Noble Life of a Pro-reunification Patriotic Fighter
- On the Occasion of the 40th Death Anniversary of Comrade Cheo Young-Do-
Comrade
Cheo Young-do, chairman of the South Jeolla Provincial Committee of the
Revolutionary Party for Reunification (RPR, the predecessor of the AINDF),
heroically fought to the last moment of his life for the independence and
democracy of the south Korean society and the national
reunification.
His
patriotism was ardent since his childhood, and he absolutely worshiped and warmly
respected President Kim Il Sung, the peerless patriot and the benefactor of the
national liberation, and devoted his all to the movement of the social
revolution and the national reunification true to the President¡¯s lines and
policies.
He
waged the arduous struggle with the comrades to found a vanguard party taking it
as its guidelines the revolutionary ideas and reunification policies of
President Kim Il
Sung, the sun of the nation, and formed the preparatory committee for
founding the RPR in March 1964.
He
assumed the responsibility of the chairmanship of the RPR South Jolla
Provincial Committee, energetically worked to let the popular masses be conscious
and organized, and made great contributions to the building of a vanguard party
and the development of the social revolution in
He,
who was possessed of gifted talents and high enthusiasm, led the people's
anti-imperialist and anti-fascist struggle proficiently dealing a telling blow
to the colonial fascist rule of
He
was unfortunately arrested in July 1968 by the fascist regime.
In prison
and fascist courts he, possessed of indomitable faith, vehemently condemned the enemies.
He
shouted in the courts; ¡°the revolutionary ideas of General Kim Il Sung are
the supreme revolutionary ideology which humankind greeted for the first time,
and the beacon that brightly illumines the way ahead of us.
General
Kim Il Sung
is the sun of the revolution highly standing in the hearts of the nation and
mankind", thus appalling the enemies.
Even
on the guillotine, he shouted, looking up to the sun of Juche, ¡°as all
creatures cannot live under the shade without the sun, we cannot live
abandoning the political integrity given by General Kim Il Sung, the sun of the nation,¡± and left us with smiling.
President
Kim Il Sung
and respected leader Kim Jong Il
felt more grievously than others over the death notice of comrade Cheo
Young-do, and saw to it that all the people cherish the memory of him and the
title of the DPRK hero and the National Reunification Prize were awarded to him.