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DPRK's Significant Holidays Observed
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Seminars took place in the Czech Republic, France and Mongolia on Apr. 2 on the occasions of the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung and the 16th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission.

Jaroslav Kafka, chairman of the Paektusan Czech-Korean Friendship Association who is also chairman of the Czech Group for the Study and Materialization of the Juche Idea, highly praised the immortal exploits Kim Il Sung performed on behalf of the Korean revolution and the cause of global independence.

Saying that the cause of Kim Il Sung is being successfully carried forward by Kim Jong Il, he added that the DPRK has frustrated every move of the imperialist reactionaries for aggression thanks to the Songun politics pursued by Kim Jong Il.

Jean Marie Lambret, chief of the French Group for the Study of the Juche Idea, noted that the exploits performed by Kim Il Sung by providing historic roots of the Songun politics, a symbol of the dignity and honor of the DPRK and an invincible treasured sword, would shine forever along with thriving socialist Korea.

The chief of the Group for the Study of the Juche Idea of Literary College of Mongolia referred to the facts that the DPRK has turned into a powerful country no one dares provoke thanks to the original Songun politics pursued by Kim Jong Il and that it strikingly demonstrates the might and justness of the politics all over the world.

Messages to Kim Jong Il were adopted at the seminars in the Czech Republic and France.

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