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JPRS-AKU-89-003 CONTENTS 4 APRIL 1989

[Except where indicated otherwise in the table of contents, the following is a complete translation of the monthly

theoretical journal of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers Party, published in Pyongyang.]

The Social Communist Cause Is Ever-Victorious and Invincible [Chong Tong-uk] 1

The Chuche Ideology Is the Ideological and Theoretical Foundation of Our Party's Leadership Art

[Chong Tong-uk] 1

The Basic Mission of the Philosophical Worldview Is To Illuminate the Way To Shape the Destiny of Man

[Kim Chang-won] 5

It Is a Revolutionary Duty of Functionaries To Unconditionally Implement Party Policy to the End

[YiPong-kil] 11

Having an Intense Revolutionary Spirit Is a Basic Requirement for Becoming a True Revolutionary

[Kim Yu-son] 15

A Revolutionary Organizational Conscience Which the Members of the Anti-Japanese Guerrillas Possessed

[Kang Chun-kun; not translated] 19

Work With People Should Be Carried Out in a Manner Suited to the Individual Characteristics

of the People [Pak Chong-ho] 19

Strengthening Kindred Ties With the Popular Masses Is the Party's Intrinsic Demand

[Kang Chun-kun; not translated] 24

The Party Member Should Live a Worthy Life Moment by Moment for the Party and the Leader

[Kim Ui-sun; not translated] 24

The Normalization of Production Is an Important Means of Accelerating the Grand March of Construction

[Song Chu-kyu] 24

The Thoroughgoing Implementation of the Chuche Farming Method Is a Sure Guarantee for Growth

in Agricultural Production [Yi Ha-sop] 27

Let's Enhance the Role of Scientists and Technicians To Achieve an Epochal Turn in the Development

of the Country's Science and Technology [Kim Kyong-pong; not translated] 31

Establishing the Revolutionary Trait of Creation and the Trait of Life Is an Urgent Demand To Effect

New Creative Upsurges [Paek In-chun; not translated] 31

Organizational Political Work of the Regional Party Committee To Guide Economic Tasks Through

the Modernization of Party and Policy [Yi Kwang-pom; not translated] 31

Establishing a Confederal State Is the Most Rational Method in Solving the Issue of National Reunification

[Yom Tae-chun; not translated] 31

A Vicious Scheme of the Japanese Reactionaries To Conquer Asia and the Pacific Region

[Yi Haeng-ho; not translated] 31
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KULLOJA

[No 5, May 1988]

The Social Communist Cause Is Ever-Victorious

and Invincible

41090017 Pyongyang KULLOJA in Korean No 5,

May 88 pp 3-11

[Editorial not translated]

The Chuche Ideology Is the Ideological and Theoretical

Foundation of Our Party's Leadership Art

41090017 Pyongyang KULLOJA in Korean No 5,

May 88 pp 12-17

[Article by Chong Tong-uk]

[Text] Establishment ofthe right leadership art is ofgreat

significance in party building and party activity, particularly in leading the masses.

However accurate party lines and policies, however

intense the enthusiasm ofthe mass, it will be impossible

to give full play to the revolutionary fervor and creative

positiveness ofthe broad masses and successfully implement party lines and policies if party organizations and

functionaries lack a scientific and revolutionary leadership art.

The party's leadership art is the party's way ofsetting the

masses in motion and leading them, and it is the party's

leadership skill.

The working-class party, only when it has a revolutionary and people- oriented leadership art, can become a

militant vanguard organization and forcefully organize

and mobilize the broad masses in the revolutionary

struggle and construction.

The party's leadership art is established on the basis of

the guiding thought of the revolution and a scientific

world view; and the essential nature, characteristics, and

scientific and revolutionary qualities of the leadership

art are defined by the right leadership ideology.

The right guiding thought ofthe revolution, by reflecting

the demands and interests of the masses of working

people, provides the ideological and theoretical foundation ofleadership art upon which the party sets the goals

and direction of the revolution and sets the masses in

motion and leads them toward these goals. The leadership art of the working-class party can become superior

only when it is based on the guiding thought of the

revolution reflecting the demands and interests of the

masses.

Our party's leadership art, created by the great leader

Comrade Kim II- song and developed by the dear Comrade Kim Chong-il, is a chuche-oriented leadership art

based on the immortal chuche ideology.

The great leader Comrade Kim Il-song taught as follows:

"Our party's leadership art is a chuche-oriented leadership art based on the chuche ideology and embodying the

revolutionary mass line." ("Kim Il-song Selected

Works," Vol 9, p 402)

The basic thought underlying our party's leadership art is

the immortal chuche ideology, our party's unshakable

guiding thought which leads our revolutionary cause on

the sole road of victory.

The chuche ideology is a through-and-through revolutionary ideology which holds it as the cardinal objective

ofthe revolution to protect and cultivate an independent

stand and attitude vital to social beings, and which

demands that the revolution be carried through to the

end until this objective is fufilled. The chuche ideology is

the most perfect revolutionary doctrine, seeking to turn

human beings into the complete masters of the world

and oftheir own fate by thoroughly remaking themselves

as well as nature and society to suit the social instinct of

man to live and develop in his own way and that

illuminates the road to the everlasting happiness and

prosperity of mankind.

The immortal chuche ideology, the guiding thought of

our revolution, is the ideological and theoretical foundation of our party's leadership art in leading the broad

masses toward the complete attainment of an independent stand and attitude.

To say that the great chuche ideology is ideological and

theoretical foundation of the leadership art of our party

is to say that it provides, above all, the starting point for

establishing leadership over the masses.

To firmly establish a revolutionary and people-oriented

leadership art, the party should begin by establishing the

right view and viewpoint toward the masses. Having the

right view and viewpoint toward the masses is a prerequisite for establishing a true leadership art. When the

party has the right view and viewpoint toward the

masses, it can establish a revolutionary and peopleminded leadership art capable of organizing and mobilizing the broad masses, whereas if it were to base itself

on the outmoded reactionary viewpoint oflooking down

upon the masses, there could only be the method of

reigning over the masses, the bureaucratic ruling method

of subjecting them to exploitation and oppression.
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The chuche ideology enables the party to establish a

revolutionary and people-oriented leadership art by providing the right view and viewpoint toward human

beings, the masses, on the basis of the philosophical

principle which elucidates the position and role of man

in the world.

As elucidated by the chuche ideology, man is the master

of all things and the basic factor determining all things.

To say that man is the master of all things is to say that

he is the master ofthe world and his own fate, and to say

that man decides all things is to say that he plays a

decisive role in remaking the world and shaping his own

fate. This is the man-centered philosophical principle

that elucidates the place and role of man in the world.

When the philosophical principle of chuche that man is

the master of all things and decides all things is applied

to the revolutionary struggle to have the masses attain

their independent stand and attitude, it is translated into

the basic principle of the revolution that the masters of

the revolution and construction are the masses, and the

driving force of the revolution and construction also

resides in the masses.

The chuche ideology, by elucidating the basic principle

of the revolution that the masses are the masters of the

revolution and construction and the driving force of the

revolution and construction also resides in them, accurately defines the goals and direction ofleadership art in

successfully carrying out the revolution and construction

by continually improving the position and role of the

masses.

Setting correct objectives and goals for leadership art is

an important requirement in establishing a scientific and

revolutionary leadership art. Only when the purpose and

direction of leadership art are set correctly, will it be

possible to insure the coherence of the whole system of

leading the masses and of its substance and establish a

genuine leadership art.

The chuche ideology is the true revolutionary thought

which defines the objectives in leading the masses. The

purpose of leadership art is to set the masses in motion

and lead them to the successful execution of the revolution and construction. By elucidating for the first time

the truth that the masters ofthe revolution and construction are the masses and that the masses are also the

driving force of the revolution and construction, the

chuche ideology teaches us that the leadership art of the

working-class party should base itself on the goal of

enabling the masses to maintain their position and fulfill

their role as the masters of the revolution and construction.

The chuche ideology correctly defines the direction of

the party's leadership art also. The leadership art of the

party constantly deepens and develops in the direction of

setting the masses in motion and leading them to continually improving their position and role as the masters

of the revolution and construction.

The position and role ofthe people in the revolution and

construction are determined by many factors. The most

basic of all factors are the independent ideological consciousness and creative ability of the people. It follows

that ifthe direction ofthe party's leadership art in setting

the masses in motion and leading them is to be set

correctly, it should be set in the direction of enabling the

masses to improve their ideological consciousness and

creative ability in accordance with the demands of the

chuche ideology. Only then will the masses be able to

enhance their position and role as the masters of the

revolution and construction and constantly improve

their position and role in keeping pace with progress in

the revolutionary struggle and construction task.

The chuche ideology not only defines the objectives and

direction of the party's leadership art but also makes it

possible to establish the right method for leading the

masses.

Formulation of the right methodology is one of the

principles that should be observed in leading the masses

as well as in remaking nature and society. Success in

leading the masses depends on whether the methodology

is formulated to suit the aspirations and demands of the

masses of working people and the concrete environs and

conditions and on whether work is performed on the

basis of this methodology.

To place man at the center of all thinking and to make

everything serve him is the starting point in establishing

the right methodology for leading the masses.

The secret of leadership over the masses lies in successfully executing the revolution and construction by bringing the broad masses together as one and making one

person move 10, 10 move 100, 100 move 1,000, 1,000

move 10,000, and so on. To do this, the party should

merge the demands and interests of the masses into one

and give maximum play to their creative ability. This

truth has been scientifically elucidated by the immortal

chuche ideology.

By establishing a man-centered viewpoint and stand of

placing man at the center of all thinking and by making

all things serve man, the chuche ideology provides the

true guiding principle for leading the masses with the

right methodology. This is because the chuche ideology

elucidates the viewpoint and stand toward the world

with the interests ofman, the master ofthe world, as the

starting point.

To deal with the world by making the interests of man

the starting point, as elucidated by the chuche ideology,

means that all things and phenomena in the world are

viewed and evaluated by using the interests of man as the

standard, the measuring stick, and that all activities for

remaking the world are intended to bear fruits beneficial

to man. What is important in leading the masses when

seen from this viewpoint and stand is to solve all

problems arising in the revolution and construction on
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the basis ofthe demands and interests ofthe masses and

to make all activities for remaking and transforming

nature and society produce good results beneficial to the

masses. Only then will the masses actively participate in

the revolution and construction with keen interest. The

masses launch into revolution and construction because

they want to fulfill their independent demands and

further their interests. Therefore, in order to insure its

correct leadership ofthe masses, the working-class party

should always place the interests of the masses at the

center. Only then will the party be able to correctly set

the objectives of its leadership of the masses, set the

masses in motion and lead them to suit these objectives,

and accordingly, to fulfill its functions and role as the

general staff of the revolution.

The chuche ideology enables the party to formulate a

correct methodology for its leadership of the masses

because this ideology elucidates the viewpoint of dealing

with the changes and development of the world on the

basis of the activities of man, the remaker of the world.

The chuche ideology demands that from the point of

view of enabling man to insure his role as the remaker of

the world, the law of the motion of the world be

understood and voluntary activities be carried out conscious of the goal to remake and transform the world,

while putting man's own ability and the capability ofthe

outer world to rational use. This provides the starting

point, the basis, for the formulation of the correct

methodology for the party leadership of the masses.

To lead the masses properly, the party should not only

bring the demands and interests of the masses into

harmony but also satisfactorily insure their activities.

There is nothing in the world that is more potent and

resourceful than the masses. All problems arising in the

revolution and construction can be successfully solved

only by the inexhaustible ability of the masses and its

embodiment, their creative activities. It is the masses

who demand revolution and construction, and it is also

the masses who assume responsibility for the revolution

and construction and put them into execution. The

masses fulfill their demand for revolution and construction by relying on their own inexhaustible creativity.

Therefore, to successfully execute the evolution and

construction, the working-class party should start from

the demands and interests ofthe masses and keep a tight

grip on their activities as the basics.

Ifthe party sets the wisdom and energy ofthe masses in

motion and enhances their role, it can firmly insure the

victory of the revolution by breaking through whatever

bottlenecks and obstacles it may encounter. This tells us

that the immortal chuche ideology is a great thought that

elucidates the man-centered viewpoint and stand of

dealing with the world, with the interests of man as the

starting point, and coping with the changes and development ofthe world on the basis of man's activities, and

through this elucidation, makes it possible to formulate

the right methodology for the party leadership of the

masses.

Thus by elucidating the basic principle ofthe revolution

that the masses are the masters of the revolution and

construction and they are also the driving force of the

revolution and construction, the immortal chuche ideology serves as the basis for defining the aim and direction

in leading the masses and for formulating the right

methodology of leading the masses.

To say that the great chuche ideology is the ideotheoretical foundation of our party's leadership art is to say

that this ideology is the basic thought that consistently

runs through the substance of leadership art.

The great leader Comrade Kim Il-song taught as follows:

"What constitutes the important substance ofour party's

leadership art is the revolutionary party work system, the

revolutionary and people-oriented work method and

work habit." ("Ibid, p 402)

In skilfully leading the masses in the revolutionary

struggle and construction task, it is necessary to establish

an orderly system and order capable of unitarily setting

them in motion and solve problems concerning the work

method and work habit of functionaries and their personalities. Our party's leadership art contains in it what

it takes to be the most scientific and revolutionary

leadership art, all the ingredients capable ofsuccessfully

solving all problems that are bound to arise in vigorously

pushing the revolution and construction by organizing

the masses and developing their action-consciousness.

The orderly party work system and the revolutionary

and people-oriented work method and work habit, which

constitute an important substance of our party's leadership art, are thoroughly based on the chuche ideology.

The chuche ideology is the basic thought that runs

though our party's revolutionary and people-oriented

party work system.

The party work system is the system and order by which

party activities are organized and carried out. The work

and activities of the working-class party in leading the

revolutionary struggle of the masses to realize their

independent stand and attitude are performed always in

accordance with certain norms and order designed to set

people in motion in a unitary manner. Only when a

revolutionary work order and system is established

within the party, will it be possible for the whole party to

move as one and successfully exercise leadership over

the broad masses. Without a revolutionary party work

system, it would be impossible to insure unity in the

ideological will and action of the party ranks, to avoid

disorderliness and confusion in party work and activity,

and in the end to successfully carry out the task of

leading the broad masses in the revolution and construction. Therefore, a revolutionary system and order and a

revolutionary party work system are an essential requirement for the party in establishing a genuine leadership

art.
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The chuche ideology provides the guiding principle for

establishing a revolutionary party work system.

The chuche ideology scientifically elucidates that the

independent spirit, creativity, action-consciousness are

the essential attributes of man, and on the basis of this

elucidation, clarifies the position and role of man in

remaking and transforming nature and society. The

chuche ideology illuminates the truth that it is necessary

for the masses to be under the unitary leadership of the

leader if they are to maintain their position and play

their role as the independent subject of the revolution.

Thus the chuche ideology makes the party work system

into a work system capable of firmly insuring the unitariness of the leader's thought and leadership and giving

utmost play to the revolutionary fervor and creativity of

the masses.

The chuche ideology is the foundation ofthe revolutionary

work method. The work method occupies a very important

place in leadership art. Leadership is exercised over the

masses through a certain work method. The work method

is a powerful weapon for leading the masses, and success in

the exercise of leadership over the masses depends in the

last resort on what kind of work method is used in this

exercise. Therefore, the working-class party should always

attach importance to the work method in leading the

revolution and construction, establish a scientific and

revolutionary working method, and make great efforts to

constantly deepen and develop it.

What is basic to the revolutionary work method is to

trust the inexhaustible energy of the masses, rely on

them, and solve all problems arising in the revolution

and construction by giving full play to the wisdom and

creativity of the masses. This basic requirement is met

when the work method is based on a revolutionary

ideology; and the chuche ideology is the ideological and

theoretical basis for the establishment of a revolutionary

work method.

The chuche ideology provides the guiding principle by

elucidating that revolution and construction are an

undertaking for the good of the masses and should be

carried out by the masses themselves upon their own

responsibility.

The masses have a keen interest in the revolution and

construction because the revolution and construction are

an undertaking for the good of the people. Also because

the masses are the people directly in charge of the

revolution and construction, they know the concrete

aspects of the revolution and construction better than

anybody else.

Therefore, it should be for the purpose of arousing

revolutionary fervor in the masses that priority is given

to political work, an important ingredient of the revolutionary work method; and it also should be for the

purpose of enhancing the role of the masses as the

masters and charge people of the revolution that the

upper level always assists the lower level and cadres go

among the masses and carry out revolutionary tasks by

relying on them. It also should be for the purpose of

strengthening the ties with the masses that party tasks are

adapted to reality and concrete conditions; and the

waging of active mass movements should become the

process of giving full play to the wisdom and inexhaustible energies of the masses. The work method of our

party is run through with the purpose of thoroughly

implementing the basic principles and demands of the

chuche ideology.

The chuche ideology becomes the guiding thought in

establishing not only a revolutionary work method but

also a people-oriented work habit.

The party work habit is the work habit of the workingclass party struggling for the revolution and serving the

people and a sum total ofthe political and moral features

of party functionaries and members. It is an important

indicator of the attitude and viewpoint of functionaries

toward the masses and of their political and moral

characteristics.

Only on the basis of the chuche ideology can functionaries have the right attitude and viewpoint toward the

masses and establish the right political and moral features.

By elucidating the position and role ofthe masses in the

revolution and construction, the chuche ideology provides functionaries with the guiding principle in defining

their viewpoint and stand toward the masses and their

political and moral features.

Only when they hold the chuche ideology as the guiding

principle can functionaries cultivate the fighting spirit of

making continual innovation and forward movement in

the revolutionary struggle, the revolutionary spirit of

self-reliance and fortitude, and the habit of working and

living with overflowing ambition and enthusiasm. Only

then will they also be able to love and respect the people

from the bottom of their hearts, regard the pains of the

people as their own, always lead in difficult and arduous

tasks, and serve as an example in all aspects ofwork and

life, labor and study. Functionaries can cultivate the

traits of humbleness, simplicity, and integrity only when

they hold the chuche ideology as the guiding principle.

This tells us that the chuche ideology, which illuminates

the correct viewpoint and stand on the masses, is the true

guiding principle in establishing a people-oriented working habit.

Thus, by elucidating for the first time, on the basis ofthe

man-centered philosophical world view, the truth that

the masters of the construction and revolution are the

masses and the driving force of the revolution and

construction also resides in the masses, the chuche
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ideology has provided a firm ideological and theoretical

basis for the leadership art of the party in setting

organizations and the masses in motion and leading

them.

It is because the great chuche ideology serves as the

ideological and theoretical basis of our party's leadership

art that this leadership art can be a revolutionary peopleoriented leadership art, a people-centered leadership art,

capable of using all methods and ingenious skills of mass

mobilization thoroughly to lead the masses of working

people to maintain their position and play their role as

the masters of the revolution and construction.

Our party's leadership art, based on the immortal chuche

ideology, is suited to the intrinsic nature of the communists struggling for the good of the masses of working

people and is the perfect communist leadership art which

can solve all problems arising in the revolutionary struggle and construction to suit actual conditions by relying

on the creative ability ofthe masses and which can bring

up people as more competent and more independent and

creative beings.

The leadership art of our party based on the chuche

ideology is also an encyclopaedic leadership art providing comprehensive answers to all problems arising in the

revolutionary leadership of the working-class party.

The power of leadership art is determined by the scientific character and diversity of its composition and

content. The leadership art of our party consists of

powerful methods of mass mobilization, such as the

presentation of militant slogans, the organization of and

guidance to mass movements, the revolutionary work

method, and the people-oriented work habit. The content of this leadership art provides scientific answers to

problems arising in all aspects of leadership, along with

general and basic methods applicable to all stages of

development ofthe revolution. It clarifies concrete ways

and ingenious skills for successfully solving all problems

arising in revolutionary leadership, ranging from methods of drawing up plans, formulating strategies, and

organizing and executing tasks to methods of meeting

and talking with people, making them realize their

mistakes, and organizing and mobilizing their efforts.

Because it is based on the immortal chuche ideology and

has been developed and enriched in the course of the

protracted revolutionary struggle, the leadership art of

our party can be a most comprehensive, multifarious,

revolutionary, and people-oriented leadership art.

The chuche-oriented leadership art created by the great

leader Comrade Kim Il-song is shining as a leadership art

further developed and enriched by the dear Comrade

Kim Chong-il.

With a rare acumen and insight, the dear Comrade Kim

Chong-il is developing and enriching the leadership art

of the party still more while leading the chuche revolutionary cause, with an innovative eye to dealing with all

problems in a fresh perspective, with an unequalled

revolutionary ability to map out a strategy for all tasks

boldly and daringly and pushing them doggedly, with

seasoned organizational skills, with a strong desire to

work, and with untiring revolutionary energy. As a

consequence, the leadership art of our party is getting

developed and enriched still more on a new scientific

foundation, not only in terms ofthe system, method, and

form but also in terms of concrete ingenious skills and

means which should be relied upon in setting the masses

in motion and leading them.

Our party has waged a vigorous struggle to establish a

leadership art based on the chuche ideology. As a result

of the vigorous struggle to establish a chuche-based

leadership art, our party has taken upon a new look;

party work and party activity have been carried out in a

more spirited and lively manner; and the relationship

between the party and the masses has become an inseparable kindred relationship.

By implementing the chuche-based leadership art, our

party has made the masses into the true masters of the

revolution and bound them together airtight around the

party and the leader, has triumphantly advanced the

revolution and construction by relying on their inexhaustible energies. The brilliant victory won by our party

and people in in the struggle for sovereignty, independence, and socialism by overcoming multilayered obstacles and trials represents the shining fruition of the

chuche-oriented leadership art.

To cultivate the chuche-oriented leadership art with

depth and practice it with thoroughness is a firm guarantee for strengthening and developing our party forever

as a chuche-oriented revolutionary party and for

staunchly advancing the chuche revolutionary cause on

the single shining road of victory, by setting the masses

in motion and leading them vigorously.

We should strengthen the main force of the revolution

and hasten the ultimate victory ofthe cause ofsocialism

and communism by more thoroughly implementing the

leadership art of our party based on the immortal chuche

ideology.

The Basic Mission of the Philosophical

Worldview Is To Illuminate the Way To Shape

the Destiny of Man

41090017b Pyongyang KULLOJA in Korean No 5,

May 88 pp 18-24

[Article by Kim Chang-won]

[Text] How to raise the question of the basic mission of

the philosophical worldview and how to solve it is a

critical issue which influences the overall system and

content, the progressiveness, and the viability of the

philosophical worldview.
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Philosophy is a branch of learning which provides a

unified outlook on the world, with a viewpoint and a

stance toward the world. A unified view ofthe world and

a viewpoint and a stance toward the world constitute the

essence of the philosophical worldview. The philosophical worldview formulates its content and evolves its

principles and themes, its theories and methodology, by

its own unique system. The whole system, content and

principles, and themes and methodology of the philosophical worldview are raised, formulated, and systematized in a manner consistent with the basic mission of

the philosophical worldview.

The basic mission of the philosophical worldview is the

totality of tasks that philosophy should perform to

achieve its objectives as a science whose duty it is to

provide a worldview. Only when the basic philosophical

worldview's mission is correctly clarified will it become

possible to accurately solve all problems concerning it.

Fundamental problems of philosophy and problems concerning an outlook on the world and a viewpoint and

stance toward the world can then be solved according to

this mission, giving maximum play to its revolutionary

character and vitality.

In the document "Several Problems Arising in Indoctrination in the Chuche Ideology," the dear Comrade Kim

Chong-il not only clearly defined the basic mission ofthe

philosophical worldview and scientifically proved its

validity, but also elucidated the essential characteristics

and superiority ofthe chuche-based philosophical worldview.

Comrade Kim Chong-il, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central

Committee and secretary of the Party Central Committee, pointed out as follows:

"The basic mission of the philosophical worldview is to

illuminate the way to shape the destiny of man." ("On

Several Problems Arising in Indoctrination in the Chuche Ideology," monograph, p 4)

As pointed out by the dear Comrade Kim Chong-il, the

basic mission of the philosophical worldview is to illumine the way of exploring the destiny of man.

That the basic mission of the philosophical worldview is

to illuminate the way of charting the destiny of man, is

related above all to the basic purpose of human activity.

Human activity consists, on the one hand, in cognitive

attempts to uncover the attributes, essential characteristics, and law-governed nature of phenomena and things

in the surrounding world, and on the other, in practical

attempts to remake nature and society in order to suit

the independent demands of man. The basic purpose of

all the cognitive and practical activities of man is to

chart his own destiny. The question to which man as a

social being pays constant attention, with utmost concern, is that of his own fate. This is because the question

of destiny is a vital issue concerning the social and

political life and future of man. The question of man's

destiny concerns the life and death of man: the conditions for his survival, social status and his future. To say

that man charts his destiny is to say that man improves

upon his position and role in the world, and makes his

life more independent and creative. Accordingly, to

man, nothing is more urgent and important than the

question of exploring his own destiny. Out of his intense

desire for an independent and creative life, man becomes

more concerned about his current social status than

anything else and becomes keenly interested not only in

his present life but also in the question ofwhat prospects

the future holds for his life. That is why man struggles

always with the aim and desire to remodel his life into a

better one and to live and enjoy an independent and

creative life. Accordingly, the basic purpose of man as a

social being boils down, ultimately, to the exploration of

his own fate.

The purpose and mission ofthe philosophical worldview

are defined by that cardinal objective of human activity.

Originally, the philosophical worldview had its provenance in man's demand for exploring his destiny, a

matter of the first and foremost concern to him because

of his intrinsic characteristics. The philosophical worldview is one form of social consciousness as a generalized

expression of certain class interests in charting man's

destiny. As man explores his destiny in relation to the

world he should, above all, correctly solve such problems

concerning the worldview as the origin and development

ofthe world. The original philosophical thinking was not

a product of the thinking of pure reason. This simple,

materialistic view, in opposition to the religious superstition that "God" is the creator and controller of the

world, found the origin of the world in some material

things, such as water, fire, earth and air or ether—or the

simple dialectical view that all things and phenomena,

instead of moving and changing in accordance with the

will of "God," exist and constantly move and change by

themselves. This thinking may be viewed as a reflection

of the class demands of the progressive forces in slave

societies who sought to provide people with some happiness in their contemporary life and to free them from

the fetters of religion—the means ofspiritual oppression

that the reactionary ruling classes used in their attempt

to apotheosize and maintain their privileged position

through the religious mysticism that the fate ofthe world

and man is controlled by "God," the supernatural being.

Inasmuch as the philosophical worldview in this way

emerged and has developed as a reflection of certain

class interests with respect to the exploration of man's

destiny, its basic mission should naturally be to illuminate the exploration of man's destiny and it should

provide the most correct answer to the question of this

exploration.

The basic mission of the philosophical worldview, to

illuminate the exploration ofman's fate, is also related to

the purpose of man in establishing his worldview.
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By a worldview is meant the unitary system of a unified

view, viewpoint, and stand toward the world as a whole.

The purpose of man in establishing his worldview is not

merely to uncover the"essence of the world and the

natural laws governing its change and development, but

also to find^the way of charting his own destiny by

conquering and remaking the world.

Man lives in the world of nature and society and charts

his own destiny in the context ofhis relationship with the

world. Nature is the object of human labor, the material

source of human life, whereas society is the collective in

which people live and carry out their activities. Man can

neither survive nor develop apart from the world surrounding him. Inasmuch as people live and carry out

their activities in the world, they can successfully explore

their destiny only when they correctly answer questions

concerning the essence ofthe world and the inevitability

ofits motion and change, questions such as: What is the

world? How do numerous things and phenomenon in the

world move and change? What kind of being is man?

What relationship does man have with the world? The

purpose of man in unraveling the essence of the world

and the inevitability of its movement and change is not

merely to acquire a knowledge of the pure world but to

establish the right worldview on the basis of this knowledge and find the way of charting his destiny.

Thus the basic purpose ofman in studying the worldview

is to illuminate the charting of his destiny through the

establishment of a worldview.

In illuminating the charting of man's destiny, the philosophical worldview is distinguished from specific sciences.

Needless to say, philosophy has something in common

with specific sciences in that it contributes to charting

the destiny of man. Generally, the duty of science is to

contribute to charting man's destiny by illuminating the

way ofremaking and controlling the world. In this sense,

philosophy and specific sciences have something in

common.

However, in charting the destiny of man, philosophy has

a peculiar characteristic distinct from specific sciences.

Through creative activities to remake nature and society,

man charts his own destiny. However, the objective

world, the object ofthe remaking, exists and moves and

changes according to its own essential qualities and the

natural laws governing its motion and change. For this

reason, to make the objective world serve by remaking it

to suit the independent demands of man, man should

above all have an accurate knowledge of the essential

nature of things and phenomena in the objective world

and the laws of its motion. Natural and social sciences

contributes to the creative activities of people to remake

and transform the world, precisely by providing a knowledge of the essential properties and characteristics of

things and phenomena in the objective world and the

laws of their motion.

Each specific science studies the essential nature of a

specific field and aspect of nature and society, surveys

the natural laws at work therein, and clarifies ways to

remake nature and society, thereby illuminating the way

of exploring the destiny ofman. Natural sciences, such as

mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology unravel the

characteristics and the laws of motion oflife and natural

phenomena—physical, chemical, and biological, and

find ways to transform them to suit the independent

demands of man, and through these functions, illuminate the way of exploring his destiny. Social sciences,

such as economics, jurisprudence, aesthetics, literature,

linguistics, and history, illumine the way of exploring

man's destiny by clarifying the essential nature ofsocial

life—political, economic, and cultural, and the laws ofits

development, and by showing ways to transform various

aspects of social life.

Philosophy, unlike specific sciences, does not investigate

the characteristics peculiar to and the laws operative in

any particular aspects of nature and society but has the

world as the overall object of its study and clarifies the

general characteristics ofthe existence and motion ofthe

world and provides a general methodology that should

be followed in all areas of human activity, thereby

illuminating the way of charting the destiny of man.

Herein lie the essential characteristics of philosophy as

distinct from specific sciences, and the essential content

of the philosophical worldview.

The view toward the world which constitutes the important content of the world outlook is neither a knowledge

of specific things and phenomena in the world nor a

simple sum of such knowledge. It provides an understanding of the general characteristics of the existence

and motion of the world, namely answers to questions

such as: What does the world consist of? What are the

common characteristics of all beings that make up the

world? What are the general characteristics of all movements that take place in the world? No specific science

provides such a general view of the world. Philosophy

alone can provide such a general view of the world that

constitutes one aspect of the world outlook.

Only when people have not merely a knowledge of the

essential characteristics and of the laws of specific

motion of different things and phenomena but also a

general view of the world such as a view on the general

characteristics of the existence and motion of the world

as a whole, will they be able to chart their own destiny by

remaking the world with the right stand and attitude

toward the world.

However, a mere knowledge of the general characteristics ofbeings and motions common to the world that had

existed before the human race appeared and the world
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that has existed since then is not sufficient to provide a

perfect understanding of the world and of the natural

law-governed properties of its change and development,

namely, to provide answers to questions such as how far

this world where mankind lives is advanced and how it

will develop in the future and in what direction. This is

because such knowledge alone cannot unravel the

essence of real world as it exists in which man occupies

his position as the master, and the natural law-governed

properties of the change and development of this world.

Man as the most advanced material being occupies his

position in the world as its master. The more his independent stand and attitude and his creativity and consciousness are enhanced, the more his position and role

improve. Therefore, to understand the essence of this

real world in which man lives and the natural lawgoverned properties of its change and development, it is

imperative to know the essential qualities of man, the

most advanced and competent being that has a unique

position and role in the world, together with a knowledge

of the general characteristics common to the material

world, and on this basis, correctly perceive the position

and role of man in the world. In other words, the essence

of the world and the natural law-governed properties of

its change and development should be understood in

relation to man. Only by correctly elucidating the essential characteristics of man and his position and role in

the world, as well as the general characteristics of the

material world, will it be possible to provide the right

answers to the basic, primary questions which arise in

illuminating the way of charting the destiny of man,

questions such as: Who is the master of the world?; who

has the ability to remake the world?; who is the master of

man's fate?; who has the ability to chart his fate?

The philosophical worldview has its as its essence the

viewpoint and stand on which man should rely in

remaking and controlling the world, along with a general

view of the world.

To chart his own destiny, man should carry out activities

to explore his fate, activities to remake and control the

world surrounding him. Man's activity to remake and

transform the world can successfully proceed only when

it is based on the right viewpoint and stand.

For this reason, man has a critical stake in establishing a

viewpoint and stand toward the world and the right

methodology in his activity to understand and remake

the world.

The reason people seek to establish the right view of the

world is in the last analysis that they seek to have an

accurate methodology for their activities to remake and

transform the world and chart their own destiny. Therefore, the basic purpose of the philosophical worldview is

defined by the question of man's fate, and it is the basic

mission ofthe philosophical worldview to illuminate the

way of exploring the fate of man by providing the right

worldview.

Inasmuch as it is the basic purpose of human activity

and the purpose of the worldview itself to chart the fate

of man as noted above, the philosophical worldview

holds it as its essential mission to illuminate the way of

exploring man's destiny.

The chuche-based philosophical worldview is a philosophical worldview that has most scientifically elucidated the way of charting man's destiny, the essential

task of a philosophical worldview.

Inasmuch as the essential task of the philosophical

worldview is to illuminate the way of exploring man's

destiny, the progressiveness and viability of the worldview depends in the last analysis on how accurately it

illuminates the way of charting man's destiny. Philosophy, even though it regards it as its essential task to

illuminate the way of exploring man's destiny, will be

unable to accomplish the task if it fails to correctly

formulate the question of the worldview and give an

accurate answer to it. Only when it accurately illumines

the way of shaping man's destiny will the philosophical

worldview be able to fulfill its duty to suit its essential

purpose.

It was not until the philosophy of the working class

emerged that there appeared a philosophical worldview

that held it as its essential task to illumine the way of

charting man's destiny.

The reactionary exploiting class interpreted the world in

the wrong way in order to suppress the independent goals

and demands of the masses of working people and

maintain and preserve the system of exploitation.

The philosophy of idealism representing the interests of

the reactionary class negates that the world exists in itself

and preached the mysticism that the fate of the world

and man is in the hands of the supernatural "power,"

claiming that all things in the real world are the products

of the "Absolute Idea," a transcendental spiritual being,

or ofsubjective "consciousness" or the "senses." Speaking of the metaphysical worldview, it, too, denied the

fact that all things in the world are interrelated and

constantly change and develop, claiming that they are

isolated from one another and in a fixed and immutable

state, and advocated the fatalistic idea that people

should obediently follow their given destiny. As a consequence, it foiled the masses of working people from

finding the right way of charting their destiny and made

the philosophical worldview serve the purpose of justifying the reactionary ruling system.

The philosophies which played a progressive role in

bygone days at best stopped at holding it as their duty to

serve for the struggle to remake nature and oppose the

reactionary exploiting class, failing to advocate that it is

their duty to eliminate the system of exploitation root

and stem and illumine the way of exploring the fate of

the masses of working people. The latter-day materialistic philosophy, the philosophy of the newly emerged
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capitalist class against feudalism, took as its philosophical task the provision of answers to various questions

associated with the charting of man's destiny, such as:

What is the origin of the world? Can man's thinking

accurately understand the real world? However, this

philosophy did not regard it as its duty to illuminate the

way of charting man's destiny and it failed to provide the

right answer to the question of man's destiny.

The early philosophy of the working class made philosophy into an ideological weapon for the social and class

emancipation of the masses for the first time in history,

by overcoming the class limitations ofthe earlier philosophies that had failed to serve the masses and by

scientifically elucidating that the purpose of philosophy

is not to interpret but to transform the world. Meanwhile, when the early philosophy of the working class

was born, an important task confronting philosophy was

to overcome idealism and metaphysics and establish a

scientific and revolutionary worldview in order to ideologically prepare the working class that had risen up in

struggle against capitalism. Reflecting this demand ofthe

time, Marxist philosophy set it as one of the primary

tasks of philosophy to provide a scientific worldview for

the working class, by elucidating the most universal

natural-law governed properties of nature, society, and

human thinking and the right methodology of cognition.

But, to fully illuminate the way of shaping man's fate,

philosophy should, in addition to clarifying the general

characteristics of the material world, accurately formulate and provide scientific, theoretical answers to questions concerning the worldview, questions dealing with

the intrinsic characteristics ofman, the position and role

of man in the world, the inevitablity ofthe task to chart

man's fate, and the basic stand and method that should

be maintained in charting man's fate.

Under the circumstances when the dialectical materialistic worldview negating the mystic and determinist view

on the fate of man was established, the chuche-based

philosophical worldview clearly set it as its essential task

to give an answer to the question ofthe fate ofthe masses

of working people and provided the most scientific

answers to all problems concerning the worldview that

arise in the course of performing this task.

Comrade Kim Chong-il, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central

Committee and secretary of the Party Central Committee, pointed out as follows:

"The matchless superiority and essential characteristics

of the chuche- based philosophical worldview lie in that

it elucidates in a most scientific manner the basic

method for shaping man's destiny on the basis of the

philosophical principle that clarifies the position and

role of man in the world." (Ibid, pp 4-5)

The chuche-based philosophical worldview elucidated

the basic principle on shaping man's destiny—the philosophical principle that defines the question of the position and role of man in the world, the basic question

arising in charting man's fate, as an essential question of

philosophy and provides a most correct answer to it—

and on the basis of this principle, scientifically clarified

the inevitability ofthe task ofshaping man's destiny and

the methodology that should be maintained in charting

man's fate.

Inasmuch as man's destiny is shaped through the process

of remaking and transforming the world and expanding

his sphere of domination, above all philosophy should, if

it is to elucidate the basic method for charting the fate of

man, give answers to questions such as: Who is the

master of the world? Who has the ability to remake the

world? Who is the master of man's fate? Who has the

ability to chart the destiny of man? as well as the

question of the position and role of man in the world.

The chuche-based philosophical worldview raised for the

first time the question ofthe position and role of man in

the world—a basic question arising in shaping man's

destiny—as a basic question of philosophy and elucidated the principle that provides the most correct answer

to this question on the basis of a scientific clarification of

the essential characteristics of man—the principle that

man is the master of all things and decides all things. To

say that man is the master of all things is to say that he

is the master of the world and his own fate; and to say

that man decides all things is to say that he plays a

decisive role in remaking the world and charting his own

destiny. Man with his independent stand and attitude,

creativity, and action-consciousness—inasmuch as he is

an independent and creative being—not only occupies

his position as the master of the world but also plays a

decisive role in remaking and developing the world.

It is because man occupies his position as the master of

the world and plays decisive role in the development of

the world that he plays a decisive role in charting his

destiny as the master in control of his own destiny. That

is why the chuche-based philosophical principle which

elucidates the position and role of man in the world

becomes the basic principle that illuminates the way of

shaping his destiny.

To fulfill its basic mission, the philosophical worldview

should elucidate not only the basic principle governing

the exploration of man's destiny but also the natural

law-governed nature of this exploration.

The process by which man explores his destiny is the

process of turning the world surrounding him into a

world in his service by remaking and transforming it, the

process of enhancing his position and role in the world,

and this process is governed by certain natural laws.
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Through the elucidation of the new view of the world

that the world is controlled by man, the chuche-based

philosophical worldview sheds light on the natural lawgoverned nature ofthe process by which man's destiny is

explored.

Man's destiny is shaped in the process by which the

world is controlled and transformed by man. To say that

the world is controlled by man is to say that nature and

society are controlled and subordinated to suit the independent demands of man; and to say that the world is

transformed by man is to say that nature and society are

changed into such environments and conditions as are

beneficial to man seeking to enjoy an independent and

creative life.

As the independent stand and attitude, creativity, and

action- consciousness are enhanced and as his creative

activity is stepped up, the sphere of man's domination in

the world expands; and the more this sphere expands, the

more independent and creative his life becomes. The

strength of man's position as the master ofthe world and

the magnitude of the sphere of his domain in the world

are a barometer ofthe extent to which man's destiny has

been explored. Because man can survive only within the

bounds of the living sphere under his control, the more

this sphere expands, the brighter become the prospects

for his survival and development. At the same time, as

the creative role of man in remaking and transforming

the world increases, his position as the master in control

of the world is enhanced and the world turns more

serviceable to him. Through his creative activity to

remake the world, man at once enhances his position as

the master of the world and all the more vigorously

carries out his creative activity by taking advantage of

his improved position as the master. Through this process the position and role of man in the world improve

constantly at an ever accelerating pace and the sphere of

the world in his service widens accordingly.

Thus, by elucidating the natural law-governed nature of

the process by which man dominates and transforms the

world and improves his position and role, the chuchebased philosophical worldview accurately illumines the

way of charting his fate.

The philosophical worldview, if it is to satisfactorily

fulfill its duty, should not only elucidate the natural

law-governed nature of the exploration of man's destiny

but also provide the right methodology that should be

maintained in that exploration.

Man occupies his position as the master in the world and

plays a decisive role in the transformation and development of the world and charts his destiny through the

process of continually enhancing his position and role by

remaking and transforming the world. For this reason, to

provide people with the right methodology for charting

their destiny, it is imperative for the philosophical

worldview to firmly establish the viewpoint and stand of

dealing with the world and solving all problems on the

basis of the basic demands and interests of man and of

his position and role in the world.

The chuche-based worldview provides the right methodology for charting man's destiny by elucidating that his

independent and creative stand is a basic stand, a basic

method, that should be maintained in all cognitive and

practical activities.

The independent position is one which demands that

man, the master of the world, thoroughly maintain his

position as master in all cognitive and practical activities. Man can thoroughly maintain his position only

when he, conscious of his position as the master of the

world, attends his independent demands and protects his

interests in all his cognitive and practical activities and

holds fast to the position of solving all problems by his

own efforts under his own responsibility. The creative

stand is one which demands that man, who plays a

decisive role in the transformation and development of

the world, enhance his creative role as the master. Man

can fulfill his role as the master only when he, conscious

of his position and role as the master of the world,

maintains the position of being creative in all his cognitive and practical activities so as to enhance his position

and role.

In this way the chuche-based philosophical worldview

clearly sets it as its goal to illumine the way of charting

man's destiny and provides most scientific answers to all

problems arising in charting man's fate, thereby providing the masses, the subject of history, with a powerful

ideotheoretical weapon for shaping their destiny independently and creatively. Herein lie the essential characteristics, unequaled superiority, and great viability of

the chuche-based philosophical worldview.

In his writing "Several Problems Arising in Indoctrination in the Chuche Ideology," the dear Comrade Kim

Chong-il profoundly elucidated that the basic duty ofthe

philosophical worldview is to illumine the way of shaping man's destiny, and this elucidation is of singular

significance in bringing about a radical turn in understanding the mission of philosophy, brilliantly proving

the greatness and creativeness ofthe chuche-based philosophical worldview, and increasing the power of attraction of this view.

With the basic mission of the philosophical worldview

formulated and elucidated in the most scientific manner,

a perfect understanding of the mission ofthe philosophical worldview has been made and the theoretical cornerstone has come to be laid for most accurately formulating and providing answers to all philosophical

questions, including the fundamental questions, in such

a way as to be able to solve problems associated with the

world outlook which arise in illuminating the way of

shaping man's destiny. As a result, the chuche-based

philosophical worldview has been able to become the

most accurate philosophy that, charged with the most
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revolutionary mission, illumines the most accurate way

of shaping man's destiny, a great philosophical thought

that excellently contributes to the independent cause of

the masses.

With the essential characteristics and matchless superiority of the chuche-based philosophical world outlook

brilliantly corroborated on the basis ofthe elucidation of

the basic mission of the philosophical worldview, it has

become possible to further augment the formidable

vitality and power of attraction of the chuche ideology,

the invincible banner ofthe struggle to shape the destiny

of the masses.

All party members and workers should actively contribute to the consummation ofthe cause of converting all of

society to the chuche ideology by studying in depth and

learning the profundity of the chuche-based philosophical worldview which illuminates the true road to human

liberation in a most scientific manner and thus by

working and living all in accordance with the demands of

the chuche ideology.

It Is a Revolutionary Duty of Functionaries To

Unconditionally Implement Party Policy to the End

41090017 Pyongyang KULLOJA in Korean No 5,

May 88 pp 25-30

[Article by Yi Pong-kil]

[Text] Ten years have passed since the dear Comrade

Kim Chong-il published his work "On Unconditionally

Implementing Party Policy to the End."

This work ofthe dear Comrade Kim Chong-iPs serves as

the guiding principle to which functionaries and party

members should always adhere in their struggle to implement the great leader's teachings and party policy.

The validity of the thought expounded by the dear

Comrade Kim Chong-il in this work is being demonstrated all the more powerfully with the continual intensification of the revolutionary struggle and construction

task.

In the course oftheir vigorous efforts to unconditionally

implement the great leader Comrade Kim Il-song's

teachings and party policy to the end, the ideological and

mental features and struggle ethos of functionaries and

party members have taken on a new look, with continual

epochal miracles and changes taking place in socialist

and communist construction.

All those great changes that have taken place in socialist

construction in the past period represent the shining

fruit that has been borne in the course ofstruggle by our

functionaries and party members to implement the

teachings of the respected and beloved leader Comrade

Kim Il-song and party policy.

The reality oftoday, when a 200-day battle is vigorously

going on in all fronts ofsocialist construction in response

to the letter and call of the Party Centeral Commitee,

demands that functionaries and party members establish

still more firmly the revolutionary trait ofimplementing

the great leader's teachings and party policiy to the end.

As in the past, we will more actively wage the struggle to

unconditionally implement the great leader's teachings

and party policy to the end.

It is a revolutionary duty and struggle ethos to unconditionally implement party policy to the end.

Comrade Kim Chong-il, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central

Committee and secretary of the Party Central Committee, pointed out as follows:

"It is the duty of party functionaries and the basic

criterion ofloyalty to the party and the leader to unconditionally and thoroughly implement the great leader's

teachings and party policy."

To unconditionally implement party policy to the end

means to accept the great leader's teachings and party

policy as laws and supreme orders per se and thoroughly

implement them by demonstrating infinite devotion and

sacrificial spirit, without the slightest excuse or pretext

or grumbling about conditions.

Communists can fulfill their duty as revolutionaries only

by supporting and implementing to the end a line and

policy set forth by their leader.

That to unconditionally implement party policy to the

end is a revolutionary duty of functionaries is related to

the intrinsic nature of revolutionaries.

Essentially, communists, revolutionaries are conscious

fighters who have embarked upon the road of revolution,

pledging to devote themselves to the struggle to resolutely

defend and brilliantly implement the revolutionary

thought of their leaders and the policy of their party.

Communist revolutionaries are not making revolution

because they were ordered or coerced to do so by somebody else or because they want to show themselves off.

Revolutionaries and communists struggle, giving their

all to free the masses of working people from all constraints and build the ideal society of mankind: a socialist, communist society, in which they have completely

attained an independent stand and attitude, and they

find their worth and happiness oflife on the road ofthis

struggle.

Our functionaries are the Korean revolutionaries, communists who are putting into practice the farsighted

vision of the great leader and the dear Comrade Kim
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Chong-il, the idea of building the ideal society of mankind, socialist, communist society, in which the masses

will have completely attained an independent stand and

attitude. Our functionaries, only by thoroughly implementing the party's line and policy without an inch of

deflection, can fulfill their duty as Korean communists,

revolutionaries, who are striving to bring our party's

far-reaching vision to realization.

For our functionaries, the struggle to implement our

party's line and policy is in itself a revolutionary struggle,

the struggle to build socialist, communist society in this

land. Apart from the struggle to implement the party's

line and policy, there can be no revolutionary activities

of our functionaries, nor the construction of socialist,

communist society in which the masses of people will

have attained an independent stand and attitude.

Our party's line and policy are the strategy and tactics of

our revolution for the implemention of the chuche

ideology and the most accurate compass that firmly

guarantees the victory of the cause of socialism and

communism. In the party's line and policy, the revolutionary duties and fighting goals of our party functionaries and members are set forth in concrete terms and

scientific methods for realizing the cause ofthe masses to

attain their independent stand and attitude are fully

elucidated.

Apart from the party's line and policy, our functionaries

cannot advance even a single step nor successfully fulfill

the historical cause ofthe masses to attain their independent stand and attitude. Only when they brilliantly

implement the party's line and policy with a tight grip on

them, will they be able to vigorously push the revolutionary struggle and construction task and discharge their

duty as revolutionaries.

That to unconditionally implement party policy to the

end as a revolutionary duty offunctionaries is related to

their position and role in the revolution and construction.

Leading functionaries are the core force ofthe party and

the commanding personnel of the revolution.

The party's line and policy are conveyed to the masses by

leading functionaries, and blueprints for their implementation are drawn and executed amid reality. Therefore, how well the party's line and policy are implemented with depth and breadth depends upon how

leading functionaries work. When leading functionaries

who are at the wheel of the revolution in each unit and

post study the great leader's teachings and party policy in

depth and execute their tasks in a responsible manner by

grappling with them earnestly and persistently, only then

will the party's line and policy be implemented to the

end and bear fruit. This tells us that to struggle to

implement party policy is a revolutionary duty of party

functionaries.

To unconditionally implement party policy to the end is

an important requirement for functionaries in discharging their duty and glorify their precious political lives as

the revolutionary fighters of the party and the leader.

To implement the leader's teachings and party policy to

the end is a binding duty of the chuche-oriented revolutionary fighers who have learned the truth of the revolution and been brought up as commanding personnel of

the revolution under the guiding hands of the great

leader Comrade Kim Il-song and the dear Comrade Kim

Chong-il.

Chuche-oriented revolutionary fighters are the revolutionaries who have a thoroughly revolutionary view of

the leader, holding the chuche ideology as their thoroughgoing revolutionary world view and taking their

loyalty to the great leader Comrade Kim Il-song and the

dear Comrade Kim Chong-il as the foremost priority in

their lives.

Chuche-oriented revolutioharies have turned the revolutionary thought ofthe great leader Comrade Kim Il-song

into their faith and creed, know no thought but the

leader's teachings and party policy, and struggle to

implement them with the spirit of infinite devotion and

sacrifice. This is precisely the obligation and noble

ideological and mental character of chuche-oriented revolutionary fighers to the leader and the party that raises

and leads them.

To accept party policy unconditionally and implement it

to the end is the loftiest requirement of life for chucheoriented communist revolutionaries.

It is a common desire for people to live a most valuable

and worthy life.

The question of the value and worth of life is the

question of what people do, how they live, and how

much pride they have in their lives.

The true value and worth of life in the age of revolution

are found in lives spent in making revolution. A short

lifespan spent in making revolution is more valuable and

worth than a long, long idle life wasted doing nothing.

A life spent in making revolution is so noble because

revolution brings happiness to the multitude as well as to

people engaged in revolution.

A valuable way of life for chuche-oriented communist

revolutionaries is to struggle devoted to implement and

follow the thoughts and leadership of the great leader

and our party. Any deviation from this is to act contrary

to true life. Only on this road of struggle can chucheoriented revolutionaries fulfill the most worthy and

glorious revolutionary cause, the noble cause of enabling

the masses to attain their independent stand and attitude, and constantly glorify their immeasurably valuable

sociopolitical lives.
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For chuche-oriented communist revolutionaries, ther

can be no road of life and struggle more valuable than

that of devoting their lives to the implementation ofthe

teachings of the respected and beloved leader Comrade

Kim Il-song and party policy, loylly upholding their

leadership. That is why chuche-oriented communist revolutionaries fully recognize the implementation of the

teachings of the great leader and party policy as the

noblest requirement oflife before accepting it as an order

or duty and struggle giving their all to implement these

teachings and policy, accepting them with an infinite

sense of happiness and honor.

Indeed, to unconditionally putting the great leader's

teachings and party policy into practice to the end is an

honorable task for chuche-oriented revolutionaries to do

to fulfill their lofty mission and duty undertaken for the

time and revolution, and a worthy requirement oflife in

walking the true road of life and continually glorifying

their precious political lives.

Particularly, the unconditional implemenparticularly

tation of party policy to the end is an important guarantee for further vigorously accelerating the grand march of

construction whihc has already taken gigantic steps.

Currently, in our country te grand march of construction

designed to brillinatly achieving the grand goals of the

Third 7-Year Plan under the sagacious leadership of the

great leader and the dear Comrade Kim Chong-il is

vigorously in progress on an unprecentendedly formidable scale. This reality demands that our functionaries

give fuller play to the revolutionary trait of mapping out

bold operational plans for their tasks, carrying them out

spiritedly, and assiduously pushing the great leader's

teachings and party policy with a tight grip on them.

When they plan and organize in a substantive manner

tasks to implement the great leader's teachings and party

policy and spiritedly push them, with a tight grip on

them, it will be possible to successfully solve all problems

arising in socialist construction, all the more vigorously

accelerate the grand march of construction which is

currently in progress on a formidable scale, and brilliatnly fulfill the grand program of the Third 7-Year

Plan. More immediately, It is possible to successfully

accomplish the tasks ofthe 200-day battle set forth in the

letter and slogans of the Party Central Committee and

glorify the 40th founding anniversry ofthe republic as a

grand festival of the victor.

To unconditionally implement the great leaders' teachings and party policy to the end is an important guarantee for successfully fulfilling the Third 7-Year Plan, our

immediate task, and advancing on to a new, higher stage

our revolution which has vigorusly developed under the

revolutionary banner of chuche.

We should, by unconditionally implementing the teachings of the great leader Comrade Kim Il-song and party

policy to the end, successfully fulfill the militant tasks set

forth in the latter and slogans of the Party Cenetral

Committee and once again bring about a great upswing

in all fronts of socialist construction aimed at fulfilling

the Third 7-Year Plan.

Comrade Kim Chong-il, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central

Committee and secretary of the Party Central Committee, pointed out as follows:

"All party organizations and functionaries should bring

about a new grand upsurge in all fronts of socialist

construction by assiduously pushing tasks to thoroughly

implement the great leader's teachings and party policy."

What is important above all in implementing the great

leader's teachings and party policy to the end is to accept

them with intense loyalty and warm enthusiasm.

From what ideoligical point of view and with what

measure of enthusiasm one accepts the great leader's

teachings and party policy is one of the important

questions on which hinges sussess or failure in briliantly

implementing party policy to the end.

Only people with intense loyalty to the party and the

leader and with keen self-consciousness as party members can accept the party's line and policy as absolute

truths and a vital requirement and go forward to carry

them out without an inch of deflection.

Upon receiving the teaching ofthe great leader Comrade

Kim Il-song on launching a project to expand the production capacity of Huichon Machine Tool Factory,

functionaries, construction workers, arid people in Chagang Province have waged a struggle to put this programmatic teaching into practice. This struggle shows that

when party policy is embraced with fervent enthusiasm,

any task, however difficult, can be accomplished.

The great leader Comrade Kim Il-song assigned Chagang

Province the honorable task of carry out the production

capacity expandion project of Huichon Machine Tool

Factory under its own responsibility.

The provincial party committee, receiving the programmatic teachidng of the great leader, convened an

enlarged meeting of its executive committee to work out

concrete measures to implement the leader's teaching

before commanding the battle of construction with lightening speed. The leading functionaries first went among

constructors, party members nd workers in the province

to plan and organize political work desidgned to help

them solve problems as they arose and set their ideology

in motion, by living under the same roof with them. In

its political work, the provincial party committee pivoted its attention on efforts to make all functionaries and

construction workers warmly embrace the great leader

Comrade Kim Il-song's programmatic teaching on carrying out a production capacity expansion project of

Huichon Mahine Tool Factory with fervent loyalty. At
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the same time, the provincial party committee saw to it

that the performance of functionaries and construction

workers should be evaluated on the basis of their stand

and attitude toward the leader's teaching and the degree

of their loylaty displayed in its implementation. As a

result, functionaries, constructors, and all party members and workers in the province came to embrace the

great leader's programmatic teaching with fervent enthusiasm and wrought new miracles and accomplished great

achievements day afte day in the struggleto implement it.

In less than a month after the ground was broken on the

construction site, they quickly completed the foundation

work for the erection of pillars and actually erected

several hundred posts despite the depth of winter. With

the prowess and will power bestowed by the party, they

also devised and introduced the new method of assembling a truss by using a binding method and putting up

the whole truss and increased the truss assemblage speed

five to six times, thereby working the miracle of completing the steel-structure work as ofthe end of February.

They are hastening the date for the newly expanded

facilities into operation by vigorously pushing the construction project with the same enthusiasm and spirit.

Through this process we came to believe all the more

firmly that with what stand and attitude people respond

to the great leader's teachings and party policy and how

people are ideologically mobilized to implement them

are the important questions that are of crucial importance on which hinges success or failure ofthe struggle to

implement party policy.

In implemting party policy to the end, it is also important to give play to the attitude of being the master ofthe

revolution and the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance.

The attitude of being the master of the revolution and

the revolutionary spirit ofself-reliance is the revolutionary spirit and struggle ethos of chuche-oriented revolutionaries dedicated heart and soul to the consummation

of the chuche cause with absolute faith in the chuche

ideology. The hearts of chuche-oriented revolutionaries

who live in accordance with the demands of the chuche

ideology and who struggle to put it into practice should

alwasy pulsating with the flow of chuche-type blood and

burn with an intense revolutionary spirit and ardor to

accomplish their revolutionary tasks by their own efforts

under their own responsibility. He who lacks this revolutionary spirit, this ardor, is bound to flag and waver

when confronted with even a minor obstacle, even

unable to get our at the open door. The revolutionary

spirit of solving all problems by one's own efforts, the

revolutionary stand and indomitable willpower to

accomplish tasks to the end even without any material

support, although outside support is welcome—this

spirit and stand is the struggle ethos and work style

which our functionaries should have in this age of

struggle, the age of revolution.

Only with the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and

fortitude is it possible to successfully building socialist

and communist society, overcomig whatever difficulty

and trial that may crop up in the middle of the forward

march.

The struggle to build socialist, comunsit society is an

arduous and complext struggle accompanied by numerous barriers and trials. The revolutionary struggle and

construction task are not always smoothly carried out

under a sufficient condition but an unfavorable condition may crop up on the way and unexpected difficulties

may stand in the way. However, if all functionaries and

party members tackle headon the barriers encountered

seeking out what is in short short supply and making

what is nonexistent, then adversities will turn into favorable conditions, something will come of nothng, and a

continual upswing will take place in the revolution and

construction.

The shinding history of the glorious struggle by which

our party and people have erected a self-dependent,

self-supporting socialist state with self-reliant defense in

this land, shows that when we regard the teachings ofthe

great leader and party policy as our creed in struggle and

life and give full play to the revolutionary spirit of selfreliance, we will be able to produce miracles and exploits

beyond human imagination.

In the postwar period, under the sagacious leadership of

the great leader Comrade Kim Il-song, our party and

people, by giving full play to the revolutionary spirit of

self-reliance and fortitude, were able to rose like the

phoenix from the ashes in our land which had completely

been ravaged by war without leaving even a sigle brick

intact, remove the scars of war, and lay the firm foundation ofsociety by rolling up our sleeves and getting to

work. Even under the difficult condition in which the

enemies at home and abroad were stepping up their

vicious machinations and a multilayer of barriers stood

in the way, we were able to accomplish the historic task

ofindustrialization in no more than 14 years and created

a history of great miracles and innovations, by dint of

which our revolution has reached the summit from

which we now see a clear prospect for the complete

victory ofsocialism and the consummation ofthe chuche

cause, are now clearly. When the revolutionary spirit of

self-reliance and fortitude is given full play, there is no

obstalce that cannot bd overcome.

All funcionaries and party members should translate the

far-reaching vision of our party into reality by courageously breaking through barriers they encounter headon with the revolutionary spirit of self- reliance and

fortitude, the indomitable fighting sipirit of crossing the

blazing river of fire and wading through the boggy road.

In particular, our functionaris should make a new opening for advance by standing in the van of the struggle to

implement party policy. Only when there are vanguard

fighters who make breakthroughs at the head of the

masses is it possible to win victory in the revolutionary

struggle. In our work we should always follow the noble
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examples set by the late revolutionary fighters, such as

Kimn Hyok and Cha Kwang-su, who went through the

flaming sea of fire and found breakthroughs on the

10,000- ri trek of the bloody anti-Japanesea war. Functionaries who unhesitatingly put their shoulders to difficult and arduous tasks and pull their weight fully in

putting the thoughts and intentions of the party and the

leader into practice are the command personnel of our

revolution, the real revolutionaries the party demands,

who are profoundly conscious of their mission assigned

by the times. Our functionaries should always cogitate

and exert themselves to better implement the teachings

of the great leader and party policy and become the

standard-bearer of the struggle, leading the masses by

example at the head of the ranks of combatants.

For all functionaries to adapt their politicoadministrative qualities to developing reality is an important

requirement in brilliantly implementing party policy at a

high level of performance.

Today the economy of our country has become expaned

in sccale beyond comparison, its sector-to-sector links

have grown more complex, and the level of its technical

provisions has been markedly improved.

The ever-developing socialist economy needs functionaries who are fully prepared not only in political and

ideological terms but also in scientific and technological

terms.

Only with economic kndowledge and scientific and technoligical know-how and organizational finesse to skilfully organize and mobilize the masses, will functionaries be able to satisfactorily fulfill their role and correctly

diect socialist economic construction which is intensifying and developing more with each passing day.

The Third 7-Year Plan currently undertaken by us is an

economic construction program the implementation of

which is insured by the development of the nation's

advanced science and technology, and as such, it can be

successfully fulfilled only when its implementation is

organized and command by able functionaries armed

with advanced science and technology. Therefoe, to

successfully fulfill the Third 7- Year Plan, all functionaries should not only be solidly prepared in political and

ideological terms but also possess rich economic knowledge and advanced scientific and technological knowhow. In the past, functionaries could mange to somehow

get by as long as they had zeal for work. But the situation

is different now. If functionaries lack a high level of

politioadministrative capability and is empty- headed,

they would be unable to perform their work the way the

great leader Comrade Kim Il-song and the dear Comrade

Kim Chong-il want them to and properly command

production and constuction which are rapidly developing on th basis of advanced science and technology.

Decisively improvement the level ofthe politicoadministrative qualities ofleading functionaries is an important

guarantee for quickly accelerating socialist construction

as intended by the great leade and the party. Accordinly,

it is not merely a administrative requirement but an

important political task for for our functionaries to

possess a ligh level of economic knowledge and modern

scientific and technological know-how.

With a deep sense of their heavy responsibility to the

party and the revolution, functionaries should exert

themselves many times harder than others to continually

imrove their politicoadministrative level in keeping with

the developing reality. Only then will they be able to

fulfill their duty as th commanding personnel of the

revolution and repay the ample trust of the party with

high achievements in their work.

The struggle to uncondtionally implementing party policy to the end is really an honorable and worthy task to

translate the visions of the great leader and the dear

Comrade Kim Chong-il into reality.

We will glorify the 40th founding anniversary of the

republic s a grand festival of the victor and hasten the

complete victory of socialism and the unltimate victory

ofthe revolution by waging the struggle to implement the

teachings of the great leader and party policy with

lightening speed with a tight grip on these teachings and

policy and bringing up a grand upswing on every front of

socialist construction.

Having an Intense Revolutionary Spirit Is a Basic

Requirement for Becoming a True Revolutionary

Pyongyang KULLOJA in Korean No 5,

May 88 pp 31-35

[Article by Kim Yu-son]

[Text] Currently, all party members and workers are

launching into the 200-day battle as one in respsonse to

the letter and slogans of the Party Central Committee.

The whole country is seething with the 200-day battle to

glorify the 40th founding anniversary ofthe republic as a

grand festival ofthe victor, and this reality demands that

all functionaries continually effect new miracles and

innovations in the grand march of construction by giving

more play to their revolutionary spirit than ever before.

The revolutionary spirit is an intrinsic ideological and

mental trait of communist revolutionaries. The revolutionary spirit is, in a word, infinite loyalty to the revolution. It is the spirit of devoted service in defense ofthe

interests of the revolution, a resolute g spirit of fighting

to the end on the road ofrevolution led by the party and

the leader.

The core of the revolutionary spirit is loyalty to the

leader. Loyalty to the leader is the basic foundation on

which the revolutionary spirit is firmly maintained and
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given the fullest play. An intense revolutionary spirit is

cultivated and manifests itself on the basis of the revolutionary view of the leader.

To have an intense revolutionary spirit is a basic requirement for becoming a true revolutionary.

Comrade Kim Chong-il, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central

Committee and secretary of the Party Central Committee, pointed out:

"Communists are the people who have embarked upon

the road of revolution with the mission to serve the

working class and the people, the vanguards who fight

giving their all for the sake of the party and the revolution."

For functionaries to have an intense party spirit is a

primary requirement above all for fulfilling their honorable mission as revolutionaries in consummating the

arduous and complex cause of revolution.

True revolutionaries are the conscientious fighters who

have embarked upon the road of revolution with the

mission to serve the interests of the revolution. The life

of communist revolutionaries with an intense revolutionary spirit and honor consists in devotedly fighting

heart and soul for the victory of the revolution.

The revolutionary struggle to have the masses attain

their independent position and attitude is a glorious and

worthy undertaking, but it is an arduous and complex

path ofstruggle. That is why revolutionaries should have

a firm determination to defy all difficulties for the sake

of the revolution and cultivate an intense revolutionary

spirit to resolutely devote themselves heart and soul to

the struggle for the revolution. Only then will they be

able to unswervingly walk the road of revolution and

fulfill their honorable mission as true revolutionaries.

The road of revolution is arduous and complex, but

anyone who, caring for nothing but his own comfort,

wavers in the face of the arduous struggle and fails to

fight giving his all to the revolution will be unable to

fulfill his mission as a revolutionary. A man lacking the

revolutionary spirit cannot be called a revolutionary.

Functionaries can fulfill their loftiest mission to be

infinitely loyal to the leader only when they have an

intense revolutionary spirit.

The loftiest mission oftrue revolutionaries is to consummate the revolutionary cause by being loyal to the leader

to the finish.

The revolutionary struggle is one aimed at accomplishing the revolutionary cause of the leader, upholding his

revolutionary thought as guiding principle. The revolutionary cause of the working class pioneered by the

leader proceeds and is brought to completion under his

leadership. Therefore, one should display his loyalty to

the leader by giving himself to the struggle for the

revolutionary cause. Anyone who merely pays lip service

to loyalty to the leader but fails to give full play to an

intense revolutionary spirit cannot be a true communist

revolutionary loyal to the leader.

For functionaries to have an intense revolutionary spirit

is also an urgent requirement for accomplishing the

Herculean revolutionary tasks confronting us.

The higher the stage socialist construction reaches, and

the more difficult and enormous tasks it calls for, the

more intense is the revolutionary spirit that people are

urgently required to display. Further, the more that

socialist and communist construction progresses, the

greater becomes the role of the ideological awareness of

the people; and the more intense their revolutionary

spirit grows, the more successfully can all difficult,

complex problems which arise in the revolution and

construction be solved.

Our revolution, launched a half century ago, has come a

long way and now has reached a very high stage, with

more Herculean tasks confronting us.

This year we have to accomplish the militant tasks ofthe

second year ofthe Third 7-Year Plan, aimed at fulfilling

the 10 major prospective goals of socialist economic

construction set forth by the Sixth Party Plenum. The

Third 7-Year Plan set forth by our party is a grand

program for socialist construction designed to accelerate

the complete victory of socialism and the independent

and peaceful reunification of the fatherland.

The Party Central Committee called for a 200-day battle

to bring about an epochal turn in the struggle to fulfill the

Third 7-Year Plan. The tasks of the 200-day battle as

proposed by the party are very difficult and enormous

tasks which can be accomplished only by dashing at a

very high speed.

Our party scientifically analyzed not only the immense

potential of our self-supporting national economy, but

also the revolutionary spirit of our functionaries and

workers, who never fail to meet the demands ofthe party

with an intense revolutionary spirit. On the basis of this

analysis, our party has unfurled the blueprint for the

enormous, formidable tasks of the 200-day battle. The

economic foundation which has been laid in our country

is very powerful and its productive potential is unlimited. In addition, our party members and workers, cherishing the intentions of the party and the leader deep in

their hearts, are vigorously rushing forth to produce

revolutionary exploits in the great struggle for socialist

construction. The question is how high the revolutionary

spirit of functionaries will soar in energetically organizing and executing the 200-day battle.
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The complex situation caused by the vicious machinations of the U.S. imperialists and their lackeys urgently

demands that our functionaries maintain a more ardent

revolutionary spirit than ever before.

International imperialism headed by the U.S. imperialists, which has long been experiencing an acute political

and economic crisis, is, on the one hand, steeping up the

exploitation and plunder of the people of developing

countries by resorting to cunning neocolonialist methods

and, on the other, directing the arrowhead of attack at

socialism while clinging to armament expansion and the

arms race of an unprecedented scale. In particular, the

U.S. imperialists, by banding together world imperialists

such as the Japanese reactionaries, are carrying out

political and military machinations of aggression more

viciously than ever before against our republic which is

moving forward holding the red flag of intense revolution.

History shows that each time counterrevolutionary

forces intensify their offensive, two currents diametrically opposed to each other appear. Those cowards who

have a tenuous faith take the road of betrayal of the

revolution and surrender to the enemy, while true revolutionaries hold the banner of revolution high and lead

the revolution to an ever greater level, countering the

offensive of the enemy head-on.

Our functionaries should smash the machinations ofthe

enemies and bring about a great upsurge in the revolution and construction and discharge their duty as true

revolutionaries, by maintaining an intense revolutionary

spirit to cope with the current situation in which the

enemies are stepping up their vicious offensive.

At this time, the revolutionary ethos ofour functionaries

should manifest itself above all in accelerating the grand

march of construction launched by our party, through

the unconditional and thoroughgoing implementation of

party policy.

The course of implementation of party policy is essentially the process of revolutionary struggle. When functionaries give full play to the revolutionary ethos of

absolutism and unconditionality toward party policy in

the current majestic march of construction, they can

thoroughly protect the interests of our revolution.

Naturally, the struggle to unconditionally implement

party policy in the grand march of construction is not

always clear sailing. In the course of this march, we will

have to overcome many barriers and trials and solve

numerous knotty problems. Therefore, functionaries

should demonstrate their intense revolutionary ethos by

giving full play to the revolutionary spirit ofself-reliance

and fortitude and by unlocking locked-in links through

their own efforts in the implementation of party policy,

by overcoming all barriers that they encounter. It does

not conform to the work style ofrevolutionaries to solely

engage in the exercise of empty words, not putting one's

shoulder to arduous tasks.

Functionaries should follow the examples of the late

anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters who in the period of

the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, carried out the

orders and instructions ofthe great leader Comrade Kim

Il-song to the end by their own efforts, with the spirit of

absolutism and unconditionality, and also emulate the

revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude displayed by the 10 party members in Nagwon who fulfilled

their pledge to the respected and beloved leader without

fail in those most difficult days. By following these

examples, functionaries should all the more vigorously

accelerate the grand march of construction with the

indomitable revolutionary spirit of crossing the blazing

river of fire and wading through swampy roads.

The party's line and policy are implemented in the

concrete reality of the life and work of the masses.

Accordingly, the intense revolutionary spirit offunctionaries should be demonstrated in their work to go among

the masses and energetically organize and mobilize them

in the grand march of construction. It is contrary to the

revolutionary ethos to avoid going among the masses

and seeking out reserves for economic construction and

spinning in the office instead of going down to the base

level.

Bearing deep in mind that the site ofthe struggle is where

they should be in the grand march of construction,

functionaries should kindle more ardent zeal for exploits

in the hearts of the masses through political work and

spirited agitation, by sharing joys and sorrows with

them, and thus bring about a further upswing in the

200-day battle.

The struggle to implement party policy proceeds always

under certain subjective and objective conditions, and in

the course of this struggle, some conditions may be

favorable and others may be unfavorable. Therefore, the

intense revolutionary spirit offunctionaries should manifest itself in grappling with their tasks in a revolutionary

manner and exerting themselves hard by putting favorable conditions to maximum use and overcoming unfavorable conditions, while voluntarily seeking out and

creating work in order to accelerate the grand march of

construction. No trace of the revolutionary spirit can be

found in any functionary who does not exert himself to

solve problems as they arise, doing nothing but grumbling about conditions.

Functionaries should always make earnest and persistent

efforts to solve whatever problem the great leader Comrade Kim Il-song and the dear Comrade Kim Chong-il

intend and want to solve, by seeking out and creating

tasks to suit objective conditions and turning unfavorable conditions to their advantage with the attitvde of

being the master of the revolution.
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Next, the revolutionary spirit of functionaries should

manifest itself in resolutely struggling against the enemies and living and working always in the revolutionary

way, holding fast to the principles of the revolution to

the finish in whatever adversity.

The revolutionary struggle is accompanied by a fierce

struggle against all hues of class enemies. The enemies of

the revolution go berserk in their desperation to trample

under foot the independent stand and attitude of the

masses of working people. All stripes of opportunists

scheme in every way in collusion with the enemies ofthe

revolution to make people who come forth to join the

revolutionary struggle betray revolutionary principles,

while running amuck with efforts to spread the bourgeois

way of life among them.

The inherent aggressive nature of the imperialists and

the exploitative nature oflandlords and capitalist scoundrels will never change until they die. Should people

entertain even the slightest illusion about imperialism

and capitalism, they would find themselves disarmed

ideologically. Our functionaries, whatever work they do

in any place, should harbor infinite hatred for imperialism and the system of exploitation and continue a

resolute struggle against them.

For functionaries to hold fast to the chuche revolutionary principle and the class principle ofthe working class

to the end is a firm guarantee for giving full play to their

revolutionary spirit. Functionaries should firmly ensure

party leadership in every field, thoroughly observe the

collectivist principle of the working class in conformity

with the inherent nature ofthe socialist system, and fully

defend and implement the Taean work system, the most

superior chuche-oriented socialist economic management system.

The way one lives and works is one of the important

indicators of whether or not one has the revolutionary

spirit. Only by living and working always with alertness

and militancy can functionaries maintain a high degree

of revolutionary spirit and hold fast to revolutionary

principles in all fields. Therefore, the intense revolutionary ethos offunctionaries should manifest itself in working and living always with alertness and in a simple,

revolutionary, and militant manner as befitting revolutionaries in the age of revolution, the age of struggle,

resolutely opposing all forms of the of outmoded decadent bourgeois way of life. We should accept and turn

into our own only the revolutionary principle oflife, our

own socialist way oflife, as elucidated by the great leader

and the dear Comrade Kim Chong-il and independently

and vigorously move forward on the road ofsocialism in

our own way, holding aloft the revolutionary banner of

the chuche ideology.

The revolutionary spirit of functionaries also manifests

itself intensely in the revolutionary ethos of making

continual innovation and advance, confident of victory

and with revolutionary optimism.

The ultimate ruin of imperialism and the victory of

socialism and communism are the inviolable law of

historical development.

It is an important requirement of victory in the revolution to accomplish the tasks of one stage and move on to

the tasks of a new, higher stage and advance the revolution through continual innovation. Therefore, the

intense revolutionary spirit offunctionaries should manifest itself in constantly struggling and advancing without the slightest stagnation and standstill, always with a

firm faith in the justness and victory ofthe revolutionary

cause of communism and with expectations and hopes

for the future.

As in bygone days, when the anti-Japanese revolutionary

fighters dauntlessly fought even under the worst possible

adversity, confidently looking forward to the fall of

Japanese imperialism and the victory of the revolution,

so too, should functionaries demonstrate their intense

revolutionary spirit by making continual innovation and

forward movement even under the worst possible adversity to realizae national reunification and consummate

the cause of socialism and communism, brimming over

with the conviction of sure victory and with optimism,

firmly confident of the ultimate victory of the chuche

cause.

For us, the conviction of sure victory means an immutable faith in the sure victory of the great chuche ideology and the chuche revolutionary cause, and revolutionary optimism means the optimism that is manifested in

the course of carrying on the chuche revolutionary cause

pioneered by the respected and beloved leader Comrade

Kim Il-song from generation to generation. With a firm

faith in and optimism about the justice and ultimate

victory of the immortal chuche ideology and the chuche

revolutionary cause, functionaries should not weaken in

the face of barriers and obstacles encountered in the

middle of the forward march but effect continual innovation without being complacent with the achievements

they have already made.

The revolutionary spirit of functionaries also manifests

itself in their high revolutionary organizational spirit

and disciplinary character.

The revolutionary organizational spirit and disciplinary

character are one of the intrinsic ideomental characteristics of revolutionaries emanating from the essential

nature of the communist movement. The communist

movement is a highly organized one, a collective struggle

which sets in motion the people who have set out on the

road of revolution, by a single unified standard of

discipline. The communist movement can triumphantly

advance only when the party, the working class, and the

masses organize themselves into a unified body under

the leader and wage a organized struggle under iron-clad

discipline.
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The revolutionary organizational spirit and disciplinary

character are particularly vital to the party, the supreme

organization ofthe working class and the weapon of class

struggle, the weapon for the revolution and construction.

Only when an iron-clad organizational spirit and disciplinary character are insured within the party will it be

possible for the working-class party to become a truly

revolutionary and militant party and lead the revolutionary struggle to victory. Therefore, only by giving full play

to their revolutionary organizational spirit and disciplinary character will functionaries and party members be

able to triumphantly march forward on the road of the

communist revolution under the leadership ofthe party.

Functionaries should have the right organizational view

and work and live always by thoroughly relying on

organizations, voluntarily observe revolutionary discipline in every aspect of party and state life, and wage a

staunch struggle against liberalistic and disorderly phenomena, thereby discharging their duty as true revolutionaries having an intense revolutionary organizational

spirit and disciplinary character.

To prepare themselves firmly as true revolutionaries

having an intense revolutionary spirit, functionaries

should thoroughly establish the chuche-oriented revolutionary world view.

Comrade Kim Chong-il, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central

Committee and secretary of the Party Central Committee, pointed out as follows:

"To heighten the revolutionary spirit, party spirit, and

working-class character among cadres and party members, efforts should be made to have them firmly establish the revolutionary world view."

Revolution is a reflection of the revolutionary ideology,

the revolutionary world view, in the way of doing things

and life. Accordingly, only by possessing the revolutionary ideology, the revolutionary world view, will it be

possible to work and live in the revolutionary way in all

realms, political, economic, cultural, and moral. The

chuche ideology is the great idea which elevates the value

and character ofman onto the highest level, and it serves

as ideological and mental nourishment for making functionaries cultivate a high revolutionary spirit.

To arm themselves with the great chuche ideology, the

revolutionary world view, functionaries should constantly step up their revolutionary studies, organizational life, and revolutionary practice.

By intensifying revolutionary studies and make the chuche ideology assimilated into flesh and bone and firmly

establishing the chuche-oriented world view, functionaries should prepare themselves solidly as true chucheoriented revolutionaries possessed with the through-andthrough chuche-oriented world view and securely armed

with the party's line and policy.

At the same time, functionaries should more firmly

consolidate within them the chuche-oriented revolutionary world view as their own unshakable faith, through

the process of intensifying their revolutionary organizational life and revolutionary practice. Revolutionary

organizational life and the revolutionary practice are the

crucible for ideological steeling and the school for revolutionary indoctrination.

Through revolutionary organizational life and revolutionary practice, we should strive to constantly cultivate

and steel ourselves in the revolutionary way while combating all descriptions of outmoded thoughts and elements. In particular, functionaries should brilliantly

adorn the 40th founding anniversary ofthe DPRK as the

grand festival of the victor by closely linking their

revolutionary organizational life to the revolutionary

practice for the 200-day battle unfurled by the party and

by vigorously accelerating the grand march of construction and bringing about a revolutionary upswing on all

fronts of socialist construction.

A Revolutionary Organizational Conscience

Which the Members of the Anti-Japanese

Guerrillas Possessed

41090017 Pyongyang KULLOJA in Korean No 5,

May 88 pp 36-40

[Article by Kang Chun-kun; not translated]

Work With People Should Be Carried Out in a

Manner Suited to the Individual Characteristics of

the People

41090017 Pyongyang KULLOJA in Korean No 5,

May 88 pp 41-46

[Article by Pak Chong-ho]

[Text] Work with people is the essence ofparty work and

a unique form of party activity. All party work proceeds

with work with people as its basis and is carried out

through the work of setting people in motion and energizing them.

Work with people—the task designed to indoctrinate

party members and workers in the revolutionary way

and band them together organizationally and spur them

on to voluntarily launch into the evolutionary struggle

and construction task—can successfully proceed only

when it is creatively carried out in a manner adapted to

the concrete characteristics of the people.

Comrade Kim Chong-il, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central

Committee and secretary of the Party Central Committee, pointed out as follows:

"Work with people should be carried out in a way suited

to the level of preparedness and characteristics of the

people."
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Generally, the substance and form of a work are determined by the characteristics of the people and the

concrete environment in which the object is placed, as

well as the goals of the work. Accordingly, to carry out

work in a manner suited to the characteristics and

concrete environment of the people, is a principled

requirement which must be met in any work.

Party work, work with people, is a wide-ranging task

encompassing people of all classes and strata of society,

a creative task which has as its object the people who

have different levels of ideological consciousness and

preparedness and who perform diverse revolutionary

duties under different circumstances. People, the object

of party work, have all their own peculiar characteristics—no matter how many of them you count, 1,000 or

10,000, they live and work in different environments.

That is why work with people should be carried out in a

manner suited to the characteristics of the people.

To say that work with people is performed in a manner

suited to the object is to say that various forms and

methods are used in work with people in a creative

manner to suit their varying levels of preparedness, their

different minds, concrete revolutionary duties, different

conditions and circumstances.

That work with people should be carried out in a creative

manner is related to the fact that people have levels of

consciousness and preparedness different from each

other.

People's levels of consciousness and preparedness are

one of the important ingredients which make up their

characteristics. The characteristics of the people manifest themselves in the form of different levels of their

consciousness and preparedness.

Difference in people's levels of knowledge and ideological consciousness shows up in different ways they see,

hear, feel, and absorb things. People see, hear, feel, and

absorb things just to the extent of their knowledge and

preparedness. The more people know, the greater are the

depth and breadth with which they absorb reality. On the

contrary, if they do not know much and their level of

knowledge is low, they will be limited in their ability to

see, hear, feel, and absorb things.

Therefore, if work dealing with people with different

levels of ideological consciousness and different degrees

of preparedness were to be carried out uniformly by the

same method with an identical content, it would be

impossible to hit the nail on the head and touch their

heartstrings. Just as different patients afflicted with the

same kind of ailment can be best treated by dispensing

different prescriptions based on their individual physical

conditions, so work with people can hit the nail on the

head only when it is carried out in a creative manner by

using various forms and methods on the basis ofthe level

and degree of preparedness of each individual. Accordingly, in dealing with people with a relatively low level of

preparedness, work should begin with the rudimentary

and make people open their eyes by teaching them

methodically, one thing after another, using living examples and concrete materials, whereas in dealing with

people with a high standard of preparedness, everything

should be explained theoretically and logically and more

demands should be made of them. In rectifying shortcomings that have surfaced, some should be criticized

sternly while others should be educated by the method of

calling them in and gently amonishing and reasoning

with them, depending on the level and degree of preparedness of each of them. In assigning tasks also, if

irrespective of the levels of preparedness and ability,

people with a low level of preparedness are assigned too

difficult tasks, they would lose their confidence and

courage and hang back; on the contrary, iftoo easy a task

is assigned to an able person, he would become selfcomplacent and would not do his best. All this indicates

that only when work with people is carried out on the

basis of the level of ideological consciousness and the

degree of preparedness of each person, they can be

indoctrinated in a substantive manner and their efforts

and wisdom can be successfully organized and mobilized

in the revolutionary struggle and construction task.

That work with people should be carried out in a manner

suited to the object is related to the fact that different

people have different minds and individualities.

To adapt work with people to the mental state of the

masses is an important factor ensuring its success.

Every man speaks, behaves, and lives according to his

own ideas, mind, and spirit. The various ideas and

notions and particular thoughts, will, and feelings of an

individual are merged into one to form his inner world.

The mind is essentially the totality of mental experience

gained in the process of forming these ideas and notions

of a person as reflections of the outside world.

Demands and aims are an important psychological phenomenon that appears in man. This psychological phenomenon materializes in the form of desire, ideal, hope,

and interest.

That is why in work with people, tasks should be well

planned and organized to suit the demands and aims of

individuals, leading them to have fine desires and ideals

and noble interest and tastes. In this connection, it is

important to make proper assignments adapted to the

ideals and desires and the interest and taste of each

individual.

When we know each individual's ideals, desires, interest,

and tastes, and on the basis of this knowledge, give him

an assignment, he will work in high spirits, feeling no

stress at all.
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The mental traits of an individual manifest themselves

through his personality and character. One's personality

and character occupy an important place in each individual's personal traits. Different people have different

personalities and characters and different interest and

tastes.

Essentially, personalty is a personal character of a man as

a social being with an independent stand and attitude

and creativity.

The independent stand and attitude and creativity which

constitute man's essential character appear as personality when they manifest themselves in individuals and

take diverse, concrete forms combined with characteristics peculiar to them.

The creative ability also manifests itself in diverse forms

in individuals. Creative ability, like the independent

stand and attitude, is an attribute common to all, but it

manifests itselfin diverse forms as the talents and ability

of each individual. Just as there are no two identical

persons in the world, no persons have exactly the same

ability and makings.

Under the circumstances where every individual has his

own peculiar likes, character, individuality, if work with

people is not carried out in a manner fitted to each

person, it would be impossible to bring his individual

stand and attitude and ability into full play and foster

and develop his good qualities and positive personality.

Work with people can prove fruitful only when various

forms and methods are used positively, to suit the

psychological peculiarities of the people, such as the

character and personality, temperament and individuality, of each individual.

That work with people should be carried out to suit the

characteristics of the people is related to the fact that

different people have different revolutionary duties

assigned them and have to fulfill these duties under

different conditions and circumstances.

The content ofrevolutionary duties differs from individual to individual, and the condition and circumstances

oftheir execution differ from duty to duty. Some people

carry out their revolutionary duties under relatively

favorable conditions, while others have to carry out their

practical activities under unfavorable conditions.

Accordingly, in dealing with people working under a

favorable condition, work with them should be conducted in such a way as to lead them to achieve higher

results by taking advantage ofthat condition, whereas in

dealing with people working under an unfavorable condition, work with them should be carried out with a view

to inspiring and spurring on them to overcome their

unfavorable condition and turn it into a favorable one,

with unflinching determination and perseverance. No

good results would come ofwork with people ifthe same

methods and forms should be employed to all individuals despite of the differences in their given conditions

and circumstances, or if the same old method should be

used when the condition and circumstance have

changed. Work with people can touch the heartstrings of

the masses and produce great results only when it is

carried out positively in a manner fitted to the concrete

duty of each individual, the place and time, and the

peculiar condition and circumstance at which he performs his duty.

This we have come to realize keenly through our practical experience.

Our Yomju County is a typical farm county. That is why

proper execution ofrural party work, work with farmers,

always remains an important duty confronting the

county party committee.

The farmers, unlike the workers, work scattered in the

wide open fields, subjected to natural and seasonal

constraints, and the results of their productive work

appear only after the passage of a certain length oftime.

Particularly, farm work deals with living things, ifit fails

once, the damage cannot be recouped in the same year.

The peculiarities offarm work dealing with living things

and offarm labor conducted scattered in the wide fields

demand that party members and farm workers in rural

areas perform all farm work as required by the numerous

farming processes, in accordance with the requirements

of the chuche farming method, and with a high sense of

responsibility and the attitude of being the master, until

the whole year's fanning is completed.

In view of this demand, the county party committee

exerted great efforts to carry out work with people,

political work, among the farmers by using various forms

and methods, in order to inculcate in them the selfawareness and sense of responsibility befitting the master.

It was at the corn humus pot transplanting season. While

going among the farm workers and transplanting corn

humus pots with them, we uncovered a fact that could

not be glossed over, the fact that here and there in the

furrows ofthe field, corn was not planted in accordance

with the demands ofthe chuche farming method. At that

moment, we felt an urge to turn back and curse and

swear and make them plant the misplaced ones all over.

However, we knew that this method might work temporarily but would not be a basic solution. What was

needed was the kind of agitation that would touch the

heartstrings, political work that would hit the nail on the

head. We marked the places where the corn planting was

skipped. When the farm members turned around after

finishing one furrow each and were about to move on to

the next furrows, we let them stretch their backs and

carefully examine the furrows they had just finished. In

each furrow, there were one or two spots where corn was

perfunctorily planted or not planted at all. We wasted no

time in explaining that if one corn plant is missed each
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pyong, the loss will total 3,000 ears each chongbo, and if

each ear bears 100 grams of corn, the loss will amount to

300 kilograms, bringing that much less food to the state's

granary. We appealed to the farmers that for this reason,

they should not neglect even a single corn plant but meet

the demands ofthe chuche farming method by performing farm work in a responsible manner, with the consciousness and sense of responsibility befitting the master.

The political work we conducted without ceremony and

formality to suit the concrete conditions of the workplace and the peculiarities of farm labor could hit the

nail on the head and touch the heartstrings and produce

a great practical effect. All farm members had a reflection on their work style unbefitting the master, with a

keen sense of self-reproach, and planted each corn plant

with sincerity, without missing even a single spot.

Through this experience, we have come to realize that

only the kind of political work adopted to the concrete

nature ofthe revolutionary duties ofthe farmers and the

actual condition ofthe workplace can be a political work

that can touch their heartstrings and substantially contribute to helping them heighten their self-awareness and

sense of responsibility befitting the master.

From its inception, our party has defined work with

people to be the foundation of party work and endeavored to solve all problems arising in party building and

party activity through work with people.

The dear Comrade Kim Chong-il—who has brilliantly

inherited the chuche-oriented party building thought

and principles evolved by the great leader Comrade Kim

Il-song and is now thoroughly implementing these principles and thought—has clearly defined the direction

and method for improving work with people to suit the

demand at the new, higher developmental stage of the

party and the revolution for converting the whole party

and the whole society to the chuche ideology and taken

concrete measures and active steps to carry out work

with people in a manner suited to the characteristics of

its object. Thanks to our party's active measures and

wise leadership, deviations manifested in work with

people have disappeared, an orderly work system has

been firmly established with work with people as its

basis, and party work and party activity have been

definitely converted to work with people. Party work,

work with people, is proceeding with vigor and originality in a manner suited to the characteristics ofthe people;

and with the revolutionary fervor and creative wisdom

of the people given greater scope, a new upswing and

advance are being scored in the revolution and construction. As a result, our party has been strengthened and

developed into a great organized and tested revolutionary party, a militant party brimming over with vigor and

vim, which is excellently exercising political leadership

in society in a manner suited to its character and mission

as a party exercising political leadership and leading the

revolution and construction.

The new revolutionary turn which has taken place in the

work and activity of our party represents the priceless

fruition of none other than the leadership of the dear

Comrade Kim Chong-il, who has led us to definitely

convert party work to work with people and carry out

work with people to suit the characteristics ofthe people.

The reality oftoday, when our revolution is advancing at

a new, higher stage and when the level of ideological

consciousness ofthe people is improving as never before,

demands that work with people be further intensified to

suit the characteristics of the people.

Comrade Kim Chong-il, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central

Committee and secretary of the Party Central Committee, pointed out as follows:

"If work with cadres, work with party members, and

work with the masses are to be conducted properly, you

should understand them profoundly and learn about

them in great deail, down to the living condition of each

individual, his personality, tastes, health condition, and

level of ability, and carry out your work to suit the

characteristics of each object."

To have an accurate understanding and knowledge of

each individual is a prerequisite for conducting work

with people in a manner suited to the characteristics of

each object.

Learning about people is the starting point in work with

people. Work with people begins with an understanding

of people. To conduct work with people with no knowledge ofthem is like attempting to treat a patient without

any definite diagnosis and prescription. It is obvious that

just as a random diagnosis and haphazard prescription

cannot cure a disease, so, too, no good will come ofwork

with people when it is carried out with no clear knowledge about people, because such work will be nothing but

an exercise in empty words. Only with a full, in-depth

systematic knowledge about people will it be possible to

carry out work with people properly in a manner suited

to the characteristics of each object.

An important way of learning about people is to go

among the masses.

For party functionaries to really go among the masses,

they should go into the hearts ofthe masses. One has not

really gone among the masses unless he has gone into

their hearts and opened them up. Only when party

functionaries make their way into the inner hearts of

people and mix with the masses, revealing their true

hearts to each other, will the functionaries get their ideas

across to the masses and talk by laying bare their hears to

each other, and finding out what the masses think at

heart, even their innermost feelings. Only then will

functionaries be able to learn more concretely about

those many cadres, party members, and the masses
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whom they have not fully understood or of whom they

have had only a superficial knowledge, and go forward to

intensify work with these people to suit their known

characteristics.

An important requirement of party functionaries in

accurately understanding people is to analyze in depth

and vivisect anatomically the phenomena appearing in

the work and lives of people, instead of viewing them as

they are.

A phenomenon is a manifestation of the essence, which

manifests itself only through a phenomenon, which in

turn can manifest itself only when it has the essence

behind it. Therefore, in understanding people, we should

not stop at viewing only a phenomenon but invariably

see through the essence.

Man's mind, his thought, is expressed in words and

deeds, but one should not hastily conclude that a single

word or a single action of a man will reveal his whole

heart. Apart from two-faced persons, even some guileless

people may lack an ability to express themselves clearly

that others may not be able to understand them correctly, and in some cases, their actions may not mirror

their true intentions for one reason or another. Therefore, in understanding and grasping people, party functionaries should not view only the phenomenal side

piecemeal but know how to see through the essence

hidden below the surface phenomenon by viewing the

phenomenon in close conjunction with various related

factors and systematically studying and analyzing it.

People, the object of party work, are always concrete and

real beings, concrete and real in terms of thinking and

feeling, will and action. That is why to set their thinking

in motion, stimulate their feelings, solidify their will, and

add positiveness to their actions, functionaries should

understand them concretely, down to all their psychology, such as their thinking and feeling, demands and

desires, ideals and hopes, and likes and tastes, and on the

basis of this knowledge, adapt work with them to their

characteristics.

In adopting work with people to their characteristics, it is

important to conduct work with people with a concrete

methodology.

Methodology is a scientific means for making a proper

use ofthe general universal content of a work method to

suit the characteristics of the people and the concrete

situation. The universal and general substance of work

with people is applied through a scientific and concrete

methodology.

Just as no two persons in the world are exactly identical,

so too can there be no single method applicable to all.

Accordingly, party functionaries should not attempt to

conduct work with people in accordance with any uniform formula. Work with people is something that

cannot be carried out according to any uniform formula.

The method for work with people consists in looking for

the means of indoctrination adapted to the characteristics of the people, in other words, in seeking out a

methodology applicable to each case and each individual. Methodology makes it possible to seek out a concrete measure and excellent skill for conducting work

with people by using a particular form and method

adapted to a given condition and circumstance, and for

this reason, it provides a means for achieving good

results in work with people.

Methodology should be worked out concretely so as to

achieve the greatest possible result in the task by carefully checking the content and requirements ofthe given

task, the characteristics of the people, and the circumstances in which the task is performed and by adapting it

to these factors.

Party organizations and functionaries should step up

collective consultation and work out the right methodology and search for an accurate methodology by making

a serious study with an intense spirit of inquiry. By so

doing, party functionaries should creatively formulate

and implement a methodology in work with people to

suit the characteristics of the particular units and fields

in which they operate and of each individual they deal

with.

To meet and talk with people on a routine basis is an

important requirement in conducting work with people

in a manner adapted to the characteristics ofthe people.

Words are a basic means of conversation, and they

expresses ideas. People express their ideas and feelings,

tastes and interest through words, and their intellectual

and cultural levels are revealed by their words. That is

why in order to conduct work with people to suit the

characteristics ofthe people, we should hear what people

have to say and talk with them face to face.

Conversation helps create a favorable atmosphere for

meeting and talking with individuals separately, in a face

to face situation, or meeting with a limited number of

people in a group situation. This is done with a view to

bringing out individual characteristics, with consideration for the circumstances, so that these people will

voluntarily speak their minds. In addition, conversation

can be held anywhere, unhampered by circumstances or

conditions. Conversation also does not need any particular formality or means. Accordingly, no method is more

effective than conversation in adapting work with people

to the characteristics of the people.

Party functionaries should meet and converse with people on a routine basis, regarding it as their duty.

To improve the performance levels and ability of party

functionaries is an important means for skillfully conducting work with people in a manner suited to the

characteristics of the people.
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How well work with people is adopted to the characteristics of the object is totally dependent upon the performance levels and ability of party functionaries in charge

of the work.

In their work, party functionaries deal with people in

various fields, all having different occupations, different

intellectual standards, different personalities, different

ages, and diffeent living conditions. That is why to

conduct work with people well enough to suit the characteristics ofthe people, functionaries should know what

each individual is doing and have certain knowledge of

his work.

Only with an acute political eye, rich knowledge, and

broad views will functionaries be able to view, analyze,

and judge all problems from the point of view of party

policy line, learn the demands and desires of people from

the first word they speak and the first move they make,

swiftly distinguish the tell-tale heartbeats of the people

that others fail to detect, and carry out work with people

skillfully and expertly.

Inasmuch as work with people requires the refined

leadership of a man who is highly subtle, prudent,

mature, and very composed, party functionaries should

be well versed in all fields—political, economic, scientific, and cultural, so that they may be fully prepared in

every aspect.

Along with extensive knowledge, party functionaries

should possess rich sentiment and a high standard of

cultural attainment. Ifthey are lacking emotion and have

a low standard of cultural attainment, they cannot mix

with the masses, nor go among the masses and skillfully

conduct work with people to suit their psychological

characteristics and levels of preparedness. Functionaries

should strive to become men of emotion, men with rich

sentiment, who know better than others how to enjoy

life, so that they may stimulate the sentiment and

ideological feelings of people at times through words,

with a smile on some occasions, with tears on other

occasions, and sometimes with a song, as dictated by the

logic of life.

An extensive knowledge and rich cultural attainments

are the product of ardor and the fruit of fervent efforts.

The performance levels offunctionaries do not improve

of themselves but only improve under persistant study

with burning ardor.

There is no such thing as a born revolutionary, nor a

perfect revolutionary. Party functionaries should

patiently learn and study hard to become adept functionaries, prepared multifacetedly, and not regard themselves as perfect men or totally prepared.

Today all our party members and workers are seething

with the 200-day battle to glorify the 40th founding

anniversary of the republic as the grand festival of the

victor, by upholding the militant tasks set forth in the

letter and slogans of the Party Central Committee.

We will still more vigorously encourage and inspire party

members and workers into the successful completion of

the 200-day battle by substantially conducting party

work, work with people, to suit the demands of the

developing realities.

Strengthening Kindred Ties With the Popular

Masses Is the Party's Intrinsic Demand

41090017 Pyongyang KULLOJA in Korean No 5,

May 88 pp 47-52

[Article by Kang Chun-kun; not translated]

The Party Member Should Live a Worthy Life

Moment by Moment for the Party and the Leader

41090017 Pyongyang KULLOJA in Korean No 5,

May 88 pp 53-58

[Article by Kim Ui-sun; not translated]

The Normalization of Production Is an Important

Means of Accelerating the Grand March of

Construction

41090017 Pyongyang KULLOJA in Korean No 5,

May 88 pp 59-62

[Article by Song Chu-kyu]

[Text] Today all our party members and workers are

vigorously pushing the grand march of production by

launching into the 200-day battle as one in response to

the militant call of the party.

One ofthe important problems arising in actively speeding up the grand march of construction and successfully

attaining the major goals ofthe Third 7-Year Plan is that

of normalizing production at a high level in all sectors of

the national economy.

The great leader Comrade Kim Il-song taught as follows:

"Normalizing production means that factories not only

continue production without a letup by operating at full

capacity but also completely take on a face worthy of

their name." ("Collected Works of Kim Il-song,: Vol 28,

p260)

Normalizing production means fulfilling assignments

under the state production plan without fail by the day,

by the 10-day period, by the month, by the quarter, and

by the indicators, and systematically boost production

by operating existing equipment at full capacity.
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In socialist society, normalizing production at a high

level is an important requirement for the development of

the national economy in a planned and balanced way.

The socialist economy is a highly organized economy, all

sectors and units ofwhich go in gear with one another, a

planned economy in which the economic activities ofthe

country are carried out under unitary state planning. In

socialist society, only when all units of production fulfill

their state-assigned plans without fail by the day, by

10-day period, by the month, by the season, and by the

indicators, is it possible to develop the economy in a

dynamic and stable manner and develop the nation's

economy at a fast pace by effectively utilizing the existing economic foundations to the utmost. If production is

not normalized even in any one link of the economy, it

will affect the fulfillment ofthe production plans in other

related sectors, impeding the planned and balanced

development of the national economy as a whole.

In the entire course of socialist economic construction,

our party has always waged a vigorous struggle to normalize production and brought about a continual

upswing in production and construction by wisely leading all our functionaries and workers to fulfill on schedule their specific plans under the overall state plan.

Toady, when we are faced with enormous economic

tasks designed to lay the solid material and technological

foundations for the complete victory of socialism, our

party demands that all sectors and all units continue to

normalize production at a high level.

Normalization of production at a high level enables us

above all to more vigorously push grand socialist construction by accelerating production and construction

through the maximum effective use of the existing economic foundations.

The grand march of construction—designed to successfully ensuring the completion of the major construction

targets, including projects aimed at satisfactorily solving

the people's food, shelter, and housing problems, by

expanding and strengthening the productive and technological foundations of the key industrial sectors—is

progressing on an immense scale without parallel, and it

is an arduous and complex undertaking that should be

accomplished in a short period of time while maintaining the highest level of quality.

To successfully accomplish these enormous tasks in a

short space of time, it is imperative to clearly set the

step-by-step goals of major target projects and the fighting tasks that should be carried out at each stage and

vigorously push ahead with construction work as scheduled. All sectors and units participating in the grand

march of construction should draw up construction

plans for each day, for each 10-day period, for each

month, for each season, and for each indicator, and

fulfill them on time without fail by concentrating every

effort on them. Only by doing so will it be possible to

carry out the enormous construction projects as planned

and put newly built factories and enterprises into operation on schedule. If we should be unable to fulfill the

construction plans on schedule through failure to normalize construction, it would seriously affect whole

construction and makes it impossible to ensure the

quality of construction at the highest level and shorten

the time required for construction. Only by normalizing

construction in major construction sites and fulfilling

the construction plans without fail by the day, by the

10-day period, by the month, by the season, and by the

indicators, will it be possible to vigorously carry out the

major target projects and actively accelerate the grand

march of construction as intended by the party.

When the state plans are fulfilled thoroughly on schedule, not only in the construction sector but in various

other sectors and units, we will be able to vigorously

accelerate the grand march of construction.

Grand socialist construction which is progressing on an

immense scale and at a high speed requires huge quantities of production facilities and materials.

The more satisfactorily construction materials and

machinery and equipment such as processed iron and

steel and cement are produced on schedule as planned by

normalizing production, the faster the major target

projects can be pushed forward. If we should fail to

normalize production and thus become unable to supply

necessary equipment, materials, and plant facilities to

construction sites, it would be impossible to normalize

construction and we would end up wasting a great deal of

social labor. Therefore, to speed up the grand march of

construction, all branches and units should secure the

qualitative production of equipment and materials by

normalizing production. Only then will it be possible to

complete the major target projects as soon as possibly as

desired by the party and people, and magnificently erect

monumental structures according to the plan for the

ages.

Normalization of production at a high level will bring

about a rapid growth of the economy and constantly

increase the sources of socialist accumulation, thereby

satisfactorily accelerating the grand march of construction.

The grand march of construction, designed to successfully fulfill the Third 7-Year Plan, is a worthy struggle to

create an additional production capacity by building new

modern factories and enterprises on a large scale and to

change the face ofthe country by speeding up a number

of major target projects such as the Kwanbok Boulevard

and other major construction projects in Pyongyang.

The Third 7-Year Plan can be satisfactorily fulfilled only

by creating a large additional production capacity while

effectively utilizing the existing foundation of production. In successfully ensuring socialist construction

which has increased in scale without parallel, not only

huge quantities of equipment and materials but also a
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large fund are needed. To successfully ensure the grand

march of construction designed to create an additional

production capacity, it is imperative to decisively

increase investment in capital construction by creating

abundant sources of socialist accumulation.

When the existing production capacity is fully utilized by

normalizing production at a high level, it is possible to

expand the sources of socialist accumulation and

actively increase investment in capital construction. The

higher the level at which production is normalized, the

more labor productivity increases, resulting in the conservation of labor and the means of production and a

reduction of production costs, and moreover an increase

in the ratio of the net income to gross national product.

This indicates that only on the basis offully utilizing the

existing production capacity by normalizing production

is it possible to more satisfactorily secure the sources of

funds necessary to create an additional production

capacity.

As you see, to fulfill the state plan without fail by the day,

by the 10-day period, by the month, by the season, and

by the indicators through the normalization of production in all sectors and units ofthe national economy is an

important means for successfully capturing the major

targets ofthe Third 7-Year Plan through an acceleration

of the grand march of construction.

As a result ofthe brilliant implementation ofthe chucheoriented economic construction line under the sagacious

leadership of the great leader Comrade Kim Il-song and

the dear Comrade Kim Chong-il, the solid foundation of

a self-supporting national economy with enormous

potential has been laid in our country today. Everywhere

in the country, large-scale national-level industrial factories and small and medium-scale local industrial factories have been erected, their technical provisions have

been improved, and the substructure of industry has

been further perfected. This solid economic foundation

provides sufficient conditions and possibilities for continually increasing production. If in all sectors and units

of the national economy, the existing economic foundations are effectively utilized by normalizing production,

it will be possible to accelerate the formidable battle of

construction of an enormous scale and successfully

attain the 10 major goals ofsocialist economic construction. Then and only then will it be possible to lay the

solid material and technological foundations of the

socialist society that will be realzed when socialism

attains its complete victory and to satisfactorily meet the

independent demands ofthe people in their material life.

That is why we should accelerate still more the grand

march of construction that has already taken gigantic

steps, by actively waging the struggle to normalize production at a high level in all sectors and units of the

national economy to suit the realistic requirements of

the present period in which socialist economic construction is vigorously progressing at a new, higher stage.

In normalizing production in the present period, it is

important above all for all functionaries and workers to

give full play to the revolutionary trait of accomplishing

their assignments unconditionally with the revolutionary

spirit of self-reliance and fortitude.

Comrade Kim Chong-il, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central

Committee and secretary of the Party Central Committee, pointed out as follows:

"Functionaries and party members should thoroughly

implement the party's decisions and instructions by

seeking out more ofwhat is in short supply, making what

is nonexistent, and breaking through all barriers by their

own efforts, by giving full play to the revolutionary spirit

of self-reliance and fortitude."

The revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude is

the noble communist struggle ethos which people living

in the age of revolution, the age of struggle, should

cultivate; a work style that should always be brought into

full play in the revolutionary struggle and the construction task. Only with this revolutionary spirit is it possible

to thoroughly accomplish party-assigned revolutionary

tasks by breaking through whatever barrier, in accordance with the principle of absolutism and unconditionality, and normalize production to meet the demands of

the developing realities.

All economic guidance functionaries and workers,

keenly realizing the importance of normalizing production in the struggle to fulfill the Third 7-Year Plan by

accelerating the grand march of construction, should

bring the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude into play. The struggle ethos that functionaries

should cultivate is that of putting their shoulders to, and

throwing themselves into, the execution of the revolutionary tasks and accomplishing their assignments to the

finish, by standing at the head of the ranks as befitting

the command personnel who directly organize and command the grand march of construction. Functionaries

should always go deep among the producer masses and

vigorously carry out political work, work with people,

and by giving full play to the high revolutionary fervor

and creative initiatives of the workers, mobilize and

utilize all reserves and potential and accomplish their

assigned revolutionary tasks unconditionally and in a

thoroughgoing manner. At the same time, functionaries

and workers work out proper measures for increasing the

utilization of facilities and conserving raw materials,

supplies, fuel, and power, and wage a vigorous struggle to

implement those measures in a planed manner.

What is important in normalizing production at this

time is to coordinate efforts in working out an airtight

organization of production and command.

Currently, in our country the scale of the national

economy is constantly expanding and the links between

various economic sectors, between factories, between
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enterprises, and between work shops are getting increasingly tight. Given this condition, only by properly coordinating and planning work to organize production and

command will it be possible to secure raw materials, fuel,

supplies, and cooperative products on time, carry on

production without interruption, and normalize production at a high level, by rationalizing all managerial

operations, such as the management of equipment, the

management of materials and supplies, labor management, and financial management.

The first and foremost problem arising in normalizing

production at a high level is that of properly managing

equipment.

Proper equipment management is a basic requirement

for normalizing production at a high level and it is a

principle that should invariably be observed in organizing production. Only by properly maintaining and managing equipment is it possible to give full scope to the

capacities of various facilities.

To manage facilities well, we should work out an airtight

planned preventive maintenance system for plant

machinery. Factories and enterprises should prepare an

accurate maintenance schedule for each piece ofmachinery and establish a strict system of carrying out maintenance work on a routine basis according to this schedule.

At the same time, it is important to see that workers

acquaint themselves with the maintenance rules and

standard operational procedures for the machinery

under their charge and handle equipment according to

the prescribed technical specifications. In particular,

they should vigorously wage the "movement of loyalty

by learning from lathe model No 26" in order to manage

all equipment meticulously and operate it at its full

capacity.

What is important in normalizing production at a high

level is to tackle the work of providing the necessary

conditions for delivering raw materials and supplies and

properly organizing cooperative production.

Production process is a process of consuming numerous

raw materials, fuel, and supplies, and to normalize

production, we should provide these resources promptly.

Economic guidance functionaries, in accordance with

the requirements of party policy for providing raw

materials, fuel, and supplies prior to production, see to it

that these resources are secured and delivered on time in

sufficient quantities. Functionaries should always keep

tabs on the state of supply and consumption of raw

materials, fuel, and other supplies and plan and take

airtight measures to ensure the flow of these materials

with mobility to suit the constantly changing situation.

At the same time, they should establish a thoroughgoing

system of supplying cooperative products 15 days in

advance, while vigorously waging the struggle to economize on the use of these products by preventing any

phenomenon of hoarding or wasting them.

To organize transportation in a planned manner is an

important requirement in the organization ofproduction

aimed at normalizing production.

Transportation is an essential ingredient in production,

inseparably linked to production, and forms a link in the

successive process of production. Only by hauling raw

materials, supplies, and products on time by actively

making transportation catch up with production will it

be possible to normalize production.

Functionaries in the transportation sector should work

out scientific transportation plans on the basis of a

minute assessment of the demand and capacity and

eliminate various inappropriate transport modes by

dovetailing them in concrete terms. In particular, by

thoroughly implementing the party's policy on the transportation revolution, mobility in transportation should

be ensured by properly carrying out concentrated as well

as bulk transportation and strengthening coordinated

transportation by rail, by truck, and by ship.

In normalizing production at a higher level at this time,

it is important to unconditionally establish stringent

discipline in fulfilling state plans.

Socialist production is planed production, highly developed cooperative production. When all factories and

enterprises fulfill their production plans without fail,

cooperative production will smoothly proceed in the

whole society and it is possible to normalize production

at a high level.

Economic guidance functionaries should work out thoroughgoing technical and economic measures to fulfill

production plans without fail by the product indicators

and establish a stringent discipline of fulfilling them

unconditionally by the day, by the 10-day period, by the

month, by the season, and by the indicators, so that all

sectors and units may normalize production.

The struggle to normalize production at a high level is an

honorable and worthy struggle aimed at vigorously accelerating the grand march of construction.

We will increase the speed of the grand march of

construction still more and actively contribute to the

successful fulfillment of the Third 7-Year Plan by continually normalizing production at a high level to suit the

realistic demands of socialist construction.

The Thoroughgoing Implementation of the Chuche

Farming Method Is a Sure Guarantee for Growth

in Agricultural Production

41090017 Pyongyang KULLOJA in Korean No 5,

May 88 pp 63-67

[Article by Yi Ha-sop]

[Text] Currently, functionaries and workers in the rural

economic sector are confronted with the honorable task

of glorifying this significant year, the 40th founding
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anniversary of the republic, with a bumper harvest by

bringing about a continual upswing in agricultural production, in response to the letter and slogans ofthe WPK

Central Committee.

One of the important tasks in making the great agricultural production leaps and innovations intended by the

party is that ofthe thoroughgoing implementation ofthe

chuche farming method.

Continually boosting agricultural production is an

important task into which our party is putting the

greatest effort in the struggle to solve the people's food,

clothing, and shelter problems.

Ofprimary importance in the daily material and cultural

life of the people is the problem of food, clothing, and

shelter, and of all these problems, the food problem is of

particular importance. Solving food problems is a basic

requirement for securing an independent and creative

material and cultural life for the people. As the saying

goes, goodness flows from the rice jar. The state of

people's consciousness improves and everything goes

well when there is a plethora of food supply.

Basic to solving food problems is to concentrate efforts

on agriculture and to produce rice in great quantities.

Rice is communism per se. When rice is produced in

great quantities, communist construction can be successfully pushed forward, and when plenty ofrice is available

to meet the demand, communist society is realizable.

Increasing agricultural production is a very important

task to successfully implement the respected and beloved

leader Comrade Kim Il-song's far-reaching vision of

realizing the communist way of distribution beginning

with the supply of rice.

Early on the great leader Comrade Kim Il-song set forth

the theses on the socialist agrarian question and the

agriculture-first policy and founded the chuche farming

method, thereby opening a dazzling prospect for agricultural development, and since then has sagaciously led

functionaries, workers, and all the people into the worthy

struggle to implement his theses, policy, and method. As

a result, a new turn has been made in agricultural

production.

More immediately, boosting agricultural production

arises as an urgent requirement in satisfactorily solving

food problems for the people. A sure guarantee for

continually increasing agricultural production to suit the

reality ofrapidly progressing socialist construction lies in

the thoroughgoing implementation of the chuche farming method.

Comrade Kim Chong-il, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central

Committee and secretary of the Party Central Committee, pointed out as follows:

"...we should make agricultural workers thoroughly

implement the chuche farming method. The implementation of the chuche farming method offers a sure

guarantee for boosting agricultural production."

The chuche farming method is a unique method adapted

to the actual circumstances in our country, a highly

intensive method based on the achievements of modern

science and the solid foundations of agricultural production.

That the thoroughgoing implementation of the chuche

farming method is a sure guarantee for the growth of

agricultural production is because, above all, it is a

scientific farming method, a method of farming in a

scientific way.

Unlike industry, agriculture, one of the two major sectors ofthe national economy, uses land as its basic means

of production, and its process of production consists

mainly in a biological process dealing with crops. Naturally, agricultural production is greatly influenced by

land, weather, and climatic conditions and its success

depends on how well the biological needs ofthe crops are

met.

Different countries cultivate different crops under different natural conditions. To increase agricultural production in a specific country under these circumstances,

it is imperative to scientifically analyze the soil, weather,

climatic conditions as well as the biological conditions of

the crops of that country and employ scientific farming

methods adopted to these conditions.

The weather and climatic conditions in our country

differ from area to area, valley to valley, and, even in the

same valley, from field to field. Different crops growing

in different natural environments have different requirements for temperature, light, nutrition, humidity, and so

forth at each stage of growth. To farm scientifically, it is

imperative to plant and raise crops to suit the concrete

climatic conditions in each part of the country, and

properly understand and fully meet the biological needs

of the crops.

The chuche farming method comprehensively elucidates

a scientific way of farming to suit the weather and

climatic conditions of the country and the biological

characteristics of the crops. Chuche farming clarifies the

general principles that should be observed in accurately

assigning all varieties of crops to the right fields to suit

the soil, weather, and climatic conditions in accordance

with the principle ofthe right crop at the right place, and

the right crop in the right season. At the same time, it sets

forth concrete ways to accurately survey and analyze the

soil and climatic conditions in specific areas and fields

and grow the right crops to suit these conditions. The

chuche farming method clearly indicates scientific ways

of farming to suit the biological conditions of crops, as

well as the climatic conditions.
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4 April 1989 29

The productivity of each crop depends in the main on

how to meet its biological needs at each stage of growth.

The chuche farming method makes the overall productive and technical processes of fanning and methods of

cultivation scientific by preparing work far in advance so

that all conditions necessary for growth, such as temperature, nourishment, and humidity, may be satisfied fully

at each stage of growth, and by planning and organizing

all farming processes in accordance with scientific and

technological principles.

Thus, synthesized in the chuche farming method are all

well-founded methods and concrete ways to farm in a

scientific way to suit the weather and climatic conditions

of our country and the biological needs of the crops.

Therefore, when the chuche farming method is thoroughly implemented, we can successfully overcome

unfavorable and abnormal environmental or weather

conditions and gather in a stable, rich harvest.

Another reason the thoroughgoing implementation of

the chuche farming method offers a sure guarantee for

growth in agricultural production is that it is an intensive

farming method by which agricultural production is

highly intensified on the basis of modern science.

In modern farming, intensive farming is the most

advanced method that enables the continual boosting of

agricultural production by concentrating the means of

production and labor on each unit acreage on the basis of

the latest agricultural science and advanced farming

technologies. Introduction of intensive agricultural production makes it possible to overcome the natural limitations of land under cultivation to a certain extent and

produce a higher yield with a smaller input offunds and

labor per unit of the crop produced , thereby satisfactorily meeting the ever increasing demand for food, grain

and other farm products.

There are many ways of intensive farming. When the

scientific and technological standard of agriculture is

relatively low, the general method is to put more labor

power into each unit of land, but at a higher level of

agricultural science and technology, the basic method is

to make a greater input ofthe means of production. Only

by putting in more machinery, fertilizers, and agricultural chemicals per unit of land is it possible to free the

farmers from backbreaking labor and effectively boost

agricultural production from even a small acreage of

cultivated land.

In introducing intensive farming, it is important to

increase the productivity of land by improving the

fertility of dry fields and paddies and putting land to

maximum use. The chuche farming method makes it

possible to increase the fertility of dry fields and paddies

by actively ameliorating the fields so as to complement

each other. Thus the chuche farming method makes it

possible to create a necessary condition for achieving

intensive agricultural production by turning arid land

into fertile land, constantly replenishing nutrients consumed in the process of soil utilization, and further

improving the fertility ofthe soil. In addition to improving the fertility of dry and wet fields, the chuche farming

method makes it possible to reap a maximum yield from

each plant by planting crops as densely as possible and

taking good care of each plant.

The intensification of agricultural production can be

successively accomplished only by modern material and

technological means. The chuche farming method makes

it possible to farm on time and ensure quality in farming

by carrying out all farming processes with the power of

machines, electricity, and chemistry—processes such as

improving the fertility ofthe soil, preventing insect and

blight damage, and providing favorable conditions for

the growth of the crops.

This tells us that the thoroughgoing implementation of

the chuche farming method makes it possible to maximize the utilization of land and further increase its

productivity by satisfactorily solving all problems arising

in the intensification of agricultural production.

Practical experience in socialist rural construction in our

country indicates that the thoroughgoing implementation ofthe chuche farming method offers a sure guarantee for growth in agricultural production.

Agricultural production in our country, which continues

to increase at a fast pace from the early days when we

began to build a new society, has made a new epochal

turn since 1973.

With the thorough implementation of the chuche farming method created by the great leader Comrade Kim

Il-song, grain production in our country registered a 36

percent increase in 1973 over the previous year and a 31

percent increase in 1974 over 1973. The grain output in

1974 was more than 7 million tons. By continuing to

implement the chuche farming method thoroughly, we

produced 9 million tons of grain in 1979 and 10 million

tons of grain in 1984, 5.3 times the output in 1946, the

year immediately after liberation.

The per chongbo food grain output, such as rice and corn

in our country has reached a very high level today.

As elsewhere, with the chuche farming method implemented under the sagacious leadership of the great

leader Comrade Kim Il-song, a new turn in farming has

taken place in our North Pyongan Province. As a result

of the thoroughgoing implementation of the chuche

farming method, the total feed grain output in our

province increased by 18 percent in 1985 over 1972 and

by 18 percent in 1987 over 1985, and the per chongbo

food grain yield in 1984 increased by 48.8 percent in

unhulled rice and by 108.6 percent in corn over 1972.

All this success in agricultural production represents the

brilliant fruition of the wise leadership exercised by the

great leader Comrade Kim Il-song in implementing the

chuche farming method which he himself created, and it

also represents a proud achievement made possible by
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4 April 1989 30

the dear Comrade Kim Chong-il, who has set forth the

concrete direction for and ways of implementing the

chuche farm method and has vigorously organized and

mobilized party organizations, workers, and all the people in the countryside in the implementation of the

chuche farming method. The achievements made in

agricultural production under the wise leadership of the

party and the leader powerfully demonstrate the might of

our country's foundation ofsocialist agricultural production—which firmly ensures a stable and rich harvest

each year—and the powerful vitality of the chuche

farming method.

All this clearly proves that the chuche farming method

created by the great leader Comrade Kim Il-song is our

own unique superior farming method best suited to the

real circumstances in our country and the developmental

tendencies of modern agricultural science, and that a

sure guarantee for a continual upswing in agricultural

production lies in the thoroughgoing implementation of

the chuche farming method.

By keeping a tight grip on the chuche farming method,

the superiority ofwhich has been proven in the course of

socialist rural construction, we should achieve another

bumper crop this year and successfully capture the 15

million-ton food grain height in the near future.

Comrade Kim Chong-il, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central

Committee ; nd secretary of the Party Central Committee, pointed oit as follows:

"To do excelle it farming, it is imperative to thoroughly

implement the chuche farming method."

r

o thoroughly implement the chuche farming method,

a'l functions es and workers in the rural economy

si , '

J

" -st o) all have the firm conviction that the only

w&) t to; inually increase agricultural production is to

fan i a« ordance with the requirements ofthe chuche

farn.i _, ...ethod from beginning to end.

Every farm policy set forth by our party has been proven

most justifiable and accurate. Because our people have

struggled always along the road indicated by our party's

agricultural policy, they have been able to produce such

proud achievements in socialist rural construction which

have amazed the whole world. Today, when our revolution is progressing at the high stage of converting the

whole society to the chuche ideology, the key to accelerating socialist rural construction lies in continuing to

thoroughly implement the party's agricultural policy,

and the way to increase food grain production also lies in

farming in accordance with the requirements of the

chuche farming method from beginning to end.

With the spirit of absolutism and unconditionality toward

party policy, with the firm belief that they should act only

in accordance with party policy, functionaries and workers

in the rural economy should have the indeflectible conviction that for them there is no other farming method than

the chuche method and that agricultural production can be

continually increased only by farming in a scientific way

through and through, in accordance with the requirements

of chuche farming. At the same time, they should make an

extensive study of the chuche farming method to profoundly understand its validity and superiority, and also

step up the study of modern agricultural science and

technology. In increasing farm production through the

thoroughgoing implementation of the chuche farming

method, it is also important that leading functionaries in

the rural economy plan and organize an airtight organizational guidance work suited to the process of farming.

Generally, crops have a long productive cycle, having

different characteristics in each stage ofgrowth. Therefore,

to increase farm production, an accurate stage-by-stage

farming process suitable to each stage ofgrowth ofthe crop

should be set forth and the biological elements for each

stage ofthe farming process should be met in a satisfactory

manner. If any one stage of farming process is not conducted properly, or if the right time for any one stage is

missed, it will have a grave consequence in agricultural

production. Particularly under the present circumstances,

when farm production has become highly systematized

and intensive, it would be impossible to properly meet the

demands of the chuche fanning method and expect to

produce a high crop yield on a stable basis unless all

operations required of each stage of farming process are

concretely organize and led.

Functionaries in the rural economy should plan in detail

all farming processes ranging from farming preparations to

rice transplanting, weeding, fertilizing, and harvesting, and

plan and organize airtight organizational guidance work in

order to accomplish farm work required of each farming

process on time without fail. In this connection, it is very

important to enhance the role of the functionaries of the

provincial rural economy committee and the county cooperative farm management committee, who have direct

control of and provide guidance in agricultural production

in their respective areas. The functionaries of local guidance organizations should, in accordance with the requirements of the new agricultural guidance system, actively

assist the base level and grasp and guide farm operations at

the base level in a substantive manner, and go deep into

reality and intensify organizational and guidance work on

the basis of a concrete grasp of the real circumstances. In

particular, they should exert great efforts to responsibly

ensure the delivery of machinery and technical provisions

and farm supplies required of each farming process,

including rice transplanting, which is farm work.

All leading functionaries in the rural economy should

pay due attention to developing agricultural science and

technology, while seeing that farming is done according

to a scientific and technological standard.

To thoroughly implement the chuche farming method, it is

also imperative to have functionaries and workers in the

rural economy to give still fuller play to the attitude of

being the master responsible for agricultural production.
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4 April 1989 31

Functionaries and workers in the rural economy are the

masters ofsocialist construction and the people directly in

charge of agricultural prodution. The honorable duty to

satisfactorily meet the growing demand for food is

assigned to none but functionaries and workers in the rural

economy. Success in the struggle to increase farm production depends wholly on how deeply functionaries and

workers in the rural economy are aware oftheir honorable

party-assigned duty and how they implement the chuche

farming method. Inasmuch as farm work essentially is

done scattered in the field, it is not until the harvest season

comes that the outcome of labor becomes apparent, the

chuche farming can be properly implemented and further

agricultural production can be boosted only when functionaries and workers in the rural economy do all farm

work conscientiously and sincerely with the awareness of

being the masters responsible for agricultural production.

The achievements made by many counties and cooperatives in our province bear witness to the truth that when

functionaries and workers in the rural economy work

with the self-consciousness ofbeing the masters in charge

ofthe granary ofthe country, they can bring about a new

turn in agricultural production. In Chongju and Changsong counties in our province, functionaries and workers

in the rural economy have systematically increased farm

production by doing all farm work as befitting the

master, under the guidance of party organizations and

the Three Revolutions Teams, conscious of their honorable duty assigned by the party. To cite some proud

achievement, compared with 1985, the food grain output

in 1987 increased 13 percent in Chongju County and

30.4 percent in Changsong County. Yaksu Cooperative

Farm, in particular, which is situated in the mountainous area of Changsong County, increased food grain

production by as much as 45 percent in the same period.

With a high sense of honor and pride as the masters ofthe

socialist countryside that they are thanks to the keen

attention and tender care of the party and the leader,

functionaries and workers in the rural economy should

assiduously do their farm work according to a high scientific and technological standard as required by the chuche

farming method created by the great leader Comrade Kim

Il-song in person. Leading functionaries in the rural economy should always put their shoulders to difficult tasks,

work brimming over with ambition and fervor, and in all

farm work make farm members give full play to creative

zeal and the attitude of being the master under the slogan

"The plots of the farm are my plots."

Stepping up support for the rural economy is one of the

important ways of implementing the chuche farming

method.

The chuche farming method is a scientific method of

farming, an intensive farming method. The implementation ofthe chuche farming method requires various material and technical provisions such as farm machinery and

farm supplies in large quantities. When tractors, trucks,

various farm machines and parts, chemical fertilizers, and

diverse farm materials and supplies are produced in

greater quantities and delivered on time by stepping up

assistance to the rural economy, and when the countryside

is assisted vigorously in terms of materials, technology,

and labor, then the chuche farming method will be better

implemented and agricultural production will drastically

increase.

The question of speedily accomplishing the four major

tasks of the technical revolution outlined in our party's

theses on the socialist agrarian question and implementing

the agriculture-first policy, in the last resort, depends

largely on the work of supporting the rural economic

sector.

The implementation ofthe chuche farming method is an

honorable task to glorify forever the priceless achievements accumulated by the great leader Comrade Kim

Il-song in socialist rural construction and to give full play

to the superiority of the socialist rural economic system

in our country.

We should once again vigorously demonstrate the heroic

mettle of chuche Korea before the whole world by securely

supporting and thoroughly implementing the chuche farming method and thus achieving a bumper harvest this year,

the 40th founding anniversary of the republic.

Let's Enhance the Role of Scientists and

Technicians To Achieve an Epochal Turn in the

Development of the Country's Science and

Technology

41090017 Pyongyang KULLOJA in Korean No 5,

May 88 pp 68-72

[Article by Kim Kyong-pong; not translated]

Establishing the Revolutionary Trait of Creation

and the Trait of Life Is an Urgent Demand To

Effect New Creative Upsurges

41090017 Pyongyang KULLOJA in Korean No 5,

May88pp 73-78

[Article by Paek In-chun; not translated]

Organizational Political Work of the Regional

Party Committee To Guide Economic Tasks

Through the Modernization of Party and Policy

41090017 Pyongyang KULLOJA in Korean No 5,

May 88 pp 79-84

[Article by Yi Kwang-pom; not translated]

Establishing a Confederal State Is the Most

Rational Method in Solving the Issue of National

Reunification

41090017 Pyongyang KULLOJA in Korean No 5,

May 88 pp 85-90

[Article by Yom Tae-chun; not translated]

A Vicious Scheme of the Japanese Reactionaries

To Conquer Asia and the Pacific Region

41090017 Pyongyang KULLOJA in Korean No 5,

May 88 pp 91-96

[Article by Yi Haeng-ho; not translated]
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