calendar>>June 3. 2010 Juch 99
Kim Jong Il Highly Lauded
Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- Humberto Vargas Carbonel, general secretary of the People's Vanguard of Costa Rica, issued a statement on May 25 on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

The statement noted that Kim Jong Il has developed the WPK, founded by President Kim Il Sung, into a mother party both in name and reality over the past 40 years, thus performing exploits which would shine for all ages.

He put forward such slogans as "We serve the people!" and "Let the whole Party go among the masses!" and has made the Party a guide which leads the people to the bright future while sharing joys and sorrows with them with responsibility for their destiny, it said.

He set out a grand goal to open the gate to a great prosperous and powerful nation till 2012 and has led the movement for general advance of the Korean people to attain it, the statement stressed, adding that the WPK, under his leadership, would make steady progress as a mother party serving the people.

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