JULY 8 - DAY OF MEMORY OF COMRADE KIM IL SUNG All Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks

                     On July 8 in the DPRK, public events are held in memory of the Great Leader,   Father of the nation, the Generalissimo, the Great Commander, the Eternal President of the DPR Korea, Comrade Kim Il Sung. It was his intelligence and talent as an outstanding statesman, political and military leader that the Korean people owe their revival from out of Japanese colonial slavery and victory over the American predators in the Fatherland Liberation War of 1950-1953, great successes in all areas of life, and a dignified place and high respect in the world community of peoples. Kim Il Sung – this prominent politician of the second half of the twentieth century, led a life that was very humble and simple, very affable and friendly. He paid extraordinary attention to his companion in dialogue, was able to patiently listen to him, and he always spoke with authority and weight. He was struck with tireless concern for the workingman and his needs. He was always dressed simply, ate simply, and in therare free moments of leisure he loved to sit with a fishing rod on a perch.
His personality reflects the integrity of his nature, self-discipline,commitment and selfless dedication to serving the working people. Kim Il Sung was indeed a man of great depth. Great leaders were born out of the people and give birth to radical changes in historical eras. Great leadersare great because they better than others have a deeper understand of the meaning of all indigenous historical fractures that occur and the needs of their accompanying development stage of a revolution, pressing forward inthe vital interests of the masses. President Kim Il Sung deservedly belongs to that small galaxy of the immortals of world leaders who will never dieand do not go away. They forever remain with their people, with their fighters for freedom and happiness of all the oppressed and dispossessed.
      The memory of them passed down from generation to generation, their bright image is an example of life and role models, cluttered with songs and tales in various languages of the world. The political sagacity and foresight of President Kim Il Sung is fully manifested in the choice of successor to the highest positions in the Party, Army and State. Given the bitter experience of succession continuity of supreme political power in the USSR and other socialist countries, Comrade Kim Il Sung very reasonably and properly solved this difficult problem in relation to modern Korea. Comrade Kim Il Sung, prepared a successor in the person of Comrade Kim Jong Il,persistently, carefully, persistently giving him a wealth of experience and instructed him to lead areas of public life, and then the daily affairs ofthe Party and State. Comrade Kim Jong Il passed through the whole school of theoretical and practical training for a leader under the guidance of KimIl Sung, and therefore continued the worthy and successful leadership of the Korean revolution, defeating the enemies of the DPRK under extremely difficult circumstances that seemed invincible. The successes of the Korean people under the leadership of its prominent leaders - President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il raised to unprecedented heights the spirit of national identity and national pride of Koreans, and made the entire world deeply respect the Korean people as a strong and gifted nation of the world community. Comrade Kim Il Sung headed the Korean revolution for almost seven decades. He was the oldest and last of the truly world leaders of the  period of the Second World War, and almost to the end of the century. InKorea, they say that the story of the life and work of President Kim Il Sung is a story of the rising of the sun of the nation. His life is an absorption in one person of the entire history of the Korean revolutionary movement of the last two-thirds of the twentieth century. He founded the Workers' Party of Korea, he created and headed the Korean Peoples Army(KPA) - an invincible force of the revolution. Kim Il Sung headed and led the nation to victory in two brutal wars against imperialist predators -Japanese militarism and US imperialism, along with their satellites. He headed and led the nation to victory in two revolutions in North Korea -the anti-imperialist- feudal general democratic revolution and the socialist revolution. Kim Il Sung has always been among the people who nurtured himback to the wisdom and the end of which he gave himself without reserve.
Kim Il Sung was very fond of children, and did much for young citizens to grow up healthy, strong, and loved his beautiful Motherland. President Kim Il Sung left a rich theoretical legacy, culminating in the development ofthe Juche idea, which formed the basis of the ideology of the WPK. Together with Joseph Stalin, Kim Il Sung laid a solid foundation of friendship and  brotherhood between our two countries, peoples and parties. Thegeographical position of our countries, our neighbourliness bring us together and contribute to fraternal friendship and cooperation. We feel adeep satisfaction from the fact that all the precious legacy of Kim Il Sung passed over to an outstanding leader, in the unparalleled policy and practice of the great Kim Jong Il - a faithful disciple and follower of the
cause of Comrade Kim Il Sung. Today, the torch of Great Kim Jong Il has been received by Kim Jong Un. This means that the Korean revolution will continue successfully AUCPB