation and work hard to achieve the national reunification and the final victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche.

The golden days of national prosperity and the stirring era of creation and change are drawing closer and Juche Korea will have a rosy future with a thriving socialist nation expected to emerge before long, concluded the reporter.

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