Eternal Leader Kim Il Sung: The sun shines forever

Name of the Sun: Kim Il Sung was the sun. History hasn't ever known an instance that a man was praised as the sun. The great leader President Kim Il Sung was praised by the people as the sun already in his teens. When Korea was reduced to a colony of the Japanese imperialists, young people of new generation gathered around him with a will to fight against the occupational forces.

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Kim Kyong Hui, lecturer of the Korean Revolution Museum, has this to say:

 

"It was the young vanguards of the first generation of the Korean revolution who named President Kim Il Sung after the sun before others and announced it. The young people of new generation who had wandered about with the sorrow over the occupied nation, set out on the road of revolution led by President Kim Il Sung, singing the song of revolution, the song of struggle, and could enjoy a life as revolutionaries. How great he is! Completely fascinated by the idea, humanity and personality of the young leader, the young people maintained in unison that the great leader Kim Il Sung should be the ´bright sun of Korea´."

Sun of Korea! It was a desire and hope of the 20 million Korean people in those days. People respected him as the sun. President Kim Il Sung lived up to the people´s expectation and trust with his devotion and immortal achievements all his life. He defeated the most ferocious US and Japanese imperialists and liberated the country, defended the country from the imperialist aggression and built socialist system on this land to prosper forever.

 

Kim Il Sung created the man-centred Juche idea, the great guiding idea, and opened the road of historic march for global independence. The sun is the source of life bringing all things back to life. Thanks to President Kim Il Sung, the Korean people could be freed from the status of stateless slaves and enjoy a life of independent man and this country could demonstrate its dignity to the world as a proud independent, sovereign state. The name of President Kim Il Sung praised as the sun will shine forever along with the fatherland.

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Sunflower Follows Only the Sun: All the Korean people remember an unforgettable story. This happened during the great Fatherland Liberation War in the early 1950s. During the temporary strategic retreat President Kim Il Sung met a farmer driving a cart on a pass. Here is a dialogue between President Kim Il Sung and the ordinary farmer who is said to have come a long way from Popdong, Kangwon Province, which still touches the heartstrings of the people.

 

•   Well, where are you going deep at night, old man?


•   To the north. There is no place to go, but to the north, now.


•   No way to go, but to the north? Why are you going to the north?


•   Why? I am going to General Kim Il Sung together with the armymen.


•   What are you going to him for during the war?


•   What for? ... When we go to him, there will be a way out and we can win the war.

These were the answers given by the simple farmer to President Kim Il Sung at the most difficult time. More than 40 years later in Juche 83 or 1994, after the demise of President Kim Il Sung, the people saw his portrait smiling as bright as the sun as in his lifetime in the street of bidding last farewell to him. In the world only President Kim Il Sung remains immortal, smiling so brightly even after his demise. The people realized it from the bottom of their hearts.

 

The following happened when a slogan of leader´s immortality was being engraved on a tower in the Kwangbok Street. An old man who had come to the construction site asked the builders time and again. "What letters are you engraving? Will you tell me once again?" "We are engraving on the tower ´The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung will always be with us´." Later, looking up at the slogan clear under the morning sunshine, the old man quietly said to himself. "Right. Our leader remains alive. He is the sun in the sky!" People found the old man cleaning the pedestal of the tower from the day. People´s minds were and are invariable like the sunflower following the sun.

 

The Sun Is Eternal:During their visit to the International Friendship Exhibition House people learned that President
Kim Il Sung was receiving gifts from foreign friends even after his demise. It was unprecedented in the history of great persons.

World friends said with admiration:

"President Kim Il Sung is the greatest of great men who was great in his lifetime, but became greater after his demise."

W. A. Duminduwardane, Secretary General of the Sri Lanka-People´s Korea Friendship Association, said:

"In 1982 I met the great leader President Kim Il Sung greeting his birthday and had a picture taken with him and was invited to a luncheon given by him. The great President Kim Il Sung is with us today, too. We will make efforts to inform the people of the Juche idea better in the future, too. Warmly recalling the undying achievements of the great President Kim Il Sung and the respect of the Korean people for him, all of us are more convinced that he will always be with us."

In more than 100 countries of the world there are streets, institutions and organizations named after President Kim Il Sung, such as Kim Il Sung Class, Kim Il Sung Street, Kim Il Sung Kindergarten and Kim Il Sung Institute. Foreigners awarded him supreme orders of their countries and hold him in high esteem as honorary citizen. Kimilsungia is in bloom in all parts of the earth. It is a manifestation of the boundless reverence of humanity for the great man of the century.

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Jon Ha Chol, Director of an Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences, has this to say:

"President Kim Il Sung, the great leader of our people and the sun of humanity recognized by the whole world, was a great leader, great revolutionary, great military strategist and great artist of leadership with gifted wisdom, unusual leadership ability and noble virtues."

For his extraordinary great personality and feats the great leader President Kim Il Sung will always be immortal in the minds of the Korean people and the progressive humanity of the world. The sun shines forever.