Pyongyang, February 25 (KCNA) -- A national memorial service took place at the People's Palace of Culture Friday on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of death of O Jin U, a revolutionary fighter.
He was the most faithful revolutionary soldier of President Kim Il Sung and the closest revolutionary comrade-in-arms and revolutionary comrade of leader Kim Jong Il as he remained faithful to the revolutionary cause of Juche generation after generation with his unswerving revolutionary outlook on the leader.
Born in a poor peasant family on March 8, Juche 6 (1917), he took an active part in the anti-Japanese armed struggle led by Kim Il Sung. After the liberation of the country he resolutely defended the Party and the leaders and energetically worked to firmly guarantee the revolutionary cause of Juche with arms at the responsible posts of the Party, the state and the army till the last moments of his life.
He passed away to the nation's sorrow at the age of 78 on February 25, Juche 84 (1995), before seeing the country's reunification which he had desired so much.
Vice Marshal of the Korean People's Army Kim Il Chol, member of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and minister of the People's Armed Forces, made a memorial address.
O Jin U was an ardent revolutionary fighter of Juche type who devoted his whole life to the struggle for the national liberation, class emancipation and the socialist cause under the stewardship of the great leaders and the great Party, the speaker said, noting that through his revolutionary life he set a brilliant example of how a true revolutionary and a genuine patriot should revere and uphold his leaders and live and struggle for the country and the people.
What is adding shine to O Jin U's life recorded with many feats performed as a revolutionary fighter with the steadfast revolutionary outlook on the leader is the distinguished exploit performed by him in solving the issue of the succession to the leadership, the speaker stressed, and went on:
O Jin U earnestly proposed to welcome Kim Jong Il to the headquarters of the Korean revolution as the only successor to Kim Il Sung and took the lead in the struggle to thoroughly establish the leadership system of Kim Jong Il in the whole Party, army and society at a time when the Party and the Korean revolution entered into the period of a historical turning point in their development.
O Jin U took arms in his hand at the age of 16. He had never gone without his military uniform and arms for more than 60 years till the last moments of his life from an ordinary soldier to his service as KPA Marshal. He was a Songun revolutionary fighter who performed great feats in firmly defending the socialist country and the gains of the revolution by strengthening the revolutionary armed forces of the Party in every way, true to the Songun idea and leadership of the great leaders holding arms all his life.
Though he passed away before seeing the final victory of the revolution, his strong revolutionary spirit and his whole life full of feats will powerfully encourage the Party, the army and the people in their heroic struggle to firmly defend the socialist system of Juche and build a great prosperous powerful nation and always shine with the annals of the country.
Present at the memorial service were senior officials of the Party, the state and the army, anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters, members of the Cabinet, officials of the party and armed forces organs, power bodies, public organizations, ministries and national institutions, servicepersons of the KPA, bereaved families of revolutionary martyrs and working people in the city.
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