Broadmindedness of Kim Jong Il
Leader Kim Jong Il meets chairperson of Hyundai Business Group
Broadmindedness of Kim Jong Il
Chairman Kim Jong Il of the National Defense Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a broadminded statesman.
His politics mirrors his broadmindedness as it is. He administers the benevolent politics and all-embracing politics which make no discrimination among all members of society, irrespective of their origin, past career, political view and religious belief.
His politics rallied the popular masses from all walks of life including workers, peasants and intellectuals, into a socio-political force. Such wonderful reality as the single-minded unity of the whole society in the DPRK is wholly attributable to his all-embracing politics.
His broadmindedness is not confined only to the DPRK. Many Koreans in the south and abroad are admiring his generosity.
Chung Ju-young, former honorary chairman of Hyundai Business Group in south Korea, visited Pyongyang in October 1998. The Korean leader, busy as he was with his field guidance to the units of the country, was informed of the aged businessman’s visit and met with him for hours even it was at dead of night. He asked him about his health and business situation, and took every measure for his convenient stay. Noting that he would join hands at any time with anybody, if he or she wishes for the prosperity and well-being of the Korean nation, he gave ready consents to all problems suggested by Chung, including the issue of economic and cultural exchange and cooperation between the north and the south and the issue of tour to Mt. Geumgang and setting up of the Gaesong Industrial Zone.
Kim Jong Il sent a message of condolence and a wreath to his family when he passed away, and named an indoor stadium built on the banks of the Botong River in Pyongyang after him. When Chung Mong-hun, his son who was succeeding to him, died, he saw to it that a monument to his memory was set up in Geumgang resort.
He, who had already met with Hyun Chung-eun, chairperson of Hyundai Business Group who is the widow of the late Chung Mong-hun, and her daughter several times, met them again in August 2009. Remembering the predecessors of Hyundai Business Group with deep emotion, he solved all problems they presented to him with generosity—the issue of tour to Mts. Baektu and Geumgang and to Gaesong area and the issue of revitalizing the work in the GIZ with the love for the nation, even though the inter-Korean relations were driven into an unprecedented worst phase.
Thanks to Kim Jong Il, who attaches utmost priority to the demand and interests of the Korean nation irrespective of differences in ideology and social system, political view and religious belief, such an eye-opening event as the north-south summit which was held in June 2000 for the first time in the 55-years-long history of division of the Korean nation took place and the issue of national reunification was discussed there with an open mind. As a result, the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, a milestone for Korea’s reunification, the basic idea of which is “by our nation itself,” was adopted. Another inter-Korean summit held in 2007 produced the October 4 Declaration, an action program of the June 15 Joint Declaration.
Kim Jong Il is also widely known to the world for his generosity.
In October 2000 he met with Madeleine Albright, the then State Secretary of the United States which has been hostile to the DPRK, and gave impromptu and clear-cut answers to all the matters of her concern, including the missile issue of the DPRK, a great concern of the US. She was moved to admiration for his magnanimity of handling an issue in a big way, his clear-cut analyzing ability and generosity of attentively listening to his counterpart to the end.
He even met with Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi two times and solved on the spot all problems he presented. The Korean people regard Japan as their sworn enemy as it invaded their country in the past and has not redressed its sinful past up to now, far from making reparation for it.
In August 2009, former US President Bill Clinton visited Pyongyang, which led to the release of two American women journalists who had intruded into the DPRK and committed hostile acts against it. Through the event the international community witnessed more clearly how broadminded Kim Jong Il is. He had an open-minded discussion with Clinton on some issues for relieving the acute relationship between the DPRK and the US and issued on the spot an order of granting a special pardon to the American journalists. They expressed their heartfelt gratitude to his magnanimous measure.
Kim Jong Il is, indeed, a broadminded statesman that moves all people. It is not fortuitous that many people around the world say the land of Korea is too small for his great personality.
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