Centenary of Revolutionary Martyr Kang Kon's Birth Marked

Pyongyang, June 23 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the Central Youth Hall on Friday to commemorate the centenary of birth of revolutionary martyr Kang Kon. Born into a poor peasant's family in Sangju, North Kyongsang Province on June 23, Juche 7 (1918), Kang Kon keenly experienced the sorrow and pain of a stateless nation. So, he embarked on the revolutionary struggle in his early years. Army General No Kwang Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces, said in a report at the meeting: The revolutionary life of anti-Japanese revolutionary fighter Kang Kon was the brilliant one of a hot-blooded fighter who remained loyal to the idea and cause of the Party and the leader with the unshakable faith. With the iron faith that the Korean revolution led by President Kim Il Sung is sure to win in any grim ordeals, he undauntedly fought and unconditionally and thoroughly implemented the leader's line, policy, order and instructions, accepting them as an absolute truth. The reporter stressed the need to devotedly defend the Party Central Committee headed by the respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un by carrying forward the tradition of loyalty created in the forest of Mt Paektu and share the intention, breath and step with the Party Central Committee under any circumstances. He called for pushing ahead with the grand march for economic construction in the spirit of self-reliance and by dint of science and technology, true to the spirit of the April 2018 Plenary Meeting of the Party Central Committee, and thus revitalizing the economy and bringing about a turn in the improvement of the people's standard of living in the shortest period. -0-