Approaching even a single contract from the viewpoint of people's interests

The whole country are full of yearning for President Kim Il Sung who gave top priority to the interests and rights of the people in the whole period of his revolutionary leadership, regarding it as his lifelong motto to believe in the people as in Heaven.

President Kim Il Sung saved the Korean people from the destiny of colonial slaves who could not even have their names in the dark position of a stateless nation and made them as a dignified people of a full-fledged independent and sovereign state. He was, indeed, a peerless patriot possessed of love for the country, nation and people.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said:

"Comrade Kim Il Sung was a great leader of the people who put forward the masses, once oppressed and exploited, as the masters of history, and raised their dignity and value to the highest level possible."

It was August 4th, Juche 37 (1948).

Kim Il Sung met an official and asked him about his work with a delegation of the Ministry of Foreign Trade of a country which was now under way.

After receiving a detailed report on his work with the delegation of the Ministry of Foreign Trade of that country, Kim Il Sung said that the issue of sending fishermen had to be solved together when signing a trade contract with the representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Trade.

At that time, the work with the delegation of the country was to be concluded basically and a contract was to be signed at once, but the relevant side proposed to send more fishermen while presenting new collaborations in a region of its country which had not been agreed upon at first

The issue of sending our fishermen to other countries was a serious matter related to the dignity of our country newly founded and the independent rights of the citizens.

If a wrong contract was signed, the interests of the workers of the DPRK who became citizens of a dignified sovereign state could be encroached upon as opposed to the past when they had been abused by employers as they had no elementary democratic freedom and rights.

But until then nobody paid any attention to such matters because of the joy of national liberation and the daily growing happiness.

When we had been asked to send more fishermen to that country, the President said that the contract should be carefully made and that the fishermen in our country should be treated as citizens of a sovereign state and receive privileges while working in that country. He continued to say that it had to be agreed in consideration of each clause one by one so that our workers could receive privileges as citizens of a sovereign state.

Upon receiving the instructions of the President, the official was greatly moved.

The President regarded the people who had been forced to do slavery work labor under all sorts of maltreatment and humiliation and who had been buried in foreign lands as proud citizens of a sovereign state, and saw everything from the standpoint of the Korean people's interests. His profound intention was reflected in his love for the country, the nation and people.

He continued: As our country, a sovereign state, is fundamentally different from that in the past when people were sold abroad, it is necessary to establish a correct orientation and ways to conclude a contract on the principle of closely cooperating with each other with equal rights.

Kim Il Sung, who liberated the country and provided the Korean people who had suffered from humiliation and insult in the colonial days with a new happy life, is a peerless patriot who was so meticulous as to make the people exercise their full-fledged rights in the world arena as citizens of a dignified independent and sovereign state.

Looking up to the President who loved the nation most and regarded the people as heaven, the official keenly felt that the President was the genuine patriot who valued and upheld his country, nation and people as the best.