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Seminars in Guinea, Pakistan Mark Day of Songun in DPRK
Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Seminars took place in Guinea and Pakistan on Aug. 23 and 24 to mark the 53rd anniversary of the start of leader Kim Jong Il's Songun revolutionary leadership.

Present there were personages of Presidency, Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Association, the Group for the Study of the Juche Idea in Conakry in Guinea, the Punjab Provincial Committee of the Workers' Party of Pakistan, the Pakistan Trade Union Federation, the Pakistan Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification, the Lahore Branch of the Pakistan-Korea Friendship Association and other people.

A vice-chairman of the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Association said Kim Jong Il continued Songun leadership for over half a century.

Under his leadership the Korean People's Army has developed into an invincible army, the DPRK fortified into an impregnable fortress and remarkable changes have been made in building a thriving socialist country, the vice-chairman stated, and went on:

The DPRK exercises its independent right to the full and displays the dignity of the country and nation by relying on the strong military power built by Songun politics.

The chairman of the Group for the Study of the Juche Idea in Conakry of Guinea said the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il has been succeeded by supreme leader Kim Jong Un.

The secretary general of the Lahore Branch of the Pakistan-Korea Friendship Association and other speakers paid tribute to Kim Jong Il for turning the DPRK into a politico-ideological power and military power upholding the banner of Songun.

They were sure that the Korean people would make further successes in the struggle to reunify the country, build an economic power and improve the people's living standard led by Kim Jong Un, identical to Kim Jong Il.

A message to Kim Jong Un was adopted at the seminar in Pakistan.

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