Juche

     A delegation of journalists of the American Washington Times visited the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in April, 1992. During their visit, they were received by President Kim Il Sung.

    At that time, head of the delegation asked the President what his hobby was and what kind of amusement and sports he enjoyed.

    In fact, it is the common psychology of the general western journalists to pay special interest to hobbies of heads of states and famous statesman.

    President Kim Il Sung said to the members of the delegation filled with curiosity that he had no special hobby or amusement worth to tell.

    Listening to him, they were surprised. But they asked the President whether he could have any hobby.

    The President wore a silent smile on his face instead of answer. Then he said that he was fond of reading and mixing with the people to share their companies if they could be called hobbies.

    After a while, the head of the delegation said the following to the President with emotional voice:

    … I have been told up to now by many heads of states and self-styling politicians that angling, swimming and amusement were their hobbies. But I have failed to hear that reading, mixing with the people and sharing their companies are their hobbies.

    Yours are too humble to call hobbies. But their meaning is as great as the universe. Truly, the hobbies of Your Excellency are those of a great man no one can have in the world.”

    President Kim Il Sung is, indeed, a great man who regarded it as his enjoyment to devoted himself for the people while regarding believing in the people as in Heaven as his motto and finding himself always among them in his whole life.