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 Asia.

 

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 20^th century the century of the wars, as the First and Second World Wars broke out in that century. The 20^th 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 20^th 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 Mos­cow and flew to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

I listened to the loudspeaker in the plane.

The loudspeaker informed the passengers of the situa­tion in Korea.

I asked an air-hostess when the plane would reach Pyongyang, capital of the DPRK.

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 Japan.

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 Korea, with the sorrow of a ruined nation, and were exploited in Japan. They were even deprived of their national language and customs.

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 Japan, and it had to undergo a three-year-long war (June 1950-July 1953).

It is still under the constant threat from the USA.

I continued thinking.

I requested an air-hostess to tell me about Korea’s his­tory and nature, as well as the realities of her country.

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 Pyongyang.

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 Korea.

However, the streets of Pyongyang were crowded with the lively people.

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 65^th 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 Pyongyang, the official told me that I was travelling to a dis­tant local area, where the President was giving on-the-spot guidance.

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 Pyongyang, receiving congratulations from the people.

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 Japan, I had experienced the lives of the Korean residents there, and added that they were leading a worthwhile life, with a pride that they are the overseas citizens of the DPRK.

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 USA was stationing its 40,000 troops, armed with nuclear weapons, in south Korea, and asked him what he thought about it.

He told me that the USA was keeping the nuclear weap­ons to threaten the DPRK, and that the US army would not dare use the nuclear weapons, because of being afraid of the world public.

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 US was trying to threaten the south Korean people through military exercises, the people in south Korea were continuing their struggle against the US.

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 US army from south Korea, asking him what would be the best way of making use of that opportunity.

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 US army from south Korea and not give “assistance” to the countries where the human rights had been violated, could be called a good commitment. He continued, however, there had been contra­dictions in Carter’s commitment, and mentioned about its falsehood.

President Kim Il Sung told me that Carter, though an­nouncing he would withdraw the US army from south Korea in four or five years, had said the withdrawal of the US army

would be able to be realized when an agreement between the US, Japan and south Korea has been reached.

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 south Korea, and added that the US could never reach an agreement with them, concerning the withdrawal of US troops from south Korea.

The President continued that it would also be impossible for the US to reach an agreement with the Japanese reactionaries, who supported the stationing of US troops in south Korea. He said that Carter’s announcement of withdrawing the US troops from south Korea in four or five years was the same as he would not withdraw them during his term of office.

He emphasized that, in order to withdraw the US troops from south Korea, the popular masses should conduct a strug­gle to drive them out, instead of just waiting for them to with­draw themselves.

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 south Korea, while arming their south Korean puppet army with modern military equipment.

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 Korea’s reunification.

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 Korea’s reunification, the south Korean people should be awakened so that they would conduct the struggle against the US.

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 Pyongyang about once every year, to get the teachings of President Kim Il Sung.

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 Soviet Union and the East European countries.

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 Soviet Union.

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 Lake Baikal.

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 USA clamored about “nuclear inspec­tion”, “economic sanctions”, etc. in order to stifle the DPRK.

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 South Hwanghae Province and Nampho City.

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 France, and that Sihanouk stopped drinking Evian water after he had found the Sindok spring water more enjoyable to drink.

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 Korea into the news­paper Indian Times and wrote such articles as The Life De­voted to the Happiness of the Korean People and Korea and the Non-aligned Movement. The articles received a positive response from the readers.

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 Pyongyang and the local areas.

One day I visited Changgwang Street in Pyongyang City.

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 Changgwang Street (Loop-line Street at that time).

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 Pyongyang Maternity Hospital and the Ice-rink, built magnificently under the guidance of President Kim Il Sung.

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 Singa­pore, Hong Kong and many other countries.

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,