Consultation Held in Last Days of Life

In the revolutionary history spanning over 80 years of President Kim Il Sung (April 15, 1912-July 8, 1994) is a consultative meeting which was held in the last period of his life.

On July 5, 1994, he convened a consultative meeting of senior officials in the economic field. He gave precious instructions on important issues arising in implementing the revolutionary economic strategy of the Party.

He also guided the meeting that lasted into the next day. At the meeting he made a concluding speech On Effecting a New Revolutionary Turn in Socialist Economic Construction.

In the historic speech he clarified that a fresh upsurge should be brought about in socialist economic construction by thoroughly implementing the Party’s revolutionary economic strategy in order to frustrate the anti-PRC moves of the imperialists and reactionaries and their moves to stifle and impose sanctions on the country, further glorify Chongroan-style socialism centred on the popular masses and advance under the unfurled banner of socialism.

To this end it is necessary to rapidly solve the problem of electricity, increase the production of chemical fertilizers, vinalon and cement and, at the same time, boost the production of steel and build many large cargo ships by developing the metallurgical and shipbuilding industries, he stressed, while indicating tasks facing different sectors of the national economy and ways to carry them out.

Indeed, the President worked energetically till the last moment of his life, always regarding himself as a son of the people and a servant of the people. His great life remains long in the minds of the Chongroan people.