President Kim Il Sung, Great Sun of the World People

President Kim Il Sung, Great Sun of the World People

105 years ago on the 15th of April 1912 in Mangyondae, Korea the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG  was born. He authored the Juche Idea which is the torch of human independence and was the founder of People's Korea. He was an ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander, gifted military strategist, architect of socialist construction and one of the outstanding leaders of the international communist and revolutionary movement.

The respected leader comrade Kim Il Sung whom the Korean and world people hold in high esteem is revered today as the greatest leader of the working class who with extraordinary wisdom, outstanding ability of leadership and lofty communist virtues, has been devoting all his life to the sacred cause of the revolution for the independence of the working masses.

During the long period since he embarked on the road of revolution at an early age, the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung led the extremely arduous and complex Korean revolution to victory, treading a previously untrodden path   thus making a great contribution to the world revolution. The great leader President Kim Il Sung was always an internationalist and considered the Korean revolution to be an integral part of the world revolution and that the Korean communists  to be a steel-like vanguard detachment of the international communist movement.

Although he was born Kim Song Ju originally his comrades first named him  Han Byol meaning  morning star . Later his comrades called him Il Sung meaning future sun. Indeed the great leader President Kim Il Sung became the sun of the Korean people but also the sun of the world people.

The Juche idea the guiding compass of independence was authored by the great leader President Kim Il Sung during the years of the anti-Japanese armed struggle. Today the Juche Idea is studied all over the world with over a 1,000 groups for the study of the Juche Idea the first one was  formed in Mali, west Africa in 1969. A World Congress on the Juche Idea was held in April 2012 and was attended by over 300 delegates including our own delegation from the Juche Idea Study Group of England.

Visiting the Tower of the Juche Idea which has pride of place on the riverside of the River Taedong one could really see that the Juche Idea towers above all other ideologies. Looking at the 170 metre high tower I got an overwhelming sense of the absolute truth of Juche, that it is the ideology that everyone should follow. The imperialists and reactionaries oppose the Juche Idea but its attraction is growing stronger and stronger even though the enemy does everything to obstruct the study of the Juche Idea.

Based on the great Juche idea People's Korea, founded by the great leader President KIM IL SUNG , became a powerful state of Juche in ideology, independence in politics, self-sufficiency in the economy and self-reliance in national. The DPRK is known is the most independent nation on the face of the planet , this is thanks to Juche and thanks to the leadership of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG which is today carried forward by the dear respected leader  Marshal KIM JONG UN who has put forward the great self-development first idea.

I have visited the International Friendship Exhibition in the Scenic Mt Myohyang several times .It would take many days if not weeks or even months  to see the whole exhibition. Here I learnt of the deep reverence of the world revolutionary and progressive people for the great revolutionary leader President KIM IL SUNG who was the great elder of the international communist and working class movement.

President KIM IL SUNG received gifts large and small from the heads of socialist countries and the communist and workers parties. Probably the largest gifts were the trains sent by J V Stalin and Chairman Mao Zedong of China.

There are some 36,000 gifts sent to the great Leader comrade KIM IL SUNG by different people throughout the world, everyone from humble workers to state and party leaders has gifts exhibited there. You will see the train sent by Chairman Mao Zedong of Peoples China and the bullet proof car sent by Stalin as well gifts from the likes of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Col Qaddafi, Yasser Arafat, Sukarno and Allende. and many others. We also saw the gifts that we had presented to the great leader President KIM IL SUNG in 1994. The thousands of gifts do not represent mere diplomacy but reflect the deep and massive respect of the world people for the great leader President KIM IL SUNG.

The great leader President KIM IL SUNG was venerated by numerous revolutionary figures of the world for example the late President Fidel Castro of Cuba said  as follows Comrade Kim Il Sung is one of the most distinguished, outstanding and heroic socialist leaders of the present world. His history is one of the most beautiful histories of a revolutionary serving the cause of socialism.

Chairman Mao Ze Dong of China said "The fate of the world revolution and the international communist movement are on your shoulders, Comrade Kim Il Sung. I wish you long life and good health. This is my last wish".

The world people look up to the great leader President KIM IL SUNG with deep respect, they look upon him as the sun . Glory to the eternal Red sun of Juche , great President KIM IL SUNG!***

Dr Dermot Hudson
President Association For the Study of  Songun Politics UK
Chairman Juche Idea Study Group of England
Chairman UK Korean Friendship Association
Chairman UK Preparatory Committee for 2017 Gathering to Praise the Great Persons Born of Mt Paektu
Member International Committee For the Study of Songun Politics