Friday, August 18, 2017

Meeting Announces Paektusan Declaration
A meeting of greeting the sun took place on top of Mt Paektu on August 14, where the 2017 Paektusan declaration was announced.

It was attended by Kim Ki Nam, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea who is honorary chairman of the international preparatory committee for the 2017 meeting in Praise of the great persons of Mt Paektu, Ri Song Guk, chairman of the Ryanggang Provincial People’s Committee, vice-chairpersons of the Korean preparatory committee, relevant officials, Peter Woods, ambassador of the United Cities and Local Governments-Asia Pacific, Damian Ogbonna, national chairman of the People's Progressive Party of Nigeria, and other co-chairpersons of the international preparatory committee, delegations and delegates from different countries, regions and international democratic organizations, personages of various circles and staff members of foreign embassies in Pyongyang.

Neil Fitzgerald, co-chairman of the Oceania regional preparatory committee, read out the 2017 Paektusan declaration in the meeting.

It proclaimed that President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il are the eternal Sun of humankind in the era of independence, and underlined the need to laud forever the great leaders who had made immortal contributions to accomplishing the cause of global independence as the Sun of Juche and Songun and to further develop the international gathering into a political and cultural festival common to humankind so as to add brilliance to their great ideas and exploits.

It declared that Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un is the great Sun of the 21st century who leads the cause of global independence to brilliant victory, adding the present century will shine as the great century of Kim Jong Un, in which domination, subordination, aggression and interference are eradicated, sovereignty and equality of all countries ensured and genuine international justice realized as it is led by him.

It declared that the great Paektusan nation is the banner of victory propelling global independence dynamically on the strength of justice and truth, and emphasized the need to conduct more brisk activities for supporting the great Paektusan nation, the fortress of independence against imperialism and the bulwark of socialism. It expressed the conviction that the historic cause of building a new independent world will surely be accomplished thanks to the great Sun.

Impromptu poems were recited in praise of the peerlessly great men.

Participants signed their names on a placard reading “Glory to the great Paektusan nation!” and marched holding such placards as "Long live General Kim Jong Un, the Sun of the 21st century" and festival flags.

By Choe Yong Nam PT

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