President Kim Il Sung was the Benevolent Father of the People, Who Always Found Himself Among them And Devoted His All to them Throughout His Entire Life

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said:

"The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung began his revolutionary activities by going amongst the people; he conducted his revolutionary activities always by relying on them, and he dedicated his revolutionary activities, from beginning to end, to defending and achieving their independence."

President Kim Il Sung always found himself among the people and devoted his all to them throughout his entire revolutionary life.

His boundless respect for the people and his noble idea of believing in them as in heaven were the very spiritual basis that enabled him to live his whole life as President and the benevolent father of the people.

He never allowed even the minutest distance from the people and was always open-hearted towards them.

In October of 1971, the Japanese governor of Tokyo happed to visit Pyongyang and look around various parts of our country. His visits left him a very good impression; however, there was just one thing he could not comprehend. It was the fact President freely visited farms and villages and other places.

It was natural that such a question had occurred to him. Although he was the governor of a capital city, the highest-ranking post in a capitalist country, he could not freely go about the streets of his own country. He even got attacked by right-wing gangs on his way to Pyongyang while boarding a plane.

So, when he had the opportunity of meeting President, he asked him whether he had found it safe wherever he went.

To his question, President explained to him the policy of our Party on tradesmen and manufacturers and the long-standing intellectuals of our country, and replied why there should be any reason to fear people as he had been doing good things for them, which made him freely go anywhere he pleased. He went on to tell him that he even goes out to construction sites where builders are engaged in constructing houses and to factories and farms.

The editor-in-chief of the "Indian Times" once made a congratulatory visit to Pyongyang on the occasion of President's 55th birthday. He had to go down to the countryside to meet President in person as he had been on his inspection tour of the place at the time.

Having exchanged greetings with him, President said that he preferred to be with workers and farm workers rather than attending his birthday party.

He most valued and enjoyed the time when he found himself among the people.

When he had met with the workers, he would unreservedly hold their oil-stained hands; when he had visited farms, he would tenderly exchange talks with farm workers; when he had been having talks with people, he would tell jokes and humours and would generally talk about life.

Therefore, there could not be even an inch of distance between him and our people, young or old, and our people had a boundless admiration for him and held him in high esteem with loyalty.

The affectionate image of President Kim Il Sung as the greatest man of the greatest, who had loved people and went among them and devoted his all to them throughout his entire life, is now being held dearer and dearer in the hearts of all the people of our country and the progressive peoples of the world.