One day in March 1992 when he visited DPRK, a foreigner was received by President Kim Il Sung. He asked what matters the President had most concerned about in the years of leading the Korean revolution and making a great contribution to the world revolution.
The President said that the people who struggle to realize the independence of the popular masses should concentrate on raising the level of the people’s ideological consciousness of independence and, though the objective conditions and the environment have a major effect on shaping man’s destiny, it is always man who plays the decisive role.
The President said that as burglars may break into a house without a master, so an anti-socialist current from outside may flow into a society without masters, and anti-socialist elements may grow within that society, and this could explain the fact that socialism crumbled in some countries which had been following the path of socialism.
The President said that, having witnessed the unexpected events that have taken place in the international arena over recent years, he had all the more keenly felt that ideology is the lifeblood of socialist society and that nothing is more important in the revolution and construction than raising the level of the masses’ ideological consciousness.
