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DPRK's Holidays Observed by Swedish Magazine
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The Sweden-Korea Friendship Association issued No. 2 issue of its magazine titled "Korean Information" on Apr. 2 on the occasions of the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, the 18th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and the 79th birthday of the Korean People's Army.

The magazine in an article captioned "Holidays in April" said:

Kim Il Sung led the anti-Japanese war to victory, liberating the country, and set up a sovereign state where the working masses became its master, the first of its kind in the East.

He founded the undying Juche idea, providing the Korean people with an ideological weapon for accomplishing the cause of socialism, and energetically steered the struggle for the country's independent and peaceful reunification.

His founding of the KPA enabled the Korean people to have their own revolutionary armed forces.

Thanks to the Songun politics pursued by Kim Jong Il the KPA has played a decisive role in the struggle in defending the country from the imperialists' aggression, ensuring peace and building a thriving socialist state.

Kim Jong Il provided the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, opening a rosy prospect for the country's reunification.

The magazine in other articles referred to the facts that thanks to his seasoned politics and the leadership art the DPRK remains politically stable and it is an invincible power which no force can provoke. It introduced in detail the reality of the country whose appearance is undergoing changes every day.

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