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.