I don’t know why it took me so long to compare the preambles of the two Koreas.
The Constitution of the Republic of Korea is the Supreme law of the Republic of Korea (South Korea). It was first adopted on July 17th 1948, and amended nine times subsequently.
The tenth and current constitution is amended on October 29th 1987, and entered into force February 26, 1988.
The government under current constitution is called the Sixth Republic and the constitution is valued, as the most successful, stable and democratic constitution in the History of the Republic of Korea.
Preamble of North Korea’s Constitution
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a self-reliant socialist state that has realized the ideas and principles of Kim Il Sung.
The Great leader Kim Il Sung is the founder of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Father of socialist Korea. Comrade Kim Il Sung authored the immortal Juche idea and, by organizing and leading the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle under its banner, created the glorious revolutionary traditions and achieved the historic cause of the restoration of national sovereignity.
On the basis of laying a solid foundation for the building of an independent and sovereign State in the political, economic, cultural and military fields, he founded the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Having put forward Juche-oriented revolutionary lines, Comrade Kim Il Sung wisely led various stages of social revolution and construction to strengthen and develop the Republic into a socialist country centred on the masses, into a socialist State which is independent, self-sufficent and self-reliant.
Comrade Kim Il Sung elucidated the fundamental principles of nation building and State’s activites, established the best State and social system, the best mode of politics and system and methods of administering society, and laid solid foundations for the prosperity of the socialist motherland and for the continuation and consummation of the revolutionary cause of Juche. Regarding “The People are my Gods as his maxim, Comrade Kim Il Sung always mixed with the people, devoted his life for them and turned the whole of society into a large family which is united in one mind by taking care of the people and leading them through his noble benevolent politics. The Great Leader Kim Il Sung is the sun of the nation and the lodeststar of national reunification. Regarding the national reunification. Of the country as the supreme national task, Comrade Kim Il Sung devoted all his efforts and care for its realization.
He made the Republic a powerful bastion for national reunification. At the same time, he set forth the fundamental principle and ways of national reunification and developed the movement for national reunification into a nationwide movement, opening the ways for achieving the cause of reunification through the united efforts of the whole nation. The Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung clarified the basic ideals of the foreign policy of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. On the basis of this, he expanded and developed the country’s foreign relations and ensured that the international prestige of the Republic was exalted. As a veteran statesman in the world, Comrade Kim Il Sung opened up the new era of independence, carried out energetic activites for the strengthening and development of the socialist movement and the non-aligned movement as well as for world peace and for friendship among the peoples and made an imperishable contribution to the cause of human independence. Comrade Kim Il Sung was a genius in ideology and theory, a master of leadership, an ever victorious iron-willed brilliant commander, a great revolutionary politican and a great man.
The great idea idea of Comrade Kim Il Sung and the great achievements made under his leadership are the lasting treasures of the Korean revolution and the basic guarantee for the prosperity of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Under the leadership of the Workers Party of Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and and the Korean people will hold the great leader Kim Il Sung in high esteem as the eternal President of the Republic and carry the revolutionary cause of the Juche through to completion by defending and carrying forward the idea and achievements of Comrade Kim Il Sung. The Socialist Constitution the Democratic Republic of Korea, shall be called Kim Il Sung’s Constitution, the codification of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung’s Juche oriented ideas on and expolits in state building.
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