calendar>>July 7. 2024 Juche 113
President Kim Il Sung, People's Leader
Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- It has been 30 years since the demise of President Kim Il Sung, whom the Korean people acclaimed and held in high esteem for the first time in the nation's history spanning thousands of years.

The Korean people are now full of strong yearning and boundless reverence for the peerlessly great man who put forward the working masses as the most powerful beings in the world and glorified their dignity and value.

The President regarded it as his lifelong motto to believe in the people as in Heaven and applied it to ideology and leadership and thus brought it into reality.

All the revolutionary activities of the President, who started the revolution by finding himself among the people, were conducted with the masses as the base and oriented towards defending and realizing their independence.

He advanced the lines and policies reflecting the masses' requirements and aspirations for independence and provided the most revolutionary and scientific guidelines indicating the road ahead of them.

Regarding as his faith the revolutionary principle that the masses are the masters of the revolution and construction and they have the power to propel the revolution and construction, he resolved all problems arising in socialist construction in conformity with the requirements and interests of the people by enlisting their inexhaustible strength and creative wisdom.

He always believed in the people and relied on them. He successfully carried out the historic task of founding the guiding idea of the revolution, building up the vanguard organization, founding the army and awakening and organizing the masses of the people and led the difficult and complicated revolutionary struggle and construction work of several stages to victory without any mistake or failure in lines.

The miraculous victories and successes achieved by the Korean people in socialist construction are the precious fruits the President provided by sowing seeds on the land, called the people, and cultivating them all his life.

Thanks to the great leader, our people could victoriously advance socialist construction as a powerful driving force for social development.

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