KIM JONG
                            IL
                    SOCIALISM IS A SCIENCE
Treatise
                            published in Rodong Sinmun, organ of
                            the
Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea
November 1, 1994
Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea
November 1, 1994
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Our
                          socialism is based on the Juche-orientated
                          view of and attitude towards the masses of the
                          people.
The
                          truth and advantages of socialism are
                          demonstrated in the people’s support of and
                          trust in it.  Now that our socialism is based
                          on the Juche-orientated view of and attitude
                          towards the masses of the people, it has
                          become the most advantageous and powerful
                          socialism and enjoys the people’s absolute
                          support and trust.
The
                          masses of the people are the motive force of
                          history.  The masses of the people means a
                          united social community which centres on
                          working people, due to their common demand for
                          independence and creative activity.
The
                          phrase “the masses of the people” assumes a
                          class character in class society.  An
                          exploiter society is divided into the
                          exploiter class and the exploited class, or
                          the ruling class and the ruled class,
                          depending on who owns the means of production
                          and who controls state power.  The exploited
                          class, the ruled class, forms the majority of
                          the masses of the people.  The class structure
                          of the masses of the people is not immutable. 
                          It changes as social history develops.  In
                          capitalist society, not only workers and
                          peasants, but also working intellectuals and
                          many other classes and strata which champion
                          and struggle for independence, form the masses
                          of the people.  In socialist society, all
                          people are transformed into socialist working
                          people, so everyone is a member of the masses
                          of the people.  Of course, in socialist
                          society, too, the manoeuvres of minor hostile
                          elements continue and traitors may appear in
                          the revolutionary ranks.  Therefore, it is
                          also necessary in socialist society to clearly
                          distinguish between the masses of the people
                          and elements hostile to them.
The
                          phrase “the masses of the people” reflects a
                          social and class relationship, but it is not
                          merely a class concept.  Naturally, the masses
                          of the people consist of different classes and
                          strata.  In order to distinguish whether one
                          is a member of the masses of the people or
                          not, his social and class status should be
                          considered, but this must not be regarded as
                          absolute.  Man’s ideas and behaviour are not
                          subject solely to the influence of his social
                          and class status.  If he undergoes
                          revolutionary influence and acquires
                          progressive ideas, he can serve the masses of
                          the people regardless of his social and class
                          status.  The basic criterion for deciding
                          whether one is a member of the masses of the
                          people or not is not one’s social and class
                          origin, but one’s ideas. The ideological
                          foundation on which to unite people from all
                          walks of life into the masses of the people is
                          not just the idea of socialism and communism. 
                          Anyone who loves the country, the people and
                          the nation can serve the people and
                          accordingly, is qualified to be a member of
                          the masses of the people. 
From
                          such a point of view, at every stage of the
                          revolution, the great leader Comrade Kim
                            Il Sung united everyone who was
                          ideologically ready to serve the fatherland,
                          the people and the nation into one
                          revolutionary force, and he successfully
                          carried out the revolution and construction. 
                          Our Party trusts people of different classes
                          and strata who are interested in the
                          revolution.  It considers them everlasting
                          companions, not chance fellow travellers, on
                          the road to revolution, and it is leading them
                          along the road to socialism and communism.
The
                          class nature of the imperialists and
                          reactionaries makes them antagonistic to the
                          masses of the people.  Accordingly, they are
                          afraid of the word “people” itself. Frequently
                          using the word “nation”, they try to cover the
                          class confrontation and conflict of capitalist
                          society.  The traitors to socialism also try
                          to disguise their anti-popular manoeuvres with
                          the word ”citizen”. They purport to be
                          building a “society for citizens”. It is true
                          that one can often hear reactionaries and
                          traitors hypocritically using the word
                          “people”. But those hostile to the people, the
                          betrayers of the people, cannot hide their
                          anti-popular nature, just because they use the
                          word “people”.  “People” is a noble word that
                          only those who are faithful to the people, can
                          say proudly, the communists who fight and
                          devote themselves wholly to the interests of
                          the masses of the people.
The
                          great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung
                          regarded the people as “Heaven”, since his
                          youth.  He ensured that the country, the army,
                          monuments and many noble and beautiful things
                          in the country were named after the people. 
                          Because our socialism regards the people as
                          such valuable beings, it has become a
                          socialism centred on the masses, the most
                          advantageous socialism which fully embodies
                          the demand of the people for independence.
The
                          masses of the people are the masters of
                          everything in society.  This is because
                          everything in society is created by the masses
                          of the people.
The
                          popular masses possess the greatest creative
                          power for transforming nature and society.  An
                          individual’s strength and wisdom are limited,
                          but those of the popular masses are
                          unlimited.  If there is an omniscient and
                          omnipotent being in this world, it is none
                          other than the popular masses. By drawing on
                          their unfathomable strength and wisdom, the
                          masses create everything in society, they
                          advance history and drive the revolution
                          forward.
The
                          popular masses transform nature, develop the
                          productive forces and create material wealth.
                          Of course, the capitalist class takes an
                          interest in developing the productive forces
                          in order to gain more  profit, but capitalists
                          do not create material wealth with their own
                          hands .The masses create ideological and
                          cultural wealth directly, and also produce
                          progressive thinkers, prominent scientists and
                          talented men of art and literature. The
                          exploiter class also put forward their own
                          ideological and cultural mouthpieces, but the
                          ideas and culture they produce obstruct a
                          moral social life and development.  The masses
                          transform society.  The reactionary exploiter
                          class is only interested in maintaining and
                          consolidating the outmoded exploitative
                          system, not in social transformation. The
                          farce of “reform” staged by the ruling
                          bourgeoisie is essentially aimed at
                          extricating themselves from the crisis of
                          capitalism. Social transformation on
                          progressive lines can only be carried out by
                          the awakened and united popular masses.  Since
                          everything in society is created by the
                          masses, they must naturally be the masters of
                          everything. Only in socialist society, where
                          state power and the means of production belong
                          to the people, can the masses be the real
                          masters of everything in society.
Since
                          they are the masters of everything in society,
                          the popular masses must occupy the position of
                          masters.  They must exercise their rights,
                          fulfil their responsibility and role as
                          masters and enjoy a worthy and happy life as
                          masters. 
As they
                          are the masters of everything in society, the
                          popular masses must hold the position of
                          masters and exercise their rights as such.
The
                          popular masses’ desire for independence is to
                          occupy the position of masters and exercise
                          their rights as such.  Independence is the
                          lifeblood of the masses, and their independent
                          status and right to independence are the basic
                          conditions on which their destiny depends. As
                          they are the masters of state and society, the
                          popular masses must occupy the position of
                          masters and exercise their rights as such in
                          politics, the economy, culture and in all
                          other fields of social life.
In
                          order to thoroughly champion and implement the
                          popular masses’ independence, it is necessary
                          to formulate all lines and policies by making
                          them reflect the masses’ desire for
                          independence and carrying them out in reliance
                          on the efforts of the masses.
The
                          popular masses’ desire for independence is the
                          criterion for judging the correctness of lines
                          and policies.  The only way to avoid
                          subjectivism and tortuous events in the
                          revolution and construction is to mix with the
                          masses and listen to what they want.  The
                          masses are teachers of everything.  The
                          masses’ desire for independence, when
                          integrated into a system, will become ideas,
                          lines and policies.  When formulating its
                          lines and policies, the working-class party
                          must always go among the masses and listen to
                          their desires.  In doing their work, officials
                          must also begin by listening to the masses’
                          desires. Even in complex and difficult
                          circumstances, our Party has been able to
                          establish the best socialist system and
                          develop it continuously, because it has laid
                          down its lines and policies by going among the
                          masses.  It is also because it reflected the
                          masses’ desire for independence in its
                          policies and carried these out by relying on
                          their efforts.  This is the secret of the
                          triumphant advance of socialism in our
                          country, an advance which has been made along
                          an absolutely scientific path, without the
                          slightest deviation or setback.
In
                          order to champion and realize independence for
                          the popular masses, we must totally safeguard
                          the independence of the country and nation.
Our
                          Party’s consistent revolutionary principle is
                          to achieve independence in politics,
                          self-sufficiency in the economy and
                          self-reliance in national defence. Our Party
                          and our people have treasured the independence
                          of the country and nation.  They have
                          thoroughly implemented the revolutionary
                          principle of political independence, economic
                          self-sufficiency and self-reliant national
                          defence despite the pressure of the
                          imperialists and dominationists.  They have
                          thus firmly safeguarded national sovereignty
                          and dignity and continue to advance.  They
                          consistently adhere to their convictions and
                          hold the socialist banner high.
The
                          imperialists now violently interfere in other
                          countries’ affairs and trample upon other
                          nations’ sovereignty.  They try to justify
                          these acts under the excuse of “defence of
                          human rights”. Human rights can not be
                          conceived separately from the independence of
                          countries and nations. Human rights can never
                          be ensured for people who are dominated by
                          foreign forces. Human rights are rights to
                          independence which must be exercised by the
                          people in the political, economic,
                          ideological, cultural and all other spheres of
                          social life.  The “human rights” advertised by
                          the imperialists are privileges of the rich,
                          privileges to do anything on the strength of
                          money.  The imperialists do not recognize the
                          right of unemployed people to work, or the
                          right of orphans or people without support to
                          eat and survive, for instance, as human
                          rights.  As they do not grant working people
                          elementary rights to existence and as they
                          pursue anti-popular policies and policies of
                          racial and national discrimination and
                          colonialism, the imperialists have no right to
                          speak about human rights. The imperialists are
                          the most heinous enemy of human rights.  They
                          violate the people’s right to independence and
                          interfere in the internal affairs of other
                          countries on the pretext of “defending human
                          rights”.  We will never tolerate any
                          imperialist interference or arbitrariness
                          aimed at infringing upon the sovereignty of
                          our country and nation, which we will
                          staunchly safeguard.
The
                          popular masses, as the masters of everything
                          in society, should fulfil their role and
                          responsibilities.
Only
                          then can they defend their position and rights
                          as befitting masters.  The revolution and
                          construction are undertakings for the popular
                          masses and are their own undertakings.  They
                          must be responsible for and must solve all
                          problems arising in the revolution and
                          construction through their own efforts.
In
                          order to make the popular masses fulfil their
                          responsibility and role as masters of
                          everything in society, their consciousness as
                          masters should be enhanced.  To this end,
                          priority should be given to ideological
                          transformation and political work, over all
                          other undertakings.  This is an intrinsic
                          requirement of socialist society.   In
                          socialist society, where the popular masses
                          are the masters of state and society, the main
                          driving force of social development is the
                          high revolutionary enthusiasm and creative
                          initiative of the masses, who are equipped
                          with independent ideological consciousness and
                          who are united rock-firm behind the Party and
                          the leader.  It is only when all members of
                          society are transformed in a communist way and
                          their revolutionary zeal and creative
                          initiative are boosted by giving priority to
                          ideological transformation and political work,
                          that they can press on with the revolution and
                          construction and fully demonstrate the
                          advantages of socialism.  In socialist
                          construction, therefore, efforts must always
                          be concentrated on educating the masses of the
                          people and on boosting their revolutionary
                          enthusiasm and creative activeness, by giving
                          priority to ideological transformation and
                          political work.  There is no other
                          master-stroke for propelling socialist
                          construction than that of giving priority to
                          ideological transformation and political work,
                          in order to enhance the role of the masses. 
                          Trying to move a man by means of money
                          contradicts the intrinsic nature of socialist
                          society; the advantages of socialism cannot be
                          demonstrated by that method.  Such a
                          capitalist method cannot enhance the people’s
                          revolutionary enthusiasm or creative
                          initiative and, worse still, it may degenerate
                          the socialist system itself and throw it into
                          jeopardy.  By giving definite priority to
                          ideological transformation and political work,
                          our Party could dynamically advance the
                          revolution and construction and display the
                          advantages of socialism to the full, relying
                          on the masses’ great revolutionary enthusiasm
                          and creative initiative.  The high
                          revolutionary zeal and creative initiative of
                          the popular masses, who are united firmly
                          behind the Party and the leader, is the source
                          of the strength on which our socialism centred
                          on the masses can demonstrate its advantages
                          and invincibility as the most scientific
                          socialism.
In
                          order to make the masses of the people fulfil
                          their responsibility and role as the masters
                          of everything in society, their creative
                          strength should be cultivated.  This is an
                          important matter to which primary attention
                          should always be given in the revolution and
                          construction.  As the popular masses create
                          everything in society, the success of the
                          revolution and construction depends on how to
                          train the people into powerful beings.
                          Training them into powerful beings means
                          developing their creative ability along with
                          their independent consciousness.  In
                          capitalist society, the popular masses’ demand
                          to boundlessly develop as independent and
                          creative beings cannot be realized properly. 
                          The imperialists and capitalists need slaves
                          who produce surplus value and follow them
                          obediently, not independent and creative
                          people who have been brought to their
                          independent consciousness and who are
                          developed in many ways.  That is why they
                          resort to every possible means and method to
                          degrade working people into slaves of capital,
                          degenerating them ideologically and deforming
                          their creative ability.  The popular masses’
                          demand to develop into independent and
                          creative beings can be fully realized only in
                          socialist society.  Our Party has established
                          the most superior socialist education system
                          and a system under which the entire population
                          studies.  It is running these at the expense
                          of the state and society, and is thus
                          brilliantly carrying out the task of bringing
                          up all members of society as full-fledged
                          builders of socialism and communism.  As a
                          result, our people are pressing on with
                          socialist construction and they are solving
                          every problem through their own efforts and
                          wisdom under the banner of self-reliance even
                          in an extremely difficult situation.
The
                          masses of the people must enjoy a worthwhile
                          and happy life as the masters of everything in
                          society.
Material
                          life occupies an important place in their
                          worthwhile and happy life.  It forms the basis
                          of social life.  As they are the masters of
                          state and society in socialist society, the
                          masses of the people should lead an affluent
                          and civilized life. By stepping up economic
                          construction, our Party has consolidated and
                          developed the socialist economic system and
                          built a powerful socialist and independent
                          national economy.  It has thereby laid solid
                          foundations for satisfying the people’s
                          material life through our own efforts.  The
                          potential of the independent national economy
                          we have built up through self-reliance and
                          fortitude is quite enormous; it is a valuable
                          asset for providing a moral and stable
                          material life for everyone.  We must
                          continuously invest great effort into the
                          construction of the socialist economy, in
                          order to further strengthen the country’s
                          economic power and steadily improve our
                          people’s standard of material life according
                          to socialist demands.
What is
                          essential for the masses in their worthwhile,
                          happy life is to lead a dignified life, while
                          adding lustre to their socio-political
                          integrity and enjoying the love and trust of
                          the social community.
Naturally,
                          the people need to live such a life, but this
                          is impossible in the exploiter society.  The
                          exploitation and oppression of man by man is
                          incompatible with love for and trust in the
                          people; there cannot be genuine love and trust
                          between the exploiter and the exploited.  In
                          capitalist society, the personal value of man
                          has been converted into an exchange value and
                          is appraised by means of money and wealth. 
                          Here, love for and trust in the masses is
                          inconceivable.  The bourgeois reactionaries’
                          advocacy of love which transcends class is a
                          crafty act to disguise the reactionary nature
                          of the capitalist exploiting society and to
                          pacify contradictions between classes. The
                          preceding theory of the working class laid
                          bare the reactionary nature of the
                          hypocritical love which transcends class,
                          advocated by the bourgeois reactionaries.  It
                          made clear that, in class society, love also
                          assumes a class character.  The fact that love
                          assumes a class character does not mean that
                          love and trust can be exchanged only between
                          people of identical social and class status. 
                          The relationship of love and trust between
                          people can be established between those who,
                          despite the difference in their social and
                          class status, fight together to defend the
                          independence of the popular masses and who
                          carry out creative activities together.
When
                          the socialist system is established, class
                          contradictions are eliminated and
                          relationships between people are transformed
                          from those of contradictions and mistrust into
                          those of love and trust.  In socialist
                          society, love and trust flourish in the social
                          community and between its members and among
                          the individuals in society; they are
                          demonstrated in the most sublime form between
                          the leader and his men.  When all members of
                          society proudly maintain their socio-political
                          integrity with the result that the leader and
                          his men, and the Party and the people are all
                          tied by love and trust and the whole of
                          society has been transformed into
                          socio-political organism, their life is the
                          most worthwhile and beautiful life.  The
                          society that has realized this is a most solid
                          and dynamic society.
Socialism
                          centred on the masses fully embodies comradely
                          unity and cooperation and the relationship of
                          love and trust in all spheres of social life. 
                          It transforms politics into politics of love
                          and trust. Love and trust constitute the
                          essence of politics in socialist society,
                          where the masses of the people have been
                          transformed from objects of politics to the
                          masters of politics.  We call the politics of
                          love and trust, benevolent politics.  Although
                          the imperialists embellish bourgeois politics
                          and sling mud at socialist politics,
                          clamouring about things like the “multi-party
                          system” and “parliamentary democracy”, black
                          cannot be made white.  Bourgeois politics, as
                          a plutocracy, are the harsh and crafty
                          politics of oppression and plunder.
In
                          order to realize genuinely benevolent politics
                          in socialist society, a political leader who
                          unfailingly loves the people must come
                          forward.
A
                          political leader of socialism should be a
                          master in leadership but, first of all, he
                          must be a man of virtue who loves the people
                          boundlessly.  This is simply because socialist
                          politics is, in essence, benevolent politics. 
                          An incompetent political leader of socialism
                          may bring about a delay in the development of
                          socialist society, but one who has no virtue
                          may betray the people and even lead socialism
                          to ruin.
If the
                          politics of love and trust are to be exercised
                          in socialist society, the socialist party in
                          power must be built into a motherly party.
The
                          working-class party is the leading political
                          organization of society; accordingly, the way
                          the state organs and all other organizations
                          in socialist society serve the people relates
                          to how the party is built.  Building the party
                          as a motherly party is a prerequisite for
                          making state organs and all other
                          organizations in socialist society into
                          servants of the people.  Building the party as
                          a motherly party means that the party should
                          become a genuine guide and defender of the
                          people, which takes meticulous care of the
                          destiny of the popular masses under its
                          charge, just as a mother deeply loves her
                          children and looks after them warmly.  In the
                          past, the party was regarded mainly as a
                          weapon in the class struggle.  The
                          working-class party should naturally wage
                          class struggle; however, all Party activities
                          must, to all intents and purposes, proceed
                          from a boundless love for and trust in the
                          people.  It must give priority to defending
                          the people’s interests and it must fight
                          against those who violate their interests. 
                          Not a few parties lost the support and trust
                          of the popular masses and came to an end in
                          the long run.  This is because they were not
                          built as motherly parties which take warm care
                          of the destiny of the people under their
                          charge.  They degenerated into bureaucratic
                          parties which wielded power and abused their
                          authority.
If the
                          socialist ruling party is to be built as a
                          motherly party, all cadres and party members
                          should be educated in the spirit of boundless
                          love and sincere service for the people.
In
                          order to sincerely serve the people, one must
                          first think of the people before oneself and
                          regard the pleasure and pain of the people as
                          one’s own. Loyal service to the people is a
                          communist’s sacred duty.  Herein lies the true
                          value of communist’s life.  A man who works
                          for the revolution enters the working-class
                          party not for his self-interest, fame or
                          authority, but to serve the people more
                          faithfully.  Those who undergo hardship before
                          anybody else, and put it before pleasure, and
                          who take charge of difficult tasks on their
                          own, while giving credit for success to others
                          – they are the true communists and members of
                          the working-class party.  In order to bring up
                          those party members, ideological education
                          should be intensified among them so that they
                          serve the people devotedly.
It is
                          important while building the socialist ruling
                          party as a motherly party to thoroughly
                          transform the cadres in a revolutionary
                          fashion and to actively struggle against the
                          abuse of power, bureaucracy, irregularities
                          and corruption among them, which are the main
                          factors that obstruct the implementation of
                          benevolent politics in socialist society. 
                          Socialism is opposed to all privileges.  With
                          the establishment of the socialist system, the
                          privileged class disappears.  As long as the
                          people possess state power and the means of
                          production, the privileged class cannot come
                          into being in socialist society.  But if a
                          struggle is not waged against the abuse of
                          power, bureaucracy, irregularities and
                          corruption in socialist society, some
                          ill-prepared cadres can deteriorate
                          ideologically and become divorced from the
                          masses, and thus grow into a privileged
                          class.  However good the policies pursued by
                          the party and state may be, they cannot be
                          carried out properly if the cadres resort to
                          abuse of power and to bureaucracy, because all
                          policies of the party and state are
                          implemented through the cadres.  If the cadres
                          exercise privileged power, act
                          bureaucratically and indulge in irregularities
                          and corruption, the socialist party in power
                          will lose the support and confidence of masses
                          and, without their support, the party cannot
                          maintain its existence.  The historical lesson
                          shows that it is tantamount to digging its own
                          grave for the socialist ruling party to
                          tolerate the abuse of power bureaucracy,
                          irregularities or corruption among the
                          cadres.   
Our
                          Party saw through the danger of the deviations
                          that could manifest themselves in a ruling
                          party early on, and it has tirelessly
                          struggled against them.  Under the Party’s
                          slogan, “We serve the people!”, our cadres are
                          now faithfully serving the people as their
                          servants. But we cannot in the least neglect
                          struggle against the abuse of power,
                          bureaucracy, irregularities and corruption,
                          because they are rooted in the vestiges of
                          outdated ideas, and because the imperialists
                          continue their schemes of ideological and
                          cultural infiltration in order to implant
                          anachronistic ideas in our country.  We should
                          continue to vigorously wage educational work
                          and an ideological struggle among cadres to
                          root out these deviations.
Our
                          Party’s politics are characterized by love and
                          trust and are benevolent politics.  They
                          constitute the basic factor that defines our
                          socialism’s advantages and invincibility.
                          Thanks to the benevolent politics of the Party
                          and the leader, our people enjoy a most
                          worthwhile and dignified life. Their noble
                          socio-political integrity is enhanced under
                          our own style of socialist system, which is
                          centred on the popular masses.  It is a true
                          feature of our society that all its members
                          form a large harmonious family. They trust,
                          love and help each other, and enjoy a
                          worthwhile and happy life together.
In our
                          country, everyone regards and supports the
                          leader as they would their own father.  They
                          trust and follow the Party, regarding its
                          embrace as that of their own mother.  The
                          leader, the Party and the people form one
                          socio-political organism, and share the same
                          destiny.  The whole of society overflows with
                          communist morality.  For  instance, one
                          devotes one’s own life without hesitation to
                          save one’s revolutionary comrade from danger,
                          and young men and women become life companions
                          of honourably disabled soldiers and take warm
                          care of orphans and old people without
                          support, as they would their own relations. 
                          This is a proud result of the benevolent
                          politics of our Party.
The
                          vitality of the benevolent politics of our
                          Party finds expression not only in our
                          people’s noble spiritual and moral traits, but
                          also in their upright and equitable material
                          and cultural life, which improves as the days
                          go by. All our people are free from worries
                          about food, clothing and housing.  They
                          continue to learn throughout their whole life
                          and enjoy long lives in good health, thanks to
                          free and compulsory education and free medical
                          care.  In our country, the state provides
                          stable jobs for all able-bodied working
                          people.  It looks after the whole population
                          under its responsibility and even takes warm
                          care of those who have temporarily lost the
                          ability to work, those without this ability
                          and old people without support.  Aged
                          revolutionaries and war veterans, honourably
                          disabled soldiers and meritorious people enjoy
                          their worthwhile life under the state’s care,
                          held in the people’s high esteem and love.
The
                          younger generation is basking in the great
                          benefits of the Party’s benevolent politics. 
                          They are successors to the revolution, and the
                          future of our country and nation.  The future
                          of the revolution and the destiny of the
                          country and nation depend on how they are
                          brought up. Therefore, their upbringing cannot
                          be the sole responsibility of their parents. 
                          In capitalist society, where the future of the
                          younger generation depends on their parents’
                          purse, they cannot avoid falling victim to
                          social inequality and social evils.  Due to
                          the aggression and intervention of the
                          imperialists and the plunder of the exploiter
                          class, many of the young generation throughout
                          the world lose their lives or are maimed by
                          war, social conflict, disease and hunger or
                          they wander about the streets, committing
                          crimes and degenerating. By contrast, in our
                          socialist society with its benevolent
                          politics, the state brings up all the younger
                          generation.  Our Party and state accord them
                          the warmest love and solicitude.  In our
                          country, they study to their hearts’ content
                          under the best ll-year universal compulsory
                          education system, and are supplied with school
                          uniforms and school things by the state. 
                          Thanks to the warmest love and care of the
                          Party and the leader, the state and society,
                          our younger generation is growing up happily
                          without envying anyone.
All the
                          popular policies enforced in our country today
                          prove the superiority of our own style of
                          socialist system, which is centred on popular
                          masses.  These policies emanate from the noble
                          love of the Party and the leader for the
                          people.  Benevolent politics is the
                          traditional method.  Its historical root had
                          already been created by the great leader
                          Comrade Kim Il Sung in the days of the
                          anti-Japanese revolution and was further
                          deepened and developed by him as the
                          revolution and construction advanced.
The
                          respected leader Comrade Kim Il Sung
                          was the benevolent father of our people, who
                          cherished the warmest love for them.  Under
                          the motto, “The people are my god”, which he
                          adopted when he was young, Comrade Kim Il
                            Sung mixed with people, shared weal and
                          woe with them and devoted his all for them,
                          throughout his life.  Because it held the
                          respected Comrade Kim Il Sung, who was
                          endowed with the noble virtue of boundless
                          love for the people, as its leader, our
                          country could record a brilliant history of
                          genuine politics for the people, benevolent
                          politics. Our Party continues to carry forward
                          the brilliant traditions of benevolent
                          politics established by the great leader
                          Comrade Kim Il Sung.  Our Party’s
                          benevolent politics are politics of extensive
                          love and trust; the Party loves and trusts
                          people from all areas of society, without
                          discrimination.  In this sense, we call our
                          Party’s benevolent politics all-embracing
                          politics. They are politics of invariable love
                          and trust.  Our Party is responsible for
                          everyone’s socio-political integrity and
                          guides this.  Even when a man has committed an
                          error, our Party does not put him in the cold
                          but re-educates him, to lead him onto the
                          right track.  It shows constant care for him,
                          so that he will exalt his socio-political
                          integrity to the last.
The
                          noble love and trust shown by our leader and
                          Party for the people have produced unfailing
                          loyalty to the Party and the leader from the
                          people.  Our people have been well-known since
                          olden times as a diligent and courageous
                          people with a strong sense of justice, a noble
                          sense of obligation and a high sense of
                          decorum.  Our people’s fine traits now
                          flourish and develop in every respect, based
                          on new spiritual and moral qualities.  Our
                          people are deeply grateful to the Party and
                          the leader for their benevolent politics and
                          work heart and soul to repay the favour with
                          loyalty.  Our people’s loyalty to the great
                          leader Comrade Kim Il Sung is shown on
                          a nobler plane today, after they suddenly lost
                          their fatherly leader.  It is our people’s
                          unshakable will to loyally uphold the
                          respected Comrade Kim Il Sung forever
                          as the leader of our Party and revolution. 
                          Under the leadership of the Party, our people
                          are working with redoubled efforts to win
                          fresh victories, true to the behests of their
                          fatherly leader Comrade Kim Il Sung.
                          No other people are equipped with such noble
                          spiritual and moral qualities as ours.  They
                          are unfailingly loyal to the Party and the
                          leader, and work devotedly for their country,
                          society and the collective.  We take great
                          pride in having such excellent people.  For
                          our Party to have trained ours into such an
                          excellent people is its great achievement and
                          a brilliant victory for its benevolent
                          politics.
Our
                          Party’s benevolent politics are the source of
                          the single-hearted unity of the leader, the
                          Party and the people.  The single-hearted
                          unity of the leader, Party and people, based
                          on love and loyalty, is the most solid unity,
                          and our own style of socialism, rooted in this
                          single-hearted unity, is ever-victorious.
People
                          throughout the world express their great
                          admiration for our socialism, saying that it
                          is the most ideal socialism.  This is because
                          our socialism is genuine socialism centred on
                          the popular masses, which fully applies the
                          principles of love for and trust in the
                          people.
The
                          reason why our own style of socialism, centred
                          on the popular masses, is an invincible
                          socialism which enjoys their full support and
                          trust is that here, the popular masses
                          maintain their position and exercise their
                          rights as the masters of the state and
                          society. They discharge their
                          responsibilities, play their role as the
                          masters and lead a worthwhile and happy life
                          in such a capacity.
Our
                          Party will invariably and fully pursue genuine
                          politics for the people, benevolent politics
                          which regards the popular masses, the masters
                          of everything in society, as supreme beings
                          and bestows everlasting love and trust on
                          them.  Our Party and people are faced with the
                          heavy yet honourable task of carrying forward
                          and consummating through generations, the
                          socialist cause of Juche which was initiated
                          and led by the great leader Comrade Kim Il
                            Sung.  As it has always won victories in
                          the past by believing in and relying on the
                          people, so too in the future, our Party will
                          accomplish the socialist cause of Juche by
                          believing in and relying on them.
Man-centred
                          socialism, socialism centred on the popular
                          masse, is absolutely scientific, and the most
                          advantageous and powerful socialism.  For its
                          scientific accuracy and truth, socialism is
                          sure to be victorious.