It was attended by Ri Il Hwan, department director of the C.C., the WPK, union officials, workers and union members.

Ju Yong Gil, chairman of the C.C., the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, made a report at the meeting to be followed by speeches.

The reporter and speakers said that the nation is observing its greatest memorial day, the lapse of five years since Kim Jong Il passed away too suddenly to its bitterest sorrow.

They said that the past five years during which the Korean people have always missed Kim Jong Il very much, looking up to his beaming image, were a period in which they keenly felt what great happiness they have enjoyed under the guidance of the great leader.

Kim Jong Il was a peerlessly great man and a great sage of revolution as he laid an eternal foundation for victoriously advancing the revolutionary cause of Juche, the revolutionary cause of Songun, they stressed.

Thanks to Kim Jong Un, the revolutionary cause of Juche is making dynamic progress along the road of independence, Songun and socialism, they said, stressing the need to develop the whole federation into an ideologically pure entity, an integral organization and a united body whose destiny is closely linked with the yard of the Central Committee of the Party.