“We should hold the General up invariably as the General Secretary of our Party.
To
hold him in high esteem as the eternal General Secretary of our
Party is, in principle, a demand for consistently holding fast to
his ideology and lines and advancing our revolutionary cause
victoriously.
Holding
him up as the eternal General Secretary of the WPK is never
symbolic in itself. It means having him at the post of General
Secretary of the Party invariably and conducting Party building
and Party activities in accordance with his ideology and
intention.
His
ideology and lines are the permanent guiding principles for our
Party and revolution and ever-victorious banners whose justness
and vitality have been proved through the practice of the
revolution. Separated from them, the victorious advance and
accomplishment of the cause of our revolution are inconceivable.
If our Party is to lead the Korean revolution along the road of
victory and glory as it did in the past, it should hold the
General in high esteem as its eternal General Secretary and strictly
adhere to and thoroughly implement his ideology and lines.
To
hold him up as the eternal General Secretary of our Party is
natural in view of the immortal exploits he performed for the
times and revolution while leading it for a long time.
The period of his developing our Party into the party of President Kim Il Sung
with his unexcelled ideas and theory and outstanding leadership
spans more than half a century. He developed our Party into a
revolutionary party in which the leaders’ ideological and
leadership systems are firmly established, into a motherly party which
has formed a harmonious whole with the masses of the people and
serves them, and into an invincible party with iron discipline
and fighting efficiency, and he demonstrated the dignity and
might of Kim Il Sung’s
Korea to the whole world; these constitute his most
distinguished achievement to be brilliantly etched in the annals
of our Party.”
“The
General was a peerless patriot; he loved his country and fellow
people more ardently than anybody else, and devoted his whole
life to achieving the prosperity of the country and the happiness
of the people, thus performing imperishable exploits that are
etched in the history of the country.
Always cherished in the depth of his heart were his dear country and people.
When
he saw a forest thickly wooded or a vast field realigned in a
sweeping manner, he would say to himself, “Green mountain” and
“Green field,” picturing in his mind the future of a thriving
country and the happiness our people would enjoy down through
generations. When he was on visits to foreign countries, he would
say with deep emotion, “My country, my nation,” missing his country
and people back in his country. When he saw a poorly-wooded mountain
on his field guidance trip, he would feel painful and say that
our country had been called a three-thousand-ri
land of golden tapestry from time immemorial, adding that we
should turn it into a land of golden tapestry of the era of the
Workers’ Party and hand it over to the coming generations. When
he saw that the service personnel of army units had planted many
trees on the mountains around their barracks and tended them
well, he would speak highly of their patriotism and call theirs
units of patriots. And when he saw a village and the barracks of an
army unit which were well laid out and covered with apricot and
persimmon trees, he called them an apricot-tree village and a
persimmon-tree company, respectively, adding national fragrance
to their names.
Being
determined to be the master of the revolution in Korea from
the first day of embarking on the road of the revolution, he
defended and added brilliance to his socialist country by
devoting his all throughout his life, and continued to follow the
road of love for his country and people until the last moment of
his life.
The
struggle to defend the socialist country was the acutest
showdown with the imperialist allied forces, the severest
struggle unprecedented in its history. To break through the harsh
trials facing the country and defend it, the General set out on
the long, arduous road of Songun-based leadership in a do-or-die
spirit.
The
only parka he wore from the days of the “Arduous March” to the
last days of his life is vivid evidence showing what a thorny
path he had to traverse with patriotic devotion to defend his
socialist country. One year, looking back on the days of the
trying ordeals with deep emotion, he touched on the parka he was
wearing.
He said that he wore it at the onset of the “Arduous March” after President Kim Il Sung
had passed away, and that he kept wearing it because he could
not forget the trials. He continued earnestly that the parka was
symbolic of the Songun-based revolution. Even a parka gets thin
if one wears it long, and it cannot keep one warm in the cold.
Though icy wind got through the old parka, he burned his heart with a
sense of responsibility for the defence of his country. He held on
to the parka for more than ten years, when he displayed strong
will and superhuman energy going on with his inspection of the
military units on the front line to train the soldiers into
a-match-for-a-hundred combatants. Chol Pass and Mt. Osong he climbed braving howling snowstorms, Cho
Islet he visited across a rough sea, and other frontline posts
will remain witnesses to the patriotic devotion he displayed on
the road of Songun-based leadership to defend the country.”
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