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Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Field Guidance to King Tangun's Mausoleum Observed
Pyongyang, October 29 (KCNA) -- A meeting took place at the People's Palace of Culture on Wednesday to mark the 20th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's field guidance to Mausoleum of King Tangun.

Kim Jong Il, providing field guidance to the mausoleum on October 29, Juche 83 (1994), said the reconstruction of the mausoleum as a magnificent edifice thanks to the wise guidance of President Kim Il Sung was a great auspicious event of the Korean nation. He indicated tasks and ways for preserving and managing the mausoleum and providing the visit to it and underscored the need to actively unearth cultural legacies of the nation and carry forward and develop advantages of the nation.

Present at the meeting were Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop, Kim Yong Jin, vice-premier of the Cabinet, officials and employees in the field of protecting national heritage and relevant fields, officials, teachers, researchers, journalists, editors in the fields of science, education and media and university students.

Supreme leader Kim Jong Un's work "To Protect National Heritage Is a Patriotic Undertaking for Adding Brilliance to the History and Traditions of Our Nation" was conveyed at the meeting.

Kim Yong Jin in a report said Kim Jong Il's field guidance to the Mausoleum of King Tangun was a historic event of epochal significance in firmly adhering to the principles of Juche and national independence in the revolution and construction, further developing the work for protecting national heritage and adding brilliance to the history of the nation spanning 5 000 years.

The mausoleum built thanks to the noble will of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il who properly formulated the history of the nation through great efforts and wisdom, attaching importance to the work for protecting the national heritage in the whole period of leading the revolution teaches the truth that the history of the nation shines only under the guidance of the illustrious leaders, the reporter noted, and went on:

The patriotic cause of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il is shedding more brilliant rays under the wise leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un.

The reporter underscored the need to take the ideas and theories of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on protecting national heritage as the guidelines and thoroughly carry out the important tasks set forth by Kim Jong Un in his work.

He underlined the need to constantly adhere to the principles of Juche character, historicism and scientific accuracy and settle all issues arising in protecting national heritage in keeping with the aspiration and wishes of the Korean people and their custom, emotion and feelings.

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