KIM JONG UN
Let Us Brilliantly Accomplish the
Revolutionary Cause of Juche, Holding the Great
Comrade Kim Jong Il in High Esteem as the
Eternal General Secretary of Our Party
Talk to Senior Officials of the
Central Committee of the WPK
April 6, Juche 101
(2012)
In the run-up to the significant Day
of the Sun marking the centenary of the birth of the great leader Comrade
Kim Il Sung, we will be holding the Fourth Conference of the
Workers’ Party of Korea amidst great expectation and interest of our
people and foreigners.
The forthcoming conference will
discuss and decide on the agenda items of acclaiming General Kim Jong Il as the eternal General
Secretary of the WPK and glorifying forever his revolutionary career and
immortal revolutionary exploits, and amend the Rules of the Party
accordingly. It will also recall some members of the central leadership
body of the Party and hold an election to fill the vacancies, which is a
regular undertaking of a Party conference.
We should ensure that the conference
serves as an epoch-making event that sets up an important milestone in
holding up General Kim Jong Il, together with President Kim Il
Sung, as the eternal leader of our Party and in accomplishing the
ideology and cause of the President and the General with credit.
Through the conference, we should
clearly show with which faith, will and moral obligation we, the
descendants of the President and soldiers and devoted followers of the
General, hold them in high esteem and how forcefully we have turned out to
accomplish their ideology and cause.
We should hold the General up
invariably as the General Secretary of our Party.
To hold him in high esteem as the
eternal General Secretary of our Party is, in principle, a demand for
consistently holding fast to his ideology and lines and advancing our
revolutionary cause victoriously.
Holding him up as the eternal General
Secretary of the WPK is never symbolic in itself. It means having him at
the post of General Secretary of the Party invariably and conducting Party
building and Party activities in accordance with his ideology and
intention.
His ideology and lines are the
permanent guiding principles for our Party and revolution and
ever-victorious banners whose justness and vitality have been proved
through the practice of the revolution. Separated from them, the
victorious advance and accomplishment of the cause of our revolution are
inconceivable. If our Party is to lead the Korean revolution along the
road of victory and glory as it did in the past, it should hold the
General in high esteem as its eternal General Secretary and strictly
adhere to and thoroughly implement his ideology and
lines.
To hold him up as the eternal General
Secretary of our Party is natural in view of the immortal exploits he
performed for the times and revolution while leading it for a long time.
The period of his developing our
Party into the party of President Kim Il Sung with his unexcelled
ideas and theory and outstanding leadership spans more than half a
century. He developed our Party into a revolutionary party in which the
leaders’ ideological and leadership systems are firmly established, into a
motherly party which has formed a harmonious whole with the masses of the
people and serves them, and into an invincible party with iron discipline
and fighting efficiency, and he demonstrated the dignity and might of
Kim Il Sung’s Korea to the whole world; these constitute his most
distinguished achievement to be brilliantly etched in the annals of our
Party.
It is because our Party is strong and
the army and people are united single-heartedly around it that we keep
assuring the political stability of the country and carry out all work
without the slightest deviation even though the supreme posts of the Party
and the state remain vacant after the demise of the father of the nation.
This is unthinkable apart from the exploits the General performed while
leading our Party and revolution, and showcases their greatness and
eternal vitality. He was an outstanding leader and peerless veteran
statesman who developed the WPK into the organizer and guide of all
victories of our people and led our revolution along the road filled with
victory.
To hold him in high esteem as the
eternal General Secretary of our Party conforms with the noble ideological
feeling and desire of all the Party members and other people, and is
natural from the point of view of moral obligation.
Though he devoted his all throughout
his life to the prosperity of the country and the happiness of the people,
he left nothing for himself; he was on a super-intense forced march
without a moment’s rest, before breathing his last on a running train.
Such a leader has never been witnessed in the world. He lives as the
father of the nation and General Secretary of our Party in the hearts of
our people and service personnel who believed in him as in heaven, and the
world’s people recognize this. The benevolent image of him as the General
Secretary of the WPK will always be in the hearts of our Party members and
other people.
Our officials, including those
present here, Party members, service personnel and people are all the
General’s soldiers and devoted followers, who grew up in his embrace. It
is our natural duty and moral obligation to hold him, who brought us up,
in high esteem as the eternal leader and great teacher. Although he was
the leader of the Party, the state and the army, the great General,
regarding himself all his life as a revolutionary soldier of President
Kim Il Sung, held the President up as the eternal leader of the
Party and the people and devoted his all to the realization of the
latter’s cause. The General’s noble traits and moral obligation are a
paragon which all of us should learn from.
Only when we hold him in high esteem
as the eternal General Secretary of our Party, can we brilliantly
accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche by dynamically pushing forward
the revolution and construction as we did in the past. The post
of General Secretary of the WPK should be occupied only by General
Kim Jong Il even though one generation is replaced by another. For
this reason, we are going to adopt a historic decision on acclaiming him
as the eternal General Secretary of our Party, eternal leader of the Party
and people, and stipulate it in the Rules of the Party at the forthcoming
Party conference.
When it has him as its eternal
General Secretary, our Party can bring the revolutionary cause of Juche
and the revolutionary cause of Songun to brilliant completion with a solid
organizational and ideological guarantee for leading the revolution and
construction to victory.
We intend to discuss the matter of
acclaiming him as the eternal Chairman of the National Defence Commission
of the DPRK at a session of the Supreme People’s Assembly to be held
following the Party conference.
We intend to proclaim
at the conference that the WPK is the glorious party of Kim
Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
The history of the WPK is the history
of the great revolutionary activities of the President who founded it, as
well as of the General who brilliantly carried forward the President’s
ideology and cause. Our Party’s lofty prestige, invincible might and great
exploits in the revolution and construction are associated with the names
of the President and the General, and their names will be immortal along
with the development of our Party. The WPK is the party of Kim Il
Sung and Kim Jong Il who are its eternal leaders.
The guiding ideology of the WPK is
the great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. It is a glorious
Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist party whose guiding ideology is
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and which struggles for its
realization.
By energetically conducting
ideological and theoretical activities with unexcelled ideological and
theoretical wisdom and extraordinary ability to explore, the General
formulated the President’s revolutionary ideas as Kimilsungism,
ensuring that it shone more brilliantly as a great ideology guiding the
era of independence. In particular, he developed the President’s idea of
giving importance to arms into the idea of Songun revolution and theory of
Songun politics, and advanced the theory of building a thriving socialist
nation, remarkably enhancing the attraction and viability of
Kimilsungism and clearly verifying its justness in the
revolutionary practice.
As the General performed the unique
achievement of developing Kimilsungism as required by the times and
developing revolution, our Party members and other people long combined
the President’s ideology with the General’s, calling them
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and recognizing it as the guiding
ideology of our Party. However the General, who was boundlessly humble,
sternly prohibited his name from being associated with the guiding
ideology of our Party, saying that nothing would be seen other than
Kimilsungism, no matter how one delves into Kimjongilism.
Today our Party and revolution demand
that Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism be held fast to as their
permanent guiding ideology.
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is an integral
system of the idea, theory and method of Juche, and a great revolutionary
ideology representative of the Juche era. Guided by
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, we should conduct Party building
and Party activities, so as to sustain the revolutionary character of our
Party and advance the revolution and construction in line with the ideas
and intentions of the President and the General.
Imbuing the whole society with
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is the highest programme of our
Party. It is a revolutionary inheritance of the imbuing of the whole
society with Kimilsungism and its development onto a new, higher
stage.
As we set the imbuing of the whole
society with Kimilsungism as the highest programme of the Party and
made strenuous efforts for its realization under the wise guidance of the
General, we should, in the future, make more strenuous efforts to imbue
the whole society with Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
We have traversed a road resplendent
with brilliant victories by braving all manner of trials of history, but
we still have a long, arduous road of the revolution to follow. Owing to
the vicious schemes of the imperialists and reactionaries to isolate and
stifle our style of socialism centred on the masses of the people, the
situation is as tense as ever, and we are faced with the grave task to
give fuller play to the advantages and might of socialism and build a
thriving socialist country by fully solving the problems arising in
developing the economy and improving the people’s living standards.
However difficult and huge our
revolutionary task may be, we are sure to emerge victorious as long as we
are with our outstanding leaders whom we revere as the eternal sun of
Juche, are guided by the ever-victorious WPK and are supported by the
people and the invincible revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu that are
boundlessly faithful to their Party and leaders.
We should hold the great General in
high esteem as the eternal leader of our Party and people and add lasting
brilliance to his revolutionary career and immortal revolutionary
exploits.
He was a great leader, a peerless
patriot and the benevolent father of our people, who devoted his all
solely to the country’s prosperity and people’s happiness with absolute
loyalty to the President and ardent affection for his country and people.
His was the most brilliant life of a peerlessly great man who performed
immortal exploits for the Party and the revolution, the country and the
people, true to the noble intention of the President.
We should keep pure conscience and a
sense of moral obligation in pushing forward all undertakings aimed at
holding the General in high esteem for all eternity and realizing the
cause of immortalizing him.
We should make sure that the
Kumsusan
Palace of the Sun,
where the President and the General lie in state, shines forever as the
sanctuary of the sun. The palace is the lighthouse for our revolution, our
permanent mental mainstay and the symbol of victory. Our officials,
service personnel and people should build up the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun as the sanctuary
of the eternal sun, and live and work keeping the beaming images of the
President and the General always in their minds.
We should staunchly safeguard the
General’s ideology and exploits and solve all problems arising in the
revolution and construction true to his ideology and intention and in the
same way as he did. In his lifetime he specified the tasks to be tackled
by our Party and people in the revolution and construction and the ways
for their implementation. We should regard his instructions as the
guideline and carry them out unconditionally without any deviation and
without any concession, so as to bring his plans and desires to brilliant
fruition.
We should continuously develop the WPK into the eternal, glorious party
of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
To develop ours into the eternal
party of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il means to hold fast to
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism as its guiding ideology and
conduct its building and activities in strict accordance with their
ideology and intentions.
What is important in this regard is
to establish more firmly the monolithic leadership system of the Party.
We should hold this as the major task
of Party work, and make persevering efforts to this end to meet the
requirements of the new, high stage of the development of our Party and
revolution.
All Party members, service personnel
and people should support the Party’s ideology and leadership with faith
and conscience, unite closely behind the Party Central Committee in
ideology, purpose and moral obligation, and share the same destiny with
our Party in both ordinary and trying days.
Party organizations should create a
revolutionary atmosphere of implementing the Party’s policies, decisions
and directives unconditionally and to the letter. They should take
proactive steps to establish revolutionary discipline and working style of
promptly transmitting the Party’s policies, decisions and directives,
making careful arrangements for their thorough implementation and
reporting back on the results in time.
It is important to establish
throughout the Party strict revolutionary discipline and order of acting
as one under the monolithic leadership of the Party Central Committee.
Party organizations should analyze and judge the problems arising in the
revolution and construction from the point of view of the interests of the
revolution and with an attitude that they take responsibility for them
before the Party, the state and the people, report them to the Party
Central Committee and deal with them according to the latter’s decision.
We should continue to direct great
efforts to building up the ranks of cadres.
Cadres are the leading personnel of
the revolution and the backbone of the Party; the development of the Party
is decided by the qualitative composition of the ranks of cadres.
By radically improving personnel
administration, we should build up the ranks of cadres with faithful and
competent persons who are ready to share the destiny of the Party forever.
Personnel administration should put the main emphasis on the ideological
preparedness, qualifications and competence of the persons concerned. We
should build up the ranks of cadres with those who are promising, are
possessed of organizing abilities and drive, and never fail to see what
they do through to the finish once they are entrusted with it.
By intensifying ideological education
and organizational activities of cadres and constantly training them
through revolutionary practice, we should ensure that they discharge their
responsibility and duties as befit the leading personnel of the
revolution.
We should consolidate the Party
ranks.
We should strictly observe Party
principle in increasing the Party membership so as to admit to the Party
those who are politically and ideologically sound, are responsible and
enthusiastic in fulfilling their revolutionary tasks, are upright and
honest in their economic and moral lives and enjoy high reputation among
the masses.
Organizations of the Party should
definitely raise the level of Party life of its members so that they would
always be faithful to the oath they took before the Party flag, becoming
models for the masses at their posts and playing the vanguard role in
fulfilling the revolutionary tasks.
We should strengthen the
single-hearted unity of the Party and the revolutionary ranks in every way
and defend it in a thoroughgoing way.
The single-hearted unity is the most
valuable revolutionary heritage bequeathed by the General and the great
foundation of our revolution. Our single-hearted unity, formed by the
leader, the Party and the masses with a great ideology and warm feelings
and affection, is the greatest wealth that cannot be compared to millions
of tons of gold.
We should boundlessly respect the
people, regard their interests as supreme and take care of them with
maternal affection.
True to the noble will of the
President and the General, who regarded the ideal of “The people are my
God” as their motto, we should regard the people as our God, boundlessly
respect them, give prominence to them and conduct every undertaking with
their demands and interests at its centre. Party organizations, with
maternal feelings, should always value and love the people with sincerity,
guarantee their political integrity to the last and help them add lustre
to it. As a mother does not abandon her child, even though he or she is
uncomely or mischievous, but is more nervous and concerned about him or
her, Party organizations should ensure that all the people are embraced by
the Party and feel the affections of the General. They should not give a
wide berth to those, who made mistakes while performing their tasks, but
embrace them and educate them perseveringly so that they could add lustre
to their life in the ranks of the revolution.
We should ensure that a noble and
beautiful moral trait of helping and leading one another forward prevails
throughout the country so as to turn our society into a large, harmonious
family united single-heartedly.
A few months ago, Pak Thae Son, a
miner at the Kumgol Mine, and Ri Chang Son, a farmer at the Ohyon
Cooperative Farm, Yonan County, dedicated their lives
without hesitation to save their comrades. Their heroic deeds greatly
moved people. They can be performed only by men in our era who grew up
under the care of the President and the General, and they are an example,
which all of us should learn from.
Party organizations should ensure
that all Party members and other working people, with a revolutionary view
of life, devote themselves to the society, collective and comrades, and
thus imbue themselves with the spirit of the era of actively contributing
to the unity and harmony of their collectives. They should bring into
fuller bloom across society the fine traits of respecting the
revolutionary forerunners, holding up the heroes and people of merit of
the era, loving the coming generations and looking after the persons who
are in need of social care.
Party organizations should take hold
of public sentiments, and ensure that every undertaking is oriented
towards and subordinated to the strengthening of the single-hearted unity
of the revolutionary ranks.
Single-hearted unity separated from
public sentiments is inconceivable. Party organizations should pay heed to
the opinions of the people, solve in time the problems raised among them,
and wage a struggle against the practices of slighting or neglecting
public sentiments. Whenever they are organizing an undertaking or dealing
with a matter vital to the people, they should examine whether it is
helpful to the single-hearted unity or not, and approach it prudently on
the principle of strengthening the unity.
We should resolutely frustrate the
pernicious machinations of the enemy to undermine our single-hearted
unity.
What the enemy is most afraid of is
our single-hearted unity; he persistently resorts to mean plots to
undermine it. Now that the enemy resorts to every conceivable scheme to
check the pure-hearted aspiration of our people who follow their Party and
alienate the Party from them, we should further intensify education of the
people and, at the same time, wage a positive struggle to foil the enemy’s
moves.
We should hold fast to the Party’s
line of Songun revolution and increase the country’s military capabilities
in every way.
Songun means our independence,
dignity and lifeblood. We should not forget the bitter lessons of history
that our people learned in the past, when they lost their country and were
subjected to miserable colonial slavery because of their weak military
strength. It is the stark reality of today that if a country is weak in
military strength, it cannot defend its independence and right of
survival, but finally plays into the hands of imperialists and falls a
prey to them. Therefore, we should make consistent efforts to increase our
military capabilities.
We should continue to direct great
efforts to strengthening the People’s Army. The might of Songun is the
might of the People’s Army, and the key to increasing the military
capabilities is to strengthen the People’s Army.
We should establish the leadership
system of the Party, the command system of the Supreme Commander, and a
revolutionary military ethos throughout the army, thus developing it into
the army of the leader, the Party and the Supreme Commander.
The People’s Army should further
consolidate the political, ideological, military and technological might
of our armed forces by vigorously conducting the movement to win the title
of O Jung Hup-led 7th Regiment, regarding it as the general task of its
political and military work. By intensifying political and ideological
education, it should prepare all the service personnel to be strong in
idea and faith, to be the ones who are boundlessly loyal to the Party’s
leadership and ready to fight for the Party and the leader, the country
and the people at the risk of their lives.
It should establish an atmosphere of
intensive training as befits the army of Mt. Paektu to enhance its combat
efficiency to the maximum, and make sure that all the service personnel
maintain constant readiness for battle. The secret of becoming
a-match-for-a-hundred combatant lies in diligent training. In wartime a
soldier who is exemplary in battle is a hero, but in peacetime a soldier
who is good at training is a hero. Service personnel should prepare
themselves to be steel-strong a-match-for-a-hundred, versatile combatants
possessed of strong mental strength, unyielding fortitude and high combat
efficiency and qualifications by training themselves in an atmosphere of
actual battle. They should always be deeply aware of their noble mission
as defenders of the country, and if the enemy intrudes into the sacred
sky, land or sea of our Republic even an inch, they should never forgive
him.
The People’s Army, the main force of
the revolution, should always be the standard-bearer and shock brigade not
only in defending the country but also in carrying out the Party’s plan
for building a thriving nation and the pacemaker in creating and
disseminating the Songun culture of the new century.
We should provide the service
personnel with better living conditions. The people have entrusted their
dear children to the care of the Supreme Commander and officers; we should
take good care of their living with the feeling of their kith and kin,
true to the intention of the General who bestowed all his affection on
them as their own father would do.
The work of cementing the great
army-people unity should be further intensified. Holding fast to the
slogan “Help the people!” the People’s Army should play the leading role
in achieving the army-people unity by loving and respecting the people and
volunteering to do things that are beneficial to the people. The people
should positively emulate the revolutionary soldier spirit and fighting
mettle of the People’s Army, give it wholehearted support, and in case of
a contingency share the same destiny with the service personnel in the
same trench.
We should put the defence industry on
a highly Juche-oriented, modern and scientific footing, so as to guarantee
the country’s defence capabilities materially and technically.
The history of our defence industry
is the history of the revolutionary activities of President Kim Il
Sung and General Kim Jong Il. The might of the defence industry
we have so far built up under their leadership is great indeed.
We should safeguard the imperishable
exploits they performed in developing the defence industry and give
priority to the development of the defence industry in keeping with the
requirements of the line of economic construction in the Songun era, so as
to increase the country’s military capabilities in every respect. We
should further consolidate the self-supporting character of the defence
industry and definitely put the defence industry on the foundation of the
cutting-edge science and technology. The workers, scientists and
technicians in the sector of the defence industry should develop more of
the state-of-the-art military hardware of our own style and produce them
at the highest qualitative level, thus further modernizing the military
hardware of the People’s Army.
An atmosphere in which military
affairs are given importance should be created throughout society, and
all-people, nationwide defence system consolidated for the turning of the
whole country into an impregnable fortress. Members of the Worker-Peasant
Red Guards and Young Red Guards should make every preparation for reliably
defending their native homes and villages and their socialist motherland
by intensifying military training.
We should bring about a radical
change in improving the people’s standard of living and building the
country into an economic giant.
To improve the people’s standard of
living and boost the country’s economy is most important in the struggle
to translate into reality the intention of the General to build a thriving
country.
The General saw to it that everything
was subordinated to developing the country’s economy and improving the
people’s standard of living, and laid solid foundations for making the
people better off and boosting the country’s economy within a short
period. We should ensure that the priceless assets the General provided
through painstaking efforts pay off, thus making our people who have
invariably trusted and followed our Party the happiest in the world. This
was the ardent desire of the General, and is the firm determination and
will of our Party.
We should satisfactorily solve the
food problem of the people.
At present various steps are being
taken to solve the food problem; we should radically increase state
investment in agricultural production and encourage the entire Party, the
whole country, and all the service personnel and people to turn out in
carrying out to the letter the Party’s policy of agricultural revolution.
We should do farming in a scientific and technological way to increase the
per-unit area yield, thereby hitting the target for agricultural
production put forward by the Party without fail, and organize food
procurement and administration to the minutest detail so as to ensure
regular food supply for the people.
Efforts should be directed to
developing light industry in order to solve the problem of consumer goods.
We should take thoroughgoing measures to supply raw and other materials
for regular production at light-industry factories; we should also
increase the production of consumer goods and improve their qualities, so
that everybody would demand commodities made in our country. In addition,
we should see to it that all the produced goods are supplied to the
people.
Priority should be given to solving
the urgent problems in the people’s living, such as those of dwelling
houses, drinking water and fuel, so that people would not feel any
inconvenience in their living.
By making the flames of Hamnam flare
up higher, we should launch a persevering offensive to boost the vanguard
sectors of the national economy, the basic industries, as early as
possible, thus consolidating the foundations for economic development and
bringing about a great upsurge in production in all sectors of the
national economy.
The sectors of electric-power,
coal-mining and metallurgical industries and rail transport should be
given precedence; only then the national economy would be boosted and
people’s standard of living stabilized and improved.
By channelling big efforts into the
vanguard sectors of the national economy, the electric-power industry in
particular, we should radically increase power generation, make the most
of the generated electric power in developing the country’s overall
economy and improving the people’s living standards, and intensify control
over its use. We should bear in mind the will and intention of the General
who visited the construction site of the Huichon Power Station several
times a year to ease the power shortage, and decisively boost the
electric-power industry.
We should thoroughly implement our
Party’s grand strategy for achieving prosperity by giving definite
precedence to the vanguard sectors and bringing about a great upsurge in
all sectors and units of the national economy.
Under the flames of the industrial
revolution in the new century, we should build ours into a country of
knowledge economy.
At present it is a world trend to put
the economy on a knowledge basis, and we are faced with the epochal task
to change our national economy into the one that is developed by dint of
knowledge.
We should struggle with a high aim
and ideal, true to the intention of the General to keep our feet firmly
planted on our land and look out over the world, and beat the world in all
aspects. By vigorously waging a drive to break through the cutting edge
with the pioneering spirit and creative attitude displayed by the
developers at the Ryonha Machine while making a rapid progress in
producing the latest CNC machine tools, we should raise the level of the
overall technical equipment onto the world standards and perfect the
economic structure as required by the era of knowledge economy.
We should create an atmosphere of
giving definite precedence to science and technology, bringing them closer
to production, and solving all the problems arising in economic
construction by relying on science and technology; by so doing, we should
definitely guarantee the economic development of the country by means of
science and technology.
We should direct efforts to land
management so as to turn our country into a people’s paradise, which is
more beautiful and better to live in.
Land management is a patriotic
undertaking of everlasting significance for the prosperity of our country,
our motherland, and for the well-being of all the generations to come. The
whole Party, the whole country, the entire army and all the people should
turn out in tree planting to make the whole land thickly covered with
trees in the coming few years. Along with this, they should turn the
country into a socialist fairyland by bringing about a decisive turn in
land management, including the improvement of rivers and roads, and urban
management.
In order to bring about a
revolutionary turn in the improvement of people’s living standards and the
building of an economic giant, we should establish rigid discipline and
order, whereby all the problems arising in the economic work are brought
to the Cabinet and solved according to its coordinated command.
As the headquarters in charge of the
country’s economy, the Cabinet should work out the economic development
targets and strategy on a scientific and realistic basis and in a
far-sighted way, and positively push forward the work of supervising and
guiding the overall economic work in a unified way.
All sectors and units should solve
the problems relating to the economic work after consulting the Cabinet
without fail, and carry out to the letter its decisions and directives
aimed at implementing the Party’s economic policies.
Party committees at all levels should
wage a struggle against the practices which hinder the strengthening of
the Cabinet responsibility system, Cabinet-centred system, and put forward
and throw their weight behind the Cabinet and other administrative and
economic organs at various levels, so that they can satisfactorily
discharge their duty and role as masters and performers of the economic
work.
Efforts should be directed to holding
fast to the socialist principles in the economic work and enhancing the
sense of responsibility and role of working people, undertakers of
production and construction, so as to increase production to the maximum.
We should effect an uninterrupted
revolutionary turn in all fields of cultural construction including
education, public health, literature and the arts, and sports, to add
lustre to our country as a cultured socialist country.
By increasing state investment in
education, putting education on a modern basis, radically improving the
level of general secondary education and intensifying university
education, we should train in larger numbers world-class scientific and
technological personnel, who could shoulder the building of a thriving
socialist country. We should give full play to the advantages of the
socialist healthcare system of our country, create and disseminate greater
numbers of excellent literary and artistic works of the times, make sports
mass-based and raise a hot wind of sports across the country. In this way,
we should ensure that our people become creators and enjoyers of socialist
culture, noble and civilized, and the whole society brims over with joy
and optimism.
In order to bring about a decisive
turn in the building of a thriving socialist country as was intended and
wished by General Kim Jong Il, we should, first of all, enhance the
militant functions and role of Party organizations.
Party organizations are the political
staff of the units concerned, and their basic task is to enlist the
officials, Party members and other working people in carrying out the
Party’s lines and policies without fail. The success in the work of each
sector and unit depends entirely on how its Party organization performs
its functions and role.
Party organizations should thoroughly
implement the ideas and lines of the General by firmly establishing
policy-oriented principles and conducting energetic political and
organizational work. They should make a profound study of the General’s
intention and plans, the tasks facing their respective units and the ways
for their implementation, arrange their work in a scrupulous manner,
organize Party guidance over the administrative and economic work to the
last detail and rouse the officials and the broad sections of the masses
of the people to carrying out the General’s instructions.
Party organizations should intensify
Party guidance over the law-enforcement organs, like judicial,
procuratorial and people’s security organs.
The effort to build a thriving
socialist country is accompanied by a serious class struggle to eliminate
all that are hostile and non-socialist. Party organizations should ensure
that the law-enforcement organs discharge their sacred mission and duty by
staunchly safeguarding the socialist system and the gains of the
revolution and reliably defending people’s lives, property and security.
Party organizations should intensify
Party guidance over the working people’s organizations to ensure that all
these organizations and their members turn out as one in the current
general onward march.
True to the Party’s idea of attaching
importance to the youth, they should give prominence to young people and
always pay close attention to the work with them. They should lead the
youth league organizations to further glorify the immortal exploits the
President and the General performed for the youth movement of
Korea and intensify education
of their members in order for our revolution to be steadily carried
forward through generations. Young people should always advance straight
forward following the Party; the prosperous tomorrow will be brought
earlier by the vigorous steps of our young people.
Party organizations should give
proper Party guidance to the organizations of the trade unions and the
union of agricultural workers so that our trustworthy working class and
agricultural working people fulfil their duties as the masters of
factories and farms and undertakers of production.
Our women constitute a powerful force
that pushes ahead one of the two wheels of the revolution. Party
organizations should provide Party guidance to the women’s union
organizations efficiently so as to ensure that women fully discharge their
duties for the prosperity of the country and the amity and happiness of
society and their families and continue to exalt their honour as the
flowers of the era.
Next, officials should perform their
responsibility and role to the full as the leading personnel of the
revolution.
It is none other than the officials
who should defend the Party’s policies and lines unto death in the van and
rouse the masses to their implementation, and who should organize and
direct today’s general onward march.
Officials should perform their work
in a revolutionary way from the standpoint that they are entirely
responsible for the work in their respective sectors and units. In
particular, senior officials should work with a firm determination to
prove themselves worthy of the love and trust of the Party and people that
have brought them up and gave prominence to them. They should become
sincere and competent persons like Kim Chaek, who performed with credit
any task however difficult it may be, in support of Kim Il Sung.
Officials should work with creative
and enterprising attitude towards and style of work. They should design
and organize their work with a far-reaching target and ideals, and be
pioneers and forerunners in creating and introducing the new and doers who
carry any undertaking through to the finish once they set about doing it.
All the officials should resolutely do away with the outdated ideological
viewpoint and backward method and style of work. The position our
officials should take today is the van of the ranks; they should be the
point men blazing the trail and an engine leading the masses on site.
They should devote their all to the
people. People do not exist for officials, but officials exist for people.
By learning from the President’s and
the General’s view of people, all officials should go among the people,
sharing sweets and bitters with them, and make tireless efforts for the
good of them. They should always put the people first in their
consideration, direct primary concern to their living, always think and
sincerely work to solve the knotty problems in their living and do more
things for their benefit. They should be true servants of the people, who
know nothing other than the work for people, are faithful and efficient in
undertaking it and find pleasure and pride in the efforts made for them.
By implementing the intentions and
instructions of the President and the General, we should accomplish the
historic cause of national reunification without fail. And true to their
strategy for and plan of external activities, we should proactively
conduct external activities and contribute to carrying out the cause of
global independence.
Keeping in mind that the President
and the General are always with us and are encouraging us, we should
redouble our efforts to materialize their plans and desires with credit
and glorify the new century of the Juche revolution as an era of victory
and glory.
For the present, as we are going to
hold the Party conference and various other events to celebrate the
centenary of the birth of the President, we should scrupulously organize
the work to ensure them a success. In addition, we should pay close
attention to making our people enjoy themselves on the Day of the Sun in a
meaningful way, and make detailed arrangements for
it.