A Grand Birth

President Kim Il Sung said: “With the birth of the DPRK our people became the genuine masters of the state and society and a mighty and dignified people whom no one would dare touch. The foundation of the Republic provided our people with a powerful weapon for the revolution and construction and enabled them to stand proudly in the international arena under the banner of an independent and sovereign state. Indeed, the establishment of the DPRK marked the emergence of an independent people and signified the solemn declaration of the birth of Juche Korea.” Kim Il Sung created valuable experiences in the building of people’s power in the flames of the anti-Japanese revolution and laid a firm foundation for the construction of an independent sovereign state after liberation, and, based on it, proclaimed to the whole world the founding of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on September 9, Juche 37 (1948). The founding of the DPRK constituted the birth of a new form of the people’s government, the first of its kind in history, and a national event that brought about a radical turn in shaping the people’s destiny and building a rich and powerful nation. With its founding, the country became capable of putting an end to the sorrow of being a colonial weak country and standing proudly in the international arena as a completely independent and sovereign state, and its people became able to hew out their destiny independently and creatively with a powerful political weapon for the revolution and construction.