Brilliant Leadership

Personally Planting Rice Seedlings

One day in June, Juche 36 (1947), President Kim Il Sung came out to the Mirim Field. Saying that he was going to join the farmers there for rice-planting, the President headed towards a rice paddy. At that moment, one of the officials brought him a pair of wellingtons. The President declined the boots and stepped into the paddy, saying that farmers had never worn wellingtons for rice planting and that he would prefer bare feet like them. The paddy was lively and full of cheerful laughter like a happy family working altogether. When one of the officials was about to plant a seedling before the President, the President said: You do not need to help others. As we are all here for rice-planting, everyone has to fulfill their assignments. Then, the President started planting with a bright smile. The President made the work joyful, lest the officials and farmers should feel constrained even a bit in his presence. Indeed, nowhere in the world can we find such a great man as the President, who planted rice seedlings with farmers without ceremony.

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.

World of Fantasy

The opening ceremony of Yangdok Hot Spring Resort that was held with splendor in the presence of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un several years ago touched people’s heartstrings. Yangdok Hot Spring Resort was built wonderfully as a comprehensive and modern service base in a brief span of less than a year in such difficult conditions. In the opening ceremony, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said with great pleasure that the wish of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il, who were so solicitous about building our people a cultural resort in Yangdok area, which had been famous for hot springs from olden times, had come true. Yangdok Hot Spring Resort is indeed a world of fantasy based on the wish, the desire of Comrade Kim Jong Un to show the people all the love of the great leaders, who devoted their all to the happiness of the people.

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.