President Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, September 8 (KCNA) -- Sept. 9 of this year marks the 78th founding anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
On this occasion, the Korean people recollect with deep emotion the immortal nation-building exploits of President
The President made ceaseless efforts to provide the working people with a genuine home where the people's happiness comes into full bloom in the liberated country.
At the Pyongyang Mass Rally of Welcome on October 14, 1945, he said that the government to be set up in the new Korea is a genuine people's government which can firmly defend the interests of the popular masses and fully guarantee the prosperity and development of the country and that such a government is the democratic people's republic, indicating the road ahead of the new democratic Korea.
In the days of leading the preparations for founding the DPRK, he saw to it that the work of instituting the name of the country and national emblem reflects the people's desire and aspiration to have a genuine people's country and that symbolically reflected in them are the facts that the Republic is a dignified independent and sovereign state.
He also made sure that the first people's democratic constitution of the Republic was adopted according to the opinions and will of the people.
The founding of the DPRK was declared to the whole world on September 9, 1948 thanks to the energetic leadership of the President.
The founding of the Republic was a historic event to herald the birth of a genuine people's country, the first of its kind in the 5 000-year history.
The nation-building exploits of the President shine forever with the development of our dignified Republic. -0-