Kim Jong Il’s Achievements in Party Building

Kim Jong Il (1942-2011) started work at the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of

Korea on June 19, 1964. For about half a century of leading the WPK, he performed outstanding

feats in Party building.

What is the greatest is that he developed the WPK into a solid integral whole in ideology and

achieved the unity and cohesion in it.

He made sure that the WPK was strengthened and developed, only guided by the Juche idea

created by President Kim Il Sung, founding father of socialist Korea.

The modelling of the whole Party on the Juche idea he put forward in the 1970s marked a

historic event of important significance in strengthening and developing the WPK into the

Juche-type revolutionary party. He made public in March 1982 the classic work On the Juche

Idea, thus comprehensively systematizing the Juche idea and enriching it into the great guiding

ideology for the cause of independence. This also served as another momentum in carrying out

the building and activities of the WPK as required by the Juche idea.

Kim Jong Il developed and enriched the Juche idea without interruption in keeping with the

demand of the times and the developing revolution.

After the demise of Kim Il Sung in July 1994, he held fast to the Juche idea as the guiding

ideology of the Party and thoroughly implemented it. And he developed the Songun idea and line

that rooted in the Juche idea as required by the times, thus formulating a powerful political mode

of socialism, Songun politics, unprecedented in the world.

He constantly put it forward as an important demand of Party building to achieve the unity

and cohesion of the Party.

He ensured that all the Party members were fully armed with the Juche idea and the Party

policies, its embodiment, and never tolerated the heterogeneous ideological trends that were

detrimental to the unity and cohesion of the Party. That’s how the WPK came to achieve the

unity in ideology and purpose and in moral obligation, based on one idea and around one centre,

and display to the fullest its ever-victorious might as the guiding force of the Korean society.

He also saw to it that the WPK stipulated in its rules that the WPK is the eternal party of

Comrade Kim Il Sung and would carry forward the tradition of the unity and cohesion through

generations. It was wholly attributable to the unity and cohesion, the strongest weapon, that the

WPK emerged victorious in the struggle to defend socialism and brought about a radical phase of

building a thriving country in spite of the grim situation created toward the end of the last

century.

That the WPK has developed as a genuine motherly party that serves the people constitutes

another outstanding exploit Kim Jong Il performed in Party building.

He regarded it as the WPK’s aim and mission that it works and exists for realizing the

independence of the masses of the people and it should not only unite them around itself but take

responsible care of them in order to realize their demand for independence and interests. He set it

as an important principle in the Party work method that the Party work is precisely the work with

man and all Party officials should go among the people to lend their ears to them and solve the

problems in their life in time.

He ensured that even a line and a policy were formulated to mirror the people’s will and

intention and never to infringe upon their interests.

Under his leadership the WPK continued to put into effect the universal free medical care and

free compulsory education systems at the end of the last century, too, when Korea was

undergoing the worst hardship and difficulties amid the concentrated anti-socialist offensives of

the imperialists.

The line of building a thriving nation is, in the final analysis, aimed at making people lead a

happy life with nothing to envy in the world by radically improving the people’s standard of

living. To solve the people’s food problem, the coal gasification is introduced into large fertilizer

complexes. Modern fruit farms such as the Taedonggang Combined Fruit Farm with an area of

over 1 000 hectares are built throughout the country, and the fruit processing and foodstuff

factories constructed on a high standard are paying off handsomely. The pig, poultry and fish

farms and solar-heat energy greenhouses are being mushroomed, enriching the people’s dietary

life. Introduction of the cutting-edge technology into the vinalon production lines based on the

domestic raw materials is bringing about changes in fibre and other chemical goods production.

Kim Jong Il paid a special attention to the WPK’s efforts to make the people lead a plentiful

and civilized life to their heart’s content. He continued to give field guidance at the Kaeson

Youth Park, Hana Music Information Centre, Kwangbok Area Supermarket and other places

even in the last days of his life.

Apartment houses in the Masudae area, a dolphinarium, an outdoor ice rink and a health

complex of the latest style are now under construction in Pyongyang. They are the gifts the WPK

presents to the people on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung, as

wished by Kim Jong Il.

Though Kim Jong Il passed away, the WPK venerated him as its eternal General Secretary.

His exploits made in Party building will shine forever along with the ever-victorious WPK.