A Special Event in the History of the WPK

Last April the Fourth Conference of the Workers’ Party of Korea was held in Pyongyang.

                      Kim Jong Il Venerated as Eternal General Secretary of the WPK

The Fourth Conference of the WPK adopted a decision on holding Kim Jong Il in high esteem

as its eternal general secretary and adding lustre to his brilliant career and the immortal exploits

he performed in building the Party, in reflection of the unanimous will of all the Party members,

service personnel and the people.

Kim Jong Il, while leading the WPK for scores of years, accomplished undying exploits in

Party building.

From the outset of his working at the Party Central Committee in the 1960s he paid close

attention to achieving the unity of the whole Party in ideology and purpose. In the 1970s he

advanced a programme of modelling the entire Party on the Juche idea, the revolutionary

ideology President Kim Il Sung, founder of the Party, had created, and applied himself to its

implementation. Thanks to his energetic leadership the WPK has been consolidated into an

integral whole in ideology, organization and action, acting in unison around one centre, and

under monolithic ideology and leadership system.

He made sure that the WPK kept to its revolutionary principles in a consistent and

thoroughgoing way.

In the 1990s President Kim Il Sung passed away, and socialism collapsed in several countries.

Availing themselves of this opportunity, the imperialist allied forces focused their anti-socialist

offensives on Korea. As a result, Korea literally suffered from the worst hardships and

difficulties. But Kim Jong Il showed no vacillation in leading the Party straight along the road of

socialism. He formulated his original Songun politics based on the Songun idea Kim Il Sung

authored together with the Juche idea, as the basic political mode of socialism and brought it into

full application, thus greatly contributing to the defence of the country’s sovereignty, dignity and

socialism as well as global peace and security. Thanks to his Songun politics Korea has

developed into a political and military power nobody would dare to attack and ushered in an

epochal phase in its efforts to build a thriving socialist country.

Kim Jong Il made constant efforts to strengthen and develop the WPK into an invincible party

which struck roots deep among the masses, a mother party which is knit together with them.

He ensured that the Party reflected the demands and aspirations of the people in its lines and

policies to the utmost and defended their interests in every way. This made it possible for the

Party to have grown into an experienced, seasoned and ever-victorious party which steadily

pursues the implementation of the cause of socialism, without making any mistakes or deviations

in mapping out and implementing its lines and under the absolute support and trust by the

people.

The exploits he performed in strengthening and developing the Party are indeed one of the

most precious heritages he left for the country and people and constitute eternal foundations for

the Party’s future filled with victory.

The proclamation made at the Fourth Conference of the WPK that he is its eternal general

secretary is a clear demonstration to the world public that his ideas and cause are ever-lasting

and will be carried forward to completion.

                                        Kim Jong Un, First Secretary of the WPK

The WPK’s Fourth Conference elected Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of Korea, its first

secretary.

Kim Jong Un who is identical with Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in ideology, leadership and

virtues is carrying out the ideas and lines of his predecessors, without the slightest vacillation. It

is his unshakeable faith and will that he will hold them in high esteem as eternal leaders of the

Party and state, implement their ideas and cause to the letter without any concessions or

vacillations and thus build a thriving socialist country. With the noblest sense of loyalty and moral obligation to Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, he ensured the Kumsusan Memorial Palace where they lie in state was renamed the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun and roused all Party members, service personnel and people to the struggle to fulfil their lifetime instructions.

He is possessed of the fervent love for humanity and a noble outlook on the people and

administers benevolent politics, all-embracing politics. His personality as a genuine people’s

leader who shares sweets and bitters with them excites everyone’s praise and admiration.

Endowed with all the virtues and qualifications becoming a modern statesman and the ability to

look out over the world and century, and called as the youngest state leader in the world, he is

leading the nationwide drive to develop Korea into a thriving socialist power. He also resolutely

smashes the imperialist acts of aggression and challenges and makes the greatest contributions to

the defence of peace in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world, upholding the banner of

Songun.

Under his leadership the WPK and the Korean people will as ever follow the road of

independence, Songun and socialism.

The WPK will always emerge victorious under the leadership of Kim Jong Un.

 Kim Jong Il and Hyundai Group

Chairperson Hyon Jong Un of the south Korean Hyundai Group and her party visited

Pyongyang in December last year to express their condolences over the death of Kim Jong Il.

Praising As a Pioneer of Inter-Korean Cooperation

Jong Ju Yong, one of the tycoons in south Korea, prided himself on his successful career.

One day he had an opportunity to read the work titled Let Us Reunify the Country Independently

and Peacefully Through the Great Unity of the Entire Nation Kim Jong Il made public in April

1998. Kim Jong Il clarified in his work his idea of great national unity that if anyone, even

though he is a big capitalist, has a national conscience and a will to achieve the country’s

reunification, he should join hands with him and advance for national reunification.

Greatly impressed by the leader’s idea, Jong visited the north in June 1998. During his stay in

the north he visited his native home he had longed for waking or sleeping, had an emotional

reunion with his relatives and enjoyed a pleasant time on Mts. Kumgang and Myohyang,

celebrated mountains in Korea.

He visited Pyongyang again in October that year and had the honour of meeting Kim Jong Il.

Kim Jong Il granted Jong’s requests in relation to the tourism on Mt. Kumgang and others,

and said that the north and south should strengthen the cooperation with each other based on the

love for the country and nation, stressing that he was always willing to join hands with anyone

who was desirous of making the nation prosperous and the fellow people well-off.

Since then Jong, as he had written in his reminiscences Born on this land, made up his mind

to dedicate the remainder of his life to the inter-Korean economic cooperation. To this end, he

established the Hyundai Asan and contributed to reconciliation and cooperation between the

north and south, including the project for Mt. Kumgang tourism.

Kim Jong Il highly appreciated his deeds and met Jong and his party that visited Pyongyang

afterwards. He readily accepted their proposals and held Jong high as a pioneer of promoting

inter-Korean economic cooperation.

Patriotic Mind to Be Inherited

Jong Ju Yong, who put his heart and soul into the economic cooperation between the north

and south out of his patriotic mind, died in March 2001 due to a sudden collapse of his health.

Upon receiving the news of his death, Kim Jong Il dispatched a delegation to Seoul to

convey a message of condolence to the Hyundai Group and the bereaved family.

At that time, the south Korean media commented that it was the first of its kind in the history

of Korea after its division, that it was unprecedented in the south to witness such a funeral

reminiscent of that for a head of state, a mourning atmosphere pervading the whole of south

Korea, though the deceased was a head of business conglomerates. They continued that this was

what Honorary Chairman Jong Ju Yong of Hyundai deserved for his course of life for the sake of

national reunification.

When an indoor stadium was newly built on the Pothong River in Pyongyang, Kim Jong Il

named it Ryugyong Jong Ju Yong Indoor Stadium in recognition of his service to the national

reconciliation and economic cooperation.

The Korean leader met on several occasions Chairman Jong Mong Hon who followed his

father in promoting the inter-Korean economic cooperation, and encouraged him to undertake

the work in a daring manner, solving all the problems raised by him. When Jong, who was

devoting himself to the inter-Korean economic cooperation, died unexpectedly, Kim Jong Il

sent a message of condolence to his bereaved family.

He also met Hyon Jong Un, chairperson of the Hyundai Group, on several occasions who

took the road of developing the economic cooperation between the north and south, true to the

will of her husband, and infused her with trust and encouragement to remain faithful to the

undertaking as wished by the deceased.

Hyon Jong Un expressed her profound condolences over the sudden and regretful death of

Kim Jong Il who devoted his all to the reconciliation and cooperation of the Korean nation and

reunification of the country.

She wrote in mourners’ book that the Chairman of the National Defence Commission who

worked hard for national reconciliation and cooperation will be remembered for ever.