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— This is the monument to Great Leader, comrade Kim Il-Sung
respected and beloved by our nation
In this monument you can see the Great Leader
surrounded by the characters from the famous
revolutionary opera, written by him
entitled "The Flower-Seller".
The very employees of our film studio
who are full of love and gratitude
to the Great Leader, comrade Kim Il-Sung
erected this monument in April 1974
— The day the Great Leader arrived in this place in person
and initiated construction of the film studio
is commemorated on this plate.
It reads as follows:
The everlasting oeuvre of our father, the Great Leader
has been filmed, becoming bright legacy of the blooming art of cinematography
— The poem:
The one, who carries the fate of entire nation on his shoulders
The victor of the sacred counter-Japanese revolution
He brought the eternal spring of national revival into this land
The great sun of our nation, comrade Kim Il-Sung
If only western and eastern seas became full of ink
and the tallest tree in Korea became a pen
it wouldn't be enough to describe the vastness
of love of our Great Leader to our film artists
— The Great Leader, comrade Kim Il-Sung has deigned
to visit our film studio for twenty times
to give us advices on site
His son, his son and heir, Dear Leader, Kim Jong-Il
visited us 332 times... and gave us advices as well
The Dear Leader said that art must be subordinate to politics
The director must be a ideological teacher
to the film crew
He is responsible for ideological-political morality of all collaborators
— In capitalism, the director is just a paid agent
who just serves the capitalists as they please
in socialism in turn, the director is an independent artist
responsible only in front of the Party
— Thank to countless advices of the Great Leader and the Dear Leader
our films reached very high ideological level
The Parade
— This house is the dearest monument of our history
because just here our Great Leader
comrade Kim Il-Sung was born and raised
proving highest reverence, our nation
visits this place with affection
and on the Great Leader's birthday
50, 70 and even 100 thousand people come here
The Great Leader, when still a child scaled this tree
to catch the rainbow shining over the river Taedong
and just then his thought was born about
the revolution and future liberation of the country
This well was used by the revolutionary family
of respectable Great Leader, comrade Kim Il-Sung
During child's play on this warship-shaped rock
the Great Leader developed ideas
on future expulsion of Japanese imperialists
While jumping on these rocks in his childhood
the Great Leader, respectable comrade Kim Il-Sung
was perfecting his mind
Here is the sand on which the Great Leader
was fighting with his friends in this childhood
Already as a child the Great Leader knew that
to think about the liberation, he must multiply his strength
The Great Leader always won
defeating even older colleagues
using not only his strength, but also intellect
since as a child already the Great Leader knew
that one wins thanks to great wisdom
In this place the Great Leader received
the patriotic upbringing from his father
To these patriotic lessons he took also his friends
His father, giving him patriotic upbringing used to say
that one has to learn, learn and learn
Once the Great Leader went to pasture a cow
and didn't come back home all day
so his parents started to look for him
and found him sitting on a rock and reading a book
It was then, during the reading that he and his friends decided
about expulsion of the imperialists and liberation of the country
— The immortal literary works
written personally by the Great Leader, comrade Kim Il-Sung
are collected in this room
Part of the room is devoted to the works
of the Dear Leader, comrade Kim Jong-Il
Respectable comrade Kim Jong-Il, the son and heir
of the Great Leader is a wise leader of our nation and the Party
because he continues the work of the Great Leader
and develops his revolutionary ideas
Once upon a time, the Dear Leader received a message
from the foreign publishers that they wanted to publish
just informations about Korea
although they lacked reliable sources
so they had to rely on South-Korean sources
He decided to make up for that
and publish books containing important and just
information about Korea in foreign languages
Korean foreign-languages publishing house
has underlined the merits of our Great Leader
and the Dear Leader in its books
For example, the book of short stories
entitled "The Unmatched Man", reveals (...)
(...) of the Great Leader. These short stories
show him as the most noble and most exceptional of all men
the leader of the revolution
and the wholehearted father of the nation
This is the book "The Leader of People"
published in foreign languages
presenting most exceptional Korean paintings
their form is national and their content socialist
All paintings have captions:
"Looking Up to Sun of All Peoples"
"Great Leader Comrade Kim Il-Sung Crosses the Amnok River
with a Lofty Aim of Liberating the Country"
"Great Leader Gives Directions on Site
Solving Problems Too Difficult for Scientists and Engineers"
"Great Leader Stopped His Car to Give an Old Lady a Lift"
"Despite the Rain, at Midnight"
Because the Great Leader and the Dear Leader
wrote numerous fables for children
the fables were also published in foreign languages
This story about monkey brothers was invented
by the Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il
one day in 1958, at school, outside of lesson-hours
The array of books presents the Dear Leader
comrade Kim Jong-Il, the most exceptional
graduate of the University of the name of Kim Il-Sung:
the great architect, the great composer
the great teacher of writers and film-makers
The book "Great Teacher of Journalists" contains
the advice given by the Dear Leader to the TV employees
that most essential task of the TV-cameraman
is to set the camera in such a way that
it shows the Great Leader in most favorable way
— I am the director of the kindergarten which was
personally founded by the Dear Leader, comrade Kim Jong-Il
It is an all-week kindergarten
children are going home only on Sundays
There are two groups of children in here:
younger and older
The younger group, of 4-years old, learns such subjects as:
the childhood of the Great Leader
and the childhood of the Dear Leader
The older children, the 5-years-old
learn about the life of the Great Leader,
the life of the Dear Leader,
Korean language, dance and singing
— Hey, kids where was born the respectable
and beloved marshall Kim Il-Sung?
— On 15th April, 1912 in Mangyongdae
— This is a picture of Kim Hyong-jik, the venerable father
of respectable and beloved Great Leader
— This picture portrays Kim Jong-suk
the venerable mother of the Dear Leader
Beautiful is Mangyongdae, where the family-house is
we all sing the song, the beloved house
where respectable marshall was born
— The father of the nation, respectable and beloved
Great Leader, marshall Kim Il-Sung
has visited our Palace of Youth for 59 times
expressing his love and solicitude
we've been given countless gifts, filled with love
The respectable teacher, Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il
has visited our Palace of Youth for 37 times
and has presented us with many valuable gifts
Our school is a female secondary school in Pyongyang
The gifts received from the Great Leader,
comrade Kim Il-Sung, are shown in this room
The Great Leader already for 9 years
sends outfits, furnishing and musical instruments to our school
This lion here was given to the Great Leader
for birthday and was in turn given to our school
Everything that is exhibited here
are gifts from the Great Leader
Our pupils are learning for the sake
of Korean revolution, for Korean nation
We teach them the revolutionary ideas of our Great Leader
We also teach them the revolutionary ideas of the Dear Leader
The pupils also have lessons of ideology
such as Communist Morality
and once a week they excercise
in the Cabinet for Study of Ideas of the Great Leader
As a continuation of patriotic and ideological upbringing
our pupils have lessons in the Youth Organization
where they excercise their socialist character
In a moment we will watch a programme
prepared in the Youth Organization
— This is a VCR that our Pioneers' Camp received
from our Dear Leader, comrade Kim Jong-Il
— About happiness of our parents
who under direction of the Great Leader
were building socialism, communism and general well-being
— Words of the song about general Kim Il-Sung
are carved in this rock here for commemoration
of his revolutionary struggle
"Traces of blood in the mountains and on the riversides
are becoming diamonds today in Korea
Precious is the name of our beloved general
Famous is the name of general Kim Il-Sung"
This is one of several rocks that commemorate
the revolutionary cause of respectable and beloved comrade Kim Il-Sung
Truly, the Great Leader devoted himself for the nation
so thanks to these letters carved in rock
his merits become immortal
We, in all Pioneers' camps, develop memory
of heroic merits of the Great Leader
And that message we pass to the youth
While hiking further into the mountains
we will sing this song about general Kim Il-Sung
Move forward!
"O, wild snowstorms of Manchuria
O, long nights in the deep forests
tell us who is the most extraoridinary partisan of all time?
Who is the unmatched patriot of all ages?
Precious is the name of our beloved general
Famous is the name of general Kim Il-Sung"
— I belong to the Mangyongdae-group
which carves these letters in rock
the Dear Leader, comrade Kim Jong-Il said
that this kind of rock-carvings are not bad thing
so because he said so, our group assumed
that we had to carry out his wish
So, landscape in most beautiful mountains in the world,
the Diamond Mountains, have to be decorated
with this kind of carved letters
The Great Leader has visited the Diamond Mountains for 4 times
The Dear Leader was here 7 times
And the respectable and beloved comrade Kim Jong-suk was here twice
There are monuments in Diamond Mountains
commemorating those historical events
This monument recalls about following event
On August 19th 1973, the Great Leader stood here
and remembered like one day in 1947 his spouse
beloved and respectable comrade Kim Jong-suk
wanting to realize her dream to see the most beautiful
views of the world, set out for hiking in Diamond Mountains
In this very place where the monument stands today
she suddenly stopped because she recalled
that she had not made dinner for her spouse, the Great Leader
She reflected for a while then if she should
go on and realize her dream of feeding her eyes
with most beautiful views of the world
or return home to make dinner for her husband
After short hesitation she decided
to give up her dream, and returned home
to make dinner for her husband, which he liked very much
For commemoration of that event, the monument
was erected following instructions of the Great Leader
— This is the buddhist temple Myohyang-san
it is one of two temples in our capital of 2 million
and there are almost 300 worshippers in Pyongyang
During the war-time bombings by American imperialists
the temple was destroyed
The Great Leader, comrade Kim Il-Sung
despite hard situation after the war
ordered a careful reconstruction of the temple
and we are very thankful for that
Next, the Dear Leader, respectable comrade Kim Jong-Il
expressed his concern during the reconstruction of the temple
about precision in renovating old paintings
and Buddha statues
Today, all worshippers can come here
Beside that, monastic life goes on
It means we, the monks, live here
This is the Museum of Friendship
containing 43 thousand gifts
received by the Great Leader from abroad
These gifts, the proud of our nation
are preserved here for the sake of future generations
The Museum is accessed through these special doors
which are gift from Korean working class
for the Great Leader. This door weighs 16 tons
And this wing only which I am about to open weighs 4 tons
— My name is Kim Bok-So. We are waitresses
Our restaurant if famous because visited by the Great Leader 5 times
— My name is Kim Yong-Hua — My name is Kim Bu-Sin
— Places in our hotel, personally visited by the Great Leader
are historical nowadays
— The Great Leader personally checked all outfits
in our restaurant. He checked everything
And has given advices on site. He taught us
how to prepare food so it tastes very good
He taught us that the guests from abroad
must feel very well in this place
At the moment our hotel is the best of all country
Countless foreign guests can try Korean dishes
of magnificent taste
— The Great Leader, while visiting our hotel
noticed that in one room the bed is turned
head towards the window
He stated that it should not be so
since the guests might feel wind from the window
So he personally pushed the bed to the wall
The huge mirrors in our hotel also prove
the concern the Great Leader has for foreign guests
so they can see their reflection and feel well
We, the waitresses were given nice dresses and shoes
by the Great Leader
We can constantly improve in our job
And thanks to his love we work
without any inconvinience
Truly, if I wanted to convert into money
everything I receive here, I would need
to pay a pile of gold for it in capitalism
Thanks to all this love holded in this single heart
of the Great Leader, we can live free of problems
Like children. So everybody who works here
consider the Leader a father of the nation
And thanks to him, our life is like a song
We are happy
— This tower is a monument to the idea of Juche
Juche is a philosophy of the Great Leader, comrade Kim Il-Sung
He creatively developed marxism and leninism
The tower of Juche was erected on the occasion
of 70th birthday of the Great Leader
for commemoration of his difficult life
and revolutionary struggle
This is the most magnifocent monument in the world
The tower is 170m tall, and on the top
the flame has been built which weighs 45 tons
This flame shines even at night because
the electricity is provided for it
Construction of the monument was initiated
by the Dear Leader and according to his project
Because the monument was erected to commemorate
the 70th birthday of the Great Leader
it consistes of 70 huge blocks of granite
Because the Great Leader lived through 25,550 days
external walls of the monument consist of
25,550 small granite elements
— The words of the poem commemorating
revolutionary merits of the Great Leader
are carved on this plate
The plate is 15m wide and 4m high
because the Great Leader was born on April 15th
The poem on the plate consists of 12 verses because
the Great Leader was born in 1912
On the occasion of 70th birthday of the Great Leader
the monument is decorated with 70 flowers
of which 35 are magnolias
favorite flowers of the Great Leader
and the other 35 are the flowers of the name of Kim Il-Sung
We are now on the top of the monument
on the height of 150m. On the other side of the river
vis-a-vis of the Juche monument there is Palace of Science
So everybody who comes to the Palace of Science to study
mostly the idea of Juche, can see the monument to Juche
So that the study is easier
The situation of the buildings was decided
by the Dear Leader
He also said that it is nice to pass with a boat
and wonder on such magnificent buildings
on both sides of the river
We are watching now a festive show
titled "The Song of Happiness"
in which 5000 artists take part
The artists perform following pieces:
"Forever with the Leader and the Party"
"The Song of Allegiance"
"My Country is Paradise for People"
"The Song About General Kim Il-Sung"
"Our Life, Surrounded by the Love
of the Great Leader Is Ever Happier"
"The Song of Happiness, Dedicated to the Great Leader"
— We are on the border of North and South Korea
It is Panmunjeom, the Demilitarized Zone
These dirty dogs who you can see right here
are the very American scoundrels
It's because of them that our nation
cannot peacefully reunite
We introduced various reunification initiatives
but all were declined those villains won't leave South Korea
They even organized, together with South Korean puppets,
the Olympic Games in Seoul
to reinforce the fascist dictatorship
and conceal the preparations for the war against us
We call the South Korean military the puppets
These soldiers are apparently Korean
but to be Korean one has to speak Korean first
and they can't
They are forced to accept American lifestyle
and to speak American language
They even may not eat in Korean way
They must eat bread instead of rice
So these soldiers, because of their politicians
and American military, suffer great inconviniences
There is concrete wall over there
built by te South Korean puppets
along entire border, east to west
to divide our nation forever
Because of this wall, today even wild animals
can't pass from one to another region of Korea
In the past, when the wall wasn't there yet
the citizens of South Korea who suffered a lot
and coud not bear anymore relations over there
could have at least try to escape. And often they did so
And since the wall was built
the chance of escape to our democratic country
was taken from them forever
Allegiance to the Leader is the highest
form of devotion to the Party and the nation
Allegiance to the Leader the life and soul of a communist
Allegiance of the Party members and of working people
to the Great Leader, is spotless
pure, absolute and unconditional
Subs by Blago
All texts that weren't direct translation of the interviewed people were taken from Korean books and newspapers