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Anniversary of Korea's Liberation Marked in Guinea, Singapore
Pyongyang, August 18 (KCNA) -- A lecture and a film show took place in Guinea and Singapore on August 7 and 9 to mark the 67th anniversary of Korea's liberation.

The chief of the Guinean Group for the Study of February 16 Art in a lecture said on August 15 every year the Korean people and other world progressive people recollect with deep emotion President Kim Il Sung's great exploits for Korea's liberation.

The chief added:

The President was the lodestar of national liberation who put an end to Japan's military occupation of Korea and provided the Korean people with freedom and liberation in the 1940s.

He started his revolutionary activities when he was young and clearly indicated the road for the Korean revolution.

He founded the Anti-Japanese People's Guerilla Army in April 1932 to develop the national liberation struggle of the Korean people to a fresh higher level.

He put forth an original military idea to overpower the superiorities in number and military technique of the enemies by means of superiorities in political ideology as well as in strategy and tactics, thus wisely leading the rigorous anti-Japanese armed struggle with his outstanding commanding arts.

The national liberation struggle of the Korean people was concluded at last on August 15, 1945 with their brilliant victory.

The feats of Kim Il Sung, a lodestar of the Korean nation's liberation, will shine long with the world history of the national liberation struggle in colonial countries.

The director of a Singaporean company said after watching a film impressively showing the Korean people enjoying boundless honor and happiness under the care of the peerlessly great persons:

The DPRK has covered the proud road of victory and glory overcoming all sorts of hardships and difficulties under the leadership of Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il for a protracted period since its liberation.

The director voiced conviction that the Korean people will register bigger success in building a thriving nation true to the Songun leadership of the dear respected Kim Jong Un in the future.

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