Kim Il Sung will always be with Us
Kim Il Sung will always be with Us!
Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung
Entering
the modern times, Korea with 5,000-year-long history and brilliant culture
gradually weakened in national power owing to the policy of flunkeyism and
dependence on outside forces of the feudal Joson dynasty and was reduced to a
theatre of competition for the powers. Finally it was placed under the Japanese
military occupation since 1905.
It
was none other than the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung who
saved the Korean nation from the miserable fate of a ruined nation.
He
was born in Mangyongdae, Pyongyang on April 15, Juche 1 (1912) and embarked on
the road of revolutionary struggle for Korea’s liberation in his teens. In the
course of groping for the road of the Korean revolution, he authored the Juche
idea and the Songun idea(army-first idea) and commanded the anti-Japanese
revolutionary struggle for two decades under its banner, finally achieving the
historic cause of Korea’s liberation on August 15 Juche 34 (1945).
After
his triumphal return to the liberated homeland, he founded the Workers’ Party
of Korea without delay, carried out the democratic reforms, including the land
reform, nationalization of key industrial establishments and enforcement of the
Law on Gender Equality, and founded a regular armed force. Based on these
achievements, he founded the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the first
people’s democratic state in the East, on September 9, Juche 37 (1948).
He
creditably safeguarded the sovereignty and dignity of the DPRK in the Korean
War(1950-1953) provoked by the US in an attempt to stifle the two-year-old
Republic in its cradle. He carried out the postwar rehabilitation and the
socialist revolution in a short period and led the socialist construction of
several stages to victory, thus turning the DPRK into a socialist power,
independent in politics, self-sufficient in the economy and self-reliant in
defence.
He
regarded “The People Are My God” as his lifetime motto and his benevolent
politics got a people-centred socialist system deeply rooted in the DPRK.
He
advanced the fundamental principles and ways for Korea’s reunification,
including the Three Principles of National Reunification, the Ten-Point
Programme of the Great Unity of the Whole Nation and the Proposal on Founding
the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo, and devoted his all for the national
reunification cause until the last day of his life.
He
defined independence, peace and friendship as the basic ideal of the DPRK’s
foreign policy and enhanced its international prestige through his energetic
external activities. Working as head of state and veteran of world politics for
nearly half a century, he made immortal contributions to developing and
strengthening the socialist and non-aligned movements.
It
is not fortuitous that former US President Jimmy Carter said that
President Kim Il Sung was greater than the three American
Presidents who had represented the nation-building and destiny of the United
States-George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln-put together.
The
DPRK conferred the title of Generalissimo on him on the occasion of the 80th anniversary
of his birth. Though he passed away on July 8, Juche 83 (1994), he is always
alive in the hearts of the Korean people and the world progressives as the
founding father of socialist Korea, pioneer of the cause of independence of
humankind, eternal President of the DPRK and the Sun of Juche.