Kim Jong Il's Patriotism

Kim Jong Un Publishes New Work Calling for Embodying Kim Jong Il′s Patriotism

Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- The dear respected Kim Jong Un's talk with leading officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea "Let Us Effect Kim Jong Il's Patriotism and Step Up the Building of a Prosperous Country" on July 26, 2012 was made public. The talk was carried by newspapers on August 3.

Kim Jong Un in his work said that leader Kim Jong Il was a peerless patriot who performed undying exploits to be recorded in the history of the country for all ages. Kim Jong Il warmly loved the country and the people more than anything else and devoted all his life to the prosperity of the country and happiness of the people, he added. He went on to say:

Kim Jong Il's long journey of patriotic devotion undergoing arduous ordeals helped face-lift the country and laid the eternal foundation for a thriving nation.

His warm love for the socialist motherland and people and self-sacrificing devotion to the prosperity of the country and people's happiness are derived from his absolute trust in his own people and steadfast confidence in justice of the socialist system and victory of socialism.

His warm love and devotion are also prompted by his noble awareness and sense of mission that he was responsible for the destiny of the country and people whom President Kim Il Sung entrusted to him.

Patriotism that he had displayed is the noblest one which can be called after him only in the light of its essence and its tremendous vitality. This patriotism constitutes the height of socialist patriotism.

Kim Jong Il's patriotism is the warmest love for our socialist motherland and people and the most energetic and self-sacrificing devotion to the prosperity of the country and people's happiness. It is genuine patriotism as he loved every tree and every blade of grass of the country.

Kim Jong Il's patriotism is based on the noble outlook on the country, people and posterity. This patriotism is the precious mental legacy and practical example he left to the Korean people. All the officials, party members and other working people should actively learn from noble patriotism of Kim Jong Il and embody it into practice just as it is. They should faithfully carry forward and complete all the work Kim Jong Il had planned and tried to realize in his lifetime in order to materialize his idea and wishes in this land.

The greatest patriotism lies in defending the country. All the people should attach importance to the military affairs, sincerely learn them and devote their patriotism to the sacred war for defending the country if the enemy provokes. Everyone should bravely turn out in the just struggle to achieve national reunification true to the noble patriotic idea of Kim Jong Il.

Kim Jong Un in the work set forth the tasks for party and working people's organizations and all the state-run bodies and social organizations to fulfill their responsibility and role in the work for learning from Kim Jong Il's patriotism and embodying it.

The country will emerge as a thriving socialist nation when the hot wind of learning from Kim Jong Il's patriotism prevails in the country and all the people fully embody it into practice, he stressed.  

Kim Jong Un Clarifies Essence of Kim Jong Il′s Patriotism

Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- The dear respected Kim Jong Un clarified the essence of Kim Jong Il's patriotism in his work "Let Us Effect Kim Jong Il's Patriotism and Step Up the Building of a Prosperous Country".

Kim Jong Un said in his work that patriotism which leader Kim Jong Il embodied in practice is the noblest patriotism that can be called after him only in the light of its essence and tremendous vitality.

Kim Jong Il's patriotism is the culmination of socialist patriotism, Kim Jong Un said, adding: Kim Jong Il's patriotism is the warmest love for our socialist motherland and people and the most energetic and self-sacrificing devotion to the prosperity of the country and people's happiness. It is genuine patriotism as he loved every tree and every blade of grass of the country.

It is based on a noble outlook on the motherland. In his early years Kim Jong Il wrote masterpiece "Embrace of Country" in which he described the embrace of country as warm as the sun as the embrace of President Kim Il Sung. He clarified a profound idea that the country means the leader, and the embrace of the country is precisely that of the leader for the Korean people.

Motherland is not a mere place where one was born and brought up but a place where the people lead a genuine life and their eternal happiness is guaranteed. This is possible when there is a leader. That is why devotion to the motherland means loyalty to the leader and loyalty to the leader is the highest revelation of patriotism.

Kim Jong Il's patriotism is based on a noble outlook on the people. Kim Jong Il said the almighty being in the world is not the God but the masses. It is the patriotic creed of Kim Jong Il that the masses build a country. Devote everything to realizing what the people desire -- this was his noble will and determination for love for the people.

Kim Jong Il's patriotism is most vividly reflected in his noble outlook on the younger generation. Kim Jong Il's outlook on the younger generation can be clearly found in the slogan "Let Us Live Not Merely for Today But for Tomorrow!" It is his noble will and earnest request that everything should be completed in a perfect way so that the younger generation can benefit from it.

Kim Jong Il's patriotism is a noble spiritual heritage he handed over to the Korean people and the model of practice.

Kim Jong Un Refers to Noble Patriotic Life of Kim Jong Il

Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- The dear respected Kim Jong Un in his work "Let Us Effect Kim Jong Il's Patriotism and Step Up the Building of a Prosperous Country" said leader Kim Jong Il warmly loved the country and the people more than anything else and devoted all his life to the prosperity of the country and happiness of the people.

Deeply cherished in Kim Jong Il's mind were the country and people whom he always loved anywhere he went, Kim Jong Un said, and continued: Kim Jong Il used to call thick forests and standardized vast fields green mountains and green fields.

During his visits to foreign countries, he used to call the country and the nation my country and my nation, longing for them. Viewing neat villages shrouded in apricot trees and company barracks in persimmon trees, he called them an apricot tree village and a persimmon tree company.

Since the very day he embarked on the road of the revolution, resolved to be responsible for the Korean revolution, Kim Jong Il had defended and glorified the socialist country all his life. He kept to the road of patriotic dedication to the country and the people till the last moments of his life.

The struggle to defend the socialist country was the most acute confrontation with imperialist allied forces and the grimmest struggle in history. Kim Jong Il made a long journey of the arduous Songun leadership in the do-or-die spirit to tide over the grim difficulties faced by the country and defended it.

It was thanks to the wise guidance of Kim Jong Il that our country which had been deprived of its state sovereignty due to weak military muscle a century ago is now demonstrating its might as a world-level military power equipped with tremendous military capabilities.

It was also thanks to the long journey of patriotic devotion made by Kim Jong Il covering rugged path all his life that the country has been face-lifted and a solid cornerstone for the prosperity of the country laid.

The land of the country has been rezoned as befitting the socialist country and gravity-fed waterways were built in several regions, turning rural villages into a socialist land of bliss. Lots of modern heavy industrial and light industrial factories have been built and the factories that had existed have been renovated as required by the new century and grand edifices for the prosperity of the country and the happiness of posterity have been successfully built across the country.

The drive for putting industry on a CNC basis that led to Korean-style industrial revolution in the new century proves the high level of Kim Jong Il's patriotism. When the country was undergoing difficulties, Kim Jong Il had valuable funds allocated for putting the country's industry on a CNC basis for the future of the prosperous country even though he worried about the people suffering from the shortage of food.

Nothing is more patriotic than to enlist strength for the prosperity and development of the country. Only when the country is strong, can it defend itself and guarantee the happiness of all the generations to come. Kim Jong Il used to shed tears whenever he heard song "Push Back the Frontiers of Latest Science and Technology" as the song reminded him of the arduous path he had covered and the pains he had taken to put industry on a CNC basis. His tears reflected his genuine patriotism.

His warm love for the socialist motherland and people and self-sacrificing devotion to the prosperity of the country and people's happiness are derived from his absolute trust in his own people and steadfast confidence in justice of the socialist system and victory of socialism.

His warm love and devotion are also prompted by his noble awareness and sense of mission that he is responsible for the destiny of the country and people whom President Kim Il Sung entrusted to him.

Kim Jong Un Sets Forth Tasks for Effecting Kim Jong Il′s Patriotism

Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- The dear respected Kim Jong Un in his work "Let Us Effect Kim Jong Il's Patriotism and Step Up the Building of a Prosperous Country" called on all the officials, party members and other working people to learn from leader Kim Jong Il's noble patriotism and effect it just as it is.

Kim Jong Un in the work underlined the need to intensify education to instill Kim Jong Il's patriotism deep into the minds of the people. He underscored the need to educate the party members and other working people in Kim Jong Il's patriotism in a principled, deep and broad way so that they can become genuine patriots who devote themselves to the future.

Education in Kim Jong Il's patriotism should be conducted in a substantial way in combination with practice, he said, and continued: Genuine patriots are those who unswervingly follow the path of true patriotism despite difficulties and hardships and those who sincerely and timely carry out revolutionary tasks entrusted to them by the country and the people. Education in Kim Jong Il's patriotism should be carried out to suit the specific conditions.

Patriotism is not an abstract notion. It originates from the yard of one's own home. All the party members and other working people should be educated to become genuine patriots who love their families, spruce up their own hometowns and manage well their work places and devote their sweats and energies to glorifying the country.

Effecting Kim Jong Il's patriotism means thoroughly carrying out his idea and desire for the prosperity of the country and the happiness of posterity, and conducting all the work for the prosperity of the country the way he did.

We should faithfully carry forward and complete all the work Kim Jong Il had planned and tried to realize in his lifetime in order to materialize his idea and wishes in this land.

The greatest patriotism lies in defending the country. All the people should attach importance to the military affairs, sincerely learn them and devote their patriotism to the sacred war for defending the country if the enemy provokes.

We should become genuine patriots in the Songun era and build a thriving socialist country to be proud of just as the generation right after the country's liberation built new democratic Korea in hearty response to the call of President Kim Il Sung to display patriotism and just as the heroes in the Chollima era built a land of bliss for the people on the ruins after war.

The Korean nation has long suffered from unspeakable misfortune and pains after foreign forces divided it into the north and the south. To reunify the country is the supreme task of the nation that brooks no further delay. National reunification precisely means patriotism and national division treachery. Whoever truly loves the country and the nation should valiantly turn out in the just struggle to reunify the country true to Kim Jong Il's noble patriotism whether they are in the north, the south and abroad.

Kim Jong Un set forth tasks for party organizations, working people's organizations, all national institutions and social bodies to fulfill their responsibilities and roles in the work for learning from and effecting Kim Jong Il's patriotism. He went on: Officials should not just sit down and worry over the country but become genuine patriots who uphold the country with total dedication. "We serve the country and the people!"-- the slogan put up by the party is a patriotic one which all the officials should hold fast to. Officials serving the people should work hard and hard with patriotism so as to make the country prosperous and people lead an affluent life.

The country will emerge as a thriving socialist nation when the hot wind of learning from Kim Jong Il's patriotism prevails in the country and all the people fully embody it into practice, Kim Jong Un stressed. 

Kim Jong Un Calls for Holding Kim Jong Il in High Esteem as General Secretary of WPK Forever

Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Thursday carried "Let Us Hold Great Comrade Kim Jong Il in High Esteem as General Secretary of Our Party Forever and Successfully Accomplish the Revolutionary Cause of Juche", a talk the dear respected Kim Jong Un had with leading officials of the Central Committee of theWorkers' Party of Korea (WPK) on April 6.

In the talk Kim Jong Un said that the Fourth Conference of the WPK is to be held amid great expectation and concern of the people at home and abroad in the run-up to the significant Day of the Sun marking the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung.

Kim Jong Un called for making the Conference serve as a turning point in providing an important landmark in upholding leader Kim Jong Il as eternal leader of the WPK together with Kim Il Sung and successfully realizing their ideas and cause.

He stressed the need to hold Kim Jong Il in high esteem as general secretary of the WPK forever. Doing so is a principled requirement for holding fast to his idea and line and victoriously advancing our revolutionary cause, Kim Jong Un noted, adding:

This is by no means a symbolic meaning. This means invariably having Kim Jong Il at the post of general secretary of the WPK and carrying out the party building and activities in line his idea and intention.

The idea and line of Kim Jong Il serve as eternal guidelines of our party and revolution and an ever-victorious banner whose validity and vitality have been proven in the revolutionary practice. The victorious advance and completion of our revolutionary cause is unthinkable without his idea and line.

Only when Kim Jong Il is held in high esteem as general secretary of the WPK forever, will it be possible to dynamically advance the revolution and construction and successfully accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche as in the past.

At the Party Conference we are going to declare internally and externally that the WPK is the glorious party of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un said, adding:

The WPK is the party of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il as it holds them in high esteem as eternal leaders. The guiding idea of the WPK is the great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. The Workers' Party of Korea is a glorious party that has Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism as its guiding idea and struggles for their realization.

To model the whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is the supreme programme of the WPK. This is a revolutionary succession to the modeling of the whole society on Kimilsungism and represents its development to a new higher stage.

We should wage a more dynamic struggle to model the whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism just as we waged a strenuous struggle under the wise guidance of Kim Jong Il, regarding the modeling of the whole society on Kimilsungism as the party's supreme programme.

No matter what difficult and huge revolutionary duty we may face, we are sure to triumph as there are outstanding leaders, eternal sun of Juche, the invincible WPK, the people intensely loyal to the party and the leader as well as the strong revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu.

We should hold Kim Jong Il in high esteem as the eternal leader of our party and people and glorify his revolutionary career and undying revolutionary feats for all ages.

Kim Jong Il was a great leader, matchless patriot and kind-hearted leader of the people, the leader who devoted his all to the prosperity of the country and the happiness of its people with absolute loyalty to the President and warm love for the country and its people.

His life was the most brilliant life of a peerlessly great man who performed undying feats for the party, the revolution, the country and the people true to the noble intention of the President.

We should carry out all work for holding Kim Jong Il in high esteem for all ages and perpetuating the memory of the leader with pure conscience and moral obligation.

To develop the WPK into the eternal party of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il means holding fast to Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism as the guiding idea of the WPK and conducting the party building and activities just as was thought and intended by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

What is important for strengthening the WPK as the eternal party of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il is to more thoroughly establish the party's monolithic leadership system. All the party members, servicepersons of the People's Army and other people should uphold the party's ideology and leadership with faith and conscience, rally as firm as an iron wall around the Party Central Committee in thinking and purpose and sense of moral obligation and share their destiny with the party in good or grim days.

We should strengthen the single-minded unity of the WPK and the revolutionary ranks in every way and thoroughly defend it.

Single-minded unity is the most valuable revolutionary legacy bequeathed to us by Kim Jong Il and mainstay of the Korean revolution. The single-minded unity in which the leader, the party and the masses are united on the basis of great idea, warm loving care and feelings is the greatest treasure more valuable than hundreds of millions of tons of gold.

It is essential to deeply respect the people, prioritize their interests and look after their life as their real mothers would do.

Believing in the people as in Heaven was the maxim of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. True to their noble intention all the work should be conducted with priority given to the demands and interests of the people while boundlessly respecting them.

It is necessary to make the noble and beautiful traits of helping and leading each other forward pervade the whole country and thus make society a great harmonious family in which all its members are united in single mind.

Kim Jong Un said:

The heroic deeds performed by Pak Thae Son, former miner of the Kumgol Mine, by laying down his valuable life for the collective and comrades and by Ri Chang Son who was a farmer of the Ohyon Co-op Farm of Yonan County are beautiful deeds which can be found only among the people in our era who were raised by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. They set examples for everybody to follow.

Songun represents our independence, dignity and life. A country with weak military might can not defend its sovereignty and right to existence but will become plaything and fall victim to the imperialists in the long run. This is a hard fact. So we should consistently hold fast to the work of bolstering the military might.

The might of Songun represents the might of the People's Army and what is essential in strengthening the military might is to strengthen the People's Army.

The People's Army should become standard-bearers and a shock brigade not only in defending the country but in carrying out the party's plan for building a thriving nation as the driving force of the revolution. It should also become pace-setters in creating and disseminating Songun culture in the new century.

The traits of attaching importance to military affairs should be established throughout society and an all-people, nationwide defence system should be consolidated to turn the whole country into an impregnable fortress.

We should bring about a decisive turn in improving the standard of people's living and building an economic power.

We should put forward the people who have trusted in and followed the party only as the happiest people in the world by making the precious assets, which Kim Jong Il provided with much effort, pay off. This was his ardent wish and is the firm determination and will of our party.

We should wage an unflinching offensive in response to the flames of Hamnam and rapidly develop vanguard economic sectors and basic industrial fields and thus lay a firm foundation for the economic development and increase production in all domains of the national economy.

Priority should be given to power, coal and metal industries and railway transport. Only then will it be possible to reenergize the national economy and stabilize and improve the people's living standard.

We should build a knowledge-based economic power in response to the flames of the industrial revolution in the new century.

We should struggle with a high aim and ideal as intended by Kim Jong Il who used to instruct to look at the world with one's feet planted on one's own land, and thus beat the world in all aspects. In the spirit of exploration and creation displayed by workers in Ryonha who brought about drastic progress in CNC machine tools production, a drive should be waged to push back the frontiers of the latest science and technology to put the country's overall technological equipment on the level of world standard and improve the economic structure to meet the requirements of the era of the knowledge-based economy.

Efforts should be given to land management to turn the country into a land of bliss.

Kim Jong Un called for focusing all the issues arising in the economy on the Cabinet and establishing strict discipline and order of solving them under the unified command of the Cabinet.

Being the headquarters responsible for the country's economy, the Cabinet should set a goal and work out strategy for economic development on a scientific and realistic basis under a long-term plan and push forward on its own initiative the work to control, guide and manage overall economic affairs in a unified manner.

All fields and units should solve all the problems related to the economic undertakings under a full agreement with the Cabinet and thoroughly carry out the Cabinet's decisions and instructions for carrying out the party's economic policy.

Steady revolutionary turn should be effected in all the fields of the cultural construction including education, public health, literature and arts and sports and efforts should be made to glorify our country as a developed and highly civilized socialist country.

State investment in the education should be increased and modernization of the education be realized. The level of the secondary general education should be drastically raised and university education be strengthened to bring up talented world-level scientists and technicians who would be responsible for the drive for building a thriving socialist nation.

It is necessary to give full play to the advantages of socialist healthcare system and create and disseminate more masterpieces of the times. Sports should be popularized to make the hot sports wind sweep across the country.

We should make the people create the noble and highly civilized socialist culture as well as enjoy them, thereby injecting vitality and enthusiasm into the whole society.

In order to bring about a decisive turn in building a thriving socialist nation just as was intended and desired by Kim Jong Il it is necessary to increase the function and role of the party organizations before anything else and officials should fulfill their responsibilities and roles as commanding members of the revolution.

In order to bring about a decisive turn in building a thriving socialist nation just as was intended and desired by Kim Jong Il it is necessary to increase the function and role of the party organizations before anything else and officials should fulfill their responsibilities and roles as commanding members of the revolution.

The officials should become true and able persons like Kim Chaek who successfully carried out any tasks, upholding Kim Il Sung. They should stand in the van of the ranks, become scouts blazing a trail and play the role of a locomotive in leading the masses in the field.

Officials exist for the people, not vice versa.

The officials should learn from Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il's view on the people and share weal and woe with them while sharing meal with them, and work harder and harder for them.

We should accomplish the historic cause of national reunification true to the life-long intention and behests of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

We should conduct positive external activities and contribute to the cause of global independence true to Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il's strategy and plan for external activities.

Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il are always with us and encourage us. We should bear this in mind and work with redoubled efforts and successfully materialize their plan and desire and thus glorify the new century of the Juche revolution as a century of victory and glory.