Brilliant Leadership

Instructing How to Educate Children

Behind a wonderful child is a wonderful mother, and behind her is the great Mentor. Scores of years ago, President Kim Il Sung arranged the National Mothers’ Conference, personally attended it and made a historic speech. Fathoming the efforts of mothers across the country in the conference, the President gave them precious instructions for the education of children, stressing that they have heavy missions to bring up their children well. Mentioning that no special way is necessary for educating children, and numerous positive models created in our country would do for it, he enumerated good examples one by one. He added there was probably no one that was unaware of the story about the medical workers who saved a boy, Pang Ha Su, and about Kil Hwak Sil and Ri Sin Ja, and that those good examples would surely help bring up their children to be good-natured. Indeed, the President was really a great mentor of all mothers of our country who gave precious instructions for the education of children so that they could become well aware of their duty as mothers.

We Are All Your Sons and Daughters

Chairman Kim Jong Il once made a visit to the native home of Hero Ri Su Bok. Walking towards the native house of the hero, he suddenly stopped on an approach to his house. With his eyes of deep thought as if following up the trace of the hero, the Chairman mentioned in an emotional tone that it was really a significant road, along which he walked to and from school and to the front. After a while, the Chairman entered his native home, saying that his mother must have been waiting for her son to return along this road, and now they were on the way instead of her son. Friendly holding the hands of his mother, the Chairman warmly said: Even though Hero Ri Su Bok could not come back, we are beside you instead and we are all your sons and daughters. We are all your sons and daughters. Indeed, it was the fervent love, trust and respect of the peerless great man for our mothers who brought up their children to be the reliable pillars of the fatherland.

First Criterion

Once, a foreign personage who was on a visit to the DPRK courteously asked President Kim Il Sung about the basis of the politics of the DPRK. The President gave him a clear answer that it is to thoroughly maintain independence. After a while, the President said that maintaining independence in politics is, first, to defend the national independence and sovereignty of the people and, second, to implement the politics that relies on its people. Looking up to the President, the personage made a polite request for further detailed explanation about it. Noting that political independence is the first criterion and lifeblood of an independent sovereign state, the President said that independence is the life and soul of an independent sovereign state, to say nothing of the human. He added that the sovereign independence of a country presupposes political independence, which guarantees the function and role as an independent sovereign state. The personage was completely fascinated by the statement “Political independence is the first criterion and lifeblood.”

Affectionate Visit to Fish Farm

One day in November several years ago, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un inspected a mobile cage-net fish farm newly set up in the Taedong River. Seeing the whole of the fish farm, he expressed great pleasure, satisfactorily saying that Pyongyang City took the lead in cage-net fish farming. Going round various places of the fish farm, he earnestly instructed the officials to do fish farming on a large scale so as to provide the people with more fish. Exposed to the wet chilly wind from the river on the morning of early winter, he repeatedly stressed the need to make sure that the people enjoy substantial benefits from cage-net fish farming. His instruction was endlessly resounding in the hearts of the officials who were looking up to the benevolent image of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Every Party is Equal

It was one day in June, Juche 64(1975). President Kim Il Sung paid an official goodwill visit to then Yugoslavia and met its leader, Josip Broz Tito, who was green with envy saying that the DPRK was courageously advancing forward doing whatever it wanted to without seeking any foreign approval. Tito disclosed to the President his mental agony about suffering from some kinds of pressures and criticisms on the way of building self-governing socialism against hegemony. The President advised him that every party should arm their party members with their own ideas and policies without following others blindly and that when a man turned to flunkeyism, he would become an idiot, when a nation took to flunkeyism, it would fall into ruin, and when a party followed flunkeyism, it would make a mess of revolution and construction. The President added with emphasis that every party in the world is equal and they cannot be master parties nor servant parties.

Juche Philosophy is “Superb Philosophy”

It was September 17, Juche 61(1972), when President Kim Il Sung granted an interview with the press from Japanese Mainichi Shimbun. Seated on a humble chair by a small side table, he gave a logical and persuasive explanation of the circumstances of origination of the Juche idea to the correspondents, who were eagerly waiting for it. The President delineated the position and role of man in the world, and clarified the philosophical foundation of the Juche idea and the new philosophical principle that man is the master of everything and decides everything, and nothing in the world is more precious and stronger than man. Although they themselves were well-versed in “Materialism and Empirical Criticism” by Lenin and “On Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism” by Stalin, as well as “Anti Duhring”, “Natural Dialectic” and “Feuerbach and the End of German Classical Philosophy”, they were so fascinated by the profound principle of Juche philosophy which constitutes the supreme essentials of the history of human philosophy that they were unaware of themselves clapping their hands with cheers. That was because Juche philosophy centred on man is a completely new one that denies no classics and copies nothing from them. That is why no sooner had the answers by the President that day to the questions from Mainichi Shimbun “On Some Problems of Our Party’s Juche Idea and the Government of the Republic’s Internal and External Policies” been carried on the publications than it created a great sensation throughout the world. An Indian follower of the Juche idea expressed his view as follows: “President Kim Il Sung, by originating the Juche philosophy, corroborated that there is no limit to the human thinking and inquiry. There is no genius comparable to the President in the world in terms of the boundless faculties of thinking and inquiry. In general, academic studies, whichever it may be, cannot exist without thinking and inquiry. Among them, philosophy is the supreme study of high-level thinking and moreover, the Juche philosophy is philosophical philosophy, a real great philosophy. Juche philosophy is great, its originator is great and his wisdom which ensures such clear-cut enunciation is yet great. It is the superb one that deserves to be praised sky-high. The President, who has illuminated the way ahead of mankind with the sunlight of Juche, is indeed a great human sun. He is the only one to be admired as the sun in the world.” This was none other than the unbounded sincere admiration of humans.