Politics

A national memorial service took place at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on July 8 on the 30th anniversary of demise of President Kim Il Sung.

Ri Il Hwan, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, made a memorial address "The sacred revolutionary exploits of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung will be immortal".

Noting that 30 years have lapsed since President Kim Il Sung, who was greeted and held in high esteem by the Korean people for the first time in the nation's history spanning thousands of years, passed away, the memorial address said:

One generation has fully grown and the whole country has changed beyond recognition with the lapse of time, but the beaming image of the warm and tender-hearted President can be seen in all parts of the country seething with the efforts for creation, and the blood ties between him and the people are given steady continuity along with touching anecdotes about the President's great benevolence told in every family full of new life.

For the past 30 years our people have ardently missed the President, holding him in high esteem with the deepest reverence. During those days and months they have put the dignity and honour of the socialist motherland of Juche, the precious patriotic legacy of the President, on the highest level under the uplifted red flag of the revolution associated with his whole life.

The revolutionary career of the President was the one of a great revolutionary and a great man who showed his absolute and boundless love and devotion for the country and its people, performed miracles unprecedented in history and created an immortal image that will shine for all ages.

In the great Kim Il Sung's era, the world saw the peerlessly great leader who accomplished the most glorious cause at all complicated and gigantic stages of the revolution despite twists and turns of history.

The greatest of his exploits for the country, revolution, history and people are the ideological and theoretical exploits he performed by ushering in a new era of historical development with the brilliant rays of the Juche idea.

Thanks to the birth of the great Juche idea, our people found a way to achieve national restoration and, at the same time, the oppressed working masses of the world were provided with a theoretical weapon for putting an end to the history of reactionary ideology which had served to deceive and enslave them.

It is the greatest exploit performed by the President before the times and history that he provided the most people-oriented, scientific and revolutionary guiding ideology and put forward the immortal banner for shaping the future of the cause of the masses of the people for independence, the socialist cause.

His whole life is run through with the immortal exploits he performed as he won back the dignity of the country and its people and training them into a strong people under the banner of independence and self-reliance.

Today's miraculous changes, in which the era of our state-first principle is ushered in and the national prestige of the DPRK is fully demonstrated, are a precious fruition provided on the basis of the patriotic feats of the President who restored and defended the dignity of the country and its people and cultivated their inexhaustible strength.

The infinitely ennobling image of the President who will be with us forever is the immortal one of the people's leader, who laid a solid foundation for the happiness of the people and the prosperity of posterity by regarding it as his lifelong mission to believe in the people as in Heaven and devoting his all to them.

All the assets the Korean people have valued so much, ardently loved and defended at the cost of their lives were provided by the tireless efforts of the President who always found himself among the people and continued a journey of love without rest for the country and people all his life.

The President is always alive in the hearts of not only the Korean people but also hundreds of millions of the world people as he made immortal contributions to the international communist movement and the cause of independence for humankind under the unfurled banner of independence against imperialism all his life.

Thanks to the noble internationalist obligation and energetic external activities of the President who powerfully encouraged the peoples of different countries in their struggle against aggression and war, domination and subjugation with firm solidarity and selfless support, the anti-imperialist independent forces grew stronger and the international position and influence of the DPRK remarkably increased.

It is the greatest of his feats for the revolution and the future that the President solved the issue of continuity of succession to the leadership most correctly and confidently with a noble sense of responsibility for the future of the country and revolution.

Thanks to the rare foresight and outstanding leadership of the President who most successfully solved the issue of succession to the revolutionary cause for the first time in history, looking far into the distant future of the country and people, a sure guarantee was provided for the Korean revolution to dynamically advance down through generations along the immutable orbit of Juche.

The immortal revolutionary ideology and cause of the President have victoriously advanced, displaying their inexhaustible vitality and attraction, thanks to his most faithful, staunch and great successors, and are now successfully developing further full of strong vitality, he noted, adding:

The Korean people have more keenly realized how precious the revolutionary legacies of the President are in their decades-long gigantic struggle for brilliant succession, epoch-making victories and changes in the new era of the Juche revolution, rallied close around the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

The firm guarantee for accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche lies in single-mindedly following and upholding Kim Jong Un who is leading the Party, state and people to brilliant victory and glory with his rare wisdom and distinguished leadership ability.

We should preserve Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism as the eternal lifeline and make uninterrupted changes and innovations in all fields of bolstering up the national power and building socialism, true to the ideas and intention of Kim Jong Un, so as to add new pages to the history of Kim Il Sung's powerful nation and successfully realize the President's idea of building a powerful country without fail.

The history of immortality of the President, who provided the great ideology and exploits that serve as the textbook of life and struggle teaching the immutable nature of the Korean revolution and the philosophy of its invincibility and as the inexhaustible motive power for making a new history, will never stop forever, but be given steady continuity along with the dynamic advance of the Korean revolution.

The memorial address called on all the people to unite close around the ever-victorious WPK Central Committee with a single mind of patriotism and work hard to bring about the eternal prosperity of the socialist country shining with the august name of President Kim Il Sung and bring earlier a new, more dignified and worthwhile life in which the people's ideals and desires come true.