Present there were Kim Yong Nam, Choe Thae Bok, Kim Jung Rin, Kim Ki Nam and officials in the fields of preservation of revolutionary relics, education and media, officials of the youth league, members of the study tour group for tracing the course of the 1,000-ri journey for national liberation and school youth and children in Pyongyang.

Kim Il Sung set out on his 1,000-ri journey for national liberation on Jan. 22, Juche 14 (1925) with firm determination to liberate Korea true to the intention of his father, thus bringing the dawn of national resurrection to the country where the dark clouds hung under the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule and giving origin to the sacred revolutionary cause of Juche.

Kim Jong Il organized the study tour of the 1,000-ri journey for national liberation 35 years ago and has wisely led the work to bring up the school youth and children to be reliable revolutionary vanguard fighters who would steadily carry forward the march started on Mt. Paektu.

Ri Yong Chol, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, in a report said the President pioneered and led the revolutionary cause of Juche and adorned the modern history of the Korean people with heroic events and laudable victories, adding all these revolutionary activities originated in the 1,000-ri journey and all the achievements made in the revolution and construction as well as the praiseworthy life and happiness of the Korean people also started from the journey.

Kim Jong Il saw to it that the study tour of the course is organized as a traditional work of the youth league and statues of the President in his teens are built at significant places, thus making sure that the 1,000-ri journey for revolution made by the President is glorified for all ages, he said, adding:

Immensely bright is the road ahead of the new generation who are marching forward holding high the red flag of the revolution associated with the whole life of Kim Il Sung. All the school youth and children should rally close around the headquarters of the revolution headed by Kim Jong Il in single mind and creditably fulfill their honorable missions and duties as the successors to the revolutionary cause of Juche.