DPRK Symposium Held on Kim Il Sung

Officials and members of the of Korea held a symposium on the greatness of President Kim Il Sung at the Hall of Women on July 5 in the run-up to the 24th anniversary of his demise.

Present there were Jang Chun Sil, chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Socialist Women's Union, and other officials of the union.

Speakers said that the President was a gifted ideo-theoretician, prominent statesman, outstanding strategist and tender-hearted father of the people whom the Korean nation acclaimed for the first time in its history spanning thousands of years.

They noted that the President was a peerlessly great man as he founded the immortal Juche idea and clearly indicated the way for the popular masses to carve out their destiny with its brilliant rays.

They pointed out that the President implanted his steadfast will to build an ideal society for the people in the programme of the Down-with-Imperialism Union from the outset of the Korean revolution and made a new history of the country's prosperity, fighting his way across tens of thousands of ri in the bloody war against the Japanese imperialists, taking the untrodden path for nation-building and making his way in the war flames and blaze a trail for postwar rehabilitation and construction.

They said that the President set forth the principle of Juche in ideology, independence in politics, self-support in the economy and self-reliance in national defence as the fundamental issue and lifeline of nation-building and maintained it with success. They praised him as the lodestar of national reunification and the world's elder statesman who set it as the supreme task of the nation to reunify the country and dedicated his whole life to this cause so as to hand over a reunified country down to posterity and made undying contributions to global independence.

His revolutionary exploits are more brilliantly shining thanks to the outstanding and seasoned guidance of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, they added.