Present there were Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, officials concerned, officials and members of the federation and the union and workers.

The reporters and speakers said that Kim Jong Il's assumption of the supreme commandership of the KPA made it possible to vigorously advance the Juche-based Songun cause and successfully carry forward the tradition of the Korean revolution started with arms.

They referred to the fact that Kim Jong Il has built the Korean People's Army into the strongest elite armed forces prepared politically and ideologically and in military technique and energetically led them to creditably fulfill their mission and role as a main force for the Songun revolution.

The years during which Kim Jong Il has led the revolutionary armed forces represent a glorious history in which he has brought about epoch-making miracles and changes in the struggle for defending socialism and building a thriving nation, weathering grave difficulties under the uplifted banner of Songun, they stressed.

Our cause is sure to triumph as long as there are the distinguished Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il, the unbreakable single-minded unity and the strong revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu firmly defending Korean-style socialism, they noted, calling for staunchly struggling for the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche.