When building a new country, President Kim Il Sung suggested naming it the DPRK, in consideration of the main object and the immediate tasks of the Korean revolution.

But the reactionaries alleged that the country's name was too lengthy and the word "people" should be omitted, in a bid to hinder the establishment of a genuine people's government and the building of a democratic, independent and sovereign state and satisfy their political greed.

The President resolutely rejected their allegation. He stated that the new country should be an independent and sovereign state based on democracy and national unity and, thereupon, it should be called Democratic People's Republic.

On September 9, Juche 37 (1948), he proclaimed the birth of the DPRK, a country where the popular masses are masters and everything serves them.

Since the foundation of the DPRK its people had successfully carried on the building of new Korea, won victory in the Fatherland Liberation War (June 1950-July 1953) and turned the DPRK into a socialist industrial country, independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in national defence, under his wise guidance.

The DPRK will remain forever as Kim Il Sung's Korea, true to his lifetime idea and cause.