KIM JONG UN: BECOME PILLARS SUPPORTING A PROSPEROUS FUTURE KOREA
KIM JONG UN
BECOME PILLARS
SUPPORTING
A PROSPEROUS FUTURE
KOREA
Congratulatory Speech at the National Meeting of the Korean Children’s
Union Held in Celebration of the 66th Anniversary of Its Founding
June 6, Juche 101 (2012)
Dear
members of the Korean Children’s Union across the country,
Dear
delegates to the National Meeting held in celebration of the 66th
anniversary of the founding of the KCU,
I am
very happy and pleased today to see you, our proud KCU delegates, who have come
from various parts of the country, from as far afield as Jongilbong Secondary
School at the foot of Mt. Paektu and Chodo Secondary School on the front line
of the country, and other model KCU members.
When
I see your dignified appearances and dear faces, I feel as if I am seeing your
friends and teachers, your parents, brothers and sisters who saw you off on
your journey to Pyongyang.
I
extend warm congratulations to you delegates and other KCU members across the
country, who are greeting the KCU founding anniversary amid the great concern
and blessing of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the Korean people in this
hope-filled period when the dawn of a thriving socialist country is breaking.
My
warm greetings also go to your teachers and parents who are striving to bring
you up as excellent persons.
June
6 is a special holiday not only for the KCU, but also for our Party and all our
people.
Nowhere
else in the world are there schoolchildren like our KCU members, the several
million of whom, with red neckerchiefs around their necks, are all rallied
behind their organization and who are growing up to be dependable masters of
the future.
Our
KCU members boundlessly love the benevolent Party and their motherland that
embrace them and are bringing them up; they are studying diligently, living in
high spirits and exalting the honour of their country by dint of their
outstanding talents.
To
our Party and country, you dear KCU members are treasures more valuable than
billions of tons of gold, and represent our hope and our future.
In
the past, our dependable KCU members carried forward the revolutionary
traditions of the Anti-Japanese Children’s Corps and, flying proudly the flag
of the KCU, fought bravely for their motherland and people and performed many
laudable deeds.
The
children’s vanguard and child guerrillas were born in our country, and the
heroic deeds performed by our KCU members such as defending the portraits of
their leaders and saving forests from fire even at the sacrifice of their lives
have never been seen anywhere else in the world.
Our
KCU members are patriots who have donated Sonyon (children’s) tanks, aircraft
and ships to the Korean People’s Army and contributed to socialist construction
and the development of their country’s economy.
In
the days of the “Arduous March” they overcame the trials, displaying patriotism
as they zealously studied and briskly conducted such socio-political activities
as schools assisting military units.
Former
KCU members have now become heroes and labour innovators who are held dear and
respected by people across the country, or officials responsible for major
national affairs. They are here today to congratulate the KCU members of the
new generation.
Our
Party and people regard it as a source of great pleasure and pride to have such
an excellent children’s organization, and a bright, promising future is in
store for Songun Korea with this large contingent of young revolutionaries
numbering millions.
Today
the KCU, nurtured in the benevolent embrace of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il who were endowed with boundless affection for children,
the future of the nation, has developed into a powerful organization of
successors to the revolution that is demonstrating its dignity to the world.
Every
trace on the path traversed by the KCU is associated with the warm care of the
Generalissimos, who put forward new slogans for it in keeping with the progress
of the revolution and guided its work at every step in order to train its
members into true sons and daughters who are infinitely loyal to the Party and
their socialist motherland.
Our
Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il were ever-victorious,
iron-willed commanders who left the enemy shaking with fear; yet to the
schoolchildren, they were benevolent fathers who loved them dearly and cared
for their learning in every detail.
They
made it an eternal policy of the DPRK to give free education to the children
across the country and supply them with new school uniforms-the first such
policy in the world; they had splendid palaces and camps built for them in the
best locations in the country and were always anxious to provide them with
better things.
The
world knows no such leaders as our great Generalissimos who, calling children
the kings of the country, ensured that caring for them was the most important
of the affairs of the Party and state, and devoted their whole lives to the
good of the children.
The
KCU is truly the glorious Kim Il Sung
and Kim Jong Il organization of
children, which developed under their warm care, and membership of this
organization is a source of great pride and glory for KCU members.
Dear
KCU members,
You
are successors to the Songun revolution and masters of the future.
The
future of Korea is yours, and in your faces we see the future of the country.
Our
Party is determined to hand down to you a thriving socialist country that will
be the greatest in the world.
The
prosperous and powerful Korea you will be in charge of will be a country where
laughter fills every home, where everyone is living in harmony and which is the
strongest in the world.
It
is you who will take charge of this great country and make it even better.
KCU
members should always remember the great trust in and care for them shown by
the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung
and Kim Jong Il and, just as
sunflowers turn towards the sun, make positive efforts to learn from the
glorious childhood of the Generalissimos. You should steadfastly carry on the
line of the revolution, flying the flags bearing the immortal smiling images of
the Generalissimos in front of the KCU flag.
The
KCU is the dependable reserve of the KPA and the youth league, which are the
vanguard of the Songun revolution in carrying out the cause of our Party.
KCU
members should become genuine young revolutionaries and the vanguard in the
Songun era who defend the Party to the death, just as Kim Ki Song and Kim Kum
Sun, heroic members of the Anti-Japanese Children’s Corps, did and the child
guerrillas did during the Fatherland Liberation War, and they should advance
straight ahead along the road indicated by the Party.
What
is important for KCU members at present is to prepare themselves as able
revolutionaries who are knowledgeable, morally sound and physically strong, and
pillars of a thriving Korea.
The
future of a thriving Korea will be represented first in their academic records.
In
our country, where now space rockets are launched and CNC machines produced in
large quantities and which will be at the forefront of development in the
future, schoolchildren with a poor academic record are good for nothing and
cannot keep up with the country’s progress.
Schoolchildren
should hold high the slogan, “Learn for a thriving Korea,” and study zealously
without idling even a moment.
The
ranks of the KCU should produce inventors and scientists who will distinguish
themselves worldwide with their great achievements.
Schoolchildren
should, in a spirit of patriotism, study well, observe socialist ethics, love
their organizations, collective and fellows, respect their teachers and elders,
take an active part in sport and do-good-deeds movements, and thus become model
KCU members.
It
is in the KCU that people experience a political life for the first time in
their lives.
The
red KCU neckerchief has been inherited from the Anti-Japanese Children’s Corps
and is also a part of the red flag of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
KCU
members, bearing in mind that the honour of Party membership and the gold medal
of Hero start from the red neckerchief and badge of the KCU, should take part
in an organizational life voluntarily and sincerely.
They
should acquire the habit of treasuring their organizations, taking a voluntary
and active part in an organizational life and implementing without fail the
tasks assigned by their sub-branch organizations.
Standing
behind them are their KCU school instructors and their class teachers-their KCU
sub-branch instructors-who are their most intimate mentors and the protectors
of their political integrity.
Our
Party places great trust in the KCU school instructors and its sub-branch
teachers.
It
hopes that they will follow in the footsteps of the instructors of the
Anti-Japanese Children’s Corps and take care of and love our priceless KCU
members like parents, becoming the roots and genuine teachers that bring their
talents into full bloom and lead them to a genuine life.
Our
Party and the government of our Republic, true to the noble spirit of the great
Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il of loving the rising
generations, will give top priority to work with them over all other affairs,
and make every effort to bring our beloved KCU members up as the happiest
children in the world and excellent pillars of Songun Korea.
Dear
KCU members across the country,
I
once again extend warm congratulations to you as you celebrate your holiday,
June 6, amid the blessing of our Party and people.
I
once again offer warm greetings to your teachers and parents who are devoting
themselves to a brighter future for our powerful country, our socialist
motherland.
May
a bright future be with you, rising generations of Kim Il Sung’s and Kim Jong
Il’s Korea!
