VARIOUS LOCATIONS, NORTH KOREA/BEIJING, CHINA (FILE)
PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA (14 APRIL, 1982)
1. GV: INTERIOR NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BUILDING/DELEGATES APPLAUDING/SCU: KIM IL-SUNG APPLAUDING 0.18
2. SW: KIM JONG-IL WALKS TO SEAT ON PODIUM AND APPLAUDS AUDIO OF DALEGATES CHEERING/SV: KIM JONG-IL CONFERRING WITH MILITARY COMMANDER 1.04 BEIJING, CHINA (JUNE 1983) (ENGLISH NARRATION AND MUSIC)
3. SV: KIM JONG-IL AND HU YAOBANG TOASTING EACH OTHER/ LV AND GV: OFFICIALS APPLAUDING/LV, SV AND GV KIM JONG-IL ADDRESSING OFFICIALS, OFFICIALS LISTENING AND APPLAUDING 2.07 NAMPO, SOTH HWANGHAE PROVINCE, NORTH KOREA (JUNE 1987)
4. SV: KIM JONG-IL VISITING DAM CONSTRUCTION SITE 2.11
(KOREAN NARRATION)
5. SV: KIM JONG-IL AND KIM IL-SUNG AT DAM OPENING CEREMONY 2.15 PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA (AUGUST 1988)
6. SV: KIM IL SUNG AT MEETING ACKNOWLEDGING APPLAUSE/LV AND GV OFFICIALS AT MEETING APPLAUDING AND CHEERING 2.32
7. SCU: PAN DOWN PORTRAIT OF KIM JONG-IL WITH LEGEND "GREAT TEACHER OF JOURNALISTS" BELOW 2.39 TRANSCRIPTS NARRATION (SEQ.3):"IN RESPONSE SECRETARY KIM JONG-IL FIRST EXPRESSED THANKS FOR THE WARM WELCOME AND HOSPITALITY HE HAD RECEIVED AND HAILED THE UNPRECEDENTED STRIVE THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA HAS MADE IN ALL ITS AREAS IN RECENT YEARS UNDER THE WISE LEADERSHIP OF THE RESPECTED COMRADE HU YAOBANG AND DENG XIAPENG. SECRETARY KIM JONG-IL STRESSED THAT IT IS THE FIRM WILL AND UNCHANGEABLE FAITH OF THE WORKERS PARTY OF KOREA TO DEVELOP GENERATION AFTER GENERATION THE INVINCABLE BOUNDS OF THE KOREAN-CHINESE FRIENDSHIP AND SOLIDARITY, BASED ON COMRADELY TRUST AND REVOLUTIONARY OBLIGATION SHARED BY THE LEADERS OF BOTH OUR COUNTRIES. HE EXPRESSED THE PROFOUND HOPE THAT..."




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The junior Kim celebrates his birthday amid growing speculation that he may soon formally take over the reins of power from his 79-year-old father. It would br the first dynastic succession in communist history.