Mpala Kalonda JonathanDeputy Secretary General,National Association for the Study of theJuche Idea of the DR CongoChairman,Group for the Study of the Juche Idea—Circle of Independence of DR CongoThe DR Congo faces big challenges in its development in several fields like public security, the economy, public health, ecological environment, society, education and technology.The people are pressed by the severest poverty and the DR Congo becomes one of poorest countries in the world though 60 years have elapsed since it achieved its sovereignty and the international independence. In order to turn huge potentialities of DR Congo into the sustaining development for interests of all communities, the people, in particular, the young people must stand at its centre. It is because they are future of the society. They should be not voluntary ones but well-prepared ones. It is painful, indeed, to see most of our young people blindly imitate the capitalist political system and customs and become lazy under the influence of capitalism. This is a fatal poison.There is one and only truth, that is, the Juche idea authored by the great President Kim Il Sung. The Juche idea is a source that enables the young people in the DR Congo to free themselves from despair and the whole nation to build a powerful and rich DR Congo where peace and sustainable development are secured.For our young people in the DR Congo, President Kim Il Sung is a great paragon and a model of unparalleled bravery and extraordinary courage. History remembers that the President, cherishing an intention to win back Korea’s sovereignty, embarked on the revolution when he was 14, insisted on the accomplishment of cause of national liberation by relying on the internal forces instead of foreign aids and formed the Anti-Japanese Guerilla Army to declare the war against Japanese imperialism. The President defeated Japanese imperialism without any foreign aids and liberated Korea on August 15, 1945.President Kim Il Sung paved the way for the building of the people’s power that defends and realizes interests of the popular masses of different social strata including workers, peasants and intellectuals.Regarding the strengthening of defence capabilities as an important undertaking for existence of the state, President Kim Il Sung built the DPRK into a military power no force on earth dares provoke and, at the same time, built an independent national economy so that the DPRK is not moved by any world economic crises.It is necessary for the young people in the DR Congo to make the Juche idea, authored by the great President Kim Il Sung, their own and embody it in their life, apply it in activities of the state and the society in accordance with realities of the DR Congo, thus living up to the expectations of their people and giving explanations to the challenges the DR Congo has.Not only the young people in the DR Congo but all the African young people must take this into consideration.Philosophical principle that man is master of everything implies that he is master of the world and his own destiny, that is, the maker of history. Man, a social being with independence, creativity and consciousness, should change his society and community so as to get rid of obscurantism and liquidate exploitation of man by man. Africa, together with the whole DR Congo should be liberated through the people’s struggle for independence.To do so, it is necessary for us, the new generation of the DR Congo, to form organizations in universities and all social sectors so as to deepen the study of the Juche idea and make the young people interested in this ideology. It is also necessary for other countries in Africa to keep pace with us.