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SEPTEMBER 9, 2008 is an auspicious day which marks the 60th anniversary of foundation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is called Kim Il Sung’s Korea because President Kim Il Sung made the great and immortal achievements in founding, strengthening and developing the Republic.
The DPRK was founded and has been ever-victorious on the basis of President Kim Il Sung’s idea. In the past when Korea was under the Japanese imperialist military occupation (1905 — 1945), the President, in his teens, embarked on the road of revolution to save the country and people. In the early period of his revolutionary activities he founded the Juche idea indicating the true path of the Korean revolution. That was a great event that.
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brought about a radical turn in shaping the Koreans’ destiny. The Juche idea and revolutionary theory and line of struggle based on the Juche idea enabled the Koreans who were suffering as colonial slaves to become the great people aware of their being the master of their own destiny and the world
A great idea produces a great state. Because it was guided by this great idea, the two-year-old Republic was able to emerge victorious in the Korean war (1950’— 1953) unleashed by the US imperialists, develop into a strong socialist state from ruins in the postwar years and remain as impregnable bulwark of socialism even when many other socialist countries collapsed toward the close of the last century.
The Juche idea is shining as a guiding idea of the age on an international scale as well as in Korea. At present over 1,100 Juche idea study and dissemination organisations are active in more than 100 countries across the world and the progressive people are praising the DPRK as the homeland of the guiding idea of the age.
The DPRK is the fruit of the outstanding leadership of the President. History knows not a few famous leaders but no such a prominent master of leadership as the President. His leadership was the absolutely correct, scientific and comprehensive one that covered all domains, the one turning misfortune into blessing and the popular one by which to solve all problems as desired by the people and by enlisting their efforts.
After liberating Korea by leading the bloody anti-Japanese war to victory, the President achieved the great work of founding the Republic and establis hed the people-centred socialist system.
President Kim Il Sung built the peerless revolutionary Armed Forces and developed the Workers’ Party of Korea into the most dignified and strongest ruling Party as a guiding force of the society. These achievements of the President constitute the eternal foundation of the DPRK.
The DPRK is the benevolent embrace characterized by the President’s lofty virtue.
“The people are my God” was the President’s lifelong motto. His whole life was a succession of his infinite love for and devotion to the people. To the Koreans he was a father before a leader. All of them called him “Fatherly Leader” and entrusted their lot to him. To say nothing of the Koreans, any foreigners who met him praised him as a great sage and the father of all people. The German woman writer Luise Rinser stated that Kim Il Sung was a godlike being whether he recognised it or not. Today the Korean people revere him as their eternal father.
It is inconceivable apart from the leader Kim Jong Il that the DPRK is shining as Kim Il Sung’s Korea. Kim Jong Il is a second Kim Il Sung. He is most loyal to the idea and cause of the President.
It is thanks to Kim Jong Il that the Koreans have accomplished the cause of the President’s immortality for the first time in history. Kim Jong Il made sure the President was laid in state at the Kumsusan Assembly Hall where the President had been at work. The assembly hall was rebuilt most majestically as the sacred temple of Juche and the house of the eternal sun — then it was renamed the Kumsusan Memorial Palace. He ensured that April 15, the Birthday of the President, was designated as the Day of the Sun, that the Juche era was instituted with 1912 as the first year when the President was born and that Kim Il Sung was legally acclaimed as the eternal President of the Republic. Thus came true the Koreans’ desire to worship the President forever.
KIM JONG IL has fully inherited the ideology and cause of the President, and is doing everything the way the President did. As a result the President’s lifetime instructions are being carried out one by one with credit. Good prospects have been opened up for reunifying Korea and building a great prosperous powerful nation as desired by the President.
The Songun politics now in force in Korea is the embodiment of the Songun idea and leadership founded and practiced by the President and developed in depth by Kim Jong Il to suit the current situation. In a word the DPRK is adhering to the ideology and will of the President.
THE DPRK will remain Kim Il Sung’s Korea forever!
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