Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) -- Officials of the women's union from across the DPRK started a study tour of the revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt Paektu.

A kick-off meeting took place at the plaza before the statue of President Kim Il Sung at the Samjiyon Grand Monument on Dec. 6.

The participants laid bouquets at the statue of the President.

Jon Hyang Sun, chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Socialist Women's Union of Korea, made an address to be followed by speeches at the meeting.

The speakers said that the study tour would serve as an occasion of further hardening the faith and will of the women's union officials to fulfill their responsibility and duty as women revolutionaries in the drive for ushering in a new era of national prosperity and the comprehensive development of Korean-style socialism under the leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, after being fully armed with the indomitable revolutionary spirit of the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners.

They called upon all the members of the study tour group to further grasp how the traditions of the Korean revolution have been provided and firmly carried forward and developed during the expedition.

They expressed their determination to dynamically accelerate the march to the battle sites of Mt Paektu while singing the song "We Will Go to Mt Paektu" and demonstrate the might of the women's union in the on-going general advance for hastening the comprehensive development of Korean-style socialism with strong spiritual power and patriotic devotion.

At the end of the meeting, the group members went round the Samjiyon Grand Monument. -0-