“Ode to the Motherland”, a second Patriotic Song

“Ode to the Motherland” is ringing louder to the sky of Korea, ushering in the New Year Juche 103(2014).

It is only a few months since the song was produced, but it is widely sung in the DPRK as a second “Patriotic Song”.

“Patriotic Song”, the national anthem of the DPRK was created in Juche 36(1947), not only after the Korean people were liberated from the colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists by the victorious anti-Japanese armed struggle under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung.

Laws on agrarian reforms were promulgated and the working people turned out in building a new society as masters of the country and their own destinies.

Considering the patriotic zeal of the people, Kim Il Sung suggested producing national anthem as an important task of preparations for the founding of the DPRK and wisely led the broad masses of people to take part in it.

Singing the “Patriotic Song”, the Korean people emerged victorious in the Fatherland Liberation War against the US armed invasion in the 1950s and built a powerful socialist state of independence, self-sustenance and self-reliant defence on the debris of war.

In the 1990s they crushed the moves of the allied imperialist forces to isolate and stifle them and gained a victory in a war to safeguard socialism.

The “Patriotic Song” became an ode to eternal victory of Korea led by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il.

Marshal Kim Jong Un, another peerlessly great man, developed the patriotic will of leader Kim Jong Il as Kim Jong Il’s patriotism.

Upholding him as its supreme leader, the DPRK today is bringing about a great upsurge in the building of a socialist thriving nation.

In Juche 102(2013) alone there were built modern cultural and welfare facilities including Mansu Water Park, Mirim Riding Club, Unha Kwahakja Street and Okryu Children’s Hospital, enabling people to enjoy socialist prosperity to their hearts’ content.

When the DPRK was admired by the world public for its fresh lead forward, “Ode to the motherland”, another “Patriotic Song” was produced in September Juche 102(2013) as an eruption of sentiment of all people.

Raising a question what kind of country is motherland one can love by devoting his all, the song replies that a genuine people’s motherland is a country in which all dreams of the people come true.

Starting with the passage that the motherland is the wart yard of one’s native home on which one took his first step, the song sings of the pride of the Korean people in their legendary land with abundant natural resources, a country with goshawk, the national bird flying in the sky and magnolia, the national flower in full bloom.

The song ends with the conviction that the DPRK which makes rapid progress on the basis of beautiful nature and rich treasures as well as the mental strength of people will become a socialist power in which all ideas of people come true.

“Ode to the Motherland” fully reflects the faith and will of Marshal Kim Jong Un whose heart is aflame with the boundless love and a sense of responsibility for the country and people and with seething strength and self-confidence.

“Ode to the Motherland” is a second “Patriotic Song” completed under the direct guidance of Marshal Kim Jong Un.

Singing a song, the Korean people will in the new year too make greater miracles and innovations in building a socialist thriving nation with a burning patriotic zeal.