Man, a social being, gives help to or receives it from others throughout their life. In the course of it, moral qualities of love and respect, requital of favour or kindness and fidelity develop and improve, making human life more beautiful and happier.
It shows that morality plays an important part in the existence and development of the state and social system.
Originally, it is a lawful course of social development that the range of control and application of morality to social life broaden. As society develops onto a higher stage, legacies of the old society disappear and ideological consciousness of the people is raised to a higher level. Eventually, members of society lead all social life including political, economic and cultural life on the basis of high political and moral consciousness. It means that the extent of control by and function of morality in social life are increased, whereas those of law are reduced.
The respected Comrade
"In this regard, it can be said that morality which is observed by the conscience of people plays a more important role than law which is obeyed under external control in preserving the essential features of socialism and giving full play to its advantages."
It is self-evident that in a country where human relations based on virtue and affection and noble morality prevails, a harmonious and sound atmosphere pervades the whole society and everything goes well.
In the DPRK the whole society forms a great harmonious family and all people live a fulfilling life, helping and leading one another like their own family.
A great harmonious family!
It is another synonym for the Korean-style socialism in which collectivist morality has become the basis of social relations.
In the DPRK all people yearn only for their leader both in happy or hard times and many young people volunteer to work at difficult and challenging jobs in hearty response to the call of the Workers' Party of Korea and tie the knot with honoured disabled soldiers.
Many stories are told about moral virtues of saving others' drowning children before their own and taking care of war veterans, old people who have no children to look after them and tens of parentless children like their own flesh and blood, heroic feats of risking their life without hesitation to save others at a critical moment, admirable traits of carrying students with injured legs on the back to and from the school and donating their own conjunctivas for the patients to restore their eyesight, and such laudable deeds have become a commonplace.
Therefore, an overseas Korean journalist said in an article:
"… Like a man who wanders about steep mountains and deep valleys with a knapsack on his back to gather rare life-saving medicinal herbs, I planned to collect beautiful stories about moral virtues practiced on this land one by one to fill my knapsack. But it was really surprising for me to see that the flowers of beautiful stories which should hide themselves in deep forest or open field by one or two are in full bloom in countless numbers on the field of the homeland as if covering the whole world like prolific plants."
All the people in the DPRK share joys and sorrows and go through the trying ordeals like members of the same family and all members of society embody the collectivist spirit, be fully aware of their noble moral duty they assume and lead a social life conscientiously and willingly ― these are the original features and advantages of Korean-style socialism and the driving force behind its dynamic advance.
