Supreme Incarnation of Moral Obligation 

  One day in July 1994 when the whole country was shedding tears of blood after the death of President Kim Il Sung, Chairman Kim Jong Il met some officials. He said to them he wanted to discuss the issue of changing the institutional structure of the state power with them and asked their opinion on abolishing the presidential system in the Constitution.
The officials were much surprised.
Looking round at them, he said: The name of Comrade Kim Il Sung is closely associated in our people’s minds with the title of the President of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. President Kim Il Sung passed away, but the title of the President of the DPRK must not be related with other men in the sense that Comrade Kim Il Sung will be held up as our eternal leader.
The officials said over and over that he should be acclaimed as the President, but he was firm in his decision to abolish the presidential system.
This was how the official position of the head of state remained vacant for three years. In those years the Korean people keenly realized the noble moral obligation of Chairman Kim Jong Il.