It is my greatest wish to enable our people to live with nothing to envy at the earliest possible date, and it is my greatest pleasure to work energetically, sharing my joys and sorrows with our people, on the road of translating my wish into reality.

One can live without candy, but one cannot live without bullets.

Glory to the heroic soldiers of the Korean People's Army!

I am the object of criticism around the world. But I think that since I am being discussed, then I am on the right track.

No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and in which discipline and order have not been established.