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according to http://www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang_p.html, here are some songs sung in North Korea:
For example: "The Song of General Kim Il Sung", the immortal revolutionary paean, and "Long Life and Good Health to the Leader" are widely sung among our people. These are successful compositions which give artistic expression to the fervent loyalty of the entire people.
"In addition, there are The Leader's Noble Idea Flowers Out, We Sing of His Benevolent Love, This Happiness of Having the Leader and many other excellent compositions which celebrate the happiness of our people under the paternal care of our leader and enrich the cultural life of the people." (Korean Review, p.175.)
Recent hits include "The Leader Comes to our Farm", a song about a presidential visit to a co-operative farm on one of his tours of giving on-the-spot guidance, and a catchy number with a slight rock feel to it that contains the lyrics, "I'm longing for you, dear leader, I'm longing for you, honour to you, dear Kim Jong Il".
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Minister of Culture Choe Ik Gyu made an opening address at the ceremony. Then, the participants saw a documentary film "The Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il Gives On-site Guidance to the Work of Different Fields" (January-May, Juche 94) and a newly-released feature film "A Girl in Valley with Springs."
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Among them are documentaries "The Leader Is the Great Father of Our People," "The Fatherly Leader among Anti-Japanese Revolutionary Fighters" and "The Fatherly Leader among Officials," which impressively show the revolutionary history of the President.
There are also documentaries "To Hold the Fatherly Leader in Higher Esteem," "Under the Care of the Great Brilliant Commander" and "Effecting a Great Turn with Songun Revolutionary Leadership," which show the great revolutionary history of Kim Jong Il. Among the feature films are "Star of Korea," "The Sun of the Nation" and "The Forest Sways," which depict the glorious revolutionary history of the President who devoted his whole life to the liberation of the country and its prosperity and development and the revolutionary feats of anti-Japanese war hero Kim Jong Suk.
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http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1999/9907/news07/08.htm#12
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http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1999/9909/news09/08.htm#16
Light comedy inspires people to building of powerful nation
Pyongyang, September 8 (KCNA) -- The light comedy "Comrade" produced by creators and artistes of the April 25 Film Studio of the Korean People's Army in May is being performed before a capacity audience at the April 25 House of Culture here.
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In hearty response to the order of General Secretary Kim Jong Il they made 1,200 km-long tour of KPA units on the front and different local areas to give militant and dynamic performances there which powerfully encouraged soldiers and people to perform feats in their new drive to accelerate the second grand Chollima march to build a powerful nation.
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The comedy provides a profound philosophical proof of the truth that the unity between the officers and men centred around General Secretary Kim Jong Il is the source of strength that enabled the KPA to become an ideologically strong army with an unshakable faith.
In recent years the creators and artistes of the studio produced a series of successful light comedies on the themes of ties of kinship between the Supreme Commander and the KPA servicemen, the army-people unity, the unity between the officers and men and the revolutionary spirit of soldiers of the KPA.
They are highly acclaimed by people for their successful representation of realities.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200511/news11/23.htm#6
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The meeting will offer opportunities to widely introduce the examples and experience of those mothers who gave birth to many babies or took care of many orphans as they would do their own children and brought up them as human bullets and bombs, reliable pillars for building a great prosperous powerful nation and heroes and other women who have performed great feats assisting the army, the education of the rising generation, drive for building a great prosperous powerful nation.
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http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1998/9812/news12/14.htm#4
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The contests were attended by 3,000 students in Pyongyang. The Taekwon-do contest was held amid loud shouts of slogans "devoted defence" and "human bombs" and the playing of the song "Look at Us". Then followed the group race. The contests showed well the fighting will and spirit of students to exalt the socialist motherland with science and technology and mercilessly smash the enemies, remaining loyal and devoted to the ideas and leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Il.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200504/news04/25.htm#9
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He was greatly satisfied to learn that the servicepersons of the sub-unit have turned the defence theatre into an impregnable fortress with intense loyalty to the Party and the revolution, ardent patriotism and burning hatred for the enemy and performed their guard duties in a responsible manner, keeping themselves in a tense and mobilized posture.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1999/9907/news07/05.htm#9
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The Korean People's Army has grown to be an invincible army with powerful defensive and modern offensive means thanks to the great Marshal Kim Jong Il's revolutionary leadership art of giving priority to military affairs. The U.S. imperialists and the South Korean authorities will be defeated by the invincible might of the Korean people and revolutionary armed forces. They extended firm solidarity to the Korean people's struggle to reunify the country independently and peacefully. They said they will make all their efforts to prevent the danger of war and ensure peace in the Korean peninsula.
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http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1999/9907/news07/08.htm#7
Pyongyang, July 8 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a letter today from the central committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung's passing away.
The letter said: The 80-odd-year life of President Kim Il Sung was a brilliant history in which he embroidered the 20th century with his legendary feats and immortal exploits and decorated his life most clearly and perfectly with his brilliant wisdom, rare leadership ability and noble virtues.
Although the President passed away, he is always with us and the cause of Juche is being successfully carried forward because we hold Kim Jong Il, who is identical with the President in ideology and leadership art, virtues and personality, in high esteem as the sun of the 21st century.
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NDFSK will wage a sacred national liberation war under the banner of the great Juche idea and open a turning phase of national reunification through the nation-wide reunification movement in response to the three charters of national reunification and five-point policy of great national unity, so as to realise the President's last instructions for national reunification.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2003/200303/news03/29.htm#9
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- The DPRK is a socialist military power of Juche which wins one victory after another under the banner of the great army-based policy, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. It goes on:
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The people have enshrined the faith that they can not live without bullets any more than they can without drops of sweets.
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The DPRK will demonstrate its might as a socialist military power of Juche as long as there are his unique army-based policy and invincible revolutionary armed forces.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2006/200607/news07/07.htm#3
Pyongyang, July 6 (KCNA) -- All cases of vandalism and looting of cultural properties committed by Japan in Korea in the past were the worst crimes against civilization and humanity which could be committed only by the most despicable, cruel and barbarous aggressors and imperialists.
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Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- An appeal to the world people for building an independent, peaceful and friendly, new world was adopted at the meeting held on Thursday to watch the sunrise over Mt. Paektu with an attendance of the participants in the Meeting Dedicated to the Great Persons of Mt. Paektu.
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Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- All the bitter grudge-bearing women of Korea will surely give vent to the pent-up hatred and resentment against Japan and force it to pay a dear price for its past crimes.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1998/9812/news12/14.htm#6
Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- The South Korean hawks at a "meeting of major commanding officers of the army" issued "four-point commanding directives" called a "goal of command."
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The train of war against the north has already been lighted. The outbreak of war is a matter of time. If the puppets together with the U.S. imperialists dare unleash a war, they will certainly meet a miserable fate of forlorn wandering spirits in the face of barrage of one thousandfold revenge by the People's Army and people.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200512/news12/09.htm
As the north side has clarified more than once, the issue of "south Koreans abducted to the north and ROK POWs" touted by the ultra-right conservative forces of south Korea including the GNP does not exist, the statement stresses, branding the GNP as a despicable fascist terrorist criminal group which has lost its face to talk about "abduction" and the "POWs issue."
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2000/200004/news04/15.htm#9
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At the meetings the participants pledged themselves to venerate the President Kim Il Sung as the eternal President of the DPRK and the sun of Juche for ages and to defend and glorify his immortal revolutionary feats generation after generation.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2000/200007/news07/08.htm#7
Pyongyang, July 8 (KCNA) -- Papers here today dedicate editorials to the sixth death anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung, which call for successfully putting into practice the idea and cause of the President under the guidance of the Worker's Party of Korea.
Rodong Sinmun says:
Kim Il Sung is the eternal sun of Juche who indicated the future of the WPK, revolution, country and nation.
He embarked upon the road of revolution in his early years and devotedly worked for the times, the revolution, the country and nation to the last moments of his revolutionary life.
His idea and intention serve as a landmark of patriotism for the prosperity of the country and nation and eternal guidelines in defending and exalting socialism of Korean style forever.
Socialism of Korean style built and brought into full bloom by the President all his life is the greatest heritage left by him.
The validity and vitality of his idea and theories that give a clear exposition of essential features and invincibility of socialism of Korean style and tasks and ways of bringing its advantages into full display are fully confirmed in the historic practice of socialist construction.
His revolutionary idea and history serve as an eternal textbook for the revolutionaries in their struggle and life.
He is the greatest revolutionary and man ever known in history.
He who embarked upon the road of revolution in his teens went through all ordeals and hardships as a revolutionary and man, pulling through unprecedented difficulties. In this process he proved to be a model great revolutionary and man.
He is the sun of humankind whom the world revolutionary people follow in humble reverence.
The Juche idea authored by him serves as the eternal guiding idea of the times and the strategic and tactical policies of the world revolution laid down by him are very instrumental in instilling the faith in sure victory into the revolutionary people in their struggle for a new independent world.
We should hold him in high esteem for all ages with firm faith that he is always with us.
The whole party, the whole army and all the people should remain loyal to the idea and guidance of the respected Kim Jong Il.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1998/9810/news10/19.htm#6
Pyongyang, October 19 (KCNA) -- Letters reading "the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung will always be with us. October 10, Juche 87" were engraved on a natural rock of Mt. Suyang in Haeju, South Hwanghae Province. The revolutionary paean "Song of General Kim Il Sung" was on the flank of the letters. Each letter of the august name of Kim Il Sung is 4.3 metres high, 3.5 metres wide and 0.6 metres deep. The letters are one more monumental national treasure of the Workers' Party era. Engraved in blockletters on the natural rocks of famous Mts. Kumgang and Myohyang in Korea are letters such as "the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung will always be with us. July 8, 1994" and "Korea, be proud of the honor of having had comrade Kim Il Sung, the greatest leader in the history of the nation spanning 5,000 years July 8, 1994." Those letters represent the unshakable faith and will of the Korean people to hold in high esteem Kim Il Sung, the father of socialist Korea and of the nation, as the President of the DPRK for ages and build a powerful country of Juche, true to his behest. The image of Kim Il Sung with beaming smile seen in different parts of the country is a result of the faith and will. Also seen in streets, residential quarters, worksites and other places of weighty importance are slogans "the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung will always be with us" and "Let us arm ourselves more firmly with the revolutionary ideas of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung " Kim Il Sung's statues, boards of his on-site teachings, monuments to his personal guidance and monuments to his revolutionary history are set up and unveiled one after another throughout the country. Documentaries and feature films of his revolutionary history are screened at the houses of culture, cinema houses and by television of Korea. Literary and art works and paintings are created in large numbers, representing the reverence and loyal will of the Korean people to hold him in high esteem as the eternal sun of the Juche revolution. Kim Il Sung still remains alive in the hearts of the Korean people.
Pyongyang, July 4 (KCNA) -- It is the biggest pride of the Korean revolution that the revolutionary history of President Kim Il Sung has been given steady continuity from generation to generation to shed eternal rays, says Rodong Sinmun Tuesday in a signed article. Noting that his revolutionary history serves as an eternal cornerstone of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean revolution, the article goes on:
The revolutionary history of the President is one of an outstanding thinker and theoretician who indicated the way to be followed by the WPK and the Korean revolution after fathering the immortal idea guiding the era of independence with his clairvoyant foresight and extraordinary wisdom. His history is also characterized by that of gifted strategist and that of an ever-victorious and iron-willed commander who defeated two formidable imperialisms in one generation and ushered in the new era of anti-imperialist struggle. The history is also one of the great architect of creation and construction as he turned the country, in which centuries-old backwardness and poverty had once prevailed, into a socialist power, independent in politics, self-supporting in economy and self-reliant in national defence.
The President's revolutionary history is shedding bright rays as the eternal cornerstone of the WPK and the Korean revolution as they are led by Kim Jong Il.
He is a great leader who, with intense loyalty to the President's idea and cause, has glorified the history of the WPK and the Korean revolution as an eternal history of the President.
The history of the WPK and the Korean revolution has been given steady continuity as the revolutionary history of the President generation after generation as they are under the guidance of Kim Jong Il who has iron faith and will to advance and accomplish the Korean revolution the way the President did, drawing on the revolutionary exploits he had performed, no matter how much water may flow under the bridge.
Our socialist homeland will always prosper as Kim Il Sung's Korea, the eternal country of the President, thanks to Kim Jong Il who is making a long journey of Songun leadership to translate the President's plan and desire into reality, always thinking of him awake or asleep.
Only victory, glory and eternal prosperity will be in store for the WPK, the army and the people of the DPRK vigorously advancing with the President's great revolutionary history as an eternal boon under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1999/9907/news07/06.htm#3
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Saying they could not forget the tireless efforts made by him to solve economic and agricultural problems in particular, in those closing days of his life, they recalled he gave on-the-spot guidance to Onchon county, South Phyongan Province, over 110 times. It was thanks to our President that the words "on-the-spot guidance" which means the leadership method of going among the people appeared as new political phraseology for mankind, they said, adding: He gave on-the-spot guidance to more than 18,000 units during nearly half a century.
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http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2004/200407/news07/06.htm#4
Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- The Society for Cooperation among Koreans in Germany issued special writings in the Internet homepage on June 28 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the demise of President Kim Il Sung. Seen in the homepage are a photograph of the President with a sunny smile on his face and a photograph of him standing against the background of the old home in Mangyongdae.
Also included in the writings are articles titled "President Kim Il Sung Lays the Foundation of Songun Politics", "President Kim Il Sung Lays the Eternal Foundation of Socialist Korea", "The Immortal Great Man" and "Anecdotes of the Great Man".
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2003/200303/news03/29.htm#6
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung was the most illustrious leader and veteran statesman of the 20th century. He served as head of the ruling party and state for five decades, successfully guiding the Korean revolution.
His distinguished ideological and theoretical intelligence, invincible leadership and noble virtues were admired by not only the Korean people but the world people.
He founded the Juche idea, the guiding idea of the era of independence, to make sure that human beings shape their own destiny, responsible for it.
He, basing himself on the principles of the Juche idea, generalized rich experience gained in the revolution and construction and elucidated the idea, theory and method of Juche in an integral way.
After the liberation of the country he successfully accomplished the cause of party, state and army building to lay foundations of the country's development and prosperity and make a new history of popular politics.
The president shared life and death, sweets and bitters with the masses of the people, believing in them absolutely.
He also made undying feats for the world revolution.
He put forward a policy of global independence for the first time in history and made a great contribution to strengthening and developing the non-aligned movement as a powerful force of the anti-imperialist cause of independence.
The man-centered socialist society he built in Korea is a model in the accomplishment of the cause of socialism in the world and a driving force of invigorating the movement to rebuild socialism on a worldwide scale under the banner of independence.
It is a great pride and glory of the Korean people that they have such a great leader as eternal President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2000/200007/news07/07.htm#7
Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- Tomorrow will be the sixth death anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung.
No matter how much water flows under the bridge the people miss him badly. He always lives in the hearts of all the people as a peerlessly great man and the father of the Korean nation.
Firm is their faith and will to hold the President in high esteem forever. The Kumsusan Memorial Palace is a product of the faith and will. The palace where the President lies in state has been consecrated to the sacred ground, the first of its kind in the world. The year of Juche and Sun's Day were instituted and the constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was revised to hold him in high esteem as the eternal President of the DPRK.
Portraits of the President with sunny smile as well as the slogan "The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung will always be with us" are seen in different parts of the country.
Letters that reflect the fixed faith of the Korean people are engraved on natural rocks of Mt. Kumgang, Mt. Myohyang and other famous mountains and commemorative coins (gold and silver) were issued.
The immortal revolutionary paean "Song of General Kim Il Sung" reverberates far and wide throughout Korea.
Endless streams of people from all walks of life visit the Kumsusan Memorial Palace and statues of the President across the country.
Poets and writers are busy creating works on his undying revolutionary exploits and noble popular traits. The past six years witnessed at least 7,000 famous poems, words of songs and pieces of music to add to the treasure house of Juche-based literature and arts.
The cause of perpetuating the memory of the President has been accomplished in this land, which is a shining fruition of the unshakable determination and noble sense of obligation of the great leader Kim Jong Il to carry to completion the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered by his preceding leader.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2000/200007/news07/07.htm#15
Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- Officials and members of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea held forum "eternal sun of the working class" to tell true stories on virtues of the President Kim Il Sung and agricultural workers a meeting to remember him "the fatherly leader is always in fields together with our farmers" on Thursday on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of his passing away.
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On the same day the Korean Democratic Women's Union members held a singing meeting "we will always sing immortal songs" on immortal famous songs created by Kim Il Sung.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2000/200007/news07/08.htm#11
Pyongyang, July 8 (KCNA) -- The Korean and all other progressive peoples of the world are commemorating with most profound reverence the sixth anniversary of the passing away of the President Kim Il Sung which falls on today.
Many floral baskets and bouquets are sent to the Kumsusan Memorial Palace where the President lies in state for perpetuity, to his statue on Mansu Hill and to the DPRK missions in different countries by heads of state and government, leaders of political parties and prominent figures from all walks of life in various countries on this day.
Committees to remember President Kim Il Sung were inaugurated worldwide, a decision has already been adopted to traditionalize July 8 as "day of eternal great sun of Juche" and the title of tribal chief as great as the sun was awarded to him. This is a clear proof that the world people highly laud Kim Il Sung as the sun and miss him badly.
From olden times people used to worship the sun.
They entrusted their destinies to the sun and looked up to it like god but they could not realise any of their wishes.
At that time there appeared the savior of destiny who could save the lives of people with the rays of the Juche idea as bright as those of the sun and bring people's dream of happiness to reality with ardent human love.
He was none other than President Kim Il Sung.
That is why progressive humankind is highly lauding Kim Il Sung as the sun.
At least 85,000 books and art works praising Kim Il Sung have been published in more than 170 countries around the world.
1,520 varieties of books on the greatness and immortal feats of the President including "Kim Il Sung encyclopaedia" and 35,000 varieties of poems, songs, reminiscences, notes and impressions were published in 40-odd foreign languages in many countries around the world.
People's veneration for him grew stronger after his passing away.
In the first 5 months after his passing away more than 200 poems dedicated to him were published worldwide.
Tens of streets, schools and important places in Cuba, Cambodia and many other countries were named after Kim Il Sung in the last 6 years.
Indeed, President Kim Il Sung always lives in the hearts of humankind as the sun of Juche.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1999/9904/news04/19.htm#16
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General Secretary Kim Jong Il sent 119.9 million yen again for the education of the children of Korean residents in Japan, the message said, and continued: You sent us precious foreign currency needed for building a powerful nation as Educational Aid Fund and Stipend for the national education of our children, not forgetting it even when you are working day and night, leading the whole party and army and all people in the van of the second grand Chollima march. Indeed, your favour and love are incomparably deep. You are the great teacher and tender-hearted father who warmly looks after Chongryon officials and Korean residents and their children in Japan.
We Chongryon officials and Korean residents, who repeatedly received your love and solicitude, are full of confidence that victory is sure to come as long as we are led by you and our hearts are burning with the loyal pledge to believe in you as in heaven.
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Pyongyang, November 22 (KCNA) -- The might of the Workers' Party of Korea and our revolutionary ranks has grown stronger than ever before. This is attributable to the fact that the hearts of all servicepersons and people are beating high, guided by the idea and will of the headquarters of the Songun revolution and the spirit of devotedly defending the headquarters of the revolution fully displayed in the annals of the Korean revolution has developed into the thought and sentiment of all people. Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed article.
It goes on:
The army and people of the DPRK find their worthwhile life and happiness in absolutely trusting and following leader Kim Jong Il and remaining loyal to him.
There can be no motherland nor can we exist without Kim Jong Il. This is the invariable faith of all the servicepersons and people. It is the revolutionary view on life of the army and people of the DPRK to regard it as something most sacred and honorable to devote their lives to protecting him. Their transparent spirit of devotedly defending the leader founds its clear expression, first of all, in defending the safety of the headquarters of the revolution at the cost of their lives.
The Korean people are a revolutionary people struggling through thick and thin to devotedly defend their leaders. It is the revolutionary faith of the army and people of the DPRK that their youth and lives have their worth in protecting the safety and authority of Kim Jong Il and it is honor to have joy and suffer sorrow and ordeals in the way of ensuring the security of the headquarters of the revolution.
The transparent spirit of devotedly defending the leader of the army and people of the DPRK has been fully displayed in the struggle to firmly defend and faithfully implement the idea and line of Kim Jong Il.
The army and people of the DPRK have absolutely followed the idea and line of the leader and resolutely defended and thoroughly implemented them. They have maintained the firm stand and attitude of accepting the idea and line of their leader as the most just one and immutable truth and carrying out the revolution and construction strictly on this basis and absolutely and unconditionally implemented the idea and line to the letter under any conditions and situation. This is their revolutionary traits.
Their transparent spirit of devotedly defending the leader has also been fully displayed in eternally glorifying the immortal leadership exploits of Kim Jong Il.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1999/9907/news07/05.htm#2
Pyongyang, July 5 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun yesterday carried an epic "May song of the great eternal life last forever" written by Kim Man Yong on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the President Kim Il Sung's passing away. Kim Il Sung Prize winner Kim Man Yong dedicated long epics to the first and third anniversaries of President Kim Il Sung's passing away.
In the epic, he said: President Kim Il Sung is immortal along with the history of the country which is prospering under the guidance of the great leader Kim Jong Il. It is Kim Jong Il identical with Kim Il Sung, who filled an aching void in the hearts of the people left by the passing away of the President. He is the dear father who offered the same love and affection to the people in the past 5 years as the President did.
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It is our Marshal who paved the way for the building of a powerful nation, breaking through manifold difficulties and trials with his revolutionary leadership art of giving priority to military affairs. The President is immortal thanks to the Marshal who is carrying on the revolution and the construction in accordance with the idea and will of the President, upholding him as the eternal President of the republic, and the people have become one big family of the President under the leadership of the Marshal who is identical with the President.
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http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1998/9810/news10/19.htm#11
Pyongyang, October 19 (KCNA) -- A South Korean lawyer Kim Yong Il published an article entitled "We see country based on loyalty and filial piety without an equal in world," said Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation. A recent session of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK adopted and promulgated Kim Il Sung's constitution which stipulates that he should be upheld as eternal President and that his cause be accomplished, the author of the article said, and went on: With the adoption of the constitution it was declared all over the world that the DPRK is an eternal state of Kim Il Sung. In state activities, the DPRK has consistently maintained and implemented President Kim Il Sung's lines and policies. It is thanks to politics based on loyalty and filial piety and the unity of the people peculiar to the north that Kim Il Sung's constitution was adopted and that the north has been able to develop into a country based on loyalty and filial piety without an equal in the world. The greatness of the DPRK based on loyalty and filial piety is a brilliant fruition of the leader Kim Jong Il's politics of fidelity and devotion. Kim Jong Il's political career of more than 30 years started with and has been glorified with loyalty and filial piety. After the President passed away, Kim Jong Il's loyalty and filial piety have been further deepened, striking the world with admiration. His loyalty and filial piety are boundless. He is indeed a great saint of loyalty and filial piety whose equal will not appear in history.
Pyongyang, September 25 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il is a peerlessly great man who opened a new turning phase of the revolution through his extraordinary ideological and theoretical activities over the past five years, says Rodong Sinmun in a signed article today.
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He put forward many ideological and theoretical policies to perpetuate the memory of the leader including the idea of upholding the President Kim Il Sung as the eternal leader of the Worker's Party of Korea and revolution, the eternal President of the DPRK, the idea of making all the people live and fight as befitting the soldiers and disciples of the leader and the policy of considering all the instructions given by the leader in his lifetime as his behest and carrying them through. As a result, the revolutionary theory of the working class on perpetuating the memory of the leader has been consummated.
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He also set forth the army-first revolutionary idea which can confidently guarantee the building of a powerful nation and the idea of revitalizing the socialist economy, the idea of running at a canter on steed and many other ideas and policies based on an analysis of the realistic requirements of the developing Korean revolution.
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He could perform the great ideological and theoretical feats which will shine forever with the century over the past five years through his extraordinary ideological and theoretical activities as he has clairvoyant philosophical wisdom, superhuman extraordinary passion, a history of prolonged revolutionary activities and exceptionally rich experience of revolutionary leadership as the thinker and theoretician whom no one can match.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1999/9902/news02/03.htm#12
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Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today in an article says General Secretary Kim Jong Il's ideology is a very instrumental banner in bringing about great advance in Korean revolution.
It continues: Kim Jong Il's ideology indicates a way of the Workers' Party and the people of Korea to carry forward and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche. The patriotic hammer held up by the Korean people in building a powerful nation is a hammer to realize his ideology. The militant spirit of socialist Korea running at a canter stems from the might of his ideology. His ideology is great in that it is a revolutionary idea full of absolute loyalty to the respected Kim Il Sung's ideology and cause, the encyclopedia and almighty instrument of the revolution and construction which proves its worth in solving any difficult and complex problems of the present era. His ideology is also great in that it is a revolutionary idea whose truth and justness have fully been proved in revolutionary practice of tens of years.
Kim Jong Il defined the "Socialist Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" which was amended, supplemented and adopted at the first session of the 10th Supreme People's Assembly as Kim Il Sung's constitution and took a revolutionary step to hold Kim Il Sung in high esteem as the eternal President of the DPRK. The definition and step fully reflect his boundless loyalty to the preceding leader's ideology and cause. The revolutionary policy of bringing about a fresh advance in building a powerful nation through the second grand march of Chollima shows his firm will to lead the Korean revolution as the President did. When socialism suffered setbacks in some countries and the imperialists and renegades were zealously slandering socialism with this as an occasion, his ideology gave a scientific exposition of the truth behind the collapse and clearly indicated the way of victory to defend socialism. It imbued a lot of people who were bewildered by the collapse with the faith that socialism is just and it is sure to win.
The monolithic unity of Korea is gaining momentum thanks to the greatness of his ideology. The invincible might of the revolutionary armed forces traces back to his idea of attaching importance to the military affairs. The indomitable fighting spirit of the Korean people in the "arduous march" and the forced march is based on his spirit of independence. All his ideas, theories and policies have clear targets and ways of putting them into practice. They serve as great guidelines capturing the minds of the people. His idea has been a source of certain victory of decades. It is, indeed, the eternal guiding idea and militant banner of the revolution in all the historical times of humankind.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/1998/9809/news09/15.htm#2
Pyongyang, September 15 (KCNA) -- Chairman Han Tok Su of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) published a poem of September to General Secretary Kim Jong Il, the sun of the 21st century, under the title "We sing of heyday of Kim Jong Il's era." The poem tells about great joy and rejoice over holding General Secretary Kim Il Sung, the sun of Juche, in high esteem as the eternal President of the country and reelecting the respected Kim Jong Il, the sun of guidance, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK. "We wanted to see your election and listen to your policy speech but what sounded over the air was not your policy speech but the policy speech made by the President 8 years ago," it said. It continued: "We wept once again and admired once again to see the loyalty and filial piety of you who always think the President first of all and always hold him in high esteem first." "The heyday of Kim Jong Il's era advancing through rough wind and waves--this is indeed the prosperity of history full of loyalty and filial piety." "Korea once wept for flunkeyism, in sadness of a ruined country and in sorrow of a small country. As it greeted the great Kim Il Sung's era, it is rising up in the centre of the earth and exalting the ideal era of a powerful state, opening a proud heyday on the peak of the glorious Kim Jong Il's era." "It is you, peerless great man, who have built Korea into a country strongest in ideology, politics and military affairs." "You, the father of the nation, are embracing 700,000 overseas Koreans in Japan in your bosom, blocking misfortune and bringing about happiness, rallying five million overseas Koreans under the banner of patriotism, leading the 70 million fellow countrymen to the road of reunification and thus rousing them to the struggle for great national unity." "The great Kim Jong Il, your august name, means the prosperity of the era, advance of the era and victory of the era." "The heyday of Kim Jong Il's era, the era of the sun of Juche, will continue as ever in the 21st century."
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The entire people's army officers and men should absolutely worship and follow the supreme commander to the last in any adversity, the speaker said, adding: The whole army should devotedly defend the headquarters of the revolution headed by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
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Pyongyang, September 8 (KCNA) -- A vice-chairman of the central committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea (NDFSK) released a statement on Sept. 3 on the occasion of the first anniversary of the reelection of General Secretary Kim Jong Il to the chairmanship of the DPRK National Defence Commission, a Seoul-based radio Voice of National Salvation said.
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Kim Jong Il has led the cause of Juche for over 30 years with his brilliant wisdom, foresight, extraordinary ability and outstanding leadership art and performed undying feats for the Korean nation and human cause of independence and fully displayed his quality, virtues and extraordinary greatness as a distinguished leader who shoulders the destiny of the nation.
It is thanks to his ever-victorious army-priority policy that the north could gain victory after victory in the politico-ideological and military confrontation with the imperialist allied forces, demonstrate to the world the dignity and honor of the nation and lay a springboard for the building of a powerful nation despite difficult situation.
The South Korean people firmly believe that he is the savior of the nation and the upcoming century will be Kim Jong Il's century when reunified powerful Korea will shine all over the world.
The NDFSK vanguard fighters and patriotic-minded people from all walks of life will conduct a vigorous movement for independence, democracy and reunification to bring earlier the day when the foreign forces will be driven out from South Korea and the Korean nation will enjoy all blessings in the reunified country under the guidance of General Secretary Kim Jong Il, the lodestar of the country's reunification.
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It noted that the Marshal, the most prominent successor to the Generalissimo, is the great leader of the nation who is turning the DPRK into the most modern and developed invincible country which achieved great successes every year.
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Pyongyang, September 5 (KCNA) -- The Korean people are looking back on the proud history of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with the approach of its 55th founding anniversary, which falls on September 9. President Kim Il Sung liberated the country from the nearly half-a-century-long military occupation by the Japanese imperialists in 1945, built a democratic, independent and sovereign state in a matter of three years following the liberation and thus opened up a bright vista for the DPRK.
The DPRK provided a new independent and creative life to the people by building democratic Korea under his guidance.
The U.S. imperialists launched an invasion against the DPRK in June Juche 39 (1950), two years after its founding.
Under the banner of the DPRK the Korean People's Army and people heroically fought and won a brilliant victory in the three-year-long war.
They established the socialist system in 1958 to put a period to the history of exploitation and oppression in Korea for good and all and realized the socialist industrialization within 14 years after the war.
The DPRK government has consistently adhered to the principle of Juche in ideology, independence in politics, self-support in economy and self-reliance in defence. As a result it has turned the country into a powerful socialist one unaffected by any political and economic fluctuation.
It shaped such popular policies as the universal free medical service in 1953 and universal free education in 1959 and the complete abolition of taxation in 1974.
Today the DPRK is ushering in an era of greater prosperity under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il.
Since President Kim Il Sung passed away in 1994, Kim Jong Il has pursued a new politics based on the Songun idea to frustrate the imperialists' persistent efforts to isolate and stifle the country, defend it with credit, and fully demonstrate the might of the DPRK.
In 2001 alone, some ten countries opened diplomatic relations with the DPRK. The fact is illustrative of the prestige the DPRK enjoys in external relations.
Since the publication of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, the relations between the north and south of Korea have been turned into those of national reconciliation, unity and cooperation from those of confrontation and distrust and a great advance made in the efforts for the reunification of the country.
The entire Korean people are now working hard to build a great prosperous powerful nation on this land without fail under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.
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Pyongyang, September 7 (KCNA) -- An oratorical meeting of workers and members of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea under the title of "Our Motherland Shining with Songun" was held here Tuesday to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the DPRK. At the meeting the performers in their oratories titled "The Name of My Country", "Great Footprints" and "Flower of the Sun" referred to the fact that thanks to the tireless efforts and wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung, there began on this land a new history in which the people became masters of the state and the society for the first time in the history of the nation spanning 5,000 years. They in the oratories titled "Wishes of the General" and "The Same Appearance" said that as the Korean people hold in high esteem leader Kim Jong Il, supreme incarnation of noble morality and obligation, Kim Il Sung is always with the army and people as the eternal president of the DPRK.
They declared that the workers and unionists would surely build a great prosperous powerful socialist nation by the force of the single-minded unity of the army and people around Kim Jong Il.
The performers in the oratories titled "Motherland of Songun Politics" and "Conscience of Citizen" called upon all the participants to firmly defend the DPRK with the pure conscience as citizens and ardent patriotic enthusiasm and strikingly demonstrate its dignity and honor.
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Pyongyang, September 8 (KCNA) -- The Koryo acupoint finder-applier developed in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has put acupuncture on a scientific basis. Prof. and Dr. Hyon Pyong Gun of Pyongyang University of Medicine, told KCNA that it is a medical apparatus which diagnoses disorders of the 12 channels with the use of the electrophysiological characters and applies needles at the relevant points. It helps give correct medical diagnosis and raise the efficacy of treatment. The clinical test shows 100 percent of treatment efficacy for the patients at initial stage and 70-80 percent for the 10 to 20-year long patients suffering from more than 50 kinds of diseases including Neurovegetative ataxia, pancreatitis, insomnia and bronchial asthma.
It, which was highly appreciated in the Moscow International Invention Exhibition, has been applied in various countries including Venezuela.
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Pyongyang, September 7 (KCNA) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea greets its 57th birthday on September 9. With the founding of the DPRK, Korea has demonstrated its honor and might as a sovereign and independent state in the international arena and a new type of people's state guided by the Juche idea came into being in the political history of humankind. The name of the DPRK, the country's name, means that it is an independent state representing the interests of all the Koreans and striving for the socialist construction in the northern half of the country and the peaceful reunification of the country. It also means that the state power is a revolutionary one of the workers and peasants based on a solid political and economic foundation. The state is the most democratic one which allows the broad sections of the people to participate in state affairs, enforces thorough dictatorship against class enemies and provides all the people with the political freedom, rights and abundant material and cultural life. The name of the country is associated with the love of President Kim Il Sung for the country and people.
The institution of the state name was accompanied by an acute conflict of opinion. At that time some alien elements insisted that the name of the state should be "people's republic" or "democratic republic" without "people", saying that the DPRK was too long and foreigners did not name their countries in such a way. The President disclosed their intention to use the institution for their wicked purpose and led it in a correct way.
He noted that their assertion was a very wrong and dangerous one misunderstanding the tasks at the then stage of the revolutionary developments, particularly ignoring the conditions of the divided country.
As a result, their moves were smashed and the country was named in the interests of the Korean revolution and people.
The name of the country has rooted deep in the minds of the Korean people and is shining all over the world under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il.
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Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- The Korean people greet the Constitution Day (December 27) with great pride of having Kim Il Sung Constitution, the first of its kind in the world history of constitution establishment. In an interview with KCNA, Ri Chol Su, a department chief of Law College under Kim Il Sung University, told about the advantage of the socialist constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea:
The world history of constitution has not known such constitution as one of the DPRK which is run through with the revolutionary outlook on the leader to perpetuate the memory of the leader.
Such revolutionary constitution could be instituted only in the DPRK led by Kim Jong Il who has accomplished the cause of perpetuating the memory of the leader.
After the demise of President Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il saw to it that all precious things of the DPRK should be glorified along with the exploits of the President and that the constitution be amended so as to firmly guarantee the perpetuation of the memory of the leader.
He also saw to it that a new provision of the constitution should be instituted so as to specify the idea that the DPRK is unthinkable apart from the august name of President Kim Il Sung.
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Unlike existing constitutions which have fixed only the already made successes, the Kim Il Sung Constitution brightly illuminates the way for defending the socialist system and building a great prosperous powerful nation of Juche.
It also stipulates the state machinery system to defend and realize the basic interest of the country and the people by embodying the army-first-idea and the mode of Songun leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea.
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