A Life of Triumph, by KFA-UK South Coast.

The road to Korean liberation started with one young man, two old pistols, and a fervent ambition to throw off the yoke of Japanese occupation. Yet from that one spark, a fire was kindled; a roaring blaze that not only burned the Japanese army, but also defeated what was then thought to be the overpowering force of the American war machine when it attempted to steamroller flat the vibrant young shoots of the DPRK.

Having prevailed against the US' attempt to wipe the nation off the map, now the peace had to be won as well, and a new country emerge from the literal ashen carpet of destruction. Starting effectively from scratch, the Korean people were in need of organisation and guidance as they forged their new society: This would be a task of ceaseless intellectual effort that required a boundless vision, great courage, as well as the imagination to look beyond the immediacies of the moment to hold the golden future that was being aimed for always in heart and mind.

Fortunately there was such a leader, as the young man who began it all had by now become Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG. Not only did his stewardship result in rapidly executed feats of reconstruction which astonished the world, but his promulgation of the Juche Idea achieved social as well as economic progress the like of which had not been seen before. Having supervised Peoples' Korea as it built a truly socialist society, along with the remarkable abolition of taxation, Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG then concentrated his attention on the renunification of those parts of the Korean peninsula still suffering under foreign occupation. He was working on this very matter up until the final moments of his life.

His tragic loss still pains the Korean people to this day, but he left behind a solid foundation upon which his successors have in their turn advanced the cause of Korean and world socialism. Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG's legacy is not only the parkland cityscapes of Pyongyang - the design of which he took a personal interest in - but the DPRK as a whole; a nation prosperous and confident marching boldly as one into a sunny future with the Dear Leader's memory held close to their heart.