Admiration of Liaison Officer from Comintern

President Kim Il Sung was a peerless great man who, since the early days of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, rejected sycophancy and dogmatism carried out the Korean revolution independently and creatively.

The respected Kim Jong Un said:

"In the first days of his revolutionary struggle he displayed uncommon wisdom and insight and clarified the truth of the revolution that independence is the lifeblood of a country and a nation as well as the masses, and that, to achieve it, sycophancy and dogmatism should be rejected and the revolution be conducted independently and creatively."

Here is a good example that happened in the days of the anti-Japanese revolutionary armed struggle.

One day in late December, Juche 19 (1930), an officer from the Comintern visited Wujiazi village to meet Kim Il Sung.

At that time the Oriental Department of the Comintern was following with keen interest the issue of the line put forward by the young Korean communists of a new generation and their revolutionary struggle.

They seemed to have been curios about the emergence in Korea of revolutionaries of a new generation who were quite different from those of the previous generation and who, while not affiliated with any faction, were working independently and without fuss on a sound mass foundation. So they sent a liaison officer out of curiosity.

On arriving in Wujiazi through Harbin liaison office, the officer met Kim Il Sung and began to inquire about many problems the Comintern wanted to know.

He talked to the heads of the revolutionary organizations formed in the village, the elders and the young hard core communists of a new generation including Cha Kwang Su. In the course of this, he was surprised to find that the rumours he had heard in the Comintern were all true.

One day he had talks with Cha Kwang Su and some other young communists.

Saying that he had met Kim Il Sung several times and learned much about the Korean revolution, he revealed what he had seen, heard and felt.

He expressed his admiration over the fact that Kim Il Sung, based on deep insight into the Left-adventurist nature of May 30 and August 1 uprisings, took measures and led wisely to eradicate their aftereffects. He continued that in the situation when the seizure of power by armed revolt was put forward as strategic policy, to criticize the uprisings as Left-adventurist was not something that anyone could easily do.

He paused for a while and looked at those around him, before talking about Kim Il Sung's party-building policy.

He highly appraised that the latter's line of forming basic party organizations first and expanding them to found party was a correct one in keeping with the concrete situation of the Korean revolution.

He explained in detail about the Comintern's prerequisites and condition of having set the principle of one party for one country, and noted that Kim Il Sung's policy of party founding was independent and original as it was not in conflict with the Comintern's principle but correctly reflected the peculiar situation of party building in Korea and the subjective and objective conditions at that time.

He continued: While staying in Wujiazi for some days, I experienced and learned many new things. What is surprising is that you the communists are in concert with not only poor or hired peasants but also landed peasants, bigoted nationalist forces, intellectuals and propertied class. Now the enforcement of Soviet by working class and poor and hired peasants, excluding non-proletarian classes and strata, is recognized as a universal strategy in international communist movement, but your view is different.

To this Kye Yong Chun and Choe Chang Gol gave a detailed solution.

Listening carefully what they had to say, the liaison officer unbosomed his admiration as follows: Comrade Kim Il Sung is developing the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary theory in line with the concrete reality of the Korean revolution. His revolutionary theories and policies are quite new as they could not be found in any Marxist-Leninist classics. Underlying his theories is his independent idea of solving all the problems arising in the revolutionary movement by relying on the masses of the people, by the Korean people themselves and in accordance with the reality of Korea. He is really a humble man; though he has valuable theories and experience, he has not yet disseminated or propagated them. I could not but be attracted to him.

Hearing his logical explanation, Cha Kwang Su and other young communists felt proud of carrying out the revolution with a great man as their leader.

Indeed, Kim Il Sung is the greatest of all the great men as he conducted the revolution and construction independently and creatively since the first days of his revolutionary carrier till the last moment of his life, building a people-centred socialism on this land.