The Pleasure of Finding the Key to Independent Development

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said:

"Today, independence stands as a vivid symbol of the great Comrade Kim Il Sung's personality as a peerlessly great man and as a byword for our times praising his sacred revolutionary career and imperishable achievements."

The head of the friendly delegation of Burkina Faso which visited our country in October Juche 61 (1972) said to President Kim Il Sung.

"Independence is our life and soul. The only way for us to live is to safeguard independence. We'll go back with this precious key given by Your Excellency."

Burkina Faso achieved independence in the 1960s and was making every effort to defend political independence.

In this country, the Five-Year Plan for Social and Economic Development was drawn up and put into practice in order to achieve economic development. There were, however, several problems as 80% of the necessary funds was based on foreign capital. Therefore, the government of this country sent a delegation to our country to receive instructions on building a new society from the president.

When he met the delegation, the President learned about the situation of the country and said that to defend its political independence, it should strengthen its economic power, adding that the people of the economically backward countries naturally have the idea of flunkeyism towards the developed countries. He continued if they worship big countries and depend on big ones, they think theirs are all bad and everything else looks good and, furthermore, they would follow big countries blindly. And he told them a story which shows that expecting something big from the "aid" of the West is stupid.

It was the time when the DPRK was building a pumping station for the first time. At that time it was impossible to build pumps on our own, so we wrote as many as four letters to ask a certain foreign country to make pumps for us, but they sent us only a few. We could not complete the irrigation project of the whole country that way, so we decided to build pumps by ourselves. At first, we didn't know what to do but at last, we could make large-size pumps by ourselves as we tackled down to it. We finished the irrigation project with the pumps that we had made by ourselves.

The story greatly moved the members of the delegation, and its head said to the President with deep emotion.

"Looking at all the successes achieved in your country so far, I have clearly learned that the secret lies in independence."

They were not the only foreign friends who came back home with the joy of meeting the great leader and finding the key to their independent development.

In September Juche 70(1981), President Kim Il Sung met the first vice-chairman of the Movement for Socialism in Venezuela who visited our country to learn the experience of our country. He affirmed the line and policy of the movement of the Venezuelan people toward socialism and said that it is very important to solve all the problems by believing in the strength of the popular masses with independence and creativity and relying on the strength of the popular masses, adding that the source of our invincible strength lies in the fact that we have Juche idea and all the people are armed with the Juche outlook on the world.

The first vice-chairman of the Movement to Socialism in Venezuela, instructed by President Kim Il Sung, was convinced that the idea and line on maintaining independence are a master key to building of a new society. The talk he had with the first vice-chairman of the Movement to Socialism in Venezuela is a famous classic work "Let Us Uphold Independence".

His idea and line on maintaining independence serve as the invincible banner for the life and struggle of the world progressives century after century.

That is why, with the victorious advance of the human cause of independence, "independence" will shine as a bright symbol of the peerlessly great personality of President Kim Il Sung and as a historical term praising his greatness and immortal revolutionary exploits.