President Kim Il Sung is immortal   

President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) is held in eternal esteem by the Korean people and people of the world from century to century.

Kim Il Sung is immortal with his brilliant ideas and exploits.

What makes the leader immortal is that his ideas and exploits are eternal.

Kim Il Sung, eternal leader of the Korean people, provided them with an immortal guiding line for realization of the cause of independence by founding the Juche idea and the Songun idea.

Already embarking on the road of revolution in his early teens, he created rich and valuable ideological and theoretical wealth through energetic meditation and devotion till the last time of his life in his 80s. Though he was busy leading the arduous Korean revolution and complicated world revolution through vicissitudes, he wrote over 10,800 works. His works, the encyclopedia of the Juche idea and the Songun idea, have added prominent service to the history of mankind’s ideology, and are enjoying growing worldwide sympathy as the years go by thanks to their truth, validity and vitality.

They are continuously published and studied even in this new century. Many publishing houses in Russia, Pakistan, Venezuela and other countries have recently printed his works. And political parties and organizations of many countries including more than 1,100study groups of the Juche idea and the Songun idea in over 100 countries, have held seminars on his works.

Kim Il Sung was an outstanding veteran statesman of the 20^th century. He was the youngest among the leaders of the socialist countries after World War Ⅱ, but was held in high esteem by many of them. Since Korea’s liberation (August 1945) till the last period of his life (July 1994), he met 120 heads of state on total 1,982 occasions, over 200 party leaders on 2,236 occasions and 76 heads of government on 833 occasions from 136 countries, thus receiving more than 70,000 foreign figures in total. He exchanged opinions with and gave necessary counsel to them on world political issues, important or trivial.

Kim Il Sung’s ideas and exploits have now become the textbook of life and struggle of the people of the world, who aspire after independence and socialism, and the valuable spiritual wealth of mankind.

Today the progressive people of the world are commemorating his birthday (April 15) as the common holiday of mankind, the Day of the Sun, and thus manifest their will to remember his ideas and exploits for ever and to venerate him as the eternal leader of the cause of mankind’s independence.

President Kim Il Sung is immortal with his great personality.

Kim Il Sung was a prominent revolutionary and a man of integrity.

He is recognized by people of the world as a sublime internationalist. During the days of the anti-Japanese armed struggle for Korea’s liberation, he gave active support to the Chinese revolution and defended the former Soviet Union with arms. After Korea’s liberation, he lent unsparing support to the countries and nations which were waging the anti-imperialist struggle. The founding history of not a few countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America has a full page on his full material and moral support given to the people of the socialist, colonial and newly independent countries in their struggle against imperialism.

He established close relations with the heads of state and government, prominent figures of political, social and academic circles around the world aspiring to independence, and set a splendid example of moral obligation in the relationship with them. His long-time benevolence to Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, who was undergoing vicissitudes of life in exile for some time, is warming the hearts of the people even today. He had noble personality that made all kinds of persons, though they have different nationalities, political views and religious beliefs, and even the politicians from the countries hostile to Korea, praise him as the greatest man after meeting him once. It is an example that Jimmy Carter, former US president, was full of praise for Kim Il Sung, saying that he was greater than three presidents, that is, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, who are said to represent the foundation and destiny of the United States, put together. Even now, various kinds of colorful functions in retrospect and respect of President Kim Il Sung are held throughout the world, which eloquently show that Kim Il Sung is immortal with mankind.

After 60 years

This year marks the 60^th anniversary of the Joint Conference of Representatives of Political Parties and Public Organizations in North and South Korea (April North-South Joint Conference), which was a pan-national meeting for reunification of divided Korea.

After Korea was liberated from the military occupation of Japan in 1945, the United States drove its army into south Korea under the mask of “liberator”. In a machination to permanently occupy Korea, the US brought up the Korean issue to the United Nations and railroaded a “resolution” for a separate election and a cook-up of a puppet regime in south Korea, which cast a dark shadow of national and territorial division over the Korean nation that had lived as a homogeneous nation for 5,000 years.

To cope with the trying situation, President Kim Il Sung put forward the line of forming a united front for grand national unity. In March 1948, when the US was making more blunt attempt for “a separate election and separate government” in south Korea, he addressing the 2^nd Congress of the Workers’ Party of North Korea and the 25^th Meeting of the Central Committee of the Democratic National United Front of North Korea, put forth a policy to establish an all-Korean unified democratic government by the Korean people’s own efforts and initiated to hold a joint conference of representatives of political parties and public organizations in north and south Korea. He then saw to it that concrete measures were taken for its realization. Thus, his letters and invitation cards were sent to not only the patriotic democrats, but also the pro-US and anti-communist rightists in south Korea.

Responding to Kim Il Sung’s noble idea, a large number of representatives of political parties and social organizations of south Korea and politicians crossed the 38^th parallel drawn by the US, northward to attend the April North-South Joint Conference held in Pyongyang from April 19 to 23 that year.

The conference was participated in by 695 representatives of 56 political parties and social organizations in the north and south Korea which had a total membership of over 10 million, and also by overseas Koreans.

President Kim Il Sung delivered a report, The political situation in North Korea, at the conference. He gave a comprehensive analysis on the political situation of the country, and elucidated the task of the Korean people to struggle against the US imperialists’ scheme of dividing Korea and establish an all-Korean unified democratic government. His report received full support from the participants. The conference adopted a resolution on the political situation of Korea and an appeal to all the Korean compatriots. They solemnly declared that the Korean people would never recognize the puppet regime to be cooked up by a separate election, but would establish by themselves a genuine unified government on a democratic principle, while appealing to the whole Koreans to turn out in the struggle to check and frustrate the separate election in progress in south Korea under the supervision of the “UN Temporary Commission on Korea,” an aggressive tool of the US imperialists. The conference then decided on the organization of a national committee of struggle against the separate election in south Korea and the line of its work, proposed by Kim Il Sung.

The meeting demonstrated that the political parties and social organizations in the north and south of Korea, though they were different in their political views and class stands, can successfully unite with each other based on the common national idea in the struggle to achieve reunification and independence of Korea, and vigorously carry out a nationwide struggle to check the national division and establish an independent unified government by dint of the great unity of the nation.

President Kim Il Sung’s lofty idea of national reunification is brilliantly succeeded by leader Kim Jong Il.

After Kim Il Sung’s demise (July 8, 1994), Kim Jong Il made public work Let Us Carry Out the Great Leader Kim Il Sung’s Instructions for National Reunification, on August 4, 1997, in which he expressed his will to unchangeably inherit and carry out the President’s instructions to the last.

His iron will and courageous determination enabled the first inter-Korean summit meeting in the 55-year-long history of national division to be held in Pyongyang in June 2000 and adopt the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration. With this as a momentum, the reunification movement of the Korean nation has met a new turning point and the hostile and confrontational north-south relations of dozens of years have switched to the “by-our-nation-itself” one.

October 4 last year witnessed another inter-Korean summit meeting in Pyongyang and the adoption of the “Declaration for Development of North-South Relations and Peace and Prosperity” that provided the Korean nation with a more concrete and detailed milestone for Korea’s reunification.

The present reality in the Korean Peninsula that shows a stronger tendency towards reunification reminds people of the exploits of President Kim Il Sung who created a good tradition of great national unity.

The day of national reunification, the wish of the President, will soon break.

Kim Jong Il and his outstanding art of leadership

Kim Jong Il has an unexcelled art of leadership.

The organic integration of political and military affairs characterizes his art of leadership.

Where should the primary effort be put into in politics? This is important of politics and indicative of the ability of a statesman.

Songun politics is his unique political mode. History knows many statesmen, who exerted efforts in strengthening the military power, but they were only confined to developing means of fighting against the enemy or suppressing insidious maneuvers of hostile forces.

But his Songun politics does not merely aim at strengthening the military capabilities. He regards the army not only as the defender of the country, but also as the pillar of the revolution and the driving force of the socialist cause. He finds the master key of cementing the politico-ideological position of the country in strengthening the army, and makes a turning point in the socialist construction by giving full play to the revolutionary mettle and fighting spirit of the army.

Thanks to his Songun politics the army in the DPRK is securely defending the country and leading the overall socialist cause in the van, playing its role as the pillar and the driving force of revolution, thus developing incomparably the political-ideological might of the whole society based on it. The vanguard role of the army upholding the socialist banner and the successful realization of the unity of the army with the people in idea and fighting spirit guarantee the victorious progress of Korea’s socialism without vacillation in any difficulties of history.

Expedient and dexterous handling without any resort to established formula or practices, and creating anything in his own way is another aspect of leader Kim Jong Il’s art of leadership.

Such a manner of controlling is very important in political management, as there arise unpredictable events and new tasks without interruption.

One of the important characteristics of Kim Jong Il’s politics is that it is based on philosophical consideration. Not even a moment passes without his consideration either in the office or in his way of on-the-spot guidance. All lines and policies of Kim Jong Il, who presents a splendid idea based on correct analysis and judgment of the fast-changing situation and draws extraordinary things from common ones are original free from initiation and dogma.             

The international community has witnessed that socialist Korea overcame the harsh trials and brought about a turning point in the socialist construction. Korea’s measures that frustrated the hard-line policy of the imperialist superpower, the issuance of the order the Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army on mobilizing armed forces for socialist economic construction under the hair-triggering situation, and the ingenious strategy with to make the enemy give up of his own accord-all of these have pleasantly surprised the world. His miraculous and adroit art of leadership characterized by, for instance, the method of generalizing throughout the country an example created at a place, unusual power of observation and insight, analysis and judgment, farsighted and bold and yet unperturbed policy-is the main factor that enables the Korean people to advance forward triumphantly in high spirit under any hard situation.

His perseverance of carrying out what he decides to do is another aspect of Kim Jong Il’s art of leadership.

He has a high sense of responsibility for the destiny of the people, and unlimited guts and pluck. It is his creed that what he promises the people to do and what he sets as his goal for them must be carried out by all means. He is, therefore, exercising the politics that enjoys absolute trust of the people. Through their life’s experience, the Korea people keenly felt that all his plans and intentions certainly bear excellent fruits.

At present, they are confident that they will open the gate to a great, prosperous and powerful socialist nation in the near future under his leadership.

Guard of justice and peace

At present, justice and peace around the world are faced with grave challenges due to the high-handed and supremacy-seeking attempts of the imperialists that are becoming ever severer in the new century.

The progressive people of the world are looking up to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the East, which is coping with the “power policy” of the “only superpower” of the world by means of the powerful war deterrent and the arms of justice. And their particular object of admiration is the Korean People’s Army, which is backing the nation with the military power.

The KPA is making active contribution to defending justice and peace of the world by safeguarding the dignity and sovereignty of the country with its invincible military power strengthened by Songun.

It is the inevitability of history that justice wins over injustice, but it needs power to turn inevitability into reality. It is the military power that forms the cornerstone of the national power. The revolutionaries of Korea keenly felt through their experiences that neither the sovereignty and dignity of the country nor justice and peace could be defended when they had weak military power. They adopted the Songun revolutionary line put forth by President Kim Il Sung as their lifeline when their country was under the military occupation of Japan in the first half of the 20^th century. Korea, therefore, witnessed the realization of the cause of army founding ahead of the building of a political party or the state. The Anti-Japanese People’s Guerilla Army, the predecessor of the KPA, which was founded on April 25, 1932, defeated the Japanese army that had been trying to realize its ambition for a “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere” by becoming the “leader” of Asia. It, thus, brought freedom to the nation and liberation to the country. It was a great contribution to putting an end to World War II and setting global peace. After national liberation (August 1945), it strengthened into a regular army and repulsed the aggression of the United States, which was boasting of its being the “strongest” in the world, in the Korean War (1950-1953), thereby safeguarding the sovereignty and dignity of the country. Even after the war it continued to put efforts into increasing its power, and smashed every military provocation by the US including the incidents of the US armed spy ship Pueblo (1968) and the US espionage plane “EC-121” (1969), and the “Panmunjom incident” (1976).

As it has the KPA, which is fully equipped with modern offensive and defensive means and is capable of beating off any powerful enemy, the DPRK is winning victory after victory in the politico-military confrontation with the US, the imperialist “superpower”, and peace reigns in the world, as well as the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia. So many people of the world are expressing their admiration for and gratitude to Songun politics of Korea and the KPA with strong military power. Especially, the south Koreans, who would be the first and the greatest sufferer if there was a war on the Korean Peninsula, say in unison that the KPA equipped with the strong war deterrent wards off the cloud of war on the Peninsula and ensures their stable economic activities, religious life and academic studies.

The KPA, the standard-bearer of Songun politics, is encouraging the progressive people of the world to defend justice and peace.

A cold reality about the international community is that the sovereignty, peace and justice of the country will be secure when it has a strong military power, it will fall prey to the imperialist forces and the world peace be destroyed when it has no such power. The US led the NATO to bomb former Yugoslavia and committed its armed forces to the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq under the pretext of “anti-terrorist war” after the “9/11”-these are all due to the fact that the victimized nations had no strong military power.

Songun politics of Korea has given priority to the military requirements and strengthened the armed forces from the historic lesson that the dignity and sovereignty of the country can only be defended by a strong military power, thus enabling the DPRK to squarely face the aggression and interference of any foreign forces. In the course of carrying on Songun politics in the van, the KPA has strengthened into invincible armed forces and socialist Korea has become a world-famous military power.

It is not accidental that a large number of countries, which were groping for the way to defend justice and peace in the face of the high-handed and military arbitrary policy of the imperialists headed by the US in the past, are choosing the way of strengthening their own military power.

At present, Songun politics of Korea is recognized as an out-and-out anti-imperialist and independent political mode, and the KPA the standard-bearer of Songun politics, is highly commented upon as the defender of peace and justice by the international community.