Meeting to Celebrate Sun’s Day by 

Juche Idea Study Group of England

On the occasion of the Day of the Sun, an auspicious holiday common to mankind, the Juche Idea Study Group of England held a meeting to celebrate the Day of the Sun in Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, on April 13.

The place was decorated with the portraits of President Kim Il Sung and Leader Kim Jong Il and the DPRK national flag. 

The meeting started with the playing of the “Song of General Kim Il Sung”.

The main speakers were Chairman Dermot Hudson and Secretary Shaun Pickford of the Juche Idea Study Group of England.

In his speech on the everlasting achievements of President, Dermot Hudson said:

“The Korean people are now celebrating the 92^nd birthday of President Kim Il Sung (April 15, the Day of the Sun) during a period in which they are hastening their vigorous advance to build a strong nation.

On this occasion, they are filled with more ardent yearning and deep reverence for President Kim Il Sung. During a life spanning more than 80 years he created a new history carving out the destiny of the nation and performed immortal exploits which will go down in the annals of the era of independence. Under his superb leadership, the Korean people brightened the 20th century with victory and glory.

Today they feel an infinite warmth welling up in their hearts, knowing that they lived under the wing of a truly great and benevolent, fatherly leader and at the same time, evince their resolve to complete his revolutionary cause under the guidance of Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea. 

President Kim Il Sung was a distinguished thinker and theoretician of the 20^th century, a great master of leadership who performed ever-victorious feats, and a great sage of revolution gifted with lofty personality and virtue. 

He fathered the Juche idea, developed it in depth and led the people to bring about a revolutionary turn in their ideology. The Korean people successfully pushed forward with the revolution and construction in line with the ideas and intentions of the President, making the 20th century a century of prosperity in which a fundamental change was effected in the revolution and construction, and a century of glory in which the nation's dignity has been demonstrated all over the world. 

President Kim Il Sung set an example by brilliantly carrying out revolutionary tasks of various forms over many stages. He steered to victory the two stages of the social revolution (the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution and the socialist revolution), the reconstruction of the country on the ruins following Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule (1945) and the Korean war against the US imperialists (1950-1953), and the two revolutionary wars to liberate the country and safeguard national sovereignty. 

He built up a strong country of independence, self-reliance and self-defense, where man-centered socialism has been realized, by carving out the road of socialist construction in a unique way. In leading the Korean revolution he broke new ground: establishing a new type of working-class party, revolutionary armed forces and people's power. He also saw that an independent national economy was firmly built in this land. 

Today the Korean people are putting spurs to the building of a prosperous socialist power by relying upon the invincible revolutionary armed forces, the power of the state and the immense potential of the economy, under the guidance of the WPK, the seasoned general staff of the revolution, unaffected by the political and economic upheaval affecting the world. This is entirely due to the revolutionary achievements of President Kim Il Sung, who provided the people with the political, military and economic muscle to complete the cause of Juche. 

The President regarded "The people are my God" as his lifetime motto and bestowed warm paternal love on the people, sharing the sweets and bitters with them. It was this that made it possible to turn the whole of society into a single, great, harmonious family based on revolutionary comradeship and a sense of duty, turning Korea into a country of single-hearted unity.

President Kim Il Sung put forward the outstanding ideas and strategy for making the world independent, and spared no efforts to put them into effect. He rendered sincere aid to the revolutionaries and ordinary people of other countries at great expense. His noble traits and obligation to their cause are cherished dearly in the hearts of progressive humankind. His ideas and achievements are the assets with which the Korean revolution can advance unwaveringly along the road of independence in the 21^st century, too. 

The 21st century is the century of independence. Following the road of independence is the irresistible trend of the new century. 

The President trained the Koreans to be an independent people invested with a strong national pride and ardent patriotic spirit. To say what they want to in any circumstances and follow the road of Juche they have chosen, irrespective of the road others choose to take--these are the revolutionary traits of the Korean people. As long as there are great people fighting with the unbending conviction in independence their leader gave them, the honor of the Korean nation will be displayed more highly in the new century. 

The ideas and achievements of the President are the sure guarantee which enables the Korean people to implement the Songun policy. 

The Songun policy being carried out in an all-round way by Kim Jong Il, the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, is the everlasting method of revolutionary politics and the almighty weapon for socialist construction. 

The establishment of the foundations for the Songun politics by President Kim Il Sung ensured that the KPA could be trained to be a strong army, each of whose members is a match for a hundred foes. It also allowed the all-people national defense system to be established. The achievements made by President Kim Il Sung for the Korean people and humankind have brilliantly demonstrated their merit, accompanied by the triumphant progress of the Juche cause, thanks to Kim Jong Il. 

The revolutionary history of the President will be everlasting in the hearts and minds of the Korean people.”

Shaun Pickford who spoke next stressed as follows:

“Kim Il Sung's theoretical heritage has added immensely to the common treasure store of progressive ideology and has inspired revolutionary parties and independent states into building new societies.

When reactionaries and their scribes go on about the end of communism and the halting of progress in their post modern fantasy the ideology of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il comes as a breath of innovating oxygen to the oppressed peoples of the world. It was under Kim Il Sung's influence that the Pyongyang Declaration "Let Us Defend and Advance Socialist Cause" was adopted in April 1992. This declaration became a rallying point for 300 Communist and Workers parties.

April is the time of year when we see the first signs of spring, which is the season that melts the ice of winter. So it was the respected leader comrade Kim Il Sung who broke the chains of oppression and ushered in the era of liberation for humanity.”

The meeting to celebrate the Day of the Sun held by the British friends is an fine expression of mankind’s endless reverence for President Kim Il Sung, eternal Sun of Juche, as well as a valuable encouragement for the NDFSK and the patriotic south Korean people who have greeted the Day of the Sun with great yearning for the President.

Availing itself of this opportunity, the NDFSK extend heartfelt thanks to the British friends like the members of the Group for Studying the Songun Politics in UK and the Juche Idea Study Group of England who deeply venerate Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and stand in the forefront of the pro-DPRK and pro-NDFSK solidarity activities.