Pyongyang‚ August 24 (KCNA) –– A national meeting to celebrate the
46th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's start of Songun revolutionary
leadership was held at the April 25 House of Culture on Thursday· The
meeting was attended by Kim Yong Nam‚ Kim Yong Chun‚ Kim Il Chol‚ Choe
Thae Bok‚ Yang Hyong Sop‚ Choe Yong Rim‚ Kim Ki Nam and others·
Vice Marshal of the Korean People's Army Kim Yong Chun‚ member of
the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and chief of the KPA
General Staff‚ made a report·
The Korean army and people have held fast to the arms of revolution
generation after generation under the Songun leadership of President
Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il‚ illustrious commanders‚ so that they could
win a brilliant victory in the sacred war for independence against
imperialism‚ achieve the independence of the country and the
sovereignty of the nation‚ defend and advance the cause of socialism
despite the manifold difficulties and the complicated situation and
create the great reality where the independent idea of the popular
masses is in full bloom‚ the reporter said‚ and went on:
Kim Jong Il started his Songun revolutionary leadership with his
historic field guidance to Guard Seoul Ryu Kyong Su 105 Tank Division
on August 25‚ Juche 49 (1960)‚ with his firm will to carry forward
generation after generation the Juche cause of Songun pioneered by the
President· His energetic Songun revolutionary leadership helped perfect
the all–people‚ nationwide defence system and effect fresh renovation
and turn in political‚ economic‚ cultural and all other fields·
It was a century–old political and military miracle wrought by the
great Songun politics that the Korean army and people have defended the
banner of independence‚ the banner of socialism‚ while countering the
ever–more undisguised moves of the U.S· imperialists and the
imperialist reactionary forces to stifle the DPRK with a super hard
line in the recent ten odd years·
Referring to the tasks facing them‚ the reporter called on the
whole Party and the entire army and all the people to form Songun
revolutionary ranks of a harmonious whole sharing idea and intention
with Kim Jong Il and consolidate the single–minded unity of the Party‚
the army and the people rallied close around the headquarters of the
revolution in every way·
He also underlined the need to develop national defence industry‚
thoroughly establish the trait of attaching importance to military
affairs in the whole society and steadily carry through the Party's
policies of putting all the people under arms and turning the whole
country into a fortress·
The situation of the Korean Peninsula‚ which is growing tense due
to the U.S· base and vicious hostile policy toward the DPRK‚ clearly
proves how just it was that we have maintained our firm stand that the
sovereignty of the country and the dignity of the nation can be
defended only by our own powerful strength and carried through the
principles of Songun to bolster up the war deterrent for self–defence‚
the reporter said‚ stressing:
All the Korean people will keep a close watchful eyes on the moves
of the U.S· and Japan and their satellites to stifle the DPRK‚ do their
utmost to bolster up the war deterrent for self–defence under the
revolutionary banner of Songun‚ unhindered by anything‚ so as to
glorify the ever–victorious history of the Korean revolution that has
been carried forward century after century·

Anniversary of Korea's Liberation Commemorated Abroad
Pyongyang‚ August 24 (KCNA) –– A meeting was held in Bangladesh and
a seminar and a photo exhibition in Finland on August 16 on the
occasion of the 61st anniversary of Korea's liberation· Displayed in
the venues were photos showing the Songun leadership exploits performed
by the great men of Mt· Paektu·
Haider Akbar Khan Rano‚ director of the Bangladesh Institute of the
Juche Idea‚ in a speech at the meeting said that President Kim Il Sung
put forward the most correct strategic and tactical policies and line‚
created unique war tactics and led the anti–Japanese war to a victory·
Antti Sika–Aho‚ chairman of the North Branch of the Finland–Korea
Society‚ in a speech noted that thanks to the wise leadership of Kim Il
Sung the Korean people could put an end to the Japanese imperialists'
colonial rule and become the master of their own destiny·
He said that under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il the Korean
people will firmly defend the socialist system chosen by themselves‚
build a great prosperous powerful nation and achieve the cause of
national reunification without fail·
A message of greetings to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the seminar
held in Finland·

S· Korea–U.S· Joint Military Exercises Denounced
Pyongyang‚ August 24 (KCNA) –– Alejandro Cao De Benos‚ chairman of
the Association for Friendship with the Korean People which has its
headquarters in Spain‚ made public a statement on August 17‚ denouncing
the U.S· and south Korean bellicose forces for staging the “Ulji Focus
Lens” joint military exercises again· The statement said:
The joint military drill is a preliminary war exercise for a
preemptive attack on the DPRK both in light of its content and nature·
It is not compatible with dialogue intended to settle the nuclear issue
of the Korean Peninsula peacefully· Furthermore‚ it is a grave
provocation aimed to disrupt the atmosphere of resuming the six–party
talks‚ check the inter–Korean relations and threaten the peace and
stability of the Korean Peninsula·
The U.S· should not threaten the DPRK militarily but positively
approach the dialogue· And the south Korean authorities should
discontinue the criminal act of joining the U.S· in its war moves to
impose nuclear disaster upon the peninsula and exterminate the Korean
nation‚ going against the June 15 era of independence and
reunification·
The statement ardently called upon all the organizations and public
figures of the world aspiring after peace to demand the U.S·
immediately halt the war exercises and drop its hostile policy towards
Korea·