Meaning of June 19
Meaning of June 19
June
19, 1964 is the day when Kim Jong Il (1942-2011), eternal General
Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, started working at the Party Central
Committee.
This
day is regarded as a meaningful day when the building of the WPK gained a
momentum in the Democratic People’s
Already
in those days when he started working at the Party Central Committee, he had a
clear view of how to build a socialist ruling party.
He
consistently asserted that the Party should be built into a genuine motherly
party that takes responsible care of the people’s destiny. He wrote many works,
providing solutions to the theoretical and practical questions in relation to
it, like Let Us Turn Party Work Thoroughly
into Work with the People, We Should
Look After the People’s Living in a
Responsible Manner as a Mother Would Do with Her Children, Party Officials Should Acquire Traits
Appropriate to Officials of a Motherly Party and On Paying Close Attention to People’s Living. These works became
textbooks in the building and activities of the WPK.
Kim Jong Il encouraged all the Party
officials to always go among the masses, share weal and woe with them and lend
an ear to them, ensuring that they took responsible care of the destiny of the people
as well as their problems of food, clothing and housing.
While
on his continuous field-guidance journey, he unceremoniously mingled with the
people, inquiring into their living conditions and even accepting a pregnant
woman’s request to name her child which was due. He reflected the demands and
aspirations of the people in Party policy and spared nothing for the happiness
of the people. Typical examples are the fact that he ensured that the floor of
the lobby in the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital was covered with 100-odd tons of
natural jewels and coloured stones for the women, and the fact that when a
factory was planned to be built at the upper reaches of the river in the Hamhung
area, he took measures for moving the site of the factory to another place,
saying that it may contaminate the drinking water.
The
Korean people follow the WPK, calling it a motherly party.
The
enrichment of the Juche idea that is the guiding ideology of the WPK and the era
of independence, is directly linked with this day.
After
starting working at the Party Central Committee, he conducted energetic
inquiries and ideological and theoretical activities, making a comprehensive
analysis of the major philosophical ideas of the world. On this basis, he
elucidated the originality and superiority of the Juche idea, and defined it as
the integral system of the idea, theory and method of Juche. His treatise, On the Juche Idea, aroused a storm of
interest across the world as soon as it was made public.
He
made public many works that provide clear-cut answers to the theoretical and
practical problems arising in all realms of social life, to say nothing of the
building of the Party, the state and the economy.
In
the latter half of the 1990s he developed in depth the theory of the Songun
idea, the root of which is the Juche idea. As it was led by the Songun idea and
Songun politics, the Workers’ Party of Korea could successfully lead the
struggle for defending the sovereignty of the country, destiny of the people
and socialism in the period when socialism was collapsed in several countries
and the allied imperialist forces’ anti-DPRK moves grew more undisguised.
In
1985 a book, titled, Dictionary of
Criticism on Philosophy was published in
Indeed,
June 19 was a watershed for the building of socialist ruling party and a new
independent world.
