Pyongyang,
May 28 (KCNA)--The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sent a letter "Let Us
Open a New Era of Rejuvenation of Chongryon by Enlisting the Inexhaustible
Strength of the Compatriots of Various Social Strata" to those attending
the 25th Congress of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan
(Chongryon) on May 28.
The
full text of the letter is as follows:
I
feel it happy that the 25th Congress of Chongryon (General Association of
Korean Residents in Japan) has been convened in this meaningful year, when we
celebrated the 110th anniversary of the birth of the great leader Comrade Kim
Il Sung and the 80th anniversary of the birth of the great leader Comrade Kim
Jong Il as auspicious revolutionary events, as the greatest political festivals
of our nation.
On
the occasion of the 25th Congress of Chongryon, which has opened amid the great
interest and expectation at home and abroad in the stirring period when the
dignity and powerful strength of Juche Korea are being demonstrated all over
the world, I extend, along with the hearts of the great Comrades Kim Il Sung
and Kim Jong Il, warmest congratulations and greetings to the participants in
the congress and all other officials of Chongryon and compatriots in Japan.
In
strengthening Chongryon, a dignified organization of the overseas citizens of
our Republic, and developing the movement of Koreans in Japan on a steady
upward track, the role of the congress, the highest decision- making body of
Chongryon, is very important.
To
look back, the long course Chongryon has traversed up to now since the day of
its formation, when the movement of Koreans in Japan rooted in Paektu, the
sacred mountain of the revolution, was firmly put into the Juche-oriented
orbit, is proudly recorded with its congresses that constituted watersheds of
inheritance and innovation, advance and leap forward.
Whenever
the congresses of Chongryon were held, the great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim
Jong Il, founders and builders of Chongryon, would send letters of
congratulation, clarifying the road ahead of the movement of Koreans in Japan
and blessing the happy future of the compatriots in Japan.
True
to their idea of the Juche-based overseas compatriots' movement and their
guidance, officials of Chongryon and other compatriots in Japan have climbed a
"high mountain" of the cause of patriotism whenever a congress has
been held while overcoming all sorts of difficulties in an alien land.
The
whole historical course traversed by Chongryon and the movement of Koreans in
Japan was a continuation of a march against all odds, but the past four years
since the 24th Congress was a period of harsh trials, when all the compatriots
had to experience too much difficulties owing to the aggravated anti-DPRK and
anti-Chongryon manoeuvrings by the hostile forces and the global spread of the
epidemic disease.
However,
in the face of manifold indescribable difficulties the officials of Chongryon
and other compatriots in Japan kept step with their socialist homeland,
achieving remarkable victory in every theatre of struggle where a new golden
age is being ushered in the movement of Koreans in Japan.
Even
in the protracted circumstances in which their visits to their homeland were
suspended, the compatriots in Japan have dedicated their devotion for their
homeland and nation, demonstrating their original features. Witnessing this
ennobling spiritual world, the people in the homeland gained great strength and
realized more keenly how precious Chongryon, a patriotic legacy of
the
great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, is.
I
pay a high tribute to the officials of the elder generations of Chongryon,
including Comrades Han Tok Su, Ri Jin Gyu, So Man Sul, Ri Kye Baek and the
other sung and unsung compatriots of the first generation, who devoted their
all for the reunification and development of their homeland and victorious
advance of the movement of Koreans in Japan in the unprecedentedly harsh
previous decades.
And
I extend thanks to all the officials of Chongryon and other compatriots in
Japan who are devoting their pure conscience and sense of obligation on the
sacred road of opening an era of a new upsurge of the movement of Koreans in
Japan without claiming any fame and reward and by stoutly overcoming all the
difficulties in the alien land with their lot cast in with their homeland.
Availing
myself of this opportunity, on behalf of the Workers' Party of Korea, the
government of the DPRK and on my own, I extend warm gratitude to the personages
of conscience and other Japanese peace-loving people and diplomatic envoys of
different countries in Japan, who are rendering active encouragement to
Chongryon and the Koreans resident in Japan in their righteous struggle.
Chongryon
and the movement of Koreans in Japan made a great leap forward in the struggle
of last ten-odd years for ushering in a new heyday for themselves, and have
developed from the stage of being defended and preserved to an era of
comprehensive development for a higher goal.
The
current congress held at this juncture will constitute a gathering of great
significance in accelerating the patriotic advance for accomplishing the
far-reaching ambition and ideal of building a powerful Chongryon.
The
basic task of Chongryon in this period is to open wider the new era of
prosperity of the movement of Koreans in Japan, a new era of its rejuvenation,
by pooling the efforts of the compatriots of all walks of life.
The
inexhaustible strength of the compatriots, who are rallied behind a great
ideology and by the bonds of kinship, is a guarantee for the eternal victory of
Chongryon and the movement of Koreans in Japan.
This
is an absolute truth proved by the history of Chongryon and the movement of
Koreans in Japan, as well as a proud review of the work of the 24th Central
Standing Committee of Chongryon.
Chongryon
should victoriously usher in a new era of its rejuvenation by enlisting its one
and only driving force, the inexhaustible strength of the broad sections of the
compatriots, who are burning their hearts with patriotism.
The
first task facing Chongryon is to orient all its activities to the fellow-
compatriots-first principle and pursue it as its invariable principle.
This
principle is an embodiment of the great Juche idea, the people-first principle,
in the practical movement of Koreans in Japan.
Chongryon,
guided by the Juche idea, should develop as an organization governed by this
principle and advance holding aloft this slogan.
As
a champion and advocate of the democratic national rights and interests of the
Koreans resident in Japan, Chongryon organizations, affiliates and other bodies
at all levels should always give priority to the struggle to defend and expand
their rights to independence, existence and development.
Always
keeping in mind the wish of the first generation of Chongryon who set it up and
defended the places of learning for the children of the fellow compatriots at
the cost of their blood and sweat, Chongryon officials and other compatriots in
Japan should launch a stronger campaign to defend their rights to education,
business and livelihood.
Chongryon
organizations and their affiliates at all levels should adopt a thoroughgoing
approach to the matter of defending the rights of the compatriots, regarding it
as an essential task in safeguarding the achievements gained in the patriotic
effort, and further expand the realm of the mass movement for the rights and
interests of the compatriots.
Chongryon
should also launch an intense struggle to make the Japanese authorities revoke
their unjust measures of checking the visits to the homeland by the Koreans in
Japan, including the Deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK.
The
government of our Republic will, in the future, too, take thoroughgoing state
measures to defend and provide their democratic national rights and interests
in line with the law on defending the rights and interests of the overseas
Koreans, and implement one special measure after another to guarantee their
rights to independence, existence and development.
Organizations,
affiliates and other bodies at all levels of Chongryon should, with ardent
feeling of kinship, devote all their efforts also to service and welfare
activities for promoting convenience in the life of the compatriots.
It
is my sincere feeling to have all the wealth of the country spent for our
priceless compatriots in Japan, true to the intention of the great Comrades Kim
Il Sung and Kim Jong Il who, always mindful of overseas compatriots, bestowed
all affection and benevolence on them.
In
waging all undertakings and activities, Chongryon should give top and absolute
priority to the demands, interests and convenience of the compatriots and
conduct the service and welfare activities closely related to their life. In
this course it can raise their confidence in its organizations and remarkably
expand its mass basis.
It
should run the life consultation offices on a regular basis and solve with all
sincerity their demands related with marriage, job-seeking and the problems of
the elderly and disabled persons.
It
should go deeper and more frequently among the compatriots the harder the times
are, so that the community of Koreans brims over with the beautiful trait of
helping one another displaying tenderness and human feeling.
It
should focus an all-out effort on protecting and taking care of the lives and
health of the compatriots.
No
undertaking is more crucial and important than to safely protect the lives,
health and homes of the compatriots in Japan which is prone to earthquake,
tsunami and typhoon.
Chongryon
should investigate the resistance against earthquake by the institutes and
schools of various levels and houses of compatriots and take relevant measures.
And it should concern itself more with and pay special heed to the compatriots
living in the areas vulnerable to natural disasters. In this way it can ensure
that not a single compatriot suffers a misfortune.
Although
the community of Koreans has not sustained a huge loss from the global pandemic
thanks to its preemptive measures and painstaking efforts, Chongryon should
never rest content or relax but continue to direct strenuous efforts to the
safety of compatriots, so that every one of them is healthy and free from
illness.
The
second task facing Chongryon is to develop its democratic national education
into one which can shoulder the future of the movement of the Koreans in Japan
and to which the compatriots can readily entrust their children.
Democratic
national education is the lifeline of Chongryon and the movement of the Koreans
in Japan and a patriotic undertaking of ever- lasting value on which the
existence and future of the community of Koreans in Japan depend.
Therefore,
the democratic national education of Chongryon should focus, to all intents and
purposes, on imparting a correct understanding of their leader, homeland and
nation to the compatriots.
To
this end, Chongryon should channel a primary effort into turning the ranks of
educationists into those of career revolutionaries who can take responsibility
for the future of its patriotic cause.
The
Union of Korean Teachers in Japan should provide substantial guidance and
assistance to all the teachers with the focus put on arming them firmly with
the policy of making a revolution in education in the new era and improving
their qualifications and abilities as educationists.
The
educationists of Chongryon should, mindful of their unique pride and mission in
taking responsibility for the future of the movement of the Koreans in Japan,
lead others in ushering in an era of efflorescence of national education.
They
should establish the Juche orientation firmly in national education and
constantly renovate the contents and methods of education in line with the
global trend of the development of education.
While
giving definite precedence to politico-ideological education and education in
national identity, schools at all levels should further improve the contents of
education in the direction of teaching the compatriots the knowledge and skills
essential to their work and life.
They
should proactively create new teaching methods and various methods of
extracurricular education that conform to the ages and psychological features
of the students, and share them with one another.
Chongryon
should decisively increase the number of students of its schools of various
levels.
All
its organizations should buckle down and guide the work of recruiting students
and enrolling them at Korean University in a responsible manner, and at the
same time pay close attention to increasing the number of children at our
kindergartens and running and expanding the para-regular education network.
The
Korean Educationists Association in Japan and its other organizations,
affiliates and other bodies at all levels should stake national pride and make
strenuous efforts to create for the children of compatriots educational
conditions and environment which are no inferior to others.
By
regarding national education as the top priority of their patriotic
undertakings and consistently conducting the movement of taking loving care of
and helping schools, not only the Mothers' Society and Fathers' Society but
also all the organizations under Chongryon should ensure that the validity and
vitality of national education are fully demonstrated.
It
is important to further improve the work of Korean University, in particular.
Korean
University is the highest institute of democratic national education and the
sole university of overseas people in the world, which the great Comrades Kim
Il Sung and Kim Jong Il established and valued so dearly.
It
should bring up more and better dependable hard-core persons who can shoulder
the future of Chongryon's patriotic cause, thereby firmly guaranteeing the
future of the movement of Koreans in Japan.
No
matter where they work and at what, Chongryon officials and other compatriots
should cherish the university in their minds and give active material and
spiritual assistance to the work of training successors to Chongryon.
The
third task facing Chongryon is to raise a strong wind of preserving the
national identity of the Korean community in Japan.
The
people at home should be strong in national identity, but it is all the more so
with overseas compatriots.
The
first criterion for characterizing a nation is its lineage and the second one is
language.
For
the compatriots living in an alien land far away from their motherland, the
true feature as a patriot finds expression in safeguarding the lineage of the
nation and the time of speaking their mother tongue is the time when they live
a patriotic life.
Mindful
of the fact that encouraging the compatriots to enjoy using our language, both
written and spoken, which is a means of linking the ties of kinship among them,
is the starting point, the first step, of preserving their national identity, Chongryon
should ensure that our beautiful and excellent language resounds in its
organizations, affiliates, schools, homes and all other places across the
Korean community.
It
should also pay close attention to ensuring the excellent traditions, culture
and customs of our nation are continuously inherited.
The
publishing and information institutes of Chongryon should not spare time and
space in giving publicity to the time-honoured history, brilliant cultural
legacy, homogeneous lineage and ennobling manners and customs of our nation.
The
younger generations of Chongryon should be encouraged to carry on the strong
temperament and good manners and customs of the Korean nation in their pure
form. By doing so, they can maintain the strong sense of unity and pioneering
as well as hatred for injustice, while respecting their elders, promoting
harmony in their neighbourhoods and taking loving care of their parents and
spouses and children.
It
is necessary positively to encourage the families to prepare national foods on
traditional holidays and help our schools to give their students good lessons
on how to make Korean garments and dishes, particularly kimchi, while
stimulating the operation of national music and dance circles.
The
compatriots should be encouraged to love our traditional costumes and enjoy
wearing them.
Chima
and jogori (traditional Korean skirt and jacket) stand for the symbol of our
nation, which signals the Korean nationality overseas even without any national
flag on it.
It
should be made one of good traits and practices in the Korean community for
women and girl students of our schools to wear chima and jogori.
Chongryon
should conduct a more intense campaign, involving all its organizations and all
the compatriots, to preserve their national identity so that the Koreans in
Japan will continue to be under the limelight as the reflection of Korea, as
the face of our nation, who are never assimilated by foreign culture even if
they live in an alien land through generations.
The
fourth task facing Chongryon is to render a unique contribution to the effort
for independent reunification of the country and its socialist construction as
required by the era of the our-state-first principle.
This
is a new era of self-respect and prosperity, when our Republic has put the
nation's dignity and position up to an unprecedentedly high level by overcoming
every manner of challenge of history.
Cherishing
the pride and honour of being DPRK citizens living in this era, Chongryon
organizations at all levels and compatriots in Japan should turn out in the
patriotic effort for national reunification and comprehensive development of
their homeland.
National
reunification is the supreme task of the nation that brooks no further delay;
it is the most important patriotic undertaking for Chongryon and the
compatriots in Japan.
Chongryon's
engagement in the effort for national reunification is, in essence, a sacred
patriotic struggle to support and implement the one- Korea line which the great
Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il put forth and pursued.
Chongryon
and the compatriots in Japan should offer positive support for the national
reunification lines and policies of our Party and the government of our
Republic and give wide publicity to them.
It
should improve the effort for unity with the compatriots, who are living
outside its organizations, including those of Mindan (Federation of Koreans
Resident in Japan), under the banner of great national unity so as to build up
the patriotic forces for reunification and conduct energetic joint actions and
struggle with them.
By
forging close national ties and contacts with organizations of our compatriots
overseas, it should assume and play the role of the main axis overseas in
shaping a pan-national united front.
It
should give active support and encouragement to the south Korean people in
their righteous struggle for independence, democracy and national reunification,
while waging a strenuous struggle to denounce and foil the separatist schemes
of the United States and the south Korean belligerents.
At
the moment our country has entered the period of comprehensive development of
its socialist construction.
It
is the proud reality of our country that it is transforming itself day and
month.
Chongryon
and the compatriots in Japan should staunchly defend their socialist homeland
and make a tangible contribution to the building of a civilized and prosperous
country.
The
Koreans resident in Japan should always live with the affection of their
homeland even if they live in the alien land, and prepare themselves as
absolute supporters and stout champions of their socialist homeland.
Over
the protracted period from the beginning of nation building to date our people
have been cornerstones and beams in the building of our Republic. Among the
images of these indomitable people are also those of the compatriots in Japan.
Chongryon
and the compatriots in Japan should offer characteristic services for the
building of a powerful socialist country by carrying on the proud tradition of
contributing to the country's prosperity.
Chongryon
should work positively to create a favourable international environment for the
revolutionary cause of Juche and the patriotic cause of its own.
The
main task facing Chongryon in its foreign activities at the moment is to ensure
peace and stability of its own and the community of the Koreans resident in
Japan by steadily increasing the number of our supporters and sympathizers
among the peoples of different countries of the world, including Japan, under
the ideals of independence, peace and friendship.
It
should work with personages from different strata of Japan in a flexible manner
and adopt a more scrupulous way in working with the democratic forces and
solidarity organizations that support our nation's reunification. In this way
it can steadily increase the number of supporters of and sympathizers with our
Republic and Chongryon among broader sections of the Japanese people.
Chongryon
organizations and other bodies at all levels should pay due attention to the
external activities in their regions to ensure that the local autonomous bodies
actively support and cooperate with the activities of Chongryon for championing
the democratic national rights and interests of the compatriots in Japan.
Chongryon
should carefully conduct activities with foreign missions in Japan and actively
advance to the international arena to staunchly defend the national interests
of our Republic and make sure that the voices of support and approval for the
patriotic activities of the Chongryon organization and compatriots in Japan are
amplified.
In
order to successfully carry out the important fighting tasks to usher in a new
era of its rejuvenation, it should further strengthen itself organizationally
and ideologically in line with the requirements of the changed environment and
times.
First
of all, it should hold fast to the ideological theory of Juche and put primary
effort to the ideological education for doubling the motive force of advance of
the movement of Koreans in Japan.
The
only shortcut to the new era of Chongryon's rejuvenation is to move compatriots
in one direction and enlist their spiritual strength to the maximum.
Education
in the greatness of Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, education in
patriotism, education in the Korean-nation-first spirit, education in the
history and tradition of the movement of Koreans in Japan and education in the
revolutionary faith constitute the main contents of the ideological work of
Chongryon.
Chongryon
should further intensify education in the greatness of Comrades Kim Il Sung and
Kim Jong Il among the compatriots including the new generations so that their
immortal ideas and history of their benevolent love would go down generation
after generation even in the alien land far away from their homeland.
Ideological
education should be provided effectively without neglecting any element of its
contents; education in
the
greatness of Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il should be offered together
with education in patriotism and the revolutionary faith, and education in the
Korean-nation-first spirit should be conducted together with the education in
the history and traditions of the movement of Koreans in Japan.
It
is particularly important to give education in patriotism effectively in close
combination with the state-first principle.
Chongryon
organizations and bodies at all levels should make it a tradition to hold the
national flag hoisting ceremony as suited to their specific conditions on such
occasions as the greatest national holidays, the anniversary of the founding of
the Republic and that of Chongryon.
Schools
at all levels should also intensify education in the symbols of our state and
offer students opportunities to hoist the national flag by themselves while
singing Patriotic Song on various occasions including the entrance and
graduation ceremonies so that they always link their precious dreams with the
socialist motherland.
There
can never be any fixed methods or omnipotent formula in the information and
cultural activities of Chongryon, which are conducted in capitalist Japan.
Chongryon
should root out formalism in its ideological work and continuously explore and
apply methods of education, which the compatriots respond to and which they
sympathize with.
It
is important to steadily enhance the capability of penetration and attraction
of publications and other information materials.
The
Joson Sinbo Company and the Korean News Service should work to promptly inform
more of the compatriots of news about the homeland and the compatriots in Japan
through newspaper and website and spread our culture uninterruptedly.
The
Union of Korean Writers and Artists in Japan, the Kumgangsan Opera Troupe and
other institutions and art organizations in charge of information and culture
should further enhance their functions and role, and local song and dance
troupes should give performances and vigorously conduct all kinds of literary
and artistic group activities to make the Korean community alive with our
songs, our tunes and our dances.
Next,
the Chongryon Central Standing Committee, its organizations, affiliates and
bodies at all levels should be consolidated as firmly as a fortress of
single-minded unity and reliable citadel stones of patriotism.
This
means making Chongryon an impregnable fortress that resolutely defends the
socialist homeland and the life and happiness of compatriots from any external
attack and abuse.
It
is imperative to improve the leadership abilities of the Central Standing
Committee of Chongryon, the general staff of the movement of Koreans in Japan,
in every way.
The
committee should adhere to it as its lifeblood to establish the Juche- based
ideological and leadership system in itself and organize and conduct all work
and activities strictly according to the lifetime instructions of the great
Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
It
should intensify policy-oriented guidance over its organizations, affiliates
and bodies at all levels and direct particular efforts to its internal work to
promote the single-minded unity of its ranks and ensure that the lineage of its
hardcore is carried on generation after generation.
Its
prefectural headquarters should steadily raise their own organizing,
controlling and executive abilities.
They
are regional guidance units for the movement of Koreans in Japan and regional
assistant units of the Central Standing Committee of Chongryon.
They
should establish a more effective system of work with their subordinate units
and lead and help them on a regular basis so as to make sure that the decisions
and instructions of the Central Standing Committee bear good fruit.
The
work to reduce regional variations of the headquarters should be conducted
purposefully and consciously to create a new situation in which small and
medium-scale headquarters rise up and exert their full strength.
They
should hold fast to the idea of attaching importance to branches and chapters,
and develop and strengthen all the grassroots organizations into living ones
that fully display the spirit of love for the country and nation.
The
branches should be turned into those firmly based on the compatriots of all
social standings, the ones that are run by hard-core compatriots as the driving
force.
They
should further increase their activity by positively enlisting part- time
officials and conduct an emulation drive among themselves in a sustained way so
that all of them can perform their mission as the units that actually implement
the decisions of the congress.
Only
when the chapter, the basic unit of living and lowest-echelon organization of
the compatriots, demonstrates its strength can all the organizations of
Chongryon be strengthened and everything can go smoothly in the compatriots'
community.
The
most ideal target of chapter building is to turn it into a harmonious
compatriots' community, in which everyone is firmly united based on the great
truth, sharing warm human feeling.
Chongryon
should attach importance to the conference of chapters as much as its congress,
and intensify the work of raising the political awareness of their officials so
as to turn all the chapters into sound and vigorous organizations.
All
the chapters should constantly adhere to the four major tasks for strengthening
themselves, and consistently wage the patriotic creative movement so that all
parts where the compatriots live are continuously afire with enthusiasm for
harmony and unity and love for the country and nation.
It
is also necessary to further increase the fighting efficiency of Chongryon's
mass organizations of all strata.
The
prosperity of Chongryon and thriving community of compatriots are inconceivable
separated from the deep sincerity and patriotism of the Korean businesspeople,
young people and women who unstintingly dedicate all their precious things
solely for the sake of their country and nation, despite the heavy burden of
their own trade and support for their own existence in capitalist Japan.
The
mass organizations of Chongryon, always being conscious of their duty as those
for ideological education, should lead all their members to steadily carry on
the ennobling spirit displayed by the preceding generations and conduct
vigorous mass drives that reflect the aspirations and demands of compatriots,
and in the course of this build up their own ranks in every way possible.
Korean
businesspeople were and are invariably basic sections of the masses under
Chongryon and the main force in the movement of Koreans in Japan.
The
Federation of Commerce of Korean Men in Japan and other economic organizations
should take positive measures to protect and reenergize the enterprises of the
Korean businesspeople and sensitively grasp the global trend in economic
development and raise the level of specialization so as to help make the
compatriots' business activities profitable.
The
Association of Korean Young Men of Commerce in Japan was formed by General Kim
Jong Il and is the reserve of the main force of the movement of Koreans in
Japan comprising young businesspeople and the generation of students' parents.
The
association should uphold as the basic seed, the eternal theme, of its movement
the slogans "For an affluent community of compatriots!" and "For
the future of the flower buds!" it put forward in the days of its
formation.
It
should bear in mind every minute and every second that the bright and cheerful
looks of Korean schoolchildren in Japan who go to Korean schools in new
uniforms reflect the future of Chongryon, and keep taking the lead in
supporting national education.
Young
people should naturally hold up the banner of vanguard and shock brigade in the
honourable advance towards a new era of rejuvenation of Chongryon.
The
Korean Youth League in Japan should vigorously conduct various mass movements
that suit the psychology of young compatriots with stress put on enhancing the
independence and individuality of its organizations at all levels so as to make
the community of compatriots replete with youthful enthusiasm, the spirit of
the new generation.
The
Union of Korean Students in Japan, too, should steadily conduct the work with
Korean students attending Japanese universities so as to lead them to live with
the soul of Korea, the spirit of the nation.
The
Union of Democratic Korean Women in Japan is the largest mass organization
under Chongryon, which represents the rights and interests of all the Korean
women resident in Japan.
The
first teachers who implant the feeling of love for the country and foster
national dignity in the Korean children in Japan are just the women
compatriots, and the gardeners who tend the flower garden of national education
with greatest care to defend the beautiful dreams of Korean children are also
none other than them.
Women's
union organizations at all levels should conduct all patriotic activities with
our schools as the bases and contribute a large share to making the community
of our compatriots in Japan a large harmonious family with a strong national
character and full of animation.
The
women's union should positively put forward young women who have been trained
in the practical patriotic work to make them push one of the two wheels of the
movement of Koreans in Japan staunchly through generations.
Next,
a radical change should be effected in the method and style of work of
Chongryon officials, the commanding personnel of the movement of Koreans in
Japan.
Chongryon
officials are career political workers who embarked on the road of patriotism
by shouldering the destiny of their compatriots of their own accord and
overseas revolutionary comrades that our motherland treasures most and pays
high tribute to.
Our
motherland has fully entrusted them with the dignity and destiny of Koreans in
Japan, and expects that all its officials would perform the mission and duty
assigned by the country and nation with an extraordinary resolution and
passion.
All
the officials of Chongryon should put much effort into the work with
compatriots from all walks of life and do it well with a correct mass
viewpoint.
They
should regard the masses of compatriots as the most precious and powerful
beings, hold them as sacred as God, always go deep among them and work by
relying on them with a belief in their strength.
They
should make a habit of seeking solutions to problems as they sit knee to knee
with compatriots as if they discuss family affairs with their kith and kin while
always finding themselves among the fellow countrymen, and of settling all
affairs by enlisting their spiritual strength.
They
should understand the feelings of the compatriots in the areas under their
control and find out methods of work appropriate to them so as to conduct the
work with them in a novel way.
They
should hold their compatriots in great esteem, and should never deviate from
their original aim as they reflect on themselves by mirroring themselves on the
masses of the fellow countrymen.
All
the officials of Chongryon should hold higher the slogan "Let us make
selfless, devoted efforts for the good of compatriots!" and become sincere
and industrious servants who give all their soul and mind to the happy life and
welfare of compatriots.
The
burning love for and devotion to the compatriots and the warm affection shared
between the officials and compatriots are just the strength of Chongryon.
Its
officials should not make light of any one of the demands of the compatriots,
even if they number a hundred or a thousand, and should constantly strive to
meet all their demands at the highest possible level.
They
should become filial children for the compatriots who are living a lonely life,
intimate siblings to those who are suffering distress in life, a breeze to
those who are feeling hot and a campfire to those who are feeling cold.
They
should care more for compatriots in difficulty, go nearer to those with a
warped mind to address what makes their life uncomfortable and relieve them of
ill feelings, and lead them along the road of love for the country and nation,
embracing all the fellow countrymen with great personality and remarkable
magnanimity.
All
the officials of Chongryon should keep deep in mind the earnest request of the
homeland which is eager to realize all the dreams and ideals of our
compatriots, and dash forward more vigorously towards a fresh victory in the
movement of Koreans in Japan with the warmest love for the compatriots and the
spirit of devoted service for them.
It
is the eternal policy of our Republic to attach importance to Chongryon and
overseas compatriots.
Our
Party and the government of the Republic will hold dearest and protect in every
way Chongryon, the legacy of love for the country left by the great Comrades
Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, and devote special affection to it so as to make
the song Love of the Homeland Is Warm reverberate forever along with the
history of the Juche-oriented movement of overseas Koreans.
Firmly
believing that all the participants in the 25th Congress of Chongryon would
work with redoubled courage for our precious compatriots and our dear younger generations,
by following the brilliant plan for the rejuvenation of Chongryon, I hope that
the congress will become a milestone for a great change in advancing towards a
higher goal of a new heyday in the movement of Koreans in Japan.
