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Information on Commemorative Events

Held on the 90th Birthday of

the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung


 

The Central Committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea published information on the commemorative events held on the occasion of the 90th birth anniversary of great President Kim Il Sung. 

The information reads.


 

On the occasion of the 90th birthday of great President Kim Il Sung the Central Committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea formed the "Preparatory Committee for Commemorating the 90th Birthday of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung" and significantly held multifarious events between April 1 and 30.

While the boundless yearning and reverence for the great President overflowed across south Korea, the Central, Provincial and Municipal Committees and organizations at all levels of the NDFSK and patriotic movement organizations held report meetings respectively on April 14 to commemorate the Day of the Sun.

Reverentially hung at the venues were the portraits of great Comrade Kim Il Sung immortal as the sun of all people and the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il, the sun of the 21st century. Also hung there were placards praying for the immortality of the President and vowing loyalty to the Marshal.

Speakers noted at the report meetings that they were significantly commemorating the 90th birthday of the President as the greatest holiday of the nation and humankind at an emotional time when the hymn of reverence and loyalty of all people for the sun of Juche reverberated the universe and the entire nation was accelerating the grand march toward the independent reunification of the country under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration.

They stressed that April 15, the birthday of great President Kim Il Sung, is the day of great fortune when the brilliant sun of the nation rose high in colonial Korea and a historic and auspicious holiday promising eternal prosperity of the nation and bright future of humankind.

The whole life of the fatherly President is a brilliant history of the sun of the 20th century, who, embodying all the personalities and qualities as a great man on the highest level, glorified his noble life as a great thinker, great statesman and great revolutionary, they stressed.

Recollecting with deep emotion the immortal revolutionary exploits of the President, the benefactor of national liberation, ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander and father of socialist Korea of Juche, they highly praised him as an outstanding great man representing the 20th century and peerlessly great man unprecedented in human history.

Possessed of unique clairvoyant wisdom, the great President brilliantly solved the problem of succession to the revolutionary cause to lay the everlasting foundation for the completion of the revolutionary cause of Juche, they stressed, and highly praised this as the most brilliant and immortal exploit among the exploits he performed for the country and nation, the times and history.

The fatherly President, who made his utmost for reunification and prosperity of the nation till his great heart stopped beating, will be with the nation for all ages to come, they emphasized.

Thanks to Marshal Kim Jong Il, sun of the 21st century, inheriting the great revolutionary idea, outstanding leadership and noble virtue of the President, the President's revolutionary cause is brilliantly succeeded and developed century after century and the history of the sun flows invariably and ceaselessly, they stressed.

They said that it is a precious fruit of the prominent army-centered revolutionary leadership of the Marshal, the peerless brilliant commander, that the authority and dignity of Juche Korea are skyrocketing and a turning phase has been made for national reunification.

They proudly noted that the blessings of the leader and the sun the Korean nation enjoys through generations are the highest honor and greatest fortune only our nation can lead.

They vowed to accomplish the cause of national reunification without fail under the leadership of the great Marshal, sun of the 21st century, holding the fatherly President in high esteem forever.

Reflecting the unanimous desire of the NDFSK vanguard fighters and all other patriotic people, the reported meetings adopted messages and letters of oath to the great leader Marshal Kim Jong Il.

During the commemoration period NDFSK organizations at all levels and patriotic movement organizations held multifarious political and cultural events in accordance with their circumstances, such as lectures marking the 90th birthday of the President, seminars on his immortal revolutionary exploits, seminars on his reminiscences "With the Century", video shows, exhibitions of works and photos of the President and the Marshal and singing gatherings.

At the lecture meetings and seminars they spoke highly of the great revolutionary life of the fatherly President who performed immortal and gigantic exploits for the country and nation, the times and humankind, undergoing all sorts of unimaginable ordeals and trials for 80-odd years.

They made firm determination to hold the President in high esteem forever as the eternal sun of Juche and father of the nation and follow the idea and leadership of the Marshal with intense loyalty in order to hasten the independent reunification of the nation by carrying out the June 15 joint declaration.

Through the shows of north Korean films such as "The Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung Will Be Immortal" and "They Were Always Together for the People", seminars on the President's reminiscences and work and photo exhibitions, the NDFSK vanguard fighters and members of patriotic movement organizations implanted deeper in their hearts the peerless greatness of the President, sun of the nation and lodestar of destiny.

On the occasion of the Day of the Sun patriotic movement organizations conducted positive activities to propagate the greatness and immortal exploits of the President among people of different strata.

The April 15 League, the Baekdu Society, the Sun Society, the Patriotic Youth Association for Reunification and other patriotic movement organizations conducted different activities such as distribution of leaflets, featuring on the Internet and e-mail, mailing of retrospective cards and pasting of wallpapers to pray for the immortality of the President and express their reverence for the Marshal.

In particular, the Struggle Committee for Independence, Democracy and Reunification set the 90 days between February 1 and May 1 as the "Baekdu period" symbolic of the 90th birth anniversary of the President and produced and distributed various Internet materials on his greatness including a special issue commemorating the Day of the Sun in order to add glory to this year marking the greatest auspicious holidays of the nation.

The radio Voice of National Salvation and Kuguk Chonson Internet released special programs commemorating the Day of the Sun on the highest level to further enhance the ardent public yearning and boundless reverence for the President.

Greeting the significant Day of the Sun, the Pyongyang Mission of the NDFSK held a press conference on April 12 to introduce the firm faith of the south Korean people for the immortality of the sun and their worship of the sun and express the determination of the vanguard fighters and all other patriotic people in the south to carry out the June 15 joint declaration by following the idea and leadership of President Kim Il Sung and Marshal Kim Jong Il with intense loyalty.

The events marking the 90th birthday of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung vividly showed the boundless reverence of the south Korean people for the President and their absolute and unchangeable resolve to hold and follow the Marshal as the sun of the 21st century and lodestar of national reunification.

The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung will be alive forever as the sun of Juche and father of the nation along with the everlasting prosperity of Kim Il Sung Korea and the Kim Il Sung nation.

Central Committee

National Democratic Front of South Korea

Seoul

May 2, Juche 91 (2002)

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