Alexander Vorontsov ValentinovichChief of Korea and Mongolia Section,Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of SciencePresident Kim Il Sung is the founding father of a country. In the first half of the last century when Korea was reduced to a colony of Japan, he waged the arduous and bloody anti-Japanese war and liberated the country on August 15, 1945. He turned the DPRK into a country of the people, the independent state.The President was a world senior statesman who gave material and moral aids to the building of a new society in the non-aligned countries and rendered great services to the independent world politics including the non-aligned movement.Many years have elapsed since the President passed away, but his history continues still along with his august name.The Juche-oriented ideas and theories authored by the President are inherited and applied in the state building and activities and all people read the works and books he wrote.Whole life of the President can be said to be run through with the love for the people and the spirit of independence.Believing in the people as in heaven, the President devotedly worked for the people’s happiness till the last moment of his life.The President always adhered to the principle of independence in the state building and activities, rejected the dominationist ambition toward other countries and rendered immortal services to the cause of building an independent new world.Today the President’s lifetime desire is realized comprehensively in the DPRK. It has the people-first principle as its political idea and applies invariably the principles of independence in politics, self-sufficiency in the economy and self-reliance in defence.President Kim Il Sung, the leader of the people, is always with the people to illuminate them the road to freedom, independence and happiness.President Kim Il Sung is remembered today and will be remembered in the future, too. His life and exploits will be a great model for posterity to follow.Political insight of the President was fully displayed in correctly settling the issue of his successor.Chairman Kim Jong Il developed and enriched the Juche idea and covered the road of Songun to develop and defend the country.In the days when he was elected at the top post of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the state and nominated as the head of the DPRK armed forces, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the great successor to the revolutionary cause of the Chairman, declared within and without his resolute will to lead to victory the Party and the people as the President and the Chairman had done. For the last ten years, he led the Party and revolution, the country and people, thus achieving immortal exploits to be recorded in history.Comrade Kim Jong Un performed great exploits. With vigorous revolutionary practice, he brought about the world startling miracles and changes in all fields of building a powerful socialist country to further build up the overall national power and put the strategic position of the state on the highest level.The single-hearted unity in which the leader, the Party and the masses are united in one thought will serve as a pillar of the Party and the state, the paramount strength of the nation.Under the leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the DPRK’s armed forces have been strengthened into an invincible militant rank and the Juche-oriented defence industry has entered the higher phase of development.The state defence capacity guarantees stability of the Korean peninsula and the region with credit as a reliable military guarantee for prosperity of the DPRK and victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche.Thanks to the strenuous efforts of the people cherishing the spirit of self-reliance and self-development and the treasured sword of science and technology provided by Comrade Kim Jong Un, the material and technical foundations of an independent national economy have been further cemented and a firm spring board for the economic construction and the improvement of the people’s livelihood has been provided.Comrade Kim Jong Un performed great exploits before the revolution. He advanced resolute policies to materialize independent foreign policies and remarkably raised the international position and influence of the WPK with his outstanding and distinguished leadership ability and energetic external activities.The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un clarified in succession series of principles of foreign policies and plans to reliably carry forward the revolutionary principles and the Juche-oriented standpoint, adhere to the external policy of independence, peace and friendship and develop foreign relations in keeping with the raised strategic position of the state.As they have Comrade Kim Jong Un in the van, the WPK and the DPRK people will prove the validity and invincibility of their cause through practice.