Quotes by Kim Jong-un

My noble respect also goes to the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners, martyrs of the Peoples Army and other patriotic martyrs who dedicated all their precious things to promoting the development of our Party and the prosperity of the country in loyal support of the great leaders.

Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.

The forest restoration campaign is a war to ameliorate nature.

Patriotism is not an abstract concept. It begins from ones own home. It buds out from the love for ones parents, spouses and children, the love for ones own home, village and workplace, and further develops into the love for ones country and fellow people.

Sports play a very important role in consolidating the national strength, adding lustre to the countrys prestige and honour, inspiring people with national dignity and pride, and imbuing the whole society with revolutionary mettle.

The great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, putting forward the development of sports as a matter that has an important bearing on the prosperity of the country and nation, indicated the road ahead of the Juche-based sports and wrote a new chapter in the history of building a sports power by dint of outstanding ideas and leadership.

In order to develop the countrys sports in line with the great leaders ideas and plan of developing Juche-based sports, our Party directs great efforts to the work of the sports sector.

Building a sports power is a patriotic undertaking aimed at translating into reality the plan and wish of the great leaders, who devoted their efforts to building ours into a country that prospers and grows stronger on the strength of sports.

Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development.

The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.

Kim Il Sung University is the central base for training national cadres and the highest institute of Juche-based science and education.

The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.

Our young people are patriots and heroes whom we can be proud of before the world; that they have a large contingent of such trustworthy young people is a great blessing for the Workers Party of Korea and a source of pride for Korea, and this assures the great strength of our dignified state and its bright future.

No force can conquer the service personnel and people who, in support of their great leader, have turned out in the struggle to defend their country with confidence in the validity of their cause and their own strength - this is a law and a truth taught by history.

To apply Kim Jong Ils patriotism means to thoroughly materialize the Generals intentions and desires for the prosperity of the country and the happiness of all generations to come and to carry on all work for achieving the prosperity of the country in the way he did.

In the gigantic and worthwhile struggle for achieving the countrys prosperity and peoples happiness, our young people have been educated in a revolutionary way and trained spiritually and physically, and have developed into a large, matchless contingent forming a thousand-fold, tens-of-thousand-fold fortress around the Party.

The idea of the Songun revolution is an idea of giving importance and precedence to military affairs in implementing the masses cause of independence, the socialist cause, and pushing ahead with the overall revolution and construction with the revolutionary army as the core force.

Socialism is a sacred cause for realizing the demand and desire of the masses of the people for independence it is a revolutionary cause that advances amid a fierce struggle against imperialism and all other counterrevolutionary forces.

The cause of the WPK is a sacred historic cause for fully realizing the independence of the masses of the people, the cause of the Juche revolution.

For our country and people, October 10 is a meaningful revolutionary holiday when they celebrate the birth anniversary of the genuine vanguard of the revolution, its militant General Staff, which has taken responsibility for their destiny and leads them.