The first morning of the
hopeful New Year 2004 promised with new victory and glory dawns, seeing off the
last year decorated with remarkable events and merits under the beam of the sun
of the 21st Century.
On this significant morning,
the Central Committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea,
reflecting the boundless reverence and loyalty of the vanguard fighters and
patriotic people of south Korea, extends greetings to you the great leader Kim Jong Il, sun of the 21st
century and peerless brilliant commander, whom all the fellow countrymen and
humankind warmly worship and follow.
The year 2003 closed in
agitation was a historical victorious year when the dignity and power of Juche
Besides last year was a
glorious year when the development of
Last year you put forward the
slogan to make the year which greets 55th anniversary of the DPRK a
year of a bold offensive and a great change the entire Workers’ Party of Korea,
army and people should advance under the banner of the Songun politics. And
through unremitting and energetic leadership you performed undying feats of
exalting through generations the fatherly President’s exploits of state
building and building a Juche-based socialist paradise in
Having the firm will to inherit
and complete the Juche cause started by President Kim Il Sung, you, the son of Mt. Baekdu, strengthened the
single-hearted unity of the north Korean people in every way, brought up the
People’s Army as a Mt. Baekdu-like strong and reliable army, made the whole
society of north Korea overflow with the traditional traits of unity of the
army and people and revolutionary spirit of soldiers, thus demonstrated to the
world the invincible might of Songun Korea.
In particular, the outcry of
“Long Live Marshal Kim Jong Il!”
resounded at the venue of the military parade and the grand mass demonstration
to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the DPRK which was taken place
amid the infinite joy and emotion of having you, the respected Marshal, to the
top post of the state was a thundering roar of guns demonstrating to the world
the invincible might and spirit of Kim
Il Sung’s
nation and Kim Jong Il’s Korea where the people firmly
unite with the Songun idea and the spirit of devotedly defending the leader and
determinedly implementation. It was also a solemn epical picture to be seen
only in Juche
Under your grand plan of
building a prosperous and powerful nation, last year
The great victory the Songun
fatherland won last year resolutely braving the harsh storm of history in
defending socialism and building a powerful nation is the noble fruition of the
great devotion of you, who, with infinite passion and fighting spirit, gave
endless on-the-spot guidance to the KPA units, factories and countryside,
without having a moment of rest.
You, the respected Marshal, sun
of the 21st century, stood on the center of the world last year,
too, and smashed with the gun of Songun the hegemonic arbitrariness of the US styling
itself as the “only super power” and safeguarded peace and security of
humankind by leading the trends of the time and made immortal contribution to
the independence cause of the world.
Indeed, you are the great
incarnation of the independent politics, peerless hero and brilliant sun of the
nation and humankind.
The immortal exploits you, the
respected Marshal, achieved last year further inspired the south
Korean vanguard fighters and people of all social strata with pride of having
you, the peerless great man, as the leader of the nation and the faith of sure
victory.
As you vigorously called upon
the fellow countrymen to carry out the June l5 joint declaration and gave
unfathomable compatriotic love, last year the south Korean people could make
the unprecedented grand march strenuously for the anti-US independence,
democracy and national reunification against the US war moves and its
interference in the internal affairs of south Korea through national
cooperation under the ideal of “By our nation itself”.
Through abundant successes such
as the June 15 grand reunification festival of the nation, the August 15
national meeting for peace and reunification, the linking of railways and roads
between the East and West achieved in the activities for the country’s
reunification despite the unprecedented obstruction of the anti-reunification
forces at home and abroad, we have felt keenly that the country’s reunification
and eternal prosperity of the nation lie on the road to uphold you.
To enjoy happiness in a
reunified country, holding you in high esteem as the nation’s leader, is the
unchangeable will of the south Korean people and a
trend that no force can check.
In the New Year we will drive
more dynamically the south Korean people’s struggle to
support actively your Songun politics of love of the country, nation and
people, holding high the banner of “Our nation-first idea”.
Upholding the banner of the
June 15 joint declaration, the declaration of national independence and
reunification, given by you, we will realize the national cooperation and
further activate the anti-US, anti-war and anti-conservative struggle, thus
hastening the independence, democracy and reunification.
The NDFSK Central Committee,
reflecting the ardent desire of the vanguard fighters and all other people in
Central Committee
National Democratic Front of
January 1, Juche 93 (2004)
