With the approach of the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, the Korean people and world progressives highly revere the President who fathered the Juche idea to provide the guiding principle in the era of independence.
The Juche idea is the eternal banner of the Korean revolution and the revolutionary banner in the era of independence created and applied in the revolutionary practice by President Kim Il Sung.
After reviewing historical lesson of Korean national liberation movement, the President, at the Kalun meeting held from June 30 to July 2, Juche 19 (1930), declared the principle of Juche idea that the masters of the Korean revolution are the Korean people and the Korean revolution should be by all means carried out by the Korean people themselves in a way suited to the actual condition of the country.
The Juche idea, in short, is the idea that the popular masses are masters of the revolution and construction, and they are also the motive force of revolution and construction.
In other words, man is the master of his destiny and has the power to carve it out.
Thanks to the Juche idea, the Korean revolution have made a vigorous advance along the road of independence and the Juche era, a new era of historical development of mankind in which the popular masses hew out their own destiny independently and creatively has been opened up.
The President, holding aloft the banner of the Juche idea, defeated the Japanese imperialist aggressors to liberate Korea. He had built a powerful socialist country independent, self-sufficient and self-reliant in defense by applying the Juche idea throughout his leadership over Korea.
It is the DPRK government’s invariable principle to adhere to Juche in the ideology, independence in politics, self-sufficiency in the economy and self-reliance in defense.
The Juche idea propounded by the President had been enriched by outstanding ideological and theoretical activities and sagacious wisdom of Chairman Kim Jong Il.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, thoroughly embodying the Juche idea in building a rich and powerful nation, has built the DPRK as a socialist power with independent politics, self-defense capacity and self-supporting economy.
The credit for the brilliant successes being scored in the DPRK goes to the Juche idea.
The Juche idea is the most reasonable, universal and viable revolutionary idea easily acceptable to whoever aspiring after independence as it is man-centered world outlook and the revolutionary theory and method centered on the popular masses.
The Juche idea captures the hearts of all people as it is encyclopedic revolutionary thought representing the popular masses’ cause of independence and the whole course of implementing the cause of socialism and the idea guiding the future of mankind.
Today many countries including the UK, Switzerland and Spain have the Juche idea study groups and lots of followers of the Juche idea wage dynamic activities to study and disseminate the Juche idea.
The immortal feats of President Kim Il Sung, who originated and developed in depth the Juche idea, the guiding idea of the Korean revolution and the era of independence, will last forever along with the Day of the Sun.