calendar>>September 20. 2010 Juch 99
Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Work Observed
Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Monday dedicates a signed article to the 20th anniversary of the publication of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's work "Let Us Further Enhance the Role of Intellectuals in the Revolution and Construction".

The work comprehensively deals with the position and role of the intellectuals in the revolution and construction and tasks facing them to revolutionize and working-classize themselves and ways to do so, etc.

The validity and vitality of the Workers' Party of Korea's idea of attaching importance to intellectuals find a striking manifestation in the fact that all the intellectuals have grown to be genuine revolutionaries sharing their will and destiny with the leader and are creditably playing the role as ideological standard-bearers powerfully encouraging all the people in their drive to build a thriving nation and as outpost soldiers pushing back the frontiers of the latest science and technology, the article notes, and goes on:

It is the intellectuals in the DPRK who proudly praise the leader's personality as a great man when creating and writing even a single poem or article and dedicate themselves to studying and applying even single advanced technology as intended by him.

A dynamic general offensive for improving the standard of people's living is now under way thanks to a large contingent of intellectuals, the forerunners of the era, who produce such masterpieces of the era as light comedy "Echo of Mountain" one after another and make the spirit of bringing about uninterrupted innovation and advance prevail throughout the country.

The DPRK proudly ranked itself among the countries that manufactured and launched satellites and nuclear weapons states. This would have been unthinkable without the brave creative spirit, patriotic enthusiasm and painstaking efforts of the intellectuals of the DPRK who have grown under the care of the great party.

It is proud, indeed, that the scientists and technicians of the DPRK acquired the world supremacy in CNC technology and are dynamically pushing forward the process for placing the national economy on a Juche, modern and scientific basis.

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