Eternal President of DPRK

Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- July 8 marks the 27th anniversary of the demise of President Kim Il Sung.

Deeply cherished in the mind of the Korean people is the faith that he is the savior of national restoration and the eternal sun of Juche and that the present dignified socialist Korea would have been unthinkable without him.

Thanks to him who liberated Korea from the Japanese imperialists' aggression, the Korean people, who had been subjected to backwardness and poverty and the fate of colonial slavery, could create a new life.

The President embarked on the road of revolution in his teens and fathered the immortal Juche idea and led the 20-year-long anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to achieve the historic cause of national liberation on August 15, 1945.

With the birth of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea founded by him on September 9, 1948, the Korean people became masters of the state and society and an independent and creative people taking their destinies in their own hands and creating a new era of history.

Under his wise guidance, they won a shining victory in the Fatherland Liberation War (June 25, 1950 - July 27, 1953) and turned the DPRK into a socialist country independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in national defence, displaying the heroic stamina of Chollima Korea on the debris after the war.

The President had made a ceaseless journey of field guidance to all over the country for nearly half a century until the last moments of his life after the country's liberation. The total length of his journey reached to more than 578 000 kilometers.

Korea, once eclipsed in the world map, could display its might to the world as an invincible socialist country of Juche and its people could lead a worthwhile and happy life under the socialist system, thanks to his devoted efforts for the country and the people.

That's why the Korean people have dedicated their wisdom and passion to translating into reality the noble desire of the President, holding him in high esteem as the founder of socialist Korea and the eternal President of the DPRK. -