The day December 19th 2011 is etched firmly in my mind because it was the day that I learnt that on the 17th of December , two days before , the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL had passed away very suddenly . I first heard the news early in the morning. It was a bleak and cold December morning , typical of the weather in Britain during December , cold , damp and dark but no snow . The sad and heartbreaking news came from an academic who followed the Juche idea, who sent me a simple text saying ‘Very sad news’ . I turned on the radio and then went to the computer and got into the Korean Central News Agency . At first I did not believe the news that comrade KIM JONG IL had passed away but to my sadness I saw it was indeed true .
Why didn’t I believe the news at first ? Well partly because the imperialists and their paid reptile media always lie about People’s Korea and spread false reports to slander the supreme leadership of People’s Korea and the socialist system but
there was a second reason ; only a few days , on the 15th of December 2011, comrade KIM JONG IL had visited the Kwangbok Area Supermarket , so it seemed inconceivable that he would pass away .
The visit to the Kwangbok Area Supermarket was an illustration of the fact that comrade KIM JONG IL spent his life giving field guidance in order to both develop the economy and improve people’s living standards. In fact he passed away whilst on a train giving on the spot guidance to key economic sectors just two days after he had visited the Kwangbok Area Supermarket .
From his early days to the end of his life comrade KIM JONG IL visited more than 14 290 units across the country, travelling the long distance of 669 844 kilometres equivalent to going round the earth 17 times. Even in the last year of his life Chairman KIM JONG IL continued with an intense pace of field guidance despite health problems and warnings from his doctors .
In January that year when the severest cold in sixty years hit the DPRK, he started his field guidance of the year with a visit to a glass bottle production base. He visited at least 20 units in Pyongyang and Nampho cities and North Pyongan and South Hamgyong provinces in this month alone, travelling more than 1 000 kilometre-long distances.
From January to December, Chairman gave endless field guidance to units of the Korean People's Army, industrial establishments, construction sites, cooperative farms, fruit farms, livestock farms, fish farms, scientific research institutes, literary art creation and dissemination bases, commercial service centres, pleasure parks, etc. In particular, he visited South Hamgyong Province which takes an important share in the country's economic development 9 times and even visited other countries .
Comrade KIM JONG IL carried out field guidance no matter what the weather was ; rain or sun , he continued his work for the people . He wore the same Parka for many years and often took simple plain meals of rice balls in his car . He was a true son of the people who had participated directly in construction work in Pyongyang in the 1950s and had worked at Lathe No 26 at the Pyongyang Textile Machinery Factory . Many Western leaders would not know what the inside of a factory looks like !
Chairman KIM JONG IL was a great people’s leader who devoted his entire life to working for the people without rest or let up . We remember him for this .
Today his people-oriented policies are carried forward by respected Marshal KIM JONG UN, a leader who always puts the people first .
Dr Dermot Hudson
Chairman of the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea
Chairman KFA UK
President Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK
Chairman British Solidarity Committee for Peaceful Reunification
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