Leader of the People: DPRK

Illuminating the Way Ahead of the DPRK

 Today the Korean people are vigorously advancing along the road of socialist cause by braving every manner of trials and difficulties of history. 

 They are not only demonstrating their dignity and honour to the world by resolutely frustrating the hostile forces’ tenacious sanctions and isolate-and-stifle schemes but also attaining far-reaching goals of socialist construction one by one by relying on the independent national economy.

 These achievements would be unthinkable apart from the outstanding revolutionary idea of General Secretary Kim Jong Un of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea.

-Road of Independent Development

 In the early 2012, the world was focusing on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea with a question of which road it would take after the sudden demise (December 17, 2011) of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

 At this juncture, in his first public speech delivered at the military parade held on April 15, 2012 in celebration of the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung(1912-1994), Kim Jong Un solemnly declared that the final victory of the Korean revolution lies in marching straight along the road of independence and the road of socialism. It was an expression of his unshakable faith and will with which to accomplish the cause of socialism holding high the banner of independence that has been invariably adhered to in the whole course of the Korean revolution.

 His great ambition to unswervingly advance along the road of independent development was expressed in the lines of simultaneously conducting economic construction and building up the nuclear forces and of concentrating all the efforts on building socialist economy and in the idea of strengthening the independent strength, the internal forces in every way.

 True to his idea and leadership, the Korean people accomplished the great, historic cause of perfecting the nation’s nuclear capability in a short span of time that others would not even have dared to target. And they raised their national dignity and prestige to a high level by firmly maintaining the spirit of independence in the state building and activities as well as foreign relations.

-The People’s Demands and Interests Met

 Now the Korean people are faithfully supporting the leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Un. It is because his revolutionary ideas indicate the absolutely correct road for realizing their demands and interests.

 He defined the essence of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, the one and only guiding ideology of the Korean revolution, as the people-first principle and formulated it as the basic mode of socialist politics. Then he put forward the profound idea that making selfless, devoted efforts for the good of the people is the mode of existence of the Workers’ Party of Korea and its eternal climate.

 Top and absolute priority should be given to the demands and interests of the people; the officials should pluck a star from the sky if it is the wish of the people; all production and construction work should be carried out with the people’s convenience as the foremost consideration and with their feedback and assessment as the yardstick; and all the officials should live and work as the true servants who devote themselves for the interests of the people at all times—this is the core of the people-centred philosophy that runs through his revolutionary ideas.

 True to his ideas, the Workers’ Party of Korea and the DPRK government adopt policies and measures one after another for the good of the people, however complicated the situation of foreign relations may be and despite the strain on the economic situation in the country. They are firmly defending the safety of the people by implementing the unprecedented anti-epidemic policies and guidelines and all children across the country are supplied with nourishing foods including dairy products at state expense. At major conferences of the WPK, policies related to the improvement of the people’s living standards are adopted one after another, and as one of them, structures for the people are rising up, including the project of building 50 000 flats in Pyongyang. 

-With an Eye to the Distant Future

 The revolutionary idea of Kim Jong Un serves as the encyclopedia which illuminates the road ahead of the coming 50 and 100 years for the state development.

 His ennobling intentions to build up enormous national strength with an eye to the distant future for state development and hand it down to the younger generations are reflected in his ideas of modelling rural areas on the Juche idea and enriching them materially, of turning all the provinces, cities and counties into the people’s paradise by briskly conducting land administration, of making a leap forward by dint of science and guarantee the future by dint of education, and of building all streets and factories into world-class architectural edifices.

 It is a consistent principle of creation that runs through the revolutionary idea of General Secretary Kim Jong Un that when building a structure, it should be built perfectly so that there would be no room for the coming generations to improve it.

 Numerous modern structures have mushroomed in recent years, typically the Mirae Scientists Street, Ryomyong Street, City of Samjiyon in Ryanggang Province, rural villages, Munsu Water Park, Yangdok Hot Spring Resort, Jungphyong Greenhouse Farm and Sci-tech Complex. Witnessing such monuments the world is keenly realizing what Kim Jong Un’s world of creation is like.

Workers’ Party of Korea and Factor of Its Invincibility

 More than 70 years have elapsed since the Workers’ Party of Korea was founded. During the period, the Party has tided over many trials and difficulties without any slightest vacillation or frustration, demonstrating an invincible might.

 Then, what is the factor of its invincibility?

-Deep Root and Solid Foundation

 It was recorded in history that the Workers’ Party of Korea was founded on October 10, 1945. But, in fact, it can be said that the Party began to strike root on October 17, 1926, when President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) formed the Down-with-Imperialism Union (DIU).

 The formation of the DIU was a fresh starting point and the origin of the communist movement in Korea and the Korean revolution. From this root came the programme of the Party, the principles for the Party building and activities, and the backbone for its foundation.

 The WPK was different from other political parties in the mode of its foundation.

 In his work The Path of the Korean Revolution published on June 30, 1930, Kim Il Sung put forward the line of building a party as a political general staff of the revolution and pointed out that the party should be formed not by proclaiming the party central committee first but by setting up fully prepared basic party organizations and then steadily expanding them.

 Accordingly, the first party organization was formed on July 3, 1930, and later he named it the Society for Rallying Comrades.

 True to Kim Il Sung’s policy on party founding, a large number of party organizations were formed in different parts of Korea as well as in northeast China where the anti-Japanese revolution struggle was briskly waged.

 Kim Il Sung saw to it that the Party committee was established in the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army, the first revolutionary armed force of the Korean nation, and that the Party committee of the revolutionary army played the role of the leading political organization that guided the overall Korean revolution.

 After national liberation (August 15, 1945), he directed primary efforts to building up basic Party organizations before proclaiming the Party central committee.

 As a result, Party organizations at all levels, ranging from provincial Party committee to ri Party committee, the lowest echelon, to say nothing of Party committees of the major factories and enterprises, were formed. This provided the condition to unite broad masses of the people as one and lay an organizational and ideological foundation for founding the Party.

 On the basis of this preparation, on October 10, 1945, Kim Il Sung founded the Workers’ Party of Korea by admitting all the communists, who were active at home and abroad, with the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters as the backbone.

 The WPK greeted a new heyday of its development in the latter half of the 1960s under the leadership of Chairman Kim Jong Il (1942-2011). He put forward the idea of building the Party into the motherly Party and translated it into brilliant reality.

 He ensured that the people-oriented policies was a consistent policy of the Party so as to help the people lead a happy life without any worries about food, clothing, education of their children and medical care. He made sure that the WPK pursued the benevolent politics with a feeling of a mother who cares more for sick and wounded children. Just as children follow their mother, so the Korean people rallied around the Party and ushered in a new phase of single-hearted unity between the Party and the masses which was yet to be known in the world.

-Absolute Support from the People

 The economy of the country is still faced with every manner of challenges and trials and its people cannot be said to be leading an affluent life now. However, the people are supporting the ruling WPK absolutely.

 Firstly, it is because the Party shares weal and woe with the people.

 In August, 2020, when Taechong-ri, Unpha County, North Hwanghae Province was hit by great flood, General Secretary Kim Jong Un of the WPK drove to the damaged area. He took measures to remove the flood damage at the earliest possible date, and had the flood victims including the elderly and children stayed at the building of the county Party committee while the officials of the county Party committee worked in makeshift tents.

 He saw to it that the residents in the flooded region were provided with the aid materials by the officials of the Party Central Committee and their families and the officials went out to rural areas hit by the typhoon to help them repair the damage and take care of the people’s living.

 When the malignant COVID-19 made inroads into the country this year,        Kim Jong Un took every possible measure to control and manage the epidemic disease, and had medicines he had prepared with his family members sent to needy families. Also, he, in disregard of his own safety, visited pharmacies in Pyongyang and took proper measures. Officials of the Party Central Committee and other Party committees at all levels sent medicines, food grains and daily necessities to the victims.

 Secondly, it is because the WPK plants the people’s demands and interests in its policies and implements them to the letter.

 The Eighth Congress of the WPK held in January 2021 adopted the decision to construct 10 000 flats each year in Pyongyang so as to solve the housing problem of the citizens by building 50 000 flats in the capital city. Despite the country’s unusually difficult economic situation, Kim Jong Un strongly pushed ahead with the year’s 10 000 flats project, saying that an undertaking for the good of the people brooks no delay. In addition, he had exquisite terraced houses built on the Pothong riverside to give them to working people including meritorious and model workers, scientists, educationists and writers as a present.

Accordingly, 10 000 flats were built on Songhwa Street, 800 flats in the Pothong Riverside Terraced Houses District and thousands of flats in the Komdok area, and thus people moved into new houses.

 Even when the state epidemic prevention work was switched to the highest anti-epidemic emergency level and a measure was taken to lock down every region and isolate work, production and living units from one another, Kim Jong Un made sure that projects for the people such as 10 000 flats construction in the Hwasong area in the capital city and Ryonpho Greenhouse Farm construction were carried on without letup. Thanks to his measures a bright prospect was opened to complete the projects within a scheduled period.

 Kim Jong Un gave a definition that the selfless devotion for the good of the people is the mode of existence of the Workers’ Party of Korea and has devoted his all for the people. It is quite natural that the WPK enjoys absolute support from the people and demonstrates the invincible might.