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April 15th 2022
Day of the SUN
Kim Il Sung
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Flower Kimilsungia wich reflects the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's peerless character
The Day of the Sun is an annual public holiday in the DPRK on 15 April, the birth anniversary of The Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, founder and Eternal President of the DPRK. It is the most important national holiday in the country. Kim Il Sung's birthday, which had been an official holiday since 1968, was renamed Day of the Sun in 1997, three years after his passing away.
Birth house of The Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung
Flower Kimilsungia wich reflects the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's peerless character
The Great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung was born in Mangyongdae, Pyongyang, on April 15, Juche 1 (1912), and embarked on the road of revolutionary struggle for Korea’s liberation in his teens. In the course of groping for the road of the Korean revolution, he authored the Juche idea and the Songun idea and commanded the antiJapanese revolutionary struggle for two decades under the banner of these ideas, finally achieving the historic cause of Korea’s liberation on August 15, Juche 34 (1945).
After his triumphal return to the liberated homeland, he founded the Workers’ Party of Korea without delay, carried out democratic reforms, including the land reform, nationalization of key industries and enforcement of the Law on Sex Equality, and founded a regular armed force. Based on these achievements, he founded the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the first people’s democratic state in the East, on September 9, Juche 37 (1948).
He creditably safeguarded the sovereignty and dignity of the DPRK in the Korean war (1950-1953) unleashed by the US in its attempt to stifle the twoyear-old Republic in its cradle. He carried out the postwar rehabilitation and socialist revolution in a short period and led socialist construction of several stages to victory, thus turning the country into a socialist power, independent in politics, self-sufficient in the economy and self-reliant in defence.
He regarded “The people are my god” as his lifetime motto, and his benevolent politics got a people-centred socialist system deeply rooted in the country.
He defined independence, peace and friendship as the basic ideals of the DPRK’s foreign policy and enhanced its international prestige through his energetic external activities. Working as head of state and veteran of world politics for nearly half a century, he made immortal contributions to developing the socialist and non-aligned movements.
It is not fortuitous that former US President Jimmy Carter said that President Kim Il Sung was greater than the three American Presidents who had represented the nation building and destiny of the United States-George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln-put together.
The DPRK conferred the title of Generalissimo on him on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of his birth. Though he passed away on July 8, Juche 83 (1994), he is always alive in the hearts of the Korean people and the world progressives as the founding father of socialist Korea, pioneer of the cause of independence of mankind, eternal President of the DPRK and the Sun of Juche.
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Here we will update video's of the celebrations in the following days
Below are books by The Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung in PDF format for reading and downloading
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