The Great Leader Who Built Socialism for National Independence

President Kim Il Sung clarified the unique idea of building socialism for national independence for the first time in the world history of socialist construction and successfully realized it, thus achieving the immortal exploits of paving the most correct way for vigorously advancing the socialist cause only along the road of invincibility.

Chairman Kim Jong Il said:

"Our socialism, established by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, is a people-centered socialism in which the Juche idea has been embodied, as well as the socialism for national independence."

Korean-style socialism provided by President Kim Il Sung is the most advantageous socialism for national independence in the world that defends and realizes both of the class demands and interests, the national demands and interests of the popular masses thoroughly.

Which way the country and the people should follow to achieve their eternal prosperity was one of the main problems that were raised to the history by all countries and nations for thousands of years. This question became more urgent after socialism that had existed only in the form of ideal came into being and the popular masses emerged as the masters of history in the 20th century.

President Kim Il Sung gave a scientific answer to this urgent problem that the progressive mankind of the world was eagerly waiting for its solution by looking far ahead into the road of the future development and eternal prosperity of the nations with his brilliant wisdom and foresight and clarifying the unique idea of building socialism for national independence and realizing it successfully. Thus this problem was perfectly solved.

First of all, President Kim Il Sung laid the most scientific ideological foundation for building socialism for national independence by creating the immortal Juche idea.

The nature and vitality of socialism are determined by the contents and character of the ideology on which it is based. The true color of socialism and its invincibility and might are determined by what idea it is guided by and on what ideological foundation it was built.

The immortal Juche idea created by President Kim Il Sung is the great revolutionary theory that forms the highest peak in the history of the development of human ideology and the immortal ideological, theoretical and methodological guideline that clearly illuminate the bright road of the development of socialism, the life and soul of the popular masses.

The immortal Juche idea is the most scientific and revolutionary world outlook and also the highest idea of patriotism and love for the nation and people. Therefore, only when it is ideologically based on the Juche idea which comprehends the love for the country and the people and ardent love for the fatherland, will socialism surely be built into the one for national independence which defends and realizes the independence of the masses and the independence of the country and the people alike.

For the first time in history, President Kim Il Sung unfolded the theory of socialism with the Juche idea as its ideological and theoretical basis and with the popular masses and the nation as the center of thinking and practice. He, deeply understanding that truth is not in the proposition of an established theory but in the demand and aspiration of the people and the nation for independence and in the practice of revolution, provided a firm ideological and theoretical foundation for building socialism for national independence for the first time in the history of socialist construction by reflecting the desire of the popular masses and the nation and popularizing their experience of struggle.

As a result, President Kim Il Sung created the great Juche idea, the idea of loving the country and the people, and clarified it as the ideological basis of socialism. Thus for the first time in history, socialism for national independence, which defends and realizes the independent demand and interests of the masses and the nation, was imposingly built and embarked on a new road of its development.

President Kim Il Sung also successfully embodied the immortal Juche idea to steadily develop socialism for national independence and set a world-historic example in building socialism.

He successfully embodied the Juche idea and scientifically clarified the matters of principle arising in building socialism for national independence in conformity with the condition under which socialism is built in the specific situations of the countries and the nations with each country and nation as a unit.

He set it as the principle to solve all problems arising in socialist construction in keeping with the requirements and interests of the Korean people all the way, not by relying on existing theories or the methods of others, and wisely led them to solve all problems on their own responsibility and by their own efforts, in accordance with their independent judgment and decision.

He wisely led the people to build socialism for national independence in which the national and class demands are closely related with each other by steadily raising the people's spirit of national independence, love for the nation, national pride and self-confidence and giving full play to people's enthusiasm for the country and the people and their activeness

Under the outstanding and energetic leadership of President Kim Il Sung, all sorts of miscellaneous ideas such as flunkeyism, national nihilism and idea of servile submission which implies depending on others or yielding to others to solve the problems came to an end in the DPRK, and socialism for national independence, in which Korean people can take responsibility of all problems arising in socialist construction and solve them by their own efforts, according to their own independent judgment and decision, to realize their own demands and the demands of the nation alike at the same high level, was triumphantly built.

President Kim Il Sung saw to it that the good and advanced experiences of others in the struggle to build socialism should be considered as a reference, that the practice of mechanistically imitating them was thoroughly eliminated, that is, they were always creatively introduced to meet the Korean people's demand for independence and the actual characteristics of the development of the nation, and that, more importantly, they should find out new excellent ways and methods suited to the actual conditions of the country by themselves and solved all problems arising in socialist construction by relying on them.

Under the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung, Korean-style socialism has firmly maintained the Juche-oriented principle in ideology, developed into invincible socialism enriched with independence in politics, self-sufficiency in the economy and self-reliance in national defense and shines brilliantly all over the world as socialism for national independence defending and realizing the independent demands and interests of the masses and the nation alike.