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Society for Rallying Comrades
Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- July 3 is the 80th anniversary of the formation of the Society for Rallying Comrades, the first revolutionary party organization in Korea.

On this occasion, the Korean people are recollecting the feats performed by President Kim Il Sung in creating a brilliant example in founding a Juche-type revolutionary party in his teens on the basis of the historic truth that the party plays the role of the general staff in the revolution and that victory in the revolution depends on the role of the party,.

He chose a new road in formulating the principles and mode of party founding and explored a new way of preparing hard-core leading members and the mass foundation. He, with ceaseless thinking and revolutionary practice, set forth a unique policy of founding a party not from top level but from lower level with the formation of a basic party organization. A day after the Kalun meeting, he formed the Society for Rallying Comrades.

The name of the organization embodies the high aims and will of the President, who was taking the first step in the revolution by winning over comrades, and who was determined to develop the revolution and achieve its final victory by continually mustering and rallying comrades who would share the same fate with him.

He wrote in his reminiscences "With the Century", "We felt the urge to fire big guns, not just pistols, in commemoration of the formation of the first party organization".

The first party organization, the embryo and seed of the Workers' Party of Korea, served as the parent body in forming and expanding the basic organizations of the party.

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