Eternal Leader of the People
On the occasions of the Day of the Shining Star, the Serbian Preparatory Committee for Celebrating the Birth Anniversary of the Leader Kim Jong Il organized a seminar on April 10, 2026.
Mr. Viktor Janković,
Chairman of the Serbian Preparatory Committee and Chairman of the Serbian
National Committee on the Study of the Juche Idea, addressed the participants
as follows:
“President Kim Il Sung
(1912–1994), the founding father of the DPRK, is still highly revered as the
eternal leader of the Korean people. He laid solid foundations for the
dignified and independent life they enjoy today.
He is the author of the
Juche idea, which clarifies that the popular masses are the masters of the
revolution and construction and have the strength to shape their own destiny.
Guided by this idea, the DPRK has consistently maintained independence in politics,
self-sufficiency in the economy and self-reliance in national defence.
Throughout his life,
President Kim Il Sung devoted himself entirely to the well-being of the people.
He established a democratic system in which citizens exercise their rights to
work, rest, education and healthcare in practice, while also participating in
state affairs.
He introduced universal
free compulsory education and ensured the development of a comprehensive
educational system, enabling all citizens to study throughout their lives. In
addition, he implemented progressive social policies, including free housing provided
by the state.
It is therefore no
coincidence that the Korean people still hold him in the highest esteem,
referring to him as their ‘fatherly leader’.”
Eternal Leader of the
People
President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994), founding father of the DPRK, is still revered as the eternal
leader of the Korean people. He is credited with having laid the foundation for
the dignified and happy life they are leading now.
He authored the Juche idea and
ensured that the DPRK is guided by it so that the Korean people could
remain independent and dignified forever.
The Juche idea is entirely
an idea of independence that the popular masses are the masters of the
revolution and construction and have the strength to propel the revolution and
construction; in other words, man is the master of his own destiny and has the
strength to shape his own destiny. It enabled the DPRK to
become a people-centred socialist state and the Workers’ Party of Korea to uphold
the slogan “Everything for
the people and everything by relying on them!”
and the people-first principle as its political ideal.
As it is guided by the
Juche idea, the DPRK has been able to maintain the principle of independence in politics, self-sufficiency
in the economy and self-reliance in national defence.
All this was the main factor that helped the Korean people have cherished the
indomitable spirit of independence and preserved dignity over the past decades.
Kim Il Sung devoted
himself to the good of the people all his life, and established the most popular
system to guarantee the people a happy life generation after generation.
He made sure that a genuinely
democratic system was set up so that every citizen has the rights to elect and
be elected, work, have a rest and receive medical treatment, and exercises these
rights in practice. As a result, working people such as workers, farmers and
intellectuals have taken part in the administration of state affairs as deputies
to the supreme power organ since the foundation of their country, and the DPRK is
the one and only country in the world that does not know unemployment.
He also saw to it that a
universal free compulsory education system was adopted and educational years
continued to be extended. Under his concern, schoolchildren’s palaces, halls
and camps were built across the country to allow all the students to get free
access to extracurricular education. In addition, the study-while-you-work
system was put in place so as to help all people learn throughout their lives.
He ensured that modern
houses were built at state expense in cities, villages and all the other parts
of the country and they were distributed to the people for free. This was an
unheard-of welfare policy.
It is no accident that
the Korean people still hold him in high esteem, calling him “fatherly leader.”