President Kim Il Sung had an unchangeable creed of life.
His great power of the love of people brought about a wonderful history of progress and efflorescence immeasurable with an ordinary time scale.
In all the time of the great change and creation he was always a benevolent father of the people.
Therefore, Japanese journalist Takaki Takeo, deeply admired for the close relationship between the leader and the people after participating in the New Year celebration of the students and children during his visit to Pyongyang in 1971, wrote in his travelogue:
“To be sure, he is a father. The children call him ‘Father Marshal!’Not only they but all call him the same way. The relationship between the father and his children is the same with the relationship between President Kim Il Sung and the people of this country.
It is a fusion of the warmest and most excellent comradely affection given by the President to the people and given by the people to him. I have been to many countries on business trips, but I have never seen such a political leader as him who greets the New Year with the children.”
Then, how is it that all the Korean people, young and old, call him affectionately their father and follow him?
Japanese social activist Ichigawa Makoto gives a clear answer to it:
“Frankly speaking, at first I could not understand fully the respect of the Korean people to President Kim Il Sung .
However, while meeting him personally and having a talk with him I was well aware of it. He was possessed of love and dignity overflowing like clear water flowing out of the ground.
The reality where the people enjoy a peaceful and happy life in his embrace makes them respect him as their fatherly leader.”
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