February 16, the DPRK celebrates the birthday of Kim Jong Il (born February 16, 1942.)

We congratulate the Korean people on this significant date. Kim Jong Il passed a serious school of becoming a political leader under the leadership of the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung. June 19, 1964 he began working in the apparatus of the CC of the WPK, having passed all the steps of work in the party apparatus, while finishing the Academy of the General Staff. In September 1973 at the age of 31, he was elected Secretary of the WPK Central Committee, a year later - a member of the Political Committee (Politburo) of the WPK Central Committee and Kim II Sung's successor. October 8, 1997 after the death of the Great Leader, he is elected to the post of WPK General Secretary. December 24, 1991 he was appointed to the post of Supreme Commander of the KPA. April 9, 1993 Comrade Kim Jong Il was elected chairman of the DPRK GKO. April 20, 1992 he was awarded the title of Marshal of the DPRK.

Comrade Kim Jong-il’s career advancement corresponded to his colossal political, military, and economic activities. There is not a single issue of domestic and foreign policy that Kim Jong Il would not deal with. Together with the development of heavy industry, great attention was paid to the development of light industry, which provided the population with essential household goods. The colossal construction of power stations by Komsomol members carried out Lenin electrification of the national economy, which ensured a powerful increase in labor productivity in enterprises. At the suggestion and under the direction of Kim Jong-il, the restructuring of agricultural areas was carried out, which made it possible to use mechanization in the processing of farmland and several times to increase the yields of the main agricultural crop of the DPRK - rice. They organized the creation of fish farms, which provided the population with an additional high-quality food product - fish. Under Kim Jong Il, the country was covered with gardening farms, thus the population was provided with its own fruits. Massive grandiose housing construction in cities and villages. Compulsory free 12-year education and health care. Even the remote villages of the country have become connected by beautiful asphalt roads. A lot of attention was paid to resolving the issue of the reunification of the Korean nation, which had been torn apart by the Americans in 1945.

With the grandeur of all of the above, perhaps the most important merit of Kim Jong Il is the development under his leadership of the Korean domestic intercontinental ballistic missile, the launch of artificial earth satellites. Thus, the DPRK became one of the world's nuclear powers. Whether or not the United States wants to admit this fact, but now the United States does not dare to command on the world stage in northeast Asia and threaten the DPRK with a preemptive nuclear strike.

We wish the wonderful socialist country of the DPRK new victories in overcoming the difficulties of building socialism on the path to creating a prosperous socialist power.

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