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No. 57/22 July 8, 2022
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun
2. Cornerstone for Korea’s Reunification
3. Meetings Held to Commemorate Demise Anniversary of President Kim Il Sung
4. Cherishing Noble Sense of Internationalist Duty
5. Tower of the Juche Idea
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun
Pyongyang, July 8 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, together with the participants in the Special Workshop for Officials in the Party Life Guidance Sections of Organizational Departments of Party Committees at All Levels of the WPK, visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on the occasion of the greatest memorial day of the nation.
Accompanying him were Jo Yong Won, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretary for Organizational Affairs of the WPK Central Committee, and Ri Il Hwan, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee.
The sacred temple of Juche was overflowing with ardent yearning and boundless reverence for President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il, the great leaders who pioneered and added luster to the glorious history of the ever-victorious WPK.
The participants entered the palace with a feeling of solemnity, overwhelmed by the great honor and excitement of having received an important Party-building programme for the new era run through with the outstanding ideo-theoretical wisdom of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un at the special workshop that marked an important historic occasion in the struggle for developing the great WPK.
A floral basket from Kim Jong Un was placed at the statues of the President and the Chairman.
Laid before the statues were the floral baskets in the names of the WPK Central Committee and the participants in the special workshop.
Kim Jong Un, together with the participants, paid high tribute to the statues of the President and the Chairman.
At the halls where the President and the Chairman lie in state, he paid homage to the President and the Chairman as a token of his best wishes for immortality to the great leaders who built the WPK into a powerful Juche-type revolutionary party for the times and history and laid an organizational and ideological cornerstone of eternal value for the WPK to always emerge victorious.
The participants made a deep bow to the President and the Chairman, the founder and builders of the WPK, respectfully presenting a report to the great leaders that they would launch a sacred struggle to put the WPK's leadership and fighting efficiency on a fresh high stage with high awareness and confidence after successfully concluding the special workshop held under the direct guidance of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un.
All the participants made their firm resolve to creditably discharge their militant mission and core role, as the officials of the Party sections performing the function of the heart and nerve system, in the historic struggle for ushering in a new era of strengthening of the entire Party, cherishing deep in mind the great trust and honor bestowed by Kim Jong Un, and thus tangibly contribute to developing the WPK into the powerful guiding political organization modeled on his revolutionary idea.
Cornerstone for Korea’s Reunification
President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea devoted his all to the cause of national reunification. As early as fifty years ago he illuminated the cornerstone for national reunification–the three principles of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity, which the north and south of Korea solemnly proclaimed at home and abroad in their July 4 Joint Statement in 1972.
When he met the representative of south Korea who was on a visit to Pyongyang for north-south high-level political talks in May 1972, Kim Il Sung explained to him the main principles to be adhered to in the effort for national reunification.
As part of its efforts to realize its ambition for gaining world supremacy after the Second World War, the United States tried to dominate the Korean peninsula which is located in a geopolitically favourable position. In the long run, the Korean peninsula was divided into two by the foreign forces. After occupying south Korea, the US obstructed in every possible way the struggle of the Korean people for the reunification of their country. This historical background clearly showed that the Korean people could achieve national reunification only when they opposed the domination and interference by the US, the mastermind behind Korea’s division and biggest obstacle to its reunification and safeguarded the principle of national independence.
Achieving the national reunification in a peaceful way is a unanimous desire of the Korean nation and a fundamental method of reunification. On the Korean peninsula where enormous armed forces of two sides face each other, an accidental confrontation may lead to an all-out war. Moreover, another Korean war that may become a thermonuclear war may result in the extinction of the nation and destruction of the world peace and security.
Although the country has been divided for several decades, the commonness as a homogeneous nation, which had been formed and consolidated over a long period of history of 5 000 years, is incomparably larger than the difference of the systems and ideologies caused by the division. If the whole nation achieves unity, gearing and subordinating everything to national reunification, they can solve any problem.
Based on these principles, Kim Il Sung ensured that the north-south joint statement whose essence is the three principles of national reunification was made public on July 4, 1972. The joint statement won the full support and approval of the entire Korean nation and broad international community and became the cornerstone for Korea’s reunification.
In 2000, a historic north-south summit meeting was held for the first time in the history of Korea’s division and the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration was adopted with the principle of By Our Nation Itself as its basic spirit. The core of the declaration was, as the phrase indicates, the three principles of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity.
In 2018, summit meetings were held again, and April 27 Panmunjom Declaration and the September Pyongyang Joint Declaration were adopted, opening up a new phase noteworthy in the Korean people’s struggle for national reunification. The three principles for national reunification remained as an unshakable cornerstone also in these declarations.
The history clearly shows that the three principles for national reunification put forward by President Kim Il Sung are the most reasonable and realistic fundamental principles and way for Korea’s reunification.
Meetings Held to Commemorate Demise Anniversary of President Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- Working people's organizations in the DPRK held meetings to praise the virtues of President Kim Il Sung on Wednesday on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of his demise.
Present at the meetings were Ri Tu Song, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Mun Chol, chairman of the C.C., Socialist Patriotic Youth League, Pak In Chol, chairman of the C.C., General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea (GFTUK), Han Jong Hyok, chairman of the C.C., Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea (UAWK), officials concerned and officials of the youth league, the GFTUK and the UAWK.
Speakers at the meeting of youth and students, held at the Pukgudang Revolutionary Site, told stories of the achievements of President Kim Il Sung who pioneered the Korean youth movement during the anti-Japanese revolution and clarified the road to be taken by the youth league in every period and stage of the developing revolution, bestowing love and trust to the Korean youths.
Speakers at the meeting of workers and trade union members, held at the Central Hall of Workers, talked about the devotion and efforts of Kim Il Sung who had made a long journey of field guidance till the last period of his life from the early days of nation building to provide the eternal foundations for the building of a prosperous and powerful country.
At the meeting of agricultural workers and UAWK members held at the Wonhwa Co-op Farm in Phyongwon County, speakers praised the achievements of Kim Il Sung who had walked across farm fields all his life for the agricultural development of the country and the happiness of the people.
They stressed that the President will always be with the agricultural workers of Korea.
Pyongyang, July 8 (KCNA) -- Officials and members of the Socialist Women's Union of Korea (SWUK) had a gathering at the Hall of Women on July 7 to commemorate the 28th anniversary of demise of President Kim Il Sung.
Present there were Kim Jong Sun, chairwoman of the Central Committee of the SWUK, officials of the women's union and its members in Pyongyang City.
Speakers at the gathering talked about the noble traits of the President who performed feats before the Party and the revolution, the country and the people, and the era and history out of yearning for him.
They lauded the President as a great revolutionary who devoted himself to the revolutionary cause.
They pointed out that he believed in the people as in Heaven all his life and his life was the one of a popular leader.
What the President, who left nothing for his own sake and never allowed any privilege for him, kept in his safe until the last moments of his life was a single photo of him and his revolutionary comrade, and he used an ordinary TV in his office and vinyl slippers made in the country, they said.
When the song "Our Leader" was played at the venue full of reverence for him, all the participants made up their minds to display the mental power and patriotic devotion of the Korean women in the struggle for ushering in the period of overall development in socialist construction full of pride in being blessed with illustrious leaders through generations.
Cherishing Noble Sense of Internationalist Duty
When July comes every year, our people and progressive humankind recollect with deep emotion the immortal exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung. Out of a noble sense of internationalist duty, he extended economic and technical assistance, both materially and morally, to those countries which had embarked on the road of building a new society.
In 1964, President Kim Il Sung dispatched a large group of 200-odd technicians to Cuba to assist the Cuban people in their socialist construction. In January, 1969, when the Cuban government requested us to extend the term of the Korean technicians working in Cuba for another year and to dispatch more Korean technicians to Cuba, he accepted them with good grace.
In July, 1968, a government delegation of the South Yemen (as it then was) visited our country. At that time, President Kim Il Sung fathomed the hearts of the people in this country which has insufficient water resources. He gave his word that he will help them saying that 3,000 vacuum pumps would be enough to irrigate 150,000 hectares of farmland. After that, he sent lots of equipment together with our experts to this country.
To Sri Lanka, an island country in the Indian Ocean of South Asia, he also sent various farming equipment including 100-odd tractors, pumps, water pumps, plows and more than 50,000 meters of vinyl pipes.
When cholera broke out in one of the African countries, he gave his earnest words to our medical team in that country that the doctors from the revolutionary Korea should not stand aloof from the infectious case, and they should take proper measures to prevent cholera and nurse the patients with the utmost care. When the Beninese government requested him to send able workers including doctors, technicians and teachers to its country, he also unreservedly accepted their request.
Countless are the stories about President Kim Il Sung who had given assistance out of a noble sense of internationalist duty. These stories are all running through with genuine love for and trust in progressive humankind.
Therefore, voices are being heard from Asia, Africa, Latin America and other parts of the world expressing respect and thanks to President Kim Il Sung who gave every possible support unselfishly, be it material and moral, to resolve the issues arising in building a new society.
World mass media are competing with each other to highly praise President Kim Il Sung as a great man who had spent his lifetime for the freedom and happiness of humankind embracing progressive peoples of the world in his bosom.
Indeed, President Kim Il Sung will remain forever in the hearts of all people as eternal sun of humankind for his immortal and historic exploits performed in accomplishing the independent cause of humankind.
Tower of the Juche Idea
The Tower of the Juche Idea, the world’s highest stone tower with a height of 170m, stands in the central part of Pyongyang on the shore of the Taedong River. The torch on the top of the tower body, which symbolizes the Juche idea illuminating the way for carving out man’s destiny and its truthfulness and vitality, lights the night sky over Pyongyang like burning flames.
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