A similar meeting was held by agricultural workers at the Migok Co-op Farm in Sariwon City on Thursday to mark the 19th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK.

The performers praised the immortal exploits Kim Jong Il performed by firmly defending the socialist country and turning the DPRK into a political, ideological and military power with his original Songun politics.

The first secretary of the youth league committee of the Pyongyang Food Complex said in his oratory titled "Songun brilliant commander of Mt. Paektu" that human history records not a few famous generals but never has there been such a peerlessly brilliant commander as Kim Jong Il.

Hong Kwang Min, student of Kim Il Sung University, in his oratory titled "Our supreme commander" spoke highly of the army and people of the DPRK blessed with the great supreme commanders generation after generation.

Jo Sung Son, farmer of the Chonnam Vegetable Co-op Farm in Hyongjesan District in Pyongyang, said the source of strength of the DPRK that startles the world is the harmonious whole of the leader and the people.

Ri Myong Sil, farmer of the Songsam Farm in Taedong County of South Phyongan Province, in an oratory titled "Song and revolution" cited facts to prove that the songs the great persons of Mt. Paektu taught to the Korean people serve as the motive force of the life and struggle as well as the source of victory.