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Congratulatory Message to Kim Jong Un from General Association of Koreans in China
Pyongyang, April 17 (KCNA) -- Supreme leader Kim Jong Un received a congratulatory message from the General Association of Koreans in China on Wednesday, the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.

The message said that the President performed great feats by founding the original revolutionary idea centered on the popular masses and providing the eternal treasure of the revolutionary traditions for the accomplishment of the Juche cause, shouldering upon himself the destiny of the country and the nation and weathering all hardships and ordeals during the anti-Japanese revolution, adding that they remain shining brilliantly along with the ranges of Mt. Paektu, the sublime ancestral mountain.

The President was the iron-willed commander who saved the destiny of the country by defeating the two formidable enemies, U.S. and Japanese imperialists, in one generation and the founding-father of socialist Korea and distinguished great political elder who developed the DPRK into an invincible socialist power independent in politics, self-supporting in economy and self-reliant in national defence by leading the two-stage social revolution and socialist construction to victory, it noted.

It is the highest honor, pride and eternal happiness of the Korean nation to hold the President in high esteem as the eternal leader, it said, and went on:

The great revolutionary history of the President could be given steady continuity thanks to the wise guidance of leader Kim Jong Il who considered it as his lifelong mission to carry forward and accomplish the Juche cause.

Kim Jong Un, who regarded it as his lifelong mission to carry forward and accomplish down through generations the revolutionary cause of Juche started on Mt. Paektu, true to the intention of the President and Kim Jong Il, is making tireless efforts to improve the standard of the people's living and build a thriving socialist nation.

The message expressed the resolution of the Koreans in China to build the General Association of Koreans in China, the patriotic legacy of the President and Kim Jong Il, into the overseas Koreans' organization trusting and following Kim Jong Un only no matter how the situation may change.

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