TODAY'S NEWS (December.24.2000 Juche 89)
[CONTENTS]
* Commemorations held
* Commemorative seminars held abroad
* Epic praising feats of Kim Jong Suk created
* Papers observe anniversary of Kim Jong Il's election as KPA Supreme
Commander
* Wreaths laid
For Spanish-speaking people
* 9 aniversario de eleccion de dirigente kim jong il como comandante
supremo de epc
Commemorations held
Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- An evening gala of the Ministry of the
People's Armed Forces was
held at Jonsung Square on Dec. 23 on the occasion of the 9th anniversary of
the great leader Kim Jong Il's
election as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army.
It was attended by Jo Myong Rok, director of the KPA general political
department, Kim Yong Chun,
chief of the KPA general staff, Kim Il Chol, Minister of the People's Armed
Forces, leading officials of the
People's Armed Forces, KPA generals, officers and soldiers.
The square turned into a veritable sea of soldiers dancing to the tune
of such songs as "Glory to the Dear
Leader," "Song of Best Wishes," "Song of Three Prides," and "the Guerrilla
March," etc, vice marshals and
generals of the KPA joined dancers, thus bolstering up the festive atmosphere.
A music and dance performance was given by the song and dance ensemble
of the Ministry of People's
Security at the Ponghwa Art Theatre on the same day on the occasion of the
9th anniversary of his election
and the 83rd birth anniversary of the great communist revolutionary fighter
Kim Jong Suk.
Commemorative seminars held abroad
Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- Seminars were held in different
countries from Dec. 10 to 15 to
commemorate the 9th anniversary of the great leader Kim Jong Il's election
as Supreme Commander of the
Korean People's Army and the 83rd birth anniversary of the great communist
revolutionary fighter Kim Jong
Suk.
The seminars were sponsored by the Peruvian Association for the Study
of Revolutionary Activities of
Comrade Kim Jong Suk, the Peruvian Committee for Supporting the Independent
and Peaceful Reunification
of Korea, the Association for the Study of Self-reliance of Pakistan, the
Egyptian Committee for the Study of
the Juche Idea and the Catania branch of the Italian Committee for the
Study of the Juche Idea.
Present there were prominent figures of political, social and academic
circles in those countries, among
them Victor Oliva Miguel, secretary general of the revolutionary socialist
party of Peru.
Akrak Aktar Hamidi, chairman of the Association for the Study of
Self-reliance of Pakistan, said that
Kim Jong Il is a veteran and seasoned political leader, an outstanding
military strategist and iron-willed
commander.
Amata, chief of the Catania branch of the Italian Committee for the
Study of the Juche Idea, noted that
Kim Jong Il's army-first politics is a lifeline of the Korean people in
their struggle for the building of a
powerful socialist nation.
Teresa Otidiano, chairperson of the Peruvian Association for the Study
of Revolutionary Activities of
Comrade Kim Jong Suk, said that it is a great pride and glory for the women
revolutionaries around the
world to deeply study the revolutionary history of Kim Jong Suk,
comrade-in-arms intensely loyal to the
great leader Kim Il Sung and an anti-Japanese heroine. Her revolutionary
feats will shine long with history,
she stressed.
Epic praising feats of Kim Jong Suk created
Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- An epic "the Cause of Kim Jong Suk Will
Be Everlasting" (written
by Li Pom Su) was published on the occasion of the 83rd birth anniversary
of the great communist
revolutionary fighter Kim Jong Suk.
Singing of Kim Jong Suk's feats for the building of the army, the epic
says that her cause of building the
army will shine for all ages.
After the liberation of Korea she, true to the idea and line of the
army building advanced by the great
leader President Kim Il Sung, led officials to build the army in a Korean
way, by rooting out flunkeyism and
dogmatism, it notes.
She was always with arms in her lifetime and was the first to hold
aloft the banner of devotedly
defending the leader.
Learning from her spirit, many devoted guardians have grown up, the
epic says.
It tells about the motherly love shown by her for soldiers, which is
carried forward by the respected
marshal Kim Jong Il.
The greatest feat she performed for the revolution is that she gave
birth to Kim Jong Il, successor to the
cause of the Korean revolution. In the crucible of the hard-fought
anti-Japanese war she brought up him as a
son of guerrillas and commander, it says.
Papers observe anniversary of Kim Jong Il's election as KPA Supreme
Commander
Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- Papers here today editorially observe
the 9th anniversary of the
great leader Kim Jong Il's election as Supreme Commander of the Korean
People's Army.
Rodong Sinmun, the organ of the
