President Kim Il Sung delivered a historic speech The DPRK Represents Genuine People’s Power and Is a Banner of the Unity and Solidarity of the Masses at a banquet held to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK on September 9, 1983.
In his speech, the President noted that with the establishment of the Republic the DPRK people, for the first time in their history, became a dignified people able independently to hew out their destiny as the true masters of the state and society, and the DPRK appeared in the international arena with pride as a fully-fledged independent and sovereign state.
The President stressed that under the correct leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea the Government of the Republic carried out the socialist revolution and set up in the country the most superior of socialist systems free from exploitation and oppression and, by forcefully stepping up socialist construction, converted the country into a powerful socialist state with a solid independent national economy, brilliant national culture and self-reliant defence.
Saying that the DPRK is a cradle of happiness for its people, represents genuine people’s power and is a banner of the unity and solidarity of the masses, the President highlighted that the state power of the Republic served the people and the people supported the Republic, the Party, the Government and the people were inseparably united with one idea and purpose and this was the source of the DPRK’s invincibility and the sure guarantee for all its victories.