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Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Start of Study Tour of Revolutionary Battle Sites in Area of Mt. Paektu Marked
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Samjiyon, June 4 (KCNA) -- There took place a national meeting in front of the statue of President Kim Il Sung in the Samjiyon Grand Monument on Saturday to mark the 60th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's start of the study tour of revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu. Attending it were Pak Pong Ju, Pak Yong Sik, Choe Pu Il and Vice-Premier Kim Tok Hun, Kim Jong Im, director of the Party History Institute of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), officials of the party and armed forces organs, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions, service personnel of the Korean People's Army and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces, officials who set examples in sprucing up, preserving and managing the revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu and carrying out their revolutionary tasks, persons of meritorious services, commanding officers and members of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade and the Construction Shock Brigade 618, officials and working people in Ryanggang Province, members of the groups for the study tour of revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu and youth and students. Pak Pong Ju, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the WPK and prime minister of the Cabinet, made a report. He said: Kim Jong Il started the study tour of revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu while leading the first group for the study tour in June, Juche 45 (1956). This was a historic event of great significance for carrying out the cause of the Juche revolution. The start of the study tour during the days of ordeals of the Korean revolution was a bold decision which could be made only by Kim Jong Il who regarded it as his lifetime mission to carry out the idea and cause of Kim Il Sung to the end. The whole course of the study tour is associated with Kim Jong Il's firm faith and will to carry on the march started from Mt. Paektu forever. The study tour provided an immortal landmark for carrying forward the revolutionary traditions of the WPK through generations, building the DPRK as the invincible power full of the spirit of Paektu and displaying its might before the whole world. The glorious revolutionary traditions of the WPK founded by Kim Il Sung and firmly maintained by Kim Jong Il are being successfully carried forward and developed by supreme leader Kim Jong Un on the road of advance in the new century of Juche. |
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