Brilliant Leadership

Faith is Necessary

One day in October, 2014, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the completed Wisong Scientists Residential District. Going round the residential district successfully built as a fairyland in the era of the Workers’ Party, he expressed great satisfaction. He said that even though science is said to have no frontiers, our scientists should have faith that they are frontline soldiers to defend socialism. Looking round the officials in great excitement, he stressed once again that scientific work is an undertaking based on faith.

With Mind of Building one’s Own Houses

One day in August, 2013, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the construction site for Unha Scientists Street again. Learning about the actual state of the construction, he went round a flat in a block whose outer walls were fully tiled. He praised that the kitchen and the bathroom were finished with good-quality materials and well built. Seeing the furniture including the beds, desks and sofas for every room, he was smiling a broad smile all along, so pleased with the quality furniture for our scientists. Then, he stressed the need to provide adequate and perfect conditions so that the scientists could bring with them only their personal things and favorite household goods when moving into a new flat. He said that the builders, with the mind of building their own houses, should further enhance their sense of responsibility in the building work.

Peerlessly Great Man of All-round Knowledge

It happened in a year when President Kim Il Sung was on a visit to a country in Europe. One day he had a talk with the leader of the country. Discussed in the talk were some issues of mutual concern in such fields as politics, economy, culture, military affairs, etc. The talk lasted from the morning to the afternoon. Eventually, the talk was coming close to an end, when suddenly the hall witnessed a spectacle unprecedented in the history of diplomacy. The leader of the country hesitantly rose from the seat to glance at the small pocketbook laid before the President, which was a breach of etiquette. In the center of the attention of the dumbfounded people, he asked, “President Kim Il Sung, may I ask what is in the mysterious pocketbook? You have been talking smoothly on the issues in all fields only relying on it without even an outlined plan for the talk.” With a generous smile on his face, the President showed the blue-covered pocketbook to him. Gazing into the “mysterious” pocketbook, the leader was amazed. It was because he could find only a few symbols and three or four lines of keywords. It was beyond his understanding because right from the beginning of the talk he had been dependent on the thick file of detailed plan of the talk prepared by the subordinate officials. ‘President Kim Il Sung has had no outlined plan throughout the whole course of the talk, but he has talked over that palm-sized pocketbook only before him.’ That evening he expressed his feeling to the President. “President Kim Il Sung, you are a peerlessly great man of all-round knowledge, if ever there was one!”

Lesson of “A Car without a Steering Wheel”

On June 21, 1979, President Kim Il Sung was stressing the need to maintain independence in carving out the destiny of a nation, when he told King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia a humour story “A Car without a Steering Wheel”, which was popular among the people in Eastern Europe. It goes like this. General secretary of the communist party of a European country gave the counterpart of the ruling party of another country a car with no steering wheel but a hook only at the front, as a gift. When the latter complained that he could find no steering wheel, but only a hook attached to the front of the car, the former said: It would cause no problems. You can sit comfortably when the car is hooked to the back of the car in front. All you have to do is to sit still in your car when I drive the front car. The President looked at Norodom Sihanouk as though he was asking for the lesson gained from “A Car without a Steering Wheel”. Noting that the story teaches politicians a serious lesson, Sihanouk said, “Now I have realized that the steering wheel a politician should grab firmly in carving out the destiny of a nation is none other than independence.”

From Empty Envelope to Rich

Several decades ago, there was a farm recorded as “empty envelope farm” on the workmemo of President Kim Il Sung. It is Jangchon Vegetable Farm of Sadong District. The President devoted great efforts to turn the farm, which had been called “pultongchon” as it was a reddish muddy land unfavorable for farming, into a thriving one. When he visited the Jangchon village in a suburb of Pyongyang for the first time, the President heard that the girl agricultural engineer had received an empty envelope at the time of income distribution because of the poor harvest. Feeling so sad about it, he noted down every detail of the actual situation of the farm, and said he would be responsible for it. Since then, the President made a ceaseless journey to it, regardless of all weather conditions and even on holidays. Repeatedly walking along the muddy lanes across the fields, he learnt about the farm, which had been accepted as a land only for foxtail millet or wild millet. On this basis, he turned it into a vegetable farm and led them for bumper vegetables. This farm, which is associated with the warm love of President Kim Il Sung and the scrupulous guidance of Chairman Kim Jong Il, was newly born to be a model farm of socialist rural culture and a rich farm, under the great love of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

To Lead Officials to be True Servants of People

More than ten years ago, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un gave the officials the following earnest instructions. The lines and policies of the Workers’ Party of Korea are all for the people, and whether the Party’s policies for the people are thoroughly implemented or not depends entirely on how the officials strive. Deeply aware that they are shouldering the destiny of the Party’s policies, the officials should ensure that the validity and vitality of the Party’s policies are demonstrated in the people’s living. With extraordinary determination to devotedly work to solve the problems arising in improving the people’s livelihood, they should make tireless efforts. He continued: They should look back upon what they have done for the people every day, whether or not they failed to do something feasible, and if they did anything wrong working with people or they showed any rude behavior. If they found that they had made some mistakes, they should make intentional efforts to correct them. He stressed that by reviewing their daily work by themselves, all the officials should temper their Party spirit, do a great deal in revolutionary self-culture and prepare themselves to be faithful servants of the people.