The people are my God, and I am their son and their servant—this was the view on the people cherished by President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994).
Once in the mid-1930s, when he was fighting an anti-Japanese armed struggle to win back the country, Kim Il Sung met a religious man. The worshipper asked Kim Il Sung if he had ever something to worship as they did, and if he had, what it was.
He replied that he also had something to worship and it was just the people, adding that “The people are my God” was his motto.
Asked by a CNN International crew on their visit to Pyongyang in April 1994, he told them that he enjoyed reading books and mixing with the people to talk with them and said: The people are the most resourceful and best-informed teachers for me; they embody a mix of philosophy, economics and literature; and consequently I always mix with them and learn from them.
Thus, he always found himself among the people and addressed all the problems by enlisting them. For instance, in 1956 when the country was in economic difficulties he visited the then Kangson Steel Plant to meet the working class there. He talked with them open-mindedly and inspired them to produce 120 000 tons of steel with a blooming mill with an annual rated capacity of 60 000 tons.
He built a people-centred socialist system in which ordinary working people are elected deputies to the state power organs to deal with state affairs and exercise their rights and duties as the masters of the state and society.
All his thoughts and activities originated from love of the people and attachment of importance to them.
When discussing a state affair and deciding a thing, he gave precedence to the interests of the people, resolutely rejected those running against their rights and interests, and spared nothing for their benefit.
As he prioritized the people’s life and safety more than anything else, he saw to it that a dangerous electric arc furnace, the only one at work in the country soon after the country’s liberation, was blown up and he initiated the Pothong River improvement project in Pyongyang as the first undertaking to harness the nature.
President Kim Il Sung was indeed the leader of the people and their benevolent father who cared for them whole-heartedly and devoted all his life to them.
Kim Hyok
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