KIM JONG UN
The Great Kim Il Sung Is the Eternal Leader
of Our Party and Our People
Treatise
published to mark the centenary
of the Birth of President Kim
Il Sung
April 20, 2012
The following are
excerpts from the treatise:
The
Korean people and the progressive people the world over celebrated the
centenary of the birth of President Kim
Il Sung as the greatest revolutionary holiday of the Korean nation and as a
grand event of mankind.
The
celebrations held to mark the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung were an outburst of our
people’s boundless reverence for and noble moral obligation to their leader and
a grand political festival during which the world’s people sang the praises of
the 100-year history of Juche Korea.
Through
the celebrations we demonstrated our steadfast faith and will to hold him up as
the eternal leader of our Party and people.
That
we have held up President Kim Il Sung
as our eternal leader is the source of greatest glory and pride for our people
and happiness for the generations to come.
Our
Party, service personnel and people should fold him up eternally as the Sun of
Juche, and accomplish his sacred revolutionary cause with credit.
1
Kim Il Sung was the most
outstanding leader of the 20th century and a peerlessly great man.
The
20th century was an era of revolutionary changes in the struggle of
the masses of the people for their independence, changes unprecedented in human
history, and an era of fierce struggle between the progressives and
reactionaries, between socialism and imperialism. In this century full of
changes, there were many renowned politicians and personages, who left traces
in the shaping of the masses’ destiny and in the political history of the
world, but none of them was a preeminent leader, a peerless patriot and a great
revolutionary as our leader was, who, from his teens to eighties, adorned the
century as a century of victory of the cause of socialism, by dint of unique
ideology and leadership and ennobling virtue while enjoying the absolute support
and trust of the people.
Kim Il Sung was the most
outstanding leader and an extraordinary veteran statesman, who left
imperishable exploits for his country and people and for the times and
revolution by means of profound ideas and theories, uncommon leadership ability
and gigantic revolutionary practice.
He
was a great leader of the people, who put forward the masses, once oppressed
and exploited, as the master of history, and raised their dignity and value to
the highest level possible.
His
was a noble life of a people’s leader, who regarded “The people are my God” as
his motto, applied it to his ideas and leadership and turned it into reality.
He began his revolutionary activities by going amongst them; the revolutionary
activities were conducted always by relying on them, and they were dedicated
from beginning to end, to defending and achieving their independence.
Cherishing
as his faith the revolutionary principle that the masses are the masters of the
revolution and construction and they have the strength with which to propel the
revolution and construction, he always went amongst the masses and enlisted
their inexhaustible strength and creative wisdom in solving all the problems in
conformity with their demands and interests.
His
absolute trust in the people and devotion to them was the fundamental secret of
the victories he achieved one after another in the revolution and construction
while braving the difficulties and hardships unprecedented in history. As he
placed trust in the masses and relied on them, he was able to push forward
simultaneously the gigantic undertakings, like authoring a guiding ideology of
the revolution, forming a vanguard organization, founding an army, awakening
the masses to their ideological consciousness and organizing them, thus
creating a new history of the Juche revolution and leading several stages of
the difficult and complicated revolutionary struggle and the world of
construction to victory without any mistake in his lines and without any
failure.
Kim Il Sung was preeminent
and seasoned leader of the revolution, who wrote a new chapter of modern
history and added brilliance to it by leading our revolution along the
ever-victorious road under the banner of independence.
Independence was the
revolutionary creed, revolutionary mode and revolutionary practice he cherished
and applied all his life. Already in the first days of his revolutionary
struggle, he, with an uncommon wisdom and insight, clarified the truth of the
revolution that independence is the life and soul of a country and a nation as
well as the masses, and that, to achieve it, sycophancy and dogmatism should be
rejected and the revolution be conducted in an independent and creative way.
Free from the past, stained with sycophancy and dogmatism, Kim Il Sung, in the while course of leading the revolution,
regarded independence as its life line and solved all the problems arising in
the revolution and construction in our own way and in conformity with the
demands of our revolution, the interests of our people and actual situation of
our country. By consistently holding fast to the principle of independence, he
built a powerful driving force of our revolution, smashed at every step the
counterrevolutionary offensive of the imperialists and reactionaries and the interventionist
schemes of the “Leftist” and Rightist opportunists and led to victory two
revolutionary wars, two rounds of reconstruction, two stages of social
revolution and socialist construction. He continuously developed the
relationship with foreign parties and countries also based on the principle of
independence. In this way, he highly exalted the external prestige and dignity
of our Party and our state, and rendered a great contribution to accomplishing
the cause of anti-imperialist independence, the cause of socialism.
Through
a great revolutionary practice, he proved that independence is the justice of
history, the victory of the revolution and the basis of the development of the
fair international relations, and steered the historical current of the 20th
century along the road of independence, thus opining a new chapter of history
when the masses, freed from domination and subjugation, wage the revolution of
their respective countries in an independent way.
Kim Il Sung was an
ever-victorious, iron-willed commander and military genius who blazed a trail
for our revolution and led it along the road of victory by force of arms.
He
early advanced Juche-oriented military ideas and theories and put great
emphasis on strengthening the revolutionary armed forces throughout his
revolutionary career, always winning victories in the bloody fights and grave
showdowns with the imperialist forces. In the revolutionary war against the
Japanese imperialists and the Fatherland Liberation War he defeated the
formidable imperialist enemies, who boasted of their numerical and
technological edge, by dint of political and ideological, strategic and
tactical superiority.
Kim Il Sung was a great
revolutionary and a great man of ennobling personalities.
He
was a great revolutionary who devoted his all to achieving the victory of the
revolution with infinite loyalty to the revolutionary cause. In the long period
since he embarked on the road of revolution he only thought about the
revolution and dedicated himself to it, working devotedly for its victory in
spite of all the conceivable sorrows and agonies he experienced. The world know
no such a great revolutionary as our President whom with devotion to the
revolution and his people, finished all he should do by displaying superhuman
energy till the last moment of his life and passed away in his office.
He
was strong in faith and will and had unsurpassed pluck. In retrospect, the
imperialist persisted in bringing pressure to bear upon our Republic and making
military threats against it, and our revolution was faced with severe trials in
countless numbers. Each time he boldly confronted the trials with the faith and
assurance that we will emerge victorious as long as there are the Party, the
government, the army and the people and with the matchless courage that there
is always a way out even if the heavens way crumble; in this way he turned
adversity and misfortune to good account, thus winning victory after victory.
He
was the supreme incarnation of revolutionary comradeship. Proceeding from the
principle that the revolution means comrades and vice versa, he began his
revolutionary struggle by gaining comrades, creating the most beautiful history
of revolutionary comradeship. In the long period of making the revolution he
took responsibility for the destiny and future of those, whoever they may be
and with whom he had come into comradely relations, and protected them to the
last, holding all the revolutionary soldiers in his embrace and bestowing great
trust and love on them. The sacred history of his revolutionary activities is
the history of comradeship, which was opened up and recorded a series of
victories by dint of comradeship.
Kim Il Sung was a great
man of ennobling character and virtue.
He
approached and looked after his people with a warm heart and in a simple and
unceremonious manner. To the enemies, he was a tiger of Mt. Paektu,
but to his men and people, a very kind-hearted and dear father. When talking to
children he became a child and to the elderly, their intimate friend: he cared
for their innermost thoughts as a meticulous mother would do. When meeting
workers, he held their grease-stained hands without reserve and in a rural
village, had friendly talks with the peasants at the edge of a field. He
disallowed any special favour or privilege for himself, and always led a simple
and frugal life with his people.
He
was a holy person, magnanimous and broad-minded. He embraced and trusted all
those who love their country and nation, regarding them as his eternal
companions on the road for the motherland and fellow countrymen. As he
approached and embraced people with great magnanimity and benevolence, even
those who had committed crimes against the nation in the past could make their
life brilliant on the road for their motherland and fellow countrymen following
him as the benefactor for the revival and the father of their nation.
Having
been endowed with humaneness, boundless in width and depth, he kept close ties
of friendship with party and state leaders as well as a large number of
prominent figures in the political, social and academic circles of various
countries of the world, who aspired for independence. Anyone who had ever met
him, although they had different ideologies and political views, expressed
boundless admiration and respect for him as they were attracted by his noble
personality.
Indeed,
Kim Il Sung was the great leader of
the revolution, the benevolent father of the people and a peerlessly great man
admired by everyone, whose equal had never been recorded in history.
2
Kim Il Sung is the
eternal leader of our Party and people and the Sun of Juche who laid the
foundations of lasting value for the victorious advance and accomplishment of
the revolutionary cause of Juche.
He
ushered in the new era of the Juche revolution by authoring the great Juche
idea, led several stages of social revolution towards a brilliant victory by
embodying the idea and performed imperishable exploits in every field of the
revolution and construction.
The
Juche idea he authored and applied creditably into revolutionary practice is
the eternal banner of victory of our revolution.
The
immortal revolutionary exploits Kim Il
Sung performed while leading the revolutionary struggle and construction
work victoriously under the banner of the Juche idea serve as the eternal
cornerstone that provides a sure guarantee for implementing the socialist cause
of Juche.
As
there are the Workers’ Party of Korea, a Juche-type revolutionary party which
was founded and developed by Kim Il Sung,
the government of the Republic which is genuine people’s power, the invincible
people’s Army and our people who were trained by him to be strong in ideas and
faith, our revolution today is making vigorous progress in spite of trials and
hardships beyond imagination while working miracles of history in all fields of
socialist construction, as it was in the previous century.
Socialism
of our style, the greatest patriotic heritage bequeathed by Kim Il Sung, constitutes the
everlasting foundation bed for dynamically pushing ahead with the building of a
thriving socialist nation in the new century and accomplishing the socialist
cause of Juche with credit.
Socialism
of our style centred on the masses is a genuine socialism where they are the
masters of the country and society and everything in the country and society
serves them; it is an invincible socialism as it has struck its roots deep in
the life and living of our people.
Our
socialism is an invincible socialism, in which the leader, the Party and the
masses are united single-heartedly.
That
all the people are firmly rallied around the leader in ideology, purpose and
moral obligation and the whole society has turned into a great family in which
all its members help and lead one another forward in a comradely manner is the essential
feature of socialism of our style and the source of its inexhaustible strength.
Our single-hearted unity of the whole Party, the entire army and all the people
around the leader constitutes today a sure guarantee for the political
stability and solidity of our state and society and a powerful force that
defends the socialist country and dynamically propels the revolution and
construction.
Our
socialism is an independent socialism strong in the Juche character and
national identity.
The
Juche character is the nature of socialism, and independence in politics,
self-sufficiency in the economy and self-reliance in national defence are the
road to achieving the eternal victory and prosperity of our style of socialism.
To
preserve the national identity, together with the Juche character, of the
revolution and construction is a fundamental principle in the implementing of
the socialist cause. Kim Il Sung
ensured for the first time that the socialist cause was combined with the cause
of national independence and the while course of socialist construction was
turned into the course of bringing the excellent traditions and culture of the
nation into bloom.
By
successfully solving the problem of carrying forward the revolutionary cause, Kim Il Sung provided a sure guarantee
for inheriting and completing the revolutionary cause of Juche with credit
through generations and through centuries.
He
clarified that what is fundamental in ensuring the continuity of the
revolutionary cause is a problem of the successor to the leader, and solved it
perfectly. Along with this, he paid special attention to the work of inheriting
and developing the revolutionary traditions in their pure form and preparing
the younger generations as stalwart heirs to the revolution, and ensured that
the world bore a brilliant fruition.
Having
set national reunification as the supreme patriotic cause of the nation, Kim Il Sung devoted his all to
strengthening and developing the movement for national reunification, and
handed down brilliant exploits for the realization of the long cherished desire
of the nation.
By
formulating the three charters for national reunification, he had laid solid
foundations, on which all the Korean people in the north, south and abroad
could form a powerful driving force of national reunification and put an end to
the interference of outside forces and hasten the independent reunification of
the country by their concerted efforts.
Through
the energetic external activities Kim Il Sung made a great contribution
to the achievement of the cause of global independence. He worked actively
under the banner of independence, the banner of international justice, to check
and frustrate the dominationist moves of the imperialist reactionaries to
strengthen and develop the socialist movement of the world, to achieve the
victory of the cause of anti-imperialist independence, to establish independent
and fair international relations and to achieve peace and security of the
world, thus making undying achievements.
3
That
Kim Il Sung is eternal as the Sun of
Juche and the 100-year history of Juche Korea shines together with his
august name is the fruition born of the efforts Kim Jong Il made to staunchly defend his ideas and cause and wisely
lead the struggle for their realization.
Kim Jong Il was the
closest revolutionary comrade and the most faithful revolutionary
comrade-in-arms of Kim Il Sung, who
held the latter in high esteem, regarding it as his lifelong mission to defend
his ideas and cause and exalt their brilliance.
He
formulated Kim Il Sung’s
revolutionary ideas as Kimilsungism and put forward the modeling of the whole
society on Kimilsungism as the highest programme of our Party and revolution,
thus bringing about a revolutionary change in accomplishing the Juche
revolutionary cause.
The
efforts made under his leadership ushered in the golden age of the Workers’
Party in the political, military, economic, cultural and all other fields.
The
General brilliantly carried out the cause of immortalizing the leader for the
first time in history, with the result that our Party and people could add
luster to the sacred revolutionary career and undying revolutionary exploits of
Kim Il Sung through generations,
holding him in high esteem as their eternal leader.
Kim Jong Il defended the
dignity and supreme interests of our country and nation, and developed our
country of Juche, our socialist motherland, into an invincible socialist
country by relying on powerful arms under the banner of Songun.
In
the 90s of the previous century, when our country was faced with severe
ordeals, he formulated Songun politics as the basic mode of socialist politics,
and, by dint of Songun, not only reliably safeguarded our country our country
securely to the position of a politico-ideological power and a military power
and opened up a new era of building a thriving socialist nation. Songun
politics is an ever-victorious politics which fully guarantees the triumphant
advance of the socialist cause of Juche even amidst the acute showdown with the
imperialist reactionaries, and an almighty sword that makes it possible to
vigorously speed up the revolution and construction true to his instructions.
It
is a century’s miracle wrought by Kim
Jong Il’s Songun politics that our small country has firmly defended
socialism and is exalting its dignity and might as a political and military
power and leaping forward towards the status of an economic giant of our style
in the grim situation, in which the imperialist and all other reactionaries are
intensifying their manoeuvres as never before to isolate and stifle it.
True
to Kim Il Sung’s instructions, Kim Jong Il opened the June 15
reunification era and a new phase in the development of foreign relations by
his strenuous leadership.
The
100-year history of Juche Korea
is the most sacred and glorious history resplendent with the august names and
immortal revolutionary exploits of Kim
Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, the
great leaders of our Party and people.
The
course of history Kim Il Sung’s
nation, Kim Jong Il’s Korea, has
traversed is a glorious course along which our revolution has won victory up to
now since its start on Mt. Paektu, and it is just the road to eternal victory
and national prosperity, the road which we must continue to follow to achieve
the final victory.
To
hold Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in high esteem for all ages
and creditably carry forward and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche
bequeathed by them is the revolutionary duty and noble moral obligation of our
Party and people.
The
times may pass and we may encounter ordeals, but we must invariably advance
along the road of independence, the road of Songun and the road of socialism,
which Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il followed throughout their
life, and thus fulfil the mission and duty as befits the descendants of Kim Il Sung and soldiers and devoted
followers of Kim Jong Il.
Cherishing
the absolute and immutable faith that Kim
Il Sung and Kim Jong Il will
always be with us, we must staunchly safeguard their ideas and achievements and
add eternal brilliance to them.
We
must raise Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism as the one and only guiding ideology and
permanent guidelines of the revolution and advance the revolution and
construction as demanded by it.
Our
Party, army and people will faithfully carry forward the ideas and cause of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and accomplish their revolutionary cause of Juche by
holding high the banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
The
great leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il will always be with us.