Long live the DPRK, the country of sun

 

- Alejandro Cao de Benos, Chairman of the Korean Friendship Association

 

I frequently recollect a crucial time when I saw the sunrise on Mt. Baekdu in August last year with guests from other parts of the world.

The sunrise that glows vast plain of Mt. Baekdu at dawn!

It was just identical to images of President Kim Il Sung, the sun of Juche, and leader Kim Jong Il, the sun of Songun.

I always live in exciting feelings when I saw the historic sunrise on Mt Baekdu whether I live in Spain or visit to other countries. That is why I have nothing to afraid of and I am in full of confidence.

From time immemorial people compare sacredness and greatness to the sun.

The sun is the mother of all things under the sun and the source of all living activities.

The sun sheds its rays all over the universe and grows all the lives in the universe. The sun attracts planets of the vast universe.

Now humankind highly eulogizes President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il, comparing them to the sun.

Kim Il Sung! The name is that of the sun.

The Korean people named the President after the sun, reflecting their desire to live happily free from the yoke of the Japanese colonial rule.

President Kim Il Sung! He was the greatest man of great men and the sun of the 20th century who devoted his whole life like the sun.

The immortal Juche idea which was fathered by the President is the ray of the sun illumining the way ahead of the Korean people and humankind. The origination of Juche idea, which clarified the popular masses are master of their destiny and must shape their destiny by their own efforts and, a man is master of his destiny and the man plays the decisive role in shaping his destiny, was a discovery of the great truth that brought about a radical turn in history of human ideology and in shaping their destiny.

The immortal Juche idea was a powerful weapon that makes a man the master of his destiny and the most powerful being and a source of life that turns the oppressive people to strong and dignified one. It was a driving force that put human history on the track of independence.

President Kim Il Sung had illumined the way ahead of the mankind with the Juche idea. Thanks to the Juche idea, the 20th century was spotlighted as the independent era in which the world people turned out in the struggle for building a new independent society.

President Kim Il Sung is the great sun who built a new society with his benevolent politics and sagacious leadership.

He was the greatest prominent political veteran who provided the people with worthwhile life and happiness by his affection and politics; he turned north Korea into an ideal society that humankind have dreamed by building the Korean-style socialist society  independent in politics, self-sufficient in economy, and self-reliant in national defense.

Endowed with wisdom, benevolence and valor, President Kim Il Sung is the greatest man of great men and hero of the 20th century who defeated Japanese and US imperialists.

The feature of President Kim Il Sung is that of great man with the spirit of Mt. Baekdu and mysterious wisdom of lake Chon. His voice is that of ever-victorious general made the enemy shudder, reverberating throughout the world and his legendary smile makes the world at ease and delight the all the people.

President Kim Il Sung enjoys absolute admiration from the Korean people as well as the world people irrespective of political view, religion and class.

It is well known to the world that former US President Carter said at a news conference in Seoul after meeting with President Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang that President Kim Il Sung is the greatest man that cannot be compared with three US Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln representing the US foundation and its destiny.

Indeed, President Kim Il Sung is the great hero and legendary great man representing the 20th century that can be praised as the sun in terms of ideology, personality and feats.

President Kim Il Sung, who devoted his whole life like the sun with the august name whom the Korean people named, is always shining as the sun of Juche in the hearts of the humankind.

Kim Il Sung, the eternal name is associated with leader Kim Jong Il.

President Kim Il Sung once said in his lifetime that his idea, leadership, personality and mien are that of leader Kim Jong Il; it precisely means Kim Il Sung is just Kim Jong Il and vice versa.

Indeed, leader Kim Jong Il is the sun of the 21st century who is just identical to President Kim Il Sung in terms of idea, leadership, personality and virtue.

Kim Jong Il! His name is that of the sun.

His name filled with ardent desire of the Korean people who want him to be the sun to accomplish the cause of sun started by President Kim Il Sung in thick forest of Mt. Baekdu.

The revolutionary idea of leader Kim Jong Il is ray of the sun that gives scientific answers to all problems arising in revolution in the 21st century, inheriting and enriching the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung, the Juche idea.

The leader formulated not only the revolutionary idea of the President but also enriched and further developed it to theories on idea, leader, socio-political integrity, socialism, the cause of perpetuating the memory of the President and the Songun politics in accordance to the present times and development of the revolution.

Leader Kim Jong Il is the great political veteran and incarnation of benevolent politics with the best political philosophy in the contemporary age.

He turned north Korea into the country of single-hearted unity of the leader, the Party and the people with politics of love for the people and the Songun politics and turned the country into an invincible fortress that any formidable enemy dares not attack, demonstrating indestructible power of genuine socialist society, the people-centered Juche socialism to the world. He leads the progressive humankind to worldwide struggle for independence against imperialist.

Leader Kim Jong Il is sun of the Songun who unfolds the strategy of the anti-imperialist and anti-US struggle to victory to cope with grave political situation under which challenge and vicious moves of imperialists become more undisguised.

Leader Kim Jong Il is, indeed, the great leader of revolution and sun of the 21st century, who leads the age and the Juche revolution, the socialist construction and Korea’s reunification and the global cause for independence to victory.

I remember vividly an article carried in a British newspaper.

“People of the world! Go to the DPRK, the country of sun, if you are apprehensive of the future under today’s political turbulence. Then you will know the Korean people, the nation of the sun, hold another great man in high esteem. He is leader Kim Jong Il who is just like President Kim Il Sung in terms of idea, leadership and personality. Comrade Kim Jong Il is the sun who leads the 21st century and humankind to victory. The world without a dark age, the world full of optimism and confidence without pessimism and hopelessness and the world to be realized independence completely; the sun of free and happy world is just comrade Kim Jong Il.”

Best is the humankind’s pride and happiness of having leader Kim Jong Il, sun of the 21st century, in high esteem who leads the mankind to realizing an ideal society, holding high President Kim Il Sung, sun of the 20th century who pioneered and led independence as the eternal sun of Juche.

Fascinated by the greatness of President Kim Il Sung, the peerlessly great man and leader Kim Jong Il, sun of the 21st century, I came to know north Korea and became soldier of the leader. I pour out my inmost feelings to the world for the country of sun with my pride of having the two great men as the sun of the humankind.                                

President Kim Il Sung, the sun of Juche, will always be with the humanity!

Long live leader Kim Jong Il, the sun of the 21st century!

   Long live the DPRK, the country of sun!