Kim Jong Il the Anti-Imperialist Supreme Commander
Channel: DPRK Video Archive
Date: 2013-07-14

English Narration
From the Documentary: "The Brilliant History of Great Leadership" (Kim Jong Il's Leadership of Korea)
Year of release: 2008 6.19
Korean title: 《위대한 령도의 빛나는 력사》
Chinese title: 《伟大领导的辉煌历史》

Single-hearted Unity in DPRK

In October 8, 1997 Kim Jong Il was elected General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea. This was an occasion for the Korean people to be single-heartedly united around him more solidly.

Single-hearted unity was his revolutionary philosophy.

He gave a new explanation of the absolute position and decisive role of leader as the top brain of socio-political integrity and the centre of a socio-political collective and on this basis, formulated the theory that the leader is in the centre of the masses of the people and decides everything.

He gave a comprehensive answer to the theoretical basis for achieving the single-hearted unity of society. In other words, full light was given on the driving force and factor of the victorious advance of revolution.

Kim Jong Il raised the single-hearted unity of the Korean society onto a high level.

He believed that comradely love and obligation is none other than unity and that the sincerer and warmer the comradely love is, the purer and solider the single-hearted unity gets. From this viewpoint he defined the revolutionary love as the basis for single-hearted unity. He united all the people across the country into a single family by administering benevolent, all-embracing politics, saying that it was his invariable political philosophy to bring up people with trust and love and turn the whole society into a community of comrades. He explained that a ruling socialist party exists for the good of the people and the mission of the WPK is to work for the people's demand for independence and interests, and paid special attention to rallying broad sections of people around the WPK and developing the WPK into a motherly party which takes responsible care of their destiny. He regarded "The people are my God" as his lifetime motto which now constitutes the fundamental principle of the WPK.

Today the WPK forms a harmonious whole with the masses at the highest level.

Entering the mid-1990s, the manoeuvres to stamp out socialist Korea by the imperialist forces reached the extreme. To cope with this situation, Kim Jong Il enforced Songun politics on a full scale. He named the noble and strong-willed ideo-spiritual traits manifested among the service personnel of the Korean People's Army the revolutionary soldier spirit and on this basis, led the army and people to achieve oneness in their ideology and way of work. Thanks to his leadership, the DPRK achieved the great unity of the army and the people—aiding the army and aiding the people. Consequently, it has displayed its dignity as a country which achieved single-hearted unity of the WPK, the army and the people behind their leader.

The DPRK always emerged victorious in the revolution and construction on the strength of its single-hearted unity under Kim Jong Il's guidance.

It is not a thing in the remote past that the international community was deeply concerned about the "collapse" of socialist Korea. Korea fought alone in confrontation with the allied imperialist forces led by the United States, the "sole superpower" in the world, defending its socialism, and brought about a new epochal turn in its efforts to build a thriving country. The secret behind this miracle is that it has a mighty weapon of single-hearted unity. As it is based on that unity, the DPRK became already an ideological and political power as well as a military power any formidable forces could not dare to attack it. The united strength of its army and people is a decisive cause for propelling forward the country's economic progress.

For the DPRK the closing years of the previous century were the most trying period unprecedented in its history. The Korean army and people, however, braved through the challenges they faced, sharing the same ideology, purpose and way of work. They built hydraulic power stations of various sizes, built or renovated stockbreeding and poultry farms and industrial establishments in great number and face-lifted the appearance of the country by carrying out large-scale land realignment project. In addition, a lot of new villages and streets sprang up in urban and rural areas as befits a socialist paradise.

Today the Korean people are making strenuous efforts to hasten the drive to build an economically powerful, civilized  socialist  nation, rallied  single-heartedly  behind  Kim  Jong  Un  who  is  on a  par  with
Kim Jong Il in ideology, leadership and virtues.