President Kim Il Sung formed the GFTUK on Nov. 30, Juche 34 (1945).

Present at the seminar were officials concerned and members of the federation.

They heard the papers dealing with the tasks and ways of adding glory to the leadership exploits Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il performed by forming and developing the GFTUK, and bringing about a fresh change in the work of the trade unions under the guidance of Marshal Kim Jong Un.

Ju Yong Gil, chairman of the Central Committee of the GFTUK, Kong Son Il, manager and editor-in-chief of the Working People's Organizations Publishing House, and other speakers said in the papers that the proud path covered by the GFTUK over 70 years represents a glorious history in which a shining example was set in building a revolutionary and militant mass political organization under the warm care of the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu.

They noted the GFTUK, whose origin was provided in the flames of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, has creditably fulfilled its mission and duty before the times and revolution since its formation.

The development of the GFTUK into a well-organized militant and revolutionary political organization constitutes a shining example to be specially recorded in the history of the building of mass political organizations of workers, they stressed.