KIM
JONG IL
THE
WORKERS’ PARTY OF KOREA IS THE PARTY OF
THE
GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM IL SUNG
October
2, 1995
Fifty
years have elapsed since our Party was
founded.
Greeting
the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the
Workers’ Party of Korea, and looking back with
deep emotions upon the glorious road of
struggle our Party has traversed, scoring a
historic victory and effecting the greatest
change by acclaiming respected Comrade Kim
Il Sung as its head and under his
leadership, our Party members and our people
express the warmest gratitude and pay the
highest respect to the great leader Comrade Kim
Il Sung, who founded and led the Party.
Under
Comrade Kim Il Sung’s wise leadership,
the Workers’ Party of Korea was established as
a working-class party of a new type and has
developed in the flames of struggle for half a
century into a trained and seasoned veteran
revolutionary party, an unconquerable party
enjoying the unqualified support and trust of
the people. Under his leadership, our Party
created a brilliant new history in the
people’s cause of independence, the cause of
socialism, and made great, imperishable
achievements in this cause.
The
history of the Workers’ Party of Korea is
precisely the history of respected Comrade Kim
Il Sung’s great revolutionary
activities. Both the thorny path of our
Party’s struggle and its road of glorious
victory bear his sacred footprints. Both our
Party’s great achievements and its unbreakable
strength and high prestige are associated with
his respectful name.
The
Workers’ Party of Korea belongs to the great
leader Comrade Kim Il Sung. It is his
great name and exploits that have made our
Party’s 50 years brilliant. His name and
exploits will be immortal together with our
Party’s history.
The
Workers’ Party of Korea is a glorious party,
which under the leadership of the great leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung has paved a new
road of building a revolutionary party in the
age of independence, setting a shining example
in this work.
Regarding
party building as a fundamental question in
the revolution, Comrade Kim Il Sung
made strenuous efforts from the early years of
his revolutionary activity to found the party
that would lead our revolution. With an
unshakeable belief that the popular masses are
the motive force of the revolution, he waged
the revolutionary struggle by organizing these
masses. He also did the work of founding the
Party, beginning with the laying of its basis
in the grassroots, by going to the popular
masses to train true communists from among
them and forming grassroots Party
organizations.
The
organizational and ideological bases for
founding our Party were laid and consolidated
in the crucible of the 20-year-long arduous
anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle under the
leadership of Comrade Kim Il Sung. The
ranks of communist hard core were trained and
toughened, true unity and cohesion were
achieved in the revolutionary ranks centring
around the leader, and the mass basis for the
communist movement was solidly laid, through
all manner of hardships in the do-or-die
struggle.
In
the course of organizing and leading the
anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to
victory, Comrade Kim Il Sung created
glorious revolutionary traditions, the lasting
cornerstone of our Party and revolution.
Thanks
to the solid organizational and ideological
bases for founding the Party and the glorious
revolutionary traditions, which were prepared
during the anti-Japanese revolutionary
struggle, our Party was founded opportunely
even in the complex circumstances after
liberation. It has been able to fulfil its
mission successfully as the political General
Staff that guides the building of a new
country ever since its founding.
The
establishment of the Workers’ Party of Korea
enabled our people to shape their destiny
successfully under the guidance of their
reliable vanguard, their fighting General
Staff. Its establishment unfolded a new
history of the revolutionary party in the era
of independence.
After
founding the Party in an original
manner, the respected leader Comrade Kim
Il Sung gave wise leadership to the work
of Party building and developed it into a
great revolutionary party.
The
history of our Party building is the history
of brilliantly implementing the Juche idea and
translating into reality the idea and theory
of building the Party on the basis of the
Juche idea under Comrade Kim Il Sung’s
leadership.
Our
Party is a Juche-type revolutionary party,
built and strengthened, guided by the Juche
idea.
The
guiding ideology of a party defines its
character, its aim of struggle and the basic
direction of its development and activities,
and decides its fighting efficiency and
strength. Only a party guided by a great
ideology can be a great party.
It
is the most brilliant achievement of the great
leader Comrade Kim Il Sung that he
created the immortal Juche idea and thus
showed the popular masses a correct way to
shape their destiny independently and that he
built a new, revolutionary party, guided by
the Juche idea, for the first time in the
history of the communist movement.
The
Juche idea is a new scientific world outlook
that correctly reflects the popular masses’
desire for independence and the requirements
of the times. It is a great idea that has
brought about a historic change in the
development of the revolutionary idea of the
working class. The Juche idea is the
ideological and theoretical basis of our Party
building as well as the only guide to
revolution and construction. Our Party has
been guided consistently by the Juche idea in
its building and activities. Therefore, it has
become a powerful revolutionary party with a
most durable foundation, a great,
authoritative party capable of leading the
revolution and construction triumphantly. The
building of our Party is characterized
basically by the fact that it has built itself
and conducted its activities, guided by the
Juche idea.
Based
on the great Juche idea and the rich
experiences in his leadership of the
revolutionary struggle at different stages,
Comrade Kim Il Sung newly elucidated
the fundamentals and basic principles of
building a working-class party and the ways to
implement them, and fully systematized the
Juche-orientated idea and theory of Party
building.
This
idea and theory are, in a nutshell, the
people-centred idea and theory of Party
building on the basis of the fundamental
principles of the Juche idea. Solving all
problems in Party building and activity by
centring on people and through work with
people is the essence of this idea and theory.
The solidity and strength of the party and all
the success in party building depends on how
the cadres and other members of the party are
educated and bound together organizationally
and ideologically and how the masses, the
socio-class basis of the party, rally behind
the party. Work with people is the basis of
party building, the essence of party work and
the mode of activity proper to the
working-class party which regards ideology as
a weapon. Only when it lays the primary
emphasis on work with people, can the
working-class party build up its ranks firmly,
strengthen its mass foundation and lead the
revolution and construction successfully.
The
Juche-oriented idea and theory of party
building shed fresh light on the fundamental
principles of building the working-class
party, based on the principles of the driving
force of revolution. This force is an integral
whole of the leader, the party and the masses.
Only under the guidance of the party and the
leader can the people hold their position as
the driving force of revolution and play their
role satisfactorily. In the driving force of
revolution, the leader is the top brain and
the centre of unity, and the party is a
political organization that materializes the
leader’s idea and guidance. The party as a
political leadership body is inconceivable
apart from the leader’s idea and guidance.
Separated from the masses, the party cannot
lead the revolution and construction to
victory. The unbreakable unity of the leader,
the party and the masses centring around the
leader constitutes the solidest and most
powerful revolutionary force, as well as a
great motive force of the revolution and
construction. Therefore, the working-class
party must be built up into the leader’s
party, the political organization which
realizes the leader’s idea and guidance, and
must achieve inseparable unity with the
masses. This is a basic requirement for the
existence and development of the working-class
party and a fundamental principle that must be
constantly maintained and carried forward in
party building.
Comrade
Kim Il Sung’s idea and theory on Party
building expound the absolutely scientific and
revolutionary principles, basic rules and ways
which the working-class party must implement
thoroughly in its building and activity;
therefore, they have become a powerful
ideological and theoretical weapon with which
to consolidate our Party organizationally and
ideologically, strengthen the unbreakable ties
between the Party and the masses and steadily
enhance the leadership role of the Party.
The
great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung built
our Party into a revolutionary party with a
firmly established monolithic ideological
system.
The
monolithic ideological system of the party is
the leader’s ideological system and his
leadership system. Establishing the monolithic
ideological system is the basic way to build
the party as the leader’s party. Only when the
monolith of ideology and leadership is ensured
through the establishment of the leader’s
ideological system and his leadership system
is it possible to achieve the ideological
unity and organizational cohesion of the party
ranks and make the party play its role
satisfactorily as a political leadership body.
The working-class party must be an ideological
purity and organizational integrity, the
entire party being dyed in its leader’s idea
and moving as one under his unified
leadership.
Our
Party’s struggle to establish the monolithic
ideological system has been a struggle to
equip Party members thoroughly with the
leader’s ideas and unite them firmly behind
the leader in ideology and purpose; at the
same time, it has been a struggle to overcome
the heterogeneous ideas and factional elements
which conflict with the leader’s idea and
guidance and disturb unity and cohesion.
Under
the leadership of Comrade Kim Il Sung,
our Party has steadily intensified ideological
education to equip all the Party members with
the Juche idea, the revolutionary idea of the
Party, and has conducted a powerful
ideological struggle against flunkeyism,
dogmatism, revisionism, factionalism and other
unsound ideas, as well as factional elements.
As a result, it eradicated factionalism, which
had greatly harmed our revolution through
history, and prevented modern revisionism and
all other opportunist trends from infiltrating
into our ranks. That our Party overcame
factionalism and flunkeyism in the Korean
communist movement and prevented the
infiltration of any opportunism, including
modern revisionism, was the historic victory
achieved in the struggle to ensure the unity
and cohesion of the Party ranks and its purity
and establish the monolithic ideological
system of the Party.
Through
the struggle to establish the monolithic
ideological system, the unity and cohesion of
our Party developed into the unity of the
entire Party in ideology and purpose,
reinforced by morality and loyalty, based on
the leader’s idea and centring on the leader.
Today all our Party members are armed solidly
with the monolithic ideology of our Party, the
revolutionary idea of Comrade Kim Il Sung;
they know no other ideas but his revolutionary
idea. They resolutely defend and carry out the
lines and policies of the Party, cherishing
loyalty to the Party and the leader as their
revolutionary faith and obligation. That all
Party members are united rock-solid behind the
leader with one idea and faith and with
comradely love and revolutionary loyalty
underlies the solidity and unbreakability of
the unity and cohesion of our Party.
The
great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung built
our Party into a militant Party with a strong
sense of organization and discipline.
This
sense of organization and discipline is the
intrinsic requirement of the socialist,
communist movement based on collectivism, as
well as the basic guarantee for the fighting
efficiency of the revolutionary and militant
party. The monolith of ideology and leadership
is ensured by organization and discipline, and
apart from them there can be no unity or
cohesion. A working-class party with no
organization or discipline will not only be
unable to lead the revolution, but will itself
be reduced to a lethargic, nominal existence.
By
correctly embodying the principle of
democratic centralism in Party building and
its activity, Comrade Kim Il Sung
firmly established the monolithic system of
leadership and a revolutionary and voluntary
discipline within the Party. For our Party the
principle of democratic centralism is its
organizational principle, whereby democracy is
brought into full play on the basis of firmly
establishing centralized discipline.
Centralism is revolutionary discipline and
order according to which the entire party acts
as one under the monolithic leadership of the
leader. Without this, neither the unity of the
party nor concerted action can be ensured.
Democracy means formulating the party's line
and policy by incorporating the will of the
party members and giving full play to their
voluntary enthusiasm and creativity in the
struggle to implement them. When centralized
discipline is weakened and unprincipled
"democracy" is tolerated, disorder is created
in the party, and the party will be torn
asunder. As a result of the correct
application of the principle of democratic
centralism in our Party, the guidance of the
leader is effected smoothly from the Party
centre down to the lowest echelon and a
revolutionary tone has been firmly
established: all Party organizations and Party
members accept the Party's line and policy as
their own and implement them to the letter by
displaying a high degree of enthusiasm and
creativity.
Enhancing
the function and role of party organizations
and intensifying the party life of the members
is a major factor in improving organization
and discipline in the party. By strengthening
all its organizations and enhancing their
function and role in every possible way, our
Party has ensured that they carry out their
activity strictly in accordance with the
Party's organizational principle and the
system of Party work, and always work
vigorously full of vitality. At the same time,
it has channelled great effort into
intensifying the Party life of its members.
Party members are linked with the leader
through the party organization and accept the
leader's ideas and guidance and draw the
breath of the Party through Party
organizational and ideological life. Party
life is a revolutionary school that arms Party
members with the leader's ideas, tempers their
Party spirit and fosters the sense of
organization and discipline. The unity of the
ideology and action of millions of Party
members is inconceivable apart from Party
life. A well-organized system of Party life
and a revolutionary tone of Party life have
now been firmly established in our Party; all
members belonging to a particular Party
organization, regularly leading their life in
accordance with the unitary norms of Party
life and taking part in it of their own accord
as the masters. As a result, the Party life of
the members has been put on a regular basis
and has become a part of their life, and the
organization and discipline of the Party have
been strengthened markedly. Thus our Party has
become a most highly organized and disciplined
party; all the Party members breathe and act
as one, based on a high degree of awareness
and consciousness; the Party thus fully
displays its might as a militant organization.
The
great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung built
our Party into a mass party firmly rooted in
broad sections of the population.
A
working-class party can be invincible only
when it welds itself to the masses and enjoys
the active support of the wide sections of the
population. As a matter of principle, the
demand of the working class represents the
fundamental interest of the working masses,
and the historic mission of the working class
is to achieve social emancipation, not only
for itself, but for all toiling people. Ours
is an era of independence, in which the
popular masses have emerged as the masters of
history; the cause of the masses for
independence can advance victoriously only
through the energetic struggle of the working
class and other broad strata of the people.
By
correctly reflecting the fundamental interests
of the working class and other toiling masses,
as well as the demand of the era of
independence, and proceeding from the specific
situation in our country, respected Comrade Kim
Il Sung set the line of building a mass
party of the working people comprising
workers, peasants and working intellectuals,
and put this line into effect with success.
The flag of our Party, inscribed with a
hammer, sickle and brush, is a graphic symbol
of a revolutionary party in the era of
independence, the first of its kind in
history. It is the banner of unity and victory
of the popular masses, who are independently
shaping their destiny.
In
accordance with the line of building a mass
party, our Party enlisted into itself many
progressive elements from among workers,
peasants and working intellectuals, and
properly combined the quantitative growth and
qualitative consolidation of the Party ranks.
Thus it continually expanded and strengthened
itself, while firmly maintaining its
working-class and revolutionary character. Our
Party was built as a mass party and the mass
line was fully implemented in its activity. As
a result, it has grown in strength and
developed into a party that defends and
represents the interests of the working masses
and their demand for independence. It has
become a revolutionary party of the working
class rooted among the broad popular masses
and inseparably united with them.
The
validity and vitality of our Party line on
building itself into a mass party were
verified more clearly as the building of
socialism developed in depth. The process of
building socialism is the process of
transforming all members of society on the
pattern of the working class, the process of
assimilating all society to the working class.
The line of building a mass party fully
conforms to the law that governs the building
of socialism. By implementing the line of
building a mass party, our Party was able to
maintain its working-class character and at
the same time continually increase its ranks,
strengthen its mass foundation and accelerate
the process of assimilating the whole of
society to the working class.
The
great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung built
our Party in a far-sighted way to carry on its
cause down through the generations.
The
cause of the popular masses for the
independence is the cause of the leader, the
cause of the Party. It is a historic cause
that is carried on through many generations.
It is only when the working-class party firmly
carries forward the ideas and guidance of the
leader down through generations that it can
invariably maintain its revolutionary
character and appearance as a leading
political organization and carry out its
honorable mission. If a party is to correctly
carry forward the ideas and guidance of the
leader, it must fully ensure the continuity of
its own development. Otherwise, the line of
the revolution discontinues, and renegades
from the revolution appear to ruin the cause
of the leader, the cause of the party. This is
a serious lesson of history.
Respected
Comrade Kim Il Sung not only founded
our Party and developed it to be an invincible
one, but, with his extraordinary
far-sightedness of many years’ standing, laid
solid foundation for a brilliant continuation
and accomplishment of the cause of the Party.
Looking into the distant future, Comrade Kim
Il Sung clarified the way to be followed
by our Party and our revolution, laid firm
organizational and ideological bases for the
Party and established the leadership system
for the continuation and accomplishment of the
revolutionary cause of Juche.
The
ideas and leadership of respected Comrade Kim
Il Sung are an unshakeable inheritance
of our Party. Today, as a revolutionary party
with high prestige and indestructible might,
our Party enjoys full support and trust from
the people and is confidently leading
revolution and construction.
The
working-class party is the weapon for the
revolution. The foundation of the party and
its organizational and ideological strength
are aimed at realizing the popular masses’
cause of independence.
In
the past 50 years since its foundation, our
Party has led the popular masses, winning a
great victory in revolution and construction,
and gaining rich and valuable experience.
Since
national liberation through a bloody
revolutionary war against the Japanese, our
revolution has advanced through an
unprecedentedly complex situation and an
arduous struggle. The division of the country
by foreign forces, the Fatherland Liberation
War against the invasion of the allied forces
of imperialism, the ceaseless maneuvers for
aggression and sabotage by imperialism, the
turbulent international situation and the
collapse of socialism in several countries,
and the subsequent intensification of
anti-socialist, anti-DPRK machinations by
imperialists and reactionaries – in the face
of all these events, we carried out the two
stages of social revolution successfully,
reconstructed the country twice, built a form
of socialism centred on the masses, and added
lustre to our socialism while defending
staunchly the sovereignty of the country and
the achievements of the revolution. The
revolution and construction have been promoted
with vigour in spite of innumerable
difficulties and hardships, bringing about
great changes in the life of the country and
its people.
Our
socialism defends and ensures the independence
for the popular masses and satisfies their
demand for independence to the full. All the
members of society exercise equal rights to
independence in political, economic and
cultural lives, and enjoy valuable and
worthwhile lives free from all manner of
social unrest and worry. Our society is a most
stable and durable one, in which all the
people are united single-heartedly around the
Party and leader, forming one great,
harmonious family. Our entire society is
overflowing with health and vitality and is
full of revolutionary mettle. The communist
morality, now being displayed to a high degree
among our people, of devoting oneself to
society and the collective, and of helping and
leading one another in a comradely way
demonstrates the advantages and might of the
socialist system in our country and
graphically shows the ennobling ideological
and spiritual traits of our people.
Under
the leadership of the Party, our people have
traversed the road of victory, braving the
difficulties and obstacles in their way, and
are working energetically for fresh victory,
full of confidence in and optimism for the
future. Even in the present complicated
situation, our socialism continues to win one
victory after another without vacillation, and
our socialist motherland is demonstrating its
dignity and honour far and wide.
The
imperialists and reactionaries have often
resorted to various machinations to check the
advance of our Party and people, and to stifle
our socialism, but they have failed in every
attempt.
The
practical experience of our revolution
patently proves that the people, who are
united as one under the leadership of their
great leader and the great party and fighting
for their just cause, are unconquerable, and
that the present age is a new, historic age,
the age of independence, when the popular
masses have emerged as masters of their own
destiny. Guided by our Party, our people have
paved a new path to accomplishing the masses’
cause of independence, the path to genuine
socialism, and built and developed a socialism
centred on the popular masses, thus dealing
decisive blows at reactionary propaganda that
vilifies socialism, and confirming in practice
the scientific and genuine nature of
socialism, its advantages and its
invincibility.
For
our Party, which is entrusted with the
responsibility for the destiny of the country
and nation, national reunification has been
the supreme task since the first day of its
founding. Our Party has consistently followed
the policy of national reunification, a policy
based on the three principles of independence,
peaceful reunification and great national
unity. Reflecting the aspiration for
reunification of the whole nation in the
north, south and abroad, it put forward the
most reasonable, fair and realistic proposal
of reunifying the country through federation,
and is now striving for its implementation. It
is also making every effort to realize the
great unity of the nation under the banner of
national reunification. Our Party’s policy of
national reunification is truly patriotic and
it enjoys the unanimous support and approval
of the whole nation. Thanks to the impeccable
policy and consistent effort of our Party for
national reunification, the national
aspiration for reunification has mounted
higher as never before and the national unity
of all compatriots in the north, south and
abroad has grown stronger. The ever-growing
reunification force of our nation will defeat
the divisive forces at home and abroad and
realize the cause of national reunification
without fail.
Our
Party has led the popular masses’ cause of
independence to brilliant victory, making
great achievements along the way, because it
has applied Juche principles and methods of
leadership in the revolution and construction
in a thoroughgoing way.
In
leading the revolution and construction, our
Party has always safeguarded the demands and
interests of the popular masses, relied on
them and carried out its fight by forming an
integral whole with them.
That
the popular masses are the masters of the
revolution and construction and that they have
the power to
promote them—this is
the fundamental principle of the revolution,
as elucidated by the Juche idea. The policy
that defends and realizes the masses’ demands
for independence and their interests is the
most revolutionary and scientific, and relying
on the popular masses and giving full play to
their strength and wisdom is the basic demand
of revolutionary leadership. If one believes
in the people and relies on them, one will
always emerge victorious; and if one is
divorced from them and is forsaken by them,
one will always fail—this is the concept of
“The people are my God,” the motto of
respected Comrade Kim Il Sung, and
this has become the basic starting-point and
supreme principle in all the activities of our
Party.
Respected
Comrade Kim Il Sung was the great
leader of the people and their father. His
ideology, leadership and virtue were based on
love for, and trust in, the people. All his
life he was among the people, shared joy and
sorrow with them and devoted his all to them.
He placed deep trust in the strength, wisdom
and excellent qualities of our people and
solved all problems by relying on them and by
giving rein to their revolutionary zeal and
creative force.
Our
Party has fully applied in all its activities
the noble idea of Comrade Kim Il Sung,
"The people are my God,” and his revolutionary
method of leadership. It has always formulated
its lines and policies by reflecting
truthfully and incorporating the opinions and
requirements of the popular masses, and
implemented them by enlisting their efforts
and resourcefulness. It has given definite
priority to ideological work, namely, the
political work of awakening the popular masses
ideologically and rallying them
organizationally, over all other undertakings;
it has also worked tirelessly to oppose abuse
of authority and bureaucratism and establish a
revolutionary method and popular style of work
among officials. The iron rule in the
activities of our Party and in the work of our
officials is to go among the people, breathe
the same air with them, work devotedly for
them and execute revolutionary tasks by
relying on them under the Party’s slogan, “We
serve the people.” Our Party is a motherly
party, which takes care of the destiny of the
popular masses under its charge, and its
politics is a benevolent one in that it is the
politics of love for the people and trust in
them.
Because
of their genuine comradeship and their
inseparable relationship, in which the Party
and leader trust and love the people and the
people place unqualified trust in them and
support them with loyalty, the single-hearted
unity of the leader, Party and masses has been
strengthened and developed and the
revolutionary enthusiasm and creative force of
the popular masses have been fully displayed
on a high plane. Relying on the popular masses
and welding itself to them in the
struggle—this is the secret of how our Party
has been able to promote the revolution and
construction with vigour in such complicated
circumstances and trying ordeals, and has won
victory after victory by turning misfortune
into a blessing and unfavourable conditions
into favourable ones.
In
leading the revolution and construction, our
Party has established Juche with all
consistency and firmly adhered to the line of
independence.
Independence is man’s intrinsic desire and
the lifeblood of a country and nation. The
revolution and construction are conducted with
a country and nation as a unit, and they are
the very struggle against all manner of
domination and subjugation. They are for the
independence of the country and nation, the
independence of the popular masses. The party
and people of each country must become masters
of the revolution and construction in their
country and wage them independently and
creatively. It is only when the working-class
party establishes Juche firmly and strictly
adheres to the line of indepednece that it can
defend the dignity of the country and nation,
ensure their independent development and lead
the masses’ cause of independence to victory.
Owing to the circumstances in which our
country found itself and the historical
characteristics of our revolution,
establishing Juche was presented as an all the
more pressing and important task to our Party.
From
the first days of his revolutionary activity,
the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung
blazed the trail of independent development of
the Korean revolution, holding aloft the
banner of independence. He made it a
fundamental principle to establish Juche and
maintain independence in the revolution and
construction, then led the effort to implement
it. The line of Juche in ideology,
independence in politics, self-sufficiency in
the economy and self-reliance in defence, as
advanced by Comrade Kim Il Sung, is a
revolutionary line of independence run through
with the principle of Juche and spirit of
independence. Our Party has staunchly
safeguarded this line and implemented it to
the letter.
Our
Party has solved all problems arising in the
revolution and construction, as dictated by
its ideology and faith, on its own
responsibility and on the principle of
self-reliance, doing things in our own way to
suit our situation and the interests of our
revolition. It has been opposed totally to the
worship of big powers, dogmatism and all other
ideas of relying on foreign forces, and
rejected categorically any pressure and
interference from outside. Free from
established theories and formulas, it has
analysed and judged everything solely from the
point of view of the interests of the
revolution and hewed out the road of the
complicated and arduous Korean revolution by
its own efforts, as dictated by its faith and
determination. By conducting energetically
among its members and the working people the
education in Party policies, revolutionary
traditions and socialist patriotism, with an
emphasis on the education in the Juche idea,
it has imbued them with the revolutionary
ideology, lines and policies of their Party,
instilled in them high national dignity and
pride and given full play to their
revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and the
revolutionary tone of living our own way.
Since
they strictly adhered to the Juche stand and
line of independence, our Party and people
have not vacillated in the raging wind of
modern revisionism and all other opportunist
trends, and in the trying situation in which
socialism collapsed in several countries, they
have been able to defend and add lustre to our
style of socialism. Our political and
ideological strength, the powerful socialist
independent economy and the unconquerable
self-reliant military power, which our Party
and people have consolidated rock-solid
through the implementation of the
revolutionary line of independence,
self-sufficiency and self-reliant defence, are
the sure guarantee for defending the
sovereignty of the country and the
achievements of the revolution, advancing the
revolution and construction victoriously and
thwarting the aggression and interference of
imperialism and dominationism. The fact shows
that the political and diplomatic pressure of
imperialism, its attempts to disintegrate us
ideologically and culturally, its economic blockade and
military threat—none of
these are able to infringe upon the
sovereignty of our country, nor can they
demolish or suffocate our socialism.
The
independence of a country and nation is the
basis for fair international relations, and an
independent foreign policy is the justest and
most principled foreign policy. All countries
and nations, whether they are large or small,
developed or less-developed, have the rights
to independence and equality as equal members
of the international society. When they all
maintain independence and respect each other’s
independence, they can develop fair
international relations and build a truly
peaceful and friendly new world where
independence prevails. By following a foreign
policy based on the ideals of independence,
peace and friendship, our Party and Government
have developed the relations of friendship and
cooperation with many countries in the world,
consolidated the country’s international
position, strengthened international
solidarity with our revolution and rendered an
active contribution to the cause of
independence throughout the world.
The
Juche stand and independent line, consistently
maintained by our Party in revolution and
construction, have clearly demonstrated their
correctness and great vitality in practice.
Our
Party has resolutely adhered to its
revolutionary principle and invariably
implemented the revolutionary line and policy
in leading the revolution and construction.
Consistently
adhering to the revolutionary principle in
accomplishing the cause of the popular masses
for independence, the socialist cause, is an
important question affecting the destiny of
the revolution. Maintaining the revolutionary
principle means defending the fundamental
interest of the revolution and leading it to
victory without any deviation, whereas falling
back from the revolutionary principle means
betraying the fundamental interest of the
revolution and leading it to failure. The
history of the revolutionary movement shows
that if one retreats even a single step from
the revolutionary principle, one will retreat
two steps, and once this happens, one will go
back ten steps, and thus will eventually make
a mess of the revolution. Opportunism of all
hues is characterized by a lack of
revolutionary principle and by inconsistency
in line and policy. The revolutionary
principle in carrying out the socialist cause
is guaranteed by the working-class party’s
loyalty to and faith in the socialist cause as
well as by its will to carry this cause to
completion.
Respected
Comrade Kim Il Sung was a great
communist revolutionary and a genius of
revolution and construction. With unshakeable
revolutionary faith and steel-like
revolutionary will, he led our arduous and
tortuous revolution along the straight road to
victory, with unfailing loyalty to the cause
of the popular masses for independence, the
socialist cause of Juche. Comrade Kim Il
Sung led our Party and people by setting
a brilliant example of the art of leadership.
He defended the revolutionary principle under
all circumstances and conditions, and
skillfully combined principle and adroitness
in revolution and construction.
Proceeding
from the fundamental interests of the
revolution, our Party has always adhered to
the principle of independence, and to the
principle of the working class and socialism
in revolution and construction, and thoroughly
carried out the revolutionary line with
consistency. Our Party accelerated the
revolution and construction with continuous
creative efforts and innovation to meet the
demands of the developing reality. While
dealing with the rapidly changing situation
actively and shrewdly, it has never taken
single step back from the fundamental
interests and principles of the revolution and
firmly maintained the revolutionary principle
and line. Highly creative attitude and
adroitness based on the revolutionary
principle and consistency in its line and
policy—these are the important principles and
art of leadership our Party adheres to in the
revolution and construction, as well as being
the characteristics of our Party’s
revolutionary line and policy.
Throughout
its leadership of the revolution and
construction, our Party has never deviated
from the revolutionary principle, never
allowed itself to be swayed to right or left
without principle, and never made a mistake in
this line. Thanks to our Party’s revolutionary
principle and the consistency of its line and
policy, our revolution has been able to
advance victoriously along the road to
socialism with no twists and deviations, even
in the most arduous conditions. And also our
own style of socialism, centred on the popular
masses, has become a firm conviction of our
people and taken root deeper in the people’s
life. Our people place unqualified trust in
our Party, the Party that has confidently led
the revolution and construction. They entrust
their destiny entirely to it and are fighting
indomitably to complete the revolutionary
cause of Juche under the leadership of the
Party.
Our
Party’s great exploits and precious experience
in Party building and Party activity, as well
as in revolution and construction, are the
brilliant fruition of the revolutionary idea
and revolutionary leadership of the respected
leader Comrade Kim Il Sung. They are
the eternal treasures of our revolution, which
we must defend, inherit and develop through
generations to come.
Our
revolution has emerged victorious under the
leadership of our Party, and in future, too,
it will advance in triumph and will be carried
forward to brilliant completion under its
leadership.
We
still have a long way to go, and our
revolution is beset with as many hardships and
trials as ever. No matter how long and thorny
the road ahead for our revolution, pioneered
and led by the great leader Comrade Kim Il
Sung, we must steadily follow this way
in accordance with the behest of Comrade Kim
Il Sung. This is the unshakeable faith
and will of our Party.
We
must safeguard the people-centred socialism of
our own style, established by respected
Comrade Kim Il Sung, bring honour to
it and complete the socialist cause of Juche.
We must unfailingly achieve national
reunification, the vital demand of the entire
nation, on the principles of independence,
peaceful reunification and great national
unity set forth by Comrade Kim Il Sung.
Upholding the lofty will of Comrade Kim Il
Sung, our Party must strengthen
solidarity with the progressive people of the
world and work hard to realize the cause of
independence for mankind.
In
order to carry forward the sacred cause of
Comrade Kim Il Sung, the revolutionary
cause of Juche, from generation to generation,
we must further consolidate our Party, which
organizes and guides all the victories of our
people.
We
must hold in high esteem beloved Comrade Kim
Il Sung as the eternal leader of our
Party and revolution, and develop our Party as
the glorious Party of Comrade Kim Il Sung
for ever.
We
must defend his great ideas, theories and
revolutionary methods of leadership, and
thoroughly apply them in Party building and
activities. We must do all the work of
revolution and construction just as Comrade Kim
Il Sung planned and intended and showed
in his personal example, and we must conduct
everything in the same way as Comrade Kim
Il Sung. This is the way to
develop our Party as the Party of Comrade
Kim Il Sung, the way to brilliantly inherit and complete the revolutionary cause of Juche.
Kim Il Sung, the way to brilliantly inherit and complete the revolutionary cause of Juche.
We
must resolutely safeguard the
revolutionary idea of the great leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung and thoroughly put
it into effect.
The
revolutionary idea of Comrade Kim Il Sung,
the Juche idea, is the sole guiding ideology
of our Party and the banner of victory for our
Party and revolution. It would be impossible
to speak about the Party of Comrade Kim Il
Sung or to think of the victory of the
Party’s cause separately from his
revolutionary idea.
Holding
high the banner of modelling the entire Party
on the Juche idea, we must further strengthen
education in the Juche idea, so that the Party
is imbued with only one ideology, the Juche
idea, and make the whole Party breathe and
pulsate with the Juche idea. We must train all
Party members to be communist revolutionaries
of the Juche type, firmly equipped with the
Juche-orientated revolutionary outlook on the
world and thinking and acting at all times as
demanded by the Juche idea.
We
must defend the purity of the Juche idea and
ceaselessly develop it in depth. Degeneration
of ideology brings about degeneration of the
Party; it leads the revolution and
construction to ruin. Adherence to the purity
of the Juche idea means keeping our Party’s
revolutionary character and defending the
Party’s cause. We must ceaselessly fight
against the infiltration of bourgeois
reactionary ideas, revisionism and all other
ideological trends of opportunism so as to
prevent the heterogeneous ideological trends
from getting even the slightest chance of
gaining ground and growing in our ranks. While
defending the revolutionary essence and purity
of the Juche idea, we must add luster to its
greatness and develop and enrich it as
required by the times and the developing
realities.
True
to the Party’ s slogan, “Let us meet the
requirements of Juche in ideology, technology
and culture!” we must deal with all work of
revolution and construction as required by the
Juche idea. We must thoroughly implement the
Juche idea in building the Party, the army,
the economy and culture, to further strengthen
the political, economic and military power of
the country, bring about development and the
flowering of socialist national culture, and
fully display the advantages of our own style
of socialism centred on the popular masses.
We
must defend and cherish the unity and
solidarity of our Party created by the great
leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, and cement
this cohesion more solidly.
The
unity and cohesion in the party ranks means
its lifeblood and strength. Our Party’s unity
and cohesion is the purest and most durable,
based on the monolithic ideological system,
and a guarantee for the indestructible might
of our Party.
We
must consistently hold fast to the work of
establishing the Party’s monolithic
ideological system as the basic line of Party
building, and defend and strengthen further
the unity and cohesion of our Party, which is
firmly united in ideology and will as well as
in morality and loyalty based on one ideology
amd one centre. All the cadres and Party
members must make loyalty to the Party their
faith, conscience, morality and the creed of
their lives, and follow the Party’s leadership
firmly, united in mind and will.
We
must oppose all kinds of unsound elements
detrimental to the Party’s unity and cohesion
and ensure the purity of the Party ranks. Our
Party’s unity and cohesion has reached a high
level, but we must not rest content. The unity
and cohesion of the Party can be maintained
and consolidated only through constant
ideological education and ideological
struggle. We must not tolerate nepotism,
parochialism, factionalism and other elements
that undermine and hamper the Party’s unity
and cohesion. We must overcome them promptly
so that the Party is always permeated with the
spirit of unity, the atmosphere of unity.
We
must thoroughly put into effect the great
Comrade Kim Il Sung’s idea, “The
people are my God,” so as to further cement
the inseparable ties between the Party and the
people and ceaselessly strengthen and develop
the single-hearted unity of society.
Our
Party exists for the people and regards it as
its duty to fight to meet the interests of the
people and their desire for independence.
Taking loving care of the people, serving them
and forming a harmonious whole with them—these
are the intrinsic nature and basic
characteristics of the Party of Comrade Kim
Il Sung.
Our
people are a great revolutionary people, who
were brought up by respected Comrade Kim
Il Sung and who braved the tempest of
the revolution under his leadership; they are
an excellent people equipped with noble
ideological and mental traits under our
Party’s benevolent politics and the socialist
system of our country. Our Party strongly
believes in our people, who are boundlessly
loyal to the Party and revolution; it
overcomes all difficulties and hardships by
relying on their unrivalled heroism and
unquenchable creative force. Our people’s
unquestioned trust in and unanimous support
for our Party are a source of invincible
strength for the Party. Serving our fine
people is a great honour and pride for our
Party.
We
must thoroughly implement the consistent ideas
and policies of our Party, which takes loving
care of the people, champions their demands
and interests and fights for their independent
and creative life. We must build more
effectively our Party as a genuine motherly
party that leads and takes care of the destiny
of the people on its own responsibility, and
must enhance the spirit of service for the
people among officials so that they might put
the benevolent politics of the Party into
practice more efficiently. We must ensure that
all the officials serve the people devotedly,
acting as their servants and the champions of
their interests.
We
must fully implement the Chongsanri spirit and
Chongsanri method, as created by Comrade Kim
Il Sung, and hold high as ever the
Party’s slogan, “Let the whole Party go among
the masses!” All the officials must acquire
more firmly the revolutionary and popular
style of work; they should always go deep
among the masses, share good and bad times
with them, teach them and at the same time
learn from them, and carry out the
revolutionary tasks by giving rein to their
revolutionary enthusiasm and creative zeal. We
must resolutely oppose and reject abuse of
power, bureaucracy, irregularity and
corruption among officials, and ensure that
they acquire modest and unpretentious traits
and establish a frugal and upright way of
life.
The
Party must believe in the people and the
people in the Party, striving vigorously as
one, thus further consolidating the
single-hearted unity of society as a whole. As
we have advanced in the past by braving
difficulties on the strength of the
single-hearted unity of the Party and the
people, so we must in future, too, pave the
way of victory and glory by relying on the
might of single-hearted unity.
Today
our Party and people have embarked on the road
of new historic advance. Our Party will
inherit and develop faithfully the idea and
achievements of the great leader Comrade Kim
Il Sung and accomplish his cause down
through generations.
The
Workers’ Party of Korea will shine for ever as
the Party of Comrade Kim Il Sung.