Scent of Officials
It was one day in June, Juche 59 (1970).
Chairman Kim Jong Il was talking to an official about the need for Party officials to be possessed of generosity, humanity and benevolence in addition to being well versed in the Party’s mass line.
Even if all flowers look fragrant, the movement of bees and butterflies makes clear which is really fragrant and which is not, said the Chairman, adding that the same law holds true for human life.
He continued:
Just as flowers with sweet smell attract bees and butterflies, so can only warm-hearted Party officials be popular with people. The fragrance of Party officials is just humanity and benevolence. Humanity and benevolence can be said to be the scent of humans that makes a person admirable.
Explaining that bees and butterflies fly onto fragrant flowers because fragrant ones have nectar for them to live on, and that flowers emit fragrance because they can be pollinated to produce seeds only when bees and butterflies flock to them, he said that the relationship between the Party and the people is just the same as that. Then, he stressed that the popular masses can carve out their destiny and glorify their political integrity only when they are led by the Party, their vanguard organization, with their destiny entrusted to it, and that the Party can emerge victorious in a revolution only when it rallies the popular masses behind itself.
