Juche

    Chairman Kim Jong Il wisely led literature and arts to unfold a new history of Songun literature and arts, thus performing immoral exploits.

    Respected Marshal Kim Jong Un said.

    “His (Kim Jong Il’s) was the most brilliant life of a peerlessly great man who performed immortal exploits for the Party and the revolution, the country and the people, true to the noble intentions of the President.”

    Important in Chairman Kim Jong Il’s immortal exploits performed in the Songun literature and arts is that, first of all, he expounded an ideological and theoretical guideline of the Songun literature and arts.

    With his distinguished wisdom and unique thinking, energetic ideological and theoretical activities, he gave scientific clarification that literature and arts should be the ones that reflect a grandiose reality and embody the demands of Songun era, the Songun literature and arts that are boundlessly loyal to the revolutionary cause of Songun and that have the highest ideological and artistic value and thus expounded their features and mission on a scientific basis.

    On the basis of scientific analysis of correlation between the times and literature and arts, a world outlook and a creative method, he clarified that the Songun literature and arts should be the ones that applied the Juche-oriented realism as required by the Songun era, the ones that reached the highest phase of the development of human literature and arts in their aspects of content and forms. And he gave complete, perfect and scientific explanation to the issues arising in further increasing ideological and artistic value of literature and arts and the principled issues arising in practical creative work.

    Clear in the ideology and theory on literature and arts in the Songun era set forth by Kim Jong Il are the features and mission of Songun literature and arts, general orientation of building literature and arts, and the fundamental principles and ways to be adhered to in creating literature and art works that are excellent in their ideological and artistic value.

    Today, the Songun literature and arts in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are coming into bloom and developing as the literature and arts that reflect the spirit of the times on the highest phase in their ideological and artistic value, and displaying their might as the inspiring banners leading and stimulating the times. These are the precious fruition of ideology and theory on the Songun literature and arts and the clear demonstration of their truthfulness, originality and vitality.

    What is important in his immortal exploits performed in the Songun literature and arts is, next, that he unfolded a new history of literature and arts reflecting the leader’s immortality and depicting the leader to settle a problem of depicting and creating the leader.

    Kim Jong Il set the creation of literature and arts depicting an immortality of the leader as the most important issue in building literature and arts and made sure that the literature and arts depicting the leader and his immortality became the main in the Songun literature and arts.

    Literature and arts depicting the leader and his immortality including the song “The Leader Will Always Be with Us” and an epic “Our Eternal Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung” were created thanks to Kim Jong Il’s energetic guidance, thus ushering a period of heyday of the Songun literature and arts.

    What is also important in his immortal exploits performed in the Songun literature and arts is, next, that he led wisely the creation of literature and art works of diverse themes and forms and thus brought about a heyday of the Songun literature and arts.

    Kim Jong Il scrupulously guided the creation of the works superior in their ideological and art value while indicating the orientation of creation and subject of literature and arts in Songun era, personally choosing the materials and seeds of works on his ceaseless long journey of Songun and putting forward the counterproposals of depiction.

    Literature and art works of diverse themes and forms that embodied aspiration and demands of the Songun era were created briskly on a high ideological and artistic level under the wise leadership of Chairman Kim Jong Il and thus the Songun literature and arts could become more colorful and abundant to in the heyday.

    That he solidly built up the ranks of writers and artistes who are the main performers of creation of the Songun literature and arts is also an important exploit that Kim Jong Il performed in the Songun literature and arts.

    Kim Jong Il instructed that the writers should learn after the revolutionary soldier spirit to hold aloft a pen of faith and conscience in the period of grave trials and energetically led them to enhance their political vision and artistic skills in keeping with the demand of a campaign of ability, stressing that they themselves should have resolute ideology and pure conscience in order to write a work inspiring the people with a spirit of defending the headquarters of the revolution at the cost of their lives.

    And he put the writers and artistes as the eternal Songun revolutionary comrades of the Party, placing their position and role on the highest level and looked after their works and life with parental affection.

    Chairman Kim Jong Il’s wise leadership and warm affection served as a motive force that instilled in the writers and artistes inexhaustible strength and creative enthusiasm, abundant thinking and artistic fancy and an inspiring banner that aroused and pushed them to the creation of the Songun literature and arts.

    Thanks to his distinguished and seasoned leadership, they could become true revolutionaries who armed firmly with the Party’s ideas on literature and the arts and share their destiny with the Party and make dynamic efforts for bringing the Songun literature and arts into bloom.

    Today, all the writers and artistes in the DPRK are full of firm resolution to resolutely defend Kim Jong Il’ exploits made in leading literature and arts and bring about a new creative upswing in the overall building of literature and arts and thus add eternal luster to his immortal exploits.