Eternal March
It was at a recreation time one day in August, 1962, when the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il was spending the days of military encampment in Oun-dong.
In the middle of it, his fellow students entreated him to sing a song.
Willingly agreeing to it, he started with the following words.
In the far northern sky packed with high and low mountain ranges rises Mt. Paektu, the sacred mountain of revolution, from which the march of our revolution made a start.
This made the campers meditate on the undying exploits of President Kim Il Sung, who had brought about the national liberation crossing steep, craggy mountains with an iron will, and make up their minds once again to go along the road of revolution with unusual preparedness.
Taking a glance at them, who were full of strong emotions, he added that we, the new generation had been vigorously following the glorious road travelled by the anti-Japanese revolutionary predecessors and he himself wanted to express his feelings as the lines of a poem.
Then, he recited an impromptu poem “I Will Carry on the March Started from Mt. Paektu” in person.
His poem reflected his invariable belief and iron will to achieve without fail the victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche by unyieldingly carrying on the march started from Mt. Paektu by President Kim Il Sung generation after generation.
