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KIM JONG IL¡¡
THE WORKERS¡¯ PARTY OF
THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM IL SUNG
October 2, 1995
Fifty years has
elapsed since our Party was founded.
Greeting the 50th
anniversary of the foundation of the Workers¡¯ Party of Korea, and looking back
with deep emotions upon the glorious road of struggle our Party has traversed,
scoring a historic victory and effecting the greatest change by acclaiming
respected Comrade Kim Il Sung as its head and under his leadership, our
Party members and our people express the warmest gratitude and pay the highest
respect to the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, who founded and led the
Party.
Under Comrade Kim Il
Sung¡¯s
wise leadership, the Workers¡¯ Party of Korea was established as a working-class
party of a new type and has developed in the flames of struggle for half a
century into a trained and seasoned veteran revolutionary party, an
unconquerable party enjoying the unqualified support and trust of the people.
Under his leadership, our Party created a brilliant new history in the people¡¯s
cause of independence, the cause of socialism, and made great, imperishable
achievements in this cause.
The history of the Workers¡¯ Party of
Korea is precisely the history of respected Comrade Kim Il
Sung¡¯s great
revolutionary activities. Both the thorny path of our Party¡¯s struggle and its
road of glorious victory bear his sacred footprints. Both our Party¡¯s great
achievements and its unbreakable strength and high prestige are associated with
his respectful name.
The Workers¡¯ Party of Korea belongs to
the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung. It is his
great name and exploits that have made our Party¡¯s 50 years brilliant. His name
and exploits will be immortal together with our Party¡¯s history.
The Workers¡¯ Party of Korea is a glorious
party, which under the leadership of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung has paved a new road of building a revolutionary
party in the age of independence, setting a shining example in this work.
Regarding party building as a fundamental
question in the revolution, Comrade Kim Il Sung
made strenuous efforts from the early years of his revolutionary activity to
found the party that would lead our revolution. With an unshakeable belief that
the popular masses are the motive force of the revolution, he waged the
revolutionary struggle by organizing these masses. He also did the work of
founding the Party, beginning with the laying of its basis in the grassroots,
by going to the popular masses to train true communists from among them and
forming grassroots Party organizations.
The organizational and ideological bases
for founding our Party were laid and consolidated in the crucible of the
20-year-long arduous anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle under the leadership
of Comrade Kim Il Sung. The ranks of communist
hard core were trained and toughened, true unity and cohesion were achieved in
the revolutionary ranks centering on the leader, and the mass basis for the
communist movement was solidly laid, through all manner of hardships in the
do-or-die struggle.
In the course of organizing and leading
the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to victory, Comrade Kim Il Sung created glorious revolutionary traditions, the
lasting cornerstone of our Party and revolution.
Thanks to the solid organizational and
ideological bases for founding the Party and the glorious revolutionary
traditions, which were prepared during the anti-Japanese revolutionary
struggle, our Party was founded opportunely even in the complex circumstances
after liberation. It has been able to fulfil its
mission successfully as the political General Staff that guides the building of
a new country ever since its founding.
The establishment of the Workers¡¯ Party
of Korea enabled our people to shape their destiny successfully under the
guidance of their reliable vanguard, their fighting General Staff. Its
establishment unfolded a new history of the revolutionary party in the era of
independence.
After founding the Party in an original
manner, the respected leader Comrade Kim Il Sung
gave wise leadership to the work of Party building and developed it into a
great revolutionary party.
The history of our Party building is the
history of brilliantly implementing the Juche idea and translating into reality
the idea and theory of building the Party on the basis of the Juche idea under
Comrade Kim Il Sung¡¯s leadership.
Our Party is a Juche-type revolutionary
party, built and strengthened, guided by the Juche idea.
The guiding ideology of a party defines
its character, its aim of struggle and the basic direction of its development
and activities, and decides its fighting efficiency and strength. Only a party
guided by a great ideology can be a great party.
It is the most brilliant achievement of
the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung that he
created the immortal Juche idea and thus showed the popular masses a correct
way to shape their destiny independently and that he built a new, revolutionary
party, guided by the Juche idea, for the first time in the history of the
communist movement.
The Juche idea is a new scientific world
outlook that correctly reflects the popular masses¡¯ desire for independence and
the requirements of the times. It is a great idea that has brought about a
historic change in the development of the revolutionary idea of the working
class. The Juche idea is the ideological and theoretical basis of our Party
building as well as the only guide to revolution and construction. Our Party
has been guided consistently by the Juche idea in its building and activities.
Therefore, it has become a powerful revolutionary party with a most durable
foundation, a great, authoritative party capable of leading the revolution and
construction triumphantly. The building of our Party is characterized basically
by the fact that it has built itself and conducted its activities, guided by
the Juche idea.
Based on the great Juche idea and the
rich experiences in his leadership of the revolutionary struggle at different
stages, Comrade Kim Il Sung newly elucidated
the fundamentals and basic principles of building a working-class party and the
ways to implement them, and fully systematized the Juche-orientated idea and
theory of Party building.
This idea and theory are, in a nutshell,
the people-centered idea and theory of Party building on the basis of the
fundamental principles of the Juche idea. Solving all problems in Party
building and activity by centering on people and through work with people is
the essence of this idea and theory. The solidity and strength of the party and
all the success in party building depends on how the cadres and other members
of the party are educated and bound together organizationally and ideologically
and how the masses, the socio-class basis of the party, rally behind the party.
Work with people is the basis of party building, the essence of party work and
the mode of activity proper to the working-class party which regards ideology
as a weapon. Only when it lays the primary emphasis on work with people, can
the working-class party build up its ranks firmly, strengthen its mass
foundation and lead the revolution and construction successfully.
The Juche-oriented idea and theory of
party building shed fresh light on the fundamental principles of building the
working-class party, based on the principles of the driving force of
revolution. This force is an integral whole of the leader, the party and the
masses. Only under the guidance of the party and the leader can the people hold
their position as the driving force of revolution and play their role
satisfactorily. In the driving force of revolution, the leader is the top brain
and the centre of unity, and the party is a political
organization that materializes the leader¡¯s idea and guidance. The party as a
political leadership body is inconceivable apart from the leader¡¯s idea and
guidance. Separated from the masses, the party cannot lead the revolution and
construction to victory. The unbreakable unity of the leader, the party and the
masses centering around the leader constitutes the
solidest and most powerful revolutionary force, as well as a great motive force
of the revolution and construction. Therefore, the working-class party must be
built up into the leader¡¯s party, the political organization which realizes the
leader¡¯s idea and guidance, and must achieve inseparable unity with the masses.
This is a basic requirement for the existence and development of the
working-class party and a fundamental principle that must be constantly
maintained and carried forward in party building.
Comrade Kim Il Sung¡¯s idea and theory on Party
building expound the absolutely scientific and revolutionary principles, basic
rules and ways which the working-class party must implement thoroughly in its
building and activity; therefore, they have become a powerful ideological and theoretical
weapon with which to consolidate our Party organizationally and ideologically,
strengthen the unbreakable ties between the Party and the masses and steadily
enhance the leadership role of the Party.
The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung built our Party into a revolutionary party with
a firmly established monolithic ideological system.
The monolithic
ideological system of the party is the leader¡¯s ideological system and his
leadership system. Establishing the monolithic ideological system is the basic
way to build the party as the leader¡¯s party. Only when the monolith of
ideology and leadership is ensured through the establishment of the leader¡¯s
ideological system and his leadership system is it possible to achieve the
ideological unity and organizational cohesion of the party ranks and make the
party play its role satisfactorily as a political leadership body. The
working-class party must be an ideological purity and organizational integrity,
the entire party being dyed in its leader¡¯s idea and moving as one under his
unified leadership.
Our Party¡¯s
struggle to establish the monolithic ideological system has been a struggle to
equip Party members thoroughly with the leader¡¯s ideas and unite them firmly
behind the leader in ideology and purpose; at the same time, it has been a
struggle to overcome the heterogeneous ideas and factional elements which
conflict with the leader¡¯s idea and guidance and disturb unity and cohesion.
Under the leadership of Comrade Kim Il Sung,
our Party has steadily intensified ideological education to equip all the Party
members with the Juche idea, the revolutionary idea of the Party, and has
conducted a powerful ideological struggle against flunkeyism, dogmatism,
revisionism, factionalism and other unsound ideas, as well as factional
elements. As a result, it eradicated factionalism, which had greatly harmed our
revolution through history, and prevented modern revisionism and all other
opportunist trends from infiltrating into our ranks. That our Party overcame
factionalism and flunkeyism in the Korean communist movement and prevented the
infiltration of any opportunism, including modern revisionism, was the historic
victory achieved in the struggle to ensure the unity and cohesion of the Party
ranks and its purity and establish the monolithic ideological system of the
Party.
Through the
struggle to establish the monolithic ideological system, the unity and cohesion
of our Party developed into the unity of the entire Party in ideology and
purpose, reinforced by morality and loyalty, based on the leader¡¯s idea and
centering on the leader. Today all our Party members are armed solidly with the
monolithic ideology of our Party, the revolutionary idea of Comrade Kim Il Sung; they know no other ideas but his revolutionary
idea. They resolutely defend and carry out the lines and policies of the Party,
cherishing loyalty to the Party and the leader as their revolutionary faith and
obligation. That all Party members are united rock-solid behind the leader with
one idea and faith and with comradely love and revolutionary loyalty underlies
the solidity and unbreakability of the unity and
cohesion of our Party.
The great leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung built our Party into a
militant Party with a strong sense of organization and discipline.
This sense of
organization and discipline is the intrinsic requirement of the socialist,
communist movement based on collectivism, as well as the basic guarantee for
the fighting efficiency of the revolutionary and militant party. The monolith
of ideology and leadership is ensured by organization and discipline, and apart
from them there can be no unity or cohesion. A working-class party with no
organization or discipline will not only be unable to lead the revolution, but
will itself be reduced to a lethargic, nominal existence.
By correctly
embodying the principle of democratic centralism in Party building and its
activity, Comrade Kim Il Sung firmly
established the monolithic system of leadership and a revolutionary and
voluntary discipline within the Party. For our Party the principle of
democratic centralism is its organizational principle, whereby democracy is
brought into full play on the basis of firmly establishing centralized
discipline. Centralism is revolutionary discipline and order according to which
the entire party acts as one under the monolithic leadership of the leader.
Without this, neither the unity of the party nor concerted action can be
ensured. Democracy means formulating the party's line and policy by
incorporating the will of the party members and giving full play to their
voluntary enthusiasm and creativity in the struggle to implement them. When
centralized discipline is weakened and unprincipled "democracy" is
tolerated, disorder is created in the party, and the party will be torn asunder.
As a result of the correct application of the principle of democratic
centralism in our Party, the guidance of the leader is effected smoothly from
the Party centre down to the lowest echelon and a revolutionary tone has been
firmly established: all Party organizations and Party members accept the
Party's line and policy as their own and implement them to the letter by
displaying a high degree of enthusiasm and creativity.
Enhancing the
function and role of party organizations and intensifying the party life of the
members is a major factor in improving organization and discipline in the
party. By strengthening all its organizations and enhancing their function and
role in every possible way, our Party has ensured that they carry out their
activity strictly in accordance with the Party's organizational principle and
the system of Party work, and always work vigorously full of vitality. At the
same time, it has channelled great effort into
intensifying the Party life of its members. Party members are linked with the
leader through the party organization and accept the leader's ideas and
guidance and draw the breath of the Party through Party organizational and
ideological life. Party life is a
revolutionary school that arms Party members with the leader's ideas, tempers
their Party spirit and fosters the sense of organization and discipline. The
unity of the ideology and action of millions of Party members is inconceivable
apart from Party life. A well-organized system of Party life and a
revolutionary tone of Party life have now been firmly established in our Party;
all members belonging to a particular Party organization, regularly leading
their life in accordance with the unitary norms of Party life and taking part
in it of their own accord as the masters. As a result, the Party life of the
members has been put on a regular basis and has become a part of their life,
and the organization and discipline of the Party have been strengthened
markedly. Thus our Party has become a most highly organized and disciplined
party; all the Party members breathe and act as one, based on a high degree of
awareness and consciousness; the Party thus fully displays its might as a
militant organization.
The great leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung built our Party into a mass
party firmly rooted in broad sections of the population.
A working-class party can be invincible
only when it welds itself to the masses and enjoys the active support of the
wide sections of the population. As a matter of principle, the demand of the
working class represents the fundamental interest of the working masses, and
the historic mission of the working class is to achieve social emancipation,
not only for itself, but for all toiling people. Ours
is an era of independence, in which the popular masses have emerged as the
masters of history; the cause of the masses for independence can advance
victoriously only through the energetic struggle of the working class and other
broad strata of the people.
By correctly
reflecting the fundamental interests of the working class and other toiling
masses, as well as the demand of the era of independence, and proceeding from
the specific situation in our country, respected Comrade Kim Il Sung set
the line of building a mass party of the working people comprising workers, peasants
and working intellectuals, and put this line into effect with success. The flag
of our Party, inscribed with a hammer, sickle and brush, is a graphic symbol of
a revolutionary party in the era of independence, the first of its kind in
history. It is the banner of unity and victory of the popular masses, who are independently shaping their destiny.
In accordance with
the line of building a mass party, our Party enlisted into itself many
progressive elements from among workers, peasants and working intellectuals,
and properly combined the quantitative growth and qualitative consolidation of
the Party ranks. Thus it continually expanded and strengthened itself, while
firmly maintaining its working-class and revolutionary character. Our Party was
built as a mass party and the mass line was fully implemented in its activity.
As a result, it has grown in strength and developed into a party that defends
and represents the interests of the working masses and their demand for
independence. It has become a revolutionary party of the working class rooted
among the broad popular masses and inseparably united with them.
The validity and
vitality of our Party line on building itself into a mass party were verified
more clearly as the building of socialism developed in depth. The process of
building socialism is the process of transforming all members of society on the
pattern of the working class, the process of assimilating all society to the
working class. The line of building a mass party fully conforms to the law that
governs the building of socialism. By implementing the line of building a mass
party, our Party was able to maintain its working-class character and at the
same time continually increase its ranks, strengthen its mass foundation and
accelerate the process of assimilating the whole of society to the working
class.
The great leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung built our Party in a
far-sighted way to carry on its cause down through the generations.
The cause of the
popular masses for the independence is the cause of the leader, the cause of
the Party. It is a historic cause that is carried on through many generations.
It is only when the working-class party firmly carries forward the ideas and
guidance of the leader down through generations that it can invariably maintain
its revolutionary character and appearance as a leading political organization
and carry out its honorable mission. If a party is to correctly carry forward
the ideas and guidance of the leader, it must fully ensure the continuity of
its own development. Otherwise, the line of the revolution discontinues, and
renegades from the revolution appear to ruin the cause of the leader, the cause
of the party. This is a serious lesson of history.
Respected Comrade Kim
Il Sung not only founded our Party and developed it to be an invincible
one, but, with his extraordinary far-sightedness of many years¡¯ standing, laid
solid foundation for a brilliant continuation and accomplishment of the cause
of the Party. Looking into the distant future, Comrade Kim Il Sung
clarified the way to be followed by our Party and our revolution, laid firm
organizational and ideological bases for the Party and established the
leadership system for the continuation and accomplishment of the revolutionary
cause of Juche.
The ideas and
leadership of respected Comrade Kim Il Sung are
an unshakeable inheritance of our Party. Today, as a revolutionary party with
high prestige and indestructible might, our Party enjoys full support and trust
from the people and is confidently leading revolution and construction.
The working-class
party is the weapon for the revolution. The foundation of the party and its
organizational and ideological strength are aimed at realizing the popular
masses¡¯ cause of independence.
In the past 50
years since its foundation, our Party has led the popular masses, winning a
great victory in revolution and construction, and gaining rich and valuable
experience.
Since national
liberation through a bloody revolutionary war against the Japanese, our
revolution has advanced through an unprecedentedly
complex situation and an arduous struggle. The division of the country by
foreign forces, the Fatherland Liberation War against the invasion of the
allied forces of imperialism, the ceaseless maneuvers for aggression and sabotage
by imperialism, the turbulent international situation and the collapse of
socialism in several countries, and the subsequent intensification of
anti-socialist, anti-DPRK machinations by imperialists and reactionaries – in
the face of all these events, we carried out the two stages of social
revolution successfully, reconstructed the country twice, built a form of
socialism centered on the masses, and added luster to our socialism while
defending staunchly the sovereignty of the country and the achievements of the
revolution. The revolution and construction have been promoted with vigor in
spite of innumerable difficulties and hardships, bringing about great changes
in the life of the country and its people.
Our socialism
defends and ensures the independence for the popular masses and satisfies their
demand for independence to the full. All the members of society exercise equal
rights to independence in political, economic and cultural lives, and enjoy
valuable and worthwhile lives free from all manner of social unrest and worry.
Our society is a most stable and durable one, in which all the people are
united single-heartedly around the Party and leader, forming one great,
harmonious family. Our entire society is overflowing with health and vitality
and is full of revolutionary mettle. The communist morality, now being
displayed to a high degree among our people, of devoting oneself to society and
the collective, and of helping and leading one another in a comradely way
demonstrates the advantages and might of the socialist system in our country
and graphically shows the ennobling ideological and spiritual traits of our
people.
Under the
leadership of the Party, our people have traversed the road of victory, braving
the difficulties and obstacles in their way, and are working energetically for
fresh victory, full of confidence in and optimism for the future. Even in the
present complicated situation, our socialism continues to win one victory after
another without vacillation, and our socialist motherland is demonstrating its
dignity and honor far and wide.
The imperialists
and reactionaries have often resorted to various machinations to check the
advance of our Party and people, and to stifle our socialism, but they have
failed in every attempt.
The practical experience
of our revolution patently proves that the people, who are united as one under
the leadership of their great leader and the great party and fighting for their
just cause, are unconquerable, and that the present age is a new, historic age,
the age of independence, when the popular masses have emerged as masters of
their own destiny. Guided by our Party, our people have paved a new path to
accomplishing the masses¡¯ cause of independence, the path to genuine socialism,
and built and developed a socialism centered on the popular masses, thus
dealing decisive blows at reactionary propaganda that vilifies socialism, and
confirming in practice the scientific and genuine nature of socialism, its
advantages and its invincibility.
For our Party,
which is entrusted with the responsibility for the destiny of the country and
nation, national reunification has been the supreme task since the first day of
its founding. Our Party has consistently followed the policy of national
reunification, a policy based on the three principles of independence, peaceful
reunification and great national unity. Reflecting the aspiration for
reunification of the whole nation in the north, south and abroad, it put
forward the most reasonable, fair and realistic proposal of reunifying the
country through federation, and is now striving for its implementation. It is
also making every effort to realize the great unity of the nation under the
banner of national reunification. Our Party¡¯s policy of national reunification
is truly patriotic and it enjoys the unanimous support and approval of the
whole nation. Thanks to the impeccable policy and consistent effort of our
Party for national reunification, the national aspiration for reunification has
mounted higher as never before and the national unity of all compatriots in the
north, south and abroad has grown stronger. The ever-growing reunification
force of our nation will defeat the divisive forces at home and abroad and
realize the cause of national reunification without fail.
Our Party has led
the popular masses¡¯ cause of independence to brilliant victory, making great
achievements along the way, because it has applied Juche principles and methods
of leadership in the revolution and construction in a thoroughgoing way.
In leading the revolution
and construction, our Party has always safeguarded the demands and interests of
the popular masses, relied on them and carried out its fight by forming an
integral whole with them.
That the popular
masses are the masters of the revolution and construction and that they have
the power to promote them--this is the fundamental principle of the revolution,
as elucidated by the Juche idea. The policy that defends and realizes the
masses¡¯ demands for independence and their interests is the most revolutionary
and scientific, and relying on the popular masses and giving full play to their
strength and wisdom is the basic demand of revolutionary leadership. If one
believes in the people and relies on them, one will always emerge victorious;
and if one is divorced from them and is forsaken by them, one will always
fail—this is the concept of ¡°The people are my God,¡± the motto of respected
Comrade Kim Il Sung, and this has become the basic starting-point and
supreme principle in all the activities of our Party.
Respected Comrade Kim
Il Sung was the great leader of the people and
their father. His ideology, leadership and virtue were based on love for, and
trust in, the people. All his life he was among the people, shared joy and
sorrow with them and devoted his all to them. He placed deep trust in the
strength, wisdom and excellent qualities of our people and solved all problems
by relying on them and by giving rein to their revolutionary zeal and creative
force.
Our Party has fully applied in all its
activities the noble idea of Comrade Kim Il Sung,
"The people are my God,¡± and his revolutionary method of leadership. It
has always formulated its lines and policies by reflecting truthfully and
incorporating the opinions and requirements of the popular masses, and implemented
them by enlisting their efforts and resourcefulness. It has given definite
priority to ideological work, namely, the political work of awakening the
popular masses ideologically and rallying them organizationally, over all other
undertakings; it has also worked tirelessly to oppose abuse of authority and bureaucratism and establish a revolutionary method and
popular style of work among officials. The iron rule in the activities of our
Party and in the work of our officials is to go among the people, breathe the
same air with them, work devotedly for them and execute revolutionary tasks by
relying on them under the Party¡¯s slogan, ¡°We serve the people.¡± Our Party is a
motherly party, which takes care of the destiny of the popular masses under its
charge, and its politics is a benevolent one in that it is the politics of love
for the people and trust in them.
Because of their
genuine comradeship and their inseparable relationship, in which the Party and
leader trust and love the people and the people place unqualified trust in them
and support them with loyalty, the single-hearted unity of the leader, Party
and masses has been strengthened and developed and the revolutionary enthusiasm
and creative force of the popular masses have been fully displayed on a high
plane. Relying on the popular masses and welding itself to them in the
struggle--this is the secret of how our Party has been able to promote the
revolution and construction with vigor in such complicated circumstances and
trying ordeals, and has won victory after victory by turning misfortune into a
blessing and unfavorable conditions into favorable ones.
In leading the
revolution and construction, our Party has established Juche with all
consistency and firmly adhered to the line of independence.
From the first days
of his revolutionary activity, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung blazed the trail of independent development of
the Korean revolution, holding aloft the banner of independence. He made it a
fundamental principle to establish Juche and maintain independence in the
revolution and construction, then led the effort to implement it. The line of
Juche in ideology, independence in politics, self-sufficiency in the economy
and self-reliance in defence, as advanced by Comrade Kim Il
Sung, is a revolutionary line of independence run through with the
principle of Juche and spirit of independence. Our Party has staunchly
safeguarded this line and implemented it to the letter.
Our Party has
solved all problems arising in the revolution and construction, as dictated by
its ideology and faith, on its own responsibility and on the principle of
self-reliance, doing things in our own way to suit our situation and the
interests of our revolution. It has been opposed totally to the worship of big
powers, dogmatism and all other ideas of relying on foreign forces, and
rejected categorically any pressure and interference from outside. Free from
established theories and formulas, it has analyzed and judged everything solely
from the point of view of the interests of the revolution and hewed out the
road of the complicated and arduous Korean revolution by its own efforts, as
dictated by its faith and determination. By conducting energetically among its
members and the working people the education in Party policies, revolutionary
traditions and socialist patriotism, with an emphasis on the education in the
Juche idea, it has imbued them with the revolutionary ideology, lines and
policies of their Party, instilled in them high national dignity and pride and
given full play to their revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and the
revolutionary tone of living our own way.
Since they strictly
adhered to the Juche stand and line of independence, our Party and people have
not vacillated in the raging wind of modern revisionism and all other
opportunist trends, and in the trying situation in which socialism collapsed in
several countries, they have been able to defend and add luster to our style of
socialism. Our political and ideological strength, the powerful socialist
independent economy and the unconquerable self-reliant military power, which
our Party and people have consolidated rock-solid through the implementation of
the revolutionary line of independence, self-sufficiency and self-reliant
defence, are the sure guarantee for defending the sovereignty of the country and
the achievements of the revolution, advancing the revolution and construction
victoriously and thwarting the aggression and interference of imperialism and dominationism. The fact shows that the political and
diplomatic pressure of imperialism, its attempts to disintegrate us
ideologically and culturally, its economic blockade and military threat--none
of these are able to infringe upon the sovereignty of
our country, nor can they demolish or suffocate our socialism.
The independence of
a country and nation is the basis for fair international relations, and an
independent foreign policy is the justest and most
principled foreign policy. All countries and nations, whether they are large or
small, developed or less-developed, have the rights to independence and
equality as equal members of the international society. When they all maintain
independence and respect each other¡¯s independence, they can develop fair
international relations and build a truly peaceful and friendly new world where
independence prevails. By following a foreign policy based on the ideals of
independence, peace and friendship, our Party and Government have developed the
relations of friendship and cooperation with many countries in the world,
consolidated the country¡¯s international position, strengthened international
solidarity with our revolution and rendered an active contribution to the cause
of independence throughout the world.
The Juche stand and
independent line, consistently maintained by our Party in revolution and
construction, have clearly demonstrated their correctness and great vitality in
practice.
Our Party has
resolutely adhered to its revolutionary principle and invariably implemented
the revolutionary line and policy in leading the revolution and construction.
Consistently
adhering to the revolutionary principle in accomplishing the cause of the
popular masses for independence, the socialist cause, is an important question
affecting the destiny of the revolution. Maintaining the revolutionary
principle means defending the fundamental interest of the revolution and
leading it to victory without any deviation, whereas falling back from the
revolutionary principle means betraying the fundamental interest of the
revolution and leading it to failure. The history of the revolutionary movement
shows that if one retreats even a single step from the revolutionary principle,
one will retreat two steps, and once this happens, one will go back ten steps,
and thus will eventually make a mess of the revolution. Opportunism of all hues
is characterized by a lack of revolutionary principle and by inconsistency in
line and policy. The revolutionary principle in carrying out the socialist
cause is guaranteed by the working-class party¡¯s loyalty to and faith in the
socialist cause as well as by its will to carry this cause to completion.
Respected Comrade Kim
Il Sung was a great communist revolutionary and a
genius of revolution and construction. With unshakeable revolutionary faith and
steel-like revolutionary will, he led our arduous and tortuous revolution along
the straight road to victory, with unfailing loyalty to the cause of the
popular masses for independence, the socialist cause of Juche. Comrade Kim Il Sung led our Party and people by setting a brilliant
example of the art of leadership. He defended the revolutionary principle under
all circumstances and conditions, and skillfully combined principle and
adroitness in revolution and construction.
Proceeding from the
fundamental interests of the revolution, our Party has always adhered to the
principle of independence, and to the principle of the
working class and socialism in revolution and construction, and thoroughly
carried out the revolutionary line with consistency. Our Party accelerated the
revolution and construction with continuous creative efforts and innovation to
meet the demands of the developing reality. While dealing with the rapidly
changing situation actively and shrewdly, it has never taken single step back
from the fundamental interests and principles of the revolution and firmly
maintained the revolutionary principle and line. Highly creative attitude and
adroitness based on the revolutionary principle and consistency in its line and
policy—these are the important principles and art of leadership our Party
adheres to in the revolution and construction, as well as being the
characteristics of our Party¡¯s revolutionary line and policy.
Throughout its
leadership of the revolution and construction, our Party has never deviated
from the revolutionary principle, never allowed itself to be swayed to right or
left without principle, and never made a mistake in this line. Thanks to our
Party¡¯s revolutionary principle and the consistency of its line and policy, our
revolution has been able to advance victoriously along the road to socialism
with no twists and deviations, even in the most arduous conditions. And also
our own style of socialism, centered on the popular masses, has become a firm
conviction of our people and taken root deeper in the people¡¯s life. Our people
place unqualified trust in our Party, the Party that has confidently led the
revolution and construction. They entrust their destiny entirely to it and are
fighting indomitably to complete the revolutionary cause of Juche under the
leadership of the Party.
Our Party¡¯s great
exploits and precious experience in Party building and Party activity, as well
as in revolution and construction, are the brilliant fruition of the
revolutionary idea and revolutionary leadership of the respected leader Comrade
Kim Il Sung. They are the eternal treasures of
our revolution, which we must defend, inherit and develop through generations
to come.
Our revolution has
emerged victorious under the leadership of our Party, and in future, too, it
will advance in triumph and will be carried forward to brilliant completion
under its leadership.
We still have a
long way to go, and our revolution is beset with as many hardships and trials
as ever. No matter how long and thorny the road ahead for our revolution,
pioneered and led by the great leader Comrade Kim Il
Sung, we must steadily follow this way in accordance with the behest of
Comrade Kim Il Sung. This is the unshakeable faith and will of our
Party.
We must safeguard
the people-centered socialism of our own style, established by respected Comrade
Kim Il Sung, bring honor to it and complete the
socialist cause of Juche. We must unfailingly achieve national reunification,
the vital demand of the entire nation, on the principles of independence,
peaceful reunification and great national unity set forth by Comrade Kim Il Sung. Upholding the lofty will of Comrade Kim Il Sung, our Party must strengthen solidarity with the
progressive people of the world and work hard to realize the cause of
independence for mankind.
In order to carry
forward the sacred cause of Comrade Kim Il Sung,
the revolutionary cause of Juche, from generation to generation, we must
further consolidate our Party, which organizes and guides all the victories of
our people.
We must hold in
high esteem beloved Comrade Kim Il Sung as the
eternal leader of our Party and revolution, and develop our Party as the
glorious Party of Comrade Kim Il Sung for ever.
We must defend his
great ideas, theories and revolutionary methods of leadership, and thoroughly
apply them in Party building and activities. We must do all the work of
revolution and construction just as Comrade Kim Il
Sung planned and intended and showed in his personal example, and we must
conduct everything in the same way as Comrade Kim Il Sung.
This is the way to
develop our Party as the Party of Comrade Kim Il
Sung, the way to brilliantly inherit and complete the revolutionary cause
of Juche.
We must resolutely safeguard
the revolutionary idea of the great leader Comrade Kim Il
Sung and thoroughly put it into effect.
The revolutionary
idea of Comrade Kim Il Sung, the Juche idea, is
the sole guiding ideology of our Party and the banner of victory for our Party
and revolution. It would be impossible to speak about the Party of Comrade Kim
Il Sung or to think of the victory of the Party¡¯s
cause separately from his revolutionary idea.
Holding high the
banner of modeling the entire Party on the Juche idea, we must further
strengthen education in the Juche idea, so that the Party is imbued with only
one ideology, the Juche idea, and make the whole Party breathe and pulsate with
the Juche idea. We must train all Party members to be communist revolutionaries
of the Juche type, firmly equipped with the Juche-orientated revolutionary
outlook on the world and thinking and acting at all times as demanded by the
Juche idea.
We must defend the
purity of the Juche idea and ceaselessly develop it in depth. Degeneration of
ideology brings about degeneration of the Party; it leads the revolution and
construction to ruin. Adherence to the purity of the Juche idea means keeping
our Party¡¯s revolutionary character and defending the Party¡¯s cause. We must ceaselessly fight against the infiltration of
bourgeois reactionary ideas, revisionism and all other ideological trends of
opportunism so as to prevent the heterogeneous ideological trends from getting
even the slightest chance of gaining ground and growing in our ranks. While
defending the revolutionary essence and purity of the Juche idea, we must add
luster to its greatness and develop and enrich it as required by the times and
the developing realities.
True to the Party¡¯ s slogan, ¡°Let us meet the requirements of Juche in
ideology, technology and culture!¡± we must deal with all work of revolution and
construction as required by the Juche idea. We must thoroughly implement the
Juche idea in building the Party, the army, the economy and culture, to further
strengthen the political, economic and military power of the country, bring
about development and the flowering of socialist national culture, and fully
display the advantages of our own style of socialism centered on the popular
masses.
We must defend and
cherish the unity and solidarity of our Party created by the great leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung, and cement this cohesion
more solidly.
The unity and
cohesion in the party ranks means its lifeblood and strength. Our Party¡¯s unity
and cohesion is the purest and most durable, based on the monolithic
ideological system, and a guarantee for the indestructible might of our Party.
We must
consistently hold fast to the work of establishing the Party¡¯s monolithic
ideological system as the basic line of Party building, and defend and
strengthen further the unity and cohesion of our Party, which is firmly united
in ideology and will as well as in morality and loyalty based on one ideology and
one centre. All the cadres and Party members must make loyalty to the Party
their faith, conscience, morality and the creed of their lives, and follow the
Party¡¯s leadership firmly, united in mind and will.
We must oppose all
kinds of unsound elements detrimental to the Party¡¯s unity and cohesion and
ensure the purity of the Party ranks. Our Party¡¯s unity and cohesion has
reached a high level, but we must not rest content. The unity and cohesion of
the Party can be maintained and consolidated only through constant ideological
education and ideological struggle. We must not tolerate nepotism,
parochialism, factionalism and other elements that undermine and hamper the
Party¡¯s unity and cohesion. We must overcome them promptly so that the Party is
always permeated with the spirit of unity, the atmosphere of unity.
We must thoroughly
put into effect the great Comrade Kim Il Sung¡¯s idea, ¡°The people are my God,¡±
so as to further cement the inseparable ties between the Party and the people
and ceaselessly strengthen and develop the single-hearted unity of society.
Our Party exists
for the people and regards it as its duty to fight to meet the interests of the
people and their desire for independence. Taking loving care of the people,
serving them and forming a harmonious whole with them—these are the intrinsic
nature and basic characteristics of the Party of Comrade Kim Il Sung.
Our people are a
great revolutionary people, who were brought up by respected Comrade Kim Il
Sung and who braved the tempest of the revolution under his leadership;
they are an excellent people equipped with noble ideological and mental traits
under our Party¡¯s benevolent politics and the socialist system of our country.
Our Party strongly believes in our people, who are boundlessly loyal to the
Party and revolution; it overcomes all difficulties and hardships by relying on
their unrivalled heroism and unquenchable creative force. Our people¡¯s unquestioned trust in and unanimous support for our
Party are a source of invincible strength for the Party. Serving our fine
people is a great honor and pride for our Party.
We must thoroughly
implement the consistent ideas and policies of our Party, which takes loving
care of the people, champions their demands and interests and fights for their
independent and creative life. We must build more effectively our Party as a
genuine motherly party that leads and takes care of the destiny of the people
on its own responsibility, and must enhance the spirit of service for the
people among officials so that they might put the benevolent politics of the
Party into practice more efficiently. We must ensure that all the officials
serve the people devotedly, acting as their servants and the champions of their
interests.
We must fully
implement the Chongsanri spirit and Chongsanri method, as created by Comrade Kim Il Sung,
and hold high as ever the Party¡¯s slogan, ¡°Let the whole Party go among the
masses!¡± All the officials must acquire more firmly the revolutionary and
popular style of work; they should always go deep among the masses, share good
and bad times with them, teach them and at the same time learn from them, and
carry out the revolutionary tasks by giving rein to their revolutionary
enthusiasm and creative zeal. We must resolutely oppose and reject abuse of
power, bureaucracy, irregularity and corruption among officials, and ensure
that they acquire modest and unpretentious traits and establish a frugal and
upright way of life.
The Party must
believe in the people and the people in the Party, striving vigorously as one,
thus further consolidating the single-hearted unity of society as a whole. As
we have advanced in the past by braving difficulties on the strength of the
single-hearted unity of the Party and the people, so we must in future, too,
pave the way of victory and glory by relying on the might of single-hearted
unity.
Today our Party and
people have embarked on the road of new historic advance. Our Party will
inherit and develop faithfully the idea and achievements of the great leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung and accomplish his cause
down through generations.
The Workers¡¯ Party
of Korea will shine for ever as the Party of Comrade Kim Il
Sung.
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