The members of the study tour group for tracing the course left Mangyongdae on January 22 and arrived in Phophyong on February 3.

Phophyong is the historic place where the President made his firm pledge not to return home unless Korea became independent in his teens before crossing the River Amnok.

Upon its arrival a meeting took place in front of the statue of the President standing there.

A report was made by Ham Kwang Chol, secretary of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, to be followed by speeches.

They referred to the fact that Kim Jong Il paid deep attention to the study tour and showed such deep trust and loving care as letting even a plane fly to bring the gifts associated with his benevolence to the members of the study tour group, though he was busy making endless forced march despite blizzards from the outset of the year.

The school youth and children are faced with an honorable task to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche generation after generation under his revolutionary Songun leadership, they noted.

They called upon them to prepare themselves as patriots in the Songun era who reliably defend and glorify the socialist country, firmly trusting and following Kim Jong Il only.

They underscored the need for them to study harder and take more active part in their organizational life just as they had vowed through the study tour in order to stoutly grow up to be pillars who will shoulder upon themselves the future of the Songun country.