For Development of Light Industry of Korean Style

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For Development of Light Industry of Korean Style

  The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, father of socialist Korea, performed the immortal exploits for the era and revolution, and for the country and people all his life. Among them is the exploit he made in developing the light industry of the country to improve the people's living standards.

The Ministry of Light Industry Established during the War

  The Ministry of Light Industry is an important organ entrusted with the task to develop the light industry of the country and improve the people's living standards.

  It was established in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1951 when the Fatherland Liberation War was in full swing to repulse the armed invasion of the US imperialists.

  Kim Hyong Chun, Director of a Department of the Ministry of Light Industry, said that at that time Comrade Kim Il Sung had the light industrial goods exhibition organized and came out to the venue of the exhibition, and continued:

  "At that time, on display at the venue of the light industrial goods exhibition were hundreds of kinds of goods produced at cooperative societies for production across the country.

  The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung said the products were diverse in variety and they had been made well, and gave detailed instructions on stabilizing and improving the living of the people in difficult circumstances due to the war as soon as possible.

  That day, he instructed in detail that the Ministry of Light Industry should be established that year and good preparations be made to rehabilitate and develop the light industry after the war."

  Such instance could not be found in the history of other countries.

  The establishment of the Ministry of Light Industry during the war was a crystallization of the matchless courage and pluck of Comrade Kim Il Sung who was sure about the victory in the war and that of his great ambition for improving the people's living.

To Build Our Own Firm Consumer Goods Production Bases

  Comrade Kim Il Sung built our own firm consumer goods production bases to fully satisfy the growing demand of the people for the consumer goods.

  In order to build our own firm consumer goods production bases he put forward an original line on developing the large-scale light industry under the central authority and the medium- and small-scale regional industry in parallel.

  To this end, he saw to it that the large-scale light industry under the central authority was built into the backbone in the production of consumer goods.

  Kim Hyong Chun, Director of a Department of the Ministry of Light Industry, said Comrade Kim Il Sung saw through the urgency of solving the clothing issue of the people after the war and put great efforts into rehabilitating and developing the textile industry as early as possible and continued:

  "It was expected to take five years to rehabilitate the then Pyongyang Textile Mill after the war.

  The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung called at the destroyed mill on the early morning of July 30, 1953, three days after the victory in the war. Indicating the direction of its reconstruction, he stressed the need to rehabilitate the mill only in two months' time, not in five years, and build it into a spinning mill, a weaving mill and a textile combine engaged even in dyeing and printing.

  Under his leadership, it was developed into the largest and leading textile mill in the DPRK.

  Not only this mill but also many other factories in the field of textile industry including the Kusong Textile Mill were built, rehabilitated or rebuilt on an expansion basis."

  Comrade Kim Il Sung also built firm silk spinning and weaving industry bases.

  In particular, he ensured that silk fabrics of beautiful patterns were produced with cocoons in the country.

  He set forth tasks to be carried out in different sectors of light industry such as the foodstuff industry, daily necessities industry and footwear industry in a number of his works including the famous work "To Further Develop the Light Industry".

  In order to build our own light industry bases he saw to it that medium- and small-scale regional industry factories were built extensively to bring about a great leap forward in the production of consumer goods.

  At the plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea held in June 1958 he presented tasks to develop the production of consumer goods as an all-people movement by tapping out all the possible resources and build local industry factories in all cities and counties to carry them out.

  He saw that those mountainous areas could make good use of mountains and local industry factories suited to the regional characteristics be built to make a substantial contribution to improving the people's living.

Uninterrupted Journey Based on His Love

  Comrade Kim Il Sung visited light industry bases to improve the people's living so that they could produce a larger number of good-quality consumer goods.

  He called at the Pyongyang Cornstarch Factory in September 1945 right after he accomplished the historic cause of national liberation by leading the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to victory. Since then, he ceaselessly visited factories and enterprises in the sector of light industry across the country for field guidance.

  He called at the Ryongbuk Foodstuff Factory in the city of Pyongyang on November 13, 1960 without having a rest on Sunday, Workteam Head Jang Myong Sim said and continued:

  "Entering the bean curd production site of the factory that day, the fatherly leader Comrade Kim Il Sung talked about different methods of making bean curd one by one and taught how to improve its quality.

  And he said that beans should be processed without any waste and provided to the people, and instructed the ways to make a comprehensive use of beans.

  On the day, he is said to have taken measures to provide the capital citizens with tasty bean curd in all seasons before leaving the factory."

  The love of Comrade Kim Il Sung can be felt at numerous light industry factories and enterprises across the country including the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Silk Mill, the Sinuiju Footwear Factory, the Hamhung Condiments Factory and the Pukchong Fruit Processing Factory.

  

  Comrade Kim Il Sung devoted himself to developing the light industry of Korean style which will be conducive to the improvement of the people's living standards, and his exploits will shine for all ages.

From Voice of Korea-For Agricultural Development of the Country

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For Agricultural Development of the Country

  All the Korean people recollect in humble reverence the noble life of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung who walked field paths on and on till the last period of his life for the agricultural development of the country.

Walking Field Paths All His Life

  The Korean people put an end to the decades of colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists and achieved the national liberation on August 15, 1945.

  Comrade Kim Il Sung transplanted rice seedlings with farmers in the liberated country and walked field paths all his life to bring in rich harvests on this land

  He found himself on the field path on April 15, 1954 as well, his first birthday after the Fatherland Liberation War.

  Early in the morning, he visited the then Samjong Agricultural Cooperative in Junghwa County and, walking along the dewy field path, taught its farmers how to do good farming and be well-off.

  That day, he heard that the neighbouring village was planting wheat by machine and walked a rugged path to get there and see the villagers working.

  Told by officials that there was a spring, he trod the dangerous wetland to select the site for a fish farm.

  That evening, he said: I've spent my birthday with pleasure. Rest does not mean eating and playing. If the state affairs go well, it makes me happy and pleasant and, after all, it is a rest for me.

  One spring day in May 1952 during the war to repulse the invasion of the US-led allied imperialist forces, he sowed seeds with farmers in Wonhwa-ri of Phyongwon County.

  As said above, Comrade Kim Il Sung walked field paths in all seasons, exposing himself to rain and snow, in order to solve the issue of farming and improve the people's diet.

Creating Juche Farming Method

  The Juche farming method is a scientific one to grow crops on a scientific and technological basis in conformity with the climatic and soil conditions of our country and the biological characteristics of crops. It is a method of cultivating crops most intensively by relying on modern science and technology.

  In order to find a way to boost the agricultural production, Comrade Kim Il Sung went among the farmers to meet old and young people and talked with them for several hours or all day long. Without resting content with listening to their farming experiences, he made several experiments to prove them scientifically, theoretically and practically.

  Lecturer Kim Sol Hui at the Korean Revolution Museum talked about the experimental plots showing the devoted efforts of Comrade Kim Il Sung as follows:

  "One day tens of years ago, some agricultural scientists went to the residence of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung at his call.

  Anyone would think first of ornamental trees or beautiful flowers when talking about a garden.

  However, the garden in the residence of Comrade Kim Il Sung was full of various kinds of economic plants and trees, and tens of kinds of grain and medicinal crops, vegetables and feed crops cultivated with sincerity. They were growing in the experimental plots with signposts set up in good order.

  Comrade Kim Il Sung welcomed the agricultural scientists and stepped toward the experimental plots for wheat and barley.

  Wheat and barley plants he cultivated were heavily laden with ripening ears.

  Comrade Kim Il Sung said in order to solve the food problem in our country with limited area of arable land, we should do double cropping and that strains are important for the purpose. And he explained the cultivation methods of various strains of wheat and barley and the orientation of future research one by one."

  At that time, the agricultural scientists couldn't know all about the wheat and barley plots.

  Laying out experimental plots for various kinds of crops in the garden, Comrade Kim Il Sung got to know that there was no land for testing double cropping of wheat and barley.

  He looked around the garden and pointed at a small pond, suggesting filling it up and planting crops there.

  Officials earnestly requested him to leave the pond intact as it had been made out of the wish for him to have a good rest even for a while.

  Comrade Kim Il Sung insisted on filling it up, saying it was not necessary for him to stroll there alone because it was rest for him to go among the people.

  And he planted various strains of wheat and barley there and cultivated them for a long time, observing their growth. Like this, he turned the garden of his residence into experimental plots and cultivated crops there to create a model of new farming methods.

  The experimental plots in the residence were the cradle of the Juche farming method which opened a new era of scientific farming on this land and the crystallization of the love for the people shown by Comrade Kim Il Sung who devoted his life to transforming the whole country into a people's paradise where the harvest is plenteous.

  The benevolent image of Comrade Kim Il Sung is still kept deep in the hearts of all the Korean people as he was always concerned for the agricultural development of the country and the solution of the people's food problem.

Remembering a great leader who created a socialist paradise -special article by Dr Dermot Hudson for the 32nd anniversary of the passing away of President KIM IL SUNG

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The date July 8th 1994 is a date clearly engraved on my mind for it was the date that the great leader President KIM IL SUNG passed away ,only a few days after I had returned from my 3rd visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). During the visit we had seen President KIM IL SUNG on the television every night , his presence seemed to permeate everywhere and be ever permanent .

I  could write a lot about President KIM IL SUNG as his life spanned the 20th century . He was the liberator of his people and the builder of a great independent people’s country , the DPRK , or People’s Korea or Juche Korea. He was the ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander who defeated two imperialisms US and Japanese within one generation . President KIM IL SUNG was the great thinker and theoretician who created the great Juche idea .

I remember President KIM IL SUNG for his many great and varied achievements  but I think what stands out is that President KIM IL SUNG built a socialist paradise for the people on the ruins of vanquished Japanese colonialism  and did so in a few short decades despite the destruction inflicted on the DPRK by the US imperialists during the Fatherland Liberation War .

President KIM IL SUNG authored the immortal Juche idea which stipulated that the masses of people are the masters of the revolution and construction . He also declared that the “People Are My God “ . After the liberation of Korea from the iron shackles of Japanese imperialist colonial rule  and the eradication of centuries of ossified feudalism , President KIM IL SUNG made sure that a new society serving the interests of the people , a society where the people are the masters of everything was built . He said that "Our socialism is, in short, man-centred socialism, the embodi­ment of the Juche idea. The principal characteristic of our society is that it is a truly people-orientated society of which the popular mass­es are the genuine masters and in which everything serves the mass­es."

 In the 1940s Agrarian reform and the nationalisation of industries were carried out at lightning speed in the new People’s Korea along with the introduction of laws such as the labour law giving workers rights,freeing them from exploitation and oppression, and the law on sexual equality which liberated women from double and triple oppression. 

Despite the fact that the DPRK was almost bombed out of existence by the US imperialists during the Fatherland Liberation War (Korean War) President KIM IL SUNG set about not only rehabilitating and reconstructing the devastated country but completing the socialist transformation of industry , agriculture and trade creating an advanced , people centred socialist system on the land of Korea .

As a result of the creation of the socialist system and the people-orientated measures of President KIM IL SUNG the Korean people came to enjoy beneficial lives with free health care , free education , full employment , low cost food and  low cost public transport.Taxation was abolished in March 1974. In February  1992 President KIM IL SUNG instructed that  pay for workers, technicians and office workers was to be  raised by an average of 43.4 per cent- British workers can only dream of pay rises like that . Social security payments for pensioners to increase by 50.7 per cent and student grants by 33 per cent.

My first two visits to People’s Korea in May 1992 and October 1993 President KIM IL SUNG was still physically alive . I could see with my own eyes the achievements of Juche -based socialism . Only a few years before my visit Kwangbok Street with many high rise blocks of flats had been completed and in 1992 many new homes were completed in the area of the southern gateway of Pyongyang .Kwangbok Street really impressed me by its size and scale (although of course now it has been dwarfed by Hwasong Street and other new streets in the DPRK ) In the DPRK I saw clean streets , no graffiti or vandalism and no one begging . Also I saw no black market currency dealers which I had seen in supposedly socialist Eastern Europe in the 1980s . There were no people wearing jeans . It was a real socialist paradise . Today respected Marshal KIM JONG UN , the great successor to President KIM IL SUNG and Chairman KIM JONG IL is building People’s Korea into an even better socialist paradise !

Let’s remember President KIM IL SUNG as the builder and creator of the  socialist paradise of People’s Korea !

Dr Dermot Hudson

Chairman British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea

Chairman Korean Friendship Association UK

Hon Secretary General Global Farmy Study Group for respected comrade KIM JONG UN’s People-First Policies

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun on Greatest Memorial Day of Our Party, State and People

Pyongyang, July 8 (KCNA) -- On the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of demise of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, all the people and service personnel of the DPRK are filled with boundless yearning and reverence for him, the peerlessly great sage who built our Party and state into the genuine Party and country for the people and laid the eternal foundation of Korean-style socialism winning victories with independence in politics, self-support in the economy and self-reliance in national defence, regarding it as his lifelong motto to believe in the people as in Heaven and build a rich country with a strong army.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun at 00:00 on July 8, the greatest memorial day of our Party, state and people.

Accompanying him were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and other senior officials of the Party and the government, officials of the WPK Central Committee, leading officials of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, the Cabinet, commissions and ministries, and commanding officers of the armed forces organs.

Flower baskets were laid at the statues of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il.

Comrade Kim Jong Un, together with the participants, paid high tribute to the statues.

At the halls where the great leaders lie in state, Comrade Kim Jong Un made deep bows to them, praying for their immortality.

All the participants hardened their solemn will to more resolutely and courageously work in the vanguard of the gigantic struggle for transformation in the new era for the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and for the eternal dignity and glory of our Party, state and people. -0-

Glory to the eternal memory of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG

 The great leader President KIM IL SUNG passed away 32 years ago on the 8th of July 1994.

President KIM IL SUNG devoted his whole life to the revolution and construction . He authored the immortal Juche idea and built a powerful state of independence , self-sufficiency and self-reliant defence .

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Thanks to President KIM IL SUNG an advanced socialist system was set up in Korea and a socialist paradise in which the people are the masters of everything was created .

President KIM IL SUNG was the iron-willed brilliant commander who defeated two imperialisms- US and Japanese in one generation. He fought for global independence and defended socialism.

We remember President KIM IL SUNG for brilliant achievements and the example of his life continues to inspire us !

Glory to the eternal memory of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG !

Japan's Overseas Aggression Is Not Fiction but Reality: KCNA Commentary

Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- Japan, keen on bolstering up its military capabilities for overseas aggression, has shown another dangerous behavior, raising serious concern from region and international community.

Shortly ago, the Japanese government began examining a plan to develop and introduce on a full scale an unmanned submarine capable of attacking a warship under the pretext of "tightened defence system in the Pacific Ocean".

The said submarine Japan seeks to possess is said to be capable of sailing long distance for a long time with torpedoes or mines loaded.

If this plan is realized, Japan will have a condition to hide invisible "re-aggression monsters". In other words, Japan seeks to hide such attack means as unmanned submarines near the shores of the DPRK and other neighboring countries and make preemptive strike at the warships of its opponent countries in contingency and thus escalate the flames of aggression.

This is a grave situation showing that Japan has openly withdrawn from the oft-repeated "exclusive defence".

In fact, Japan's military muscle has rapidly evolved into a form of attack and aggression, not "defence" in recent years.

It has mass-produced home-made long-range missiles which can be launched from different spheres, including ground-launched, submarine-launched and warship-launched ones, and stepped up the research and development of new-type ballistic missiles with a range of 3 000 km. It is also speeding up the introduction of two kinds of foreign-made missiles including U.S.-made cruise missile Tomahawk.

In March, Japan deployed improved versions of type 12 surface-to-ship guided missiles with drastic increase in range and type 25 high-speed gliding projectiles flying at supersonic speed at high altitude in Kumamoto and Shizuoka prefectures respectively for the first time in the country. Recently, it deployed the launcher of type 12 surface-to-ship guided missiles and a reconnaissance drone for confirming the target position on its island in the Pacific Ocean.

Japan's military muscle is now being turned into a forward-deployment and actual war-deployment type so that it can carry out a war at any moment.

Moreover, Japan introduced a lot of Israeli weapons and equipment after the outbreak of crisis in the Gaza Strip. This shows that its "Self-Defence Forces" are armed with notorious lethal equipment whose practicality has been verified in actual war.

Its rapid acquisition and deployment of preemptive attack and long-range strike means and its mass purchase of lethal weapons actually used in modern warfare go to prove once again that it is not an imagination but a stark reality for Japan to embark on the road of continental aggression.

In other words, the Japanese aggression forces have already slipped the "safety catch" and what remains to be done is to pull the trigger toward the goal of reinvasion. It is as clear as noonday what the result will be.

Those who fail to draw lessons from the past will surely repeat their faults.

If Japan, a war criminal state and a defeated nation, makes a revanchist option of overseas aggression, the future of this island country will surely come to an end. -0-

From Voice of Korea-Always among the People

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Always among the People

  The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, father of socialist Korea and founder of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, always regarded the people as the god and led the Korean revolution along the road of victory by relying on their strength.

Believing in the People as in Heaven

  Comrade Kim Il Sung regarded it as his lifelong motto to believe in the people as in heaven.

  In his reminiscences "With the Century", he wrote: "To believe in the people as in heaven" has been my constant view and motto. The principle of Juche, which calls for drawing on the strength of the masses who are the masters of the revolution and construction, is my political creed. This has been the axiom that has led me to devote my whole life to the people.

  When the agrarian reform was being enforced in the DPRK after liberation, a religionist living in Ryonggang County was branded as a landlord for he got some land and an orchard and all his property was confiscated and he was even forced to move to other place.

  Informed of it, Comrade Kim Il Sung said with anger that some officials interpreted the Agrarian Reform Law of their own accord and implemented it wrongly, and saw that his land and orchard were given back.

  All the villagers as well as the religionist and his family said with excitement that General Kim Il Sung is the god of Korea taking care of all people.

  Told about it, Comrade Kim Il Sung said it is the people that should be regarded as the real god and it is not an empty word but the devotion he kept in the course of his revolutionary struggle.

  And he continued: I, who believe in the people as in heaven, also have commandments to observe. They are firstly, to respect and serve the people as the god, secondly to devote all to the people and thirdly to do all things by relying on the strength of the people.

  For Comrade Kim Il Sung who always kept the people deep in his mind, the people were his god, teachers and the whole of his life.

Go among the People!

  Go among the people!

  This was a maxim representing the revolutionary mode of Comrade Kim Il Sung for putting into practice his motto of believing in the people as in heaven and a valuable political creed running through his life.

  Comrade Kim Il Sung kept as his faith the revolutionary principle that the masses of the people are the masters of the revolution and construction and they have the strength to promote them, always found himself among the people and solved all problems according to their demands and in their interests by mobilizing their inexhaustible strength and creative wisdom, lecturer Kim Sol Hui at the Korean Revolution Museum said and continued:

  "The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung started his revolutionary activities by going among the people, led the revolution by mixing with the people and reviewed his great life by going among the people.

  He said that one finds philosophy, literature and political economy among the people. He told officials to call on the people when they were hungry or thirsty and when misfortune befell them. He didn't mind rugged roads to visit the people."

  Comrade Kim Il Sung found himself among the people all his life; shared intention and feelings with the people and led the revolution by relying on them.

  He always mixed with the people to acquaint himself with their demands and aspirations.

  After considering the urgent demand of the era and revolution among the people, he put forward the original and profound lines and policies including the basic line of socialist economic construction and the policy of agricultural cooperativization after the war.

  When he was apart from the people even a moment, he felt empty as if he lost something valuable, and when he met the people, he regarded the moment as the happiest one in the world.

For the People and by Relying on Them

  Comrade Kim Il Sung devoted his all only to the people and wrought miracles by relying on their inexhaustible strength.

  One day in December 1992, he gave important instructions that the officials should become genuine servants of the people and said: Up to date since I embarked on the road of the revolution I have regarded the masses of the people as the god, served them and made revolution by relying on their strength throughout my life.

  With the most correct viewpoint on the people that one can emerge victorious in the revolution only when one relies on the masses of the people, Comrade Kim Il Sung fought against the Japanese imperialists to liberate the country and resolutely defeated the US-led imperialist aggressor forces to win a great victory in the war on July 27, 1953. He carried out the historic task of socialist industrialization only in 14 years' time and laid a firm foundation for independent national economy.

  In the days of his revolutionary leadership spanning tens of years, he could lead the Korean revolution to victory without any mistake in line or any minor deviation in leadership, which is based on his precious motto.

  The people-centred socialism of Korean style, where the people are masters of everything and everything serves them, is a valuable fruition provided by Comrade Kim Il Sung who sowed the seed on the soil that is people and cultivated it all his life.