Brilliant Leadership

From the Juche Viewpoint

Chairman Kim Jong Il, sitting together with some officials on May 1st, Juche 95 (2006), said that May Day had been known to be an international holiday for workers all over the world so far, but it was necessary to renew its understanding, and he confirmed the grounds one by one. Giving the officials a clear picture of the changed position of the working class and their social and class relationships with scientific evidences and logical arguments, he said: The concept of working people includes workers, farmers and intellectuals. Calling May Day a holiday for the workers the world over is not accurate for the character of our Party. Our Party is a mass party of the working people that consist of the progressive elements of workers, farmers and intellectuals. So when we say it is a holiday of the working class, it is felt like the mass character of our Party is belittled…. Saying that after liberation, our Party saw to it that workers, farmers and intellectuals enjoy May Day altogether as a working people’s holiday, he continued that we should change the slogan “Workers of all countries, unite!” into “Working people of the whole world, unite!” in our own way from now on and keep to it, stressing that it is just Juche.

Motto of Life

One day in May, Juche 106 (2017), the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited a disabled soldiers’ essential plastic goods factory and went round the room for education in the revolutionary history built inside the factory. When he found himself before a photographic image of Chairman Kim Jong Il on an inspection of the factory, he noted that the instruction of the Chairman that those who would have been treated like dirt in other societies were being respected as precious national treasures and honoured disabled soldiers in our country was really meaningful. Then, he called on all the disabled soldiers to lead worthy lives with the profound meaning of the instruction deep in mind.

Saying that Tireless Efforts Should Be Made

One day in April, Juche 101 (2012), with the significant Day of the Sun just ahead, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said some meaningful words to some officials. Saying that true to the lofty intention of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il, who regarded the idea of “The People are God” as their mottos, they should regard people as Heaven, boundlessly respect and hold them up, and place their demands and interests first in all undertakings, he earnestly instructed that all the party organizations should always love and take sincere care of them with maternal love, and bear responsibility for and glorify their political integrity to the end. On the day, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said earnestly that officials should dedicate their all to the people as there exist officials for the sake of people, not people for the sake of officials, and that by taking their cue from the President’s and the Chairman’s outlook on people, all officials should share weal and woe with people and make tireless efforts for them.

Consultative Meeting with Unusual Start

In May, Juche 70 (1981), a consultative meeting was held, in the presence of President Kim Il Sung, in the township of Undok County (Kyonghung County at present). At the very beginning of the meeting, the President asked an official who had lived longest there if he knew why the area was called Aoji. As he was tardy in answering the question, another official answered for him that in the past it was such an area unfit for human inhabitation that the inhabitants used to say to the pieceworkers to coal mines there for digging coal “Oh, please, you’d rather not come here.” (pronounced as “A, oji malla” in Korean), which was later fixed to be the name, Aoji. Guessing that it was named so because coal miners found it too hard to survive and make a living before liberation as they were forced to crawl to narrow dim coalfaces to do primitive jobs under the whips of cruel overseers, he said that the name must have been used from the period before the feudal Joson dynasty. At that time, an official came into the meeting venue and whispered something to the President. Then, the President reported to the audience that he had guessed right, saying that he had just got a reply from an official in Pyongyang whom he had commissioned to trace the origin of the name “Aoji” as he felt it did not sound like Korean. It was not Korean, indeed. Informing them of the origin, the President said that the names given by the foreign invaders should not continue to be in use. Then, he stressed the need to change all the names of the places and factories there beginning with “Aoji” into Korean. It was a significant moment that gave a valuable philosophy that when the Juche character and national identity are thoroughly embodied, we can victoriously advance the socialist construction with the independent dignity and national pride.

Establish Juche

One day several decades ago, President Kim Il Sung present at an enlarged meeting of the Party committee of Hungnam Fertilizer Factory (then) made a historic concluding speech. Clarifying tasks and ways for an increase in production of fertilizer, he emphasized it as an important matter to establish Juche in scientific research work. That day, noting that an important task facing scientists at that time was to intensify scientific research work for developing our industry with domestic raw materials, he said with emphasis that we should continue to develop our chemical industry in such a way as to produce goods necessary for our people with domestic raw materials.

A Generalissimo and a Soldier

It was April in Juche 81 (1992). In that historical spring, our people conferred the highest military title, Generalissimo of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, on President Kim Il Sung greeting his 80th birthday. The officials made repeated requests to the President that they wanted to see him in his generalissimo uniform almost every day. But he declined their requests every time. One day the officials made their earnest request once again. “President, it is our duty to hand down to posterity the image of you in the generalissimo uniform in a historical document. Please accede to our request.” The President could no longer refuse but agreed to it. It was the 22nd of April in Juche 81(1992). The President had his photo taken in the generalissimo uniform that day. In the uniform with shining generalissimo stars on his shoulders, his dignity as an ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander really matched well with his sacred image like the sun. That day the President proposed having a photo taken with the soldier on sentry duty, saying that as he became the Generalissimo of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, he wanted to have a photo taken with a sentry. Then, the President relieved the sentry, asked him where it would be fine for a photo, and had a souvenir photo taken under an apricot tree in full blossom. It was a souvenir photo with a generalissimo and a sentry. A generalissimo and a sentry are poles apart in terms of military rank. However, the President did have a photo taken with a sentry on that honorable day as he loved soldiers best.