They paid floral tribute to him.

Hyon Sang Ju, chairman of the C.C., the GFTUK, read the written oath.

He highly praised the great Generalissimo Kim Il Sung as an invincible and iron-willed commander who founded the immortal Juche idea, started the Songun revolution and defeated the most formidable two imperialisms in one generation.

The President built a socialist power independent in politics, self-supporting in economy and self-reliant in defence on this land and laid an eternal foundation for building a prosperous country and accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche, he said, and went on:

The great Generalissimo Kim Jong Il successfully carried out the cause of perpetuating the memory of Kim Il Sung, firmly defended Korean-style socialism under the banner of Songun and thus made distinguished achievements to be specially recorded in the nation's history spanning 5 000 years.

The revolutionary cause of Juche and Songun pioneered and developed by the Generalissimos has been successfully carried forward by the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un.

He said they would hold forever the Generalissimos in high esteem as the sun of Juche and Songun.

Led by the chairman, all the participants took an oath to greet the 65th anniversary of the DPRK and the 60th anniversary of the victory in the war with shining labor feats and make an active contribution to building a thriving nation by applying Kim Jong Il's patriotism into practice and learning from the service personnel's fighting spirit and style to devotedly carry out the policies of the Workers' Party of Korea.