The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung is a peerlessly great man who performed undying feats for the country and people, the times and history, holding aloft the banner of Juche all his life.

Authoring the Immortal Juche Idea

Comrade  Kim Il Sung embarked on the road of revolution for the liberation of the country in his teens and groped for a new path of the Korean revolution.

At that time, the communists of the early years and nationalists who were allegedly engaged in the national liberation movement in Korea were idling away the time with scramble for hegemony and lip service, being divorced from the masses of the people.

Comrade Kim Il Sung decided to pioneer a new path of the Korean revolution, the one quite different from theirs.

He was not involved in the scientific and theoretical activities to delve into the preceding progressive ideas in the study, but went among the people and conducted revolutionary and practical activities of organizing and mobilizing them to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle. In the course, he discovered the truth of the Juche idea.

He formulated it as the truth of revolution that if one is to make revolution, one should go among the people and struggle by relying on them and step up the revolution of one's own country by one's own efforts in a responsible manner, whether or not recognized by others.

He proclaimed the founding of the Juche idea at the historic Kalun meeting on June 30, 1930.

In April 1994, members of a visiting journalist delegation from the United States asked him a number of questions.

Comrade Kim Il Sung gave answers to their questions, Section Chief Kim Jong Chol at the Academy of Social Sciences said and continued:

"At that time, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung said it can be called his hobby to enjoy reading books and mix with the people to share life and talk with them, adding:

The people are the most resourceful and well-informed teachers for me. They embody a mix of philosophy, economics and literature. Consequently, I always mix with the people and learn from them.

I grasped the truth in the course of struggling for the independence and prosperity of the country that when we believe in the people and rely on them, we will always emerge victorious but if we are forsaken by them, we will always fail. And I have led the revolution and construction, regarding the truth as my motto. It is my political philosophy to believe in the masses of the people as the masters of the revolution and construction and rely on their strength and this enabled me to devote my life to the people."

Leading the Revolution and Construction under the Banner of Juche

The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung further developed and enriched the Juche idea in the course of applying it to all fields of the revolution and construction throughout his life and dignified the country and people under its banner.

He led the 20-year-long anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to victory under the banner of Juche and accomplished the historic cause of national liberation.

He built the party, government and army in our own way in the period of building a new society and won a victory with our style of tactics and on the strength of our people in the Fatherland Liberation War for repulsing the invasion of the US imperialists in the 1950s.

And he successfully advanced the socialist revolution and socialist construction by the efforts of our people according to the Juche-based lines and policies.

He built on this land socialism of Korean style constantly developing on the basis of the firm foundation of independence, self-sufficiency and self-reliant defence by applying the Juche idea.

In June 1992, he met the Chairman of the Workers' Communist Party of Sweden and had a historic talk with him, Section Chief Kim Jong Chol at the Academy of Social Sciences said and continued:

"In his talk that day, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung said the first cause of the ruin of the east European socialist countries is that the leaders of those countries took to flunkeyism and the worship of great power without maintaining the independent stand in the revolution. He went on to say:

In the past, Khrushchev told me that Korea should also join the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), but I objected to it. I told him: 'Even though we do not join CMEA, if we successfully carry out socialist construction based on self-reliance, it means precisely that we are loyal to internationalism, doesn't it? In the long run, the east European socialist countries that entered the CMEA just to fawn upon the great power all collapsed, but we who have not entered the CMEA from the standpoint of independence are still living healthily.'"

Once a foreign journalist asked him in what aspect he thought he could develop the Juche idea if he was to further develop it. Comrade Kim Il Sung answered that we were mapping out correct strategies and tactics of building socialism and communism on the basis of the revolutionary principle of the Juche idea and further developing and enriching our revolutionary idea and theory in the course of solving practical issues arising in the revolution and construction.

He authored the immortal Juche idea and led the country and people, the times and history under its banner and his undying exploits will shine forever.