Recollecting 80-Year History of "Sonyon Sinmun"

The "Sonyon Sinmun" significantly greets its ８０th founding anniversary.

The proud history of the newspaper shows how our rising generations have grown up as excellent successors to and reserves of the revolution for accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche under the care of the peerlessly great men.

President Kim Il Sung founded the newspaper "Saenal" at the dawn of the Korean revolution to open up a new era of Juche-oriented juvenile publication. After the liberation of the country the President saw that the children’s paper was founded in spite of his busy work for building a new country.

On May ５, １９４６, the President sent his autograph "To the beloved children of the new Korea" to all the children across the country.

That day the President saw that the "Sonyon Sinmun" ("Children’s Paper" at that time) was founded to provide the rising generations with a powerful mean for political training and fellow traveller of life.

The ８０-year history of the "Sonyon Sinmun" since then has been glorified along with the undying exploits and ardent love of the peerlessly great men who brought up future of Korea.

The President led the "Sonyon Sinmun" step by step to make positive contribution to bring up the rising generations into reliable masters of our revolution, who are knowledgeable, morally sound and physically strong.

Meanwhile, Chairman Kim Jong Il’s guidance over the juvenile publication started from the paper "Sonyon Sinmun".

Once, the Chairman visited the editorial department of "Sonyon Sinmun" of the Kumsong Youth Publishing House (Minju Chongnyon Publishing House at that time) to give detailed tasks for the paper saying that "Sonyon Sinmun" was the fellow traveller of the children’s union members to be model in their study and life.

And now the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un devotes himself to bringing up the rising generations into earnest young revolutionaries who will shoulder the future of socialist power. Upholding him in high esteem, the paper "Sonyon Sinmun" has greeted new heyday of its development.

The respected General Secretary clearly indicated the orientation and ways for editing the newspaper including the issue of intensifying five-point education among schoolchildren and letting them give fuller play to noble virtues and traits.

Along with the paper "Sonyon Sinmun" which has successfully performed its mission as fellow traveller and ideological weapon of schoolchildren, a lot of schoolchildren grew up as loyalists and patriots. Among them are juvenile heroes who formed juvenile guards and guerrillas to defend native places during the Fatherland Liberation War, juvenile martyrs who protected portraits of the peerlessly great men at the cost of their lives and children’s union members who carefully tendered numerous pine-nut trees to please the Party.

Today our schoolchildren soundly and courageously grow up as loyalists, genuine young revolutionaries and patriots following only our Party, while willingly reading "Sonyon Sinmun".

Thanks to the wise guidance of the peerlessly great men, the juvenile publications such as "Sonyon Sinmun", "Chongnyonjonwi" and "Saenal" have been able to educate the rising generations with the Party’s ideology and arouse them to the revolutionary struggle and construction true to the Party’s idea of prioritizing posterity.

Rodong Sinmun