The purpose of this meeting is not simply to mourn the great leader President KIM IL SUNG but to celebrate his life and express meaningful solidarity with People’s Korea and its great achievements .
The passing away of President KIM IL SUNG some 27 years ago on the 8th of July 1994 has a particular poignancy for myself and members of the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea as our delegation was the last British delegation to be in the DPRK when President KIM IL SUNG was alive . We left the DPRK on Saturday 2nd of July . Our visit to the DPRK had been very successful .During our visit , virtually each day we saw the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG on the tv giving either giving on-the spot guidance or meeting foreign guests such as Ludo Martens the then head of the Workers' Party of Belgium . Each time he met foreign guests on tv the theme "Long live Marshal KIM IL SUNG" ! was played which gave a certain sense of majesty , a real sense of presence. He looked healthy and vigorous .To me it was impossible and unimaginable that comrade KIM IL SUNG would leave us so soon.
During our visit we were able to see the great achievements of Juche-based , Korean style socialism which was directly and intimately associated with the leadership of President KIM IL SUNG and the Juche idea that he had authored . We saw the West Sea Barrage , the product of self-reliance , which had been constructed during the 1980s with soldiers of the Korean People’s Army playing a big role in its construction .It had cost the equivalent of $4 billion dollars to build President KIM IL SUNG had chosen the site for the West Sea Barrage personally and given guidance to its construction many times . We also visited , among other places , the May Day Stadium on Rungna island , which is one of the biggest if not the biggest stadiums in the world .
We were able to see President KIM IL SUNG ‘s birthplace at Mangyongdae . Here we could see that President KIM IL SUNG was not from the privileged elite but from a humble peasant family and lived a simple life . In fact his family had been very poor . They could not even afford a new water jar .It was from these humble beginnings that President KIM IL SUNG rose to become a leader and statesman of worldwide fame .
President KIM IL SUNG worked all his life for the independence of the people. . He was a tireless fighter who battled against imperialism all his life, leading the Korean people first against the rapacious Japanese imperialists, then against the barbaric US imperialists . President KIM IL SUNG waged a 15 year long armed struggle against the Japanese imperialists becoming a legendary general distinguished by his adroit guerrilla tactics.He gave the Korean people independence and liberation ,something that is so precious it cannot be bartered for billions of tons of gold bullion.
President KIM IL SUNG again defended the independence of Korea when he defeated the US imperialist aggressors who had tried to crush People's Korea when it was in its cradle and became known as an ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander and gifted military strategist .
Indeed the imperialists feared the very name KIM IL SUNG .I remember as a teenager reading about the Panmunjom incident of August 1976 in the reactionary ‘Daily Telegraph’ which said that President KIM IL SUNG was the most feared and dangerous communist leader of the times.
Under the leadership of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG ,two stages of revolution were carried out : the anti-imperialist,anti-feudal democratic revolution and the socialist revolution.He founded the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) , an unique socialist state of Juche centred on the popular masses ,a people's paradise.The DPRK is a most durable ,stable and harmonious socialist state.
The great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG ensured that Rightist and Leftist deviations were avoided in the construction of socialism. Moreover socialism in Korea was not a copy of another country but Korean-style socialism, an independent Juche socialism. The DPRK upheld socialist principles when others introduced capitalist-style methods.
Independence, independence and independence was the creed of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG . He authored the Juche Idea which lights the road of independence for the popular masses and teaches us that man is the master of everything .The Juche idea captivated the anti-imperialists and revolutionaries throughout the world .Thousands of seminars on the Juche idea have been held all over the world.
The Songun idea initiated by the great leader generalissimo KIM IL SUNG in the fiery days of the anti-Japanese armed struggle is based on the concept that independence is achieved by arms and the victorious revolution is defended by arms .The Songun idea , which has been implemented by the worthy successors of the great leader generalissimo KIM IL SUNG, eternal general secretary KIM JONG IL and dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN , is the treasured sword that defends the independence and dignity of People's Korea the bastion of world socialism.
Comrade KIM IL SUNG always struggled uncompromisingly against US led world imperialism . He upheld unity against division when the international communist movement and socialist camp suffered from sharp differences. He met outstanding world revolutionary figures such as Stalin , Mao Zedong ,Major Ernesto Che Guevara , Fidel Castro and Enver Hoxha .
The great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG held the red flag of socialism higher when others abandoned it. He was a great revolutionary true to his faith until the very last moments of his life. President KIM IL SUNG put forward the line of global independence and was known as the sun of the world revolution.
The great leader President KIM IL SUNG put forward correct policies for independent national reunification as well as for the south Korean revolution.
We remember great President KIM IL SUNG as the eternal leader of the Korean people and WPK , the greatest of great leaders who was the author of the Juche idea, the benevolent liberator of the Korean people, the ever-victorious iron-willed commander and the outstanding leader of the world revolution. The ideas and cause of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG is being faithfully carried forward by dear respected leader Marshal KIM JONG UN , who is identical to the great leader President KIM IL SUNG.
GLORY TO THE ETERNAL MEMORY OF THE GREAT LEADER PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG
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