calendar>>December 19. 2009 Juche 98
DPRK Important Day Observed
Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held in Romania, a meeting and a book and photo exhibition in Italy and a film show in Myanmar between December 9 and 13 to mark the 18th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's assumption of the supreme commandership of the Korean People's Army and the 92nd birth anniversary of Kim Jong Suk, anti-Japanese heroine.

On display in the venues of the functions were works of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and photos on their exploits and books and photos introducing the Korean people in their struggle for building a great prosperous and powerful nation and national reunification.

The participants in the film show watched the Korean film "Army of Korea".

Vasile Orleanu, chairman of the Supreme Council of the Socialist Party of Romania, in his speech made at the meeting that the Korean people boundlessly revere Kim Jong Suk as anti-Japanese heroine, adding that her life and exploits are remembered by the Korean people and world progressive mankind still today.

The general secretary of an Italian political party noted at the meeting that Kim Jong Il has developed and enriched the Juche idea and the Songun idea as required by the new era and turned the DPRK into a socialist power, independent in politics, self-supporting in economy and self-reliant in national defence, which stands undeterred by any moves of the imperialists for aggression by pursuing the Songun politics.

Saying that the successes made by the Korean people in building an economic power give strong impetus to the world socialist movement, he stressed that his movement would dynamically conduct activities in support of the struggle of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean people.

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