The respected Comrade
"It is our Party's consistent policy to push forward with the revolution and construction by vigorously waging mass movements."
The history of the Korean revolution is a proud history in which the Korean people created revolutionary and patriotic mass movements and dynamically advanced the revolution and construction by dint of them under the leadership of the great leaders and the great Party.
Mass movements are a powerful method of arousing the masses to mass heroism and collective innovation, and a powerful means for bringing about a steady upsurge in socialist construction.
After their country's liberation from Japanese military rule, the Korean people consolidated the foundations for building a new Korea, overcoming all difficulties by dint of patriotic mass movements.
The building of a new Korea, which was carried out in a complicated political situation immediately after liberation, started with the general ideological mobilization movement for nation building and made a steady advance through the emulation drive for increased production, the anti-illiteracy campaign, the patriotic movement for donating rice and the military fund donation movement.
True to the policy of the general ideological mobilization movement for nation building put forward by General
Such changes in the people's ideological consciousness united the broad masses around him and greatly encouraged them to turn out in the building of a new country.
The patriotic rice donation movement was launched on a nationwide scale after Kim Je Won, a peasant in Jaeryong County, donated to the country 30 straw bags of cereals out of the crops he gathered in the first year after the agrarian reform to the country in December Juche 35(1946), the year after the country's liberation. The Kim Hoe Il movement was also started by emulating the patriotic struggle of the Party members and other workers of the then Jongju locomotive railway section who ensured railway service by increasing their transport capacity through the repair of dozens of damaged engines by displaying patriotic devotion after liberation and forming a coal mining shock brigade to dig coal by their own efforts. The Korean people also achieved the alarming success of completing the Pothong River improvement project, which the Japanese imperialists had failed to carry out even by devoting a great of man-days for nearly ten years, in a matter of 55 days. They were the successful outcome of mass movements that gave full play to the mental strength and patriotic enthusiasm of the masses of the people.
The emulation drive for increased production, which was launched as the labour hero movement after liberation was rapidly expanded, developed into a drive for increased production for nation building and the charge movement for increased production among the working class and into a drive for increased production of agricultural products among peasants, which accelerated the growth rate in the building of a new country.
In the course of the struggle to carry out the first national economic plan after liberation, the Korean people rebuilt many factories and enterprises, which had been destroyed by the Japanese imperialists as they were defeated, and overfulfilled the plan for total output value of state-run industry by 102.5 percent and produced 170 000 tons of more grains than in Juche 35(1946).
It was also the precious outcome of mass movements that the Korean people could take a step forward in the struggle for the building of a democratic, sovereign and independent state and a civilized life through a vigorous mass campaign against illiteracy and turned their country into the one without illiterates for the first time in the East.
During the hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War, the Koreans defeated the aggressors and won victory in the struggle to defend their country on the strength of the revolutionary and patriotic mass movements.
The my height movement, the revenge-register movement, the model company movement and the movement for winning the Minchong (democratic youth league) weapons, which were born during the war, prepared the service personnel of the Korean People's Army to be ardent revolutionaries possessed of the spirit of devotedly defending the leader, the spirit of defending the country and the heroic self-sacrificing spirit and produced hundreds of heroes.
Under the wise guidance of Supreme Commander
Peasants turned out in the campaign for increased food production in wartime and, in that course, the ploughwoman movement was launched vigorously, with the result that more than 11 300 women drew ploughs in North and South Phyongan provinces and the then Hwanghae Province alone in a year of Juche 40(1951).
The mass movements which were dynamically conducted during the war until the day of victory produced many heroes and the brilliant history of war victory of the DPRK is unthinkable apart from the mass movements.
Our people kindled the fierce flames of the revolutionary and patriotic mass movements in postwar reconstruction and socialist construction, thus demonstrating the spirit of Chollima Korea and building a socialist power independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in national defence.
After the war, the workers of Kangson brought about a miracle of producing 120 000 tons of steel at a blooming mill with a rated capacity of 60 000 tons.
They thought innovatively, irrespective of the existing conception and practices, and worked hard to find a lot of reserves for increased production and economy, and even each of ordinary rolling-mill workers came out with an original idea and they refashioned the calibres of rollers efficiently and invented and introduced a dust collector into the generator gas pipes.
Not only the workers of Kangson but also those of the whole country produced ‘Sungni-58' lorries and ‘Chollima' tractor with their bare hands in the flames of the mass patriotic movements. The builders of the Haeju-Hasong railway created and conducted various movements such as the drive for exceeding 300 percent, the campaign against movement without any burden and the campaign for carrying 100 packs an hour, thus working a miracle of carrying out the huge project, which had been thought to take three to four years in common sense, in a matter of 75 days.
The heroic Korean people also made the first ‘Red Flag' electric locomotive, called the essence of modern industry, by their own efforts to humble the arrogant modern revisionists who vouched for the failure to build any electric locomotive in the DPRK, thereby demonstrating the might of Chollima Korea.
By conducting Chollima Workteam Movement more dynamically in the 1960s, the Koreans performed a miracle of carrying out the historic task of socialist industrialization in a matter of 14 years. In the 1970s, the Three-Revolution Red Flag Movement, the highest form of the mass movement, was vigorously conducted, with the result that innovations were made uninterruptedly in the struggle for attaining the higher goal of socialist construction.
The mass movements, which were waged through collective and joint innovations throughout society, raised the fierce wind of creating the speed of the 80s and the 90s on this land, and brought about a radical change in the ideological and mental features and style of work of people.
During the Arduous March and the forced march, our people, with the mass movements as a powerful weapon, overcame manifold trials and difficulties and stepped up the building of a powerful socialist country.
In the period of severe difficulties facing the revolution, the Korean people waged vigorous mass movements with firm confidence in the victory of socialism, thereby smashing the sophistry of the imperialists about the end of socialism and opening up a wide avenue for building a powerful socialist country in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude.
The proud history of the patriotic movement, the mass movement, which victoriously advanced the Korean revolution in each decade of the revolution is invariably being carried forward under the wise leadership of the respected General Secretary
Saying that it is the might and tradition of our unique idea of mass movement to train ordinary people into heroes and stragglers into progressive elements and call Chollima even with small hands, he ensured that the overall development of socialism was dynamically promoted on the strength of mass movements.
Under his energetic guidance, fiercer flames of the mass movements, a powerful means of effecting a steady upsurge in the building of a powerful socialist country, were kindled on this land in the days of the new century of the Juche era, and eye-opening successes were achieved every morning and every evening to startle the world.
The slogan "One for all and all for one!" in the Chollima era is still demonstrating its vitality, not confined to the slogan of the past. Everyone gives full play to the communist traits and virtues of devoting themselves to society, the collective and comrades, and contributes to the prosperity and happiness of the country and people through their creative labour.
The Three-Revolution Red Flag Movement has been dynamically conducted in all sectors, units and posts under the slogan "Let us transform all the revolutionary positions as required by the three revolutions!" to sublimate the loyalty and patriotism of the broad masses and encourage them to make collective innovations. As a result, the movement is fully displaying its vitality as a powerful propellant for building a powerful country and as a powerful weapon for hastening the final victory of the cause of the Juche revolution.
Along with the Three-Revolution Red Flag Movement, such mass movements as the mass technical innovation movement, the movement for creating model machines No. 26, the movement for gathering good crop and the movements to win the titles of Forest of Socialist Patriotism, model county in afforestation and model county in land and environment protection were conducted vigorously in all parts of the country, thus inspiring the Korean people with enthusiasm for revolution and struggle and motivating them to make collective and joint innovations.
In recent years of worst-ever adversity, the dignity and position of the DPRK and the overall national power of the country have reached the highest level and a new era of overall development has been ushered in in socialist construction. This is the brilliant fruition of the noble loyalty and patriotic and heroic struggle of all the people who are fully armed with the revolutionary ideas of General Secretary
The great significance and eternal vitality of our unique mass movements lie in building up the powerful local force which we should always firmly believe in and rely on in accomplishing the socialist cause which should overcome unpredictable challenges and difficulties while paving the untrodden path.
The Korean people will bring earlier a new era of a powerful and thriving country by fully displaying the might of the revolutionary and patriotic mass movements, the excellent vital power peculiar to Korean-style socialist construction, true to the guidance of the respected Comrade
