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Nat'l Meeting Held to Celebrate 60th Anniv. of Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the April 25 House of Culture here Tuesday to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League. Present at the meeting were Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, Vice Marshal of the Korean People's Army Kim Il Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces, and Choe Thae Bok and Kim Jung Rin, secretaries of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.
    It was attended by winners of the Kim Il Sung Youth Honour Prize, officials of the youth league organizations at all levels, officials concerned with the youth work, heroes of the preceding generation, servicepersons of the KPA and youths and students.
    Also present there were a delegation of Korean youths and students in Japan and a delegation of the Youth Federation of Korean Nationals in China staying in the socialist homeland to celebrate the jubilee.
    Before the beginning of the meeting its participants listened to the recorded historic speech "Our Youth Should Be Dependable Heirs to the Revolutionary Cause of Juche" made by President Kim Il Sung at the Seventh Congress of the League of Socialist Working Youth of Korea on October 24, Juche 70 (1981). A congratulatory message of the WPK Central Committee to the youth league organizations and members was conveyed at the meeting. The message highly praised the youth league and young people for having registered great successes in strengthening and developing the organization into a revolutionary youth organization of Juche true to the WPK's leadership and performed shining feats in the defence of the country and in the socialist construction over the last six decades.
    Referring to the tasks to be fulfilled to bring about a fresh turn in the work of the youth league as required by the era of Songun, the message called on the youth league organizations and members to hold President Kim Il Sung in high esteem as the eternal sun of Juche and uphold and eternally glorify the immortal leadership exploits performed by him in the development of the youth movement in order to develop the league into an eternal youth league of the President.
    The message underscored the need for the young people to cherish the transparent spirit of devotedly protecting the leader and become human bullets and bombs so that they may become revolutionary comrades of Songun who devotedly defend leader Kim Jong Il and breathe the same breath with the headquarters of the revolution and share thought and destiny with it and thus remain true to the WPK's Songun politics and steadfastly carry forward the tradition of the single-minded unity. The message urged the young people to devote their youth to the firm defence of the socialist country in hearty response to the WPK's Songun revolutionary line as the ranks in charge of the national defence and a main force for it and fully display the militant stamina and courage of the young vanguard in the general advance of Songun revolution for building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation. Kim Kyong Ho, first secretary of the Central Committee of the youth league, in his report at the meeting dwelt on the undying exploits performed by the peerlessly great persons in the development of the Korean youth movement.
    The reporter recalled that Kim Il Sung set out the politics of attaching importance to the youth, successfully training the youth league and young people as a dynamic militant unit of the revolution and dependable heirs to the socialist cause, and that Kim Jong Il deemed it as a revolutionary obligation of the younger generation to eternally hold Kim Il Sung in high esteem and remain loyal to his cause.
    He went on:
    The youth league has developed to be an ideologically pure organization modeled on the Juche idea, the Songun idea of the WPK, an organized entity strong in unity, organizing ability and militancy and an organization closely linked with the same destiny in which the young people have formed a harmonious whole with their illustrious leaders. And the young people have grown to be reliable successors to the Songun revolutionary cause of Juche. This is the main review of the 60 year-long history of the youth league.
    The reporter called on the five million young people to further consolidate the single-minded unity of the ranks of members of the young vanguard closely united around Kim Jong Il in thinking and purpose as required by the era of Songun and become Songun revolutionary comrades who share the same idea and will with him and ardent fighters in the 21st century.