calendar>>July 9. 2014 Juche 103
Reception Given for Families of Overseas Koreans
Pyongyang, July 9 (KCNA) -- There was a reception for families of overseas Koreans related to the revolutionary activities of President Kim Il Sung Wednesday. It was given under the care of Marshal Kim Jong Un.

Present there were the family of Zhang Weihua, Chinese anti-Japanese revolutionary martyr, families of Zhou Wei, Liu Tong-shi, Sun Mingren, Fan Delin, Jiang Zihua, Shang Yue, Chai Shiying and Hu Zhenyi, Chinese related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, families of So Sun Ok and Li Zade, Korean anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters in China, families of Pak Kil Song and Kim Chol, Korean anti-Japanese revolutionary martyrs in China, families of Kim Sun Ok and Ri Kwan Rin, Koreans related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle in China, Jong Il Sim, Korean in Russia, and the family of overseas Korean Son Won Thae related to the revolutionary activities of the President.

Present there also were Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim Jong Im, director of the Party History Institute of the Central Committee of the WPK, and officials concerned.

Kim Ki Nam said in his address that Kim Jong Un made sure that a reception is given to console families of overseas Koreans related to the revolutionary activities of the President.

He continued:

The President embarked on the road of the anti-Japanese revolution in his early years and fought his way through a long journey of bloody war to achieve the historic cause of the country's liberation and built most advantageous socialist Korea centered on the popular masses on this land.

The President, a man of noble virtue, showed warm loving care for the revolutionary comrades-in-arms whom he had relations with in the period of the hard-fought anti-Japanese armed struggle and for their bereaved families.

His loving care and benevolence for the families of overseas Koreans related to his revolutionary activities were invariably carried forward by leader Kim Jong Il and is being inherited by Marshal Kim Jong Un.

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