Present at the meetings were Choe Ryong Hae, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, officials concerned, youth and students and agricultural workers.

Kim Jong Il's gaining of the supreme commandership of the KPA provided a sure guarantee for accomplishing the Juche cause, they said.

They noted that Kim Jong Il has reinforced the country's military position as firm as an iron wall by pursuing original Songun politics and won a shining victory in the struggle for the defence of socialism in reliance upon the invincible power of the army.

They noted: "The KPA has grown to be most elite revolutionary forces to win victory in the confrontation with imperialism and the U.S. and Juche Korea has fully demonstrated its dignity and might to the world. This would be unthinkable without the immortal exploits of Kim Jong Il."

Performances were given by the art squads of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League and the Central Committee of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea that day on the above-said occasion and the occasion of the 93rd anniversary of birth of Anti-Japanese War Hero Kim Jong Suk.