Kim
Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the
National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean
People's Army, made a speech at the military parade and public procession of
Pyongyang citizens held on Saturday in celebration of the 70th anniversary of
founding of the WPK.
The
following is its full text:
Heroic
officers and men of the Korean People's Army and the Korean People's Internal
Security Forces, Officers and men of the units participating in the military
parade held in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the
glorious Workers' Party of Korea,
Members
of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and Young Red Guards,
Respected
Pyongyang citizens,
Party
members and other working people across the country,
Overseas
compatriots and foreign friends,
Comrades,
Today,
with great pride in and joy of being victors, we are greeting the October
holiday, flying high the flag of the Workers' Party of Korea in the sky. For
our country and people, October 10 is a meaningful revolutionary holiday when
they celebrate the birth anniversary of the genuine vanguard of the revolution,
its militant General Staff, which has taken responsibility for their destiny
and leads them.
Today's
grand military parade and public procession will fully display the
inexhaustible strength which our Party has built up over the past 70 years by
leading the service personnel and people. It will also demonstrate to the whole
world the revolutionary spirit of all our service personnel and people who,
full of courage and conviction, are advancing towards a bright future, united
solidly around the Workers' Party of Korea.
Availing
myself of this meaningful opportunity, when we are proudly looking back upon
the sacred history of the Workers' Party of Korea that is resplendent with
victory and glory, I would like to extend, reflecting the boundless reverence
and loyalty of the millions of members of our Party and all service personnel
and people, the noblest respect and infinite glory to the great Comrade Kim Il
Sung who founded our glorious Party and the great Comrade Kim Jong Il who is
the eternal General Secretary of our dignified Workers' Party of Korea.
My
noble respect also goes to the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners, martyrs
of the People's Army and other patriotic martyrs who dedicated all their
precious things to promoting the development of our Party and the prosperity of
the country in loyal support of the great leaders.
Our
people, with unfailing loyalty to the Party, have tided over all challenges and
difficulties in the red revolutionary spirit of Paektu to glorify the 70th
anniversary of its founding as a revolutionary, auspicious event, thereby
performing unequalled feats of labour and preparing gifts dedicated to their
motherly Party.
As
I am standing in the square of victors, the venue for celebrations, which is
brimming over with our people's fervent loyalty, I am so grateful to them for
this venue of today which would have been unimaginable separated from them, and
at this moment I am seeing the dear people with deep respect.
Our
Party has been able to propel the revolution over the past 70 years without
flinching whatever the storms, achieving only victory and glory, because this
great people have entrusted their own destiny entirely to it and followed it in
faithful support of its cause.
The
history of our Party is just the path traveled by our great people, its might
is their might, its greatness is their greatness, and its victory is the
victory achieved by them.
On
the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Party I, on behalf
of the Workers' Party of Korea, extend warm thanks with a deep bow to all the
beloved people who have infused our Party with inexhaustible strength and
courage and remained faithful to it in every grave period of the revolution,
sharing weal and woe with it in overcoming the harsh trials of history by dint
of unyielding willpower.
My
heartfelt congratulations and warm thanks go to our trustworthy members of the
Party, heroic officers and men of the People's Army and laudable young
vanguard, who, in hearty response to the Party's appeal, have worked with
patriotic devotion and created one heroic miracle after another shortening ten
years to one on all fronts of building a thriving socialist nation, so as
proudly to enter the venue of the grand festival of victors.
At
the same time I warmly welcome our overseas compatriots and foreign friends who
are here to congratulate our people on this auspicious day.
Comrades,
The
history of the Workers' Party of Korea is a proud course it has traveled
shouldering the destiny of the people and leading the Korean revolution to
victory under the guidance of the great leaders.
President
Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il built ours into an invincible revolutionary
party, a genuine political leadership organization, which serves the people and
advances in unity with the masses, the first of its kind in history.
Since
it inscribed a hammer, a sickle and a writing brush in its red flag, our Party
has never been separated from the people and advanced the revolution always
believing in them as in heaven.
History
records no revolution as ours that has braved at every step the grave trials
and adversities decisive of its success in such an arduous and complicated
situation.
The
new Korea was too young, but the US imperialists, hell-bent on world supremacy,
forced a devastating war upon it; when we rebuilt the country on the debris
with so much effort tightening our belts, they presented a fresh threat of
aggression; and when we were trying to develop our national economy, they
blocked our road by imposing the sanctions and blockade unprecedented in
history.
Despite
all the difficulties, our Party has always charged forward with iron nerves in
any adversity, ushered in a new age of epoch-making changes on this land, and
scored only great victories.
In
the whirlwind of history, our Party has trusted our great people only, and they
have been its only supporters, advisers and assistants.
The
history of the world revolutionary movement teaches the lesson that
irrespective of whether it is a ruling one or has a long history, the
leadership authority and fighting efficiency of a party do not rise of their
own accord nor can it lead the revolution effectively.
The
high authority our Party enjoys today and the great exploits it has performed
are the fruition of the brilliant revolutionary ideas and outstanding
leadership of the great President and General, who formulated the revolution as
the affection for and trust in the people and applied this definition to its
building and activities in a thoroughgoing way.
In
having struck its roots deep into the people's mind and served them only with
devotion lies the secret of our Party's leading the cause of independence,
Songun and socialism without letup in the face of the tribulations of history
while maintaining a firm grip on the steering wheel of the revolution.
The
Workers' Party of Korea is an invincible one that has achieved oneness with the
masses of the people.
In
the whole period of leading the revolution, our Party used to call the people
first, lend an ear to their opinions, though simple, and draw unquenchable
courage from their sincerity whenever it was trying to identify a course it
must follow and whenever it faced grave trials.
The
creative strength of the omnipotent masses was the source of the great miracles
our Party worked while building a powerful socialist bulwark, independent,
self-supporting and self-reliant in national defence, on this land where
centuries-old backwardness and poverty had prevailed and ushering in a new era
of building a powerful country in the face of pernicious blockade imposed by
the imperialists.
Bearing
full responsibility for the political integrity and material and cultural life
of the people and taking care of them has been a matter of paramount importance
for our Party and a mission it cannot neglect even for a moment.
That
our Party, even in the worst situation decisive of the country's destiny, has
prepared precious seeds and socialist assets for the happiness of the people
through painstaking efforts and invariably pursued the people-oriented policies
is an expression of the politics of love for the people that can be
administered only by our Party that has shouldered the responsibility for their
destiny.
As
our Party has always regarded the masses of the people as the root of its life
and as the source of its inexhaustible strength and given top and absolute
priority to their interests, our people have followed it believing it as the
genuine guiding light of their destiny and as their mother, and a grand flower
garden of single-hearted unity has made its proud appearance on this land.
Comrades,
The
might of the Workers' Party of Korea which struggles for the people lies in the
fact that it has powerful revolutionary armed forces.
Our
people have keenly realized the truth that a people without arms is destined to
become a ruined nation and that their dignity and happiness are guaranteed by
revolutionary arms.
Our
Party has always channeled primary efforts into building invincible military
strength with which it can creditably defend the security of the people and
their lives and property.
Thanks
to our Party's original line of self-reliant defence and Songun politics, the
People's Army has been developed into an elite revolutionary army that is
capable of defeating any aggressor forces at a stroke, and the all-people and
all-country defence system consolidated steadily, with the result that our
country has now turned into an impregnable fortress, into a world-class
military power.
Our
revolutionary armed forces have always been a powerful treasured sword in
defending the country, the revolution and the people, and a mighty vanguard
force and shock brigade that takes the lead in the struggle for the country's
prosperity and people's happiness.
In
the course of organically combining defence of the country with socialist
construction after putting forward the line of promoting economic construction
and building up defence capabilities in parallel, our Party gained valuable
experience in radically increasing the overall national strength by itself and
at the same time improving the people's standard of living even though it
lacked in everything.
In
direct confrontation with the high-handed U.S. imperialists who have fattened
themselves through aggression and war, our service personnel and people have
inflicted one ignominious defeat after another upon them and are forcefully
breaking through the brigandish sanctions and blockade by imperialist forces.
Their indomitable spirit and strength of unity strike extreme anxiety and fear
into the enemy.
Today
our Party can proudly state that our revolutionary armed forces are capable of
fighting any type of war the U.S. imperialists opt for, and have made full
preparations for firmly defending the blue sky over the country and the
security of the people.
Comrades,
The
source of the unique pride for the Workers' Party of Korea is the large
contingent of young people who have been trained to shoulder the future of the
revolution and the nation.
Foreseeing
the protracted nature of the revolution in the initial period of its founding,
our Party set attaching importance to young people as its strategic line and
has trained them into warriors for the implementation of the cause of the Juche
revolution.
The
entire Party has paid constant concern to educating young people and boldly
tasked the youth league with large projects. Under the trust and affection of
the Party that has put them forward as its young vanguard our young people have
volunteered in every period of the revolution to serve at the posts for
national defence and work in difficult and challenging sectors, and displayed
their youthful wisdom and courage to the full.
That
our revolution is still advancing vigorously filled with unflagging energy and
vitality without stagnation and marking time is because it has a steel-strong
legion of young people who always march straight forward following the Party.
The
proud and grand youth monuments in various parts of the country, including the
Paektusan Hero Youth Power Station, which our young people have recently set up
by devoting their patriotic sweat and dedicated to the 70th anniversary of
Party founding graphically show how the reserve force of the Workers' Party of
Korea is being prepared and how the lineage of the Korean revolution is being
carried forward.
As
our Party has spared nothing for young people, our country has now greeted a
fresh heyday in the youth movement and is demonstrating its might as the one
and only great youth power, in which the youth problem has been solved
perfectly.
The
historical course our Party has traveled leading the Korean revolution to
victory through thick and thin eloquently proves that there is nothing to be
afraid of and there is nothing impossible if there are a people faithful to
their party and a powerful revolutionary army and large contingent of young
people.
The
lifeline of a revolutionary party, its strength and its bright future are dependent
on attaching importance to the people, to the army and to young people – this
is just the invaluable summing up of the 70-year history of our Party.
By
continuing to hold fast to the three-point strategy of attaching importance to
the people, to the army and to young people as its foremost weapon, our Party
will advance forward vigorously towards final victory and accomplish the Korean
revolution.
Comrades,
The
Workers' Party of Korea organizes and guides all the victories of our people.
The
infinite glory and invincibility of our Party originate from holding up the
great President and General as its eternal leaders and enjoying absolute
support and trust of all the Korean people.
If
our Party is to lead Korea to a bright future, it must invariably defend its
revolutionary nature as the party of the great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism both
in name and in reality and exalt its brilliance in every way.
The
great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is, in essence, the people-first principle, and
the mode of existence of our Party is serving the people.
True
to the ennobling intentions of the great President and General who administered
for the first time in history the politics of prioritizing, respecting and
loving the people and devoted their all throughout their lives to the good of
the people, our Party will, in the future, too, strive to add glory to the
sacred history of the people-first principle.
The
entire Party will conduct its building and activities only as instructed by the
great President and General, and make selfless, devoted efforts for the benefit
of the people by thoroughly applying the people-first principle to its overall
work, thereby enhancing its fighting efficiency in every way possible.
The
genuine feature of the Workers' Party of Korea will be expressed in the
appearance of the country that is transformed under its leadership and in the
looks of the people who always smile happily.
The
people are the most precious as they constitute the foundation of the country,
and nothing is more sacred than their interests.
Our
Party will cherish the people's sincere loyalty to it as the greatest asset of
the revolution and bring earlier everything splendid of the future by
shouldering all the burdens and clearing a thorny path for the sake of our brave,
resourceful and beautiful people.
It
will, in the future, too, endeavour to fulfil its heavy yet sacred mission as a
motherly party that, full of infinite vitality and untiring zeal, invariably
works with affection for the people and devotes its all to their interests. It
will also remain boundlessly faithful to its basic duty of taking full
responsibility for their destiny whatever the storms.
The
Korean revolution advances not by dint of any mysterious divine power but on
the great strength of our people including the heroic
Kim
Il Sung's and Kim Jong Il's working class who follow and safeguard their Party
with a single mind.
The
Party respects and believes in the people as in heaven and regards them as its
mentors, and they boundlessly trust and follow it as they would do their
mothers–this single-hearted unity is precisely the true appearance of Korea and
the great foundation of the Songun revolution.
Our
officials should imbue their hearts with the Party's intention of respecting
the people and its affection for them, be infinitely polite to them and clear a
path, whether snowy or muddy, to realize all their wishes. In this way they can
ensure that cheers for the Workers' Party, for the single-hearted unity and for
socialism resound throughout the country.
It
is our Party's belief that all its members, service personnel and working
people, regarding their workplaces, military posts and villages as those in the
garden of the office of its Central Committee and always sharing their
innermost thoughts with it, will fully display their unstained loyalty and
patriotism in the efforts to implement its ideas and defend its policies.
Comrades,
Our
Party will make proactive and persevering efforts to bring earlier the bright
day of national reunification, the greatest wish of the Korean nation,
resolutely frustrating all sorts of obstructive schemes by foreign forces by
dint of single-hearted unity and Songun.
Comrades,
As
the working people exist for ever, lasting justice and victory will be ensured
by the struggle for the people and together with the people.
Regarding
as a paragon the noble ideas and achievements of the great President and
General, who devoted their whole life to training the people by believing in
them as in heaven and exalted the brilliance of Korea, our Party will continue
to love the people and fight for them, and strive to translate their beautiful
dreams and ideals into reality.
Any
challenges of history and frantic attempts by the enemy will never check the
advance of our service personnel and people, who have achieved oneness with the
Party, nor can they slow down the fighting speed of the Korean people, who are
rushing forward towards a bright future, regarding the Party's revolutionary
ideology and the blizzards of Paektu as the motive power for advance and the
red flag of our dignified Party as the sail.
The
world will see vividly how the Workers' Party of Korea gives full play to the
strength and wisdom of our great people and builds a great Paektusan nation,
which will be most prosperous and powerful on this planet.
As
the great Workers' Party of Korea that believes in the people as in heaven, the
people who are one and the same with the name of our sacred revolution and its
70 years of victory, is the locomotive leading the revolution and holds the
switch weight of history, the avenue of the cause of the Juche revolution will
always be adorned with victory and glory.
I
appeal to all the Party members.
Let
us all make selfless, devoted efforts for the good of the great people.
Long
live the great Korean people, united single-heartedly around the invincible
party, the Workers' Party of Korea!
