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Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Work Observed
Pyongyang, October 13 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today devotes a signed article to the 20th anniversary of the publication of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's work "The Present Times and the Tasks Facing Young People" (October 12, 1988).

The work deals with precious ideas and theories calling for deeply imbuing the young people with a genuine revolutionary view on life and noble sense of the mission they have assumed before the times. They include the idea that the young people should find the worth of a genuine life and glorify their life in devoting themselves to the cause of independence against imperialism, the idea that they should properly understand the fundamental superiority of a socialist society to a capitalist society and the idea that they should firmly arm themselves with the Juche idea and display high revolutionary spirit and fidelity in carrying out their revolutionary tasks.

The ideas and theories enunciated in the work have displayed great vitality in strengthening and developing the youth movement in the DPRK over the past two decades, the article notes, and goes on:

The vitality of the work finds a clear manifestation in the fact that the young people in the DPRK have been prepared as the young vanguard intensely loyal to cause of the WPK.

Among the reliable young people there are many heroes who blew themselves up and acted human bullets and bombs in order to defend the security and authority of the headquarters of the revolution at the cost of their lives and many standard-bearers in the innovation drive who have fully displayed their spirit in carrying out the party policies.

A lot of young people volunteered to work in difficult and labor consuming fields of socialist construction and some of them got married with honored wounded soldiers. This beautiful trait can be displayed only by the young people who have grown up under the care of the Party.

The vitality also finds a clear expression in the fact that the young people in the DPRK have become revolutionaries of the new generation transparent in their anti-imperialist and working-class consciousness and the spirit of defending socialism.

The DPRK has won a shining victory in the acute confrontation with the imperialist reactionaries for more than a decade because the young people with transparent working-class consciousness and ardent patriotism have stood firm guard over all fronts of the revolution and construction including the anti-imperialist military front.

The vitality was clearly expressed in the fact that the young people have strikingly demonstrated their wisdom and bravery in all work sites for building a great prosperous powerful nation.

Monumental edifices that go with the word of Chongnyon (youth) are found everywhere in the DPRK.

The WPK and the people are highly proud of having big units of young revolutionaries who have transparent idea and faith and strong sense of organization and discipline and are capable of doing anything regarded impossible.

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