Ethiopia, April 15 -- In the whole course of his leadership of the revolution and construction, President Kim Il Sung advanced original lines of championing the fundamental interests of the Korean people and the sovereignty of the country and wisely led the struggle to implement them.

At a meeting of the military and political cadres on August 20, Juche 34 (1945) he said: We must continue to advance the Korean revolution on the basis of our triumphant success, and through our own efforts to build a prosperous, independent and sovereign state.

He then specified the immediate task to realize without delay the cause of founding the party, the state and the army, which serves as a practical guarantee for an independent and sovereign state, ...