Life of President Kim Il Sung

The life of the great leader of the Korean people Kim Il Sung was a life brilliant with field guidance. He called on the people, walking rugged roads rain or snow. Since he left his home village Mangyongdae and set out on the road of revolution President Kim Il Sung always found himself among the people and, relying on them, waged an arduous revolutionary struggle against the Japanese imperialists and liberated the country.

After he returned home in triumph after liberation, he called on the workers of the then Kangson Steel Works, passing by his longed-for native home within a hailing distance. He made a long, ceaseless journey of field guidance from the beginning of the building of a new society to the last days of his life.



Here is a touching story. On the way back from his field guidance to several local areas in the early autumn of Juche 36 or 1947 President Kim Il Sung called at a remote mountain hamlet in Yangdok. When he visited his simple house, the old host, showing him a notebook in which he had jotted down his excitement of the day, said: "I wrote in this notebook that General Kim Il Sung visited my home. I will hand it down to my children." With a smile on his face President Kim Il Sung warmly said to him that he should write that golds should be picked from all mountains and hand it down to the children.

The life of his field guidance is decorated with such legend-like stories. In the last days of his life, too, President Kim Il Sung made all efforts for the people´s happiness on the road of his field guidance.

The footprints of his field guidance are found in all parts of the country ranging from the northern border of the country to a rural village near the demarcation line, from a small fishing port on the east coast to a far-off island on the West Sea. The course of the field guidance he made for the people all his life is as long as 14 rounds of the globe and a half. Indeed, the life of the great President Kim Il Sung was a life of field guidance he made for the happiness of the people and for the prosperity of the country.



 

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.

National Meeting Marks Birth Anniversary of Kim Il Sung

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A national meeting took place at the April 25 House of Culture Sunday to celebrate the 101st birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.

Present there were Kim Yong Nam, Pak Pong Ju, Choe Ryong Hae and other senor party, state and army officials, the chairpersons of friendly parties, officials of party, armed forces and power organs, public organizations, ministries and national institutions, service personnel of the Korean People's Army and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces, officials in the fields of science, education, literature and arts, public health and media, bereaved families of revolutionary martyrs, merited persons, Pyongyangites, delegations of overseas Koreans, overseas compatriots and the chief of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front.

Present there on invitation were diplomats of different countries and representatives of international bodies and members of the military attaches corps here.

President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong Nam, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, made a report.

The reporter said that the birth of Kim Il Sung was a great fortune that greeted the sun of Juche, the first of its kind in national history spanning five thousand years and a grandiose event which brought about the dawn in the era of independence for the Korean people and the progressive mankind.

In the first period when he embarked on the road of revolution the President clarified the new truth that independence serves as a lifeline of people, country and nation and that the revolution should be made independently and creatively according to one's own faith, the reporter noted, and continued:

The President expounded in a unique manner the Juche-based revolutionary outlook on the world, basic principles of revolutionary movement and its methodological issues, properly reflecting the independent desire and desire of the popular masses. This revolutionary idea served as encyclopedic guidelines in the struggle for independence and socialism and a powerful militant banner.

He steadily developed the struggle for the country's reunification and relations with other parties and states on the principle of independence, laying a solid foundation for bringing earlier the independent reunification of the country. This fully displayed the external authority and dignity of the Workers' Party of Korea and the state, making tangible contribution to the cause of independence against imperialism and human cause of independence.

The President defeated the formidable U.S. and Japanese imperialist enemies in one generation to save the destiny of the country and nation and create a history and tradition of great victory in the war. These undying feats will shine forever along with the triumphant advance of Songun revolution.

He is the genius of creation and construction and father of socialist Korea as he built socialist society centered on the popular masses regarding socialism as the basic political idea of the Korean revolution.

The revolutionary cause of Juche, Songun revolutionary cause started by Kim Il Sung and glorified by leader Kim Jong Il is making steady progress on a new high stage thanks to the dear respected Kim Jong Un.

We will invariably keep to the road of independence, Songun and socialism which the great Generalissimos followed their whole lives no matter how much water may flow under the bridge and whatever difficulties we may face, thus fulfill our mission and obligation as descendants of Kim Il Sung and soldiers and disciplines of Kim Jong Il.

We should develop the People's Army into an invincible and matchless army strong in idea, bolster both in quality and quantity the nuclear force, life of the nation and national treasure of reunified Korea that can never be bartered for anything, and wage a stronger all-out action with the U.S. to cope with the prevailing wartime situation, true to the Songun leadership of Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un.

All party members, service personnel and people should burn their hearts with Kim Jong Il's patriotism, do more good things conducive to the building of a thriving nation, greet the 65th anniversary of the DPRK and the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War with high political enthusiasm and brilliant labor feats and thus demonstrate to the world the invincible spirit of Songun Korea by carrying forward the ever-victorious history and tradition.

The DPRK will develop external relations with other countries in the idea of independence, peace and friendship and make active contribution to defending the peace and stability in Asia and the rest of the world and the cause of global independence as a responsible nuclear weapons state.

Such celebration meetings also took place on Sunday in all provinces, cities (districts), counties and industrial complexes.

Meanwhile, similar meetings took place in provinces, cities (districts) and counties and at complexes. -0-

1,000-ri Journey for Learning

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Today is the 90th anniversary of the 1,000-ri or 400-kilometre journey for learning made by the great President Kim Il Sung.

I visited the Mangyongdae Revolution Museum in Pyongyang on the occasion. Mangyongdae is in spring when buds began to shoot and spring breeze is warm. I expressed great admiration at the beautiful scenery of Mangyongdae, when a lecturer told me that the name of "Mangyongdae" means a place with a multitude of beautiful views.

And she guided me into the Mangyongdae Revolution Museum. Attentively looking round the historical materials and remains displayed in every room together with other visitors, I entered the 4th Room. Displayed there were materials concerning President Kim Il Sung´s "1,000-ri journey for learning".

In front of a large-size electronic jewel picture depicting the route of the "1,000-ri journey for learning" lecturer Ho Un Jong said:.

"The great leader President Kim Il Sung graduated the Badaogou Primary School with straight A´s in early Juche 12 or 1923. In those days, Kim Hyong Jik thought of the future of his son Kim Il Sung and said: ´You had better study in Korea from now on. A man of Korea must have a good knowledge of Korea. While studying in the home village, you must experience the miserable life of the Korean people. Then you will know what you should do.´

President Kim Il Sung set out on the ´1,000-ri journey for learning´ on March 16th, Juche 12 or 1923, amid the send-off of his parents and friends. More than half of the 400 kilometres he had to walk was steep mountains with beasts of prey prowling about even in broad daylight."

As I was solemnly looking at the oil painting "Great leader Kim Il Sung arriving at the native home in Mangyongdae after the ´1000-ri journey for learning´", the lecturer said:

"President Kim Il Sung entered the courtyard of his native home in Mangyongdae around sunset on March 29, 1923, fourteen days after his departure from Badaogou. Spinning in the room next to the kitchen, his grandma was so surprised that she ran out into the courtyard barefoot. She said: ´Your father is crueller than the tiger. A few years later you may try to sit on Mt. Paektu and wash your feet in the East Sea.´ And she admired her grandson."

During his journey from Badaogou to Mangyongdae, President Kim Il Sung experienced the miserable life of the Korean people groaning under the boots of the Japanese imperialists and hardened his resolve to liberate the country.

The lecturer said to me that, later, President Kim Il Sung looked back with deep emotion upon the journey, saying, to him the 400-kilometre journey was a great school that let him know his homeland and his fellow countrymen.

Feeling again that Korea today is possible thanks to the 1,000-ri journey for learning made by President Kim Il Sung in his teens, I left the Mangyongdae Revolution Museum.

DPRK Saying: "A-Match-for-a-Hundred"

This year Juche 102 or 2013 is the 50th year after the slogan "A-Match-for-a-Hundred" was presented in Korea.

The Korean people, seeing the heroic spirit of the Korean People´s Army, an invincible army capable of defeating any aggressors at a blow, look back with deep emotion upon the historic day when the slogan was presented.

The great President Kim Il Sung visited the army post on Mt. Taedok on the forefront on February 6th, Juche 52 or 1963. He met the soldiers and officers who were firmly defending the country and looked round different places of the post together with them.

He taught that all soldiers shoud be trained as "a-match-for-a-hundred" warriors so as to strengthen the People´s Army and increase its fighting capacity. He said, from olden times, a general good at battle was called "a-match-for-a-hundred" warrior, which means one man defeats a hundred foes. He stressed the need to firmly arm the entire servicemen with the indomitable revolutionary spirit so that they could defeat a hundred foes each.

This is how the slogan "A-Match-for-a-Hundred" came into being.

The great Kim Jong Il accompanied President Kim Il Sung visiting the post on Mt. Taedok that day and said the slogan "A-Match-for-a-Hundred" represents a high demand for the servicemen to be competent fighters each of whom can defeat one hundred foes in defensive and offensive battles.

He taught in detail that to prepare the soldiers to be a-match-for-a-hundred, they must arm themselves firmly with the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung, master their arms, impregnably consolidate the positions and become familiar with the tactics of smashing the enemy relying on the positions.

During his Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Kim Jong Il visited the post on Mt. Taedok and called on the soldiers to fully demonstrate the invincible spirit of the heroic KPA by further strengthening military and political trainings under the slogan "A-Match-for-a-Hundred".

Today, too, the post on Mt. Taedok is standing firmly as a symbol of "a-match-for-a-hundred", telling forever about the immortal exploits performed under the Songun-based leadership of the great

Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in the history of army building.

Korean women´s fruitful life under the care of great men

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The Korean women are significantly greeting the International Women´s Day March 8. The Korean women greeting the international holiday of the working women of the world express infinite thanks to the peerlessly great men who led them to enjoy a fruitful life.

It was the great leader President Kim Il Sung who brought about a radical turn in the destiny of the Korean women. Busy as he was right after liberation, he, with a deep understanding of the women´s role in the development of society and revolution, had the historic Law on Sex Equality promulgated to realize the long-cherished desire of the Korean women.

As a result, the Korean women who had been withering due to the feudal bondage, absence of rights and colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists, greeted the spring of women´s emancipation in the liberated country.

Under the care of the great men, the social status and role of the Korean women have increased generation after generation. The great Kim Jong Il regarded women as a powerful force promoting the revolution and construction and paid deep concern for them to devote all their strength and wisdom to the prosperity of the country. Whenever he met women soldiers during his inspection of the front, he showed all his love and trust to them, saying they are the women revolutionaries who are doing their duty in the defense of the country. When he met women officials and innovators during his field guidance, he encouraged them, saying they were doing their jobs well.

Thanks to his trust, songs of women including "Love Your Wives" and "Wemen Are Flowers" are resounding and the women are enjoying fruitful life in the Songun era.

Ri Chu Ok, Department Director of the Pyongyang City People´s Committee, says:

"Great social benefits were shown to the women in our country thanks to the deep trust and love of the great Kim Jong Il. A wonderful maternity hospital was built and precious stone pieces were set in the floor of the central entrance hall of the hospital. So the Korean women call it palace of love. And honey, different kinds of tonics and nutritive foods are supplied to the women in childbed every year.

Nurseries and kindergartens are run in different parts of the country at state expense and so the wemen are devoting themselves without any worry to the society and collective and to the building of a prosperous nation. Last year the Breast Cancer Research Centre was built at the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital which is now rendering great services to the promotion of women´s health."

Under the love and benevolence, the Korean women are performing feats in national defense and socialist construction.

The Korean women are leading an honourable life as revolutionaries devoting their all to the country and people. Among them are deputies to assemblies of different levels, heroines, professors, doctors, and officials of party and government institutions. As they were led by the great men generation after generation, the Korean women could enjoy and are now enjoying an honourable life.

March 5 Youth Mine on the Shore of the Amnok River

March 5 Youth Mine located on the shore of the Amnok River in the northern part of Korea makes an active contribution to the country’s economy and the people’s living.

The mine was an uninhabited mountainous remote area until half a century ago.

President Kim Il Sung, who was always on field guidance tour for his country and people, visited the mine in September Juche 53 (1964) and assigned a task of conducting a geological prospecting to officials concerned. When a deposit of a mineral was found out, he unfolded a far-reaching plan for developing the area into a promising mine.

Thanks to his meticulous guidance, the mine was developed into the country’s precious nonferrous mineral producer.

In the 1990s when the country was undergoing difficulties and the mine consequently faced harsh ordeals, General Kim Jong Il indicated the ways to revamp the mine and took measures to this end.

In January 2008 he came to the mine in the bitter cold, traversing high and steep icy roads in the northern region. When he visited it again in September 2010, he spoke highly of the successes the officials and workers there had achieved and advanced new tasks for developing the mine.

Greatly encouraged by his patriotic devotion, the officials and workers finished the project for increasing the capacity of a dressing plant in two years after they had started, the project which would take five or six years to complete, and overfulfilled the concentrated ore production plan every year.

Amidst a brisk innovation drive the mine built and put into operation in October last year another modern nonferrous metal producing base suited to the requirements of the era of knowledge-based economy.

Revitalization of production brought about a marked improvement in the livelihoods of the miners. Modern houses, hall of culture and rest home have been built at the foot of the mountains around the mine.

Miners often have swimming contests after a day’s work at the Hoha Health Complex which is fully equipped with cultural and welfare facilities.

At night the miners’ village is as bright as day, showcasing the cultured, rich and happy life of the miners.

The remarkable changes in the mine are the realization of the President’s wish and the General’s ideal and they are the looks of Songun Korea which is hastening the building of a thriving nation.

New Statues Erected at Mangyongdae Revolutionary School

Statues of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il were erected at Mangyongdae Revolutionary School on the occasion of the birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il (the Day of the Shining Star). An unveiling ceremony was held with splendor on Saturday. The dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un was present at the ceremony.

Also present there were Choe Yong Rim, Choe Ryong Hae, Jang Song Thaek, Hyon Yong Chol, Kim Kyok Sik, Kim Kyong Hui, Kim Ki Nam, Kim Yong Chun, Ri Yong Mu, O Kuk Ryol, Hyon Chol Hae, Kim Jong Gak, and officials of the party and armed forces organs, staff members and students of the school and its graduates, officials of units and military academies at all levels, service personnel of the KPA, military family members and officials and employees of the units who contributed to the erection of the statues and Pyongyangites.



Choe Yong Rim, Choe Ryong Hae, Jang Song Thaek and others unveiled the statues. Laid before them was a floral basket bearing the august name of Marshal Kim Jong Un. Laid there then were a floral basket in the joint name of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea and the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and a floral basket in the name of the school.

Floral baskets were also placed in the name of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, the General Staff of the KPA, the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces and units and sub-units of the KPA at all levels and military academies.

All the participants paid tribute to the Generalissimos in humblest reverence. KPA Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, made a speech there.

He went on:

Kim Jong Il deemed it as an important work for giving steady continuity to the bloodline of revolution to educate the children of revolutionary martyrs from the first day of his revolutionary leadership and paid deep attention to the work of the school in the grim days of leading to victory the confrontation with the U.S. and the struggle for defending socialism under the uplifted banner of Songun.

It was the unanimous desire of all teachers and pupils of the school and service personnel of the KPA to erect the statue of Kim Jong Il at the school where people erected Kim Il Sung's statue for the first time in Korea at the initiative of anti-Japanese war hero Kim Jong Suk who took into consideration the ardent desire of the schoolers to see Kim Il Sung every day.

The ardent desire of the teachers and pupils and all service personnel has become a brilliant reality thanks to the intense loyalty and meticulous guidance of Marshal Kim Jong Un.

Rosy is the future of the children of revolutionary martyrs, the speaker said, calling for waging a dynamic struggle to reunify the country and accomplish the Juche-based revolutionary cause of Songun under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, the banner of eternal victory of the great Paektusan nation, as befitting the descendants of Generalissimo Kim Il Sung and the soldiers and disciples of Generalissimo Kim Jong Il.

Kim Jong Un warmly acknowledged the cheers of all the participants. -0-

 

Kumsusan Palace of Sun Draws Endless Stream of Visitors

The Kumsusan Memorial Palace was remodeled into the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, supreme temple of Juche, where great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie in state. More than 60,000 service personnel, people, overseas compatriots and foreigners have so far visited it since its opening on Dec. 17, Juche 101 (2012).

This proves that Korean people's and the world progressives' reverence for the Generalissimos is growing deeper as the days go by.

At least 12,000 people visited the palace in a recent week.

There is a hall where the statues of the Generalissimos stand in the palace which was perfectly remodeled into a grand monument for immortality of the leaders in terms of contents, style and scope thanks to the intense loyalty and sense of obligation of the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un who is ushering in a new chapter for the cause of immortalizing the leaders.

There are the halls of immortality where the Generalissimos lie in state and the halls which house orders they received, cars, electric car, boat and train coaches used by them during their field guidance and foreign tour till the last period of their lives.

A New Slogan "A-Match-for-a-Hundred" was presented in the DPRK

This year Juche 102 or 2013 is the 50th year after the slogan "A-Match-for-a-Hundred" was presented in Korea. The Korean people, seeing the heroic spirit of the Korean People´s Army, an invincible army capable of defeating any aggressors at a blow, look back with deep emotion upon the historic day when the slogan was presented.

The great President Kim Il Sung visited the army post on Mt. Taedok on the forefront on February 6th, Juche 52 or 1963. He met the soldiers and officers who were firmly defending the country and looked round different places of the post together with them.

He taught that all soldiers shoud be trained as "a-match-for-a-hundred" warriors so as to strengthen the People´s Army and increase its fighting capacity. He said, from olden times, a general good at battle was called "a-match-for-a-hundred" warrior, which means one man defeats a hundred foes. He stressed the need to firmly arm the entire servicemen with the indomitable revolutionary spirit so that they could defeat a hundred foes each.

This is how the slogan "A-Match-for-a-Hundred" came into being.

The great Kim Jong Il accompanied President Kim Il Sung visiting the post on Mt. Taedok that day and said the slogan "A-Match-for-a-Hundred" represents a high demand for the servicemen to be competent fighters each of whom can defeat one hundred foes in defensive and offensive battles.

He taught in detail that to prepare the soldiers to be a-match-for-a-hundred, they must arm themselves firmly with the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung, master their arms, impregnably consolidate the positions and become familiar with the tactics of smashing the enemy relying on the positions.

During his Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Kim Jong Il visited the post on Mt. Taedok and called on the soldiers to fully demonstrate the invincible spirit of the heroic KPA by further strengthening military and political trainings under the slogan "A-Match-for-a-Hundred".

Today, too, the post on Mt. Taedok is standing firmly as a symbol of "a-match-for-a-hundred", telling forever about the immortal exploits performed under the Songun-based leadership of the great Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in the history of army building.

 

 

Workers’ Party of Korea and Juche Idea

President Kim Il Sung who embarked on the road of revolution for Korea’s liberation in his early years created the Juche idea in the course of going among the popular masses and leading the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle in reliance upon them.

One of the starting points of the Juche idea is that the revolution in a country can emerge victorious only when it is carried out on one’s own responsibility and on the strength of its people and that all problems arising in the revolution should be solved in an independent and creative way.

The President founded and developed the Workers’ Party of Korea guided by the Juche idea while enriching its principles through the revolutionary practice and organizing the struggle to embody it. On the basis of the Juche idea the WPK carries on the Party building and activities, and organizes the revolution and construction. The strengthening of the WPK and the victorious advance of the revolutionary cause of Juche are inconceivable apart from the work to develop the idea in a deep-going way.

Out of the urgent demands of the developing era in the early 1980s, General Kim Jong Il comprehensively systematized into an integral whole the Juche idea, founded and developed by President Kim Il Sung.

He clarified the structure of the Juche idea as its philosophical and socio-historical principles and guiding principles for embodying it in the revolution and construction, with the result that the fundamental characteristics of the Juche idea distinctive from Marxism-Leninism were delineated, proving that it is a scientific and revolutionary guiding ideology for the revolution and construction.

He also explained the fact that the Juche idea raised the fundamental problem of philosophy by regarding man as the main factor and elucidated the philosophical principles that man is the master of everything and decides everything, and thus established the most correct outlook on the world in the present times which enables people to transform the world and shape their destiny independently, creatively and consciously, with a high degree of awareness that they are the masters of the world and of their own destiny.

He systematized in an all-round way the socio-historical principles of the Juche idea and the contents peculiar to the socio-historical outlook of Juche.

Proceeding from the principle that the working masses are the subject of social history, the socio-historical outlook of Juche specifies the following principles and their contents: Human history is the history of the people’s struggle for independence; the socio-historical movement is a creative movement of the masses of the people; the people’s consciousness of independence plays the decisive role in the revolutionary struggle. These socio-historical principles gave fresh answers to the essence, character and motive force of the socio-historical movement.

Kim Jong Il clearly defined the guiding principles of the Juche idea, including those on maintaining the independent stand, applying the creative method and placing the main stress on ideology, and systematized their contents in all respects, thus giving perfect solutions to the important requirements and ways arising in applying the Juche idea in the revolution and construction.

Indeed, the Juche idea, the most scientific and revolutionary ideology, serves as a powerful ideological and theoretical weapon which makes it possible to successfully solve all the theoretical and practical problems arising in the revolutionary practice in the present times.

As it has thoroughly established Juche orientation in all fields of Party building and activities with the Juche idea as its guideline, the WPK has been able to develop into a Juche-oriented revolutionary party and demonstrate its high dignity and prestige as an invincible revolutionary party which established a monolithic ideological system in the whole Party, a powerful party which achieved the solidest unity and cohesion, a steel-like party with strong sense of organization and discipline and an invincible party which is closely linked with the popular masses.

Agricultural Workers Mark Anniversary of Kim Jong Un′s Assumption of KPA Supreme Commandership

Agricultural workers met to celebrate the first anniversary of the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un's assumption of supreme commandership of the Korean People's Army at the Mangyongdae Vegetable Farm in Pyongyang on Wednesday.

Ri Myong Gil, chairman of the C.C., the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea, made a report which was followed by speeches.

The reporter and speakers noted that this year witnessed the full demonstration of the leadership ability of Kim Jong Un who is successfully carrying forward the arms cause of Mt. Paektu of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il.

They said Kim Jong Un saw to it that the KPA firmly maintained the revolutionary character of the army as the one of the leader and the party in the van upholding the banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, and that he developed and enriched the Juche-based military idea.



They said that his leadership bolstered up the military capability of the KPA in every way and consolidated the socialist motherland.

The leadership by which he put forward the KPA as a reliable scout party and strong mainstay of the Songun revolution serves as a source that made the revolutionary soldier spirit and the soldiers' fighting spirit prevail in all fields of cooperative farms of the country, they noted.

They called on all the agricultural workers to bear in mind the immutable truth that he is the banner of victory and glory of Songun Korea and to remain loyal to the leadership of the party by boosting the agricultural production.

A year of more ardent longing for the sun

[nggallery id=91]The Korean people most significantly celebrated the centenary of birth of the great leader President Kim Il Sung in 2012. Now 2012 is coming to a close and the Korean people are recollecting with deep emotion the unforgettable days of the year spent amid longing for President Kim Il Sung. President Kim Il Sung is the founder of socialist Korea and benevolent father of the Korean people they greeted and held in so high esteem for the first time in their history spanning thousands of years. As the days go by, the Korean people more ardently long for him.

Representing the ardent longing of the army and people, the bronze statues of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il were excellently erected on Mansu Hill in the capital city Pyongyang, the Korean Revolution Museum and large sculptural groups on both sides of the bronze statues have been rebuilt on the highest level amid the joy and emotion of celebrating the significant Day of the Sun. Equestrian statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il were erected at the Mansudae Art Studio for the first time in Korea and their smiling portraits set up in different parts of the country.

Kim Il Sung Prize Winner and People´s Artist Rim Sung Nam, head of a section of the Mansudae Art Studio, has this to say:

"The ardent longing of our people for President Kim Il Sung becomes stronger day by day. It is said that everything dims in the memory with the lapse of time, but the longing of our people for him does not fade. Hearing the news that the bronze statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and their smiling portraits were to be erected in Pyongyang, the minds of all the army and people across the country raced there. Young people went there after finishing a day´s work, and all people, young and old, men and women, turned out to help the erection of the statues. Some scientists sent new kinds of lawn they have developed. The warm sincerity of the people was great."  

The longing of the Korean people for President Kim Il Sung was more ardent greeting the centenary of his birth. The Korean people deeply understood the immortal exploits of President Kim Il Sung for the country, people, the era and history through diverse political events such as military parade and fireworks evening "Korea of the Sun Will Prosper forever!" in celebration of the centenary birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung. The 14th Kimilsungia Festival was splendidly held in Pyongyang, greeting April holiday, the greatest national holiday. The warm sincerity of the Korean people to hold President Kim Il Sung in high esteem forever was felt at the venue of the festival exhibiting Kimilsungia, the flower of the sun, cultivated by the working people of broad sections and school youth and children with warm reverence. The 28th April Spring Friendship Art Festival more significantly decorated the Day of the Sun, a common holiday of humankind. Famous art organizations, international concours winners and other well-known artistes from scores of countries and overseas Korean artistes praised the immortal exploits of President Kim Il Sung.

The longing for the great father Kim Il Sung was expressed throughout the year in factories, schools and villages ranging from an iron giant in the northern part of the country to the villages along the demarcation line. Completing the 2nd-stage reclamation of the Kwaksan Tideland in less than two years after finishing the Taegyedo tideland reclamation, Labour Hero Choe Yong Dok said:

"It is the land President Kim Il Sung eagerly wanted to see in his lifetime. The resolve to realize his desire became strength and courage, and we have finished the reclamation. Indeed, the ardent longing for him brought a miracle to this land."

The Korean people are filled with longing for him, recollecting the immortal exploits and efforts of President Kim Il Sung who visited factories, farming and fishing villages rain or shine, showed them warm love and care and built their country into a powerful socialist nation. With boundless longing for him the Korean people visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun where he is laid in state and planted precious trees, flower shrubs and evergreen lawn around the palace with sincerity. Like this, the people´s longing for great President Kim Il Sung becomes warmer as the days and years go by.

Kim Jong Suk′s Feats in Bringing Up Successor to Revolution

[nggallery id=89]Today marks the 95th birth anniversary of the anti-Japanese war hero, Kim Jong Suk.Though her life was short, she performed great feats for the country and the people. The greatest of her feats is that she brought up her son, leader Kim Jong Il, to be the reliable heir to the cause of President Kim Il Sung and a great revolutionary faithful to the country and the people.

She guided young Kim Jong Il to have intense loyalty to the President, many-sided attainments, seasoned leadership, unparalleled courage and grit and noble personality.

She educated him in his childhood to treat his father Kim Il Sung as the nation's leader and follow the President's work-style.

Taking her son to the journey of Kim Il Sung's field guidance to factories and fishing and rural villages across the country, she let him experience the tireless efforts made by the President for the wellbeing of the working masses.

She worked heart and soul to implant patriotism, the soul of his father's family, into his mind. And she enlightened her son on natural phenomena, the development of human society, social relations, etc.

She also taught him how to ride and shoot while cultivating his musical talent.

Under her deep care, Kim Jong Il could have lofty humanity, strong sense of obligation and noble morality.

At the last moments of her life, Kim Jong Suk earnestly requested him to carry forward the revolutionary cause pioneered by the President.

Her feats for the country and the people will remain long in the history of the nation.

Kim Jong Suk: Her Life Was Dedicated to Safeguarding Kim Il Sung

[nggallery id=85]Kim Jong Suk, an anti-Japanese war hero, in her lifetime devotedly worked to safeguard President Kim Il Sung. During the anti-Japanese armed struggle for Korea's liberation, she risked her life in many battles to defend Kim Il Sung. Her heroic deeds were displayed to the full especially in battles fought in Dashahe gully, Fusong county town and Hongqihe.

She also stood firm for Kim Il Sung's ideas and lines. It was well illustrated by the fact that she carried on an uncompromising struggle against the head of the Qingfeng Secret Camp, who betrayed the revolution, in defence of Kim Il Sung's ideas and authority.

In those days she used to wash his clothes and dry them against her own body despite biting coldness while on forced march.

She continued paying close attention to safeguarding the President even after the country's liberation from the Japanese colonial rule. When the President was making a long journey of field guidance, she looked into weather and traffic conditions beforehand and took all conceivable measures for his security.

She initiated composing the revolutionary hymn "Song of General Kim Il Sung" and helped create "Mt. Paektu", a full-length epic praising Kim Il Sung's feats for the national liberation.

Her life devoted to

Kim Il Sung will always be remembered by the Korean people.

Statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il Erected in Hamhung City

Statues of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il were erected on Tonghung Hill in Hamhung City, South Hamgyong Province. They depict Kim Il Sung raising his hand high, his face beaming with a broad smile, and Kim Jong Il, his face beaming with a broad smile, standing in padded dress associated with his indefatigable efforts all his life while wishing the great Paektusan nation a rosy future.



South Hamgyong Province is associated with the wise leadership of Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. Thanks to the rare far-sightedness and energetic guidance of Kim Il Sung the province, which had once just a deformed industry under the colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists in the past, turned into a powerful industrial province equipped with key industry which serves as a backbone of the self-supporting national economy and all economic sectors urgently needed for improving the people's living standard.

Kim Jong Il put forward the people in the province as pioneers in the building of a thriving nation. He brought about such great auspicious event as putting vinalon, fertilizer and magnesia clinker industries on a Juche basis through his forced marches day and night despite mid-summer sweltering weather and snow storm.

Their unveiling ceremony took place on Friday.

Present there were Kim Yong Nam, Choe Yong Rim, Choe Ryong Hae and other senior officials of the party, state and army, officials concerned, service personnel, officials and employees of the units and members of shock brigade which contributed to the building of the statues, people, school youth and children in the province.

Senior officials of the party, state, army and the province unveiled them.

A floral basket sent by the dear respected Kim Jong Un was laid before the statues.

A floral basket was placed before them in the joint name of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) and the DPRK Cabinet.

Also laid there were floral baskets in the name of the province, party and power bodies, institutions, industrial establishments, farms and schools at all levels in the province and units of the Korean People's Army.

All participants paid tribute to Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in deep reverence for them.

Kim Yong Nam, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee who is president of the SPA Presidium, made an address at the ceremony.

It was a cherished desire of the people of the province to have their statues in the province and convey their greatness to posterity, he said, adding:

Members of shock brigade and other people in the province erected them at the highest level in a short span of time by displaying intense loyalty and sincerity.

He called on officials and other people to strive hard to win a final victory in the revolutionary cause of Juche, Songun revolutionary cause with the high honor and pride of erecting their statues, true to the leadership of

Kim Jong Un.

[Video] Pyongyangites Joyful at Successful Kwangmyongsong-3 Satellite Launch

The successful launch of the second version of satellite Kwangmyongsong-3 has pushed Pyongyang City into a festive mood. Upon hearing the news, a large number of citizens at Pyongyang Railway Station burst into cheers, hugging each other.

Ri Man Sik, 58, a citizen, told KCNA:

"The news made me feel again high pride of being a member of the Korean nation."

Ro Kwang Hun, living in Central District, said:

"The successful satellite launch is a historic event of weighty significance in defending the sovereignty and interests of the country and achieving its prosperity. I'll bring into full play patriotism like the scientists and technicians who successfully launched the satellite."

 

Opera 'The Flower Girl' Staged 1500 Times

[nggallery id=65]40 years have passed since the revolutionary opera "The Flower Girl" gave its premiere before the great men of Mt. Paektu.

The famous art piece was created by President Kim Il Sung during the period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle. Through the destiny of a distress-torn family in exploitation society, it shows the truth that the revolutionary struggle is the only way out for the oppressed people.

Leader Kim Jong Il proposed to make the famous work "The Flower Girl" an exemplary "Sea of Blood"-style opera. He made sure that a powerful creative group was formed and gave detailed orientation and ways.

During the days of the creation of the opera Kim Jong Il gave full answers to the theoretical and practical problems including music, direction, stage arts, songs and acting on the stage.

The revolutionary opera completed under his energetic leadership gave its premiere on November 30, 1972 before President Kim Il Sung.

The Phibada Opera Troupe's 40-year long performing activities have made contributions to arousing the service personnel, working people of all social standings and school youth and children to the drive for building a thriving nation.

It gave hundreds of performances in foreign countries including China, Japan, France, Italy and Algeria, making the hot wind of the Korean opera rage across the world.

This year alone, the troupe gave at least 30 performances in Beijing, Shanghai and other parts of China, arousing great sensation among the audiences.

A meeting took place at the Pyongyang Grand Theatre on Friday. It was to mark the 40th anniversary of the premiere of the revolutionary opera "The Flower Girl" before Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

After the meeting the 1 500th performance of the opera was staged before full houses.

Kim Jong Un Sends Chestnuts to Students of Kumsong School

[nggallery id=55]The dear respected Kim Jong Un sent a lot of chestnuts to Kumsong School students in Pyongyang on Nov. 13. The chestnuts are associated with his fatherly affection for the rising generation. The great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il made sure that the school was built, and good educational conditions and environment were provided.

They saw that computers, musical instruments, teaching tools, vehicles, etc. were sent to the school. Their number reaches 23 000 plus. The students and teachers of the school were so excited that they made bows of thanks to Kim Jong Un.

Statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il Erected at Kim Il Sung Military University

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The statues of Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il were erected at Kim Il Sung Military University on the occasion of its 60th birthday. The erection of the statues of the illustrious commanders at the university marks a great event reflecting the steadfast will of all the service personnel of the Korean People's Army (KPA) to glorify the immortal Songun revolutionary exploits performed by the Generalissimos for all ages.

A ceremony of unveiling the statues was held with splendor on Monday.

Attending the ceremony was Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the KPA.

Present there were Choe Ryong Hae, Hyon Yong Chol, Kim Jong Gak, Jang Song Thaek, Kim Yong Chun, Ri Yong Mu, Hyon Chol Hae and O Kuk Ryol, officials of the party and armed forces, teachers and cadets of the university, graduates, officials of military schools at all levels, servicepersons of the KPA, military families, and officials and employees of those units which contributed to the erection of the statues.

Present there on invitation were diplomatic envoys of different countries, representatives of international organizations and military attaches here.

Those who unveiled the statues were senior party and state officials Choe Ryong Hae, Hyon Yong Chol, Kim Jong Gak, Jang Song Thaek and Kim Yong Chun and Ryo Chun Sok, president of the university.

The moment the statues were unveiled, the statues of Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Ilshed bright rays.

Laid before the statues was a floral basket in the name of Marshal Kim Jong Un.

Seen before the statues was a floral basket in the joint name of the WPK Central Committee, the WPK Central Military Commission and the DPRK National Defence Commission and a floral basket in the name of the university.

Laid before the statues were floral baskets in the names of the KPA General Staff, the KPA General Political Bureau, the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, different units of the KPA, military schools, units associated with the leadership exploits of the brilliant commanders of Mt. Paektu and faculties of the university.

All the participants paid tribute to the Generalissimos in reverence for them.

Kim Jong Un in his speech said that Kim Il Sung Military University is the university of Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il both in name and reality as it was built and developed under their energetic leadership and warm care, reviewing with pride the history covered by the university for six decades.

The university has grown to be the nation's highest seat for military education and prestigious, world-level university which has a long history and opened a heyday of its development, he said, adding that it is entirely attributable to the wise leadership of the Generalissimos.

He set forth the university's mission, duty and tasks.

There took place a march-past of guards of honor of the ground, naval, air and anti-air forces of the KPA, and worker-peasant red guards.

Kim Jong Un saluted back to the marchers passing by the tribune of honor in fine array.

The Korean People's Army Military Band and the Female Brass Band of the Korean People's Internal Security Forces vividly represented militant might and appearance of the elite army through the well-organized change of formation and lively and peculiar rhythms while sounding solemn and revolutionary military music.

At the end of the ceremony the cheers of "Hurrah!" resounded.

Kim Jong Un warmly waved back to the enthusiastic cheers of all the participants.

He exchanged greetings with diplomatic envoys of different countries, representatives of international organizations and military attaches here, invitees to the ceremony. -