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