Politics 2023.7.25.
Key to Successes in All Affairs
One November day some years ago, the respected General Secretary
The fishery station was a unit which took the first place in the socialist emulation held between the fishery stations of the Korean People’s Army in the eastern coastal area several times and thus had the honor to receive thanks from the General Secretary.
Being informed of its record in fish catching, he warmly said that he highly appreciated officials and employees of the fishery station as they were in high spirit to devotedly implement the Party’s fishery policy.
That day, the officials of the station reported to the General Secretary in front of the cultural hall that the KPA fishery stations were striving to catch more fishes day and night with the will to win in the socialist emulation.
Listening to them, the General Secretary added that it made him very pleased and how good the socialist emulation is.
And then he stressed that the station should direct big efforts to ideological education of the fishers, instructing that the officials must not regard the fishers as merely a working force and the key to successes in all the affairs lies in rousing the mental power of the masses to the maximum.
His instructions of attaching importance to the masses’ mental power implanted the philosophy in the officials that the way of settling all the problems arising in the revolution depends on giving priority to ideological work.
Even a Rolling Stone May Gather Moss
The respected General Secretary climbed Mt Paektu, a holy mountain of revolution, in October, Juche 103(2014) and gave an important instruction for the ideological education.
Saying that the ideological education is an important work to constantly be held fast to not only in today’s acute standoff with the enemies but also in the whole course of building the socialist power, he noted that we should conduct the ideological education among the people intensely even in the future when everything prospers and the people’s life is enriched.
His noble instructions remind officials of the speech of the General Secretary made at the Eighth Conference of Ideological Workers of the Workers’ Party of Korea a few months before.
He said as follows at the conference:
Even a rolling stone may gather moss, one is bound to degenerate when treated exceptionally.
There may be some special tasks assigned by the Party, but "exceptions" cannot exist within our Party who are allowed to neglect their ideological life and be ignorant of its lines and policies.
Looking up to the benevolent feature of the General Secretary who implants deep the importance of the ideological education in officials, they made up their mind to kindle the flame of ideological offensive more fiercely.
Rodong Sinmun