KIM
JONG UN
The
Great Kim Il Sung Is the Eternal Leader
of Our Party and Our People
Treatise
Published to Mark the Centenary of the
Birth of President Kim
Il Sung
April
20, Juche 101 (2012)
The
Korean people and the progressive people
the world over celebrated the centenary of
the birth of President Kim
Il Sung as
the greatest revolutionary holiday of the
Korean nation and as a grand event of
mankind.
The
celebrations held to mark the centenary of
the birth of President Kim
Il Sung
were an outburst of our people’s boundless
reverence for and noble moral obligation
to their leader and a grand political
festival during which the world’s people
sang the praises of the 100-year history
of Juche Korea.
Through
the celebrations we demonstrated our
steadfast faith and will to hold him up as
the eternal leader of our Party and
people, as well as the revolutionary
mettle of the service personnel and people
who have turned out in high spirits to
achieve the final victory true to the
Party’s call.
That
we have held up President Kim
Il Sung,
whom the entire nation and the whole world
respect, as our eternal leader is the
source of greatest glory and pride for our
people and happiness for the generations
to come.
Our
Party, service personnel and people should
hold him up eternally as the Sun of Juche,
and accomplish his sacred revolutionary
cause with credit.
1
Kim
Il Sung
was the most outstanding leader of the
20th century and a peerlessly great man.
The
20th century was an era of revolutionary
changes in the struggle of the masses of
the people for their independence, changes
unprecedented in human history, and an era
of fierce struggle between the
progressives and reactionaries, between
socialism and imperialism. In this century
full of changes, there were many renowned
politicians and personages, who left
traces in the shaping of the masses’
destiny and in the political history of
the world, but none of them was a
preeminent leader, a peerless patriot and
a great revolutionary as our leader was,
who, from his teens to eighties, adorned
the century as a century of victory of the
cause of anti-imperialist independence,
the cause of socialism, by dint of unique
ideology and leadership and ennobling
virtue while enjoying the absolute support
and trust of the people.
The 20th century
was, both in name and in reality, Kim
Il Sung’s
century resplendent with his imperishable
exploits and the personalities of the
great man.
Kim
Il Sung
was the most outstanding leader and an
extraordinary veteran statesman, who left
imperishable exploits for his country and
people and for the times and revolution by
means of profound ideas and theories,
uncommon leadership ability and gigantic
revolutionary practice.
He
was a great leader of the people, who put
forward the masses, once oppressed and
exploited, as the master of history, and
raised their dignity and value to the
highest level possible.
His
was a noble life of a people’s leader, who
regarded “The people are my God” as his
motto, applied it to his ideas and
leadership and turned it into reality. For
him, the masses of the people were always
a teacher, and he was their loyal son. He
began his revolutionary activities by
going amongst them; the revolutionary
activities were conducted always by
relying on them, and they were dedicated,
from beginning to end, to defending and
achieving their independence. Thanks to
these activities, the masses’ demand and
aspiration for independence became ideas,
theories, lines and policies, and the most
revolutionary and scientific guidelines,
which were easily understood by them and
which indicated the true roads for them to
take to shape their destiny, were
provided.
Cherishing
as his faith the revolutionary principle
that the masses are the masters of the
revolution and construction and they have
the strength with which to propel the
revolution and construction, he always
went amongst the masses and enlisted their
inexhaustible strength and creative wisdom
in solving all the problems in conformity
with their demands and interests.
His
absolute trust in the people and devotion
to them was the fundamental secret of the
victories he achieved one after another in
the revolution and construction while
braving the difficulties and hardships
unprecedented in history. As he placed
trust in the masses and relied on them, he
was able to push forward simultaneously
the gigantic undertakings, like authoring
a guiding ideology of the revolution,
forming a vanguard organization, founding
an army, awakening the masses to their
ideological consciousness and organizing
them, thus creating a new history of the
Juche revolution and leading several
stages of the difficult and complicated
revolutionary struggle and the work of
construction to victory without any
mistake in his lines and without any
failure.
The
invincible socialist country that has been
built on this land today and the
revolutionary cause of Juche that is
gaining victory after victory are precious
fruits whose seeds he planted in the soil
of the people and developed throughout his
life. As they were led by him, the masses,
once an object of history, could usher in
a new era of history, the Juche era, when
they are shaping their destiny by their
own efforts while steering the wheel of
the times and history.
Kim
Il Sung
was a preeminent and seasoned leader of
the revolution, who wrote a new chapter of
modern history and added brilliance to it
by leading our revolution along the
ever-victorious road under the banner of
independence.
Independence
was the revolutionary creed, revolutionary
mode and revolutionary practice he
cherished and applied all his life.
Already in the first days of his
revolutionary struggle, he, with an
uncommon wisdom and insight, clarified the
truth of the revolution that independence
is the life and soul of a country and a
nation as well as the masses, and that, to
achieve it, sycophancy and dogmatism
should be rejected and the revolution be
conducted in an independent and creative
way. That he held high the banner of
independence for the first time,
formulated it as the fundamentals and mode
of the revolution and applied it was an
epochal event noteworthy in the history of
human ideology and the history of the
revolutionary struggle of the masses.
The
Korean revolution was a serious political
struggle, a class struggle, against
imperialism, dominationism, sycophancy,
dogmatism and revisionism, and an
unprecedentedly complicated and arduous
struggle that could not be won by means of
the existing formula or methods. Free from
the past, stained with sycophancy and
dogmatism, Kim
Il Sung,
in the whole course of leading the
revolution, regarded independence as its
lifeline and solved all the problems
arising in the revolution and construction
in our own way and in conformity with the
demands of our revolution, the interests
of our people and the actual situation of
our country. By consistently holding fast
to the principle of independence, he built
a powerful driving force of our
revolution, smashed at every step the
counterrevolutionary offensive of the
imperialists and reactionaries and the
interventionist schemes of the “Leftist”
and Rightist opportunists, and led to
victory two revolutionary wars, two rounds
of reconstruction, two stages of social
revolution and socialist construction. He
continuously developed the relationship
with foreign parties and countries also
based on the principle of independence. In
this way, he highly exalted the external
prestige and dignity of our Party and our
state, and rendered a great contribution
to accomplishing the cause of
anti-imperialist independence, the cause
of socialism.
Through
a great revolutionary practice, he proved
that independence is the justice of
history, the victory of the revolution and
the basis of the development of fair
international relations, and steered the
historical current of the 20th century
along the road of independence, thus
opening a new chapter of history, when the
masses, freed from domination and
subjugation, wage the revolution of their
respective countries in an independent
way.
Great,
indeed, was the resolution of Kim
Il Sung to
hold high the banner of independence in
the previous century, when sycophancy,
dogmatism and dominationism were
prevalent; more worthy of note in the
modern political history was his
revolutionary practice of not giving up
the principle of independence all the time
but propelling the cause of our revolution
with pluck in the rigorous circumstances
of the world, through which the
high-handedness and arbitrariness of the
imperialists and dominationists were
cutting a swathe.
Today
independence has become a vivid symbol of
his personality as a peerlessly great man
and a byword of our times serving to
praise his sacred revolutionary career and
imperishable achievements.
Kim
Il Sung
was an ever-victorious, iron-willed
commander and military genius who blazed a
trail for our revolution and led it along
the road of victory by force of arms.
The
whole historical course of our people’s
revolutionary struggle was beset with
acute military confrontations, including
the two revolutionary wars, when they had
to wage a life-and-death struggle against
the imperialist forces of aggression. He
early advanced Juche-oriented military
ideas and theories and put great emphasis
on strengthening the revolutionary armed
forces throughout his revolutionary
career, always winning victories in the
bloody fights and grave showdowns with the
imperialist forces. In the revolutionary
war against the Japanese imperialists and
the Fatherland Liberation War he defeated
the formidable imperialist enemies, who
boasted of their numerical and
technological edge, by dint of political
and ideological, strategic and tactical
superiority; the world people greatly
admired and trusted him as an iron-willed
commander, outstanding military strategist
and symbol of victory in the
anti-imperialist struggle.
In
human history there has been recorded no
such a leader of the type of military
general as Kim
Il Sung,
an unparalleled commander possessed of the
power of both pen and sword, who, always
standing on the front line with arms of
the revolution in his hands, achieved one
victory after another in the showdowns
with the imperialist forces by dint of his
brilliant military strategy and art of
command.
Kim
Il Sung
was a great revolutionary and a great man
of ennobling personalities.
He
was the great of the greatest, who has no
equal in terms of personalities both as a
revolutionary and as a man.
He
was a great revolutionary who devoted his
all to achieving the victory of the
revolution with infinite loyalty to the
revolutionary cause. In the long period
since he embarked on the road of
revolution he only thought about the
revolution and dedicated himself to it,
working devotedly for its victory in spite
of all the conceivable sorrows and agonies
he experienced. He hardly took a good
rest, even at an advanced age of over 80
giving on-site guidance at factories and
rural villages. The world knows no such a
great revolutionary as our President who,
with devotion to the revolution and his
people, finished all he should do by
displaying superhuman energy till the last
moment of his life and passed away in his
office.
He
was strong in faith and will and had
unsurpassed pluck. In retrospect, the
imperialists persisted in bringing
pressure to bear upon our Republic and
making military threats against it, and
our revolution was faced with severe
trials in countless numbers. Each time he
boldly confronted the trials with the
faith and assurance that we will emerge
victorious as long as there are the Party,
the government, the army and the people
and with the matchless courage that there
is always a way out even if the heavens
may crumble; in this way he turned
adversity and misfortune to good account,
thus winning victory after victory.
He
was the supreme incarnation of
revolutionary comradeship. Proceeding from
the principle that the revolution means
comrades and vice versa, he began his
revolutionary struggle by gaining
comrades, creating the most beautiful
history of revolutionary comradeship. In
the long period of making the revolution
he took responsibility for the destiny and
future of those, whoever they may be and
with whom he had come into comradely
relations, and protected them to the last,
holding all the revolutionary soldiers in
his embrace and bestowing great trust and
love on them. Thanks to his ennobling
comradeship, in the initial days of the
Korean revolution the ranks of new-type
revolutionaries rallied on the basis of
comradely love and obligation were formed,
and at present the whole society, with his
comradeship as the foundation, has turned
into a world of comrades with their leader
at the centre. The sacred history of his
revolutionary activities is the history of
comradeship, which was opened up and
recorded a series of victories by dint of
comradeship.
Kim
Il Sung
was a great man of ennobling character and
virtue.
He
approached and looked after his people
with a warm heart and in a simple and
unceremonious manner. To the enemies, he
was a tiger of Mt. Paektu,
but to his men and people, a very
kind-hearted and dear father. When talking
to children, he became a child and to the
elderly, their intimate friend; he cared
for their innermost thoughts as a
meticulous mother would do. When meeting
workers, he held their grease-stained
hands without reserve and in a rural
village, had friendly talks with the
peasants at the edge of a field; his
speeches were often mixed with jokes,
humorous and down to earth. Even though he
was held in high respect and admiration by
our people and progressive peoples of the
world, he disallowed any special favour or
privilege for himself, and always led a
simple and frugal life with his people. So
there was no gap between him and our
people, from children to the elderly, and
they admired and supported him with
loyalty.
He
was a holy person, magnanimous and
broad-minded. His was a wide and
benevolent embrace, in which all people
who love their country and nation were
held for care and protection. He embraced
and trusted all those who love their
country and nation, regarding them as his
eternal companions on the road for the
motherland and fellow countrymen. As he
approached and embraced people with great
magnanimity and benevolence, even those
who had committed crimes against the
nation in the past could make their life
brilliant on the road for their motherland
and fellow countrymen, following him as
the benefactor for their revival and the
father of their nation.
Having
been endowed with humaneness, boundless in
width and depth, he kept close ties of
friendship with party and state leaders as
well as a large number of prominent
figures in the political, social and
academic circles of various countries of
the world, who aspired for independence.
Anyone who had ever met him, although they
had different ideologies and political
views, expressed boundless admiration and
respect for him as they were attracted by
his noble personality. That is why he was
the richest in like-minded people and
friends in the world.
Indeed,
Kim Il Sung
was the great leader of the revolution,
the benevolent father of the people and a
peerlessly great man admired by everyone,
whose equal had never been recorded in
history.
2
Kim
Il Sung is
the eternal leader of our Party and people
and the Sun of Juche who laid the
foundations of lasting value for the
victorious advance and accomplishment of
the revolutionary cause of Juche.
He
ushered in the new era of the Juche
revolution by authoring the great Juche
idea, led several stages of social
revolution towards a brilliant victory by
embodying the idea and performed
imperishable exploits in every field of
the revolution and construction.
The
Juche idea he authored and applied
creditably into revolutionary practice is
the eternal banner of victory of our
revolution.
The
Juche idea, a revolutionary ideology based
on the integrated system of a man-centred
philosophical idea, revolutionary theory
and leadership method, is a perfect
guiding ideology of the revolution which
indicates the road for the masses to take
in their struggle for independence.
The
idea established a man-centred outlook on
the world, with the result that it opened
the way for man to shape the social
history and his own destiny in an
independent way with the
self-consciousness that he is the master
of the world and his own destiny.
Being
advanced as a man-centred revolutionary
theory and leadership method, it clearly
indicates the way for the masses to
successfully carry out the revolution and
construction and brilliantly accomplish
the cause of their independence under
whatever complicated circumstances and
conditions by relying on the revolutionary
and scientific theory, strategy, tactics
and method.
The
great Juche idea, as it is a man-centred
view of the world and revolutionary theory
and method, is a revolutionary ideology,
most reasonable, universal and valid,
which all those who aspire after
independence can easily sympathize with
and accept as their own. This is evidenced
by the glorious history of our revolution
which has traversed a proud road of
victory under the banner of the Juche idea
and the reality of today when the
aspiration for global independence is
mounting as the days go by under the rays
of the Juche idea.
The
Juche idea is an encyclopaedic,
revolutionary ideology representing the
whole historical stages of implementing
the cause of independence of the masses,
the cause of socialism, and a great
ideology guiding mankind to the future.
The
immortal revolutionary exploits Kim
Il Sung
performed while leading the revolutionary
struggle and construction work
victoriously under the banner of the Juche
idea serve as the eternal cornerstone that
provides a sure guarantee for implementing
the socialist cause of Juche.
A
revolutionary party, government and army
are the most powerful political weapon
that assures a revolutionary cause of its
start, progress and victory. History shows
that the destiny of the revolution, the
destiny of socialism, is decided by how
the party, government and army are built
and how the people are prepared
politically and ideologically.
As
there are the Workers’ Party of Korea, a
Juche-type revolutionary party which was
founded and developed by Kim
Il Sung,
the Government of the Republic which is
genuine people’s power, the invincible
People’s Army and our people who were
trained by him to be strong in ideas and
faith, our revolution today is making
vigorous progress in spite of trials and
hardships beyond imagination while working
miracles of history in all fields of
socialist construction, as it was in the
previous century. The Party firmly ensures
the leader’s guidance over the revolution
and construction, and leads the masses to
fulfil their responsibilities and role as
the masters of the revolution and
construction in loyal support of the Party
and the leader. Our people’s government,
shouldering the responsibility for the
country’s economy and the people’s living,
is defending and ensuring the masses’
right to and interests in independence and
guiding and managing in a unified way the
efforts to build a thriving nation and
improve the people’s standard of living.
The People’s Army which has grown into a
powerful revolutionary army of Mt.
Paektu
is displaying, as the hard-core unit and
main force of our revolution, the honour
of a performer of miracles and feats in
all the challenging yet important posts of
defending and building up socialism and of
a creator and disseminator of Songun
culture.
The
sure guarantee for firmly safeguarding our
socialism and achieving the prosperity of
the country and nation consists in further
developing the party, state and army of Kim
Il Sung
and giving ceaseless and full play to the
infinite mental and creative strength of
our people.
Socialism
of our style, the greatest patriotic
heritage bequeathed by Kim
Il Sung,
constitutes the everlasting foundation bed
for dynamically pushing ahead with the
building of a thriving socialist nation in
the new century and accomplishing the
socialist cause of Juche with credit.
Socialism
of our style centred on the masses is a
genuine socialism where they are the
masters of the country and society and
everything in the country and society
serves them; it is an invincible socialism
as it has struck its roots deep in the
life and living of our people. When
socialism collapsed in several countries
of the world in the previous century, the
imperialist reactionaries made a big fuss
about the “end” of socialism, but
socialism of our style is here to stay
even in the worldwide political turmoil
and further, it is bringing about
epoch-making changes in all the political,
military, economic and cultural fields.
Our
socialism is an invincible socialism, in
which the leader, the Party and the masses
are united single-heartedly.
That
all the people are firmly rallied around
the leader in ideology, purpose and moral
obligation and the whole society has
turned into a great family in which all
its members help and lead one another
forward in a comradely manner is the
essential feature of socialism of our
style and the source of its inexhaustible
strength. Our single-hearted unity of the
whole Party, the entire army and all the
people around the leader constitutes today
a sure guarantee for the political
stability and solidity of our state and
society and a powerful force that defends
the socialist country and dynamically
propels the revolution and construction.
Our
socialism is an independent socialism
strong in the Juche character and national
identity.
The
Juche character is the nature of
socialism, and independence in politics,
self-sufficiency in the economy and
self-reliance in national defence are the
road to achieving the eternal victory and
prosperity of our style of socialism.
Independent politics makes it possible to
formulate lines and policies in keeping
with the fundamental principles of the
revolution and the people’s demand for and
interests in independence and consistently
implement them however difficult and
complicated the situation may be, so as to
lead the revolution and construction to
victory, and to exercise complete
sovereignty and equal rights in the
external relations so as to exalt the
dignity and might of the country. The
self-supporting national economy and
Juche-oriented national culture enable us
to break through the cutting edge and
build a scientific and technological
power, a knowledge-based economic power,
in the 21st century by dint of our
strength, technology and resources, and to
usher in a new golden age of culture and
the arts. The self-reliant defence
capabilities with the Korean People’s Army
as the core reliably defend the socialist
motherland from imperialist aggression,
provide a definite military guarantee for
the building of a thriving nation and
ensure peace and security of the Korean
peninsula and the rest of Asia.
To
preserve the national identity, together
with the Juche character, of the
revolution and construction is a
fundamental principle in the implementing
of the socialist cause. Kim
Il Sung
ensured for the first time that the
socialist cause was combined with the
cause of national independence and the
whole course of socialist construction was
turned into the course of bringing the
excellent traditions and culture of the
nation into bloom. Our socialist
motherland is a genuine country of the
people, a country of national
independence, which thoroughly defends the
demands and interests of the working
masses, sustains the excellent qualities
of the nation and satisfies the
requirements and interests of the nation.
By
successfully solving the problem of
carrying forward the revolutionary cause,
Kim Il Sung
provided a sure guarantee for inheriting
and completing the revolutionary cause of
Juche with credit through generations and
through centuries.
He
regarded this problem not simply as a
problem of handing over the leadership
position at the time when a generation of
the revolution is being replaced by
another, but as an important problem of
preserving and developing the
revolutionary ideas and cause of the
leader through generations and of deciding
the future destiny of the revolution. From
this point of view, he paid special
attention to solving the problem.
He
clarified that what is fundamental in
ensuring the continuity of the
revolutionary cause is a problem of the
successor to the leader, and solved it
perfectly. Along with this, he paid
special attention to the work of
inheriting and developing the
revolutionary traditions in their pure
form and preparing the younger generations
as stalwart heirs to the revolution, and
ensured that the work bore a brilliant
fruition. His extraordinary foresight and
sagacious leadership created a brilliant
example of solving the problem of carrying
forward the revolutionary cause.
Today
the officers and men of our People’s Army,
the youths and other people are waging a
worthwhile struggle to build a thriving
socialist nation and accomplish the Juche
revolutionary cause along the road of
Juche that the forerunners of the
revolution pioneered at the cost of their
blood, and are full of confidence in a
brighter future.
Having
set national reunification as the supreme
patriotic cause of the nation, Kim
Il Sung
devoted his all to strengthening and
developing the movement for national
reunification, and handed down brilliant
exploits for the realization of the
long-cherished desire of the nation.
By
formulating the three charters for
national reunification, he had laid solid
foundations, on which all the Korean
people in the north, south and abroad
could form a powerful driving force of
national reunification, and put an end to
the interference of outside forces and
hasten the independent reunification of
the country by their concerted efforts.
Thanks to his valuable heritage for
realizing the cause of national
reunification, the national reunification
movement today is vigorously advancing
along the road of independent
reunification even in the grave situation
created by the extreme anti-reunification
manoeuvres of separatist forces within and
without.
Through
the energetic external activities Kim
Il Sung
made a great contribution to the
achievement of the cause of global
independence. He worked actively under the
banner of independence, the banner of
international justice, to check and
frustrate the dominationist moves of the
imperialist reactionaries, to strengthen
and develop the socialist movement of the
world, to achieve the victory of the cause
of anti-imperialist independence, to
establish independent and fair
international relations and to achieve
peace and security of the world, thus
making undying achievements.
History
proves that only when Kim
Il Sung’s
ideas and achievements are held fast to,
can the cause of independence of the
masses, the socialist cause of Juche,
advance victoriously and be implemented
with success.
Kim
Il Sung,
who authored the guiding ideology of the
independent era and laid an eternal
cornerstone for the accomplishment of the
cause of independence of the masses, the
socialist cause, will always live as the
great leader of the people, as the Sun of
Juche.
3
That
Kim Il Sung is
eternal as the Sun of Juche and the
100-year history of Juche Korea
shines together with his august name is
the fruition born of the efforts Kim
Jong Il
made to staunchly defend his ideas and
cause and wisely lead the struggle for
their realization.
Kim
Jong Il
was the closest revolutionary comrade and
the most faithful revolutionary
comrade-in-arms of Kim
Il Sung,
who held the latter in high esteem,
regarding it as his lifelong mission to
defend his ideas and cause and exalt their
brilliance.
He
formulated Kim
Il Sung’s
revolutionary ideas as Kimilsungism and
put forward the modelling of the whole
society on Kimilsungism as the highest
programme of our Party and revolution,
thus bringing about a revolutionary change
in accomplishing the Juche revolutionary
cause.
He
ensured that Kimilsungism shone more
brilliantly as an immortal revolutionary
ideology with great vitality and eternal
life by continuously developing Kim
Il Sung’s
revolutionary ideas as required by the
times and the developing revolution
through energetic ideological and
theoretical activities. He sagaciously led
the efforts to model the whole society on
Kimilsungism to develop our Party and army
into the ever-victorious party and army of
Kim Il Sung,
and remarkably strengthened the might of
the motive force of our revolution by
rallying the masses closely behind the
Party. The efforts made under his
leadership ushered in the golden age of
the Workers’ Party in the political,
military, economic, cultural and all other
fields.
The
General brilliantly carried out the cause
of immortalizing the leader for the first
time in history, with the result that our
Party and people could add lustre to the
sacred revolutionary career and undying
revolutionary exploits of Kim
Il Sung
through generations, holding him in high
esteem as their eternal leader. Proceeding
from the fundamental requirement of our
revolution and with the noblest moral
obligation, he ensured that our Party and
people held Kim
Il Sung up
as their eternal leader, as the eternal
President of the DPRK, and, regarding his
instructions as the programme of the
Party, roused the whole Party, the entire
army and all the people to their
implementation. Thanks to his ennobling
loyalty, moral obligation and great
devotion, Kim
Il Sung is
always with our people and his
revolutionary career continues without
letup on this land.
Kim
Jong Il
defended the dignity and supreme interests
of our country and nation, and developed
our country of Juche, our socialist
motherland, into an invincible socialist
country by relying on powerful arms under
the banner of Songun.
In
the 90s of the previous century, when our
country was faced with severe ordeals, he
formulated Songun politics as the basic
mode of socialist politics, and, by dint
of Songun, not only reliably safeguarded
our country and socialism but raised our
country securely to the position of a
politico-ideological power and a military
power and opened up a new era of building
a thriving socialist nation. Songun
politics is an ever-victorious politics
which fully guarantees the triumphant
advance of the socialist cause of Juche by
realizing Kim
Il Sung’s
political ideals of
socialism–independence, democracy, unity
and benevolence–even amidst the acutest
showdown with the imperialist
reactionaries, and an almighty sword that
makes it possible to vigorously speed up
the revolution and construction true to
his instructions.
Regarding
military affairs as the most important of
all state affairs, the General brought up
our army into the formidable revolutionary
armed forces and developed our motherland
into a self-defensive military power that
no aggressive forces dare attack. And by
developing our army into the main force of
the revolution that takes the lead in
supporting the Party’s leadership, he
achieved the harmonious whole between the
Party and the army and the great unity
between the service personnel and the
people, thus consolidating the foundation
of our society rock-firm.
He
continued his forced march of field
guidance without resting for a moment for
the prosperity of the country and for the
well-being of the people, in the course of
which he kindled the flames of a new great
revolutionary upsurge throughout the
country. Thanks to his tireless and
energetic leadership, the national economy
was put on a Juche-oriented, modern and
scientific footing on a higher level, the
foundations for bringing about a turn in
the improvement of the people’s living
standards were laid, and the building of
socialist culture greeted a new golden
age.
It
is a century’s miracle wrought by Kim
Jong Il’s
Songun politics that our small country has
firmly defended socialism and is exalting
its dignity and might as a political and
military power and leaping forward towards
the status of an economic giant of our
style in the grim situation, in which the
imperialists and all other reactionaries
are intensifying their manoeuvres as never
before to isolate and stifle it.
True
to Kim Il Sung’s
instructions, Kim
Jong Il
opened the June 15 reunification era and a
new phase in the development of foreign
relations by his strenuous leadership.
Thanks
to his unusual wisdom, unexcelled
leadership ability, iron will and
superhuman devotion, our socialist
country, Songun Korea, is shining its
brilliance all over the world along with
the august name of Kim
Il Sung,
and our people have become a dignified
people who are shaping their destiny on
their own terms as they are filled with
infinite national pride and
self-confidence.
As
there was Kim
Jong Il, Kim
Il Sung
lives forever in the hearts of our people
and progressive peoples of the world as
the Sun of Juche and the 100-year history
of Juche Korea shines more brilliantly.
The
100-year history of Juche Korea
is the most sacred and glorious history
resplendent with the august names and
immortal revolutionary exploits of Kim
Il Sung
and Kim Jong Il,
the great leaders of our Party and people.
The
course of history Kim
Il Sung’s
nation, Kim
Jong Il’s
Korea, has traversed is a glorious course
along which our revolution has won victory
up to now since its start on Mt. Paektu,
and it is just the road to eternal victory
and national prosperity, the road which we
must continue to follow to achieve the
final victory.
To
hold Kim
Il Sung
and Kim Jong Il in
high esteem for all ages and creditably
carry forward and accomplish the
revolutionary cause of Juche bequeathed by
them is the revolutionary duty and noble
moral obligation of our Party and people.
The
times may pass and we may encounter
ordeals, but we must invariably advance
along the road of independence, the road
of Songun and the road of socialism, which
Kim Il Sung
and Kim Jong Il followed throughout
their life, and thus fulfil the mission
and duty as befits the descendants of Kim Il Sung and soldiers and
devoted followers of Kim Jong Il.
Cherishing
the absolute and immutable faith that Kim
Il Sung
and Kim Jong Il
will always be with us, we must staunchly
safeguard their ideas and achievements and
add eternal brilliance to them.
We
must raise Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism as
the one and only guiding ideology and
permanent guidelines of the revolution and
advance the revolution and construction as
demanded by it.
We
must continuously develop our Party, state
and army into those of Kim
Il Sung
and Kim Jong Il.
In the building up of the Party, state and
revolutionary armed forces, we must carry
forward their ideas and achievements in
their entirety, and build them up, from
beginning to end, in the way they did.
All
sectors and units must add brilliance to
the leadership exploits of the great
leaders associated with the respective
sectors and units and carry out their
instructions so as to translate their
lifetime intentions and wishes into
reality.
We
must achieve a fresh victory in the
building of a thriving socialist nation by
waging a general offensive under the
leadership of the Party.
It
is necessary to defend firmly and
consolidate rock-solid the single-hearted
unity between the Party and the
revolutionary ranks, so as to demonstrate
the might of the political and ideological
power, strengthen the People’s Army
further and build up defences of the
country so that they are impregnable.
All
sectors and units of the national economy
must bring about a fresh upsurge in
production and construction by making the
flames of Hamnam and the flames of the
industrial revolution in the new century
kindled by Kim
Jong Il
flare up more fiercely, and, in
particular, make a decisive turn in the
efforts for improving the people’s
standard of living.
We
must creditably carry forward the ideas of
the great leaders on building
Juche-oriented culture and the exploits
they achieved in this regard, so as to
display the superiority and validity of
the socialist culture of our own style.
In
the general offensive for the building of
a thriving socialist nation, the Party,
working people’s organizations and power
organs must decisively enhance their role,
and all the officials must fulfil their
responsibility and duty as the commanding
personnel of the revolution.
We
must carry out the ennobling patriotic
intentions and behests of the great
leaders so as to realize the historic
cause of national reunification without
fail. We must expand and develop the
external relations of the country under
the principles of independence, peace and
friendship and render active contributions
to the cause of global independence.
Our
Party, army and people will faithfully
carry forward the ideas and cause of Kim
Il Sung
and Kim Jong Il
and accomplish their revolutionary cause
of Juche by holding high the banner of
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
The
great leaders Kim
Il Sung
and Kim Jong Il will
always be with us.