100th Founding Anniversary of DIU Observed by Press

Pyongyang, October 17 (KCNA) -- Leading newspapers of the DPRK Saturday dedicate editorials to the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Down-with-Imperialism Union.

Rodong Sinmun in an editorial says that the formation of the DIU is of profound significance as it provided the origin of the Korean revolution and a foundation for the Party building.

It goes on:

On October 17, 1926, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung formed a new-type revolutionary vanguard organization, the DIU, with ardent young people of a new generation. The DIU set it as its programme to achieve the liberation and independence of Korea and struggle for the building of socialism and communism.

In the face of manifold difficulties and obstacles, the worst ever, in each period and at each stage, all the generations of our revolution have held aloft the red flag one generation after another and remained boundlessly faithful to its intention and cause.

The Workers' Party of Korea has firmly maintained its independent stand, not yielding to outsiders' wanton interference and pressure, and pushed ahead with everything at will, true to its ideal and intention.

The new era, led by the great Comrade Kim Jong Un, is shining as a watershed of history, which opened a new bright avenue of lasting significance for the future of our state and people, as well as the peak of dignity, mightiness and prosperity unprecedented in the 100-year history of the Juche revolution.

Thanks to the great Comrade Kim Jong Un's outstanding leadership and determined execution, a heyday of great turns and great changes has been brought about in the Korean people's historic struggle, long and arduous, for socialism.

This dynamic era, in which the prestige of Juche Korea has been significantly enhanced and the advance of our state toward a future of high civilization and prosperity accelerated, is the fruit of the rare wisdom, strenuous execution and devoted efforts of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un.

The DPRK is great today, but its tomorrow will be rosier, thanks to the great Comrade Kim Jong Un, who is responsibly building the present and the future of the country and the revolution at the same time.

Minju Joson says only victory and glory are in store for the country and people as they are adding luster to the tradition of the DIU generation after generation. -0-