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