SPEECH OF KIM JONG UN
AT CONFERENCE OF IDEOLOGICAL WORKERS
Supreme leader Kim Jong Un made a speech "Let
Us Hasten the Final Victory through a Revolutionary Ideological
Offensive!" at the 8th Conference of Ideological Workers of the Workers'
Party of Korea.
The full text of his speech is as follows:
In the meaningful period, when we greeted the 40th
anniversary of the proclaiming by the great Comrade Kim Jong Il of modeling the
whole society on Kimilsungism as the maximum programme of our Party, we are
holding the Eighth Conference of Ideological Workers of the Workers’ Party of
Korea.
Availing myself of this opportunity and in
reflection of the unanimous wish of all the participants in this conference and
all other members of the Party, I pay the noblest tribute to the great
President Kim Il Sung, the founder and builder of the ever-victorious Workers'
Party of Korea, and to the great General Kim Jong Il, the eternal General
Secretary of the Party.
And on the occasion of this conference I extend, in
the name of the First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, warm thanks and
militant greetings to the participants in the conference and all other
ideological workers of the Party and primary information workers across the
country, who have worked devotedly at workplaces and military posts, burning
their hearts as buglers of the revolution and pathfinders of the times.
This conference convened on a scale unprecedented in
the history of our Party will be a milestone of radical turn in exalting
forever the brilliance of the imperishable exploits performed by the great
President and the great General, who, holding the unfurled banner of the Juche
idea, led the Korean revolution straightforward along the road resplendent with
victory, in understanding and confirming once again the importance of
ideological work and launching a vigorous ideological offensive as demanded by
the developing revolution.
The most powerful weapon for a party that wages a
revolution shouldering people's destiny is ideology, and it is its one and only
weapon. Without ideology, a party cannot be founded nor can it exist, and its
work and revolutionary struggle are inconceivable separated from ideological
work. The bloodline of the revolution is defended and the revolution advances
on the strength of ideology.
The one and only weapon for the Korean revolution
that made its start empty-handed was a great revolutionary ideology. The
revolutionaries of Korea rallied comrades and obtained weapons on the strength
of the ideology; and on its strength they defeated imperialist powers and built
a prospering socialism. We cannot see a revolution in the history of any country
and of any party that, like our revolution, made its start with its definite
guiding ideology and has turned ideology into a powerful force for a great
struggle and transformation.
The whole course of the Korean revolution can be
called a history of ideological work to give fullest play to the might of the
truth of the revolutionary ideology of the President and the General. In our
revolution ideological work has always been the most important work, and a
great tradition of ideological work was created in its first days.
Thanks to the wise leadership of the President and
the General, who gave definite priority to ideological work and resolved all
problems by enlisting the mental strength of the masses of the people in the
whole course of their leadership of the Korean revolution, the revolution could
etch only victory in its flag although it blazed the trail of history. By
bringing about high tides in the mental strength of the service personnel and
people, our Party has turned the trials decisive of the victory and defeat of
the revolution and its advance and setback into great upswings of the
revolution, and our revolution has achieved a great success whenever an upswing
was effected in ideological work.
The Third Conference of Ideological Workers of the
Workers' Party of Korea, which was held 40 years ago and where the great
General proclaimed modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism as the maximum
programme of our Party, is of special importance in the history of our Party
that has opened a pivotal phase of the revolution on the strength of ideology.
That the General defined Kimilsungism as the guiding
ideology of our Party and proclaimed modelling the whole society on that
ideology as the maximum programme of our Party was a political event that clearly
indicated the road for bringing the final victory of the Korean revolution
closer and roused all the service personnel and people to achieving it.
The historic advance for modeling the whole society
on Kimilsungism gave birth to a powerful political General Staff that has
achieved oneness in ideology and leadership for the first time in the history
of building a revolutionary party, to invincible revolutionary armed forces
that march with the red flag of the Workers' Party as its first standard and to
militant ranks united single-heartedly.
History clearly shows how a powerful country, which
is independent, self-sufficient and self-reliant in national defence, has been
built on this land where worship of big countries and dogmatism were rooted
deep and a socialist fortress created, which remains unperturbed in the face of
worldwide political upheaval and the imperialists' vicious moves for isolation
and suffocation.
Today mankind is studying the great
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism to search for the road ahead of them. In every place
of the globe the ideology centred on the masses, the revolutionary theory of
independence, has become the spirit and banner of struggle of the people who
aspire after genuine freedom and happiness.
Endless is the glory our service personnel and
people enjoy for having waged the revolution for scores of years along the road
indicated by the great ideology and in the country which is admired by the
whole world and which gave birth to the ideology guiding the era of
independence.
To hasten the final victory of the Korean revolution
keeping up the banner of the great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is their faith and
will and the wish of the times and history.
We must hold aloft modeling the whole society on
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism as the maximum programme of the Party and accomplish
the Korean revolution without fail on the strength of ideology, on the strength
of single-hearted unity.
The standard-bearers in the effort to model the
entire Party and the whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism are ideological
workers. The success of not only the effort to transform all the members of
society into advocates of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism but the effort to transform
all realms of social life as required by Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism depends on
the success of ideological work.
You should ruminate once again on the deep reason
why the General convened the conference of ideological workers and proclaimed
in front of the Party information workers from across the country the programme
of modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism.
We should spark off a struggle on the ideological
front of the Party first and heighten the intensity of ideological work, so as
to remarkably quicken the onward march of our revolution for modeling the whole
society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
We have rich experiences of having forcefully
propelled the historic march for modeling the whole society on Kimilsungism by
dint of an intensive ideological offensive, and powerful forces and means of
information and motivation work with which to stir up the whole country at
once.
To hasten the final victory of the revolution by
holding higher the ideological theory of Juche, a powerful weapon. This is the
main spirit of this conference.
In view of the demands of the reality when modeling
the whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism poses itself as the general task
of the ideological work of our Party, the Party Central Committee advances the
slogan, "Let Us Hasten the Final Victory through a Revolutionary
Ideological Offensive!" before the Eighth Conference of Ideological
Workers of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Firmly believing that all the participants in the
conference and other ideological workers across the Party, aware of their
honour and responsibility as the ideological standard-bearers in the effort to
accomplish the cause of modeling the whole society on
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, will give fullest play to the strength of our
Party's revolutionary ideology and the inexhaustible mental strength of all the
service personnel and people, I would like to speak about some problems arising
in the sector of the Party's ideological work at present.
First of all, we should concentrate all efforts in
the Party's ideological work on firmly establishing the Party's monolithic leadership
system.
The objective of our effort to establish the Party's
monolithic leadership system across the Party and society is to consolidate the
unity and cohesion of the Party, the political General Staff of the revolution,
and its fighting efficiency in all aspects, implement the instructions of the
President and the General to the letter and realize our people's dreams and
ideals at an earlier date.
Now is a crucial period when we have to break
through the ordeals facing the revolution by rallying the service personnel and
people more firmly around the Party and channel their patriotic enthusiasm,
wisdom and resourcefulness to the utmost into stepping up the building of a
thriving country.
The ideological system and leadership system for
carrying out this historic task most scrupulously and perfectly is none other
than the Party's monolithic leadership system.
The ideological work of our Party must naturally
proceed from its basic task in the present period and direct its main effort to
implementing it.
However, Party organizations are now revealing
tendencies of paying only lip service to the work of establishing the Party's
monolithic leadership system and engrossing themselves in paper work in this
regard.
Although a Party-wide discussion of the documents on
establishing the Party's monolithic leadership system was conducted and many
study sessions, public lectures and oath-taking meetings held, they failed to
detect and crush in advance the modern version of factionalist group which had
formed within the Party.
Although there are our Party's great revolutionary
ideology and absolutely correct lines and policies, Party organizations and
excellent people, a factionalist group appeared within the Party again. Our
ideological workers are partly to blame for this.
The identity of the modern version of factionalist
group is that it was an ideologically degenerate entity which was outwardly
overcome with fear for the pressure by the imperialists and inwardly
contaminated with bourgeois ideology and culture.
The factionalist practice of challenging the Party's
monolithic leadership system originates in ideological degeneration, and the
renegades of ideology are bound to oppose the Party and the revolution in the
long run.
Imbuing the Party and revolutionary ranks with one
ideology?this is the seed and core of the effort for establishing the Party's
monolithic leadership system.
The objective of the revolutionary ideological
offensive for establishing the Party's monolithic leadership system is to make
the great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and its embodiment, the Party's lines and
policies, an element of unshakeable conviction of the masses of the people.
The revolutionary ideology of our Party has accorded
with the aspirations and demands of the masses at all times, and there is no
line and policy of the Party which they cannot understand and accept.
A breakthrough should be made in the ideological
offensive by beginning with raising another strong wind across the Party of
studying to be well versed in the immortal works of the President and the
General and the documents of the Party, a library of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
The works and documents are excellent textbooks for
the education in the one and only ideology and a great encyclopaedia which
comprehends our Party's lines and policies.
If they study them in a chronological order and in a
systematic way, all Party members, other working people and service personnel
can equip themselves firmly with the Juche idea, Songun idea, Kim Jong Il's
patriotism, the revolutionary traditions of our Party and class awareness and
fully understand the lines and policies newly advanced by the Party.
What is important is to carry on the education work
in a scrupulous manner so that everybody can be well-versed in the instructions
the President and the General gave to their sectors and units and the Party's
policies and make them a creed in their work and life.
It is necessary to explain to the masses the Party's
policies for a given period in a logical and convincing way so that they can
sympathize with them and accept them as their own by themselves. You should pay
attention to informing people in easy terms of what they are eager to know and
hear on the basis of the Party's policies and in the way you tell a thirsty
person where he or she can drink water.
In the future, if everybody at a unit is as well
informed of the Party's lines and policies as they are of their family affairs,
the unit will be considered to have conducted ideological work efficiently and
established the monolithic leadership system.
"Exceptions" must never be permitted in
ideological work.
As a saying goes that even a rolling stone may
gather moss, one is bound to degenerate when treated exceptionally. There may
be some special tasks assigned by the Party, but "exceptions" cannot
exist within our Party who are allowed to neglect their ideological life and be
ignorant of its lines and policies. As for special units, ideological work
should be strengthened further and they should be made steel-strong in the furnace
of ideological struggle.
Ideological workers should be able to discern
something alien, if any, at a glance at the eyes of others. They must use the
ideological "scalpel" in time to root out the causes of such
misdemeanors as arguing over the issues decided by the Party, undermining its
leadership exploits covertly or overtly and breeding corruption within our
ranks in contravention of our Party's and class principles.
It is important to conduct the work of imbuing the
Party and revolutionary ranks with one ideology in close combination with the
practical struggle.
Man's ideology is expressed in his practice and its
outcome, rather than in his revolutionary rhetoric or pledge. He is a man armed
with the Party's ideology as an element of his faith, who, though seldom
speaking, carries out the plans and decisions of the Party Central Committee on
the schedule set and the level demanded by it.
Endeavouring to implement the ideology of the Party
and champion its policies?this is the clearest manifestation of one's loyalty
to it and an important occasion to have the validity of its lines and policies
as an element of one's faith.
The soldier-builders, who carried out their project
on Masik Pass successfully last year, were determined to wage a death-defying
struggle not to delay even for a moment the completion date proclaimed to the
world by the Party Central Committee; they performed a miraculous feat of
completing the project in one year, which was estimated to take ten, thus
staunchly defending the prestige of the Party.
The on-site political work of the People's Army,
which was a three-dimensional and offensive-style ideological work to inspire
everyone from generals to privates with a single desire of fulfilling their
Supreme Commander's order, serves as a good example in the ideological
offensive to establish the Party's monolithic leadership system.
In implementing the instructions of the President
and the General, the Party's new line of developing the two fronts
simultaneously and its policies, all sectors and all units should make an
ideological analysis and review of their failures and the causes for them. Then
they should press on with the frontline-style information and motivation
campaign to learn from the service personnel's spirit of carrying out their
tasks even at the cost of their lives.
The main targets of the ideological offensive for
establishing the Party's monolithic leadership system are the wrong ideological
viewpoint and work attitude of the officials who give verbal support to the
Party's policies but do not implement them immediately.
It is urgent to combat the ideological maladies of
the officials who remain indifferent to the obstacles lying in the way of
implementation of the Party's policies for their own sectors, units and regions,
as well as to the difficulties facing the people in their living. The
ideological education and campaign aimed at rooting out such undesirable
ideological elements as defeatism, self-preservation, formalism, expediency,
irresponsibility and self-centredness should be conducted with an appropriate
methodology. The information and organization sectors of the Party should be
scrupulous in working in close cooperation with each other, while the
ideological campaign should be combined with legal actions to maximize its
efficiency.
The soaring mental spirit of our service personnel
and people, who, after liquidating the modern version of factionalist group,
have hardened up their determination to follow the Party Central Committee
invariably along the long road of revolution, should be fanned to flare up into
flames of a great revolutionary upsurge.
Historically speaking, great victory was won in the
Fatherland Liberation War after the purge of an anti-Party,
counterrevolutionary factionalist clique following the Fifth Plenary Meeting of
the Party Central Committee; the Chollima upswing was brought about in the
course of eliminating the August 1956 factionalist group; and world-startling
successes were achieved in the showdown with the United States and the
socialist industrialization drive after the anti-Party revisionists were
exposed and purged at the 15th Plenary Meeting of the Fourth Party Central
Committee.
The Party's ideological front should actively
encourage all Party members and other working people to follow in their
forerunners' footsteps and become standard-bearers and meritorious workers in
the struggle to champion the Party Central Committee by bringing about a
revolutionary upsurge.
If all service personnel and people, rallied firmly
around the Party, make substantial progress in socialist construction, those
who are wavering for lack of confidence will be brought to their senses and the
monolithic leadership system of the Party will be established solidly across
the Party and society.
Another important task facing the ideological work
of our Party is to raise a strong wind of ideological campaign to give an
impetus to the struggle for defending socialism.
In the present era, as in the past, socialism
represents the ideals of mankind, and it is an irreversible trend of the times.
We are now following the untrodden path of history
as we risk the dignity of our independent people and the destiny of socialism
in the struggle to repulse the imperialists' frantic attacks. Today the path of
socialism and the inevitability of its victory depend on the struggle of the
Korean revolutionaries.
In performing this honourable mission our Party and
people have assumed for history, ideological workers, the red, hardcore
elements of the Party, should become undying torchlight and loud bugles.
They should give Party members and other working
people a clear understanding of the essence and character of the present
struggle to defend socialism.
In the struggle we waged in defence of socialism in
the 90s of the last century, we created a historic miracle of safeguarding our
ideology and system against the allied imperialist forces' moves to isolate and
stifle our country.
The ongoing struggle to defend socialism can be said
to be aimed at prevailing over imperialism in all fields of social life by
consolidating the victories and successes achieved so far and giving fullest
play to the advantages and might of socialism.
Recently, our Party has put forward both the
agricultural and scientific fronts as outposts for defending socialism. Its
intention is to constantly remind our people that not only on the frontline
where guns are levelled at each other but also in all other places where they
live, they are engaged in invisible, fierce confrontation and competition
against imperialists. If we, resting on our laurels and praising ourselves, do
not give spur to the revolution and construction and thus fail to bring real
benefits to the people, such socialism is doomed to lose its appeal.
We should build a thriving country at an early date
by giving fullest play to the advantages and might of socialism, which
capitalism can never imitate nor possess, so as to make socialism as different
in all respects from capitalism as heaven is from earth.
A vigorous ideological campaign should be launched
to demonstrate the might of great army-people unity on a higher level in
building a thriving country.
The solid single-hearted unity of the army and
people around the Party constitutes the cornerstone of our style of socialism and
the great foundation in building a thriving nation. The eye-opening miracles
which have been wrought recently in succession, shaking the land, mountains and
rivers throughout the country are all fruition born of the great unity between
the service personnel and people, their concerted efforts.
The People’s Army should, in the future, too, be the
prime mover and pioneer in strengthening this great army-people unity. It
should intensify information and motivation work geared to giving full play to
the might of an army strong in ideology both in national defence and socialist
construction. Party organizations and political organs in the army should
ceaselessly create such terms of our era as the "Masikryong speed" by
carrying forward the proud history of the revolutionary army which has proved
with its indomitable revolutionary spirit that Korea's determination is just
its materialization and reality, and civilian Party organizations should
accelerate the work of learning from the revolutionary spirit and fighting
style of the service personnel.
When the time comes when we have to fight an all-out
life-and-death fight with the enemy, we should achieve its final victory on the
strength of the great army-people unity, all-people resistance, based on the
revolutionary soldier spirit.
All sectors and all units should launch a dynamic
ideological offensive so as to make the flames of collective innovations flare
up.
Our people have already gained a valuable experience
of ushering in a heyday in socialist construction through an all-people,
collective innovation movement in the 1970s, a decade of great changes.
In the 1970s when the country was resounding with
the drumbeats of revolution and the bugle sounds for speed campaign, they
brought about grandiose creation and changes unprecedented in the history of
their country, while militarily coping with the large-scale war exercises
staged by the US imperialists. It was during those days that our country
abolished the taxation system for the first time in the world, enforced a
universal 11-year compulsory education and rendered a colossal amount of
assistance to the developing countries and the fighting peoples of the world.
It is the intention of our Party to carry on the
building of an economic giant and a civilized state by bringing into play the
might of socialism, the might of collectivism, as in the 1970s.
The flames of the movement of winning the title of O
Jung Hup-led 7th Regiment and the three-revolution red flag movement should
flare up more fiercely in the military and civilian units, respectively, and
vigorous socialist emulation drives be launched among sectors, units and
regions and by stages: by doing so, we should ensure that a strong wind of
collective competition sweep the whole country.
At present our Party demands that all the military
and civilian sectors create model units and, with them as the initial spark,
kindle the flames of joint innovations. Ideological workers should pay
attention to enlisting the creative zeal and activeness of the masses both in
creating such units that advance ahead of the times and in organizing
competition for overtaking them.
An ideological campaign against the abuse of
authority and bureaucratism should be intensified to make all officials props
that, sharing weal and woe with the masses, unite their collectives and
reliable point-men in the mass innovation movement.
Efforts should be channelled into the information
and motivation work for bringing into full play the spirit of self-reliance
whose might has fully been attested in the severe trials of history.
We can say that the whole history of socialism of
our own style boils down to self-reliance. In the days of building socialism by
their own efforts, our Party and people underwent unprecedented ordeals and
difficulties, but they were loaded with all honours they could not enjoy
through the history of their nation spanning thousands of years. Had we
abandoned the principle of self-reliance succumbing to the pressure by outside
forces, the Juche-oriented socialism would not have been born on the earth and
the name of our country would have suffered eclipse along with the collapse of
the worldwide socialist system. On the track of self-reliance Chollima rose up
on the ruins of war and such a miracle as the birth of a manufacturer and
launcher of an earth satellite and nuclear state was wrought, a miracle of
great significance in the national history.
Ideological workers should intensify education by
means of the history of our socialist construction among officials and working
people to clearly implant in them that self-reliance is the path of building a
thriving nation.
Self-reliance is the spirit of national
self-sustenance and the spirit of going beyond the cutting edge to lead the
whole world with our efforts, with our resources and with our technology. It is
necessary to steadily succeed the fighting spirit with which we made tractor
and electric locomotive from scratch and the spirit with which we conquered
space with our efforts and technology. We should undertake an information and
motivation offensive to ensure that everyone turns out in the campaign to make
everything of our country the assets of socialism that cannot be found
elsewhere in the world, fully conscious that they must go beyond the cutting
edge just in their own posts and workplaces. We should ideologically support
the efforts to make a breach in imperialist manoeuvres to monopolize high
technology, and make advanced science and technology our own.
It is important to actively encourage scientists and
technicians to firmly defend their revolutionary positions in the grand march
of self-reliance which is led by the locomotive, called "science and
technology." Ideological workers should play a great role in creating the
climate of attaching importance to science throughout society and making all
people well-versed in science and technology.
We must launch an information offensive to
ideologically and morally overpower the imperialist reactionary forces who are
trying to stamp out socialism by all means.
Now the imperialists are hell-bent on a smear
campaign to turn black into white and persisting in their attempts to
infiltrate corrupt reactionary ideology and culture into our country with our
service personnel and young people as the target, while clinging to manoeuvres
to apply sanctions against our country and stifle it. Whereas the reactionary
ideology and culture were their guide to aggression in the past, they are
playing a leading part in aggression at present.
The struggle to defend socialism should be an
offensive operation to, outwardly, gain political and ideological upper hand
over the imperialists that hinder our onward movement and, inwardly, sweep up
non-socialist practices and decadent ideology and culture by means of the
revolutionary ideology and culture.
Ideological workers should dishearten the enemy by
launching a skilful anti-enemy media warfare, radio warfare, which is aimed at
giving wide publicity to the validity of our ideology and cause and at laying
bare the vulnerability and foul nature of imperialists. They should make
ideological "missiles" in larger numbers that can deal a heavy blow
at the enemy and instil firm confidence in victory in our service personnel and
people.
They should take the initiative in launching
operations to make the imperialist moves for ideological and cultural
infiltration end in smoke, while putting up "mosquito net" double and
treble to prevent the viruses of capitalist ideology which the enemy is
persistently attempting to spread from infiltrating across our border.
By nature, the working masses reject the bourgeois
ideology and culture which preach the money-is-almighty principle and the law
of jungle. We need to create and propagate larger numbers of wholesome and
revolutionary works of art and literature, articles and presentations of our
own style which contain the beautiful dreams and ideals of the masses and which
brim over with national flavour, so as to make the people turn their backs on
the bourgeois ideology and culture of their own accord. A decisive measure
should be taken to use the Internet as a medium for giving publicity to our
ideology and culture in order to cope with the enemy's moves to widely
propagate their reactionary ideology and culture by misusing the latest
scientific and technological achievements made by mankind.
The sector of ideological work and related units
should work out elaborate plans for putting mass media and external publicity
means on a modern and IT basis and make persevering efforts to carry them out.
The ideological work of the Party should be
conducted in an aggressive manner.
Our Party's strategy and tactics in ideological work
is to make the whole country seethe with a revolutionary leap forward by making
the flames of ideological offensive flare up fiercely in the attack spirit of
advancing against all odds.
The ideological position of our Party should be
arranged in the form for attack, not for defence.
We should also conduct the ideological education
aimed at imbuing the whole society with the red ideology of the Workers' Party
in a proactive way, the political work aimed at calling forth the mental
strength of all the service personnel and people as it is done on the frontline
and the struggle to sweep away all shades of evil ideas and spirits at a lightning
speed.
In order to conduct ideological work in an
aggressive manner, it is necessary, above all, to root out the defeatist view
revealed among ideological workers.
The ideological workers infected with such a view
cannot take even a single step by themselves even if they are put forward in
the van of the ideological offensive.
The "Yongil bomb spirit" created in the
forest of Mt. Paektu and the do-or-die resistance spirit of Xiaowangqing and
Chechangzi were not produced in ordinary days, and the legend of Chollima, the
miracles of the speed campaign, the revolutionary soldier spirit and the
Kanggye spirit were not born under more favourable circumstances than in the
present days.
Comrades,
Defeatism in ideological work is more dangerous than
that in economic work. The present ideological offensive must start with
ridding ideological workers of defeatism.
Those engaged in ideological work in the birthplace
of the Juche idea must not wait for a miracle to be wrought, but go
purposefully amongst people carrying the weapon of ideology and become active
doers and devoted creators who find solutions with them.
The posts of national defence, factories, farm
villages and other places where you are working bear the imprints of examples
of outstanding art of leadership set by the peerlessly great men who found in
the simple opinions of the service personnel and people the best method of
turning misfortune into a blessing and adversity into prosperity.
If you work with the history of revolutionary
leadership of the President and the General as a textbook, you will find
nothing you cannot understand and overcome in your work, and our Party's
ideological work become literally an initial spark for kindling the flames of a
leap forward.
In order to ensure a revolutionary ideological
offensive a success, we should open the gunfire of an ideological campaign and
fire the shells concentratedly, successively and at the right targets.
First of all, by enlisting all the forces and means
already provided for information and motivational purposes, you should conduct
ideological work in a flexible and intensive way.
When the Party puts forward a new line or policy,
all the networks of education, public lecture and motivation work and mass
media should be mobilized promptly to inform all the people, ranging from
officials at the central organs to farmers in remote, mountainous villages, of
it. The contents, forms, means and methods of ideological work should, to all
intents and purposes, be geared and subordinated to carrying out revolutionary
tasks. The forces and means for information and motivation work should be
concentrated on the projects the Party attaches importance to, thus strongly
beating the drum for kindling the fire of a fresh leap forward.
Ideological work should also ensure that all shades
of evil ideas and spirits never make inroads into our ranks by giving
uninterrupted publicity to the Party's intentions and leading a continuous
advance of the ideological struggle.
It can be likened to removing falling snow on the
runway by snow blower to prevent it from piling up. Ideological work should be
conducted not like a flash in the pan and in the way a ceremony is held, but in
a regular way regardless of time and place so that people can imbibe the
Party's ideas the way they breathe air. An ideological campaign should be
conducted without letup and intensively to sweep away alien ideological trends
and lifestyles. To be strictly guarded against here is the repetition of the
stereotyped speech and method.
It is also important to select the right targets of
the ideological offensive based on an understanding of their preparedness,
characteristics and ideological tendencies, and apply appropriate means and
methods.
President Kim Il Sung already said that work with
people should be conducted in the way a mother does, as she uses different
words when teaching her eldest son and youngest son though they are of the same
blood. If the employees of their units number ten thousand, ideological workers
should know the inner thought of each of them like their own palms and work
with them with ten thousand methods.
The road of our revolution is not smooth, and every
revolutionary front requires genuine and well-qualified ideological workers who
have cherished the staunch revolutionary spirit in their hearts.
In fact, the forces of our Party’s information
workers and primary information workers enrolled in the networks of education,
public lecture and motivation work are great. If they, numbering tens of
thousands, are well prepared, we can form an elite corps and if we have such a
contingency, we will have nothing to be afraid of and out of reach of our
strength.
Of his revolutionary soldiers, the great General
treasured and loved most dearly those who are defending the ideological front,
and led and encouraged them at every step, saying that a film or an article is
as powerful as several thousand tons of food grain or tens of thousands of gun
shells.
The ideological workers of our Party have assumed a
heavy task.
Each of them should become a person strong in ideas
and faith, whom the enemy fear more than they do the forces of a division or a
corps.
Although simple and modest in appearance they always
burn their hearts with the Party's intentions and are enthusiastic for the
revolution and struggle?this is the feature our Party thinks ideal for
information workers. Ideological workers should be true revolutionaries who
never give up the Party's principle of ideological work in any adversity. They
should have the passion of covering long distance in one night to inform people
of the Party's intentions and burning the midnight oil for several days to
study the Party's policies and learn knowledge and technology.
Having a proper outlook on people is a vital
requirement for ideological workers who have to make them open their minds.
The information workers of our Party should be true
sons and daughters of people who learn from the latter before teaching them and
highly appreciate their efforts. To this end, they should remember first
whenever they approach them that they stand before the great people whom the
President and the General believed as in heaven and regarded as their teachers
all their lives.
Love and respect for the labouring people emanate
from the spirit of loving labour. Our officials should mingle with the masses,
their hands stained with grease and their shoes with earth, and be proud of it.
The President and the General performed great
exploits for people all their lives, but left nothing for themselves.
Regarding the ideas and trust of the Party as the
wealth of their lives, ideological workers should find the worth of living in
informing as many persons as possible of the Party's policies and having
collective innovations brought about at the units under their charge. A genuine
ideological worker is the person who values more than nuggets of gold the
excitement he or she feels when people are eager anytime to be informed of the
Party's intentions and when they support the Party's policies with all their
hearts.
When the Party's intentions are informed and
revolutionary songs and hurrah for the Workers' Party and socialism resound
wherever our Party's ideological workers go, it will be a great encouragement
to the Party.
The entire Party should become information and
motivation workers, and all officials should conduct political work.
Whether they are Party, administrative, economic or
primary officials, they should hold it as the main key to motivate the mental
strength of the masses, and direct due efforts to it. In particular, chief secretaries
of provincial, city and county Party committees and senior Party officials of
all sectors and all units should put the ideological work under their personal
control and conduct it with all sincerity and with much effort.
In the 1970s all the officials, under the leadership
of the Party, used to go down to their subordinate units with rucksacks on
their backs like the anti-Japanese guerrillas had done, rouse people as
required by the Chongsan-ri spirit and Chongsan-ri method and bring about
innovations. This vibrant spirit should prevail throughout the country.
Comrades,
The revolutionary task facing us are enormous and
the situation remains as severe as ever. However, we should leap forward to
bring the future closer and make a ceaseless advance while struggling.
As soon as you leave the venue of this conference,
you should go amongst the service personnel and people to inform them of the
intention of the Party Central Committee and take up the starting positions of
ideological offensive with a fresh determination.
I stress once again: The more vibrantly the
ideological front seethes, the more fully the mental strength of the masses
will be demonstrated, and the more the service personnel and people are roused,
the faster the revolution will advance.
I firmly believe that all our ideological workers,
including the participants in this conference, will become political workers of
the type of the great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and make the whole
country seethe and transform the entire army along revolutionary lines, thus
hastening the final victory.
