Historian Leading an Eternal Life under the Warm Care of the Great Leaders

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said;

"Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il held all our social scientists in a warm embrace, training them as revolutionary intellectuals and leading them at every step so that they lived up to the Party's trust and expectations by achieving great successes in their research."

President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il took great care of patriotic intellectuals and guided them to live a valuable life making a contribution to the socialist revolution.

Among them was Kim Sok Hyong, ex-dean of the Faculty of History, Kim Il Sung University.

Mr. Kim was born in Taegu, North Kyongsang Province in Juche 4 (1915). He studied the national history with ambition of achieving its enrichment against the Japanese imperialists' policy of obliteration of nations.

But it was impossible under the Japanese colonial rule.

Then he realized that taking part in the struggle for the national liberation is the genuine patriotic way. So he became the underground worker to join the anti-Japanese struggle led by President Kim Il Sung.

While fighting against the invaders, he got arrested and was imprisoned until the day of liberation.

The country was librated, but due to the colonial enslavement maneuvers of the US imperialists, he had a lot of difficulties studying national history.

It was President Kim Il Sung who worked out his hope which is to contribute to the country in the field of study on national history and supported him.

President Kim Il Sung initiated the establishment of first people's university in Korea, Kim Il Sung University, and invited patriotic intellectuals to the position of lecturers of the university in Juche 35 (1946).

So was Mr. Kim invited. And he decided to devote his whole life to the holy cause of realizing the great aims of President Kim Il Sung and went to Pyongyang.

Mr. Kim worked as a lecturer, department leader and then dean of the Faculty of History, Kim Il Sung University from Juche 35 (1946) to Juche 45 (1956). While working there, he put all his effort to education and study on national history.

In April, Juche 41 (1952), President Kim Il Sung gave a visit to Paeksong-ri, a temporary site of Kim Il Sung university during the fatherland liberation war, and presented the grand blueprint for the post-war development of the fatherland.

There, Mr. Kim, the then dean of the Faculty of History was honored to meet President Kim Il Sung and took an invaluable teachings on the study.

One of them was to write a book on the history of military system in Korea.

True to his will, Mr. Kim did energetic work and consequently completed "Military System of the Korean Feudal Dynasty" in Juche 41 (1952), and in Juche 44 (1955), his Korean translation of the "Military books of the Eastern country" saw the light.

He worked as a director and then adviser of the Research Institute of History, the Academy of Social Sciences since January, Juche 45 (1956), and as a president of the Academy of Sciences. During that time, he made a big contribution to the synthesis and systemization of Korean history based on a Juche-oriented stand.

He wrote "A Class Structure of the Peasants over Feudal times in Korea"(1957), "Discussion on Ryangban(the two classes of nobility)"(1961), "Study on the early relations between Korea and Japan"(1966) and "History of the early relations between Korea and Japan"(1990).

Among these, the most famous one is the "Study on the early relations between Korea and Japan", which reveals the absurdity of Japanese government-patronized historian's view of "Mimana-Miyake"and clarifies the fact that Korea had a great influence over the Japan's early civilization. The Japanese translation of this work was published in Japan and caused a great sensation around the world.

In Juche 61 (1972), Mr. Kim visited Japan as the head of a state delegation and stirred Japan's history society and the public demonstrating on a scientific basis, the Koguryo's influence over Japan's medieval history and culture.

And he also, as a chief writer, did great work in writing "The Complete History of Korea" (complete in 33 volumes), which contained the whole history of Korea from the primitive to the modern times.

President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il highly appreciated his contribution to the Juche-oriented study on the national history and educational work, investing Kim Il Sung Order and Kim Il Sung Prize, the highest order and prize in DPRK, and conferring the honorary title of academician(1964), professor(1962) and doctor(1962).

And after he died in Juche 85 (1996), Chairman Kim Jong Il saw to it that he lives an eternal life lying state in the Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery.

Undoubtedly President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il were the preservers of Kim Sok Hyong who realized his dream of living a patriotic life devoting his life to the study on national history.

So, in the 6th Session of the 9th Supreme People's assembly, Kim Sok Hyong spoke from his heart that our time-honored great history and brilliant culture would never see the light unless this country was led by the great leader and the great party.