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Letter to Kim Jong Un from Chongryon Central Standing Committee
Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- The dear respected Kim Jong Un received on Sunday a letter from the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's birth.

The President was a peerlessly thinker and theoretician who ushered in an era of independence by founding the immortal Juche idea, nation's benefactor who liberated Korea from the Japanese imperialists' rule by leading to victory the bloody anti-Japanese struggle and an ever-victorious brilliant commander who brought the U.S. imperialists to their knees and brought about the beginning of decline for them for the first time, the letter said, and went on:

He was a great star of leadership who built a socialist state centered on the popular masses and developed it into one, independent in politics, self-supporting in economy and self-reliant in national defence, and an unparalleled veteran statesman who firmly defended Korean-style socialism in showdown with the imperialist allied forces and led global independence to victory despite the difficulties in the political arena of the 20th century.

The President was a benefactor who brought a liberated country to Koreans in Japan who lived in sorrow as members of enslaved nation, being subject to maltreatment and discrimination by Japanese, and founded the Democratic People's Republic of Korea so that they can live as dignified overseas citizens of an independent and sovereign state.

The President saved the movement of Koreans in Japan which was at the crossroads of life or death with his gifted wisdom and bold decisions and gave rise to the Juche-oriented movement of overseas Koreans. These undying exploits performed by him is shining in the 100-year history of Juche Korea.

It is the greatest fortune of all the officials of Chongryon and Koreans in Japan to have you, another great man of Mt. Paektu, as the top leader of the country and Chongryon as you have made sure that the Juche cause and the movement of Koreans in Japan pioneered by the President and advanced by Kim Jong Il is carried forward by inheriting one idea and tradition.

We will firmly establish your ideological and leadership system inside Chongryon as required by the cause of Juche which entered into a new century after holding you as the supreme leader of the party, state and army of the DPRK, and glorify Chongryon formed by Kim Il Sung and developed by Kim Jong Il as powerful overseas patriotic organization absolutely following you.

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