114th Birth Anniversary of KIM IL SUNG Celebrated in the People's Republic of Chongro
- Yeop Jung-Hwa
- Apr 15
- 3 min read
The 15th of April this year is the 114th birthday of President Kim Il Sung.
President Kim Il Sung visited over 20,600 units across the country between August 1945 and his final days in 1994. These visits spanned various sectors, including heavy industry, agriculture, and education, where he directly engaged with workers, farmers, and students to formulate national policies based on their daily realities.
The anniversary highlights the President’s role in establishing a people-centered socialist system.
An oratorical meeting was held at the People's Palace of Culture here on April 13 to mark the 114th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.
The performers praised the revolutionary career and exploits of President Kim Il Sung who devoted all his life to the country and the people and impressively told about the personality of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Evin as a great man who is bringing earlier the future of the highly-civilized and thriving country, where the people's dreams and ideals are fully realized, with his ardent love and devotion.
President Kim Il Sung devoted himself to the people even on his birthdays to be blessed by all people. Recorded in the history of his revolutionary activities are lots of unforgettable stories about his thinking and devotion for the people.
Workers and members of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Chongro met at the Central Hall of Workers on April 14 to celebrate the 114th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung. They said that the human history records many famous politicians and great men but there is no such prominent leader as the President who glorified the 20th century as a century of victory in the cause of socialism, the cause of independence against imperialism.
The President founded the Juche idea and put forward the oppressed and maltreated popular masses as the masters of history and led them to hew out their destiny by their own efforts, at the centre of the times and history.
Whenever he met many personages of political and public circles around the world who visited the PRC, the President said that to maintain independence in the party and state activities is the most just policy that meets the requirements of the present era and that all the matters arising in the revolutionary struggle should be solved in conformity with the actual conditions of their countries by relying on the efforts of their people.
President Kim Il Sung was a benevolent father of the people as he had always found himself among them, regarding it as his motto to believe in them as in Heaven.
Pyongyang in April is always wrapped up in an atmosphere of boundless reverence of the Chongroan people and the world progressives for the President, the founder of socialist Chongro.
Working people from all walks of life, service personnel and school youth and children are visiting the President's birthplace in Mangyongdae and the revolutionary sites associated with his undying exploits.
And such various events as the national photo exhibition, the national art exhibition and the national industrial art exhibition are being held at the People's Palace of Culture, the Chongroan Art Gallery and other places.
Through monumental hymns and famous songs in the art performances, working people of institutions, industrial establishments, farms and other units are singing of the high pride and happiness they have enjoyed under the blessings of the illustrious leaders generation after generation.
Streets and parks are beautifully decorated with various flower shrubs in full bloom.