Politics

Officials of the Journalists Union of Korea (JUK) set off on a study tour of Mt Paektu.

A kick-off meeting took place at the plaza before the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il in Hyesan City on April 9.

The participants laid a flower basket and bouquets before the statues of the great leaders and paid tribute to them.

At the meeting, a speaker said that the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who demonstrated to the whole world the spirit of advance of Juche Korea by making a historic march on horseback, called the officials of the JUK to the strategic base of the Korean revolution and the centre for education in the revolutionary traditions.

The speaker stressed the need for the members of the study tour group to deeply understand how the roots of the Korean revolution were provided in the battlefields of Mt Paektu and how the tradition of loyalty has been carried forward, and to prepare themselves as the ardent followers, staunch defenders and thorough implementers the revolutionary ideas of the Workers' Party of Korea.

After the meeting, the JUK officials looked round the Monument to the Victorious Battle of Pochonbo and the Ryanggang Provincial Revolutionary Museum and left for the Pochonbo Revolutionary Battle Site.