The Workers' Party of Korea is the
Party of
the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung(Oct. 2, 1995)
PYONGYANG, October 5 (KCNA) -- Comrade Kim Jong Il published an immortal famous work "the Workers' Party of Korea is the party of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung" on October 2, 1995, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea. The work reads in full:
Fifty years has elapsed since our party was founded.
Greeting the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Workers' Party of Korea, and looking back with deep emotions upon the glorious road of struggle our party has traversed, scoring a historic victory and effecting the greatest change in many centuries by acclaiming respected Comrade Kim Il Sung as its head and under his leadership, our party members and our people express the warm gratitude and pay the highest respect to the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung who founded and led the party.
Under Comrade Kim Il Sung's wise leadership, the Workers' Party of Korea was established as a working-class party of a new type and has been developed into a trained and seasoned veteran revolutionary party, into an unconquerable party enjoying unqualified support and trust of the people, in the flames of struggle for half a century. Under his leadership, our party created a brilliant new history in the people's cause of independence, in the cause of socialism, and made great, imperishable achievements in this cause.
The history of the Workers' Party of Korea is precisely the history of respected Comrade Kim Il Sung's great revolutionary activities. Both the thorny path of our party's struggle and its road of glorious victory are imprinted with his sacred footmarks. Both our party's great achievements and its unbreakable strength and high prestige are associated with his respectful name.
The Workers' Party of Korea belongs to the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung. It is his great name and exploits that have made our party's 50 years brilliant. His name and exploits will be immortal together with our party's history.
The Workers' Party of Korea is a glorious party which under the leadership of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung has paved a new road of building a revolutionary party in the age of independence and set a shining example in this work. Regarding party building as a fundamental question in the revolution, Comrade Kim Il Sung made strenuous efforts from the early years of his revolutionary activity to found the revolutionary party that would lead our revolution. With an unshakable belief that the popular masses are the motive force of the revolution, he waged the revolutionary struggle by organizing the masses. He also did the work of founding the party, laying its basis from among the grassroots, by going to the popular masses to train true communists from among them and forming grassroots party organizations.
The organizational and ideological bases on which to found our party were laid and consolidated in the crucible of the twenty-year-long arduous anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle under the leadership of Comrade Kim Il Sung. The ranks of communist hard core were trained and toughened, true unity and cohesion of the revolutionary ranks centering around the leader were achieved, and the mass basis for the communist movement was solidly laid, through all manner of hardships in the do-or-die struggle.
In the course of organizing and leading the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to victory, Comrade Kim Il Sung created the glorious revolutionary traditions, the lasting cornerstones of our party and revolution.
Thanks to the solid organizational and ideological bases for founding the party and the glorious revolutionary traditions, which were prepared during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, our party was founded opportunely even in the complex circumstances after liberation and has been able to fulfil its mission successfully as the political general staff guiding the building of a new country ever since its foundation.
The establishment of the Workers' Party of Korea enabled our people to shape their destiny successfully under the guidance of their reliable vanguard, their fighting general staff. Its establishment unfolded a new history of the revolutionary party in the era of independence.
After founding the party in an original manner, the respected leader Comrade Kim Il Sung gave wise leadership to the work of party building and developed it into a great revolutionary party.
The history of our party building is the history of brilliantly implementing the Juche idea and translating into reality the idea and theory of building the party on the basis of the Juche idea under Comrade Kim Il Sung's leadership.
Our party is a Juche-type revolutionary party, which has been built and strengthened under the guidance of the Juche idea. The guiding ideology of a party defines its character, its aim of struggle and the basic direction of its development and activities and decides its fighting efficiency and strength. The party which is guided by a great ideology can only be a great party.
It is the most brilliant achievement of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung that he created the immortal Juche idea and thus showed the popular masses a correct way to shape their destiny independently and built a new revolutionary party guided by the Juche idea for the first time in the history of the communist movement.
The Juche idea is a new scientific world outlook which correctly reflects the popular masses' desire for independence and the requirements of the times. It is a great idea that has brought about a historic change in the development of the revolutionary idea of the working class. The Juche idea is the ideological and theoretical bases of our party building as well as the only guide to the revolution and construction. Our party has been guided consistently by the Juche idea in its building and activities. Therefore, it has become a powerful revolutionary party with the most durable basis, a great, authoritative party capable of leading the revolution and construction triumphantly. The building of our party is characterized basically by the fact that it has built itself and conducted its activities under the guidance of the Juche idea. Based on the great Juche idea and the rich experiences in his leadership of the revolutionary struggle of different stages, Comrade Kim Il Sung newly elucidated the fundamentals and basic principles of building a working- class party and the ways to materialize them, and fully systematized the Juche-orientated idea and theory of party building.
This idea and theory are, in a nutshell, the man-centered idea and theory of party building on the basis of the fundamental principles of the Juche idea. Solving all problems in party building and activity by centering on man and through work with people is the essence of this idea and theory. The solidity and strength of the party and all the success in party building depends on how the cadres and other members of the party are educated and bound together organizationally and ideologically and how the masses, the socio-political basis of the party, are rallied behind the party. Work with people is the basis of party building, the essence of party work and the mode of activity proper to the working-class party which regards its idea as a weapon. Only when it lays the primary emphasis on work with people, can the working-class party build up its ranks firmly, strengthen its mass foundation and lead the revolution and construction successfully.
The Juche-orientated idea and theory of party building shed fresh light on the fundamental principles of building the working-class party based on the principles of the driving force of revolution. The driving force of revolution is an integral whole of the leader, the party and the masses. Only under the guidance of the party and the leader can the masses of the people hold their position as the driving force of revolution and play their role satisfactorily. In the driving force of revolution, the leader is the top brain and the center of unity, and the party is a political organization which materializes the leader's idea and guidance. Apart from the leader's idea and guidance, the party as a political leadership body is inconceivable; separated from the masses, the party cannot lead the revolution and construction to victory. Unbreakable unity of the leader, the party and the masses centering around the leader constitutes the solidest and most powerful revolutionary force as well as a great motive force of the revolution and construction. Therefore, the working-class party must be built up into the leader's party, the political organization which realizes the leader's idea and guidance, and must achieve inseparable unity with the masses. This is a basic requirement for the existence and development of the working-class party and a fundamental principle that must be constantly maintained and carried forward in party building.
Comrade Kim Il Sung's idea and theory on party building expound the absolutely scientific and revolutionary principles, basic rules and ways which the working-class party must implement thoroughly in its building and activity; therefore, they have become a powerful ideological and theoretical weapon with which to consolidate our party organizationally and ideologically, strengthen the unbreakable ties between the party and the masses and steadily enhance the leadership role of the party.
The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung built our party into a revolutionary party with a firmly established monolithic ideological system.
The monolithic ideological system of the party is the leader's ideological system and his leadership system. Establishing the monolithic ideological system is the basic way to build the party as the leader's party. Only when the monolith of ideology and leadership is ensured through the establishment of the leader's ideological system and his leadership system, is it possible to achieve the ideological unity and organizational cohesion of the party ranks and make the party play its role satisfactorily as a political leadership body. The working-class party must be an ideological purity and organizational integrity, the entire party being dyed in its leader's idea and moving as one under his unified leadership.
Our party's struggle to establish the monolithic ideological system has been a struggle to equip party members thoroughly with the leader's idea and unite them firmly behind the leader in ideology and purpose, and at the same time, a struggle to overcome the heterogeneous ideas and factional elements which conflict with the leader's idea and guidance and disturb unity and cohesion. Under the leadership of Comrade Kim Il Sung, our party has steadily intensified ideological education to equip all the party members with the Juche idea, the revolutionary idea of the party, and conducted a powerful ideological struggle against flunkeyism, dogmatism, revisionism, factionalism and other unsound ideas as well as factional elements. As a result, it eradicated the factionalism which had greatly harmed our revolution through history and prevented modern revisionism and all other opportunist trends from infiltrating into our ranks. That our party overcame factionalism and flunkeyism in the Korean communist movement and prevented the infiltration of any opportunism including modern revisionism was the historic victory achieved in the struggle to ensure the unity and cohesion of the party ranks and its purity and establish the monolithic ideological system of the party.
Through the struggle to establish the monolithic ideological system, the unity and cohesion of our party developed into the unity of the entire party in ideology and purpose, reinforced by morality and loyalty, based on the leader's idea and centering on the leader. Today all our party members are armed solidly with the monolithic ideology of our party, the revolutionary idea of Comrade Kim Il Sung; they know no other ideas but his revolutionary idea. They resolutely defend and carry out the lines and policies of the party cherishing loyalty to the party and the leader as their revolutionary faith and loyalty. That all party members are united rock-solid behind the leader based on one idea and faith, comradely love and revolutionary loyalty underlies the solidity and unbreakability of the unity and cohesion of our party.
The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung built our party into a militant party which has a strong sense of organization and discipline.
A sense of organization and discipline is the intrinsic requirement of the socialist, communist movement based on collectivism as well as the basic guarantee for the fighting efficiency of the revolutionary and militant party. The monolith of ideology and leadership is ensured by organization and discipline, and apart from them there can be no unity and cohesion. A working-class party without organization and discipline will not only be unable to lead the revolution, but will itself be reduced to a lethargic, nominal existence.
By correctly embodying the principle of democratic centralism in party building and its activity, Comrade Kim Il Sung firmly established the monolithic system of leadership and a revolutionary and voluntary discipline within the party. For our party the principle of democratic centralism is its organizational principle whereby democracy is brought into full play on the basis of firmly establishing centralistic discipline. Centralism is revolutionary discipline and order according to which the entire party acts as one under the monolithic leadership of the leader. Without this neither the unity and cohesion of the party nor a concerted action can be ensured. Democracy means formulating the party's line and policy by incorporating the will of the party members and giving full play to their voluntary enthusiasm and creativity in the struggle to implement them. When centralistic discipline is weakened and unprincipled "democracy" is tolerated, disorder will be created in the party and it will be torn asunder. As a result of the correct application of the principle of democratic centralism in our party, the guidance of the leader is effected from the party center down to the lowest echelon without a hitch and a revolutionary tone has been firmly established: All party organizations and party members accept the party's line and policy as their own and implement them to the letter by displaying a high degree of enthusiasm and creativity.
Enhancing the function and role of party organizations and intensifying the party life of the members is a major factor in improving organization and discipline in the party. By strengthening all its organizations and enhancing their function and role in every possible way, our party has ensured that they carry out their activity strictly in accordance with the party's organizational principle and the system of party work and always work vigorously full of vitality. At the same time, it has channeled great effort into intensifying the party life of its members. Party members are linked with the leader through the party organization and accept the leader's idea and guidance and breathe the breath of the party through party organizational and ideological life. Party life is a revolutionary school that arms party members with the leader's idea, tempers their party spirit and fosters the sense of organization and discipline. Apart from party life, the unity of the ideology and action of millions of party members is inconceivable. A well-organized system of party life and a revolutionary tone of party life have now been firmly established in our party; all party members belong to a particular party organization, regularly leading their party life in accordance with the unitary norms of party life and taking part in it of their own accord as the masters. As a result, the party life of the members has been put on a regular basis and become a part of their daily life, and the organization and discipline of the party have been strengthened markedly. Thus our party has become a most highly organized and disciplined party; all the party members breathe and act as one based on a high degree of awareness and consciousness; it fully displays its might as a militant organization.
The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung built our party into a mass party rooted among broad sections of the population.
A working-class party can be invincible only when it welds into a harmonious whole with the masses and enjoys active support of wide sections of the population. As a matter of principle, the demand of the working class represents the fundamental interest of the working masses, and the historic mission of the working class is to achieve the social emancipation not only of itself but of all the toiling people. Ours is an era of independence when the popular masses have emerged as the master of history, and the cause of the masses for independence can advance victoriously only through the energetic struggle of the working class and other broad strata of the people.
By correctly reflecting the fundamental interest of the working class and other toiling masses as well as the demand of the era of independence and proceeding from the specific situation in our country, respected Comrade Kim Il Sung set the line of building a mass party of the working people comprising workers, peasants and working intellectuals and put it into effect with success. The flag of our party, which is inscribed with a hammer, sickle and brush is a graphic symbol of a revolutionary party in the era of independence, the first of its kind in history. It is the banner of unity and victory of the popular masses who are shaping their destiny independently.
In accordance with the line of building a mass party, our party enlisted into itself many progressive elements from among workers, peasants and working intellectuals and properly combined the quantitative growth and qualitative consolidation of the party ranks. Thus it continually expanded and strengthened itself while firmly maintaining its working-class and revolutionary character. Our party was built as a mass party and the mass line was fully implemented in its activity. As a result, it has strengthened and developed into a party that defends and represents the working masses' demand for independence and their interest, into a revolutionary party of the working class rooted among the broad popular masses and inseparably united with them.
The validity and vitality of our party's line of building itself into a mass party were verified more clearly as the building of socialism was developed in depth. The process of building socialism is the process of transforming all members of society on the pattern of the working class, the process of assimilating all society to the working class. The line of building a mass party fully conforms to the law that governs the building of socialism. By implementing the line of building a mass party, our party was able to maintain its working-class character and at the same time continually increase its ranks, strengthen its mass foundation and accelerate the process of assimilating the whole of society to the working class.
The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung built our party in a far-sighted way to carry on its cause down through generations.
The cause of the popular masses for independence is the cause of the leader, the cause of the party. It is a historic cause that is carried on through many generations. It is only when the working-class party firmly carries forward the idea and guidance of the leader down through generations that it can invariably maintain its revolutionary character and appearance as a leading political organization and carry out its honorable mission. If a party is to correctly carry forward the idea and guidance of the leader, it must fully ensure the continuity of its building. Otherwise, the line of the revolution discontinues and renegades from the revolution appear to ruin the cause of the leader, the cause of the party. This is a serious lesson of history.
Respected Comrade Kim Il Sung not only founded our party and developed it to be an invincible one, but, with his extraordinary far-sightedness since a long time ago, laid a solid foundation for a brilliant continuation and accomplishment of the cause of the party. Looking into the distant future, Comrade Kim Il Sung clarified the way to be followed by our party and our revolution and laid the firm organizational and ideological bases of the party and established the leadership system for the continuation and accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche.
The idea and leadership of respected Comrade Kim Il Sung are unshakably inherited by our party. Today, as a revolutionary party with high prestige and indestructible might, our party enjoys full support and trust from the people and is confidently leading the revolution and construction.
The working-class party is the weapon for the revolution. The foundation of the party and its organizational and ideological strengthening are aimed at realizing the popular masses' cause of independence.
During the past 50 years since its foundation, our party has led the popular masses, winning a great victory in the revolution and construction and gaining valuable and rich experience.
Since national liberation through a bloody revolutionary war against the Japanese, our revolution has advanced through unprecedentedly complex situation and arduous struggle. The division of the country by foreign forces, the fatherland liberation war against the invasion of the allied forces of imperialism, the ceaseless maneuvers for aggression and sabotage by imperialism, the turbulent international situation and the collapse of socialism in several countries, and the subsequent intensification of anti-socialist, anti-DPRK machinations by imperialists and reactionaries--in the face of these events, we carried out the two stages of social revolution successfully, reconstructed the country twice, and built the socialism centered on the masses and added luster to our socialism while defending staunchly the sovereignty of the country and the achievements of the revolution. The revolution and construction have been promoted with vigor even in spite of the innumerable difficulties and hardships, bringing great changes in all lives of the country and people.
Our socialism defends and ensures the independence of the popular masses and satisfies their demand for independence to the full. All the members of society exercise equal rights to independence in the political, economic and cultural lives and enjoy valuable and worthwhile lives free from all manner of social unrest and worry about life. Our society is the most stable and durable society in which all the people are united single-heartedly around the party and leader and have formed a great harmonious family, and the whole society is overflowing with feelings of health and vivacity and revolutionary mettle. The communist morality of devoting oneself to society and the collective and helping and leading one another in a comradely way, now being displayed to a high degree among our people, demonstrates the advantages and might of the socialist system of our country and graphically shows the ennobling ideological and spiritual traits of our people.
Under the leadership of the party, our people have traversed the road of victory, braving the difficulties and obstacles in their way, and are working energetically for fresh victory full of confidence in and optimism for the future. Even in the present complicated situation our socialism is winning one victory after another without vacillation and our socialist motherland is demonstrating its dignity and honor far and wide.
The imperialists and reactionaries resorted to various machinations to check the advance of our party and people and stifle our socialism, but they failed in every attempt.
The practical experience of our revolution patently proves that the people who are united as one under the leadership of their great leader and the great party and fighting for their just cause are unconquerable and that the present age is a new, historic age, the age of independence, when the popular masses have emerged as the master of their destiny. Guided by our party, our people have paved a new path to accomplishing the masses' cause of independence, the path to genuine socialism, and built and developed socialism centered on the popular masses, thus dealing decisive blows at all manner of reactionary propaganda which vilifies socialism and confirming in practice the scientific and truthful nature of socialism and its advantages and invincibility.
For our party, which is entrusted with the responsibility for the destiny of the country and nation, national reunification has been the supreme national task since the first day of its founding. Our party has consistently followed the policy of national reunification, the policy based on the three principles of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity. Reflecting the aspiration for reunification of the whole nation in the north, south and abroad, it put forward the most reasonable, fair and realistic proposal of reunifying the country through confederation and is striving for its implementation. It is also making every effort to realize the great unity of the nation under the banner of national reunification. Our party's policy of national reunification is truly patriotic and it enjoys unanimous support and approval of the whole nation. Thanks to the impeccable policy and consistent effort of our party for national reunification, the national aspiration for reunification has mounted higher as never before and the national unity of all compatriots in the north, south and abroad has become strengthened. The ever-increasing reunification force of our nation will defeat the divisive force at home and abroad and realize the cause of national reunification without fail.
Our party has led the popular masses' cause of independence to brilliant victory, performing great achievements, because it has applied Juche principles and methods of leadership in the revolution and construction in a thoroughgoing way.
In leading the revolution and construction, our party has always safeguarded the demands and interests of the popular masses, relied on them and fought by forming an integral whole with them.
That the popular masses are the master of the revolution and construction and they have the power to promote them is the fundamental principle of the revolution elucidated by the Juche idea. The policy which defends and realizes the demands and interests of the popular masses for independence is the most revolutionary and scientific, and relying on them and giving full play to their strength and wisdom is the basic demand of revolutionary leadership. If one believes in the people and relies on them, one will always emerge victorious; and if one gives wide berth to them and is forsaken by them, one will always fail--this is the concept of "the people are my god," the motto of respected Comrade Kim Il Sung, and this has become the basic starting- point and supreme principle in all activities of our party.
Respected Comrade Kim Il Sung was the great leader of the people and their father. His ideology, leadership and virtue were based on the love for and trust in the people and were run through with them. All his life he was among the people, shared joy and sorrow with them and devoted his all for them. He placed deep trust in the strength, wisdom and excellent qualities of our people and solved all problems by relying on them and by giving rein to their revolutionary zeal and creative force.
Our party has fully applied in all its activities the noble idea of Comrade Kim Il Sung, "the people are my god," and his revolutionary method of leadership. It has always formulated its lines and policies by reflecting truthfully and incorporating the opinions and requirements of the popular masses, and implemented them by enlisting their efforts and resourcefulness. It has given definite priority to ideological work, the political work, of awakening the popular masses ideologically and rallying them organizationally over all other undertakings, and worked tirelessly to oppose abuse of authority and bureaucratism and establish revolutionary method and popular style of work among officials. It has become an iron rule in the activities of our party and in the work of our officials to go always among the people, breathe the same air with them, work devotedly for them and execute revolutionary tasks by relying on them under the party's slogan, "we serve the people." Our party is a motherly party which takes care of the destiny of the popular masses under its charge, and its politics is the politics of love for the people and trust in them, the benevolent politics.
On the basis of the genuine comradeship, the inseparable relationship, in which the party and leader trust and love the people and the people place unqualified trust in them and support them with loyalty, the single-hearted unity of the leader, party and masses has been strengthened and developed and the revolutionary enthusiasm and creative force of the popular masses have been fully displayed on a high plane. Relying on the popular masses and welding with them in the struggle--this is just the secret how our party has promoted the revolution and construction with vigor in such complicated circumstances and trying ordeals and won victory after victory by turning misfortune into a blessing and unfavorable conditions in favorable ones.
In leading the revolution and construction, our party has established Juche with all consistency and firmly adhered to the line of independence.
Independence is man's intrinsic desire and the lifeblood of a country and nation. The revolution and construction are conducted with a country and nation as a unit, and they are the very struggle against all manner of domination and subjugation and for the independence of the country and nation, the independence of the popular masses. The party and people of each country must become masters of the revolution and construction in their country and wage them independently and creatively. It is only when the working-class party establishes Juche firmly and strictly adheres to the line of independence that it can defend the dignity of the country and nation, ensure their independent development and lead the masses' cause of independence to victory. Owing to the circumstances our country was in and the historical characteristics of our revolution, establishing Juche was presented as an all the more pressing and important task to our party.
From the first days of his revolutionary activity the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung blazed the trail of independent development of the Korean revolution holding aloft the banner of independence, made it a fundamental principle to establish Juche and maintain independence in the revolution and construction and led the effort to implement it. The line of Juche in ideology, independence in politics, self-sufficiency in the economy and self-reliance in defense advanced by Comrade Kim Il Sung is a revolutionary line of independence run through with the principle of Juche, the spirit of independence, and our party has staunchly safeguarded this line and implemented it to the letter.
Our party has solved all problems arising in the revolution and construction as dictated by its ideology and faith on its own responsibility and on the principle of self- reliance in our own way to suit our situation and the interests of our revolution. It has been opposed totally to the worship of big powers, dogmatism and all other ideas of relying on foreign forces and rejected categorically any pressure and interference from outside. Free from the established theories and formulas, it has analyzed and judged everything solely from the point of view of the interests of the revolution and hewed out the road of the complicated and arduous Korean revolution by its own effort as dictated by its faith and determination. By conducting energetically among its members and the working people the education in party policies, revolutionary traditions and socialist patriotism with the emphasis on the education in the Juche idea, it has imbued them with the revolutionary ideology, lines and policies of their party, instilled in them high national dignity and pride and given full play to their revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and the revolutionary tone of living our own way.
As they strictly adhered to the Juche stand and the line of independence, our party and people have not vacillated in the raging wind of opportunism including modern revisionism and, in the trying situation in which socialism collapsed in several countries, they have been able to defend and add luster to our style of socialism. Our political and ideological strength, the powerful socialist independent economy and the unconquerable self-reliant military power our party and people have consolidated rock-solid by implementing the revolutionary line of independence, self- sufficiency and self-reliant defense, have become the sure guarantee for defending the sovereignty of the country and the achievements of the revolution, advancing the revolution and construction victoriously and thwarting any aggression and interference of imperialism and dominationism. The fact shows that the political and diplomatic pressure of imperialism, its attempts to disintegrate us ideologically and culturally, its economic blockade and military threat cannot infringe upon the sovereignty of our country nor can they demolish or suffocate our socialism.
The independence of a country and nation is the basis of fair international relations, and an independent foreign policy is the justest and principled foreign policy. All countries and nations, whether they are large or small, developed or less-developed, have the rights to independence and equality as equal members of the international society. When they all maintain independence and respect each other's independence, they can develop fair international relations and build a truly independent, peaceful and friendly new world. By following the foreign policy based on the ideals of independence, peace and friendship, our party and government have developed the relations of friendship and cooperation with many countries in the world, consolidated the country's international position, strengthened international solidarity with our revolution and rendered active contribution to the cause of global independence.
The Juche stand and independent line consistently maintained by our party in the revolution and construction have clearly demonstrated their correctness and great vitality in practice.
Our party has resolutely adhered to the revolutionary principle and invariably implemented the revolutionary line and policy in leading the revolution and construction.
Consistently adhering to the revolutionary principle in accomplishing the cause of the popular masses for independence, the socialist cause, is an important question affecting the destiny of the revolution. Maintaining the revolutionary principle means defending the fundamental interest of the revolution and leading it to victory without any deviation, whereas falling back from the revolutionary principle means betraying the fundamental interest of the revolution and leading it to failure. The history of the revolutionary movement shows that if one retreats one step from the revolutionary principle, one will withdraw two steps, and if this happens, one will go back ten steps, and will eventually make a mess of the revolution. Opportunism of all hues is characterized by lack of the revolutionary principle and inconsistency in the line and policy. The revolutionary principle in carrying out the socialist cause is guaranteed by the working-class party's loyalty to and faith in the socialist cause as well as by its will to carry this cause to completion.
Respected Comrade Kim Il Sung was a great communist revolutionary and a genius of revolution and construction. He led our arduous and tortuous revolution along the straight road to victory with unfailing loyalty to the cause of the popular masses for independence, the socialist cause of Juche, with unshakable revolutionary faith and steel-like revolutionary will. Comrade Kim Il Sung led our party and people by setting a brilliant example of the art of leadership. He defended the revolutionary principle under any circumstances and conditions and most skillfully combined the principle and adroitness in the revolution and construction.
Proceeding from the fundamental interest of the revolution, our party has always adhered to the principle of independence, the working-class principle and socialist principle in the revolution and construction, and thoroughly carried out the revolutionary line with consistency. Our party accelerated the revolution and construction with continuous creative efforts and innovation to meet the demands of the developing reality. While it dealt with the rapidly changing situation actively and shrewdly, it has never taken a single step back from the fundamental interest and principle of the revolution and firmly maintained the revolutionary principle and revolutionary line. Highly creative attitude and adroitness based on the revolutionary principle and consistency in its line and policy--these are the important principle and art of leadership our party adheres to in the revolution and construction as well as the characteristics of our party's revolutionary line and policy.
During the whole course of its leadership to the revolution and construction, our party has never deviated from the revolutionary principle, never allowed itself to be swayed to the right or left without principle and never made a mistake in its line. Thanks to our party's revolutionary principle and the consistency of its line and policy, our revolution has been able to advance victoriously along the road to socialism without any twists and deviations even in the extremely arduous conditions. And also our own style of socialism centered on the popular masses has become a firm conviction of our people and taken root deeper in the people's life. Our people repose unqualified trust in our party that has confidently led the revolution and construction, entrust their destiny entirely to it and are fighting indomitably to complete the revolutionary cause of Juche under the leadership of the party.
Our party's great exploits and precious experience in party building and its activity as well as in the revolution and construction are the brilliant fruition of the revolutionary idea and revolutionary leadership of the respected leader Comrade Kim Il Sung. They are the eternal treasures of our revolution we must defend, inherit and develop down through generations.
Our revolution has emerged victorious under the leadership of our party and in the future, too, it will advance triumphantly and will be carried forward to brilliant completion under its leadership.
We still have a long way to go and our revolution is beset with many hardships and trials as ever. No matter how long and thorny the road ahead of our revolution pioneered and led by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung might be, we must steadily follow this way in accordance with the behest of Comrade Kim Il Sung. This is the unshakable faith and will of our party.
We must safeguard the people-centered socialism of our own style established by respected Comrade Kim Il Sung, bring honor to it and complete the socialist cause of Juche. We must unfailingly achieve national reunification, the vital demand of the entire nation, on the principle of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity set forth by Comrade Kim Il Sung. Upholding the lofty will of Comrade Kim Il Sung our party must strengthen solidarity with the progressive people of the world and work hard to realize the cause of independence for mankind.
In order to carry forward the sacred cause of Comrade Kim Il Sung, the revolutionary cause of Juche, from generation to generation, we must further consolidate our party which organizes and guides all the victories of our people.
We must hold in high esteem beloved Comrade Kim Il Sung as the eternal leader of our party and revolution and develop our party as the glorious party of Comrade Kim Il Sung for ever.
We must defend his great idea, theories and revolutionary methods of leadership and thoroughly apply them in party building and activities. We must do all the work of revolution and construction as Comrade Kim Il Sung planned, intended and showed personal examples in practice and conduct everything in such a way as Comrade Kim Il Sung did. This is the way to develop our party as the party of Comrade Kim Il Sung and the way to brilliantly inherit and complete the revolutionary cause of Juche.
We must resolutely safeguard the revolutionary idea of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and thoroughly put it into effect.
The revolutionary idea of Comrade Kim Il Sung, the Juche idea, is the sole guiding ideology of our party and the banner of victory for our party and revolution. Apart from his revolutionary idea, it would be impossible to speak about the party of Comrade Kim Il Sung or to think of the victory of the party's cause.
Holding high the banner of modeling the whole party on the Juche idea, we must further strengthen education in the Juche idea, so that the party is imbued with only one ideology, the Juche idea, and make the whole party breathe in, and pulsate with, the Juche idea. We must train all party members to be communist revolutionaries of the Juche type who are firmly equipped with the Juche-oriented revolutionary outlook on the world and to think and act at all times as demanded by the Juche idea.
We must defend the purity of the Juche idea and ceaselessly develop it in depth. Degeneration of ideology brings about degeneration of the party; it leads the revolution and construction to ruin. Adherence to the purity of the Juche idea means keeping our party's revolutionary character and defending the party's cause. We must ceaselessly fight against the infiltration of bourgeois reactionary idea, revisionism and all other hues of ideological trend of opportunism so as to prevent the heterogeneous ideological trends from getting even a little chance of gaining ground and growing in our ranks. While defending the revolutionary essence and purity of the Juche idea, we must develop and enrich the Juche idea as required by the times and the developing reality and add luster to its greatness.
True to the party's slogan, "let us meet the requirements of Juche in ideology, technology and culture !" we must deal with all work of revolution and construction as required by the Juche idea. We must thoroughly implement the Juche idea in building the party, the army, the economy and culture, to further strengthen the political, economic and military power of the country, bring about development and flowering of socialist national culture and fully display the advantages of our own style of socialism centered on the popular masses.
We must defend like the apples of our eyes the unity and solidarity of our party effected by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and cement it more solidly.
The unity and cohesion of the party ranks immediately means its lifeblood and strength. Our party's unity and cohesion is the purest and most durable unity and cohesion based on the monolithic ideological system and a guarantee for the indestructible might of our party.
We must consistently hold fast to the work of establishing the party's monolithic ideological system as the basic line of party building and defend and strengthen further the unity and cohesion of our party which is firmly united in ideology and will as well as in morality and loyalty based on one ideology and one center. All the cadres and party members must make loyalty to the party their faith, conscience, morality and the creed of their lives and follow the party's leadership firmly united in one mind and will. We must oppose all kinds of unsound elements detrimental to the party's unity and cohesion and ensure the purity of the party ranks. Our party's unity and cohesion has reached a high level, but we must not rest content. The unity and cohesion of the party can be maintained and consolidated only through constant ideological education and ideological struggle. We must not tolerate nepotism, parochialism, factionalism and other slightest elements which undermine and hamper the party's unity and cohesion and must overcome them promptly so that the party is always permeated with the spirit of unity, the atmosphere of unity.
We must thoroughly put into effect the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's idea, "the people are my god", so as to further cement the inseparable ties between the party and the people and ceaselessly strengthen and develop the single-hearted unity of the whole society.
Our party exists for the people and regards it as its duty to fight to meet the people's desire for independence and their interests. Taking loving care of the people, serving them and forming a harmonious whole with them -- these are the intrinsic nature and basic characteristics of the party of Comrade Kim Il Sung.
Our people are a great revolutionary people who were brought up by respected Comrade Kim Il Sung and braved the tempest of the revolution under his leadership; they are an excellent people equipped with noble ideological and mental traits under our party's benevolent politics and the socialist system of our country. Our party strongly believes in our people who are boundlessly loyal to the party and revolution; it overcomes all difficulties and hardships by relying on their unrivalled heroism and unquenchable creative force. Our people's unquestioned trust in and unanimous support for our party are a source of invincible strength of our party; serving the most excellent people of ours is a great honor and pride of our party.
We must thoroughly implement the consistent idea and policy of our party which takes loving care of the people, champions their demands and interests and fights for their independent and creative life. We must build more effectively our party as a genuine motherly party which leads and takes care of the destiny of the people on its own responsibility, and must enhance the spirit of service for the people among officials so that they put the benevolent politics of the party into practice more efficiently. We must ensure that all the officials serve the people devotedly as their servants and the champions of their interests.
We must fully implement the Chongsanri spirit and Chongsanri method created by Comrade Kim Il Sung and hold high as ever the party's slogan, "let the whole party go among the masses !" all the officials must acquire more firmly the revolutionary and popular style of work; they should always go deep among the masses, share weal and woe with them, teach and learn from them and execute the revolutionary tasks by giving rein to their revolutionary enthusiasm and creative zeal. We must resolutely oppose and reject abuse of power, bureaucracy, irregularity and corruption among officials and ensure that they acquire modest and unceremonious traits and establish a frugal and upright way of life.
The party must believe in the people and the people in the party, striving vigorously as one and further consolidating the single-hearted unity of the whole society. As we have advanced, braving difficulties on the strength of the single-hearted unity of the party and the people, so we must, in the future, too, pave the way of victory and glory by relying on the might of single-hearted unity.
Today our party and people have embarked on the road of new historic advance. Our party will inherit and develop faithfully the idea and achievements of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and accomplish his cause down through generations.
The Workers' Party of Korea will shine forever as the party of Comrade Kim Il Sung.
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