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DPRK's Birthday Celebrated by Koreans in China
Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- A meeting of the General Association of Koreans in China was held in Shenyang on Sept. 2 to celebrate the 61st founding anniversary of the DPRK.

Yang Yong Dong, chairman of the association, in a report said that the founding of the DPRK enabled the people in the homeland to emerge a mighty and dignified people carving out their destiny in an independent and creative manner with a firm hold on it as the true master of the state and society for the first time in history.

He noted that the plan of President Kim Il Sung to build a rich and powerful country has been successfully carried forward and brought into full bloom thanks to General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

He called on all Koreans in China to turn out as one in the sacred struggle to accomplish the historic cause of national reunification under the uplifted banner of the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration.

A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the meeting.

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