Speech Delivered at a Banquet in Celebration of Successful Launch of Kwangmyongsong 3-2
Comrades,
I warmly congratulate you for brilliantly implementing the great General Kim Jong Il’s instructions and demonstrating the inexhaustible strength of the great Paektusan nation to the whole world by successfully launching Kwangmyongsong 3-2, the first application satellite of our country.
The successful launch of artificial earth satellite Kwangmyongsong 3-2, an ensemble of cutting-edge science and technology, is a mega event in the 5 000-year history of the nation, which resulted from the General’s wise leadership and our Party’s policy of attaching importance to science and technology. It is jubilation that all of you present here brought to the whole nation through your persevering efforts and heroic struggle.
True to the noble intention of President Kim Il Sung who had paved the way for conquering outer space with a far-reaching plan, the General put forward strategic policies for the development of launch vehicle and artificial earth satellite and provided a firm springboard for radically advancing the country’s space science and technology.
With ardent loyalty and pure conscience becoming Party members that they would unfailingly implement the General’s instructions within this year, our dependable scientists, technicians and workers triumphantly succeeded without making any trivial error in all the processes from the blast-off of the launch vehicle and stage separation to the inserting of the satellite into orbit.
The scientists and technicians made painstaking studies and efforts to finish in a short period the scientific research for enhancing the reliability and precision of the launch vehicle and the satellite, and made the lift-off a success in the severe cold of winter without affecting neighbouring countries. They thus demonstrated the cutting-edge level of our space science and technology to the whole world.
Kwangmyongsong 3-2 launched successfully by our dependable scientists, technicians and workers is a satellite of Juche; it is our domestic product in its entirety, from its design, manufacture, assembly and launch to the monitoring after its take-off.
The successful launch of the satellite is the greatest present of our people to the General and a brilliant end result of the heroic struggle of our Party and people for this year.
By making a triumphant success in the satellite launch in front of the eyes of the world you glorified the General’s immortal achievements and devotedly defended and ensured our Party’s absolute authority.
The recent satellite launch on which we staked the national prestige is a solemn declaration of our Republic’s independent and legitimate right to use outer space for peaceful purposes and a historic feat that exalted the comprehensive national strength of Songun Korea.
Through the successful launch of Kwangmyongsong 3-2 that shook the whole world you have inspired our service personnel and people with a high sense of national pride and confidence in sure victory, dealt a crushing blow to the hostile forces resorting to vicious moves to check our advance, and rendered great services to elevating the international prestige and influence of our Republic to an unprecedented level.
You perfectly succeeded in launching Kwangmyongsong 3-2 on the historic day when President
Kim Il Sung had test-fired the first submachine gun of our country, and true to the instructions of the General: you are true soldiers and followers of the President and the General, and the bravest of the heroes who should be held in high respect throughout the country, and, supported by genuine patriots like you, our country is strong and the revolutionary cause of our Party is winning one victory after another.
Our Party and people will never forget the heroic feat that you achieved to bring this jubilation, and engrave it in ever-lasting golden letters in the history of Kim Il Sung’s and Kim Jong Il’s Korea to be dignified for all ages.
Comrades,
It is an unshakeable determination and will of our Party to achieve the ultimate victory of the revolution under the unfurled banner of Juche and build on this three-thousand-ri land the most powerful country, a people’s paradise, admired by the world.
Our Party firmly believes in you present here as the closest comrades-in-arms, the most faithful comrades, and expects that you would keep on playing the leading role in the vanguard of the general offensive to build a thriving country.
The present is an age of science and technology, an age of knowledge-based economy, and the level of scientific and technological development determines the national strength of a country and is decisive of the position and future of a country and nation.
Our Party pays close attention to the development of space science and technology, the acme of cutting-edge science and technology, and sets it as an important aspect of a powerful country to possess satellites and launch vehicles.
You should bear deep in mind our Party’s idea and intention and raise more fiercely the hot wind of breaking through the cutting edge to conquer space, thus making our country a space power admired by the world.
You should develop and launch various kinds of application satellites, including communications satellite, and more powerful launch vehicles in greater numbers with the spirit and mettle with which you successfully launched Kwangmyongsong 3-2.
I firmly believe that you would beat the world and demonstrate to the whole world the honour of the country and wisdom of the nation by waging a vigorous competition of brains, competition in academic performance, under the slogan of keeping your feet firmly planted on this land and looking out over the world.
Only victory and glory are in store for us who dynamically advance under the blessing of the President and the General.
Comrades,
Our cause is just and the future is ours.
No force in the world can check the advance of our country, ideologically unshakeable and scientifically and technologically powerful, and our great people united behind the Party ring upon ring.
Let us leap higher and faster on the steed of science and technology for the prosperity of the great Paektusan nation and the happiness of the people.
Let us make redoubled efforts to hasten the day of putting up the red flag of victory on the peak of a thriving country.
I would like to propose a toast:
To the good health of our admirable scientists, technicians, workers and officials who launched the satellite of Juche with success,
To greater successes in the field of space science and technology, and
To the prosperity of the great Kim Il Sung’s and Kim Jong Il’s Korea.