No Man Is Superior to the Masses

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said,

"His was a noble life of a people's leader, who regarded ‘The people are my God' as his motto, applied it to his ideas and leadership and turned it into reality."

In the evening of November 29, Juche 34 (1945) Comrade Kim Il Sung finished his on-site guidance at Ryongchon County, and headed for Sinuiju.

His car, after running for a good whole, suddenly came to a halt. Standing in the middle of the one-lane road was an ox-cart.

The driver, who was looking for the owner of the ox-cart, could not believe his eyes; a peasant, the owner, was sleeping on the grass by the road.

Quite angry with the peasant for sleeping without any thought leaving his ox-cart in the middle of the road, the driver pushed the door open and was about to shout out, when Comrade Kim Il Sung refrained him, saying that the peasant looked pleased, and that we could push the ox-cart aside.

He then quietly stepped near to the ox-cart and pushed the shaft aside. After looking at the peasant with affection, he got on his car again quietly.

Officials around, thinking how regretful the peasant must feel if he knew Comrade Kim Il Sung had seen him sleeping, got on the car.

When the car left, Comrade Kim Il Sung said: We must not exercise privileges or domineer over the people on the plea that we always travel by car; in our society no man is superior to the masses of the people.

The officials were surprised as he said that those who were superior in the country were the workers and peasants who had been colonial slaves and experienced indescribable humiliation and contempt in the past.

Before liberation, the peasants did not dare to walk along the roads; it had been inconceivable for them to sleep with their ox-carts standing on the road; if that thing happened, they would get slapped and have a hard time in the police stations.

But Comrade Kim Il Sung said those peasants were superior being in our society. No man is superior to the masses–this was his ennobling outlook on the people, their height in the country he was going to build and the viewpoint and attitude he wanted the officials to adopt towards the people.

Comrade Kim Il Sung, having such an ennobling outlook on the people, regarded the masses as supreme, devoted his all for them, and led the revolution and construction to victory by relying on their strength and trusting them, and thus built on this land a country, whose masters are the people.

Today the Korean people, holding him up in esteem as their eternal leader, are adding eternal luster to his immortal exploits.