Politics

Memorial services took place in provinces (municipalities directly under the central authority) of the DPRK on July 8, the 30th anniversary of the demise of President Kim Il Sung.

Present there were officials of regional Party and power bodies, working people's organizations, industrial establishments, farms and universities, working people and youth and students.

All the participants paid a silent tribute to the memory of the President with profound reverence for him.

The national anthem of the DPRK was played.

Senior officials of provinces (municipalities) made memorial addresses.

The speakers said that the revolutionary career of President Kim Il Sung was the life of a great revolutionary and a great man, who performed miracles unprecedented in history and created an image of immortality to be remembered for all ages by devoting himself to the country and the people with his absolute and profound love for them.

His whole life was featured by the immortal exploits he performed by taking back the deprived dignity of Korea and its people and glorifying it further under the banner of independence and self-reliance, they noted. 

They called upon all officials, Party members and other working people to continuously write the history of the powerful Kim Il Sung's nation and realize without fail his ideals for the building of a powerful country by bringing about continuous transformations and innovations in all fields of bolstering up the national power and building socialism, true to the plan and intention of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, holding fast to Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism as the eternal lifeline. 

 The memorial services fully showed the unshakable faith and will of the participants to thoroughly implement the decisions of the Eighth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea and the plenary meetings of the WPK Central Committee under the guidance of Kim Jong Un and thus strikingly demonstrate the validity and immortal vitality of our ideology and cause and courageously usher in a new era of comprehensive national rejuvenation.