KIM
                              JONG IL
THE
                              WORKERS' PARTY OF KOREA IS A JUCHE-TYPE
                              REVOLUTIONARY PARTY 
WHICH
                              INHERITED THE GLORIOUS TRADITION OF THE
                              DIU
October
                              17, 1982
                            
Today,
                          October 17, is the 56th anniversary of the
                          formation of the Down-with-Imperialism Union (DIU) by the great
                          leader Comrade Kim Il Sung.
With the formation of the
                          DIU our
                          people's revolutionary struggle embarked on a
                          new road of development and our Party began to
                          strike its glorious roots.
Our Party has traversed
                          the glorious course of struggle for over half
                          a century since it took root with the
                          formation of the DIU; and on this road it has
                          scored many of the most brilliant achievements
                          of the century, and has grown and strengthened
                          as a powerful revolutionary party, united
                          rock-firm and equipped with a wealth of
                          experience.
By leading the people our
                          Party achieved national independence and
                          carried out democratic and socialist
                          revolutions, and through tremendous
                          construction work, it radically changed the
                          appearance of the country and built a "model
                          socialist state" which strikes the world's
                          people with admiration. In the hard-fought
                          struggle against US
                          imperialist invasion, our Party led the people
                          to victory and preserved the country and the
                          revolution with credit.
For its immortal exploits
                          on behalf of the country and the people, the
                          age and history, our Party enjoys the
                          unreserved support and confidence of the
                          entire Korean people.
With the monolithic
                          ideological system firmly established
                          throughout, our Party has been strengthened
                          more than ever before, both organizationally
                          and ideologically, as the tested General Staff
                          of the revolution and, convinced of the
                          justness of its cause and certain of victory,
                          it is successfully guiding the cause of
                          modelling the whole of society on the Juche
                          idea.
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Ours is a glorious party
                          with a long history, a revolutionary party
                          which has carved out a new trail for progress.
A working-class party is
                          the General Staff of the revolution and the
                          organizer of all victories. Without party
                          guidance, the working class and the masses
                          cannot win the revolutionary battle. The
                          Korean revolution which had suffered
                          difficulties in the early communist movement,
                          badly needed a militant party which would be
                          able to lead the revolution to victory,
                          overcoming all obstacles. This urgent
                          requirement of the Korean revolution was
                          admirably fulfilled when the great leader
                          Comrade Kim Il Sung came to lead the
                          revolution.
Having assumed the role
                          of helmsman of the Korean revolution in the
                          grimmest days of Japanese imperialist rule,
                          the great leader Comrade 
Kim Il Sung, with
                          a view to exploring a new revolutionary road,
                          conceived a plan to form a revolutionary
                          vanguard organization which, under a correct
                          programme, would carry out the anti-Japanese
                          national-liberation struggle relying on the
                          masses and, in 1926, he formed the DIU.
The formation of the DIU was a historic
                          declaration of a fresh start for the Korean
                          communist movement and the Korean revolution.
                          Now, the Korean communist movement and
                          national-liberation movement bade farewell to
                          the old generation, contaminated by flunkeyism
                          and dogmatism, and welcomed a new age based on
                          the principle of independence. The
                          establishment of the D1U was the beginning of
                          the struggle to found a new type of party, a
                          revolutionary party of the Juche type, which
                          was different from the one which had
                          previously existed in our country. The
                          programme of the DIU became the basis of our
                          Party's Programme, and the principle of
                          independence advanced by this organization
                          became the principle of our Party building and
                          activity; and the communists of the new
                          generation whom the DIU
                          began to train, became the backbone in the
                          establishment of our Party. This shows that
                          our Party grew from the very roots of the DIU.
The struggle to build a
                          revolutionary party which began with the DIU, took on a new
                          impetus as a result of the formation of the
                          Young Communist League of Korea by the great
                          leader Comrade Kim Il Sung. The YCLK
                          was not just a youth organization. Since a new
                          generation was appearing in the communist
                          movement in our country at that time, it was a
                          revolutionary vanguard organization which was
                          given the task of exploring the road for the
                          Korean revolution and which gave unified
                          guidance to many anti-Japanese mass
                          organizations.
Because the great leader
                          Comrade Kim Il Sung formed the DIU and
                          the YCLK in the second half of the 1920's and
                          led our revolution, the defects of the early
                          communist movement were remedied, many
                          communists of the new generation matured and
                          the founding of a revolutionary party in our
                          country became the first priority.
At the Kalun Meeting held
                          in 1930, the great leader Comrade Kim Il
                            Sung set forth the Juche-inspired line
                          of the Korean revolution and explained a
                          unique way of founding a revolutionary party.
The most important aspect
                          of this policy put forward at this meeting was
                          to establish a party independently.
Maintaining independence
                          is a fundamental need of the communist
                          movement. This movement is a struggle to
                          accomplish the independence of the popular
                          masses in each country, and it is the
                          communists and the people of the country
                          themselves who are the ones who carry it out,
                          the masters of this struggle. Founding a
                          working-class party in each country is also a
                          task which the communists of the country
                          should necessarily carry out by their own
                          efforts as the masters.
The policy of founding
                          the party independently also accorded with the
                          requirement of the international communist
                          movement which had entered a new phase of
                          development. Now that the revolutionary
                          struggles of the working class and masses were
                          being carried on extensively and in a diverse
                          way on a worldwide scale, the revolution in
                          each country would not be advanced correctly
                          unless the communists of that country
                          conducted it responsibly and independently.
                          This demanded that party founding in each
                          country should also be undertaken by the
                          communists of the country through their
                          independent efforts and on their own
                          responsibility.
Another important aspect
                          of the party founding policy set forth at the
                          Kalun Meeting was to form grassroots party
                          organizations first and found the party by
                          means of expanding and strengthening them and
                          make preparations for party founding in close
                          combination with the anti-Japanese struggle.
Previously, it had been
                          usual for a revolutionary working-class party
                          to be found by uniting communist groups which
                          were operating in isolation or as the result
                          of a revolutionary faction seceding from a
                          social democratic party. However, it was
                          impossible to follow this course in the
                          circumstances in our country. At the time
                          those who called themselves communists were
                          mostly factionalist-flunkeys who looked to
                          foreigners and indulged in factional strife to
                          the ruin of the party. It would be utterly
                          impossible to establish a revolutionary party
                          by "reconstructing" the party which had
                          already been dissolved or by relying on the
                          old generation who were infected with
                          factionalist-flunkeyism.
In order to inaugurate a
                          revolutionary party, it was necessary to break
                          away from the old party and the old
                          generation, polluted with factionalism and
                          flunkeyism, develop new communists of the new
                          generation, achieve the unity of ideology and
                          purpose of the communist ranks and strengthen
                          their ties with the masses. Only by setting up
                          grassroots party organizations first and then
                          continually expanding and strengthening them,
                          would it be possible to train communists of
                          the new generation from amongst the workers
                          and peasants quickly through organizational
                          and ideological life and practical struggle,
                          and guarantee the unity of ideology, purpose
                          and action and the purity of the communist
                          ranks and consolidate the party's mass
                          foundation. Also, only by making preparations
                          for party founding in close combination with
                          the struggle against Japanese imperialism,
                          would it be possible to effectively develop
                          communist nuclei who were tried and tested
                          through struggle, and build up the party as a
                          militant force with great fighting strength.
 The party founding
                          policy proposed at the Kalun Meeting was a
                          correct one which reflected the real needs of
                          the international communist movement and our
                          country.
In accordance with this
                          policy put forward by the great leader Comrade
                          Kim Il Sung, the work to set up party
                          organizations was actively pursued after the
                          Kalun Meeting.
In the early July of 1930
                          in Kalun, Comrade Kim Il Sung formed
                          the first party organization with young
                          communists of the new generation. This was the
                          first party organization governed by the Juche
                          idea, a glorious party organization which was
                          the origin of our Party.
With this first party
                          organization as the parent body, Comrade Kim
                            Il Sung expanded party organizations in
                          different areas.
Thanks to his dynamic
                          guidance and activity, a party organization
                          was established in the area of Onsong with
                          activists of revolutionary organizations at
                          the beginning of October 1930, and within a
                          short time many grassroots party organizations
                          appeared within the armed ranks and in east
                          Manchuria on the Tuman River
                          and in the area along the northern border.
While expanding and
                          strengthening grassroots party organizations,
                          work was actively stepped up to establish a
                          system of guidance for party organizations
                          aimed at providing them with unified
                          leadership. As a result the system of guidance
                          of party organizations from county party
                          committees to party cells in villages was
                          established. In the Anti-Japanese People's
                          Guerrilla Army party committees were formed
                          and active in the regiments, party cells in
                          the companies and party sub-teams in platoons.
In particular, as the
                          Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army was
                          reorganized into the Korean People's
                          Revolutionary Army in March 1934, radical
                          measures were taken by which the Party
                          Committee of the KPRA was formed to supervise
                          and control not only party organizations at
                          different levels within the units, but local
                          party organizations as well.
The formation of the KPRA
                          Party Committee was an event of great
                          importance to the Korean communist movement
                          and the building of our Party. It was now
                          possible to set up a unified system of
                          guidance for party organizations at all levels
                          and carry out the anti-Japanese armed struggle
                          and the building of party organizations more
                          vigorously by relying on better organized
                          internal revolutionary forces.
Drawing on the successes
                          achieved in the first half of the 1930's, the
                          great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung
                          conceived a plan in the second half of the
                          decade to expand party organizations in the
                          homeland on a wide basis, achieve the unity of
                          the whole nation under the anti-Japanese
                          banner, set up a well-regulated unified system
                          of guiding all party organizations and ensure
                          party leadership for the Korean revolution as
                          a whole. This plan was admirably carried out.
                          Here, the Meeting of the Military and
                          Political Cadres of the Korean People's
                          Revolutionary Army held in Nanhutou in
                          February 1936 was of historic significance.
At this meeting Comrade Kim
                            Il Sung summed up the work of building
                          party organizations in the first half of the
                          1930's and put forward a policy for the
                          forceful introduction of this work on a
                          nationwide scale to lay solid organizational
                          and ideological foundations so that the
                          founding of the party could be proclaimed as
                          soon as an appropriate situation was created.
In accordance with
                          the policy put forward at the Nanhutou
                          Meeting, Comrade Kim Il Sung ensured
                          that party organizations at all levels within
                          the KPRA were built up and also that party
                          organizations were expanded in the homeland
                          and in the areas inhabited by Koreans in
                          Manchuria. With the intention of strengthening
                          guidance to these organizations, he set up the
                          Party Working Committee in the homeland, the
                          Changbai County Party Committee and the Party
                          Working Committee in East
                            Manchuria. As a result, party
                          organizations were rapidly expanded in a wide
                          area of Manchuria
                          and in the northern border area of our country
                          and a well-regulated system of guidance to
                          party organizations was established.
Party organizations were
                          increased throughout the country, and a
                          unified system of guidance for party
                          organizations was established, ranging from
                          the Party Committee of the KPRA to local party
                          organizations. 
This firmly ensured the
                          unitary guidance of the great leader Comrade Kim
                            Il Sung for all party organizations and
                          the revolutionary movement in our country as a
                          whole.
The founding of the
                          Association for the Restoration of the
                          Fatherland in May 1936 was an event of
                          historic significance in firmly rallying all
                          levels of people, including workers and
                          peasants, around the great leader Comrade Kim
                            Il Sung and in cementing the mass
                          foundation of the party. The ARF was an
                          anti-Japanese national united front
                          organization to which party guidance was
                          guaranteed. Party organizations and communists
                          rallied broad sections of the people in the
                          ARF and actively mobilized them to the
                          struggle to implement the Juche-motivated line
                          of the Korean revolution. With the founding
                          and rapid expansion of the ARF more communists
                          were trained, the mass foundation of the party
                          considerably strengthened and fresh progress
                          was made in giving party leadership to all
                          sections of the people.
In this way, during the
                          anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, our
                          Party organizations were formed in the ranks
                          of the KPRA and over a vast area at home and
                          abroad and were, for organizational purposes,
                          firmly welded to the Headquarters of the
                          Korean revolution. Thus the leader's guidance,
                          party guidance, to the whole Korean revolution
                          was successfully achieved.
The most important thing
                          in party leadership to the revolutionary
                          movement is to make a scientific analysis of
                          the situation created at each stage and put
                          forward a correct line and policies, strategy
                          and tactics and thus clarify the road of
                          struggle.
The party's line and
                          policies, strategy and tactics are put forward
                          by the leader and they are discussed and
                          decided upon at party meetings. The great
                          leader Comrade Kim Il Sung devised the
                          immortal Juche idea; and applying this idea at
                          each stage, he proposed a correct line,
                          strategy and tactics for the Korean revolution
                          at the meetings of party and Young Communist
                          League cadres and military and political
                          cadres. This was a firm guarantee for
                          achieving the unity of the revolutionary ranks
                          in ideology, will and action based on the
                          Juche idea, and for enabling the Korean
                          communists and people to fight always with a
                          clear guideline even in adversity. In fact, at
                          that time meetings of party and Young
                          Communist League cadres and military and
                          political cadres reflected the party's
                          organizational will and served as an important
                          means to put party leadership into effect.
Another important thing
                          in party guidance to the revolutionary
                          movement is to strengthen its kindred ties
                          with the masses and organize them to implement
                          the line and policy set forth by the leader.
At that time the
                          mainstream of the Korean revolution was the
                          armed struggle, and it was basic to party
                          guidance to lead this struggle to victory. The
                          party organizations formed within the KPRA
                          rallied party members and guerrillas behind
                          the leader, explained and brought home to them
                          his revolutionary line, strategy and tactics
                          and ensured that they were thoroughly
                          implemented. Meanwhile, the party
                          organizations in different areas at home and
                          abroad rooted themselves deeply amongst the
                          broad masses and creditably played the role of
                          educators and organizers, who mobilized the
                          workers, peasants, young people and students
                          and other sections of the people on the side
                          of the anti-Japanese struggle.
Because the Korean
                          communists and people had these party
                          organizations and fought under their guidance,
                          they could give momentum to the anti-Japanese
                          national-liberation struggle and accelerate
                          its final victory despite unprecedented
                          difficulties.
After the country's
                          liberation the great leader Comrade Kim Il
                            Sung, on the basis of the successes and
                          experiences he had personally accumulated in
                          party building during the anti-Japanese
                          revolutionary struggle, lost no time in
                          setting up party organizations in different
                          areas, and, on October 10, 1945, founded the
                          Central Organizing Committee of the North
                          Korean Communist Party. This was a historic
                          event in accomplishing the cause of Party
                          founding which had been carried on for many
                          years under his guidance. Our Party shone
                          forth all over the world as a revolutionary
                          working-class party of a new type guided by
                          the Juche idea, and our people were able to
                          push ahead confidently with the building of a
                          new society under its leadership.
Following liberation our
                          Party, as a ruling party, developed in a new
                          direction.
The course of the
                          building of our Party in power was that of
                          expanding its ranks and consolidating it
                          organizationally and ideologically. The most
                          urgent requirement was to develop the Party
                          quickly into a mass party. Only when the Party
                          was developed in this way and deeply rooted
                          among broad sections of the working masses,
                          would it be possible to mobilize all the
                          masses and guide political, economic, cultural
                          and all other affairs, thereby dynamically
                          speeding up the construction of a new country.
The great leader Comrade
                          Kim Il Sung, showing a deep insight
                          into the prevailing situation and the
                          inevitable need of our Party's development,
                          put forward the unique organizational line of
                          building it as a mass party and inaugurated a
                          unified party of the working masses by merging
                          the Communist Party with another party of
                          working people.
To develop the Communist
                          Party into a mass party was an urgent
                          requirement of our developing Party and
                          revolution, which accorded with the situation
                          in a new era. In the new situation where the
                          popular masses emerge as masters of history,
                          the revolution is not only participated in by
                          the working class but also by broad sections
                          of the peasantry and working intellectuals.
                          Only when a working-class party in power
                          rallies all these people and provides them
                          with unified leadership, can it successfully
                          carry on the revolution and construction.
                          Particularly in our country, which had been a
                          colonial, semi-feudal society in the past, it
                          was a highly important strategic problem to
                          draw the peasantry and working intellectuals
                          as well as the working class into the
                          revolution and construction. As the Communist
                          Party grew organizationally and ideologically
                          strong and the revolution progressed after
                          liberation, the Party had to be developed into
                          a unified mass party which could rally the
                          broad working masses as a political force and
                          mobilize their strength. It was a task which
                          was brought to fruition. Our Party merged with
                          another working people's party in time and
                          accepted a large number of advanced elements
                          of the peasantry and working intellectuals,
                          together with those of the working class, so
                          that it firmly ensured the unity of the
                          working masses, developed closer ties with
                          them and pushed ahead with the revolution and
                          construction successfully by mobilizing many
                          people of various strata.
An important task arising
                          in building our Party as a mass party was to
                          consolidate its quality in order to keep pace
                          with its rapid growth in numbers.
The Second Party Congress
                          held in March 1948 accepted this need for an
                          improvement in quality as a matter of cardinal
                          importance in the building of a mass party,
                          and advanced an overall task for this
                          purpose—strengthening Party cells, improving
                          its ideological work and guaranteeing its
                          organizational and ideological unity. Through
                          the struggle to implement the Party's policy
                          on this subject as put forward at its Second
                          Congress, the organizational and ideological
                          work was improved, all the cells strengthened
                          to become vital militant units and the level
                          of the rank and file and cadres was raised. In
                          this way the quality of the Party ranks was
                          consolidated, its unity and cohesion increased
                          and the militancy of its organizations and its
                          leading role were improved.
The 1950's was a period
                          of historic significance in the development of
                          our Party as a party of a Juche type.
The Fatherland Liberation
                          War against US
                          imperialist invasion was a harsh trial for our
                          Party. In order to achieve victory in the war
                          the Party had to strengthen itself first of
                          all, organizationally and ideologically and
                          unite all the people closely behind it.
Even in the grim wartime
                          conditions the great leader Comrade Kim Il
                            Sung convened the Third, Fourth and
                          Fifth Plenary Meetings of the Central
                          Committee of the Party and guided the Party to
                          correct deviations and shortcomings in Party
                          building and Party work promptly and
                          strengthen itself organizationally and
                          ideologically. The Third Plenary Meeting
                          remedied the loose practices which were
                          revealed during the temporary retreat and
                          established revolutionary discipline within
                          the Party, and the Fourth Plenary Meeting
                          eliminated the "Leftist" deviation manifested
                          in its organizational work and increased and
                          consolidated its ranks. The Fifth Plenary
                          Meeting in particular brought about a new
                          change in strengthening the Party
                          organizationally and ideologically by arousing
                          all its organizations and membership to the
                          struggle to temper the Party spirit of its
                          members, fortify its unity and solidarity in
                          opposition to factionalism and establish Juche
                          in its ideological work.
As a result of these
                          timely measures to strengthen itself, our
                          Party was able to survive all ordeals and be
                          victorious in the Fatherland Liberation War.
In the postwar period our
                          Party effected a radical change in
                          establishing Juche and cementing its unity and
                          cohesion.
We rehabilitated the
                          national economy in a short period after the
                          victorious war, but the situation was still
                          difficult. To make matters worse, the
                          factionalists who had remained in the Party
                          adopted revisionism and challenged it. The
                          prevailing situation urgently demanded that
                          the Party be strengthened organizationally and
                          ideologically under the banner of Juche.
The great leader Comrade
                          Kim Il Sung called the Third Party
                          Congress in April 1956 and set forth the very
                          important task of opposing factionalism in the
                          field of Party building, preserving its unity
                          and solidarity and improving its
                          organizational and ideological work. At the
                          August 1956 Plenary Meeting of the Party
                          Central Committee, he wisely led the struggle
                          to expose and destroy the anti-Party,
                          counterrevolutionary factionalists who opposed
                          the Party. All the working people and Party
                          members including the anti-Japanese
                          revolutionary veterans who were infinitely
                          loyal to the respected leader Comrade Kim
                            Il Sung, determinedly countered the
                          manoeuvres of the anti-Party,
                          counterrevolutionary factionalists and firmly
                          defended the Party and the leader. The
                          historical significance of the Third Party
                          Congress and the August 1956 Plenary Meeting
                          in the strengthening of our Party lies in the
                          fact that these meetings opposed all
                          anti-Party, counterrevolutionary ideological
                          elements including those of factionalism and
                          revisionism and upheld the banner of Juche,
                          the banner of Party unity and solidarity.
                          After these meetings our Party established
                          Juche more firmly in its work and further
                          increased its unity and cohesion. Because it
                          thus rebuffed factionalism and revisionism
                          promptly, established Juche firmly and
                          preserved its unity and solidarity, our Party
                          was able to raise the revolutionary banner
                          high without vacillation and strengthen itself
                          organizationally and ideologically even in the
                          face of the complex situation at home and
                          abroad.
Our Party reached a new,
                          higher stage of development in the 1960's.
The establishment of an
                          integral, advanced socialist system and the
                          creation of the solid basis of an independent
                          national economy as a result of the
                          fulfillment of the task of laying the
                          foundations of socialism, radically changed
                          the socio-economic conditions for our Party's
                          activities. In addition, the stubborn struggle
                          against the anti-Party factionalists and their
                          lingering ideological poison fulfilled the
                          historical task of eradicating the factions
                          which had been doing tremendous harm for many
                          years, and of achieving the unity of the
                          Korean communist movement. This showed that
                          our Party had entered a new phase of
                          development.
At that historic moment,
                          the Fourth Party Congress was held, during
                          which the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung
                          put forward the very important task of further
                          strengthening the Party organizationally and
                          ideologically and increasing its leadership
                          role. In particular, he stressed the need to
                          oppose revisionism, factionalism, regionalism
                          and nepotism and preserve the unity of the
                          Party's idea and purpose so that all Party
                          members and organizations would think and act
                          as the Party Central Committee did, cast in
                          their lot with it and struggle to the end in
                          whatever difficult circumstances there might
                          be. Through the struggle to implement the
                          tasks related to Party building proposed by
                          its Fourth Congress, the Party further
                          consolidated its unity and solidarity,
                          enhanced its leadership role and made
                          remarkable progress in improving its work
                          method and style, re-educating the masses and
                          uniting them around it. In particular, the
                          15th Plenary Meeting of the Fourth Central
                          Committee of the Party held in May 1967 became
                          an opportunity to effect a decisive change in
                          establishing the Party's monolithic
                          ideological system.
In the 1970's a great new
                          change was made in the development of our
                          Party.
The Fifth Party Congress
                          held in November 1970 defined it as the
                          general task of Party work: to establish a
                          monolithic ideological system throughout the
                          Party and, on this basis, fortify the unity
                          and solidarity of its ranks. The congress set
                          forth the very important task of the proper
                          conduct of work with people, which is
                          fundamental to Party work. We steadfastly
                          carried out the general task of Party work put
                          forward by the Fifth Congress and thus laid a
                          solid organizational and ideological basis on
                          which to continue to strengthen our Party and
                          carry forward our revolutionary cause to
                          completion.
The Party's cause
                          continues from generation to generation, and
                          it must preserve its revolutionary character
                          until it fulfils its mission. If it is to keep
                          this character throughout generations and
                          carry out its noble mission, a working-class
                          party must farsightedly carry on the work of
                          consolidating itself, and of hardening its
                          organizational and ideological basis.
Looking into the future
                          of its development and that of the revolution,
                          our Party laid down the strategic policy for
                          transforming the whole of society in line with
                          the Juche idea and, as its precondition,
                          strove to accelerate the modelling of the
                          whole Party on the Juche idea.
This is a new, higher
                          level of establishing its monolithic
                          ideological system. Our Party defined infinite
                          loyalty to the Party and the leader as an
                          essential quality of its membership and
                          subordinated all its activities to
                          establishing its monolithic ideological
                          system. In this way it steeped itself in the
                          Juche idea, the monolithic ideology, and, on
                          this basis, further cemented the unity of idea
                          and purpose amongst its ranks. Our Party paid
                          particular attention to building up the
                          backbone of the revolutionary forces. It
                          strengthened the ranks of cadres on the
                          principle of combining the elderly, the
                          middle-aged and the young, regarding their
                          loyalty to the Party and the leader as the
                          basic criterion of their qualification. It
                          intensified the training of cadres and members
                          in Party spirit by enhancing their sense of
                          organization and putting Party life on a
                          regular and routine basis. Through the
                          struggle to carry out the Party's policy for a
                          cadre revolution and the policy of making the
                          whole Party a party of cadres, which is aimed
                          at raising the political and professional
                          levels of cadres and Party members, the ranks
                          of our Party and cadres were further
                          strengthened, and the backbone needed to
                          accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche
                          was created.
Our Party developed in
                          depth the work of establishing its monolithic
                          ideological system and cementing the ranks of
                          the Party and cadres in close coordination
                          with the establishment of a new revolutionary
                          work system. We brought about a change in
                          Party work and its activity by setting up
                          within the Party a well-knit work system under
                          which the instructions of the great leader
                          Comrade Kim Il Sung and Party policy
                          were promptly circulated to the lowest
                          echelons, all Party organizations and
                          membership moved as one and upheld and carried
                          out Party policy unconditionally in accordance
                          with centralist discipline.
The success achieved in
                          Party building and its activities during the
                          1970's became a solid asset which enabled our
                          Party to aim for higher objectives. The Sixth
                          Party Congress held early in the 1980's put
                          forward an outstanding new programme to model
                          the whole of society on the Juche idea. It
                          included the militant tasks of Party building:
                          to further strengthen the ranks of the Party
                          and the revolution with continued adherence to
                          the principle of establishing the monolithic
                          ideological system in the whole Party as the
                          basic line of Party building, admirably carry
                          forward and develop the revolutionary
                          traditions and intensify Party leadership of
                          the revolution and construction. This shows
                          that our Party has entered a new, higher stage
                          of development as a great party which is
                          modelling the whole of society on the Juche
                          idea, regarding this as its foremost task.
Our Party has travelled a
                          glorious road of struggle under the banner of
                          Juche and has been further trained and
                          seasoned in the process.
In the whole course of
                          its leadership of the revolutionary struggle
                          and the work of construction, our Party has
                          always found the key to success in the
                          strengthening of the Party and consolidated
                          itself organizationally and ideologically
                          above all, and thus defeated the manoeuvres of
                          the enemies within and without, further
                          strengthened the revolutionary ranks and led
                          the revolution and construction to brilliant
                          victory at all times, overcoming manifold
                          difficulties and trials.
The Korean communist
                          movement which pioneered the revolutionary
                          road under the banner of the DIU, is now at a very
                          high level where it strives for the ultimate
                          victory of the revolution, bringing the cause
                          of modelling the whole of society on the Juche
                          idea to the fore. Our Party, the organizer and
                          leader of this great endeavour, has grown into
                          unbreakable fighting ranks which are stronger
                          than ever in terms of ideology and
                          organization and in its ties with the masses.
                          Today our Party has a firm organizational and
                          ideological basis on which it can develop for
                          all time as a revolutionary party of a Juche
                          type, as well as a strong leadership system
                          capable of gloriously advancing the
                          revolutionary cause of Juche. This is a sure
                          guarantee that the revolutionary cause
                          initiated by the great leader Comrade Kim
                            Il Sung can be carried on to its
                          consummation.
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Our Party which has
                          followed a unique path since it started to
                          take root with the formation of the DIU is a new type of
                          revolutionary working-class party.
Ours is a Juche-type
                          revolutionary party which is guided by the
                          Juche idea and carried out its revolutionary
                          activities independently and creatively in
                          keeping with the interests of our people and
                          conditions in our country. By establishing
                          Juche thoroughly in all spheres of Party
                          building and activity with the Juche idea as
                          its unalterable guide, it has been able to
                          strengthen and develop into an indestructible
                          revolutionary party.
Basically, it is
                          essential for a working-class party to
                          establish Juche, which emanates from its own
                          character and mission. Because it is a
                          political leadership body which fights to
                          oppose all manner of domination and
                          subjugation and realize the independence of
                          the masses, it should establish Juche
                          thoroughly. If a party fails to do this and
                          dances to the tune of others, it will, in the
                          long run, bring ruin on both itself and the
                          revolution. Only a party which acts
                          independently, and with its own principle, can
                          be a powerful party which is united on the
                          basis of its own guiding idea and can enjoy
                          the support and confidence of its people and
                          enlist their inexhaustible strength, thus
                          vigorously advancing the revolution and
                          construction.
It is important for a
                          working-class party in establishing Juche to
                          eradicate flunkeyism and dogmatism. In our
                          country, particularly, where flunkeyism and
                          dogmatism were rampant and did great harm to
                          the communist movement, establishing Juche
                          posed a vital question relating to the destiny
                          of the Party and the revolution. During the
                          anti-Japanese national-liberation struggle and
                          in the periods of democratic and socialist
                          revolutions and socialist construction after
                          liberation, the Korean communists always
                          strove persistently to combat flunkeyism and
                          dogmatism and establish Juche. As a result,
                          they could strengthen and develop the Party
                          and advance the revolutionary struggle.
In the years of the
                          anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle the
                          flunkeyists tried to found a party with the
                          approval of others and achieve independence on
                          the strength of others, which caused great
                          harm to the development of the communist
                          movement in our country. After liberation the
                          harmfulness of flunkeyism and dogmatism was
                          manifested to a great extent during the
                          Fatherland Liberation War and it became
                          insupportable as the socialist revolution and
                          socialist construction were carried out on a
                          full scale.
The great leader Comrade
                          Kim Il Sung who has fought against
                          flunkeyism and dogmatism since the early years
                          of the revolutionary struggle against the
                          Japanese, has given wise leadership so that
                          Juche is being established more thoroughly
                          with the development of the revolution and
                          construction. Upholding the revolutionary
                          policy on establishing Juche, our Party has
                          waged a vigorous ideological struggle to
                          eradicate the flunkeyism and dogmatism which
                          still remain in people's minds and, in the
                          meantime, it has ensured that they are
                          equipped firmly with the great Juche idea and
                          Party policy, its embodiment, and thus observe
                          and judge all problems from the Juche-oriented
                          stand and resolve them by their own efforts.
                          Through the struggle to establish Juche, a
                          change has been effected in the ideological
                          life of Party members and working people, the
                          Party's unity and cohesion based on the Juche
                          idea have been further strengthened, and a
                          continued improvement in the revolution and
                          construction has been brought about.
Under the slogan of
                          modelling the whole Party on the Juche idea,
                          our Party is now intensifying the battle to
                          establish Juche in Party building and activity
                          and is thus further perfecting its character
                          as a revolutionary party of a Juche type.
Ours is an invincible
                          revolutionary party which has firmly
                          established a monolithic ideological system
                          throughout its own structure.
Establishing this system
                          is our basic line of Party building. It is an
                          essential requirement of a working-class party
                          to ensure the unity of ideology and
                          leadership. This is effected by establishing
                          the Party's monolithic ideological system.
                          Only when this is done can the whole Party be
                          armed with the leader's intention and become a
                          living organism, breathing and acting in
                          conformity with his idea and will.
It is important in
                          establishing the Party's monolithic
                          ideological system to pervade the whole Party
                          with the leader's idea.
The leader is the
                          embodiment of the organizational will of the
                          whole Party and his idea is explicitly the
                          guiding ideology of the Party. The ideological
                          unity of the Party is brought about only on
                          the basis of the leader's idea.
Our Party regarded
                          education in the monolithic ideology as its
                          basic ideological task and carried it out
                          energetically. As a result, a single ideology
                          has prevailed throughout the Party, and all
                          its members have been armed firmly with the
                          leader's revolutionary idea, the Juche idea,
                          and have come to think and act as required by
                          this idea.
Another important factor
                          in establishing the monolithic ideological
                          system is to achieve the leader's unitary
                          leadership absolutely.
The leader is the supreme
                          controller of a party, and the party's
                          leadership is precisely his leadership. Our
                          Party has set up a well-regulated system under
                          which all its organizations and members act as
                          one man  under  the  unitary  leadership  of
                           the  great  leader  Comrade
Kim Il Sung, give absolute authority to Party policies and defend and implement them without question.
Kim Il Sung, give absolute authority to Party policies and defend and implement them without question.
By thoroughly
                          establishing the monolithic ideological system
                          in its ranks our Party increased its strength
                          as never before, and was able to lead the
                          revolution and construction straight to
                          victory through all difficulties.
The progress of the
                          revolution calls for further strengthening the
                          work of establishing the Party's monolithic
                          ideological system. This is a law which
                          governs the development of the Party and the
                          revolution. The whole course of our Party's
                          existence is the process of in-depth
                          development of this work. Our Party defined
                          new principles of establishing its monolithic
                          ideological system and strengthened this work
                          to meet the needs of the revolution in the
                          1970's when the proposition was put forward
                          that the whole of society should be modelled
                          on the Juche idea. Today our Party has grown
                          into loyal ranks, and the whole membership
                          thinks and acts according to the will of the
                          Party and the leader, united firmly around the
                          great Comrade Kim Il Sung. This is the
                          most valuable achievement of the Korean
                          communists in the long period of struggle to
                          build the Party.
We are a powerful party
                          which has achieved the closest unity and
                          solidarity based on the Juche idea.
The unity and solidarity
                          of Party ranks is the source of a
                          revolutionary party's strength. A united party
                          is indestructible, and nothing is more
                          precious in building a working-class party
                          than its ranks' unity and cohesion.
Unity and cohesion are
                          brought about through struggle. The struggle
                          against anti-party tendencies is, in essence,
                          a reflection of the class struggle within the
                          party. Without mounting a resolute and
                          uncompromising attack against anti-party
                          tendencies and alien elements, the unity and
                          purity of the party ranks could not be
                          assured. Our Party has constantly strengthened
                          the unity and cohesion of its ranks,
                          overcoming all kinds of alien elements and
                          anti-Party tendencies, including factionalism.
Factionalism was the
                          first target of the campaign for our Party's
                          unity and cohesion. The revolutionary ranks
                          led by Comrade Kim Il Sung during the
                          anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle overcame
                          factionalism and they all united closely
                          behind him. This is an invaluable tradition of
                          our communist movement which was established
                          during the bloody struggle to shape the
                          destiny of the country and the people. But the
                          factionalists who had become traitors and
                          philistines slipped into the communist ranks
                          in the chaotic situation after liberation and
                          viciously worked to undermine the unity and
                          cohesion of the Party. In an attempt to
                          accomplish their factional plot they did not
                          hesitate to collaborate with imperialists.
If factionalism were to
                          be tolerated, the unity of a working-class
                          party in idea and purpose could not be
                          achieved, nor could the party exist as an
                          entity. In the struggle for its unity our
                          Party concentrated its attack first on
                          factionalism which still remained from the
                          past, wiped out the anti-Party factionalists
                          and achieved the great unity of the Korean
                          communist movement.
The struggle for the
                          unity and cohesion of the Party did not end
                          with the defeat of factionalism which had
                          persisted for many years. After clearing out
                          this filth, our Party went on to fight the
                          anti-Party revisionists and developed its
                          historic struggle for unity on a higher level.
The unity and cohesion of
                          our Party are great and unbreakable because
                          the entire membership is united around the
                          great Comrade Kim Il Sung and because
                          they are based on its infinite loyalty to the
                          Party and the leader. The leader is the centre
                          of the Party's unity and cohesion, and its
                          strength depends on how firmly the entire
                          membership is united behind him. The unity and
                          cohesion of our Party are not just achieved
                          out of duty. They are based on the
                          membership's infinite respect for, and
                          absolute trust in, the Party and the leader,
                          and founded on its unshakable revolutionary
                          belief and sense of gratitude which cause it
                          to defend and protect the Party and the leader
                          politically and ideologically and to fight for
                          them even at the cost of its members' lives.
The unity and cohesion of
                          our Party are great and unbreakable because
                          they are based on unity of idea and purpose.
                          The important thing in the Party's unity and
                          cohesion is to achieve the unity of idea and
                          will. Unity based on a single idea and purpose
                          must be durable, otherwise it cannot achieve
                          lasting unity. The single ideology means
                          precisely the revolutionary idea of the
                          leader, the founder of the Party. The leader's
                          revolutionary idea is the basis of the Party's
                          unity and cohesion; the unity and cohesion of
                          the working-class party is the unity of idea
                          and purpose based on the revolutionary idea of
                          the leader. Our Party is an ideological entity
                          of communists of a Juche type who regard the
                          Juche idea as their world outlook.
Our Party is so strong
                          because of its great unity and cohesion based
                          on the Juche idea and centring on the great
                          leader Comrade Kim Il Sung.
We are a steel-like party
                          with a strong organization and discipline.
Revolutionary
                          organization and discipline are the life and
                          soul of the party, the highest organization of
                          the working class and the weapon of the class
                          struggle and the weapon of the revolution and
                          construction. Only when iron discipline and
                          organization are guaranteed, can the
                          working-class party be a truly revolutionary
                          and militant party and win the revolutionary
                          struggle, in the face of all difficulties and
                          trials. As history shows, a party dominated by
                          liberalism and indiscipline is doomed to
                          failure.
Because of its
                          unbreakable organization and discipline our
                          Party is powerful and invincible. The
                          organization and discipline of our Party are
                          durable and strong because they are founded on
                          the membership's infinite loyalty to the Party
                          and the leader and its high degree of
                          political awareness.
Organization and
                          discipline are strengthened when a
                          revolutionary system of Party life is
                          established throughout the Party and that life
                          is regularized and standardized among its
                          members. Our experience clearly shows that the
                          regulation and standardization of Party life
                          and the strict observance of the rules and
                          order of inner Party life are a powerful means
                          for revolutionizing Party member and making
                          them better organized and disciplined and for
                          strengthening and developing the Party into a
                          revolutionary one with great fighting
                          efficiency. Through the struggle to regulate
                          and standardize Party life, the Party members'
                          sense of organization has been enhanced and a
                          habit has been firmly established of all
                          working and living in strict dependence on
                          Party organizations. This is a valuable
                          achievement in Party building.
Our Party is an
                          invincible party which maintains close ties of
                          kinship with the masses.
The Party labours for the
                          interests of the working class and other
                          popular masses and carries out the revolution
                          by organizing and mobilizing them.
                          Accordingly, maintaining close bonds of
                          kinship with the broad masses and becoming
                          deeply rooted amongst them is particularly
                          important in the building of a working-class
                          party. Only a party which strikes its roots
                          deep among the masses and enjoys their support
                          and trust and which knows how to organize and
                          mobilize them can demonstrate an invincible
                          might and discharge its mission as the General
                          Staff of the revolution and the political
                          leader of the popular masses.
Keeping in touch with the
                          masses is important for a ruling party, too.
                          If the party has taken power, this problem is
                          not solved automatically. If the party in
                          power is divorced from the masses and loses
                          their support and confidence, it also becomes
                          impotent and even endangers its own existence.
Since he set out on the
                          revolutionary road, the great leader Comrade Kim
                            Il Sung has regarded the ties with the
                          popular masses as a fundamental problem
                          related to the future of the revolutionary
                          organization. For a long time he has always
                          been among the masses and shared the good
                          things and the bad with them. He has made it
                          an iron rule to trust the masses and promote
                          the revolution and construction by giving rein
                          to their strength and wisdom.
Our Party saw to it that
                          officials and its members raised their Party
                          spirit, working-class spirit and popular
                          spirit, served the people faithfully and
                          thoroughly implemented the mass line in all
                          their activities, thus constantly
                          strengthening the ties between the Party and
                          the masses. In work with people our Party
                          firmly adhered to the class principle and
                          built up its class position. On the other
                          hand, it educated broad sections of the
                          masses, boldly drew them into its fold and
                          united them firmly behind it.
Today our Party maintains
                          its close ties with the people and enjoys the
                          unreserved support and confidence of people of
                          all backgrounds, and our people entrust their
                          destiny entirely to the Party and fight on
                          without hesitation along the road which it
                          specifies. As has already been said, our Party
                          forms a perfect whole with the people. No
                          wonder it is invincible and no force can break
                          its close bonds of kinship with the people.
Our Party established a
                          well-regulated system of work with people and
                          established a revolutionary method of work and
                          a popular style of work throughout the Party.
All activities of the
                          party, a political organization of the working
                          class fighting for the interests of the masses
                          of people, are realized through work with
                          people. The party gets people to act
                          voluntarily, thus transforming society and
                          nature and advancing the revolution and
                          construction.
The great leader Comrade
                          Kim Il Sung put forward the idea of
                          making work with people basic to Party work.
                          This is a great idea which clarifies the
                          fundamental principle of Party activity by
                          incorporating the Juche idea in Party
                          building. Only by making work with people its
                          key policy can the Party prevent its work from
                          being reduced to administrative-technical
                          work, and maintain its nature as a political
                          organization and fulfil its militant role and
                          function properly.
Our Party opposed the
                          tendency to reduce Party work to
                          administrative-technical work, a tendency
                          which may appear in a party in power, and
                          resolutely carried through the policy of
                          making work with people basic to Party
                          activity.
Establishing the
                          revolutionary method of work and the popular
                          style of work is a serious and important
                          question arising in the building of a
                          working-class party.
In particular, when the
                          party takes power, an inclination towards
                          bureaucracy may appear, the inclination to
                          issue orders and instructions from a position
                          of power. A bureaucratic attitude is more
                          likely to be shown by officials who have
                          developed in a tranquil atmosphere without
                          undergoing revolutionary trials.
By its nature, this is a
                          despotic method of administration which is
                          used by the ruling class in an exploiting
                          society. It is fundamentally opposed to the
                          real nature of a working-class party. When
                          officials do not have the revolutionary method
                          of work and popular style of work and are
                          infected with bureaucracy, the party line and
                          policies, however correct they may be, cannot
                          be carried out and this leads to serious
                          consequences—estranging the party from the
                          masses and dampening their revolutionary
                          enthusiasm and creative activity.
Since it came into power,
                          our Party has considered it to be a
                          fundamental matter in Party building to
                          improve the method and style of Party work and
                          it has always paid great attention to this.
The basic policy
                          maintained by our Party in improving the
                          method and style of Party work is to establish
                          the anti-Japanese guerrilla work method
                          throughout the Party. This method created in
                          person by the great leader Comrade Kim Il
                            Sung during the arduous anti-Japanese
                          revolutionary struggle is a true communistic
                          work method. Carrying this forward is the true
                          way to eradicate bureaucracy, the abuse of
                          power and all other mistaken methods and
                          styles of work left over from the old society
                          and establish the revolutionary method of work
                          and popular style of work conforming with a
                          socialist and communist society.
Our Party's traditional
                          anti-Japanese guerrilla method of work has
                          been embodied and improved in conformity with
                          the new conditions of socialist construction,
                          through the great Chongsanri spirit and
                          method. In a nutshell, the Chongsanri method
                          is a work method of relying on the strength of
                          the masses; it is a revolutionary work method
                          by which one goes among the masses, shares the
                          good times and the bad with them and carries
                          out projected tasks by drawing on their
                          conscious enthusiasm and creative initiative.
                          In the course of implementing the Chongsanri
                          spirit and method, our Party work has been
                          completely turned into work with man and its
                          work method and style have been radically
                          improved.
Improving the method and
                          style of Party work is a campaign to eliminate
                          obsolete ideological elements from the minds
                          of officials. So it should be waged tirelessly
                          and patiently over a long period. Our Party
                          accepted this as a central task to improve its
                          work method and style in keeping with the new
                          requirements of the developing revolution and
                          has waged a vigorous all-Party struggle to
                          this end. As a result, the anti-Japanese
                          guerrilla method of work has been embodied in
                          all Party work and the way of Party work
                          radically improved. The revolutionary spirit
                          beats throughout the Party, all work is
                          carried out energetically, and relations
                          between the Party and the masses have become
                          unbreakable.
Our Party has been
                          strengthened and developed into a
                          revolutionary party which advances, united
                          with the masses, and a militant party which
                          has its roots deep amongst them and enjoys
                          their unreserved support. This is one of the
                          most precious achievements in building a
                          revolutionary party of a Juche type.
Our Party is, indeed, a
                          glorious revolutionary party of a Juche type,
                          a party which was founded and acts, guided by
                          the Juche idea, a party in which the
                          monolithic ideological system has been firmly
                          established and whose members have been united
                          rock-firm on the basis of the Juche idea; a
                          party which maintains close ties of kinship
                          with the popular masses and strives to
                          accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche by
                          improving their role.
To strengthen and develop
                          our Party still further into a revolutionary
                          party of a Juche type is a decisive guarantee
                          for overcoming all obstacles and bringing the
                          revolutionary cause of Juche to completion.
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Today our Party is
                          confronted with the important revolutionary
                          task of promoting the shaping of all society
                          on the Juche idea and carrying through the
                          cause of national reunification. We must
                          reunify the country at all costs, whatever
                          difficulties lie ahead of the revolution, and
                          work through generations to come for the
                          consummation of the revolutionary cause of
                          Juche. This requires that we should steadily
                          strengthen the Party and raise its leadership
                          role.
The Party is a weapon of
                          the revolution and construction and the
                          guiding force of a socialist and communist
                          society. Without strengthening the Party and
                          raising its leading role and function, we
                          cannot successfully advance the revolution and
                          construction and run the socialist and
                          communist society properly. A socialist and
                          communist society is not an anarchistic
                          society, but a highly organized one. In order
                          to manage such a society, there must be
                          political leadership of a guiding force with
                          the strong ability of organization like a
                          party. Without coherent political leadership,
                          it is impossible to ensure unity in the
                          ideology and action of the popular masses and
                          organize and direct man's activities in the
                          common interests of society.
Even after a communist
                          society is established, the struggle continues
                          to abolish the old and create the new in
                          various spheres of social life. Through this
                          struggle society keeps developing. Without the
                          leadership of a guiding force like a party, we
                          are not properly able to carry out the work to
                          educate people, improve social relations,
                          conquer nature and ensure the steady progress
                          of society.
As long as capitalism and
                          imperialism remain on the globe, even after
                          communism is established in one country or
                          some regions, we cannot be free from the
                          danger of aggression from outside enemies and
                          the resistance of internal enemies who are
                          hand in glove with them. Only through the
                          leadership of a guiding force like a party can
                          we smash the activities of hostile elements
                          who encroach upon the interests of the masses
                          and reliably protect their independent and
                          creative life.
In view of the position
                          held and the role played by a party in
                          carrying on the cause of socialism and
                          communism, we must build the Party in a
                          methodical way. This can be achieved through
                          transformation of the whole Party after the
                          Juche idea. Making the Juche idea prevail
                          throughout the Party is the only way to
                          transform nature, society and men in keeping
                          with that idea and successfully build and
                          guide a communist society, the society
                          impregnated with that idea.
Imbuing the Party with
                          the Juche idea is the consistent policy of
                          Party building maintained from the start by
                          our Party which was established with the Juche
                          idea as its guiding idea. The process of the
                          building of our Party is a process of
                          patterning it on the Juche idea. Imbuing all
                          Party members with the Juche idea is a
                          continuation and a higher stage of our Party's
                          historic struggle to model itself on that
                          idea.
Imbuing all Party members
                          with the Juche idea means, in essence,
                          strengthening and developing our Party for all
                          time into a party of Comrade 
Kim Il Sung.
Strengthening   and
                            developing   our   Party   into   the
                            party   of   the   great   Comrade
Kim Il Sung implies having him eternally at its head and holding fast to his ideology and line and implementing them throughout all generations.
Kim Il Sung implies having him eternally at its head and holding fast to his ideology and line and implementing them throughout all generations.
The respected Comrade Kim
                            Il Sung is the great leader who has, for
                          the first time in their history of several
                          thousand years, been acclaimed by our people;
                          he is the teacher and father of our Party and
                          people.
Upholding the great
                          leader Comrade Kim Il Sung for all
                          time is the noble duty of Korean communists
                          and is based on their unalterable
                          revolutionary conviction.
It is the revolutionary
                          conviction of the Korean communists that they
                          can surmount any difficulties and emerge
                          victorious without fail, only when they follow
                          his guidance. This conviction has been firmly
                          formed by our people through their own
                          experience gained in the arduous struggle of
                          more than half a century, from the period when
                          they began to page a new way of revolution
                          under the leadership of the respected Comrade
                          Kim Il Sung.
Since the dawn of our
                          revolution Korean communists have believed
                          that they could carve out the thorny
                          revolutionary road only under the leadership
                          of the great Comrade Kim Il Sung, and
                          have won victories, overcoming all trials, and
                          lived and fought with everlasting,
                          single-hearted loyalty to him, entrusting
                          their destinies entirely to him.
The revolutionary
                          conviction of the Korean communists and people
                          who remain faithful to the respected leader
                          Comrade Kim Il Sung will never be
                          shaken.
We must see to it that
                          all Party members, working people and the
                          generations to come hold the respected leader
                          Comrade Kim Il Sung in high esteem,
                          just as the anti-Japanese revolutionary
                          fighters did, and retain unquestioning
                          loyalty, ready to take the road across the
                          mountains or swamps when called upon to do so
                          by the Party and the leader.
Our Party was founded and
                          developed by Comrade Kim Il Sung.
                          Korean communists are the revolutionary
                          soldiers who have grown up under his care.
                          Remaining unwaveringly loyal to the leader who
                          has brought them up is a natural communist
                          obligation.
We must continue to
                          strengthen and develop our Party into a
                          revolutionary party which eternally upholds
                          the great Comrade Kim Il Sung as the
                          leader and teacher, into a militant party
                          which breathes and acts in keeping with his
                          ideology and purpose.
This is the fundamental
                          point which we must always grasp firmly in
                          building our Party.
We must, above all,
                          steadily deepen the work to establish the
                          monolithic ideological system throughout the
                          Party.
This is a task we must
                          continue for ever, as long as the Party exists
                          and flourishes.
Today our Party has
                          entered a new stage of development. Our
                          revolution is assuming a protracted and
                          arduous nature and generations are changing
                          among our revolutionary ranks. The internal
                          and external position of our revolution is
                          tense and complicated. The present situation
                          calls for the establishment of the monolithic
                          ideological system of the Party as a still
                          more important matter.
In establishing the
                          monolithic ideological system in the whole
                          Party it is a fundamental requirement to
                          develop all Party members and working people
                          into ardent revolutionaries who are loyal to
                          the Party and the leader.
We believe that
                          everything in Party building and Party work
                          depends, above all, on our loyalty to the
                          Party and the leader. Today our Party
                          emphasizes the allegiance of the young
                          communists and the guerrillas during the
                          anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, as an
                          example in leading Party members and working
                          people to become infinitely loyal to the Party
                          and the leader. In the grimmest days when our
                          People were straining under Japanese
                          imperialist oppression, they practised loyalty
                          to the great Comrade Kim Il Sung with
                          a revolutionary faith that they could shape
                          the destiny of the country and the nation and
                          win the revolution only when they followed his
                          leadership. Party organizations must conduct
                          their work with the main emphasis on getting
                          all cadres and Party members to uphold and
                          follow the Party and the leader wholeheartedly
                          and faithfully like the anti-Japanese
                          revolutionary fighters.
We must strongly defend
                          the traditions of Juche and carry them forward
                          without tarnishing their purity.
Our Party's traditions of
                          Juche are the great Comrade Kim Il Sung's
                          ideology and theory, his revolutionary
                          exploits and battle experience, and his method
                          of work. They are infinitely rich and valuable
                          and are eternally vital for the strengthening
                          and development of our Party and for the
                          victory of our revolution, because they were
                          established in the course of a prolonged,
                          unprecedentedly sharp and complex struggle.
                          Because it inherited the traditions of Juche
                          our Party was able to strengthen and develop
                          on the most solid organizational and
                          ideological groundwork and advance
                          victoriously, breaking through the rugged road
                          beset with trials and difficulties. The future
                          of our Party also depends on how we defend and
                          carry forward these great traditions.
We must make not only the
                          present generation but also the coming
                          generations hold the great leader Comrade Kim
                            Il Sung's ideology and theory as the
                          eternal guiding ideology and theory of the
                          Party, stoutly defend his revolutionary
                          exploits, experience in struggle,
                          revolutionary method of work and popular style
                          of work and splendidly carry forward and
                          complete the revolutionary cause of Juche.
Protecting and constantly
                          strengthening the unity and cohesion and
                          purity of the Party is a crucial matter which
                          concerns the destiny of the Party and the
                          revolution. We must defend and strengthen our
                          Party's great unity and cohesion through all
                          generations.
Under the wise leadership
                          of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung,
                          and through its protracted struggle, our Party
                          has achieved the most solid and viable unity
                          and cohesion in the history of the communist
                          movement. We are justified in taking pride in
                          this fact.
However, we must never be
                          satisfied with the successes achieved in the
                          struggle for the unity and cohesion of the
                          Party. Our revolution is not yet completed and
                          we shall have to continue with the hard
                          struggle. As long as imperialism remains,
                          opportunism survives and the class struggle
                          continues, we must unremittingly intensify the
                          struggle for the Party's unity and cohesion.
Party organizations must
                          ensure that all cadres and their members are
                          fully conversant with our Party's experience
                          of the anti-factional struggle. This will
                          enable them to have a keen Party and class
                          outlook at all times and uncompromisingly
                          combat all unsound elements which undermine
                          the Party's unity and cohesion, such as
                          factionalism, nepotism and parochialism.
                          Throughout the coming generations we must
                          preserve the unity and cohesion of our Party
                          and revolutionary ranks which are united as
                          one around the leader on the basis of the
                          Juche idea and must enforce our iron
                          discipline under which all Party members act
                          as one under the direction of the Party
                          Central Committee.
All Party members should
                          be fully prepared as communist revolutionaries
                          of a Juche type.
Our Party members are
                          vanguard fighters who are responsible for the
                          consummation of the Juche revolutionary cause,
                          the socialist and communist cause in Korea.
                          In order to prepare Party members to be fully
                          communist revolutionaries of a Juche type,
                          their Party life has to be strengthened.
This is all the more
                          important in view of the fact that generations
                          are changing within the Party ranks today. The
                          Party can be successfully handed on only when
                          Party life is strengthened. This is because
                          the Party ranks are constantly replenished as
                          the days go by with new generations who lack
                          Party tempering.
Party organizations
                          should run the new system of Party life
                          established throughout the Party efficiently,
                          so as to improve the standard of Party life of
                          the members and steadily temper the Party
                          spirit of all cadres and members.
An intensified struggle
                          should be continued to improve the method and
                          style of Party work, so that the leader's work
                          method will be established more thoroughly
                          throughout the whole Party.
As there can be no other
                          idea than the leader's in our Party founded
                          and trained by the great leader Comrade Kim
                            Il Sung, so there can be no other work
                          method and style than the leader's work
                          method. However, the old work method and style
                          still remain in the Party, thereby harming its
                          work.
If the Party fails to
                          eliminate the old work method and style, it
                          will gradually lose the support and trust of
                          the popular masses and estrange itself from
                          them and, in the long run, have to face
                          difficulties. We should decisively put an end
                          to the old work method and style, bearing in
                          mind that correcting the method and style of
                          Party work is a serious problem on which the
                          fate of the Party and the revolution depends.
In order to correct the
                          work method and style, officials should
                          establish a revolutionary mass viewpoint and
                          acquire popular personality characteristics.
                          Party workers are out-and-out defenders of the
                          interests of the working class and other
                          popular masses, and are their faithful
                          servants. Party workers should regard their
                          subordinates and the masses as their true
                          revolutionary comrades, love them
                          wholeheartedly, share the good and the bad
                          times with them, and uncomplainingly devote
                          everything to them.
If they are to improve
                          the method and style of Party work, they have
                          to learn the Juche-oriented theory and
                          methodology of Party work. These are unique
                          subjects which embody the requirements of the
                          Juche idea for attaching the greatest
                          importance to man in everything and making
                          everything serve him. Only when we deeply
                          understand them can we work with people
                          properly and skilfully solve all problems of
                          re-educating and mobilizing the masses.
We must remember that if
                          a working-class party fails to overcome
                          bureaucratic and administrative tendencies, it
                          will be disqualified from leading the
                          revolution, so we have to continue to wage a
                          stubborn struggle to eliminate the old work
                          method completely. In this way we ought to
                          make our Party a mother party which is always
                          infinitely loyal to the working class and the
                          popular masses, and the standard-bearer of the
                          masses which is united with them and
                          powerfully drives the revolution and
                          construction forward at their head.
The success so far
                          achieved in Party building firmly guarantees a
                          bright future for our Party and revolution.
Broad vistas are now
                          opened up before our Party, and our
                          revolutionary struggle is becoming more
                          fruitful. We must never rest on our laurels,
                          but continue to fight vigorously for fresh
                          victories. Hewing out the revolutionary road
                          through struggle is our Party's traditional
                          revolutionary characteristic. We have to
                          continue fighting stubbornly along the road of
                          revolution started on Mt. Paektu
                          and thus bring to successful completion the
                          revolutionary cause of Juche, the cause of
                          socialism and communism.
Victory and glory are
                          always in store for our Party and people
                          fighting for the consummation of the
                          revolutionary cause of Juche under the wise
                          leadership of the great leader Comrade Kim
                            Il Sung.