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He is the outstanding leader and the greatest man in the age of independence who took the lead in the arduous and severe struggle in the vortex of 20th century, thus making the immortal exploits unprecedented in all the history of mankind.
First of all, he is the great master of ideology and theory who bestowed upon the Korean and world progressive peoples an everlasting ideology that guides the cause of independence.
The popular masses have long yearned for a life, independent and creative, equal and free from all the fetters of nature and society.
In the beginning of the 20th century, the world entered the new era of independence when the popular masses emerged as masters of their destiny and history makers to put an end to the colonial rule of the imperialists and win their sovereignty and independence, justice and progress.
President Kim Il Sung already in his teenage took a deep insight into the urgent demand at the age of independence and aspirations of the popular masses. Then, he founded the Juche Idea on the basis of the philosophical principle that man is the master of everything and decides everything, and put forward the theories for the national liberation and the construction of a new society and formulated strategy and tactics for their practice, and methods of guiding the masses.
There have been many ideologists and leaders who presumed themselves to leave a mark throughout the history, but no one so distinguished as him who created the great ideology that reached the acme of human ideologies, early in his teens.
For the first time in history, he gave the only correct solution to the position and role of man in the world and clarified the fundamental truth that the popular masses are the driving forces of history and the socio-historical movement is the people's movement, independent, creative and conscious one.
Especially, he gave perfect solutions to the theory of building the ideal society of mankind by formulating all the revolutionary theories for achieving independence of the working masses of people regarding them as the central factor, the theories on national liberation, class and human emancipation and the theories on transformation of society and nature and the remoulding of man.
President Kim Il Sung newly clarified the methods of leadership over the masses and gave detailed solutions to all the issues arising in leading the building of the new society ranging from the leadership principles to the work method and style.
It is the remarkable ideological and theoretical achievement of President Kim Il Sung to set forth the ideas and lines of attaching importance to the arms and military affairs in view of the practical demand for safeguarding the national sovereignty and building a new society in confrontation with the imperialists, thus illuminating the road ahead of the cause of independence against imperialism.
Indeed, as a great thinker and theoretician, he energetically conducted his ideological and theoretical activities and gave comprehensive solutions to the theoretical and practical issues arising in every phase and sector in building a new society, and made most distinguished contributions to the history of ideologies of mankind.
President Kim Il Sung is a peerless statesman and outstanding leader, who offered a mighty political weapon for the victorious advance and completion of the just cause of the Korean people and the cause of mankind for independence.
The 20th century produced many noted statesmen, but no one as great as President Kim Il Sung who wisely guided the construction of the Party and the State through a half-a-century-long honorable history of leadership to lay a firm political guarantee for the victory of the cause of independence.
President Kim Il Sung opened up an original way of building a socialist Government Party and developed the Workers'Party of Korea into a revolutionary Party united in ideology and purpose with the Juche Idea as a guiding idea; into an invincible Party deeply rooted in the broad popular masses and absolutely supported by them; into a promising Party confidently leading the revolutionary cause that should be accomplished through generations.
He ensured that the people's power in Korea will discharge the role of a representative of the independent rights of the working masses, an organizer of their creative abilities and activities and a protector of their rights.
It is because the WPK and DPR Korea founded and developed by him are powerful and stable that the Korean people are formidable along the Juche-oriented road chosen by themselves, in such a political situation full of upheavals as at present.
He wisely led the building of a new society, in keeping with the development of the times and reality, as well as with the aspirations and requirements of the popular masses, thus emancipating the Korean people from exploitation and oppression and turning Korea into a socialist powerful nation independent, self-supporting and self-defensive.
It was not until the glorious times of Kim Il Sung that Korea, once played in the hands of great powers for centuries, turned into a socialist powerful nation full of Juche character and national identity and heralded a golden age of the national prosperity in which the Korean people, formally subjected to poverty and ignorance, are making an independent new life.
The people-centred socialism of the Korean style where the beautiful dreams and ideals of the people are coming true is the most precious legacy associated with the devotional efforts of President Kim Il Sung in his lifetime.
President Kim Il Sung who set a universal example for the socialist construction by applying the noble ideal of believing in the people as in heaven and made socialism deep-rooted in the minds and lives of people will be praised for all ages as the father of all the people and the founding father of socialist Korea.
President Kim Il Sung devoted his all to reunifying Korea divided by foreign forces into the north and the south.
From the first days of division after the liberation, he laid down the policy of rallying all who love the country and nation and desire reunification, irrespective of the difference in ideologies and ideals, political views and faith, and made all efforts to reunify the country in an independent and peaceful way.
During this time, he put forth reasonable and realistic proposals for reunification including three principles of the national reunification - independence, peaceful reunification and the great national unity- and laid solid foundations for carrying them out.
President Kim Il Sung is an outstanding military strategist and ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander who defeated two imperialist powers within a century.
In his teenage, he embarked on the sacred struggle against the Japanese imperialists, with the lofty ambition to liberate the country; in his twenties he founded the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Unit to wage a prolonged and hard-fought struggle against million-strong Japanese imperialists and finally achieve the liberation of Korea.
The US started the Korean war to nip the two-year-old DPRK in the bud, but President Kim Il Sung rallied the Korean army and people into one to defeat the US, which was put on the downgrade for the first time in its history.
Whenever the danger of a nuclear war was imminent in the Korean peninsula owing to the continued war provocations of the US and its allied forces including the “Pueblo incident”, he frustrated it each time and emerged victorious with the iron-willed courage and pluck of “retaliation for retaliation and all-out war for all-out war”.
He developed the Korean People's Army into an invincible army that safeguarded the country and the people, and laid down the strong foundations for building self-supporting national defense industry. President Kim Il Sung is the great mentor of progressive mankind who devoted his all to the accomplishment of the cause of mankind for independence.
He set forth the strategy and tactics for global independence to push ahead with the cause of independence against imperialism and; sincerely aided the different countries in their efforts to achieve sovereignty and independence, justice and peace out of the noble sense of internationalist duty to make great contributions to the cause of human emancipation.
During the World War II, President Kim Il Sung assisted the USSR, the first socialist state, with the force of arms while waging a vigorous armed struggle; supported the Chinese people in their struggle, and following the liberation of Korea in 1945, though still hard up in Korea, dispatched competent military officers and combat units and provided them with the logistics including weapons, ammunitions, food and clothing to support the Chinese revolution as yet to win.
When the Caribbean Crisis was created by the U.S. in October, 1962, he denounced the US for their actions and rendered political and military assistance to Cuba. Afterwards with a view to helping them to build a new society he provided them with food, tractors and other materials, sending groups of qualified Korean technicians.
When the US ignited a special war in Vietnam in 1964, he actively supported and encouraged the Vietnamese people in their struggles. In November that year he personally visited Vietnam to encourage them in their struggle and met all their request for assistance.
He gave material and moral assistance to the people in many countries-the Cambodian and Lao people in their struggle against the aggression of the US imperialists; Algerian, Angolan, Mozambican, Zimbabwean and Namibian and other African people in their struggle against the colonialists and for the national liberation; the peoples of Latin America in their struggle against the US and pro-US dictatorial regimes.
He also extended solid support for the Arabian people and rendered a large amount of material and military supplies whenever a war broke out in the Middle East by the Israeli Zionists.
He wrote many works including “Let us strengthen the anti-imperialist, anti-US struggles”, “Invincible is the great anti-imperialist revolutionary cause of the peoples in Asia, Africa and Latin America” and so on to encourage the peoples of the world in their struggle under the banner of anti-imperialism and independence, and illumine the path for the cause of global independence.
With his wise instructions and disinterested assistance, many countries achieved the national liberation to expedite the end of the colonial ruling system of the imperialists.
President Kim Il Sung helped the peoples of many countries in their efforts to start a new life after achieving independence.
The experiences that Korea gained in building a new society under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung were of great value to the world people newly freed from the imperialist bondage.
Whenever the leaders and politicians of the liberated countries visited Korea to seek for assistance, he informed them of the achievements and experiences the Korean people acquired in building the new society, and gave them all possible assistance.
He sent newly-liberated countries many technicians and experts in irrigation, agriculture, industry and other sectors, while supplying materials, facilities, fund and equipment.
Under his leadership, Korea established the relationship of economic and cultural exchanges and cooperation with many developing countries in the fields of agriculture, health care, education, literature and art and so on and gave free assistance to many of their projects so that these countries advance firmly along the road of independence.
With a deep insight into the significance and role of the Non-aligned Movement in the struggle for global independence President Kim Il Sung gave comprehensive answers to all the theoretical and practical issues arising in developing this movement.
In the beginning of the 1960s, that is, at the early stage of the Non-aligned Movement the imperialist and dominationist forces clinging to neo-colonialism drove wedges between NAM member states to engender antagonism and conflict among them so as to pit them against each other with an aim of seeking to fish in troubled waters.
In this situation, President Kim Il Sung made great efforts to switch its stand from the neutrality to anti-imperialism and independence. He said on many occasions that NAM member states should hold the strategy of unity against the imperialist and dominationist schemes of division and alienation; put priority to the unity and submit everything to the unity; settle differences and disputes through negotiations among the parties concerned.
President Kim Il Sung met with former President Soekarno, one of the founders of the Movement and former Yugoslavian President Tito several times to discuss the issues related with the development of the Non-aligned Movement. He also met the leaders of the states and governments from many developing countries to express his views on the issues arising in these countries and the development of the overall Non-aligned Movement.
He directed deep concern to the struggles of the developing countries to terminate all kinds of domination and subordination and set up new international political order, and replace the old international economic order with the new one on the principles of independence, equality and mutual benefits. Especially, with the positive economic and technical assistance to them he set a high example for South-South cooperation.
He is spoken in highest terms as the most outstanding man who represented the 20th century and the eternal sun of Juche for his unparalleled qualities of a great man; for his brilliant revolutionary activities who paved the way to the era of independence and for the grand achievements he made for the sake of history and mankind.
President Kim Il Sung brought with him the era of Juche and made the victorious advance of the cause of mankind for independence, laying an everlasting basis for it, will always live in the minds of the Korean people and the progressive mankind down to the posterity.
His ideology and achievemnets were carried forward by His Excellency Kim Jong Il and are now being translated into reality under the leadership of His Excellency Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader of the Korean people. His Excellency Kim Jong Il set it as his lifelong duty to carry on the cause of the sun and resolutely adhered to and succeeded to President Kim Il Sung’s ideology and achievements in full measure for decades, leading the building of a new society in Korea.
It is thanks to His Excellency Kim Jong Il's energetic ideological and theoretical activities and his outstanding leadership that the Juche Idea has been developed and enriched as an ideology guiding permanently the era of independence; the state, as well as the Party and the army, in Korea, turned into those of President Kim Il Sung; the historical cause of moulding the whole society pushed ahead with vigor, as required by Kimilsungism.
His Excellency Kim Jong Il safeguarded the country and socialism by dint of the ever-victorious Songun Politics and raised Korea up to the position of the ever-victorious political and ideological power and military giant to make a rock-firm foundation for bringing the cause of President Kim Il Sung into completion, which signifies his undying achievements.
Respected His Excellency Kim Jong Un ensures that Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is shining as the banner of victory and glory of the age of independence; the history and traditions of the single-hearted unity are steadily continuing; the just cause of the Korean people advancing along the road of independence, Songun and socialism.
Now in Korea Kim Jong Il patriotism prevails throughout the country and surprising miracles are wrought one after another in the efforts to build an economic power and socialist civilized country of the 21st century to herald a golden age of prosperity. This amazing reality is being brought by respected His Excellency Kim Jong Un with his outstanding leadership.
The current era of Kim Jong Un is the age of prosperity when the valuable seeds sown by President Kim Il Sung and His Excellency Kim Jong Il come to fruition and one full of hope when the dreams and ideals of the Korean people are being translated into reality.
The ideas and cause of great President Kim Il Sung and His Excellency Kim Jong Il will surely come true as long as respected His Excellency Kim Jong Un, the peerless statesman, leads the Korean people wisely, stands in the van of the revolution and the Workers' Party of Korea, the army and people are single-heartedly united around him.
Thank you. ***
Eko Surjosantjojo
Co-Chairman, Asia Pacific Regional Memorial Committee for President Kim Il Sung
