adminPeople’s Republic of Korea. He died on December 17, 2011.
The Korean people admire and respect him beyond imagination. They all regard him as their “god” or “father”.
What is at the bottom of the Korean people’s warm love and unreserved adoration for Kim Jong Il?
In a nutshell, this is inspired by his infinite love for, and devotion to the people.
Kim Jong Il was a charismatic statesman endowed with an unusual influence, attraction and personality, and possessed outstanding and captivating thoughts and theories and power of leadership.
A benevolent statesman alone can inspire support and trust of the people. Kim Jong Il’s politics is marked by a boundless love for and trust in the people.
Politics should be motivated by love of the people. Warm love and deep trust will arouse people to devotion to their country and to the revolution. In essence, socialist politics is a benevolent politics.
This was precisely Kim Jong Il’s political conception. The army-centred politics, which was his unique mode of government, was based on his love for the people.
Kim Jong Il’s love of the people is manifest in the fact that the state takes responsibility for meeting the needs of the people’s livelihood in conformity to the intrinsic nature of socialism. While forces bent on domineering exist, arms should be made to defend the people’s welfare. — Embassy of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
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