Tribute to Generalissimos
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea successfully
launched its application satellite Kwangmyongsong 3-2 by means
of launch vehicle Unha 3. The artificial satellite that is
instrumented for data collection and communications for the
observation of the earth is now transmitting “Song of General Kim
Il Sung” and “Song of General Kim Jong Il.”
These songs reflect the high tribute the Korean people
pay to the DPRK Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
The satellite is permeated with the painstaking efforts
made by Kim Il Sung, eternal President of the DPRK, and Kim Jong Il,
eternal Chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission.
President Kim Il Sung, advancing the slogan “Iron and
machine are the king of industry!” laid out solid foundations for
developing the machine-building industry on the ruins after the
Korean war ignited by the United States. Under his sagacious
leadership miracles were wrought in the DPRK: Machines produced
machines, factories gave birth to factories, and an electric
locomotive, the acme of the machine-building industry, was
manufactured. On the initiative of the President and on the basis of
the solid foundations of its independent national economy, the DPRK
already succeeded in the 80s of the last century in producing
multistage rockets that can carry artificial satellites, and has
rapidly developed science and technology of manufacturing satellites.
Inheriting the will of President Kim Il Sung, Chairman
Kim Jong Il said that the country should develop science and
technology to the world level within the shortest period by taking
ten or a hundred steps when others were taking one, defined science
and technology as one of the three buttresses in building a thriving
country, and wisely led the work of satellite development.
In the closing years of the last century, when the DPRK
was suffering the grimmest trials, Kim Jong Il saw to it that a
strong force of competent scientific personnel was formed and
provided with up-to-the-minute technical means so as to pioneer the
cutting-edge branches of science and technology. When the DPRK’s
first artificial satellite Kwangmyongsong 1 was under
development, he acquainted himself with the project and indicated the
orientation and ways for its successful implementation.
By the early 1990s the DPRK completed preparations for
satellite launch, and sent up its first trial satellite
Kwangmyongsong 1 in August 1998, successfully placing it into
orbit at the first launch.
It is not fortuitous that the Korean artificial
satellites are named Kwangmyongsong or Shining Star (Kim Jong
Il is otherwise called the Shining Star by Koreans).
The successful launch of second satellite by the country
on April 2009 was another fruition of the painstaking efforts he made
to develop science and technology and bring up competent
technological personnel.
It was his lifetime instruction that the first
application earth satellite should be launched in 2012 marking the
centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung.
True to his intention Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of the
DPRK, wisely led the work of launching the first application
satellite without fail in 2012. It was a brilliant outcome of the
unshakeable conviction and will of the Korean leader and people to
add lustre to the exploits performed by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il
that Kwangmyongsong 3-2 was launched successfully into orbit.
By successfully launching the satellite the Korean
leader Kim Jong Un and his people paid the highest tribute to
President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il. It should, therefore,
be interpreted in this vein that the satellite was launched in 2012
that marked the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung and
on the eve of the 1st anniversary of the death of Chairman
Kim Jong Il, and is travelling its orbit, transmitting the songs in
praise of the Korean leaders.
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