Presentation of Dr Dermot Hudson to the joint seminar on the importance of solidarity with the DPRK and the global role of the DPRK 04.07.2026

 My presentation to the joint seminar  on the importance of solidarity with the DPRK will address the question of the DPRK’s internationalism and its role in the global struggle and at the same time recall the great exploits of President KIM IL SUNG , the founder and eternal President KIM IL SUNG who passed away 32 years ago on the 8th of July 1994 , the anniversary of which is in 4 days time.

I was probably one of the last British visitors in the DPRK when President KIM IL SUNG was still physically with us . Our delegation departed the DPRK on the 2nd of July 1994 , only 6 days before President KIM IL SUNG passed away . All the time during our visit we felt President KIM IL SUNG’s presence as we saw him every night on TV giving guidance to co-operative farms and meeting foreign guests such as Ludo Martens the then head of the Workers Party of Belgium and a noted anti-revisionist writer.

  President KIM IL SUNG not only the founder of the DPRK and builder of the most durable socialist state  but was also  a great internationalist who fought not only for the Korean people  but for the world revolution , for the liberation of all of humanity from exploitation and oppression. The DPRK actually punched above its weight in the international arena .

When I first became came to know the DPRK in the 1980s and began to study the Juche idea , I found the internationalism of the DPRK to be a big eye opener for me . I came to know of countries such as Equatorial Guinea which I never knew existed .Also that there were attempts to construct socialism in the People’s Republic of Benin , the People’s Republic of the Congo , the Popular Democratic Republic of Algeria , the Democratic Republic of Madagascar and the Revolutionary People’s Republic of Guinea . These countries had been scarcely mentioned if at all by the old Communist Party of Great Britain and the British left but reading publications of the DPRK there was news about them . The Democratic Republic of Madagascar actually hosted an international seminar on the Juche idea in 1976.

Throughout his life ,which spanned most of the 20th century  President KIM IL SUNG gave unstinting support for peoples fighting for independence and met many different leaders and fighters from across the globe including very distinguished figures such as Stalin, MaoZedong , Zhou En Lai,Che Guevara , Fidel Castro , Col Gadhafi, Hafez Al Assad , Salvador  Allende, Norodom Sihanouk, Enver Hoxha , Erich Honecker ,Yasser Arafat , George Habash  and many others . He even met our very own  Harry Pollitt the famous British communist leader.

 Right from the start President KIM IL SUNG always stressed internationalism and fought for not just for the interests of the Korean people but for the interests of the struggling peoples of the whole world ,whilst at the same time stressing independence and self-reliance. Juche does not mean rejecting internationalism , far from it . As President KIM IL SUNG pointed out "Our adherence to the Juche Idea does not in any way mean that we have become chauvinistic .The Juche Idea we advocate does not conflict with internationalism . Instead it is designed to promote internationalism for it leads to the development of sciences and the building of the economy to suit our particular conditions and thus contributes to increasing the strength of our country and the might of the socialist camp as a whole "

  President KIM IL SUNG put up the slogan of "Defend the Soviet Union " during the anti-Japanese armed struggle . In 1929  he roused youth, students and other sections of the masses for the fight to defend the Soviet Union in order to hold in check the anti-Soviet machinations of the Kuomintang government and the reactionary warlords who acted  at the instigation of the Japanese imperialists. President KIM IL SUNG later wrote in his autobiography "With the Century " that  "Our activities in connection with the Zhongdong railway incident represented an internationalist struggle to defend the Soviet Union politically. At that time we regarded the first socialist system established on Earth as a beacon of hope and considered it our solemn internationalist obligation as communists to fight in its defence"

 Later in 1938 and 1939 President KIM IL SUNG led the anti-Japanese guerrillas to defend the Soviet Union , the first workers and peasants state against Japanese aggression.

 The Anti-Japanese guerrillas fought shoulder with their Chinese comrades after imperialism . After Korea was liberated in 1945  President KIM IL SUNG made sure that unstinting support was given to the Chinese People's Liberation Army and Chinese communists in their revolutionary war against the KMT reactionaries .He sent his best fighters such as Kang Gon as well as troops and materials to assist in the Chinese PLA and allowed them to use the northern part of Korea as a rear base. 

 During those heady days of the 1960s and 1970s President KIM IL SUNG ensured that the DPRK punched well above its weight , giving support to many liberation movements and newly independent states .

Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara visited the DPRK in 1960 and later said that the DPRK was the socialist country that he liked best .

During the Caribbean Crisis also known as the Cuban Missile Crisis  of October 1962 the DPRK stood by Cuba when the revisionists and big power chauvinists abandoned it.t comrade KIM IL SUNG instructed the Embassy staff and their families to arm themselves and fight to the end. The DPRK actually sent a KPA General to  Cuba as its ambassador. DPRK students studying in Cuba also armed themselves ready to fight.The DPRK gave political and military assistance, while sending food and  tractors as well as a group of authoritative technicians.. The DPRK also publicly supported the 5 -point demands of Premier Fidel Castro which included the US withdrawal from Guantanamo. The DPRK press denounced Khrushov for his capitulationism and cowardice.

President KIM IL SUNG called for international volunteers to be sent to Vietnam and sent the best pilot of the air force of the Korean People's Army to Vietnam as well as tunnelling experts plus material assistance as well. During the 1973 October War between the United Arab Republic and the Israeli Zionists , a squadron of KPA pilots was sent to assist the Arab people in their fight against Zionist aggression .

Strong support was given to Palestine by the DPRK People’s Korea established relations with Palestine on the 13th of April 1966 . There is a Palestinian embassy in the DPRK . Chairman Yasser Arafat visited the DPRK five times .George Habash the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine visited the DPRK .

President KIM IL SUNG,  said “ The just cause of the Palestinian and other Arab people for the restoration of land lost to them and of all the legitimate rights of Palestine, including the establishment of an independent country, must be accomplished. The Israeli Zionists must abandon their policy of expansion and annexation and withdraw from all the occupied Arab land immediately.

The United States must stop giving the Israeli Zionists political and diplomatic support and military and economic aid, take their hands off the Middle East and discard their ambition for dominating this region”

The Palestinian struggle was not the only Middle Eastern struggle that President KIM IL SUNG and the DPRK supported . The DPRK maintained good relations with anti-imperialist and socialist oriented Arab states such as Libya , Syria  , the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (south Yemen ) and Iraq (until 1980). One cause that the DPRK supported was that of the West Saharan people . The DPRK recognised the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic and established relations with Polisario when some other socialist countries  did not . President KIM IL SUNG met with President Mohamed Abdel Aziz of the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic and Polisario front in April 1982.

There are three  other examples of the DPRK’s internationalist assistance under the leadership of President KIM IL SUNG. Firstly the DPRK supported the Grenadian revolution led by Maurice Bishop .DPRK construction experts were  sent to Grenada and the DPRK gave a generous amount of military aid to the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada including 1,000 automatic rifles   .In fact in per capita terms  the DPRK gave more aid to Grenada than the USSR did.

Secondly , maybe the most dramatic example of the DPRK’s internationalist assistance was when DPRK special forces help foil a coup d etat by French mercenaries in the People’s Republic of Benin in 1977.

  

Lastly but not least the DPRK sent  agricultural technicians and engineers to many third world countries such as Madagascar , Tanzania , Togo, Central Africa, Benin ,Guinea, Egypt , Rwanda , Burkina Faso, Ghana and the Seychelles . Agricultural institutes bearing the name of KIM IL SUNG were established in Guinea and Tanzania . This was genuine aid as opposed to the fake aid of the imperialists which aims only to corrupt and enslave newly independent countries .

 

   

Thus the life of President KIM IL SUNG is associated lofty and boundless internationalism. It is fitting both remember President KIM IL SUNG and at the same time step up solidarity with People’s Korea.

Commentary on Dangerous Japan-ROK Military Nexus

Pyongyang, July 9 (KCNA) -- Kang Chol Su, section chief of the DPRK Institute of Enemy State Studies, on July 8 issued the following commentary titled "Dangerous military nexus courting self-destruction":

The military nexus between Japan, a war criminal state dashing toward a military giant, and the ROK has recently got more undisguised, further endangering the security situation in the Korean peninsula.

Early this year, the ROK air-force squadron got refueling from the Japan Air Self-Defence Force at a Japanese military base, which was something unprecedented in history. In June, a search and rescue drill between Japan and the ROK was resumed in nine years and the Japanese defense minister flew to Seoul to have a confab on the issue of security cooperation between the two countries.

It is by no means fortuitous that the word has spread in Japan and the ROK that the level of military cooperation between Japan and the ROK has jumped one step.

What should not be overlooked is that the security cooperation between Japan and the ROK is directed to concluding the "logistic support agreement" which provides each other with munitions including ammunition in contingency.

Japanese media reported that the Japan-ROK security policy council held in May was aimed at concrete successes for the conclusion of the "logistic support agreement" between the two sides, and the chief executive of the ROK openly talked about the need to conclude the "logistic support agreement" with Japan.

The international community has already sounded a note of warning against the nature and danger of the conclusion of the "logistic support agreement" between Japan and the ROK that it is the final stage of the establishment of military alliances and the substantial integration of military systems.

The U.S. ambition for hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region has become more undisguised and the confrontation maniacs of the ROK are hell-bent on arms buildup, modernization of armed forces and war drills for aggression against the DPRK, unhesitatingly spitting out the provocative remarks that the "DPRK regime and the Korean People's Army are their enemy". Timed to coincide with such moves, Japan and the ROK are strengthening the military nexus. Their purpose is as clear as noonday.

Japan's security cooperation is precisely a confrontation cooperation targeting the DPRK and part of the establishment of the "triangular cooperation system over the nuclear issue" to militarily contain neighboring countries by taking advantage of the U.S. strategy for hegemony.

It is also revealed in the fact that Japan and the ROK are talking about the "importance of the U.S.-Japan-ROK cooperation", deploying long-range missiles far beyond their defense sphere and attempting to possess nuclear-powered submarines.

The reality goes to prove once again that the DPRK's continuous development of nuclear force and thorough exercise of its position as a nuclear weapons state are the only way to actively cope with the acute and unpredictably changing international situation and defend peace and security in the Korean peninsula and the region.

No matter what military alliance Japan and the ROK may conclude, there will never be a change in the absolute mechanical structure of no retreat built in the Korean peninsula by the strongest nuclear weapons state.

The reckless military nexus of the enemy states under the eyes of the nuclear weapons state is nothing but a foolish act of courting self-destruction. -0-

For Development of Light Industry of Korean Style

 From Voice of Korea.

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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

 From Voice of Korea .

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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 !