Brilliant Leadership

Personally Feeling Warmth of a Stuffed Wheat Cake

It was one day in September, 2011, when Chairman Kim Jong Il visited the stuffed wheat cake shop which was newly established at Kumsong Foodstuff Factory. Looking at the ceaselessly produced stuffed wheat cakes, the Chairman told the officials with emphasis that the shop should produce high-quality stuffed wheat cakes in larger quantities for people’s diet, relying on the new production foundation. Then, he visited the outdoor stand set up in the factory compound. He personally felt the warmth of a cake. After a while, he called for serving our people warm cakes at every outdoor stand. Then, he repeatedly instructed them to take necessary measures for selling warm stuffed wheat cakes so that people could taste their real delicacy in warmth when steamed hot.

Even for Legislation of Sectional Law

One day in January several decades ago, President Kim Il Sung gave the officials valuable instructions on legislating the law on socialist property. That day, the President taught that only when the socialist state had a law on socialist property, could it protect by law and take good care of the precious property made by the people so that it could prove effective. The officials fell into deep thoughts at the lofty will of the President to make all the people take an active part in managing the socialist property by enacting the law. After a while, noting the situation where proper order was not being maintained in the management of the common property for not having a law on socialist property, the President taught that the main principle of the law on socialist property could be made on the basis of the Socialist Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Indeed, under the detailed guidance and warm care of the President, sectional laws for further consolidating the socialist system of our style and fully displaying its superiority could come into the world.

Eternal March

It was at a recreation time one day in August, 1962, when the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il was spending the days of military encampment in Oun-dong. In the middle of it, his fellow students entreated him to sing a song. Willingly agreeing to it, he started with the following words. In the far northern sky packed with high and low mountain ranges rises Mt. Paektu, the sacred mountain of revolution, from which the march of our revolution made a start. This made the campers meditate on the undying exploits of President Kim Il Sung, who had brought about the national liberation crossing steep, craggy mountains with an iron will, and make up their minds once again to go along the road of revolution with unusual preparedness. Taking a glance at them, who were full of strong emotions, he added that we, the new generation had been vigorously following the glorious road travelled by the anti-Japanese revolutionary predecessors and he himself wanted to express his feelings as the lines of a poem. Then, he recited an impromptu poem “I Will Carry on the March Started from Mt. Paektu” in person. His poem reflected his invariable belief and iron will to achieve without fail the victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche by unyieldingly carrying on the march started from Mt. Paektu by President Kim Il Sung generation after generation.

Instructing How to Educate Children

Behind a wonderful child is a wonderful mother, and behind her is the great Mentor. Scores of years ago, President Kim Il Sung arranged the National Mothers’ Conference, personally attended it and made a historic speech. Fathoming the efforts of mothers across the country in the conference, the President gave them precious instructions for the education of children, stressing that they have heavy missions to bring up their children well. Mentioning that no special way is necessary for educating children, and numerous positive models created in our country would do for it, he enumerated good examples one by one. He added there was probably no one that was unaware of the story about the medical workers who saved a boy, Pang Ha Su, and about Kil Hwak Sil and Ri Sin Ja, and that those good examples would surely help bring up their children to be good-natured. Indeed, the President was really a great mentor of all mothers of our country who gave precious instructions for the education of children so that they could become well aware of their duty as mothers.

We Are All Your Sons and Daughters

Chairman Kim Jong Il once made a visit to the native home of Hero Ri Su Bok. Walking towards the native house of the hero, he suddenly stopped on an approach to his house. With his eyes of deep thought as if following up the trace of the hero, the Chairman mentioned in an emotional tone that it was really a significant road, along which he walked to and from school and to the front. After a while, the Chairman entered his native home, saying that his mother must have been waiting for her son to return along this road, and now they were on the way instead of her son. Friendly holding the hands of his mother, the Chairman warmly said: Even though Hero Ri Su Bok could not come back, we are beside you instead and we are all your sons and daughters. We are all your sons and daughters. Indeed, it was the fervent love, trust and respect of the peerless great man for our mothers who brought up their children to be the reliable pillars of the fatherland.

First Criterion

Once, a foreign personage who was on a visit to the DPRK courteously asked President Kim Il Sung about the basis of the politics of the DPRK. The President gave him a clear answer that it is to thoroughly maintain independence. After a while, the President said that maintaining independence in politics is, first, to defend the national independence and sovereignty of the people and, second, to implement the politics that relies on its people. Looking up to the President, the personage made a polite request for further detailed explanation about it. Noting that political independence is the first criterion and lifeblood of an independent sovereign state, the President said that independence is the life and soul of an independent sovereign state, to say nothing of the human. He added that the sovereign independence of a country presupposes political independence, which guarantees the function and role as an independent sovereign state. The personage was completely fascinated by the statement “Political independence is the first criterion and lifeblood.”