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Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Work Marked

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 2 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today carries an article dedicated to the 30th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's famous work "On Some Questions in Understanding the Juche Philosophy" by Academician, Prof. and Dr. Kim Hwa Jong. Kim Jong Il's work serves as an immortal monumental work as it ascertained in depth the originality and the truth of the Juche philosophy as a man-centered philosophy, the first of its kind in the human history of philosophical thought, and a great landmark as it made a great contribution to formulating the Juche philosophy on a scientific and theoretical basis and systematizing it in a comprehensive way, the article says, and goes on:
    He in his work clearly elucidated that the Juche philosophy is a unique and original man-centered philosophy fathered by President Kim Il Sung. As clarified by him in his work, it is the Juche philosophy fathered by Kim Il Sung that scientifically clarifies the viewpoint, outlook and stand on the world with the man in the center of the philosophical study for the first time in history. The Juche philosophy formulated the man-centered viewpoint, outlook and stand on the world by proposing from a new angle the issue of a position and role of man in the world as a fundamental question of philosophy with man at its centre and giving a perfect answer to it, given that an answer to the issue of the origin of the world was given by the preceding philosophy of the working class. This means that the Juche philosophy is a completely new and original philosophy as it is fundamentally different from the philosophical ideas in the old times and it can never be understood within the framework of dialectical materialism, a preceding philosophy of the working class, and a great philosophy that has brought a signal turn in the human history of philosophy,
    Kim Jong Il in his work clarified in depth the need to correctly understand the originality of the Juche philosophy as a man-centered philosophy. The Juche philosophy is a man-centered philosophy. This does not mean that it is just similar to human philosophy that studied the human issue and gave an answer to it. The human philosophy denies the original mission of philosophy as a science giving an outlook on the world and mainly deals with such issues as what human being is and what his life is like. The Juche philosophy is quite different from it. It proposed the issue of a position and role of man in the world as a fundamental issue of philosophy and clarified the philosophical principle that man is the master of everything and decides everything. The fundamental issue of the Juche philosophy is not a simple human issue but the issue of relations between the world and man and the Juche philosophical principle does not simply clarify the outlook on human life but elucidates the outlook on the world. The Juche philosophy clarifies the man-centered outlook on the world, a Juche-oriented outlook on the world.
    Kim Jong Il clarified for the first time in history that man is a social being that has independence, creativity and consciousness and gave a profound scientific answer to the issue of the intrinsic nature of man as a social being.
    It is a historic event that will remain specially recorded in human history of philosophical thought that he clarified the intrinsic nature of a social being on a scientific basis. The scientific and theoretical clarification of the man-centered outlook on the world, the first of its kind in history, brought about a radical turn in the development of the human philosophical thought and provided correct guidelines for studying and disseminating the Juche philosophy. Herein lies the tremendous ideological and theoretical significance of his work.