Pyongyang, June 24 (KCNA) -- Meetings were held in Russia and
Poland, a lecture in Botswana and a film show in Indonesia from
June 14 to 17 on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of leader Kim
Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Workers'
Party of Korea. The chairman of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union in a speech said that thanks to the Songun policy of Kim Jong
Il the DPRK has smashed the U.S. moves to stifle it and pursued the
policy of independence, self-sustenance and self-reliance in
defence as required by the Juche idea.
It is the legitimate right of the DPRK as a sovereign country to
have nuclear weapons in order to defend its sovereignty, he noted,
adding that it is vital to remaining an independent country for the
DPRK to have access to nuclear weapons, war deterrence, against the
backdrop of the U.S. imperialists' extreme ambition for world
domination. The chairman of the Russian Association for Friendship
and Cultural Cooperation with the DPRK said that the world history
has a record of many brilliant commanders but it does not know such
famous general as Kim Jong Il who wins only victory without firing
even a single bullet. His august name will shine forever in the
world, he added. The vice-chairman of the National Executive
Committee of the Polish Communist Party in a speech said that
thanks to the great Songun policy of Kim Jong Il the Korean people
could win victory after victory despite the imperialists' vicious
moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK and unprecedentedly severe
natural disasters.
The vice-mayor of Gaborone City of Botswana in a lecture praised
Kim Jong Il as the great man of the world as he established a
unique Songun political mode, steering the present times.
The Korean film "Respected Comrade Kim Jong Il Is a Great Thinker
and Theoretician" was screened at the film show in Indonesia.
Meanwhile, Peruvian figures made public statements on the
occasion.
