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Anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il's Assumption of Top Post of WPK Marked
Pyongyang, October 8 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Sunday dedicates an article to the 26th anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il's assumption of the top post of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) on October 8, Juche 86 (1997).

Thanks to this historic day, the WPK could demonstrate its dignity before the world as the most experienced and seasoned guiding force in the present era and clearly record with gold letters a new chapter in the history of the Juche-oriented party building full of victory and glory, the article says, and goes on:

During the long period of leading the Korean revolution, Kim Jong Il built the WPK into the party of the leader with his gifted ideological and theoretical wisdom and extraordinary leadership, setting an epochal example in building the socialist ruling party and bringing about eye-opening miracles and changes in all fields of the revolution and construction.

Thanks to his energetic leadership, our Party had developed into an ideologically pure entity, an integral organization and the party which achieved the unity of actions that shares the leader’s idea, breath and step. And it had been consolidated as the revolutionary character and politico-ideological aspect peculiar to our Party to remain intensely loyal to the leader’s idea and cause and implement his behests to the letter, regarding them as its lifeline.

Today our Party is ushering in the greatest heyday of its development, keeping the longest history as a socialist ruling party under the guidance of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un.

It is the General Secretary who has developed the WPK into a genuine party of the leader, whose uniqueness and continuity of idea and leadership are firmly ensured, and set forth the five-point line of party building in the new era to guide our Party to be developed into the one that is politically mature, organizationally sound, ideologically pure, strictly disciplined and sound in work-style

His idea and leadership ushering in the greatest heyday of the leader's cause of party building are the immortal guidelines, invincible banner and sure guarantee for accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche.

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