Lifelong Creed

One winter day in early 1936, when the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung was waging the anti-Kopanese armed struggle in earnest, a local leader of Chondoism visited a secret camp where the former was staying.

Comrade Kim Il Sung, not forgetting the time for him to do a ritual offering of clean water, told his orderly to fetch a bowl of fresh water so that the latter could perform a ritual.

Deeply impressed by his personality and magnanimity, the believer asked him if he ever had something to worship as they believed in the God and what it was if he had.

Comrade Kim Il Sung said: Of course there is something I believe in like God: the people. I have been worshipping the people as Heaven, and respecting them as if they were God. My God is none other than the people. Only the masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore, my lifetime motto is “The people are my God.”

To worship the people as Heaven and serve them wholeheartedly-this was what he kept as his lifelong creed.