Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held at the People's Palace of Culture on Oct. 31 to mark the 80th anniversary of the publication of Rodong Sinmun.

Present there were Ju Chang Il, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, officials, journalists, editors and employees of the Rodong Sinmun Offices, meritorious persons, and officials, journalists and editors of the mass media and relevant units, and exemplary worker and peasant correspondents from across the country.

Present there on invitation were members of the delegation of the Choson Sinbo Company of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan on a visit to the socialist homeland.

Ju Chang Il made a report.

The reporter said that the publication of Rodong Sinmun was a grand declaration that heralded the birth of the Party organ of Juche type representing the ideas, politics, lines and stand of the WPK and an event that provided an ideological weapon powerfully arousing all the Party members and other people to realize the Party's cause.

He said that the Party paper which has remained faithful to the ideas and intention of the Party Central Committee and shared its destiny with the Party has developed since November 1, 1945.

He noted that the sacred path covered by Rodong Sinmun for 80 years is a proud course in which it has played a role as a good educator, bold propagandist and faithful mouthpiece in every period and at every stage of the revolution and construction while purely preserving its revolutionary character and nature under the special care and energetic guidance of the Party.

In the new era of the Juche revolution, Rodong Sinmun is greeting the golden age of its development, the reporter said, adding that the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un clearly indicated the orientation and ways to be followed by the Party paper and put its character and position as the Party organ on the highest level.

He said that the 80 years covered by the Party paper since it was founded at the foot of Mt Haebang where the ever-victorious history of the WPK began are the 80 years of loyalty in which it has defended and upheld in the vanguard the ideas and cause of the Party Central Committee, the 80 years of the great ideological campaign in which it has remarkably boosted the spiritual strength and creative power of all the people with its powerful media offensive and the proud 80 years in which it has recorded the heroic struggle of all generations who performed countless miracles and feats in the history of the prosperity of our socialist state.

He called upon all the officials, journalists, editors and employees to launch the ideological campaign and blow the bugle of advance more dynamically to arouse the whole Party and all the people to realize the great cause of the comprehensive national rejuvenation, remaining faithful to the leadership of the great Party Central Committee. -0-