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Eternal Sun

The Korean people celebrate April 15, birthday of President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994), as the Day of the Sun.

The President, founder of socialist Korea, is likened to the sun, as he possessed at the highest level with light, heat and attraction, attributes of the sun.

He illumined the way for humanity to follow in the era of independence.

It was a historic event which ushered in a new era in human history, an era of independence, that he authored the Juche idea, which asserts that the popular masses are the masters and driving force of the revolution and construction, i.e., they are the masters of their destiny and have the force to carve it out.

By the evolution of the Juche idea, the oppressed peoples, who had writhed in the agony as colonial slaves, could emerge as the masters of their destiny, and the strong current of independence swept across the world.

The Juche idea gripped the hearts of the people of the world over. Organizations for studying and propagating the idea have been formed in many countries—over 1, 100 such organizations in more than 100 countries, national committees in scores of countries, an institute in each continent and the permanent International Institute of the Juche Idea.

President Kim Il Sung, possessed with ardent love of people, administered benevolent politics throughout his life.

Regarding “The people are my God” as his lifetime motto, he always mixed with his people. He ensured that free medical care and education were enforced across the country and taxes were abolished once and for all. As the father of the grand family, i.e., Korean society, he took affectionate care of all the members of the family. It is fortuitous that the Korean people addressed him by the “fatherly leader” rather than by his official title in his lifetime.

He also showed warm benevolence to foreigners in disregard of nationality, ideology, political view and religious belief.

The following are typical examples.

In September 1964, the president of a radio station of Guinea contracted a fatal disease during his visit to the DPRK as the head of a delegation of journalists. Informed of this, Kim Il Sung gave out an order to save the patient at all costs. Numbers of competent doctors were sent to him. He received an operation lasting seven hours and blood transfusion on over 50 occasions during his hospital days. He was miraculously fetched from the jaws of death by the sincere devotion of the Korean doctors. Very pleased at this, President Kim Il Sung took all necessary measures for his recuperation. And when the Guinean was returning home, he ensured that a chartered plane of the DPRK carried him as far as Guinea with Korean doctors attending to him.

When Kreisky, former Austrian Chancellor and honorary chairman of the Austrian Socialist Party, was unable to walk in his twilight years owing to a disease, President Kim Il Sung sent Korean doctors to Austria with expensive Koryo medicines. Thanks to his benevolent care, the Austrian statesman could be cured of the disease.

President Kim Il Sung’s noble personality was fascinating. During his lifetime, he met more than 70 000 foreigners from all walks of life, among them were such prominent figures as Stalin, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Fidel Castro, Norodom Shihanouk, Ho Chi Minh, Tito and Lansana Conte. Some foreigners were so enchanted by his personality that they visited the DPRK out of hope to see him again. Among them was Luise Rinser, a German writer. After meeting him, she said that President Kim Il Sung was a godlike man whether he wanted to be or not. US evangelist Billy Graham, too, likened him to god, saying that the DPRK led by him was a country in which God had nothing to do.

When President Kim Il Sung died suddenly in July 1994, many people around the world felt as if the sky had fallen and the sun set.

However, the sun is immortal.

President Kim Il Sung is preserved in the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, called the house of the sun, as he was in his lifetime. The Korean people designated April 15, his birthday, as the Day of the Sun and acclaimed him as the eternal President of the country.

Ubiquitous in the DPRK are the slogans “The Great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung will Always Be with Us” and “Let Us Arm Ourselves Firmly with the Revolutionary Ideas of the Great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung!” and portraits of him with beaming smile. The April Spring Friendship Art Festival, an international art festival, continues to be held on the occasion of his birth anniversary. And the International Friendship Exhibition in Mt. Myohyang, a celebrated mountain in Korea, increases its display of the gifts presented to him after his death by foreign heads of state and political and social figures.

In April 1995, the next year of his death, a ceremony of conferring the title of the patriarch of the sun’s tribe was held in Nigeria. In the ceremony, the King of Ummuozzi Community said, “President Kim Il Sung is the great sun that illumines the way ahead of mankind. Although he passed away, he will always be with us as the sun is immortal.”

As the sun is immortal, so is President Kim Il Sung in the hearts of mankind.

Independence and President Kim Il Sung

President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea led the Korean revolution vigorously for nearly seven decades in the last century. His career runs through with the idea of independence.

Holding high banner of independence

Embarking on the road of the struggle to liberate Korea from the military occupation of the Japanese imperialists (1905-1945), Kim Il Sung groped for a path to be followed by the Korean revolution. He founded out two truths: The first one is that the masters of the revolution are the masses of the people and that one can emerge victorious in the revolution when believing in their strength and organizing and mobilizing them. Another one is that one should make a revolution on his own responsibility in accordance with his own faith and solve for himself all problems arising in the revolution in conformity with specific conditions and interests of his country. He held a historic meeting of Korean revolutionaries of a new generation in Kalun in June 1930 and delivered a speech The Path of the Korea Revolution. Based himself on the said truths he created the Juche idea, the principle of which is that man is the master of his own destiny and has the ability to carve it out, Songun idea that a revolution is pioneered, advanced and accomplished on the strength of the arms, which is based on the Juche idea. Since then the Korean revolution could advance along the road of independence clarified by the Juche idea, the Songun idea. The Korean revolutionaries, under the command of Kim Il Sung, waged the 15-year-long armed struggle, holding high the banner of independence, defeated the Japanese imperialists and liberated Korea on August 15, 1945.

Road of Korean-style democracy

What road will the liberated Korea take?

There appeared different isms and doctrines after Korea’s liberation, driving people into confusion. At that time, Kim Il Sung set the road of progressive democracy suited to the actual situation of Korea. The most important feature of the progressive democracy was independence, which called for building a new Korea in every way with an independent stand and creative attitude, rejecting any dependence on foreign countries and subordination to them.

The building of a new society in the liberated Korea followed the road of progressive democracy advanced by the President. The democratic reforms as the tasks of the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution were carried into effect. The land reform was carried out to abolish feudal landownership and made peasants the owners of land. With the law on nationalizing major industries promulgated, blue- and white-collar workers became masters of industrial establishments. Women were legally provided with the same right with men thanks to the law on sex equality. The labor law was proclaimed to introduce an eight-hour working system and a paid leave system for the blue- and white-collar workers.

On the basis of these democratic reforms, the DPRK, the first democratic state for the people in the East, was founded in September 1948.

Heroic epic in defence of sovereignty

In June 1950, the US imperialist provoked a war of aggression against the DPRK in a bid to realize their wild ambition for world supremacy. They hurled into the small war area of the Korean Peninsula huge forces over two million strong, including their three fighting forces, troops of their 15 vassal states, south Korean troops and even the remnants of former Japanese army, and colossal amounts of munitions of more than 73 million tons. The Korean people stood at the crossroads of whether they becoming slaves of imperialism once again or defending their dignity as the independent people.

President Kim Il Sung aroused the Korean army and people to the heroic struggle for the defence of sovereignty. During the war he toured over 20 480 km, braving the raining bombs and shells, in order to give field guidance to 1 056 units at the front and in the rear, and advanced unique strategies and tactics, thus leading the servicepersons and people to the victory in the war.

During the three-year-long Korean War the United States lost 1 560 000-strong troops, over 12 200 fighter planes and other combat equipment, and had to sign an armistice agreement, admitting its defeat in the war. The young DPRK defeated the US which boasted of being “the strongest” in the world.

Foundation of independent economy built up

The DPRK has consistently adhered to the line of independent national economy from the first day of its founding. The independent national economy of the DPRK is now in a position to manufactured artificial earth satellite completely by its own efforts and technology and successfully launch them at one go.

Credit for this has not come of its own accord. After the Korea War, the advocates of an integrated economy in socialist countries forced the DPRK to join the COMECOM, laying obstacles to its economic development. They did not give it even the already contracted steel and machinery, putting pressure upon it in all directions. President Kim Il Sung resolutely rejected the demand of great-power chauvinists and called on the Korean working class and other people to overcome the prevailing difficulties in the spirit of self-reliance. In hearty response to his call, the Korean people developed their economy at the leaping speed of 19.1% growth on an annual average and thus carried out the historic task of industrialization in 14 years.

Thanks to the rock-solid independent national economy the DPRK could provide itself with material foundations for the independence in politics and self-defensive in national defense. As a result, socialist Korea has never flinched in the turmoil of successive collapse of socialism in former Soviet Union and other east European countries in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as it has steadfastly adhered to the banner of independence.

Today, the banner of independence President Kim Il Sung maintained throughout his life is shedding its light together with the DPRK presenting its magnificent appearance as an invincible power of independence.