KIM JONG UN: LET US BRILLIANTLY ACCOMPLISH THE REVOLUTIONARY CAUSE OF JUCHE, HOLDING KIM JONG IL IN HIGH ESTEEM AS THE ETERNAL GENERAL SECRETARY OF OUR PARTY
KIM
JONG UN
LET
US BRILLIANTLY ACCOMPLISH THE REVOLUTIONARY CAUSE OF JUCHE, HOLDING KIM JONG IL
IN HIGH ESTEEM AS THE ETERNAL GENERAL SECRETARY OF OUR PARTY
Talk to Senior Officials of the Central Committee of
the Workers’ Party of Korea
April 6, Juche 101 (2012)
As we approach the significant Day of
the Sun marking the centenary of the birth of the great
leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, we will
be holding the Fourth Conference of the Workers’ Party of Korea amid the great
expectations and keen interest of our people and people overseas.
The conference will discuss and decide
on acclaiming General Kim Jong Il as
the eternal General Secretary of the WPK and glorifying forever his
revolutionary career and immortal revolutionary exploits, and will amend the Rules
of the Party accordingly. It will also recall some members of the central
leadership body of the Party and hold an election to fill the vacancies, which
is a regular undertaking at a Party conference.
We should ensure that the conference
serves as an epoch- making event that establishes an important milestone in
holding up General Kim Jong Il,
together with President Kim Il Sung,
as the eternal leader of our Party, and in carrying out the ideology and cause
of the President and the General with credit. Through the conference, we should
clearly demonstrate the faith, will and moral obligation with which we, the
descendants of the President and the soldiers and devoted followers of the
General, hold them in high esteem and our determination to carry out their
ideology and cause.
We should hold the General up
unswervingly as the General Secretary of our Party.
To hold him in high esteem as the
eternal General Secretary of our Party is, in principle, a demand for
consistently holding fast to his ideology and policies and advancing our
revolutionary cause to victory.
Holding him up as the eternal General
Secretary of the WPK can never be a symbolic act. It means having him as the
General Secretary of the Party invariably and conducting Party building and
Party activities in accordance with his ideology and intentions.
His ideology and policies are the
permanent guiding principles for our Party and revolution and banners of
victory, and their justness and vitality have been proved through our
revolutionary practice. Without them, the victorious advance and accomplishment
of the cause of our revolution would be inconceivable. If our Party is to lead
the Korean revolution along the road of victory and glory as it did in the
past, it should hold the General in high esteem as its eternal General
Secretary and adhere to strictly and thoroughly implement his ideology and
policies.
To hold him up as the eternal General
Secretary of our Party is natural in view of the immortal exploits he performed
for the times and revolution while leading it for so many years.
The period, during which he developed
our Party into the party of President Kim
Il Sung with his unexcelled ideas and theory and outstanding leadership,
spanned more than half a century. He developed our Party into a revolutionary
party in which the leaders’ ideological and leadership systems are firmly
established, into a motherly party which has formed a harmonious whole with the
masses of the people and serves them, and into an invincible party with iron
discipline and fighting efficiency, and he demonstrated the dignity and might
of Kim Il Sung’s Korea to the whole
world; these constitute his most distinguished achievements, and they should be
brilliantly etched in the annals of our Party.
It is because our Party is strong and
the army and people are united around it with a single heart that we can
continue to ensure the political stability of the country and carry out all our
work without the slightest deviation, even though the supreme posts of the
Party and the state remain vacant after the demise of the father of the nation.
This would be unthinkable apart from the exploits of the General in leading our
Party and revolution, and it showcases the greatness and eternal vitality of
these exploits. He was an outstanding leader and peerless veteran statesman who
developed the WPK into the organizer and guide of all our people’s victories
and led our revolution along a road paved with victory.
To hold him in high esteem as the
eternal General Secretary of our Party conforms with the noble ideological
feeling and desire of all Party members and other people, and is natural from
the point of view of moral obligation.
Though he devoted his all throughout his
life to the prosperity of the country and the happiness of the people, he left
nothing for himself. He was on the most intensive forced march, taking not a
moment’s rest, until he breathed his last on a moving train. Such a leader has
never been witnessed anywhere in the world. He lives on as the father of the
nation and General Secretary of our Party in the hearts of our people and
service personnel, who believed in him as in heaven, and the world’s people
recognize this. The benevolent image of him as the General Secretary of the WPK
will always remain in the hearts of our Party members and other people.
Our officials, including those present
here, along with other Party members, service personnel and people, are all the
General’s soldiers and devoted followers who grew up in his embrace. It is our
natural duty and moral obligation to hold the man, who brought us up, in high
esteem as our eternal leader and great teacher. Although he was the leader of
the Party, the state and the army, he regarded himself all his life as a
revolutionary soldier of President Kim
Il Sung, held the President up as the eternal leader of the Party and the
people and devoted his all to the realization of the latter’s cause. The
General’s noble traits and moral obligation are a paragon which we should all
learn from.
Only when we hold him in high esteem as
the eternal General Secretary of our Party can we brilliantly accomplish the
revolutionary cause of Juche by dynamically pushing forward the revolution and
construction as we did in the past. The post of General Secretary of the WPK
should be occupied only by General Kim
Jong Il, even though one generation is replaced by another. For this
reason, we are going to adopt a historic decision on acclaiming him as the
eternal General Secretary of our Party, the eternal leader of the Party and
people, and include it in the Rules of the Party at the Party conference.
Our Party, with him as its eternal
General Secretary, can carry the revolutionary cause of Juche and the
revolutionary cause of Songun to brilliant completion with a solid
organizational and ideological guarantee for leading the revolution and
construction to victory.
We intend to discuss the matter of
acclaiming him as the eternal Chairman of the National Defence Commission of
the DPRK at a session of the Supreme People’s Assembly to be held following the
Party conference.
At the conference we intend to proclaim
the WPK as the glorious party of Kim Il
Sung and Kim Jong Il.
The history of the WPK is the history of
the great revolutionary activities of the President who founded it, as well as
of the General who brilliantly carried forward the President’s ideology and
cause. Our Party’s high prestige, invincible might and great exploits in the
revolution and construction are associated with the names of the President and
the General, and their names will be immortal along with the development of our
Party. The WPK is the party of Kim Il
Sung and Kim Jong Il, who are
its eternal leaders.
The guiding ideology of the WPK is the
great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. It
is a glorious Kimilsungist- Kimjongilist
party whose guiding ideology is Kimilsungism-
Kimjongilism and which struggles for
its realization.
By energetically conducting ideological
and theoretical activities with unexcelled ideological and theoretical wisdom
and extraordinary ability to explore, the General formulated the President’s
revolutionary ideology as Kimilsungism,
and ensured that it shone more brilliantly as a great ideology guiding the era
of independence. In particular, he developed the President’s idea of giving
priority to arms into the idea of the Songun revolution and the theory of
Songun politics, and advanced the theory of building a thriving socialist
nation, thus significantly enhancing the attraction and viability of Kimilsungism and clearly verifying its
justness in the revolutionary practice.
Because the General managed the unique
achievement of developing Kimilsungism
as required by the times and the developing revolution, our Party members and
other people could combine the President’s ideology with the General’s, calling
them Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and
recognizing it as the guiding ideology of our Party. However the General, who
was boundlessly humble, sternly forbade his name from being associated with the
guiding ideology of our Party, saying that nothing would be seen other than Kimilsungism, no matter to what extent
one delved into Kimjongilism.
Today our Party and revolution demand
that Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism be
held fast to as their permanent guiding ideology.
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is an integral
system of the idea, theory and method of Juche, and a great revolutionary
ideology representative of the Juche era. Guided by Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, we should conduct Party building and
Party activities in such a way as to sustain the revolutionary character of our
Party and advance the revolution and construction in line with the ideas and
intentions of the President and the General.
Imbuing the whole society with Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is the
highest programme for our Party. It is a revolutionary inheritance of the
imbuing of the whole society with Kimilsungism
and its development onto a new, higher stage.
Just as we set imbuing the whole society
with Kimilsungism as the highest
programme for the Party and made strenuous efforts to realize it under the wise
guidance of the General, we should, in the future, make more strenuous efforts
to imbue the whole society with Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
We have travelled a road resplendent
with brilliant victories by braving every manner of historical trial, but we
still have a long, arduous revolutionary road to follow. Owing to the vicious
schemes of the imperialists and reactionaries to isolate and stifle our style
of socialism that is centred on the masses of the people, the situation is as
tense as ever, and we are faced with the grave task of giving fuller play to
the advantages and might of socialism and building a thriving socialist country
by solving in full the problems arising in developing the economy and improving
the people’s living standards.
However difficult and huge our
revolutionary task may be, we are sure to emerge victorious as long as we are
with our outstanding leaders whom we revere as the eternal sun of Juche, are
guided by the ever-victorious WPK and are supported by the people and the
invincible revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu, which are boundlessly faithful to
their Party and leaders.
We should hold the great General in high
esteem as the eternal leader of our Party and people and add lasting brilliance
to his revolutionary career and immortal revolutionary exploits. He was a great
leader, a peerless patriot and the benevolent father of our people, who devoted
his all solely to the country’s prosperity and the people’s happiness with
absolute loyalty to the President and warm affection for his country and
people. His was the most brilliant life of a peerlessly great man who performed
immortal exploits for the Party and the revolution, the country and the people,
true to the noble intentions of the President.
We should maintain a pure conscience and
a sense of moral obligation in pushing forward all undertakings that are aimed
at holding the General in high esteem for all eternity and realizing the cause
of immortalizing him.
We should make sure that the Kumsusan
Palace of the Sun, where the President and the General lie in state, shines
forever as the sanctuary of the sun. The palace is the beacon of our
revolution, our permanent psychological mainstay and the symbol of victory. Our
officials, service personnel and people should make the Kumsusan Palace of the
Sun the sanctuary of the eternal sun, and live and work with the beaming images
of the President and the General always in their minds.
We should staunchly safeguard the
General’s ideology and exploits and solve all the problems that arise in the
revolution and construction true to his ideology and intentions and in the same
way as he did. In his lifetime he specified the tasks to be tackled by our
Party and people in the revolution and construction and the ways they should be
implemented. We should regard his instructions as our guideline and carry them
out unconditionally without any deviation and without any concession, so as to
bring his plans and desires to brilliant fruition.
We should continuously develop the WPK
into the eternal, glorious party of Kim
Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
Developing our Party into the eternal
party of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il means holding fast to Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism as its
guiding ideology and promoting its development and activities in strict
accordance with their ideology and intentions.
What is important in this regard is to
establish more firmly the monolithic leadership system of the Party.
We should make this the major task of
Party work, and work with perseverance to this end to meet the requirements of
the new, higher stage of the development of our Party and revolution.
All Party members, service personnel and
people should support the Party’s ideology and leadership with faith and
conscience, unite closely behind the Party Central Committee in ideology,
purpose and moral obligation, and share the same destiny with our Party in
ordinary times and when things are most difficult.
Party organizations should create a
revolutionary atmosphere of implementing the Party’s policies, decisions and
directives unconditionally and to the letter. They should take proactive steps
to establish revolutionary discipline and the working style of promptly
transmitting the Party’s policies, decisions and directives, making careful
arrangements so that they can be implemented thoroughly and reporting back on
the results promptly.
It is important to establish throughout
the Party the strict revolutionary discipline of acting as one under the
monolithic leadership of the Party Central Committee. Party organizations
should analyse and assess the problems that arise in the revolution and
construction from the point of view of the interests of the revolution and with
the attitude that they are taking responsibility for them before the Party, the
state and the people, report them to the Party Central Committee and deal with
them according to the latter’s decision.
We should continue to direct great
efforts to building up the ranks of cadres.
Cadres are the leading personnel of the
revolution and the backbone of the Party; the development of the Party is
decided by the qualitative composition of the ranks of cadres.
We should radically improve personnel
administration and build up the ranks of cadres with faithful and able persons
who are ready to share the destiny of the Party forever. In personnel
administration, the main emphasis should be put on people’s ideological
preparedness, qualifications and ability. We should build up the ranks of
cadres with those who are promising, have organizing ability and drive, and
never fail to see a task through to the finish once they are entrusted with it.
We should intensify the ideological
education and organizational activities of cadres and constantly train them
through revolutionary practice so as to ensure that they discharge their
responsibilities and duties as befits the leading personnel of the revolution.
We should consolidate the Party’s ranks.
We should strictly observe Party
principles in increasing Party membership so as to admit to the Party those who
are politically and ideologically sound, are responsible and enthusiastic in
fulfilling their revolutionary tasks, are upright and honest in their economic
and moral lives and enjoy a good reputation among the masses.
Party organizations should decisively
raise the level of the Party life of its members so that they remain always
faithful to the oath they took before the Party flag, becoming models for the
masses at their posts and playing the vanguard role in fulfilling their
revolutionary tasks.
We should strengthen the single-hearted
unity of the Party and the revolutionary ranks in every way and defend it
completely.
The single-hearted unity is the most
valuable revolutionary heritage bequeathed by the General and the great
foundation of our revolution. Our single-hearted unity, formed by the leader,
the Party and the masses with a great ideology and warm feelings and affection,
is the greatest wealth and cannot be compared to millions of tons of gold.
We should boundlessly respect the
people, regard their interests as supreme and take care of them with maternal
affection.
True to the noble will of the President
and the General, who regarded “The people are my God” as their motto, we should
regard the people as our God, boundlessly respect them, give prominence to them
and conduct every undertaking with their demands and interests at the centre.
Party organizations, out of maternal feelings, should always value and love the
people, guarantee their political integrity to the last and help them add
lustre to it. Just as a mother does not abandon an ugly or mischievous child but
is more anxious and concerned about him or her, so Party organizations should
ensure that all the people are embraced by the Party and feel the General’s
affection. They should not turn their backs on those who make mistakes while
performing their tasks, but embrace them and educate them perseveringly so that
they can add lustre to their life in the ranks of the revolution.
We should ensure that the noble and
beautiful moral trait of helping and leading one another forward prevails
throughout the country so that our society is turned into a large, harmonious
family that is united with a single heart.
A few months ago, Pak Thae Son, a miner
at the Kumgol Mine, and Ri Chang Son, a farmer at the Ohyon Cooperative Farm,
Yonan County, sacrificed their lives without hesitation to save their comrades.
Their heroic deeds greatly moved people. They can be performed only by people
in our era who have grown up under the care of the President and the General,
and they are an example which all of us should learn from.
Party organizations should ensure that
all Party members and other working people, with a revolutionary view of life,
devote themselves to society, the collective and their comrades, and thus imbue
themselves with the spirit of the era of actively contributing to the unity and
harmony of their collectives. They should bring into fuller bloom across
society the fine traits of respecting the revolutionary forerunners, holding up
the heroes and people of merit of the era, loving the younger generations and looking
after those people who are in need of society’s care.
Party organizations should grasp the
public sentiment and ensure that every undertaking is oriented towards and
subordinated to strengthening the single-hearted unity of the revolutionary
ranks.
Single-hearted unity that is separated
from the public sentiment is inconceivable. Party organizations should listen
to the opinions of the people, promptly solve any problems they raise, and wage
a struggle against the practices of slighting or neglecting the public
sentiment. Whenever they are organizing an undertaking or dealing with a matter
that is vital to the people, they should examine whether it is conducive to
single- hearted unity or not, and approach it prudently on the principle of
strengthening that unity.
We should resolutely frustrate the
pernicious machinations of the enemy aimed at undermining our single-hearted
unity.
What the enemy fears most is our
single-hearted unity; he persistently resorts to underhand plots to destroy it.
With the enemy resorting to every conceivable scheme to check the pure-hearted
aspiration of our people who follow their Party and to alienate the Party from
them, we should further intensify the education of the people and, at the same
time, wage a positive struggle to foil the enemy’s moves.
We should hold fast to the Party’s line
of the Songun revolution and increase the country’s all-round military
capabilities.
Songun is our independence, dignity and
lifeblood. We should not forget the bitter lessons of history that our people
learned in the past when they lost their country and were subjected to the
misery of colonial slavery because of their weak military strength. It is the
stark reality of today that if a country is weak militarily it cannot defend
its independence and its right of survival and will ultimately fall prey to the
imperialists. Therefore, we should make consistent efforts to increase our
military capabilities.
We should continue to direct great
efforts to strengthening the People’s Army. The might of Songun is the might of
the People’s Army, and the key to increasing our military capabilities is to
strengthen the People’s Army.
We should establish throughout the army
the leadership system of the Party, the command system of the Supreme
Commander, and a revolutionary military ethos, thus developing it into the army
of the leader, the Party and the Supreme Commander.
The People’s Army should further
consolidate the political, ideological, military and technological might of our
revolutionary armed forces by vigorously conducting the movement to win the
title of O Jung Hup-led 7th Regiment, regarding this as the general task of its
political and military work. By intensifying political and ideological
education, it should prepare all the service personnel to be strong in their
ideology and faith, and to be boundlessly loyal to the Party’s leadership and
ready to risk their lives in fighting for the Party and the leader, the country
and the people.
It should establish an atmosphere of
intensive training as befits the army of Mt. Paektu so as to enhance its combat
efficiency to the maximum, and make sure that all service personnel maintain
constant readiness for battle. The secret of becoming a-match-for-a-hundred
combatants lies in strict training. In wartime a soldier who is exemplary in
battle is a hero, but in peacetime a soldier who is good at training is a hero.
Service personnel should prepare themselves to be steel-strong, a-match-for-a-hundred,
versatile combatants with great mental strength, unyielding fortitude and high
combat efficiency and qualifications by training themselves in the atmosphere
of an actual battle. They should always be deeply aware of their noble mission
as defenders of the country, and if the enemy intrudes by even an inch into the
sacred sky, land or sea of our Republic, they should never forgive him.
The People’s Army, the main force of the
revolution,
should always be the standard-bearer and
shock brigade not only in defending the country but also in carrying out the Party’s
plan for building a thriving nation and the advance guard in creating and
disseminating the Songun culture of the new century.
We should provide our service personnel
with better living conditions. The people have entrusted their children to the
care of the Supreme Commander and officers; we should take good care of their
lives, treating them as our own family, true to the intention of the General
who bestowed all his affection on them as their own father would do.
The work of cementing the great army-people
unity should be further intensified. Holding fast to the slogan “Help the
people!” the People’s Army should play the leading role in achieving
army-people unity by loving and respecting the people and volunteering to help
them. The people should positively emulate the revolutionary soldier spirit and
fighting mettle of the People’s Army, be wholehearted in their support for it,
and if necessary share the same destiny as the service personnel in the same
trench.
We should put the defence industry on a
highly Juche- oriented, modern and scientific footing, so as to guarantee the
country’s defence capabilities materially and technically.
The history of our defence industry is
the history of the revolutionary activities of President Kim Il Sung and General Kim
Jong Il. The might of the defence industry we have so far built up under
their wise leadership is indeed great.
We should safeguard the imperishable
exploits they performed in developing the defence industry and give priority to
the development of the defence industry in keeping with the requirements of the
line of economic construction in the Songun era, so as to increase the
country’s military capabilities in every respect. We should further consolidate
the self- supporting character of the defence industry and establish
cutting-edge scientific and technological foundations for it. The workers,
scientists and technicians in the defence industry should develop more
state-of-the-art military hardware of our own style and produce it at the
highest qualitative level, thus further modernizing the military hardware of
the People’s Army.
An atmosphere in which military affairs
are given priority should be created throughout society, and the all-people,
nationwide defence system consolidated so that the whole country is turned into
an impregnable fortress. Members of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and Young Red
Guards should make full preparations for defending their homes and villages and
their socialist motherland by intensifying their military training.
We should make radical progress in
improving the people’s standard of living and building the country into an
economic giant.
To improve the people’s standard of
living and boost the country’s economy is essential in the struggle to
translate into reality the General’s intention to build a thriving country.
The General saw to it that everything
was subordinated to developing the country’s economy and improving the people’s
standard of living, and laid solid foundations for making the people better off
and boosting the country’s economy. We should ensure that the priceless assets
bequeathed by the General through a painstaking effort fulfil their potential,
thus making our people who have invariably trusted and followed our Party the
happiest in the world. This was the ardent desire of the General, and is the
firm determination and will of our Party.
We should satisfactorily solve the food
problem for the people.
At present, various steps are being
taken to solve the food problem; we should radically increase state investment
in agricultural production and encourage the entire Party, the whole country
and all the service personnel and people to turn out and carry out to the
letter the Party’s policy on the agricultural revolution. We should conduct
farming in a scientific and technological way so as to increase the per-unit
area yield and thereby meet the target for agricultural production put forward
by the Party without fail, and organize food procurement and administration to
the minutest detail so as to ensure a regular food supply for the people.
Efforts should be directed to developing
light industry in order to solve the problem of consumer goods. We should take
thorough measures for supplying raw and other materials so that light-industry
factories can maintain regular production; we should also increase the
production of consumer goods and improve their quality, so that everybody will
want commodities made in our country. In addition, we should see to it that all
the goods we produce are supplied to the people.
Priority should be given to solving the
urgent problems facing the people, such as those of houses, drinking water and
fuel, so that they do not experience any inconvenience in their lives.
We should make the flames of Hamnam
blaze higher and launch a determined offensive to boost the vanguard sectors of
the national economy, the basic industries, as soon as possible, thus
consolidating the foundations for economic development and bringing about a great
upsurge in production in all sectors of the national economy.
The electric-power, coal-mining and
metallurgical industries and rail transport sector should be given precedence;
only then can the national economy be given a boost and the people’s standard of
living stabilized and improved.
By channelling major efforts into the
vanguard sectors of the national economy, the electric-power industry in
particular, we can radically increase power production, make the most of the
electric power we generate to develop the country’s overall economy and improve
the people’s living standards, and strengthen the control over its use. We
should bear in mind the will and intention of the General who visited the
construction site of the Huichon Power Station several times a year to ease the
power shortage, and decisively boost the electric-power industry.
We should thoroughly implement our
Party’s grand strategy for achieving prosperity by giving definite precedence
to the vanguard sectors and bringing about a great upsurge in production in all
sectors and units of the national economy.
Amid the flames of the industrial
revolution in the new century, we should build our country into one with a
knowledge-based economy.
It is the world trend to put the economy
on a knowledge basis, and we are faced with the epochal task of transforming
our national economy into one that develops by dint of knowledge.
We should struggle with a high aim and
ideal, true to the intention of the General to keep our feet firmly planted on
our land and look out over the rest of the world, and beat the world in all
aspects. By vigorously waging a drive to achieve a cutting edge with the same
pioneering spirit and creative attitude displayed by the developers of the
Ryonha machine tools in producing the latest CNC machine tools, we should raise
the overall standard of our technical equipment to the world level and perfect
our economic structure as required in the era of the knowledge economy.
We should create an atmosphere in which definite
precedence is given to science and technology, they are brought closer to
production, and all the problems that arise in economic construction are solved
by relying on science and technology; by so doing, we should guarantee the
economic development of the country by means of science and technology.
We should direct efforts to land
management so as to turn our country into a people’s paradise which is more
beautiful and better to live in.
Land management is a patriotic
undertaking of everlasting significance for the prosperity of our country, our
motherland, and for the well-being of all the generations to come. The whole
Party, the whole country, the entire army and all the people should turn out
and plant trees so that the whole land is thickly covered with forests in the
coming few years. Along with this, they should turn the country into a
socialist paradise by bringing about a decisive turn in land management,
including the improvement of the rivers and roads, and urban management.
In order to bring about a revolutionary
turn in improving the people’s living standards and building an economic giant,
we should establish rigid discipline whereby all the problems that arise in
economic work are brought to the Cabinet and solved according to its
coordinated command.
As the headquarters in charge of the
country’s economy, the Cabinet should work out economic development targets and
strategy on a scientific and realistic basis and in a far-sighted manner, and
positively push forward its supervision and guidance of overall economic work
in a unified manner.
All sectors and units should solve the
problems in economic work after consulting the Cabinet, and carry out to the
letter its decisions and directives aimed at implementing the Party’s economic
policies.
Party committees at all levels should
wage a struggle against any practices which hinder the strengthening of the
Cabinet responsibility system, the Cabinet-centred system, and fully support
the Cabinet and other administrative and economic organs at various levels, so
that they can satisfactorily discharge their duty and role as masters and
executors of economic work.
Efforts should be focused on holding
fast to socialist principles in economic work and enhancing the sense of
responsibility and role of the working people, who carry out production and
construction, so as to increase production to the maximum.
We should also effect an uninterrupted
revolutionary upsurge in all fields of cultural construction, including
education, public health, literature and the arts, and sports, so as to add
lustre to our country as a cultured socialist country.
By increasing state investment in
education, putting education on a modern basis, radically improving the level
of general secondary education and intensifying university education, we can
train in larger numbers world-class scientific and technological personnel who
will shoulder the building of a thriving socialist country. We should give full
play to the advantages of our country’s socialist healthcare system, create and
disseminate greater numbers of excellent literary and artistic works of the
times, make sports mass-based and create a wave of enthusiasm for sports across
the country. In this way, we should ensure that our people become creators and
enjoyers of socialist culture that is noble and civilized, and the whole
society brims over with joy and optimism.
In order to bring about a decisive turn
in the building of a thriving socialist country as was the intention and desire
of General Kim Jong Il, we should,
first of all, enhance the militant function and role of Party organizations.
Party organizations are the political
staff of the units concerned, and their basic task is to enlist officials,
Party members and other working people in carrying out the Party’s lines and
policies without fail. Success in the work of each sector and unit depends
entirely on how its Party organization performs its function and role.
Party organizations should thoroughly
implement the ideas and lines of the General by firmly establishing policy-oriented
principles and conducting energetic political and organizational work. They
should conduct a profound study of the General’s intentions and plans, the
tasks facing their respective units to materialize them and the ways of
implementing them, arrange their work in a scrupulous manner, organize Party
guidance over administrative and economic work to the last detail and rouse
officials and the broad sections of the masses of the people to carrying out
the General’s instructions.
Party organizations should intensify
Party guidance over the law-enforcement organs, such as the judicial,
procuratorial and people’s security organs.
The effort to build a thriving socialist
country is accompanied by a serious class struggle to eliminate everything that
is hostile and non-socialist. Party organizations should ensure that
law-enforcement organs discharge their sacred mission and duty by staunchly
safeguarding the socialist system and the gains of the revolution and reliably
defending the people’s lives, property and security.
Party organizations should intensify
Party guidance over the working people’s organizations to ensure that all these
organizations and their members turn out as one in the on- going general march.
True to the Party’s idea of focusing on
young people, Party organizations should give prominence to young people and always
pay close attention to working with them. They should lead the youth league
organizations to glorify the immortal exploits performed by the President and
the General for the youth movement of Korea and step up the education of their
members so that our revolution can be steadily carried forward through the
generations. Young people should always advance straight forward following the
Party; a prosperous tomorrow will be achieved earlier by our young people
taking vigorous steps.
Party organizations should give proper
Party guidance to trade union and union of agricultural workers organizations
so that our trustworthy working class and agricultural working people fulfil
their duties as the masters of factories and farms and production workers.
Our women constitute a powerful force
that pushes ahead one of the two wheels of the revolution. Party organizations
should provide effective Party guidance to the women’s union organizations so
as to ensure that women fully discharge their duties for the prosperity of the
country and the harmony and happiness of society and their families and
continue to exalt their honour as the flowers of the era.
Next, officials should perform to the
full their responsibility and role as the leading personnel of the revolution.
Officials must defend the Party’s
policies and lines unto death, standing in the vanguard, and rouse the masses
to implementing them, and they must also organize and direct today’s general
onward march.
Officials should perform their work in a
revolutionary way, on the standpoint that they are entirely responsible for the
work in their respective sectors and units. In particular, senior officials
should work with a firm determination to prove themselves worthy of the love
and trust of the Party and people that have brought them up and raised them to
prominence. They should become as honest and able as Kim Chaek, who performed
with credit any task however difficult it was, in support of Kim Il Sung.
Officials should work with a creative
and enterprising attitude and style. They should plan and organize their work
with a far-reaching target and ideals, and be pioneers and forerunners in
creating and introducing new things. They should also be men of action who
carry any undertaking through to completion once they set about doing it. All
officials should be resolute in doing away with the outdated ideological
viewpoints and backward methods and styles of work. The position our officials
should occupy today is in the vanguard of the ranks; they should be the
point-men in blazing the trail and an engine propelling the masses forward.
They should devote their all to the
people. The people do not exist for the sake of officials, but officials exist
for the sake of the people.
By learning from the President’s and the
General’s view of the people, all officials should go among the people, sharing
good times and bad with them, and make tireless efforts for their good. They
should always put the people first in their consideration, direct primary
concern to their livelihood, always think and work sincerely to solve the
problems in their lives and do more for their benefit. They should be true
servants of the people who know nothing other than working for the people, are
faithful and effective in undertaking it and find pleasure and pride in the
efforts they make for them.
By implementing the intentions and
instructions of the President and the General, we should accomplish the
historic cause of national reunification without fail. And true to their
strategy and plan for our external activities, we should proactively contribute
to achieving the cause of global independence.
Keeping in mind that the President and
the General are always with us and are encouraging us, we should redouble our
efforts to realize their plans and desires with credit and glorify the new
century of the Juche revolution as an era of victory and glory.
For the present, when we are about to
hold the Party conference and various other events to celebrate the centenary
of the birth of the President, we should scrupulously organize the work to
ensure that they are a success. In addition, we should pay close attention to
ensuring that our people enjoy themselves on the Day of the Sun in a meaningful
way, and make detailed arrangements for it.