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Congratulations from AINDF
Pyongyang, February 16 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a congratulatory letter from the Central Committee of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front (AINDF) on Wednesday, his birthday.

The message said:

Your birth on February 16, Juche 31 (1942) as a bright star over Mt. Paektu was a great fortune for the Korean nation as it promised a bright future of Juche Korea and a great event of world historic significance that guaranteed the bright future of the human cause of independence.

Thanks to your birthday the Korean nation could be blessed with the illustrious leaders generation after generation and victoriously advance the revolutionary cause of Juche, bravely weathering all sorts of ordeals and difficulties of history. Thanks to this day Songun Korea could demonstrate its might as an invincible power steering the era of independence century after century.

Your revolutionary history is the history of succession as you have carried forward the cause of the sun with your outstanding ideas, distinguished leadership art and noble virtues. It also represents the glorious chronicle in which you ushered in a great heyday of Songun Korea with dynamic practice for changes.

It is the greatest fortune and the highest honor for us fellow countrymen to hold you in high esteem as you are leading the Korean nation and the times to independence and progress with your invincible political caliber and outstanding Songun politics.

The letter renewed AINDF's resolution to glorify this year, a year before the centenary of birth of President Kim Il Sung, the great event to be specially recorded in the history of the Korean nation, as a landmark year for opening a new phase in the movement for national reunification without fail.

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