Head of WPK Delegation Stresses Need to Struggle for Victory of Cause of Human Independence and Socialism

  Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- Ri Su Yong, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and head of its delegation, made a speech at the 18th international meeting of communist parties and workers' parties which was opened in Hanoi on Oct. 28.
    The WPK will wage a positive struggle to defend peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in other parts of the world and achieve the victory of the cause of human independence and socialism amid the support and encouragement of the communist parties and workers' parties in the world in the future, too, he said, adding:
    The international meetings of the above-said parties held over the past several decades have made great contributions to exchanging successes and experience gained in the struggle to frustrate the imperialists' moves against socialism and steadily advance the socialist movement in conformity with its noble mission and purpose and to strengthening mutual support and solidarity.
    Serious confrontation and struggle are now under way between the world progressives struggling to protect the sovereignty and dignity of the countries and the nations and the imperialist reactionary forces engrossed in aggression and war, high-handed and arbitrary practices in the international arena.
    The U.S.-led imperialists are seeking to violate and obliterate the sovereignty of the countries and the nations and realize their hegemonic ambition under the pretext of "democracy", "war on terrorism," defence of human rights" and "globalization".
    It is the most important and urgent task for the communist parties and workers' parties to check and frustrate aggression, interference in internal affairs and war by the imperialist and hegemonic forces and preserve global peace and security and thus achieve genuine international justice.
    It is the final goal of the WPK to accomplish the socialist cause and completely realize the independence of the popular masses.
    The WPK is now ushering in a great heyday in the efforts to accomplish the cause of building a powerful socialist country under the great banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, holding supreme leader Kim Jong Un at the top post.
    It is the goal of the struggle of our party to build a peaceful world free from a war and it is the consistent stand of our party to struggle for regional and global peace and security. -0-