KIM JONG IL
THE WORKERS’ PARTY OF KOREA IS THE 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 around 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-centred 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 centring
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 centring 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 centring 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 channeled 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 centred on the masses, and added lustre
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 vigour 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 honour 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 centred 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 vigour in such complicated
circumstances and trying ordeals, and has won victory after victory by turning
misfortune into a blessing and unfavourable
conditions into favourable 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 thid
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 revolition. 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 analysed 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 lustre
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, centred 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-centred socialism of our own style, established by
respected Comrade Kim Il Sung, bring honour 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.
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