One early winter day in 1936, Tojong Pak In Jin, a Chondoist, came to the secret camp where Kim Il Sung waged the anti-Japanese armed struggle.
During the conversation, Kim Il Sung remembered the time for the offering of clean water and told his orderly to fetch a bowl of fresh water. Then Kim Il Sung beseeched Tojong Pak to offer clean water.
Tojong Pak, who was impressed by Kim Il Sung’s prominent personality and generosity, asked Kim Il Sung whether there was anything he believed in like “God” and what it was if he had any.
Kim Il Sung answered.
“Of course there is something I believe in like God: the people. I have been worshipping the people as Heaven, and respecting them as if they were God. My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. There¬fore, my lifetime motto is ‘The people are my God.’”
Believing in the people and respecting them like God—this was the creed cherished by Kim Il Sung in his lifetime.
