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Developing the WPK into the Motherly Party

The Korean people praise the Workers' Party of Korea, calling it motherly Party.
Motherly Party is the appellation given by the Korean people to the WPK which takes care of them with full responsibility for their destiny.

Shining in the tens of year-long sacred history of the WPK are the undying achievements of the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il who strengthened and developed the WPK into the motherly Party.

Important Guideline of Building the Motherly Party

Comrade Kim Jong Il gave detailed instructions on building the WPK into the motherly Party in a number of famous works including "The WPK Organizes and Guides All the Victories of Our People" and "On the Fundamentals of Revolutionary Party Building".

Professor and Doctor Om Hyok Min, Dean of Kim Il Sung University, said it is of special significance in the party building that Comrade Kim Jong Il expounded on building the WPK into the motherly Party, and continued:
"The great Comrade Kim Jong Il said that building the WPK into the motherly Party means making the Party a genuine guide and protector of the people that bears responsibility for their destiny and looks after them as mother loves her children deeply and takes warm care of them.
In the past the party was regarded as a weapon of class struggle.
Of course, the working-class party should wage a class struggle. But all the activities of the party should, to all intents and purposes, start with its infinite love for and trust in the people.
In the last 20th century not a few parties, which were said to be building socialism, lost the people's support to and trust in them and ended their existence because they did not build themselves into the motherly party taking warm care of the people with responsibility for their destiny but reduced them to bureaucratic parties wielding and abusing their powers.
The WPK should be made the motherly Party the people call with sincerity!
This is the fundamental issue of Party building consistently maintained by Comrade Kim Jong Il for tens of years since he started to work at the Party Central Committee in the 1960s."
Comrade Kim Jong Il indicated specific tasks and ways to strengthen and develop the WPK into the motherly Party including the issue that all the officials should have the viewpoint of regarding the people as the most precious and powerful beings and sincerely believing and loving them under the slogan "We serve the people!" and the issue that they should devotedly serve the people with high consciousness of being the officials of the WPK, the motherly Party.

Taking Care of the People's Destiny to the End

...
You are mother.
You are our mother,
Who gives blood and breath to us,
Who takes care of our destiny and future,
Who keeps off wind, rain and even death.
...
This is part of the lyric poem "Mother" which is popular among the Korean people.
The lyric poem represents the minds of the Korean people praising the WPK which takes warm care of them, calling it mother.
Professor and Doctor Om Hyok Min, Dean of Kim Il Sung University, said Comrade Kim Jong Il ensured that the people with different careers were protected with responsibility for their destiny, and continued:
"Long ago, an artiste went to a mine in the northern part so as to learn after the spirit of the working class.
While discussing work with officials, the great Comrade Kim Jong Il asked if they had inquired after the artiste.
The officials did not say a word.
With a serious face, Comrade Kim Jong Il said how they could not inquire after the artiste though they had sent him to a far-off place and added with deep regret that Party officials should not do so.
He soon called on the telephone the chief secretary of the Party committee of the county with the mine and attentively asked him if the artiste was not ill and what he was working and about his lodging and boarding conditions. He is an artiste we treasure, Comrade Kim Jong Il said and earnestly requested the chief secretary to lead him well and take good care of his life.
That day, he admonished the officials: As the party member made a mistake, his relatives and friends may forget him. However, our Party organization should not forget him but bear responsibility for him to the end. Because our Party has the noble duty to lead all the people to the last."

Everywhere in this country are touching stories told in the days when Comrade Kim Jong Il was building the WPK into the genuine motherly Party which is responsible for the destiny and future of the people.
Comrade Kim Jong Il sent a flying corps and naval vessels of the People's Army to save a girl driven out to the West Sea on a piece of ice. He organized an operation to treat two seamen seized with a sudden illness in a trading ship sailing on the ocean, who brought them back to life miraculously. When the lives and property of people in some regions of the country were in danger due to raging waves by heavy rain, he committed powerful troops of the army and military equipment and commanded the rescue campaign to defend the lives of the people.
Indeed, thanks to the motherly Party like the spring light which brings all things to life, all people in this country could glorify their genuine life and remain loyal to the leadership of the Party, entrusting their destiny entirely to it.

Shining forever are the immortal exploits of Comrade Kim Jong Il who strengthened and developed the WPK into the genuine motherly Party which takes care of the masses of the people with full responsibility for their destiny and achieved the integral whole of the Party and the people.