Pyongyang Mass Rally Held

Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- Pyongyang mass rallies took place at different parts of the municipality on June 25, the day of struggle against U.S. imperialism.

Participated there were more than 120 000 working people and youth and students in the municipality.

Present there were Ri Il Hwan and Pak Thae Song, secretaries of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), Kim Su Gil, chief secretary of the Pyongyang Municipality Committee of the WPK, Jon Sung Guk, vice-premier of the Cabinet, Ri Tu Song, department director of the C.C., WPK, officials of working people's organizations, institutions, industrial establishments, working people and youth and students in the municipality.

At the meetings speakers said that June 25 is kept in the minds of the Korean people as the wounds of grudge that can never be healed. They referred to the fact that the Korean nation suffered bitter pain and misfortune due to the U.S. imperialists' war provocation of aggression.

If we had strong power, there would have been no such deep-rooted enmity as June 25 and the land of the motherland would not have been stained with innocent blood, they said, adding that the historic question why we should be strong is answered by the Sunday of blood more than 70 years ago.

They said that the Korean people have firmly grasped the strongest absolute weapon to punish the U.S. imperialists and the war deterrence for self-defence which no enemy dare provoke, true to the Party's idea of building up the military capability for self-defense as they keenly realized that only when the army is strong, genuine peace and everything on this land can be defended.

It is the bounden duty of our generation which brooks no further delay to settle accounts with the U.S. imperialists, the speakers stressed that the avengers on this land burning with the indomitable will to revenge the enemy will give merciless punishment and thorough eradication to the U.S. imperialists, the sworn enemy of the Korean people by resolute sacred war of revenge.

Then followed demonstrations.

The participants marched, shouting slogans of annihilating the U.S. imperialists and the group of traitors who are resorting to reckless war moves against the strong DPRK, not abandoning their daydream of stifling it even at this moment. -0-