Cry of True Feelings

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said:

"For more than 20 years after he started the Korean revolution, Comrade Kim Il Sung crossed the rugged mountains of Paektu and fought bloody battles, leading the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to victory and thus achieving the historic cause of national liberation."

President Kim Il Sung rescued the Korean nation which had been trampled underfoot by the Japanese imperialists and established a full-fledged country of people to be envied by the world, a socialist country independent in politics, self-sufficient in economy and self-reliant in national defence.

As early as in the late 1930s, a revolutionary poet Ri Chan wrote such lyrics as "The Night of Snowing Posong" and "The Night of Frontier", with boundless yearning for the Korean People's Revolutionary Army led by the great General Kim Il Sung. Ri Chan's gratitude to and admiration for President Kim Il Sung, the saviour of the nation, became intensified after the liberation of Korea.

His thankfulness for the President was eventually exploded on the day he met the great President for the first time.

It was a golden chance for Ri Chan to see President Kim Il Sung, the legendary hero of the Korean nation, in a banquet in April, 1946.

At that time, completely admiring the great personality of the President, the young poet in his thirties suddenly had a flash of lightning in his mind for a new poem. He could no longer suppress his emotion and rose to his feet, gave a bow to the President and began to recite an impromptu poem.

In his poem, the poet extolled the President as the sun not only for the Korean people but also for the mankind.

The cry of the passionate poet was an eruption of his true feelings as well as the whole Korean nation's ode to the President.

In the long history of the humankind, there were great people recognized and praised as the founder of a country or the hero of a nation.

However, until then, the world didn't see such an outstanding and prominent leader as President Kim Il Sung, who had defeated Japanese imperialists armed to the teeth in indescribably severe conditions without any state backing or external support.

When the recital was over, there was a great applause and echoing cheers of "Long live General Kim Il Sung!" in the banquet hall.

President Kim Il Sung shook the poet's hands warmly, asking him with a great trust to work together in the building of a new country.

The trust of the President was the strongest inspiration that Ri Chan had ever felt in his life. It was also a vital ignition of passion, a great asset and his whole life.

That led to the birth of an immortal revolutionary hymn "Song of General Kim Il Sung" which is reverently sung not only among the Koreans but also the progressive people across the world.