A/HRC/25/CRP.1 Accept the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il-sung’s revolutionary thought as your belief and take the Great Leader’s instructions as your creed. Accepting the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il-sung’s thought as one’s own belief and taking his instructions as one’s creed is the most crucial element requested for one to become an endlessly loyal Juche communist warrior. It is also a precondition for the victory of our revolutionary struggle and its construction. 242. In Seoul, Mr A told the Commission that, “[i]n North Korea, the only ideology, the only religion that is allowed is the ideology of Kim Il-sung”.256 The Commission finds that the intolerance and non-acceptance of any other belief system than that of the official state ideology effectively meant the intolerance and non-acceptance of the people’s right to freedom of religion and the freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of one’s choice. • Mrs X at the Washington hearing stated: “Well you can consider the entire North Korean society as some sort of religious group with the religious leader being Kim Il-sung and their Bible being the Juche or self-reliance ideology. So if there are any other religions be that Christianity or Catholicism or whatever, if there’s any other religions that are somewhat in competition with that -- their main religion then it will be undermining the basic foundation of the Kim Il-sung religion so that will mean more difficulty for the leadership to maintain or the control of the society. So if the North Koreans start to realize that Kim Il-sung might not be the real god and there might be some other god out there then it’s not a good thing for the leadership and that’s why they wanted to avoid all the other religions occurring in North Korean society and persecuted other religions.”257 243. The DPRK Constitution provides for freedom of religion in article 68. This is a qualified right as approval must be sought for the construction of religious buildings and the holding of religious ceremonies. It further provides that, “Religion must not be used as a pretext for drawing in foreign forces or for harming the state and social order”. 256 257 68 2.1 The Great Leader Comrade KIM Il Sung is a genius of the revolution, the sun of the people and a legendary hero whom we must respect unendingly, revere eternally and come to with the greatest happiness and glory. 2.3 Believe firmly in the way pointed to by our Great Leader Comrade KIM Il Sung, entrust our fate to the Great Leader and devote our bodies and spirits for the revolutionary fight driven by the Great Leader, carrying with us always, the strong belief that there is nothing impossible if we are under the leadership of the Great Leader. 3.1 Have a firm position and perspective that no one else has the knowledge required, only the Great Leader Comrade KIM Il Sung. 3.6 Respectfully worship our beloved Great Leader Comrade KIM Il Sung’s sculptures, plaster casts, bronze statues, badges with portraits, art developed by the Great Leader, board with Great Leader’s instructions, basic mottos of the Party. 4.3 Unconditionally accept, treat as a non-negotiable condition, and decide everything based upon our Great Leader Comrade KIM Il Sung’s instructions and in every act think only about the greatness of our Leader. 4.10 Fight with all one’s will against anti-Party and anti-revolutionary thinking trends that have its origin in capitalistic ideas, feudal Confucian ideas, revisionism, dogmatism, toadyism and are contrary to the revolutionary thought of the Great Leader KIM Il Sung. Hold on to the purity of revolutionary thought and Juche ideas of the Great Leader. 5.2 Regard as a holy duty and supreme glory reducing the concerns of our Beloved Leader Comrade KIM Il Sung and fight for it with complete dedication. Seoul Public Hearing, 22 August 2013, afternoon (02:32:10). Washington Public Hearing, 30 October 2013 (02:45:50).