KIM JONG UN
BECOME PILLARS SUPPORTING
A PROSPEROUS FUTURE KOREA
Congratulatory Speech at the National Meeting of the Korean Children’s Union Held in Celebration of the 66th Anniversary of Its Founding
June 6, Juche 101 (2012)
Dear members of the Korean Children’s Union across the country,
Dear delegates to the National Meeting held in celebration of the 66th anniversary of the founding of the KCU,
I
am very happy and pleased today to see you, our proud KCU delegates,
who have come from various parts of the country, from as far afield as
Jongilbong Secondary School at the foot of Mt. Paektu and Chodo
Secondary School on the front line of the country, and other model KCU
members.
When
I see your dignified appearances and dear faces, I feel as if I am
seeing your friends and teachers, your parents, brothers and sisters who
saw you off on your journey to Pyongyang.
I
extend warm congratulations to you delegates and other KCU members
across the country, who are greeting the KCU founding anniversary amid
the great concern and blessing of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the
Korean people in this hope-filled period when the dawn of a thriving
socialist country is breaking.
My warm greetings also go to your teachers and parents who are striving to bring you up as excellent persons.
June 6 is a special holiday not only for the KCU, but also for our Party and all our people.
Nowhere
else in the world are there schoolchildren like our KCU members, the
several million of whom, with red neckerchiefs around their necks, are
all rallied behind their organization and who are growing up to be
dependable masters of the future.
Our
KCU members boundlessly love the benevolent Party and their motherland
that embrace them and are bringing them up; they are studying
diligently, living in high spirits and exalting the honour of their
country by dint of their outstanding talents.
To
our Party and country, you dear KCU members are treasures more valuable
than billions of tons of gold, and represent our hope and our future.
In
the past, our dependable KCU members carried forward the revolutionary
traditions of the Anti-Japanese Children’s Corps and, flying proudly the
flag of the KCU, fought bravely for their motherland and people and
performed many laudable deeds.
The
children’s vanguard and child guerrillas were born in our country, and
the heroic deeds performed by our KCU members such as defending the
portraits of their leaders and saving forests from fire even at the
sacrifice of their lives have never been seen anywhere else in the
world.
Our
KCU members are patriots who have donated Sonyon (children’s) tanks,
aircraft and ships to the Korean People’s Army and contributed to
socialist construction and the development of their country’s economy.
In
the days of the “Arduous March” they overcame the trials, displaying
patriotism as they zealously studied and briskly conducted such
socio-political activities as schools assisting military units.
Former
KCU members have now become heroes and labour innovators who are held
dear and respected by people across the country, or officials
responsible for major national affairs. They are here today to
congratulate the KCU members of the new generation.
Our
Party and people regard it as a source of great pleasure and pride to
have such an excellent children’s organization, and a bright, promising
future is in store for Songun Korea with this large contingent of young
revolutionaries numbering millions.
Today the KCU, nurtured in the benevolent embrace of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il
who were endowed with boundless affection for children, the future of
the nation, has developed into a powerful organization of successors to
the revolution that is demonstrating its dignity to the world.
Every
trace on the path traversed by the KCU is associated with the warm care
of the Generalissimos, who put forward new slogans for it in keeping
with the progress of the revolution and guided its work at every step in
order to train its members into true sons and daughters who are
infinitely loyal to the Party and their socialist motherland.
Our Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il
were ever-victorious, iron-willed commanders who left the enemy shaking
with fear; yet to the schoolchildren, they were benevolent fathers who
loved them dearly and cared for their learning in every detail.
They
made it an eternal policy of the DPRK to give free education to the
children across the country and supply them with new school uniforms-the
first such policy in the world; they had splendid palaces and camps
built for them in the best locations in the country and were always
anxious to provide them with better things.
The
world knows no such leaders as our great Generalissimos who, calling
children the kings of the country, ensured that caring for them was the
most important of the affairs of the Party and state, and devoted their
whole lives to the good of the children.
The KCU is truly the glorious Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il
organization of children, which developed under their warm care, and
membership of this organization is a source of great pride and glory for
KCU members.
Dear KCU members,
You are successors to the Songun revolution and masters of the future.
The future of Korea is yours, and in your faces we see the future of the country.
Our Party is determined to hand down to you a thriving socialist country that will be the greatest in the world.
The
prosperous and powerful Korea you will be in charge of will be a
country where laughter fills every home, where everyone is living in
harmony and which is the strongest in the world.
It is you who will take charge of this great country and make it even better.
KCU members should always remember the great trust in and care for them shown by the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il
and, just as sunflowers turn towards the sun, make positive efforts to
learn from the glorious childhood of the Generalissimos. You should
steadfastly carry on the line of the revolution, flying the flags
bearing the immortal smiling images of the Generalissimos in front of
the KCU flag.
The
KCU is the dependable reserve of the KPA and the youth league, which
are the vanguard of the Songun revolution in carrying out the cause of
our Party.
KCU
members should become genuine young revolutionaries and the vanguard in
the Songun era who defend the Party to the death, just as Kim Ki Song
and Kim Kum Sun, heroic members of the Anti-Japanese Children’s Corps,
did and the child guerrillas did during the Fatherland Liberation War,
and they should advance straight ahead along the road indicated by the
Party.
What
is important for KCU members at present is to prepare themselves as
able revolutionaries who are knowledgeable, morally sound and physically
strong, and pillars of a thriving Korea.
The future of a thriving Korea will be represented first in their academic records.
In
our country, where now space rockets are launched and CNC machines
produced in large quantities and which will be at the forefront of
development in the future, schoolchildren with a poor academic record
are good for nothing and cannot keep up with the country’s progress.
Schoolchildren should hold high the slogan, “Learn for a thriving Korea,” and study zealously without idling even a moment.
The
ranks of the KCU should produce inventors and scientists who will
distinguish themselves worldwide with their great achievements.
Schoolchildren
should, in a spirit of patriotism, study well, observe socialist
ethics, love their organizations, collective and fellows, respect their
teachers and elders, take an active part in sport and do-good-deeds
movements, and thus become model KCU members.
It is in the KCU that people experience a political life for the first time in their lives.
The
red KCU neckerchief has been inherited from the Anti-Japanese
Children’s Corps and is also a part of the red flag of the Workers’
Party of Korea.
KCU
members, bearing in mind that the honour of Party membership and the
gold medal of Hero start from the red neckerchief and badge of the KCU,
should take part in an organizational life voluntarily and sincerely.
They
should acquire the habit of treasuring their organizations, taking a
voluntary and active part in an organizational life and implementing
without fail the tasks assigned by their sub-branch organizations.
Standing
behind them are their KCU school instructors and their class
teachers-their KCU sub-branch instructors-who are their most intimate
mentors and the protectors of their political integrity.
Our Party places great trust in the KCU school instructors and its sub-branch teachers.
It
hopes that they will follow in the footsteps of the instructors of the
Anti-Japanese Children’s Corps and take care of and love our priceless
KCU members like parents, becoming the roots and genuine teachers that
bring their talents into full bloom and lead them to a genuine life.
Our Party and the government of our Republic, true to the noble spirit of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il
of loving the rising generations, will give top priority to work with
them over all other affairs, and make every effort to bring our beloved
KCU members up as the happiest children in the world and excellent
pillars of Songun Korea.
Dear KCU members across the country,
I
once again extend warm congratulations to you as you celebrate your
holiday, June 6, amid the blessing of our Party and people.
I
once again offer warm greetings to your teachers and parents who are
devoting themselves to a brighter future for our powerful country, our
socialist motherland.
May a bright future be with you, rising generations of Kim Il Sung’s and Kim Jong Il’s Korea!
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