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Kim Jong Il

DECEMBER 17 marks the occasion of the third anniversary of the late leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Kim Jong II, who died on December 17, 2011 after suffering a heart attack. The DPRK is paying tribute to Kim Jong Il’s leadership and contributions. The life of Kim Jong Il was one of a great thinker, statesman and brilliant commander who performed unprecedented feats in the history of the Korean nation and the world history of politics.

He comprehensively systematised and developed in depth the Juche and Songun ideas; built the party, state and army of the DPRK into the glorious party, state and army of President Kim Il Sung and achieved the most solid single-minded unity under the uplifted banner of modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism.

Cherishing Songun as the steadfast revolutionary creed all his life, he built the People’s Army into the matchless revolutionary army and put the DPRK on the position of the world’s military power, thereby providing a sure guarantee for the eternal prosperity of the nation.

He was the peerless patriot, great revolutionary and benevolent father who took warm care of the country and its people with ardent loving care.

He led the Korean revolution to victory with his iron will and tireless energies for more than half a century from the first days of leading the revolution, while weathering all ordeals which no other human being, revolutionary and leader have ever undergone.

Tremendous national power was provided and the Korean people could lead a dignified and happy life thanks to the tireless efforts and self-sacrificing dedication of Kim Jong Il who gave ceaseless field guidance despite severe snowstorm and midsummer heat.

Kim Jong Il provided matchless military power and the unbreakable unity between the army and people, working heart and soul with patriotic will under the uplifted banner of Songun all his life, and thus putting the dignity of the country and people on the highest level in the history of the nation.

These revolutionary exploits will shed brilliant rays as an eternal treasure of the sun’s Korea.

They renewed their firm determination to provide a firm guarantee for the revolutionary cause of Kim Jong Il with arms and work fresh miracles and set new records startling the era in every surging worksite for the building of an economic power and highly civilised socialist nation under the ever-victorious leadership of Kim Jong Un.

According to the North Korean news agency KCNA, a number of goodwill messages have been received and a number of activities were lined-up in the build-up to the December 17 third anniversary commemorations.

An Ethiopian paper on December 7 wrote in an article titled “Eternal Chairman of the National Defence Commission” that Kim Jong Il formulated the Songun politics as the main political mode under socialism and established the state machinery with the NDC as its pivot. He also turned the DPRK into an invincible military power and guided the efforts to build a thriving nation, the paper added.

Artists from many countries and regions wrote and published poems and songs depicting the gifted ideological and theoretical activities, distinguished leadership ability and noble great personality of leader Kim Jong Il for three years in reverence for him.

Russian writer Alexandr Brezhnev praised Kim Jong Il’s feats in poems “Lodestar-Kim Jong Il” and “Kimjongilia, the Flower I Love”. He published full-length epic “Ode to General Kim Jong Il” and poems “Defender of Red Flag”, “May the Sun of Mt. Paektu Shine” and “You Are the Whole World”.People from Brazil, Japan and other countries expressed firm belief that the feats of Kim Jong Il would always be remembered by mankind as he devoted his all to the victory of the socialist cause and the global peace and friendship.

A seminar on Kim Jong Il’s work “Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable” was held in Switzerland, and seminars on his exploits in Finland and India on December 6 and 9.

Martin Lotscher, chairman of the Switzerland-Korea Committee, said in a report that Kim Jong Il in his work explained the reactionary nature of the base and vicious moves of the imperialists and renegades of socialism to stifle it and the main cause of its collapse in various countries.

Antti Sika Aho, chairman of the Finland-Korea Society, and other speakers said that Kim Jong Il developed in depth the Juche idea, turned the Workers’ Party of Korea into an invincible party forming a harmonious whole with the masses, and frustrated the imperialists’ moves to stifle the DPRK and reliably defended the dignity of the country and socialism.

Wipin Gupta, chairman of the Juche Philosophy Study Committee of India, said that Kim Jong Il performed great feats to go down in the world history of politics.

Organisations and institution in Britain and Ecuador posted articles on their websites on the occasion of the third anniversary of the demise of leader Kim Jong Il.

The British Association for the Study of Songun Policy on December 6 posted an article titled “Undying Songun revolutionary idea and feats of the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il”.

The Juche Youth Group and the Kim Jong Il Library in Ecuador also posted on their websites articles praising his sacred revolutionary career on December 3.

Meanwhile, reports claim that a senior South Korean politician will visit the DPRK for the third anniversary of the late leader’s death, the South Korean government said on Monday – stressing that the trip was to give condolences and was not political.

Park Ji-won, a member of the opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy, will lead a seven-member delegation to the city of Kaesong Tuesday to deliver a floral wreath, the unification ministry said.

However, Lim warned that the trip should not be “over interpreted,” rejecting a suggestion it could help ease tensions between the two nations and stressing it was purely for the purposes of conveying condolences. – KCNA/DPRK Embassy/Agencies