Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is greeting its 80th founding anniversary on its militant journey to dynamically lead to a new victory the building of socialism and communism, the aspiration and ideal of the people, putting the dignity and prestige of the DPRK on the acme of 5 000-year-long history with its ever-victorious leadership.

The WPK has performed undying feats before the country and people, purely preserving the Party's original ideals and spirit and perfectly inheriting them since it was founded as the vanguard of the revolution representing the demands and interests of the working people. The history of the WPK that has believed in the people as in Heaven, its history of creation and change is shining brilliantly in the world.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, visited the Party Founding Museum on October 8 on the occasion of the 80th founding anniversary of the WPK.

Members of the central leadership body of the Party including members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK, officials of the WPK Central Committee and leading officials of the Party committees of ministries and national institutions also visited the museum.

When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the museum, all the visitors broke into enthusiastic cheers with the pleasure of greeting him, who is ushering in the new era of comprehensive prosperity of the state, demonstrating the immortal dignity and honor of the WPK with his outstanding revolutionary idea and experienced and seasoned leadership, in the sacred place of the revolution where the cause of founding the Party was accomplished.

Kim Jong Un made a significant speech.

Expressing his feelings of visiting the old home, where the ever-victorious history of the WPK started and the supreme General Staff of the Korean revolution which led the great start towards a powerful socialist country was situated, ahead of the 80th founding anniversary of the WPK, he paid the most ennobling tribute to President Kim Il Sung and the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners who pioneered the original road of building a revolutionary party during the bloody struggle for liberating the country, accomplished the historic cause of founding the revolutionary Party and laid a solid cornerstone for its durable existence and victorious development.

Looking back upon the decades of Party founding and inheritance at this special and auspicious moment of greeting its 80th anniversary at the watershed of new development and prosperity will serve as an occasion for renewing the understanding and awareness of the revolutionary obligations and duties of our generation, who have to reach without fail the finish line of the socialist cause that was started and advanced by the forerunners, he said.

Noting that the 80-year history of our Party is so great not only because it was founded in an original way but also because it etched in its banner the socialist ideals of achieving the independence of masses and invariably held fast to it, he theoretically explained the journey peculiar to the WPK which has pioneered an original road of socialist construction from the first day of its founding, with self-sustenance and self-determination, i.e. believing in the people and relying on their strength from A to Z and enunciated the fundamental secret, in which the WPK has been able to record the longest ruling history in the history of socialist movement, the main characteristics of party building and the prominent exploits it has recorded in the human history of political parties.

Saying that the dynamic leadership and mode of struggle of the WPK which formed the purest, the most powerful ideological lineage and the revolutionary tradition peculiar to it and left the immutable truth about eternal victory and valuable spiritual assets in the course of turning adversities and trials into victory and miracles are illuminating the road of victory and glory to be followed by the present generation and rising generation, he indicated the ideals and prospective goal of the WPK in building a state and developing the Party, the orientation of struggle to realize them and overall principles in the comprehensive development period which can be called the second era of nation building.

Saying that it is a proud thing to recall the course the Party has followed from one century to the next at this historic house where the Party was founded and to make a pledge to give steady continuity to the great course forever for all ages, he affirmed that the Party Founding Museum would shine forever as the sacred sanctuary which carries on the lineage of the WPK and its ever-victorious tradition for all ages.

When he finished his speech, all the participants paid the greatest tribute to him, raising the thunderous cheers of "hurrah!" out of their boundless respect for and trust in the outstanding leader of the Juche revolution who is ushering in the great heyday of the Party building in the new era and the socialist cause with his profound ideological and theoretical activities and energetic leadership practice.

The important speech made by Kim Jong Un serves as the immortal revolutionary programme and the banner of vigorous advance as it clarified the guidelines for firmly carrying forward forever the noble political ideal of the WPK put forth in the initial days of founding the Party and for the WPK to further demonstrate its might as the most dignified socialist ruling Party which has taken the deep root in the popular masses.

Kim Jong Un looked round with deep emotion various places of the museum.

Saying that the eternity and invincibility of the vitality and the leadership of the Party depends on how the noble ideals and the revolutionary nature of the Party founding are preserved and glorified as the revolution is achieving victory after victory, he stressed that our Party should cherish more deeply the noble sense of responsibility and mission for the destiny of the country and the people and powerfully lead the state and the people to fresh peak of victory and glory with enthusiastic spirit and inexhaustible vitality and without decrepitude and discoloration, maintaining its purity, even though a generation is replaced by another.

Expressing the belief that officials, lecturers and employees of the museum would as ever remain faithful to their duty as powerful information workers and educators, who are acquainting the masses with the glorious history and tradition of our Party, with the pride and honor of defending the sacred place associated with the exploits of the President in Party building, he had a meaningful photo session with them.

All the participants pledged to carry forward the lineage and immortal reputation of the WPK for all ages by thoroughly implementing the original Party-building idea and line of Kim Jong Un, cherishing the boundless loyalty to revolution and spirit of devoted service to the people, displayed by the pioneering generation of the cause of Party building, as their lifeblood. -0-