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In Memory of President Kim Il Sung
ETERNAL SUN OF MANKIND
Meeting the Tenth Anniversary of the Passing Away of President Kim Il Sung
Association For Friendship and Cooperation with Foreign Countries
Moscow
2004






Foreword
Ten years have passed since President Kim Il
Sung passed away.
It is said that, with the passage of time,
the agonies, suffered by people, are removed. Perhaps it means that the agonies,
even though very great, would remain as sad memories with the passage of time.
However, progressive people of the world
yearn for President Kim Il Sung, though days and years go by.
They said that his sudden passing away was
the same as the sun stopped sending out light.
July this year marks the tenth anniversary of
his passing away. Progressive people of the world now mark the occasion with
great admiration for him. Among them there are a lot of our foreign friends who
had the honor of meeting President Kim Il Sung.
They have completed pieces of writing in
memory of President Kim Il Sung who is praised as a great man and the eternal sun of mankind.
We regard it as glorious to publish this book
composed of the pieces of writing completed by the personages in
Publishing House
Contents
Eternal Sun of Mankind
Vishwanath
The Great Leader Guides the World
OgamiKenichi
The President Symbolizes the Red Flag
Narayan Man Bijukchhe
Continued Affection
Zhang Jin-quan
Great Wisdom
Vessa Burchett
Everlasting Memories
Jyambin Jyamiyan
The President Saved My Life
A.Rahim
Noble Obligation in the History of Friendship
Zhou Wei
President Kim Il Sung is the Personification of Affection
Osorsurengin Cherma
Lifelong Desire
C.P.Mairali
The Socialist Cause Will Without Fail Be
Accomplished
Jack McPhillips
The Sun is Always with Us President Kim Il Sung
Romesh Chandra
ETERNAL SUN OF MANKIND
Vishwanath
Director General International Institute of the Juche Idea
Ten years have passed since the great
President Kim Il Sung passed away.
However, President Kim Il
Sung is alive in the minds of
not only the Korean people but also the progressive people of the world.
I was fascinated by the great ideas of
President Kim Il Sung. I was also
attracted by his great leadership, and began to worship him.
The western world calls the 20th
century the century of the wars, as the First and Second World Wars broke out
in that century. The 20th century is also called the century of
science, as science and technology developed rapidly in that century.
However, all
progressive people the world over call the 20th century Kim Il Sung¡¯s century.
Because, as the sun gives light to
everything, President Kim Il Sung showed the
popular masses, who had been oppressed and ill-treated, the way of their
liberation, and made them the masters of their own destiny, by authoring the
Juche idea. Therefore, they have regarded it as their desire, glory and good
luck to meet President Kim Il Sung.
I had the good luck of meeting the President
on twelve occasions.
One day in December 1974, I boarded a plane
in
I listened to the loudspeaker in the plane.
The loudspeaker informed the passengers of
the situation in
I asked an air-hostess when the plane would
reach
After her kind reply, I was deep in thought.
At that time nobody knew why I was flying to
the DPRK.
From childhood I have striven to acquire a
wide range of knowledge and devoted much time to reading books. I am also fond
of thinking.
I longed to meet the people who had fought
for the freedom and liberation of the working people.
And I was determined to devote myself to the
freedom and happiness of our people who had been under the rule of the foreign
aggressors.
I read a lot of books about progressive ideas
and theories, and met many foreign politicians, trying to find a way of
realizing my hope.
The former thinkers put forward a lot of
ideas and theories for the building of an ideal society of mankind.
But none of them clarified the decisive
factor in the development of history.
One day I read an article in a publication.
The article wrote about the Juche idea
authored by President Kim Il Sung.
It also wrote about the realities of the DPRK
where the great idea had been embodied.
Reading the article, I understood that the
social development could be promoted only by the purposeful and intentional
activities of the popular masses, the motive force of history. And I also
understood the factors which enabled the DPRK, a once backward country under
colonial domination, to complete its socialist industrialization in a short
period of time, and to build a people¡¯s paradise in which all the people were
living happily.
I was very happy just like an astronomer who
had discovered a new star.
In those days I had an opportunity to visit
I was greatly moved and even surprised there
to see the Korean residents who were leading proud lives as the dignified
overseas citizens of the DPRK. In the past they were forced to leave
Today, however, they are firmly defending
their own national rights.
I thought that President Kim Il
Sung, who took care of the
Korean people living in foreign countries, was the Korean nation¡¯s father. I
felt a strong desire to visit the DPRK.
Therefore, I was on my way to the DPRK to
meet President Kim Il Sung, whom I had
been yearning for, and receive his valuable teachings, and also to see the
realities of the DPRK.
However, I was deep in thought on my way to
the DPRK.
I could not believe that the DPR of Korea, a
small country, accomplished such wonderful achievements in a short period of
time because, in the past, it had been a backward agricultural country under
the colonial rule of
It is still under the constant threat from
the
I continued thinking.
I requested an air-hostess to tell me about
With a friendly smile on her face, she told
me about them.
I was particularly impressed by her remarks
that President Kim Il Sung regarded the
air-hostesses as his own daughters, taking a deep care of their lives.
I admired President Kim Il
Sung for his affection for the
people.
I asked another air-hostess how many children
President Kim Il Sung had.
She answered me that the great leader had
fifty million children.
I was greatly surprised by her reply.
I could not believe her, though I had heard
that a president of a capitalist country had many children.
The plane landed at
I parted from them, feeling doubtful about
the fifty million children.
Upon my arrival in the DPRK, I found
everything impressive.
December is a cold month in
However, the streets of
During my stay in the DPRK I was enormously
impressed by the Korean people¡¯s great admiration for President Kim Il
Sung.
I learnt that it was thanks to the unity, in
which all the people were united behind President Kim Il Sung, and to the close relations between the leader and the people, that the
DPRK had made great achievements even in the difficult conditions in which
everything had been destroyed by the war, and in a tense situation in which
another war would break out at any moment.
I was convinced that the outstanding
leadership of President Kim Il Sung, who regarded the popular masses as the motive force of history,
brought about a powerful industry, a developed agriculture and a life in which
the people lived happily.
One day I had an opportunity to visit the Kumsong Tractor Plant.
In the past it was a small factory which
produced hoes, sickles and other farm implements. But it has developed into a
large modern tractor factory. An official of the plant told me about the
history of making the first tractor.
He said the first tractor was made in a very
difficult condition, even without a design.
I could not believe him, and requested him to
tell me in detail.
He told me that the workers and technicians
of the plant had worked a miracle, with a determination to play the role of the
masters of the plant, though they lacked in high technical skill.
He said that they had been encouraged by
President Kim Il Sung¡¯s trust in them.
Hearing him, I thought that the miracle had
been worked by the unity of the workers and technicians who highly respected
President Kim Il Sung. I also
thought the miracle had been worked by the wisdom shown by the workers and technicians
who had relied on their own strength.
One day I saw a Korean feature film.
The film had a scene in which a servicewoman
was filling in an application form to apply for membership of the Workers¡¯
Party of Korea. But she could not write her father¡¯s name in the form, because
she did not know his name. She lost her parents when she was very young.
At that moment an officer told her that
Marshal Kim Il Sung could be
called the father of the orphans, who had shown warm affection for them. He
suggested her to write the name of President Kim Il Sung in the form. The scene enormously moved me.
The film made me understand the meaning of
the remark made by the air-hostess, who had told me that President Kim Il
Sung had fifty million
children.
That night I could not bring myself to sleep.
And I began to write down my impressions of the DPRK.
My writing was later composed as the account
of my visit to the DPRK, titled One Country, One People and One Leader.
In the account I wrote about my first
impressions of the DPRK as follows:
¡°Self-reliance and firm determination - these
are the appearances of the DPRK.
I have read many books about the great
achievements made by the Korean people¡¯s respected leader President Kim Il
Sung.
Reading them, I had a strong desire to visit
the DPRK, a great country.
When I boarded an aircraft from the DPRK, the
air-hostesses were singing their patriotic songs.
They looked as if they had no worry.
I asked them, ¡®What worry do you have in your
lives?¡¯
They answered me that they had no worry, because
President Kim Il Sung took a deep
care of their lives.
I was convinced that the Korean people
regarded the President as their father.¡±
I also wrote about the source of the great
strength of the Korean people.
¡°President Kim Il Sung authored the Juche idea.
He was convinced that victory would be won,
if the people displayed the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance, the idea of
relying on one¡¯s own strength.
The Juche idea is the most powerful weapon,
stronger than the nuclear weapon.¡±
Day was dawning as I completed writing.
And the snow was falling.
Looking out of the
window, I felt a stronger desire to meet President Kim Il Sung.
But I thought it was not in accordance with
the human obligation that I would try to meet him, because I had not done anything
which would please such a great man.
Therefore, I kept my desire to meet President
Kim Il Sung in my mind
and, before leaving the DPRK, requested my guide to make his efforts for me so
that I would keep a portrait of President Kim Il Sung in my house.
I said to an official who had come to the
airport to say farewell to me, ¡°Though I leave your country, a great and
beautiful country, my mind would remain here.
I would revisit your country to have the
honor of meeting the respected President Kim Il Sung.¡±
The Korean people celebrated the 65th
birthday of President Kim Il Sung in April 1977.
At that time I revisited the DPRK, in order
to meet President Kim Il Sung and to wish him long life and good health.
But I thought that I might regret if I would
try to make the President spend his busy time in meeting me.
So I gave up my plan of meeting the
President, and visited many places, to have a deeper knowledge about the
realities of the DPRK and experience the lives of the Korean people.
One day, however, I received the glad news
that President Kim Il Sung would meet
me.
My heart was thumping with excitement. I
never dreamt that I would be able to meet my desire so easily.
Guided by an official, I got on a car.
The car started to run fast. I began to think
about what I would ask the President.
When the car was passing through the
outskirts of
Listening to him, I was moved by the noble
virtue of the President who was taking care of the people in a distant local
area, instead of spending his birthday in
The car finally reached a building at the
foot of a mountain.
President Kim Il Sung was waiting for me in a garden, in which flowers
were in full bloom.
The President shook my hands, and expressed
his thanks to me for having taken the trouble of making a long journey.
Being in the grips of a strong emotion, I was
at a complete loss for words.
As if to calm me down, the President began to
stroll around in the garden together with me, asking me about my health and
that of the members of my family, and told me about the spring of Korea.
I was calmed down and attracted by his
generosity, and began to talk with him in a familiar way.
After a while he took me to a room.
I wished him long life and good health, and
said that I regarded it as glorious to celebrate his birthday in the DPRK, the
country of Juche.
He thanked me.
I told him that I had been greatly moved by
the fact that he was giving on-the-spot guidance to a local area far away from
the capital, at the time when the entire Korean people were celebrating his
birthday.
With a smile on his face, he said he felt
happy with the workers and farmers. And he said that a large factory was under
construction there, and added that he had come there to guide the construction.
I was greatly moved by his words. I came to
know about his noble virtue of always being with the people.
I told President Kim Il Sung that he was a great man who was devoting himself
to the freedom and happiness of the people.
I also told him that he had wisely led the
Korean people in their struggle to build a people¡¯s paradise, and added about
the greatness of the Juche idea.
President Kim Il Sung thanked me for my words and added that, in the
future, he would do more work to meet my expectations and those of his other
friends.
He said that I had conducted much activities in support of the Korean people¡¯s struggle,
adding that I was not only his friend but also his comrade-in-arms.
He said he was very glad that I had become
his comrade-in-arms, in the course of the struggle for the liberation of
mankind.
I was moved by his trust in me.
The President requested me to make a joint
effort to build a new, independent world free from exploitation and oppression.
I was fascinated by his generosity, and told
him in detail about my literary activities, which I planned to conduct after
returning home.
I also informed him that, during my visit to
I told him whether I could avail myself of
the opportunity to ask him about something more.
He kindly told me to ask him any questions.
I began to ask him about some other matters.
First, I told him that the
He told me that the
He added that the DPRK had the great strength
of the united popular masses, the strength which was more powerful than the
nuclear weapons.
He said that, though the
He said that where there was exploitation,
there would be a struggle of the people. He said it is a law of the revolutionary
struggle.
Listening carefully to President Kim Il
Sung, who regarded the
strength of the popular masses as a source of victory, I felt more deeply the
profound truth of the Juche idea.
I told him that Carter, in his presidential
election campaign commitment, announced he would withdraw the
President Kim Il Sung, with a meaningful look on his face, said that
Carter¡¯s presidential election speech, in which he had announced that he would
withdraw the
President Kim Il Sung told me that Carter, though announcing he would
withdraw the
would be able to be realized when an agreement between
the
The President said that the remarks made by
Carter were unreasonable.
He said it was well known to the world that
the south Korean authorities opposed the withdrawal of
US troops from
The President continued that it would also be
impossible for the
He emphasized that, in order to withdraw the
I admired the President for his logic words.
Concerning Carter¡¯s announcement that he
would not give ¡°assistance¡± to the countries, where human rights had been
violated, President Kim Il Sung said that
his announcement should be tested in practice, to check whether it had been a
mere false propaganda or intended to create a political illusion.
President Kim Il Sung added that Carter, although he had announced that
he would not give ¡°assistance¡± to the countries where human rights were being
violated, continued to increase ¡°assistance¡± to
Much time went by.
But I had many more questions to ask him.
Therefore, I told him I would ask him one more
question.
I asked him what he thought about a final
solution to
With a smile on his face, he said that,
needless to say, it would be to achieve the reunification through a concerted
effort of the entire Korean nation, and added that no foreigners would be able
to make a gift of the reunification to the Korean people.
I also smiled and agreed with him. I told him
that Carter would not bestow the reunification on the Korean people.
The President said the entire Korean people
wanted the independent reunification, and emphasized that, in order to achieve
Frankly speaking, I really did not want to
part from the President. However, I knew that he had already spent much time
talking with me.
I stood up, reluctant to leave him.
Shaking my hands warmly, the President
requested me to come again.
He added that, if I would come again, he
would spend much more time with me, talking.
Since then I regarded it as a requirement of
my life to visit
Whenever I met President Kim Il
Sung, I felt that he was an
outstanding thinker and theoretician.
There are many boastful thinkers and
theoreticians in the world. They enjoy demonstrating their knowledge, even using
some expressions which the ordinary people cannot understand.
However, President Kim Il
Sung made the people understand
well what he said, by using the expressions widely used by them, and by taking
some examples. Thanks to him, the people were able to understand even about the
profound truths.
I visited the DPRK and met President Kim Il
Sung in the early 1990s.
During the late 1980s and the early 1990s,
the masses¡¯ cause of independence, the cause of socialism, encountered a grave
challenge. The machinations of the imperialists and the renegades from
socialism led to the collapse of socialism and the revival of capitalism in the
When I met with President Kim Il
Sung, he told me about
independence.
The President said that each nation should
maintain political independence, and do everything in accordance with its
interests.
He told me that, after the Korean war, the DPRK had conducted a lot of exchanges with the
former
But the latter did not like the former,
because the former had taken the independent way.
He said that at one point the Soviets brought
heavy pressure to bear upon the DPR of Korea to apply for membership in the
CMEA.
They claimed that, if the DPRK entered the
CMEA, they would permit the latter to use electricity produced by a large
hydroelectric power station situated in the vicinity of
At that time the President told them: ¡°We
will not use electricity generated by the power station; if we become dependent
on electricity from you and then you fail to supply it, then we would suffer
greatly; if we have funds for transmission cables from the power station to our
country, it would be more effective for us to use these funds to build another
hydroelectric power station in our country. It has become more
clear today that our decision to build socialism by our own efforts on
the principle of self-reliance and not enter the CMEA was quite correct.¡±
The President added that his people were not
afraid of anything, though the
I thought his words implied a great truth
applicable to every country.
When I met him many years ago, he asked me
about my health.
He also asked me about the health of Mr. Mukherjee, saying he might be very old.
I replied that he was 77 years old and,
because of his poor health, could not visit the DPRK.
President Kim Il Sung showed a deep affection for him.
President Kim Il Sung requested me to convey his invitation to Mr. Mukherjee to visit the DPRK, and receive a medical
treatment. He added that he would mobilize all the famous Korean medical doctors
in order to cure his illness.
Whenever I visited the DPRK, the President
told me to come again together with my wife and children.
He once received the information on my visit
to the DPRK.
At that time he was giving on-the-spot
guidance to
The President saw to it that measures were
taken so that I could have a good rest in the Sindok
area with a beautiful scenery.
When I arrived there, President Kim Il
Sung was waiting for me.
He embraced me warmly, and told me that there
was a nearby place, called Kumdang-ri, where famous Sindok spring water was gushing out.
He added that the spring water was more
enjoyable to drink than Evian water of
He also told me about the legend of Kumdang-ri, and added that there were a lot of very old
people, aged 90, 100 and 110. He requested me to come to the DPRK frequently
and drink the spring water.
After meeting President Kim Il
Sung, I was deeply involved in
writing, with a great enthusiasm, as if I had become young again.
I introduced a fixed column titled
I continued to write about President Kim Il
Sung¡¯s lofty virtue, the greatness of the Juche idea and
about my impressions on the DPRK.
Whenever I went to the DPRK, I visited
various places in
One day I visited
A householder welcomed me.
I looked round the rooms, with a deep
interest.
I was impressed by the rooms with heated floor.
Touching the heated floor, I told the
householder that I had never seen such a floor during my visits to many
countries.
Wearing a look of surprise, the householder
told me the following story.
After the Korean war,
fireplaces were set into the walls of the houses in
But the fireplaces were unable to warm the
wooden floor properly, and the people felt cold.
President Kim Il Sung was informed of it, and could not bring himself to
sleep. And he visited the street in one early morning in November 1955.
He entered a room with a cool wooden floor.
He said that the Koreans like warm floor, and
told the builders to make the floors heated in accordance with the Korean
style.
I was moved by President Kim Il
Sung¡¯s love for the people.
I felt that the Juche idea had been embodied
in the lives of the people.
I also visited the
And I visited the Changgwang
Health Complex, and had a bath and had my hair cut there.
The complex is a service establishment set up
for the people.
I had visited a lot of famous establishments
in
But I could not see such a good establishment
as the complex, built for the service of the people.
At the international seminar on the Juche
idea, held in Pyongyang, 1 made a speech The Juche Idea is a Philosophical
Idea which Indicates the Way of Achieving What Mankind Had Failed to Achieve.
Before my speech, I expressed my deep thanks
to President Kim Il Sung, author of
the Juche idea, and the Sun, and the most respected leader of the people of the
world.
And I recited the poem Sun written by
myself.
The forest is silent and
The beautiful flowers are in full bloom.
The birds are singing away happily,
While the cows grazing in the fields
And corn rippling in the breeze
See the light of the sun.
The sun sends out light to
The clouds,
The snow-covered hills,