Kim Il-sung Korea Quotations

North Korea will attend the fifth round of six-party talks as scheduled, based on the commitments it has previously made.

The world is closely watching us, ... Why President Kim came to North Korea and why I accepted is a question mark. We have to give the answer to this question during the two nights and three days.

To make revolution in Korea we must know Korean history and geography as well as the customs of the Korean people. Only then is it possible to educate our people in a way that suits them and to inspire in them an ardent love for their native place and their motherland.

Kim Il Sung not only presided over the birth of a new nation in an old land, he was inextricably bound to the fate of North Korea. Perhaps to a greater degree than any other modern political leader, he may be seen as the full embodiment of the state. Indeed, Kim was more integral to state and society in North Korea than Stalin in the Soviet Union, or Mao in China.