calendar>>August 2. 2013 Juche 102
Meeting of Media Persons Held
Pyongyang, August 2 (KCNA) -- Media persons had a meeting here with Song Hak Yong, former war correspondent of Rodong Sinmun, the organ of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Song took part in different battles despite a hail of bullets and shells during the past Fatherland Liberation War and conducted brisk news coverage on the front.

He took part in the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War and received deep loving care from Marshal Kim Jong Un.

At the meeting Song said that the war correspondents, each holding a writing brush in one hand and a rifle in the other, successfully carried out their duty in various battles to report the feats performed by the soldiers of the Korean People's Army for the party, the leader, the country and its people.

The great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il showed great benevolence for the war correspondents who performed feats in the Fatherland Liberation War while dynamically conducting news coverage in the battle fields, he noted.

He requested media persons to make uninterrupted innovations in news coverage true to the leadership of Kim Jong Un.

Singing wartime song "Song of National Defence" together with Song Hak Yong, the participants in the meeting renewed their resolution to learn from the fighting spirit and traits of the war correspondents and dynamically conduct press activities for encouraging all the service personnel and people to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche.

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