calendar>>August 22 2010 Juch 99
Officials Visit Revolutionary Site
Pyongyang, August 22 (KCNA) -- Senior state officials, the chairperson of a friendly party and officials of party organs, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions Sunday visited the Ssangunri Revolutionary Site on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's start of the Songun revolutionary leadership.

The revolutionary site is the land of glory where Kim Jong Il together with President Kim Il Sung provided field guidance to the Command of the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su 105 Guards Tank Division on August 25, Juche 49 (1960), starting his Songun revolutionary leadership.

Visitors placed bouquets before the monument to field guidance provided by Kim Il Sung before looking round the monument to the poem praising Kim Jong Il's revolutionary feats.

Going round the servicepersons' hall, barracks, a mess hall, an office, dwellings, a broad and flat rock and others associated with leadership of Kim Jong Il, they keenly realized the noble personality of him who, together with Kim Il Sung, rendered devoted service for the army-building and the improvement of the standard of serviceperson's living.

They also watched an art performance given by servicepersons.

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