calendar>>January 1. 2010 Juche 99
DPRK Important Day Marked
Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- Meetings were held in Finland, Mongolia and Austria on December 21 and 22 on the occasions of 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.

Speeches were made at the meetings.

Antti Sika Aho, chairman of the Finland-Korea Society, said that Kim Jong Suk was a true patriot and a great revolutionary fighter who devoted her whole life to the liberation of the country and the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of President Kim Il Sung.

It was her distinguished exploit that she provided a firm guarantee for carrying forward the cause of socialism generation after generation, he noted.

The secretary general of the Society for the Promotion of the Relations between Austria and DPRK noted that Kim Jong Il has successfully carried forward the President's cause, adding that he would make positive efforts for the development of the relations between the two countries in the future.

Messages of greetings to Kim Jong Il were adopted at the meetings.

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