37th Regular General Meeting of Korean Federation of Workers in Commerce in Japan

The ３７th Regular General Meeting of the Korean Federation of Workers in Commerce in Japan was held in Tokyo of Japan on June ２０.

Present there were First Vice-Chairman Pak Ku Ho and Vice-Chairman and Director of the Economic Department Hyon Tae Sik of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) and delegates of the Korean Federation of Workers in Commerce in Japan.

The national anthem of the DPRK was played.

The chairman of the Korean Federation of Workers in Commerce in Japan made an opening address to be followed by a report.

The reporter noted that the federation has made valuable successes in the past two years by protecting and revitalizing the compatriots’ enterprises and dynamically conducting the overall work under the trust and loving care of the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un.

The federation is faced with the task of creditably carrying forward the spirit and tradition of the founder generation as instructed by the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un and thus developing itself into a body based on the compatriots-first idea, the reporter said, stressing the need for the federation to thoroughly carry out the decisions of the ２６th Congress of Chongryon and fulfill its duty as the main force in the work for development of the patriotic movement and the prosperity of the homeland.

Then speeches were made.

Song Won Jin was elected chairman of the Korean Federation of Workers in Commerce in Japan.

Pak Ku Ho made a concluding speech.

He recalled that President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il highly praised the Korean businessmen as progressive and patriotic ones and showed special love and trust in them and that the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un invariably puts forward them as the main force of the movement of Koreans in Japan.

Telling about the proud history of the federation spanning ８０ years, he called upon the businessmen to continue to dynamically advance, closely united as one in keeping with the requirement of the new fighting period of Chongryon.

After the meeting, there was an enlarged meeting of the First Session of the ３７th Council of the Korean Federation of Workers in Commerce in Japan.

Meanwhile, events took place in Tokyo on the same day to mark the ８０th anniversary of the formation of the Korean Federation of Workers in Commerce in Japan. Present at the events was Ho Jong Man, chairman of the Chongryon Central Standing Committee.

Rodong Sinmun