Nampho, Chongsan-ri

(Article by Kim Thae Hyon, Juche 87 (1998))

The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung provides on-the-spot guidance to the Chongsan Cooperative Farm.

Chongsan-ri in Kangso District, Nampho City, is widely known to the Korean people, for the great leader Comrade Kim II Sung created the Chongsan-ri spirit and Chongsan-ri method, the method of mass lead­ership of the Workers' Party of Korea, there. The great leader visited Chongsan-ri on February 5, Juche 49 (1960). He had many vis­its to Chongsan-ri from long ago. But on that day he visited there again with a great plan. In those days the socialist production rela­tions held undivided sway in Korea. This urgently required the improvement of the work system of Party, state and economic organizations and functionaries' methods and style of work on the basis of the new circumstances with the purpose of powerfully mobilizing the broad masses to the building of socialism.

The great leader, who perceived this requirement of the developing revolution, put forward a policy of improving the work system of Party, state and economic organizations and the methods and style of work of functionaries to suit the new circumstances and visited Chongsan-ri with a plan to initiate the new system and method of work and generalize them throughout the Party and country. Having forced his way through virgin snow in cold winter, he entered the village and visited the farmers first. In a farmer's home he looked round hen- and rabbit-houses and a pigsty and aquainted himself with the family's living conditions asking such detailed ques­tions as how many family members he had and how many work-days and how much distribu­tion he received. Next he visited the house of a woman workteam leader. He learnt about their living conditions and discussed with them the work of the coopera­tive, instilling revolutionary zeal in them. This happened when he guided a confer­ence of Party membership in the office room of the ri Party organization. He sat knee to knee with Party members and recognized an old woman whom he had met and talked with at a well in the village ten years before and told her to live long and bring up her daughter well to study at univer­sity. And then he entered into a conference. The Party members opened their hearts and told everything to him who guided the conference without formality. The great leader inquired about the per­sonal work and life of each one of them teach­ing them how they had to work and live. Those Party members who attended that conference said that they had never felt the pangs of conscience as they did at that time.

In the lofty traits of the great leader who made the whole village seeth with revolution­ary enthusiasm while visiting farmers' homes and talking with farmers, those functionaries, who accompanied him, deeply realized that their previous methods of work that they called at offices first and studied the actual conditions there when they went down to lower units were very formalistic and obso­lete. The great leader stayed in Chongsan-ri for a fortnight in order to grasp more deeply the actual conditions of the lower units and find the correct solutions to the raised problems. In those days, he shared board and room with farmers, called at their homes, had many consultative meetings, individual talks and discussion meetings with them. And he put forward the problems he had planned and held serious discussions. In addition, he made a speech under the theme For Correct Management of Socialist Agriculture at a general membership meeting of the Party organization of Chongsan-ri clear­ly showing the path Chongsan-ri should take. During his on-the-spot guidance to Chongsan-ri he got an understanding of the work of many units including Party and state organizations in Kangso County which were linked with the work of Chongsan-ri and showed the way of establishing the new sys­tem of work whereby the higher body helps the lower and of decisively improving the work methods of functionaries. The Chongsan-ri people who received the guidance and instructions of the great leader come out as one in carrying out Party policies, saying that the path they had to take was clear as they had absorbed the great leader's teachings. Like this, during his on the spot guidance to Chong-ri, which was run through with seasoned political work, work with people, the great leader created, through his practical practical example, the revolutionary system, method and style of work, an all-round embodiment of the principle of the Juche idea that man is the master of everything and decides everything and the revolutionary mass line that one believes in the strength of the masses and relies on them in solving all problems. They have been called the Chongsan-ri spirit and Chongsan-ri method by our people. Thus the Chongsan-ri spirit and Chongsan-ri method came into being-the Chongsan-ri spirit which is an idea of popular leadership of strengthening the motive force of the revolution and increasing its role in every way and the Chongsan-ri method which is a method of popular leadership that the higher body helps the lower, and the superior assists those under him and always goes down to the workplaces in order to have a good grasp of actual conditions and find correct solutions to problems, gives priority to political work, work with people, in all undertakings and enlists the conscious enthusiasm and initiative of the masses so as to ensure the fulfilment of revolutionary tasks. Even after his guidance work in historic February, the great leader visited Chongsan-ri scores of times and turned it into a modern socialist countryside which the whole country learns after, while giving minute guidance to and showing benevolent solicitude for it. The Chongsan-ri spirit and Chongsan-ri method have brilliantly been applied to all domains across the country, bringing about a great change in socialist construction. In order to glorify forever the undying feats of the great leader, our people erected his statue in Chongsan-ri last year. Today, the Chongsan-ri spirit and Chongsan-ri method are being adopted thor­oughly as a way of popular leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea under the guidance of the respected Comrade Kim Jong II. The irrigation system is established in paddy and dry fields.