Father of Socialist Korea-from Voice of Korea

 From Voice of Korea.

http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/scomde/iee250624001/39/en

  The great leader Kim Il Sung is the father of socialist Korea.

  He was born in Mangyongdae on April 15, 1912, when Korea was a colony of the Japanese imperialists, and set out on the road of revolution in his early years.

He waged the 20-year-long bloody anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle under the banner of the Juche idea and liberated the country.

After the liberation, he led the Korean people to successfully promote the building of a new country and founded the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a genuine people's state, on September 9, 1948.

  And he victoriously led the Fatherland Liberation War to repel the invasion of the US imperialists with his great courage and iron will in the 1950s, honourably defending the dignity, honour and sovereignty of the DPRK.

After the war, Kim Il Sung saw that the socialist revolution was accelerated on a full scale, reflecting the specific situation of the country and the demand of the people. He ensured that the agricultural cooperativization movement for transforming the rural economy along socialist lines was conducted in an original way in keeping with the actual conditions of the country and led the work to combine the socialist transformation of private trade and industry, the reorganization of economic forms and the remoulding of people.

  Finally, he established the first people-centred socialist system in the eastern corner in August 1958.

  Afterwards, he wisely led the socialist construction and built on this land a socialist country independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in national defence.

  Today Korea is demonstrating her dignity and prestige as a powerful socialist country under the leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

  Kim Il Sung remains alive in the hearts of the Korean people along with his immortal exploits in building a people-centred socialist country for the first time on this land.