Pyongyang, February 14 (KCNA) -- An oratorical meeting took place at the People's Palace of Culture on Friday to celebrate the 83rd birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

Present there were Ju Chang Il, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Jon Kyong Chol, vice department director of the C.C., WPK, Sung Jong Gyu, minister of Culture, and officials and working people in Pyongyang.

At the oratorical meeting, the performers highly praised the noble revolutionary career of Kim Jong Il who devoted his all to the beloved country and people and performed immortal exploits in the history of the country and the personality of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un as the peerlessly great man who ushered in a heyday of the DPRK's overall prosperity with his rare idea and theory and gigantic leadership practices.

They impressively depicted the noble traits of the peerlessly great men who adorned the Korean revolution with a great history of comradeship, making their revolutionary soldiers enjoy an eternal life with their noble moral obligation that no one can have in the world.

They said that the future of the DPRK is rosy as it is led by Kim Jong Un who regards it as the greatest honor to shoulder everything that is for making the people live with pleasure and promoting their well-being.

They called for demonstrating to the whole world the mightiness of great Kim Jong Un's Korea, saying that workers should be pioneers and masters of making miracles in the struggle for increased production, peasants patriotic those who reap a good harvest and sportspersons patriots who fly the flag of the DPRK in international games. -0-