The Respected Comrade KIM JONG UN Visits Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on the Greatest Memorial Day of Our Party, State and People

On the occasion of the 14th anniversary of the demise of the Great Leader Kim Jong Il, all the people and service personnel of the People's Army across the country are paying the highest tribute with boundless yearning and burning loyalty, solemnly recalling the sacred revolutionary life and immortal feats of the peerlessly great man who set it as his lifelong mission to build a powerful and prosperous country on this land for all generations to come and devoted everything to the struggle for its realization.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun at 00:00 on December 17 on the greatest memorial day of our Party, state and people.

Present there were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and leading officials of the Party, government and armed forces organs, officials of the Party Central Committee, and responsible officials of the Cabinet, commissions, ministries and central institutions.

Also present were commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence and commanders of the Korean People's Army combined units.

Baskets of flowers were laid before the portraits of the great President Kim Il Sung and the Great Leader Kim Jong Il.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un paid high tribute together with the participants to the portraits of the great President and the great General.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the hall of immortality together with the participants and made a humble bow to the great General, wishing him immortality.

All the participants made a firm pledge to glorify the patriotic achievements of the great General as a grand new era of comprehensive national rejuvenation and single-heartedly uphold the idea and leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Political Reporting Team of this Newspaper

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Editorial

Let Us Uphold the Great Leader KIM JONG IL's Patriotic Aspiration and Vigorously Open Up a New Phase in the Building of a Socialist Power

A great river of yearning is swirling powerfully across the land of our homeland where the sacred history of the eternal life of the leader flows.

Though years have passed and mountains and rivers have changed since that day in December when the whole country was immersed in tears of blood, the sacred name and benevolent image of the Great Leader Kim Jong Il are shining as a symbol of the invincibility and a banner of eternal victory of Juche Korea, and the idea and achievements of the great General are powerfully propelling the revolutionary struggle of our people with immense strength.

Now all officials, Party members and working people are looking up to the Great Leader Kim Jong Il who devoted his whole life to the Party and revolution, the country and people, and paying the most sublime tribute and boundless wishes for immortality, their hearts burning with a fiery desire to uphold the great General's patriotic aspiration and desire for a powerful country and establish on this land the world's most powerful country and the people's ideal society which is envied by the world.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said as follows:

"We must hold the great General in high esteem as the eternal leader of our Party and people and eternally glorify his revolutionary life and immortal revolutionary achievements."

The socialist country of Juche is a precious patriotic legacy of the great General.

Having earlier upheld the noble intention of the great President, the great General, who set it as his lifelong mission to build our socialist country into a powerful and prosperous people's country, dedicated his whole life to realizing the patriotic undertaking of lasting value, burning his body like a torch with an iron will and superhuman energy. The immortal revolutionary life and eternal patriotic achievements of the great General, who gave everything for the prosperity of the country, will shine brilliantly together with the sacred history of the strengthening and development of our great state.

It is the most precious achievement of the great General that he illuminated the road ahead for building a powerful and prosperous country with his extraordinary ideological and theoretical foresight.

The revolutionary life of the great General was the life of an outstanding ideological and theoretical genius who ceaselessly glorified the revolutionary idea of the fatherly President as the eternal guiding ideology of the revolution in the era of independence and illuminated the road ahead for the final victory of the cause of the popular masses for independence and the socialist cause. Through his ceaseless contemplation and inquiry, the great General brilliantly inherited and developed the revolutionary idea of the great President, establishing and further enriching the Juche idea, a people-centered philosophical ideology. Through the energetic ideological and theoretical activities of the great General, the revolutionary idea of the great President was perfected as the guiding ideology, theory and method of the era of independence, remarkably enhancing the driving force and vitality of Kimilsungism and powerfully verifying its validity in revolutionary practice.

A great idea is a beacon that illuminates a great era. With his foresight and sagacity, the great General keenly saw through all theoretical and practical problems arising in building a powerful and prosperous country and gave scientific answers to them. The ideological and theoretical treasures presented by the great General, including the idea on building a revolutionary Party, the idea of single-hearted unity, the idea of attaching importance to ideology, the masses and science and technology, and the theory of building a socialist power, are powerful ideological and theoretical weapons that must be invariably held fast to in the struggle for realizing the historic cause of building a prosperous and powerful country.

Today, the national prestige and dignity of our Republic and the dignity and glory of our people are radiating from the stage of the century. All that dignity and glory are based on the outstanding ideological and theoretical achievements of the great General. As our people advance confidently towards the building of a socialist power, holding fast to the revolutionary idea of the great General as a guideline for a hundred victories, only victory and glory will always be ahead.

It is a great achievement of the great General that he consolidated in every way the single-hearted unity of the Party and revolutionary ranks, laying the eternal foundation of our-style socialism.

Single-hearted unity is the first treasure of our revolution bequeathed by the great General.

The Great Leader Kim Jong Il, who early on embraced the political creed that the single-hearted unity of the leader, Party and masses is the most solid cornerstone of the revolution, brilliantly achieved the invincible and solid unity of the Party and revolutionary ranks. By presenting the idea of uniting around the leader and thoroughly establishing strong organization and discipline throughout the Party to act in strict accordance with the leader's idea and intention, thus creating a new history of revolutionary unity, and by ensuring that Party organizations thoroughly implement the revolutionary mass line, he built the oneness of the Party and masses into an unbreakable, invincible entity. Thanks to the energetic leadership of the great General, our Party and revolutionary ranks became more solid based on revolutionary comradeship born of loyalty to the leader, and our country became proud as a country of single-hearted unity where ten million people speak with one voice and ten million ranks move in one step.

Today, our people live with the idea of single-hearted unity, advance with the spirit of single-hearted unity, and are hastening the final victory of the socialist cause. The recent miracles and striking realities of innovation and change that have shaken the country and occurred one after another are all proud fruits brought about by the noble fighting spirit of our people and the might of single-hearted unity, who form impregnable fortresses in thousands of layers around the Party and rise like a mountain without hesitation to carry out the Party's plan and determination. As long as there is the single-hearted unity which the great General devoted his whole life to consolidating, our building of a socialist power will vigorously advance, surmounting any obstacles and difficulties.

It is the immortal feat of the great General that he held high the banners of Songun and self-reliance, enhancing the dignity and might of our Republic and laying a solid foundation for prosperity by our own efforts.

In the period when grim trials faced our revolution, the great General was at the forefront of the sharpest anti-imperialist military front, creating unprecedented military miracles and victory without a shot being fired in human history. The arduous course and heart-rending story of the Songun-based journey, which the great General covered with the determination to fight at the risk of his life, are reflected in the Oson Mountain's cliff path and the steep pass of Chol Pass that make one's heart ache just by their names, the stormy sea route of Chodo Island and the dawn road of Panmunjom, and are told by his faded field padded coat worn from the days of the Arduous March to the last moments of his life. Thanks to the outstanding leadership of the great General, our country was further strengthened as an invincible socialist fortress, and our people can enjoy a happy life to their heart's content under the blue sky of their homeland, free from war.

"Self-reliance is the only way to survive!" This was the unshakable faith of the great General. Juche means self-reliance, and self-reliance is the fundamental guarantee for thoroughly establishing Juche in revolution and construction. Therefore, wherever he went, the great General always highly praised the self-reliance fighters and encouraged them with confidence and courage. Thanks to the wise leadership of the great General, who put forward self-reliance as the lifeline of national construction and made sure everything was resolved by our own strength and on the principle of self-reliance, our-style proud creations sprang up like mushrooms on this land, ushering in a great heyday of the era of the Workers' Party.

Our people will continue to increase the invincible self-defensive capability and independent strength provided by the great General through his lifelong dedication and further accelerate the speed of advance toward a powerful country.

The great General's patriotic aspiration and desire for a powerful country are being translated into a proud reality today under the wise leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

The grand plan and great blueprint unfolded by the respected General Secretary are precisely for upholding the great General's aspiration and erecting our-style socialism high for the world to see, and the extraordinary leadership practice of the General Secretary is for realizing as soon as possible the beautiful dream and ideal of our people, the best in the world, entrusted by the great General.

Today, under the outstanding idea and refined leadership of the respected General Secretary, the dignity and fame of our country, which has rapidly emerged as the world's only ideological power with formidable political and ideological might and a world-class military power with self-defensive capabilities evolving continuously beyond limits and leaping uniquely, are shining on the stage of the century. The stirring reality, where people's ideal streets and socialist paradise villages rise in rows without fail every year in the capital and rural areas, and the local transformation unfolds with the joy of groundbreaking and completion ceremonies each year, is a precious crystallization achieved through the dedicated efforts of the respected General Secretary, who is carrying forward the eternal patriotic achievements of the great General as the history of eternal prosperity and development of the Republic.

It is the iron will of our people that, led by the respected General Secretary guiding our Party, state and people, the socialist powerful country desired by the great General will surely emerge in the near future.

All the people and service personnel of the People's Army should, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee, eternally glorify the precious revolutionary life and immortal achievements of the Great Leader Kim Jong Il and vigorously open up a new phase in socialist construction.

We must hold the great General in high esteem as the eternal leader of our Party and people and ensure that his revolutionary life and immortal patriotic achievements flow forever on this land for all generations.

We must better maintain and preserve the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun where the great General lives in an immortal image, always keep his benevolent image deep in our hearts, live and struggle accordingly. All the people must possess a pure conscience and sense of moral obligation and firmly defend and uphold the idea and achievements of the great General.

We must single-heartedly uphold the idea and leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

All officials, Party members and working people must regard the defense of the Party Central Committee as the primary requirement of life and the most valuable honor and duty of a revolutionary, and defend the respected General Secretary politically and ideologically, and with their lives. They must be thoroughly armed with the revolutionary idea of the respected General Secretary, place his authority and safety first, and organize and conduct all work accordingly.

We must display patriotic zeal to the full in the general advance toward the 9th Congress of the Party.

All officials, Party members and working people must redouble their enthusiasm and devotion to proudly greet the 9th Congress of the Party with brilliant labor achievements. They must guard against conceit and self-satisfaction, display a high sense of responsibility, and glorify each day with clear successes. They must increase a hundredfold their confidence and courage in the prospect of their own work and struggle, and continue to strive to pioneer a better future with the might of self-generation and self-advancement.

Let us all unite as firm as a rock around the Party Central Committee and fight more vigorously to achieve brilliant success in realizing the Great Leader Kim Jong Il's patriotic aspiration and desire for a powerful country.