(1) Joint Statement of the Juche Idea Study Group of England and the Society for the Independence and Unity of England
(2) The Workers' Party Of Korea's Struggle Against Revisionism
(3) Main Idea of Present Era - the Juche Idea
(4) Acceleration of Juche Cause of Socialism Called for
( ) COMRADE KIM IL SUNG -- OUTSTANDING LEADER OF THE WORLD REVOLUTION
(5) NPT withdrawal statement
(6) Speech on the FLW for KFA Meeting
(7) Speech of Shaun Pickford Secretary Juche Idea Study Group of England ,UK KFA
(8) KIM JONG IL "ON PRESERVING THE JUCHE AND NATIONAL CHARACTER OF THE REVOLUTION AND CONSTRUCTION"
(9) COMRADE KIM IL SUNG -- OUTSTANDING LEADER OF THE WORLD REVOLUTION

Pyongyang, 10 January: The government of the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea issued a statement today as regards the grave situation where the
national sovereignty and the supreme interests of the state are most seriously
threatened by the US vicious hostile policy towards the DPRK.

The full text of the statement reads: A dangerous situation where our nation's
sovereignty and our state's security are being seriously violated is prevailing
on the Korean Peninsula due to the US vicious hostile policy towards the DPRK.

The United States instigated the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to
adopt another "resolution" against the DPRK on 6 January in the wake of a
similar "resolution" made on 29 November, 2002.

Under its manipulation, the IAEA in those "resolutions" termed the DPRK "a
criminal" and demanded it scrap what the US called a "nuclear programme" at
once by a verifiable way in disregard of the nature of the nuclear issue, a
product of the US hostile policy towards the DPRK, and its unique status in
which it declared suspension of the effectuation of its withdrawal from the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Following the adoption of the latest "resolution", the IAEA director general
issued an ultimatum that the agency would bring the matter to the UN Security
Council to apply sanctions against the DPRK unless it implements
the "resolution" in a few weeks.

This clearly proves that the IAEA still remains a servant and a spokesman for
the US and the NPT is being used as a tool for implementing the US hostile
policy towards the DPRK aimed to disarm it and destroy its system by force.

A particular mention should be made of the fact that the IAEA in the
recent "resolution" kept mum about the US which has grossly violated the NPT
and the DPRK-US agreed framework, but urged the DPRK, the victim, to
unconditionally accept the US demand for disarmament and forfeit its right to
self-defence, and the agency was praised by the US for "saying all what the US
wanted to do." This glaringly reveals the falsehood and hypocrisy of the
signboard of impartiality the IAEA put up.

The DPRK government vehemently rejects and denounces this "resolution" of the
IAEA, considering it as a grave encroachment upon our country's sovereignty and
the dignity of the nation.

It is none other than the US which wrecks peace and security on the Korean
Peninsula and drives the situation there to an extremely dangerous phase.

After the appearance of the Bush administration, the United States listed the
DPRK as part of an "axis of evil", adopting it as a national policy to oppose
its system, and singled it out as a target of pre-emptive nuclear attack,
openly declaring a nuclear war.

Systematically violating the DPRK-US Agreed Framework, the US brought up
another "nuclear suspicion" and stopped the supply of heavy oil, reducing the
AF to a dead document. It also answered the DPRK's sincere proposal for the
conclusion of the DPRK-US non-aggression treaty and its patient efforts for
negotiations with such threats as "blockade" and "military punishment" and with
such an arrogant attitude as blustering that it may talk but negotiations are
impossible.

The US went so far to instigate the IAEA to internationalize its moves to
stifle the DPRK, putting its declaration of a war into practice. This has
eliminated the last possibility of solving the nuclear issue of the Korean
Peninsula in a peaceful and fair way.

It was due to such nuclear war moves of the US against the DPRK and the
partiality of the IAEA that the DPRK was compelled to declare its withdrawal
from the NPT in March 1993 when a touch-and-go situation was created on the
Korean Peninsula.

As it has become clear once again that the US persistently seeks to stifle the
DPRK at any cost and the IAEA is used as a tool for executing the US hostile
policy towards the DPRK, we can no longer remain bound to the NPT, allowing the
country's security and the dignity of our nation to be infringed upon.

Under the grave situation where our state's supreme interests are most
seriously threatened, the DPRK government adopts the following decisions to
protect the sovereignty of the country and the nation and their right to
existence and dignity: firstly, the DPRK government declares an automatic and
immediate effectuation of its withdrawal from the NPT, on which "it
unilaterally announced a moratorium as long as it deemed necessary" according
to the 11 June, 1993, DPRK-US joint statement, now that the US has unilaterally
abandoned its commitments to stop nuclear threat and renounce hostility towards
the DPRK in line with the same statement.

Secondly, it declares that the DPRK withdrawing from the NPT is totally free
from the binding force of the safeguards accord with the IAEA under its Article
3.

The withdrawal from the NPT is a legitimate self-defensive measure taken
against the US moves to stifle the DPRK and the unreasonable behaviour of the
IAEA following the US though we pull out of the NPT, we have no intention to
produce nuclear weapons and our nuclear activities at this stage will be
confined only to peaceful purposes such as the production of electricity.

If the US drops its hostile policy to stifle the DPRK and stops its nuclear
threat to the DPRK, the DPRK may prove through a separate verification between
the DPRK and the US that it does not make any nuclear weapon.

The United States and the IAEA will never evade their responsibilities for
compelling the DPRK to withdraw from the NPT, by ignoring the DPRK's last
efforts to seek a peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue through
negotiations.

Dermot Hudson
KFA Official Delegate UK
Vice chairman SFK UK
Chairman Juche Idea Study Group of England.


We are here to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Victory of the Korean
people in
The Fatherland Liberation War or the Korean War as it is known in the West, It
Was on the 27th of July 50 years that the US imperialists concluded the
Armistice with Marshal Kim IL Sung and General Nam IL of the Korean
Peoples Army at Panmunjom, it should be added that the armistice committed
The US to withdrawing their troops from south Korea which they have failed to
Do so to this very day.
I am not going to go into the subject of who started the Korean War ,to
Many of us the answer is obvious but let me tell you this, the war did not
Really begin on 25th of June 1950  it went to 1949 when south Korean
Puppet troops of fascist dictator Syngham Rhee attacked the DPRK
On 1,860 occasions with 65000 troops killing 208 people.

The Korean War was a real ‘David and Goliath ‘ struggle. The DPRK ‘s
Population was only 1/15th the size of the US population .The DPRK
Had only been founded in September 1948 and therefore was less than
2 years old. Its regular armed forces were young .The US had a history
of over 100 years of aggression and expansion.The US had experience
in fighting Hitlerite Germany and Japan.It had emerged as the biggest
imperialist power at the expense of Britain and France.
          The U.S. hurled nearly 2 million-strong forces, including three
services of its army equipped with modern weapons, armed forces of its 15
satellites, "ROK" army and the Japanese militarist aggression forces, and a
huge amount of sophisticated military hardware into the Korean War. The U.S.
employed the most brutal and barbarous methods and means in the history of war
by using even chemical and germ weapons.
1000 bombs per kilometre were dropped on  Pyongyang the capital city
of the DPRK.1 quarter of the population of Sinchon ri-some 35,000
people were killed by the US during their temporary occupation of the
area.
All of this failed to bring the Korean people to their kness.A lesser people
With a lesser people would have given in.Indeed there were those who
Advised the DPRK to surrender and form an exile government in another
Country.
Marshal Kim Il Sung the gifted military strategist and iron willed brilliant
Commander rallied the Korean people.The Korean Peoples Army under
His command inherited the spirit of the anti Japanese guerrillas and
Applied their experience to the war.

.The Korean people won the historic victory in the war by overpowering the
enemy's numerical and technological superiority with politico-ideological and
strategic and tactical superiority under the outstanding political and military
leadership of Kim Il Sung, a genius of the revolution and prominent strategist.
The Korean people shattered to smithereens the myth of the U.S.
imperialists' "mightiness" in the three-year anti-U.S. sacred war, shaking the
world. They encouraged the oppressed and exploited people of the world in their
anti-imperialist national liberation struggle and made a great contribution to
defending the cause of socialism and world peace
And advancing the world revolutionary movement.

The cigar chomping US generals tasted a bitter defeat in Korea..
Macarthur, the first "UN Forces" Commander, acted the victor not only once or
twice in his life. But his "honour" was not eternal. The "Christmas general
offensive" of the Macarthur Command, which has suffered one setback after
another from the beginning of the war, was shattered in the first step by a
decisive rebuff of the Korean People's Army. Not glory but a miserable doom was
awaiting Macarthur who lost not only the frontline units but also the reserve
force units. In April 1951 the then U.S. President, Truman, declared Macarthur
dismissed. It was on July 1, 1950 that dean, who had shown "valour" in the
Second World War, was appointed as commander of the U.S. 24th division, which
had been called a "victorious division" in the Pacific War. Leaving for the
Korean front, he blared that one divisional force of the U.S. army was enough
to hold at bay the counteroffensive of the KPA. But, Dean's dream went up in
smoke at the very start. The U.S. 24th division was totally destroyed in the
Taejon battle on July 20, that was the 20th day after its arrival in South
Korea. A people’s army soldier took prisoner Dean himself. He was the first
division commander of U.S. imperialist aggression forces to be taken prisoner
in the Korean War. Walker, the commander of the U.S. Eighth Army at the time of
the Korean War, ordered his men to kill the Koreans in cold blood. The murderer
considered massacre warfare the best way of his promotion to higher ranks. He
tried to get "fame" in reliance upon such”warfare." He died in the Korean War.
Hard hit by the KPA units behind the enemy's line, he organised the South
Korean puppet third army corps and went to Rincon to command it in early
December 1950. But, he kicked the bucket, falling into an ambush by the KPA
while fleeing to Jongok in a heavy tank, escorted by the his men in 8 trucks on
December 13, 1950. Ridgway who was the commander of the U.S. Eighth Army and
then the U.S. Far East Forces commander and concurrently commander of the "UN
Forces" met with the same doom of Macarthur. Height 1211 in the eastern sector
of the front was the main target of attack of the "autumn offensive" of massive
scale in September 1951. By throwing into it more than 50,000 troops and
sophisticated military hardware he made attacks in waves scores of times a day.
But, the "autumn offensive" commanded by him ended in failure with 17,000 more
deaths than in the "summer offensive." The enemy soldiers driven into the
attack called Height 1211 "heart-breaking hill" meaning that they lost heart at
the mere sight of it and the valley below it "trap valley" meaning that no one
who entered it came back alive. Ridgway was dismissed one year after he was
appointed as U.S. Far East Forces commander. It was in April 1951 that van
fleet was appointed as commander of the U.S. Eighth Army. Finding a way out of
the U.S. defeat in the war in the "new offensive," he made preparations for
a "model battle" on Jonghyong height with huge forces and combat materials and
let a large number of officers, war correspondents of the "UN Forces" and
foreign minister residents and consuls inspect the battle. But the battle ended
in a total fiasco. As a result, van fleet was stripped of the general's
uniform. Clark who was appointed as commander of the "UN Forces" at the end of
the Korean War vowed to his Washington master who had been driven to desperate
straits by repeated setbacks in the war to turn the scale in the war. He called
many flying corps out to commit indiscriminate bombing, saying that he would
remove 78 towns in the northern half of Korea from the map. The bombing became
powerless before the firm will of the Korean people. The "Kimhwa offensive"
into which he had thrown huge forces, staking his own fate on it, ended in a
shameful defeat. After suffering one setback after another, the U.S. ruling
quarters told Clark to sign an armistice agreement, admitting their defeat.
Clark lamented his fate as the first U.S. Forces commander who failed to win
victory and signed the armistice agreement
During the three-year long Fatherland Liberation War, the U.S. imperialists
lost over 1,567,000 men, including more than 405,000 of their own armed forces,
and an enormous amount of combat equipment and war supplies, including over
12,200 aircraft, more than 560 warships and ships, over 3,200 tanks and
armoured vehicles of different types, more than 13,350 trucks and 7,690
artillery pieces of various types. This is only part of the bitter setbacks
suffered by them in the war. They also suffered irretrievable
Political and moral defeats.
As some were to remark much later Korea was indeed the War before Vietnam.It
The US imperialists suffered an unprecedented defeat and an new era of
Struggle against US imperialism was opened up. Numerous revolutionaries
Were inspired by the defeat of the US imperialists.
                      Within a few hours the people of Pyongyang will be
proudly celebrating the anniversary of the war .Our KFA President Alejandro Cao
De Benos and UK KFA member Kristian Carter are in Pyongyang and will
Take part in the festivities. Meeting wills will be held throughout the world
-I believe meetings have already taken place in Egypt and Russia.
Let us join with the Korean people and world progressive people in
Celebrating this historic victory.

Thank you

Dermot Hudson 26/7/2003/



Speech of Shaun Pickford Secretary Juche Idea Study Group of England ,UK KFA


Speech of Shaun Pickford Secretary Juche Idea Study Group of England ,UK KFA
(north Staffordshire)
26th July 2003.
Dear Friends,
It is extremely fitting that the KFA should hold this meeting at a time when
the Korean people will celebrating their hardwon victory over US imperialism
which set a chain of rebellion across the
Third world.The 50th anniversary of the end of the Korean War otherwise known
as the Fatherland Liberation War is indeed significant for all peoples who
aspire after independence.
On June 25th 1950 what the imperialists and their mercenaries would be a simple
walkover operation against the young DPRK were to be mistaken in their arrogant
calulculations.Orthodox
History which is used to brainwash generations into submission states that it
was north Korea that attacked
The south.However independent historians such as Prof Bruce Cummings in his
book the “Origins of the
Korean War” point out that it was the south with the backing of its US overlord
that started the war to
Prop up the Synghman Rhee regime and in the wider world to threaten the newly
victorious Chinese
Revolution and the USSR which had just acquired the atom bomb.
Many people in south Korea including such figures as former ROK diplomat Dr
Channing Liem have continually questioned the validlity of the official version
of the start of the
War.We have got to question what the hell John Foster Dulles was doing on the
38th parallel on June 18th
Shortly before hostilities started.Anyone with an ounce of doubt should be
advised to study the captured
US documents particularly the letters of US Ambassador Muccio and Synghman
Rhee.
The Korean War lasted 3 years .During that time the US imperialists and their
so
Called UN prostitutes ranging from South Africa to Turkey launched more
firepower against the
Territory of Korea than the combined allied strength against Germany and Japan
in World War .In the war the US committed vicious atrocities against the Korean
people.McArthur the UN commander made infamous the order “Don’t let your hands
tremble even when faced before women and children,kill them
All”
The most notorious massacare of the war was at Sinchon ri.When the US occupied
Sinchon county they
Slaughtered 35383 people by various means including burning children in a
shed.A quarter of the civilian
Population were murdered.This artocoity was witnessed by members of
International Democratic
Womens Federation delegation some weeks after the retreat of the US Army.
The US pursued the tactics ‘scorced earth’ which was later used in Vietnam.Even
Seoul
When it was liberated in January 1951 had 300000 gallons of gasoline and 32000
gallons of napalm
Dropped on it.Germ warfare was the desperate measure of the US imperialists in
their battle for
“freedom”,they made an attack on Sinaju for 5 days using 480 planes a day
unleashing
cholhera and typhus.
Unfortuneatly the Attlee government was an accomplice in the aggression against
the Korean people.Among the forces sent to the Korean front was the Royal
Ulster Regiment which had
Suppressed the Irish people.As Julian Tunstall who served in the 1st battalion
of the Middlesex
Regiment stated the opinion that the troops had been sent to fight an unjust
war against the
Korean people was widespread amongst the British conscripts.
The Fatherland Liberation War ended in a rout for the US imperialists,an
Armstice without a victory.To quote from the radio address of the great leader
Marshal Kim Il
Sung on 28th July 1953
“The liberation struggle of the Korean people for freedom and independence
became
a banner of the national liberation movement of the oppressed peoples of the
East,it showed that
the Asian peoples subjected to maltreatment by imperialists have the ablity to
defend their
national independence.The freedom loving people all over the world therefore
called the
Korean people progressive fighters for independence.Stalin said that the
WPK,the militant
Vanguard of the working masses is a shock brigade for national independence and
Socialism”.
The Korean peoples victory over US imperialism proved to be a shining
inspiration to
The oppressed peoples across the third world to use Franz Fannons _expression
the ‘wretched of
The earth’.In Vietnam the liberation forces under Ho Chi Minh achieved victory
in Diem Bien
Phu.
Fidel Castro led the radical student attack on the Monacada barracks and in
Alegeria
There was the beginning of the liberation war.This was the spark of the world
historical
Moment when the peoples of the three continents were shaping their
destinies,indeed this
Momentum influenced the struggle of the Afro Amercians in the US itself.
It is Kim Jong Il’s Songun politics that has made the DPRK a great
Socialist power of Juche respected by friend and foe alike.The Songun army-
first revolution
Is the appropriate solution to the ever increasing threat of an attack by the
US military Kim Jong Il
Is the military political genius of of our era who is leading the Juche cause
to its ultimate
Victory.
The Bush adminstration has the gall to call the DPRK the world’s most evil
country,that the
US denounces the DPRK over “human rights”.However which country has invaded the
Other states 200 times since 1945,which country supported Pinochet and
Botha,which
Country has the largest prison population in the world,which country suppressed
a religious
Cult,which country supported Nicaurgan and Afghan terrorists and which country
was built
On the blood and bones of the Indigneous people and Afro Amercians ?.In most of
the
Third world 820 million people suffer from hunger,in the developed countries
the danger of
Fascism and war overshadows life.Is there in the DPRK a single
unemployed,illiterate
Homeless,hungry person without medical care,the answer is NO !
As any unbiased person can see it is the USA it was the USA who broke
Off the 1994 Agreed Framework and the DPRK stands for peace,friendship and
reunification in
Korea.The Korean people have the right to defend the socialist homeland from
attack and
Will ultimately repulse the aggressors by the Songun tactics.
The KFA is doing more more to promote the image of the DPRK during these
Troubled times.For instance the other Sunday there was a slanderous attack on
the supreme
Leadership of the DPRK entitled the “real Dr Evil”.I always thought that Dr
Evil was a character
>From Austin Powers.So the KFA website offers an in depth,authoritative
information about
The DPRK and its ideologu,culture and history.it is hoped that the KFA will
operate in
The non virtual world as well as the virtual world as this meeting
demonstrates.The KFA
For its efforts has come under attack from reactionary quarters,some of these
elements can
Be derscribed as sad individuals with too much time on their hands.The KFA must
be
A broad based organization of people from diverse backgrounds and ethnic groups
who
Promote friendship and solidarity with the DPRK,it must not degenerate into a
liberal
Talking shop or a closed door organization.
May I on behalf of the Juche Idea Study Group of England,the London
Pyongyang Cultural Information Centre.the Association For Studying Songun
Politics
And the Society For the Independence and Unity of England greet the delegate
To London and I look forward to the next KFA international meeting whether it
is
In Barcelona or Pyongyang.The Korean people will achieve the independent
Reunification of Korea and the Juche revolutionary cause because they are
guided by the
Genius of the age,the Great leader General Kim Jong Il.
GLORY TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE KOREAN PEOPLES
VICTORY IN THE FATHERLAND LIBERATION WAR UNDER THE EVER
VICTORIOUS IRON WILLED INVINICIBLE COMMANDER GENERALISSMO
KIM IL SUNG THE SUN OF WORLD REVOLUTION . 



KIM JONG IL  "ON PRESERVING THE JUCHE AND NATIONAL CHARACTER OF THE REVOLUTION
AND CONSTRUCTION"



June 19, 1997.
There is a sharp confrontation between socialism and imperialism, and between
the force of independence and the force of dominationism now in the world
arena. Although the international situation is complex and the balance of
forces is tangled, the people's struggle against domination and subjugation and
for independence is continuing. The imperialists and reactionaries are
tenaciously manoeuvring to arrest the world progressive people's trend towards
independence and obstruct their struggle for independence with a view to
realizing their ambition for domination, but no force can ever turn back the
main trend of our age which is heading for independence. In order to thwart the
dominationist machinations of the imperialists and reactionaries and give a
strong impetus to the people's cause of independence, the cause of socialism,
we must maintain the Juche character of the revolutionary struggle and
construction and sustain their national character. Preserving these qualities
is imperative for the independent development of the country and nation and for
success in realizing independence for the popular masses. Historical experience
and lessons prove that adherence to the Juche character and national character
is the key to success in the revolution and construction and vital to national
prosperity. Under the wise leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung,
our Party and our people have resolutely maintained the Juche character and
national character in opposition to imperialism and dominationism throughout
the entire period of the revolutionary struggle. As a result, they have
achieved an independent development of the country and nation without any
deviation and have won brilliant victory in the revolution and construction. In
the future, too, we will firmly keep the Juche character and national character
in the revolution and construction and fight on staunchly along the road of
Juche. 1 Adherence to the Juche character and national character in the
revolution and construction is a fundamental principle that must be maintained
in accomplishing the people's cause of independence, the cause of socialism.
Maintaining the Juche character of the revolution and construction means that
the popular masses shape the destiny of their country and nation and their own
destiny independently and creatively as the masters of their destiny.
Sustaining the national character means preserving and developing their own
fine national traits and embodying them in all spheres of social life.
Maintaining the Juche character and sustaining the national character of the
revolution and construction is a principled requirement for carrying out the
socialist cause in keeping with its own intrinsic nature of independence and
historical and present conditions. The socialist cause is the revolutionary
cause of independence, which is aimed at realizing independence for the popular
masses and is advanced and accomplished by the struggle of the masses. A
country and nation is a community of people's life as well as a basic unit in
which they shape their destiny. The masses' destiny is inseparably linked with
the destiny of their country and nation. Since the popular masses live and
shape their destiny with a nation-state as a unit, the masses' cause of
independence, the socialist cause, is inconceivable separately from their
country and nation, and it is impossible to realize the masses' independence
unless the independence of their country and nation is ensured. A man as a
social being is a member of a social stratum and social class as well as a
member of his nation. He has both the class character and national character.
Since each nation has a peculiar cultural tradition that has been formed and
consolidated down through history, it is impossible to meet the masses' desire
for independence and their interests to the full if their national character is
ignored. It is only when the socialist cause preserves the Juche character and
national character that it can be a truly revolutionary cause that champions
and realizes independence for the masses and ensures the independent
development and prosperity of the nation. Keeping the Juche character and
national character is the common requirement and aspiration of all countries
and all peoples. There is no people who do not love and value their country and
nation= there can be no people who like to see the dignity and soul of their
nation trampled upon and ignored. In order to ensure that socialism strikes
root deep in the people's minds and advances with strong sympathy and support
of the masses, it is necessary to maintain the Juche character and national
character in carrying out the socialist cause so as to keep the dignity of the
country and the soul of the nation. Preserving the Juche character and national
character and ensuring the independent development of the country and nation
are an essential requirement for strengthening international unity and
solidarity and contributing truly to the development of the world revolutionary
movement. There are many countries and nations in the world, and each country
and nation has its own characteristics, but all the countries and nations are
equal and independent. International unity and solidarity are the relationships
of mutual support and cooperation among the countries and nations which aspire
after independence. These relationships can develop as truly voluntary and
durable relationships only on the basis of ensuring the independent development
of each country and nation and respecting each other's independence. Unity and
cooperation based on independence constitute a truly internationalist
relationship among countries and nations. When the Juche character and national
character are suppressed, and when the independence of countries and nations is
trampled upon, inequality and discord occur among countries and nations, and
unity and cooperation become impossible. The socialist cause is a national
cause and also an international cause, and the world socialist cause advances
and is accomplished through the process of victory and development of the
revolution in each country. Only when the people of each country carry out the
revolution and construction in their country successfully as masters can the
world socialist cause advance triumphantly. Although preserving the Juche
character and national character is a matter of fundamental significance in
shaping the masses' destiny, no correct solution was given to this problem by
the previous working-class theory. The previous theory, which clarified the law
of the development of human history from the point of view of the materialist
outlook on history, related the formation of nations to the emergence and
development of capitalism and predicted that the nation itself would gradually
disappear with the liquidation of the capitalist system and with progress in
the building of socialism and communism, in all countries. In the historical
conditions of the age when the motive force of the revolution was not prepared
in each country and nation and when the need to strengthen the international
solidarity of the working class in the struggle against capitalism and
imperialism was the basic problem, the previous theory was unable to raise the
question of keeping the Juche character and national character of the socialist
cause to be carried out. The previous theory's proposition that the working
class has no motherland can be viewed as reflecting the requirement for
strengthening international working-class unity and solidarity which were
urgent for the socialist movement of the period as well as the need for
overcoming opportunism which spread bourgeois nationalism in the working-class
movement and the socialist movement. In our times when the popular masses carry
out the revolution and construction actively on their own initiative with the
nation-state as a unit with their destiny firmly in their hands, the task of
each country and nation for adhering to the Juche character and sustaining
their national character has presented itself as an urgent requirement.
However, the parties in several countries which were building socialism in the
past failed to advance a new theory and a new policy in keeping with the
changed new reality and find correct solutions to the problems arising in
ensuring the independent development of countries and nations. The parties of
these countries regarded the national contingents carrying out the revolution
and construction to meet their people's desires and to suit their national
characteristics and their countries' specific situations within the world
socialist movement as contradicting internationalism, and did not pay due
attention to the matter of keeping independence of the countries and nations
and sustaining the national characteristics. Because of this prejudice and
wrong policy, socialism in these countries failed to develop as a cause for
these countries and nations and, in consequence, lost its national footholds
and support. Socialism is a class cause and at the same time a cause for
national development and prosperity. The process of the development and
consummation of the socialist society must be the process of meeting the class
demand and interests of the working masses and also the process of making the
country rich and strong and bringing prosperity to the nation. Since the
working class and the other working masses make up the overwhelming majority of
any nation, the practice of ignoring the Juche character and national character
will inevitably result in the failure to meet the class demand of the working
masses properly. Because the socialist cause failed to become the cause of
genuine national independence in the several countries, socialism suffered the
gradual weakening of its class foundation and was unable to avoid frustration
and collapse due to the anti-socialist manoeuvres of the imperialists and the
renegades from the revolution. In the countries where socialism collapsed, the
dignity of the countries and nations is trampled upon, their peoples are
suffering disasters and even bloodshed is caused by the clashes between
nations. Taking advantages of these events, the imperialists are making frantic
efforts to cloud the image of socialism by attributing the national calamities
to socialism. The imperialists' slander that socialism is inferior to
capitalism in the development of nations is a shameless lie that black is white
and white is black. It is not socialism but capitalism that blocks the road of
national development. In the capitalist society where the nation is split into
hostile classes and individuals' interests are placed above social interests,
national unity cannot be achieved, people cannot have the attitude as befits
masters towards the development of the country and nation, nor can the social
wealth be used properly for the common development of the nation. The
exploiting class which owns all the means of production and wealth in the
capitalist society is interested only in making money. The reactionary
exploiting class does not hesitate to sell out the interests of their country
and nation and harm other countries and nations for money-making. It is the
immutable nature of imperialism to dominate and plunder other nations. Under
capitalism there can be neither national equality nor free development of
nations. The genuine prosperity of a country and nation can only be realized in
the socialist society in which the whole nation has common interests and all
the social wealth is used for the common development of the nation. Socialism
ensures free development of nations and abolishes both class exploitation and
all manner of national inequality. Under the guidance of the great leader
comrade Kim Il Sung, our Party and our people have firmly maintained the Juche
character and properly sustained the national character in the revolution and
construction and thus advanced the Juche revolutionary cause victoriously. The
respected leader comrade Kim Ul Sung was a great thinker, theoretician and a
great statesman who advanced the idea of preserving the Juche character and
national character for the first time in history, translated it brilliantly
into reality and gave successful leadership to the revolution and construction.
Keeping and embodying the Juche character and national character is the
principled requirement of the revolution and construction elucidated by the
Juche idea created by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung. The Juche idea, the
man-centred outlook on the world, is a noble idea of loving the people as well
as an idea of true love for the country and nation= it is a great revolutionary
idea of our times which illuminates the road of advancing the cause of world
independence forcefully. The Juche idea clarified that the country and nation
are the basic unit for shaping the destiny of the masses and that the popular
masses must firmly maintain the Juche character and national character of the
revolution and construction in order to shape their destiny independently. The
Juche idea scientifically proved that the process of nations' development in
carrying out the socialist cause is not a process of one nation being
assimilated to another nation or being merged into another, but a process of
each nation developing into a civilized and powerful nation and steadily
expanding and advancing cooperation and ties among different nations on the
principle of complete equality and voluntary will while creating their own
lives and history with freedom. On the basis of the elucidation of the
independent nature of the socialist cause and the socio-historical conditions
of its implementation, the Juche idea defined the maintenance of the Juche
character and national character as the fundamental principle that must be
adhered to in the whole course of building socialism. The Juche idea linked
socialism and nations to the same destiny for the first time, and guaranteed
the possibility for countries and nations to achieve lasting prosperity in step
with the victorious advance of socialist construction. By establishing the
Juche idea and advancing the theory of maintaining the Juche character and
national character, the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung provided the
absolutely correct guideline for leading the socialist cause as the genuine
cause of independence for the popular masses, as the cause of countries and
nations. This is an imperishable achievement he made in the history of human
thought. Our Party and our people, holding high the banner of the Juche idea,
smashed all kinds of machinations of the imperialists and opportunists in the
struggle for the independence and sovereignty of the country and for socialism,
resolutely defended and applied Juche character and national character. In the
course of this we have registered brilliant successes and accumulated valuable
experience. Our Party and our people regarded adherence to the Juche character
as the basic principle in the revolution and construction and always
subordinated everything to the destiny of our revolution and our nation and
found solutions to all problems by centring on this matter, thus pioneering an
untrodden path of carrying out the revolution and construction in an
independent and creative way. Rock-solidly united around the great leader
comrade Kim Il Sung, the Party and people categorically rejected and frustrated
the great-power chauvinism which stood in the way of our revolution. This was
of key importance in defending the interests and dignity of our nation and
adhering to the Juche standpoint in the revolution and construction. In the
past the great-power chauvinists slandered the maintenance of Juche by our
Party and people in the revolution and construction as "Nationalism"
and "Isolationism" and exerted pressure upon us. However, we fought them
without compromise in order to save the destiny of the country, nation and
socialism. Even when they were deprived of their country and had to fight the
arduous revolutionary war in a foreign land against the Japanese, the Korean
communists established Juche to the letter with an unshakable standpoint and
attitude that they were the masters of the Korean revolution. During the
difficult years of post-war rehabilitation and socialist construction, they all
determinedly rejected the pressure and arbitrariness of the great-power
chauvinists who meddled in our internal affairs and forced an "Integrated
Economy". If the Korean communists had not maintained their own lines and
conviction that the Korean revolutionaries should carry out the Korean
revolution, they would have failed to liberate their country. If we had
abandoned the policy of building an independent national economy and entered
the "CMEA" unable to bear the pressure of the great-power chauvinists during
socialist construction after the war, it would have been impossible for us to
build the socialist state which is independent, self-sustenant and capable of
self-reliant defence. While rejecting great-power chauvinism which put down the
Juche character, our Party and people conducted a tireless, fierce struggle to
overcome flunkeyism which flattered and yielded to the great power. We thus
removed any room for great-power chauvinism to set foot, eradicated the idea of
dependence on outside forces which was handed down through history and
thoroughly established the standpoint and attitude as the masters of the
revolution in our country. The struggle of our Party and our people to adhere
to the Juche character was conducted as an integral part of the struggle to
strengthen the unity and solidarity of the world socialist movement. Thoroughly
rejecting all sorts of misguided tendencies of setting the Juche character
against internationalism, we made energetic efforts to strengthen
internationalist unity and solidarity in keeping with the nature of the
socialist movement. Even though they were carrying out the unprecedentedly
complex and arduous Korean revolution, the Korean communists and people
maintained the internationalist principle of actively supporting and
encouraging the people of other countries in their cause for anti-imperialist
independence and for socialism and fighting in unity with the class comrades-in-
arms and the revolutionary people. When the difference in opinions and discord
between the socialist countries aggravated to the point of split in the world
socialist movement, our Party, with a firm, principled and independent stand,
directed great efforts to ensuring mutual understanding and harmony among the
socialist countries. Even though it was carrying out the revolution in the
difficult situation, our Party gave unstinted assistance and support to the
other socialist countries which were fighting an anti-U.S. war. Our Party and
our people made energetic and positive efforts to develop the relations of
friendship and cooperation based on complete equality and mutual benefit not
only with the socialist countries but also with all the countries which aspire
after independence, thus making a great contribution to strengthening the
internationalist solidarity among the progressive forces throughout the world.
The successes and experiences of our struggle to pioneer the road of revolution
in an original way as the masters of our own destiny and unfold a new history
of unity and solidarity in the world socialist movement and the progressive
movement based on independence clearly demonstrate that the maintenance of the
Juche character constitutes an important guarantee for the victory of both our
revolution and the world revolutionary movement and that it is the absolutely
correct way of remaining loyal not only to the national but also to the
international duties. Our Party valued the national character, sustained our
nation's fine traditions in every possible way and materialized them in all
spheres of the revolution and construction. The national character which is
formed through history may have the limitation of the period and class, but it
is a mistake to see the national character as the breeding ground of the idea
of returning to the past and bourgeois nationalism. The national character
embodies the spirit of national independence and the cultural tradition of a
nation, which constitute a precious wealth of the country and nation and an
important asset for the building of socialism. Our Party has preserved and
steadily developed the fine traits of our people who are resourceful and
courageous, hate injustice, love justice and truth and value morality so that
these qualities become an important factor in propelling socialist construction
and in developing the country to be prosperous. Our Party's policy for
preserving and developing the national character won active support from the
people and displayed great vitality in deepening the people's trust in the
Party and planting socialism deep among the people. Our Party made the national
character a major basis of national unity. To love their nation and value their
national character is a common psychology of the members of the nation and it
is of great importance in uniting and rallying the whole nation. From the early
days of the revolutionary struggle, the true Korean communists attached great
importance to the national character and worked hard to achieve the unity of
the people in all walks of life on the basis of it and in the course of this
succeeded in achieving unity with the nationalists as well. The imperialists
and reactionaries are talking as if there is an impassable gulf between
communism and nationalism in order to drive in wedge of hostility and discord
within the nation, but communism and nationalism have the common desire and
aspiration of love for one's country and nation. It is impossible to achieve
national unity if the positive aspect of nationalism is ignored and rejected
because of its limitations. What is opposed to communism is not nationalism in
general but bourgeois nationalism, national egoism and national chauvinism
which subordinate the common interests of the nation to the interests of a
handful of the exploiting class in the guise of nationalism. We realised unity
and cooperation with the nationalists on our initiative by giving prominence to
the community of loving the nation and valuing the national character and led
them tirelessly to go on the road of patriotism so that they make great
contribution to the struggle for national liberation and socialism while
casting in their lots with the communists. It is the national character and
love for the nation and the spirit of national independence which emanate from
the national character that can be the foundations of great national unity and
national reunification in our country where the nation is divided by foreign
forces and different ideas and systems exist in north and south. Especially
when the national character is trampled underfoot and obliterated in south
Korea by foreign forces and the reactionaries, we may lose the foundations of
the unity of the whole nation and national reunification and the nation may
become hetrogeneous and divided into different nations unless we hold high and
sustain the national character in every way. All our Party's policies for
national reunification including the 10-Point Programme of the Great Unity of
the Whole Nation for the Reunification of the Country put forward by the great
national father comrade Kim Il Sung are run through with the noble spirit of
national independence and love for the nation which value and sustain the
national character. By paying deep attention to sustaining and embodying the
national character in leading the struggle for national reunification, our
Party has created mature conditions for uniting the whole nation in north,
south and abroad, and for realising the coordinated development of the country
and nation. It is of special importance that we have stressed the Korean-nation-
first principle in the struggle to preserve and embody the national character.
Our Party has considered it as a main link in the struggle for sustaining the
national character to encourage the popular masses, the masters of the
revolution and construction to take pride and self-confidence in the greatness
of the Korean nation and brighten the soul and spirit of the nation, and laid
great emphasis on this work. Our Party has brought about an all-round
development and flowering of our people's admirable national character formed
through history, created new fine national traits successfully in all fields of
revolution and construction and social life and, on this basis, advanced the
Korean-nation-first principle and armed the people with this principle. The
establishment of the Korean-nation-first spirit has effected a new advance in
the struggle to sustain the national character and raised its role beyond
measure in carrying out the cause of socialism. As is evidenced in our people,
young and old, men and women, throughout the whole country fondly singing "My
Country Is Best", all our people are proud of being Koreans. With a high sense
of self-respect and pride as the best nation living and working in the good
socialist system under the care of the great leader, and under the leadership
of the great party, our people are exalting the national dignity and displaying
national resourcefulness in the struggle for the prosperity and development of
the country and the victory of socialism. The experience of our Party and
people in the struggle for sustaining the national character shows that only
when the Party and the state of the working class value the national character
and work hard to embody it in the revolution and construction can they unite
the entire nation, advance triumphantly the cause of socialism by giving full
play to their patriotic enthusiasm and realise the independent development and
prosperity of the country and nation. By giving wise leadership to the struggle
of our Party and people for preserving the Juche character and national
character, the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung set a brilliant example of
leading to victory the revolutionary cause of the popular masses under the
banner of independence. History has recorded numerous patriots and patriotic
struggles, but it has never known such a communist revolutionary as the great
leader comrade Kim Il Sung who firmly safeguarded the Juche character and
national character with faith in independence and a noble patriotic spirit,
treading a thorny revolutionary path nor has it witnessed such a revolutionary
cause of genuine national independence as the Juche revolutionary cause
pioneered and led by comrade Kim Il Sung. The socialism of Juche is the
brilliant fruition of the great idea and leadership of the respected comrade
Kim Il Sung who opened up an original way of carrying out the socialist cause,
the cause of independence for the popular masses. Our socialism of Juche which
has been built by our people themselves in keeping with their desire and the
national characteristics is the people-centred socialism which has made the
popular masses the masters of everything and made everything serve them= it is
the socialism of independence, self-sufficiency and self-reliant defence, which
has strengthened the Juche character and fully displayed the national
character= it is the socialism dedicated to love for the country and nation.
Here lies its essential characteristics and its superiority. Because it has
most effectively combined love for the people with love for the country and
nation, the independence of the popular masses with the independence of the
country and nation, socialism in our country is advancing along the road of
victory with an invincible vitality and force and displaying ever greater
attraction in carrying out the cause of independence for humanity. By building
Juche-oriented socialism which defends and realizes the independence of the
popular masses and guarantees the independent development and prosperity of the
nation under the guidance of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung, our Party
and people have proved that adhering to the principle of national independence
as well as the principle of the working class in the revolution and
construction and keeping the Juche character and national character are the
road to victory and glory. Great-power chauvinists and opportunists slandered
our adherence to the Juche character and national character and our struggle
for the revolution and construction on the principle of national independence
as if these were contrary to socialism, but, in the long run, it is our Party
and our people that defend and brighten socialism through to the end. Our
socialism is vigorously advancing along its track in spite of worldwide
political upheavals because our Party is consistently leading the revolution
and construction from the standpoint of Juche. Although those who once posed
themselves as "Orthodox" socialists and internationalists discarded socialism
and betrayed internationalism, our Party and people have been invariably and
unfailingly faithful to internationalism, under the banner of socialism and
while defending the impregnable fortress of socialism, are striving for the
reconstruction of the socialist movement and the cause of independence for
humanity by pooling efforts with all the revolutionary parties and progressive
people who are aspiring after independence and socialism. 2 Stepping up
socialist construction and realising the reunification of the country and its
prosperity by preserving and applying the Juche character and national
character is the unshakable faith and will of our Party and people. We must
thoroughly implement this line which was the life-long desire of the great
leader comrade Kim Il Sung and whose truth and validity have been proved by
history. Loving one's country and nation is a prerequisite for maintaining the
Juche character and national character in the revolution and construction. A
revolutionary must boundlessly love and value the country and nation. Apart
from the country and nation, nobody can live and shape his destiny. As the
destiny of an individual is inseparably connected with the destiny of the
nation, our Party is exerting efforts to educate all members of society to have
a correct view on the nation and producing such art and literary works as the
multi-part feature film "The Nation and Destiny" expending much efforts. The
basic content of "The Nation and Destiny" is that the destiny of the country
and nation is immediately the destiny of an individual and that the life of the
latter belongs to the life of the former. Those who want to shape their own
destiny truly must consider the country and nation as the base of their life
and the nest of their happiness and love them ardently= they must find the
worth and value of their life in devoting their all for the independence and
prosperity of the country and nation. How people should approach their own
class and how they live as a member of the class is an important question, but
what is no less important is how they should live and fight as a member of the
nation. For all Koreans today, it is important to cherish the love for the
country and nation, lead a genuine life as a member of the Korean nation and
devote their all to the common aim of the nation, transcending the different
systems created temporarily owing to national division, as well as different
ideas and ideals, different political views and religions and different classes
and strata. Those who have the blood and soul of the Korean nation must link
their own destiny with the destiny of the country and nation and fight devoting
body and soul for the independent reunification of the country and the
prosperity of the nation, no matter which class and strata they belong to and
which social system they live in and whether they live at home or abroad. For
the Party which leads the revolution to treasure the country and nation and
bear the responsibility for their destiny is the fundamental condition to
fulfil its leadership mission. Defending and keeping the independence of the
country and nation is a prerequisite for realizing the independence of the
popular masses. If a working class Party makes only the idea and requirement of
the class absolute and neglects national interests, it cannot bear the
responsibility for the destiny of the country and nation, give a correct
guidance to patriotic struggle and realize the independence of the masses with
credit. The Party which leads the revolution and construction must think and
act with the attitude of attaching importance to the country and nation and
lead the masses of the people correctly to defend the interests of the country
and nation resolutely and realize the development of the country and the
prosperity of the nation. Our Party and people are proud of having set a
brilliant example of patriotism in the road of a long-protracted revolutionary
struggle for independence, sovereignty and socialism. The Korean communists
were the most ardent patriots who had fought devoting their all to the
liberation of the fatherland and its independent development and the history in
which the Korean revolution was pioneered and has advanced has been recorded by
the sacred struggle of our people for the country and nation. The proud
patriotic traditions of our people are now being carried forward brilliantly
under the leadership of our Party. By carrying forward the noble patriotic
traditions, our entire people must implement devotedly our party's plan and
policy to defend the fundamental interests of the country and nation and make
their country, their motherland, ever more prosperous. Carrying out the
revolution and construction in one's own style on the principle of national
independence is the fundamental requirement for preserving the Juche character
and national character. Dealing with the problems arising in hewing out the
destiny of one's country and nation on one's own decision is the right to
independence which nobody can infringe upon. A revolutionary Party and people
must resolutely reject the intervention and pressure of the outside forces and
decide their own problems on their independent resolution and judgement to suit
their demand and interests. Failing to advocate one's own opinion and faith
pressed on by the outside forces is the road to subordination and national
ruin. This is proved by the catastrophic fate of the countries and nations
which had followed the intentions of the imperialists and dominationists and
lived consulting their pleasure. The more pressure the imperialists and
dominationists apply, the more firmly the revolutionary Party and people must
advocate their opinion and implement the lines and policies decided on their
own to completion. If they yield to the pressure of the outside forces and
vacillate or give up their aim facing trials and thus abandon their faith and
withdraw from the road chosen by themselves, they cannot rise up again. No
matter what difficulties and trials they may face, the revolutionary Party and
people should never lose their faith in the validity of their cause and
unvaryingly follow the road to independence, the road they chose, fighting with
an indomitable will. In advancing the revolution and construction and
developing society it is necessary to always find out one's own way and methods
and rely on them. Being fond of other's style and imitating it is not the
attitude befitting masters who are responsible for the destiny of the nation.
It is natural to introduce what is good or developed among others' things, but
it is intolerable to imitate them mechanically or consider them as their basis.
The Party and people who are building socialism should not tolerate the
capitalist "Western style" in managing the state and social system and
organizing social life and instead apply their own style which is revolutionary
and national, in all spheres of state and social life including politics, the
economy and culture. The countries which are experiencing social problems,
economic difficulties and disasters by national dispute, too, must find out the
way to overcome them by their own efforts, not expecting anything from
the "prescription" of the imperialists. The so-called "prescriptions" that the
imperialists are advertising going around the world are neither for the
development of other nations nor any "ingenious plan" to activate the economy
of other countries and ensure national reconciliation= these are the schemes to
powder their faces and gain their profit in this process. As the reality shows,
in the countries which introduced the imperialists' "prescription", social
problems and economic difficulties have become more serious and national
dispute become aggravated. The countries which are suffering from social and
economic difficulties and national dispute must reject the "prescription" of
the imperialists which worsens their condition and break through the
difficulties using their own prescription. Our Party and people are proud of
having chosen their revolutionary road independently on their own faith and
having advanced the revolutionary cause solving all the problems arising in the
revolution and construction in our own style based on their independent
thought. Our style is based on Juche philosophy centring on human being and
associated with the spirit of loving the country and nation. As we have not
followed others' opinion and prescription, but relied firmly on our own
intention and the revolutionary methods of our style, we have been able to
build a powerful socialism of Juche and make it prosperous. In the future, too,
we must live and carry out the revolution in our own way on the principle of
national independence so as to firmly defend and develop socialism of our style
and make the country and nation ever prosperous. Our own force is the real
guarantee for preserving and applying the Juche character and national
character. The fundamental in preparing our own force is to build up the
political force of our own. In order to preserve the Juche character and
national character it is necessary to prepare our own force in all spheres
including the material and economic force, but what is most important is to
build a strong political force, the driving force of the revolution. The power
of the driving force of the revolution is unity. In the struggle for the
independence of the country and nation it is imperative to achieve national
unity based on the unanimous desire and common interests of the nation. At
present, for us to achieve great national unity and build up our own force for
national reunification poses itself as the most urgent task. Only when a
nationwide unity is realized, can we crush the separatist force at home and
abroad and accomplish the cause of national reunification. All the compatriots
in the north, the south and abroad must fight dynamically to realize the
independent reunification of the country, the great national desire, rallied
rock-firm under the banner of a great national unity. In a socialist society
where the class conflict has been eliminated, a nation is the people and vice
versa and the centre of their unity is the Party and the leader. A national
unity in socialist society must be a unity of the whole society in ideology and
purpose centring on the Party and the leader. Our Party has equipped the entire
people firmly with the Juche idea and turned the whole of society into one
socio-political organism whose members have been united firmly centring on the
Party and the leader, thereby building up creditably the independent motive
force of the revolution, the integrated whole of the leader, the Party and the
masses. The power of the independent driving force relying on the single-
hearted unity of the leader, the Party and the masses is the fundamental
guarantee for all our victories both in the struggle against imperialism and in
socialist construction. By consolidating and developing this single-hearted
unity and displaying its power to the full, we must safeguard the independence
of the country and nation firmly and step up the revolution and construction
vigorously. In addition to our own political force, the economic and military
forces must be prepared. The Party and people who have not prepared their own
economic and military forces cannot fulfil their responsibility and play their
role satisfactorily as the independent motive force of the revolution and
construction and preserve the Juche character and national character. A
revolutionary Party and people should exert all their energy, putting up with
all hardships, to prepare their own economic and military forces guaranteeing
the independent development of the country. The role of science and technology
in economic and defence constructions is remarkably expanded and the scientific
and technological competition is brisk on worldwide scale= in this situation,
without developed science and technology it is impossible to build a strong
economic power and military power. The countries and people who are building
socialism should develop science and technology on their own efforts to suit
the requirement of the revolution and the concrete reality of their countries,
maintaining thoroughly their own attitude. The work of expanding and developing
scientific and technical exchanges with different countries and introducing
advanced science and technology from other countries, too, must be based on
their own reality. If they give full rein to the strength and intelligence of
their people relying on the advantage of socialism, and mobilize all
possibilities and potentials actively, it will be fully possible to scale a
high peak of scientific and technical development and back the independent
development of the country with science and technology. Our Party and people
have regarded it as the fundamental requirement for building an independent
sovereign state to prepare their own strong economic and military powers and
laid a powerful economic and military foundation guaranteeing the independence
of the country and the prosperity of the nation, by waging an indomitable
struggle sparing a penny and tightening their belts from the first days of the
building of a new society. Today we can firmly defend the fundamental interests
of the revolution and the prestige of the country challenging the imperialists'
vicious manoeuvres against socialism and our republic, because we have built
the powerful independent national economy and self-reliant defence power. By
continuing a vigorous struggle to strengthen the power of the independent
national economy and self-reliant defence power, we must make more solid the
material foundation of the independent state and social life and defend
reliably the safety of the country and the happy life of the people. In
preserving the Juche character and national character it is very important to
enhance national pride and self-confidence among the people. National pride and
self-confidence are the manifestation of the love of the nation and the spirit
of national independence. A revolutionary Party should always conduct actively
an ideological work among the people to cultivate the spirit of national
independence so that they have a pride in their country and nation and a
determination to defend and develop them. The ideological work to boost the
spirit of national independence should be waged more vigorously particularly in
small and backward countries and in the countries which had suffered much from
domination and intervention by big countries and where flunkeyism and dogmatism
still remain deep rooted. National pride and self-confidence are formed and
expressed when one understands the good qualities of one's nation. The good
qualities of a nation formed socially and historically in the struggle to shape
the destiny of the country and nation has no connection with racial characters,
so it is not that any special nation is blessed with such traits. Every nation
is blessed with its good qualities and has the aspiration and desire to
preserve and highlight them. Only when a revolutionary party appreciates the
fine traits of its nation and highlights them positively, can it encourage the
people to have national pride and self-confidence. What is important in
preserving and boosting the good qualities of the nation is to carry forward
national inheritance correctly. Nihilism which ignores and abandons national
inheritance is the main obstacle which impedes the efflorescence and
development of the good traits of the nation. In order to preserve the good
qualities of the nation, it is imperative to have an attitude of valuing
national inheritance and thoroughly reject and overcome nihilism which denies
the nation's fine traits. Restorationism which tries to preserve things of the
past thoughtlessly on the excuse of valuing national inheritance is also a
harmful tendency to prevent the good qualities of the nation from being
preserved in a correct manner. If restorationism is tolerated, it would revive
outdated and backward things which reflect the requirement and interests of the
exploiter class and go against times and create an obstacle in the way to
preserve the national traits in conformity with the requirement of socialism.
To preserve the national traits, it is necessary to reject both the nihilistic
attitude and the restorationist tendencies and correctly combine the national
stand with the class stand, the historical principle with the principle of
modernization and thus throw away what is outdated or does not befit socialism
and highlight and develop what is progressive and popular. In addition to
preserving national inheritance handed down historically with a correct view,
new national traits must be created continuously. It is only when new national
traits are created based on the inherited good qualities of the nation that
national traits can bloom and develop more and their role increase in enhancing
national pride and self-confidence. By stepping up the revolution and
construction successfully, the Party which builds socialism must create new
national traits countiuously in all spheres of politics ,the economy, ideology,
culture and morality and boost national pride and self-confidence among the
people. The good qualities of a nation are best cultivated and displayed while
carrying out the revolutionary cause under the guidance of the great leader.
These qualities can be attributed to the greatness of the leader= the pride and
self-confidence in the nation's excellence finds concentrated expression in the
pride and confidence in having the great leader. Our people have become a great
nation under the care of the respected leader comrade Kim Il Sung and have
acquired excellent national traits under his leadership. Today the people
around the world call our nation in association with the name of the respected
leader comrade Kim Il Sung and praise the good qualities of our nation as the
excellent traits of Kim Il Sung's nation. The core of the traits of Kim Il
Sung's nation consists of loyalty and dutifulness to their leader. Our people's
unqualified loyalty and dutifulness to the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung
have become firmly established as their faith and will, as their conscience and
morality, through life experience of shaping the destiny of the country and
nation for many years of history. Loyalty and dutifulness to the leader are the
highest expression of the good qualities of Kim Il Sung's nation and constitute
the basis of all the other fine traits of his nation. The mental and moral
excellence of our people--the strong sense of uniting behind the Party and the
leader with a single mind and purpose, revolutionary faith in the socialism of
Juche, unlimited devotion to their country and the revolution, the
revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude, revolutionary optimism,
revolutionary morality and comradeship with which all the members of society
help and lead each other forward--emanate from their loyalty and dutifulness to
the great leader and find clear expression through them. We must further
consolidate and carry forward stoutly the excellent qualities of our people who
are loyal and dutiful to the leader, so that the people remain unfailingly
loyal and dutiful to their leader and their Party down through generations. We
must continue to step up education in the Korean-nation-first principle to
encourage the people to brighten the greatness of the Korean nation further
with a strong sense of national pride and self-confidence. The struggle to
preserve the Juche character and national character is the struggle against
imperialism and dominationism. Taking advantage of the trials which the cause
of independence for the popular masses is undergoing, the imperialists are now
working more blatantly than ever to obliterate the Juche character and traits
of other countries and nations and realize their dominationist ambition. At the
present moment, the independent development of the country and nation is
inconceivable and it is impossible to prevent the people from falling to the
lot of colonial slavery again, apart from the struggle against the
dominationist machinations of the imperialists. The illusions and fear of
imperialism should be dispelled. Aggression and plunder are the real nature of
imperialism. No matter how the international situation may change, the
dominationist ambition of the imperialists will not change. Nothing is more
foolish and dangerous than pinning hopes on the imperialist "aid", unable to
see through the aggressive and predatory nature of imperialism. The
imperialist "aid" is a noose of plunder and subjugation aimed at robbing ten
and even a hundred things for one thing that is given. The revolutionary
parties and peoples must see clearly the miserable situation in the countries
and nations which harboured illusions about imperialism, must always keep to
the anti-imperialist, independent stand determinedly and wipe out even the
slightest element of illusions about the imperialists. The fear of imperialism
is another expression of illusions about imperialism. Imperialism is by no
means an object of fear= it is doomed as the refuse of history. If you are
afraid of confrontation with imperialism and abandon the anti-imperialist
struggle, you will never free yourselves from its domination and control. The
revolutionary parties and peoples must see through the vulnerabilities of
imperialism, courageously stand against the bluffing imperialists, and
resolutely crush their reactionary offensive with revolutionary offensive. We
must smash up the vicious and cunning policy of the imperialists for
obliterating nations and the reactionary doctrines which try to justify this
policy. The imperialists' reactionary policy of suppressing the Juche character
of nations and obliterate national traits is now taking on a new form in the
guise of gangster-like fuss about the trend towards a "monolithic" world. In
the situation where each country and nation shape their destiny with their own
ideas and systems, there can be no "monolithic" world which covers all spheres
of politics, the economy and culture. With social development and ties and
interchange among different nations becoming closer, common features increase
in the lives of nations. However, this process always presupposes the
independent and individualistic development of nations and takes place on the
basis of such development. The imperialists have cooked up the trend of
a "monolithic world" for the purpose of reducing the whole world to the western-
style "freed world" and subjugating and assimilating all nations to themselves.
All countries and nations must see clearly the danger of the imperialist policy
of obliterating nations which is pursued in the name of the trend towards
a "monolithic" world and must intensify the struggle to defeat the
dominationist manoeuvres of the imperialists. The imperialist moves to
obliterate other nations and assimilate them are directed not only to foreign
countries and nations but also to the minority nations and foreign residents in
their own countries. The Japanese imperialists, who imposed immeasurable
misfortune and suffering upon the Korean nation in the past by means of the
most heinous colonial rule and the policy of obliterating our nation, are now
making frantic efforts to suppress the national rights of the Koreans in Japan,
and erase their national consciousness, and are working tenaciously to
assimilate them to themselves. This is the most glaring example of the attempt.
The parties and states, which are responsible for the destiny of their nations,
must keep a close eye on the cunning policy of national assimilation pursued by
the imperialists and step up the struggle to expose and shatter it.
The "ethnological doctrine", "cosmopolitanism" and other reactionary doctrines
which have been declared bankrupt by history are now being adapted and changed
into various forms and used as ideological instruments to paralyse people's
national consciousness and revolutionary spirit and justify the imperialist
policy of obliterating nations. In order to keep the Juche character and
national traits, we must thoroughly expose and shatter all sorts of reactionary
ideological trends and lies aimed at hiding and justifying the dominationist
nature of the imperialists. The struggle against the dominationist manoeuvres
of the imperialists should be linked with the struggle against the traitors to
the nation. Without combating the traitors who sell out national interests in
collusion with the imperialists against their own countries and nations, it
would be impossible to defeat imperialism and dominationism or achieve the
development of nations. This is clearly shown by the situation in the south of
our country. In south Korea where our national traits have been seriously
trampled upon because of the flunkeyist, traitorous acts of the successive
reactionary rulers, the soul of the nation and beautiful customs are now being
totally erased by the clamour of the authorities for anti-
national "internationalization" and "globalization." Their clamour for these
schemes means an unheard-of treachery to maintain their powers and comfort in
return for the obliteration of everything that is national and for their total
sell-out of the country and nation to foreign forces. Their humiliating open-
door policy which is pursued in the name of "internationalization"
and "globalization" allows the American, Japanese and Western fashions to flood
all spheres of politics, the economy and culture. In consequence, in south
Korea all areas of social life, ranging from the mode of politics, the
language, written and spoken, to the way of life, are imitating the American,
Japanese and Western fashions, the foreign forces lord it over, and the
national traits and dignity are being wantonly violated and obliterated. In
order to cut off the noose of domination and subjugation by the imperialists in
south Korea and open up the road of independent development, we must sweep away
the traitors who sell out the country and nation to foreign forces and invite
all sorts of national misfortune and miseries. In order to oppose imperialism
and dominationism and preserve the Juche character and national character,
international unity and cooperation among the progressive people of the world
must be strengthened. Each country can achieve national independence,
prosperity and development, and the cause of making the world independent can
be realized with success only when the progressive people throughout the world
support and encourage each other, closely cooperate and pool their efforts. The
socialist countries, non-aligned and developing countries must, in solid unity
under the banner of independence, make dynamic efforts to democratize the
international community, thus abolishing the old international order of
domination and subordination, set up by the imperialists, and establish a new
one which is based on sovereignty, equality, justice and impartiality. They
must actively develop south-south cooperation on the principle of collective
self-reliance so as to achieve prosperity all together. Independence, peace and
friendship are the idea of our Party's foreign policy which makes it possible
to strengthen international solidarity and contribute to the cause of making
the whole world independent. Our Party and our people have always endeavoured
to develop relationships and cooperation with all the people of the world on
the principles of independence and equality, peace and friendship and mutual
benefit and to establish just international relations and order between
countries and nations. We must make dynamic struggle to strengthen unity and
cooperation with the progressive people throughout the world and to democratize
the international community. And by doing this we must fulfil our international
duty and historic mission in the struggle to defend independence of all the
countries and nations and to make the world independent. It is a consistent
policy pursued by our Party is guided by the Jcuhe idea, to value the Juche
character and national character, preserve and materialize it. As in the past,
so also in the future, our Party will invariably maintain the principle of
Juche and national independence, bring further prosperity to our country and
our fatherland which was won back and built by the great leader comrade Kim Il
Sung, achieve the cause of national reunification and accomplish the socialist
cause of Juche.




 

 
  COMRADE KIM IL SUNG -- OUTSTANDING 
  LEADER OF THE WORLD REVOLUTION 
 From: Kim Il Sung: Biography (III) by Baik Bong. (Miraisha, Tokyo, Japan, 
  1970) 

  Part I of: "Thorough Internationalist Position" 

  "The activities of Comrade Kim Il Sung are commanding wide attention throughout 
  the world. His many writings, his addresses given at many conferences, his teachings 
  give to the people at on-the-spot guidance sessions and his brief discussions 
  with foreign guests--all are evoking international interest. Foreign guests 
  who visit Korea consider it a great pleasure to meet Comrade Kim Il Sung. 
 "The world's revolutionary peoples and representatives of their revolutionary 
  organizations and parties, chiefs of state of Asian, African and Latin American 
  countries, including newly independent states and neutral nations, pay warm 
  respect to Comrade Kim Il Sung with high esteem. 
 "This is because he is more than the great Leader of the 40 million Korean 
  people; he is one of the outstanding leaders of the international communist 
  movement and working-class movement and all his political activities have powerful 
  worldwide repercussions. 
 "Always, Comrade Kim Il Sung has thought of the world, even while thinking 
  of Korea, and as he thought of the world he gave himself to deep thought about 
  Korea; he always pondered world revolution even while leading the Korean revolution 
  to its great victory. 
 "This derives from his Marxist-Leninist understanding that the revolutionary 
  struggle of the working class in every country is essentially international, 
  and that only in that direction is ultimate victory possible both for the national 
  and the international cause. 
 "So from the days of his early revolutionary struggle, he thought it his first 
  duty as a real Communist and revolutionary, not only to carry the Korean revolution 
  to completion but to give positive support to the world revolution. He said: 
  'It is the duty of all communists of the world to remain infinitely loyal to 
  the revolution in their respective countries, and at the same time to fight 
  for ultimate victory of the world revolution.' "His life and work are a living 
  example of boundless loyalty to such proletarian internationalist duties in 
  all his revolutionary activities. He continued to lead the Korean revolution 
  to victory as its Leader, and as a real Communist and Leader of a victorious 
  proletarian state he has always linked the Korean revolution to world revolution, 
  and done everything in his power to develop the international communist movement 
  and working-class movement. 
 "Back to the 1930s, Comrade Kim Il Sung made the Korean revolution a link 
  in the chain to promote the world revolution, developing the anti-Japanese national 
  liberation struggle of the Korean people to its sharpest form, the anti-Japanese 
  armed struggle. 
 "The aggressive purpose of the Japanese imperialists in their occupation of 
  Korea was not merely to rule Korea as a colony and to plunder it, but to assault 
  the Asian continent and the Soviet Union, using Korea as a bridgehead. 
 "Comrade Kim Il Sung thoroughly and successfully linked the national task 
  of independence and the liberation of Korea with the internationalist duty of 
  checking the advance of the Japanese imperialist aggressors, one of the main 
  forces of world fascism, in expansion over the continent by means of aggressive 
  war, by carrying on the great anti-Japanese armed struggle against these aggressive 
  forces of Japanese imperialism, and so assisting world revolution. 
 "Using the proletarian internationalist slogans, 'Let us defend the Soviet 
  Union by arms!' 'Let the Korean and Chinese peoples unite to overthrow the common 
  enemy, Japanese imperialism!' he defended and supported the revolutionary struggles 
  of the peoples of the Soviet Union and of China by force of arms. In this course, 
  he set a prime example of thorough proletarian internationalism." 
 Part II of: "Thorough Internationalist Position" 

  "Comrade Kim Il Sung's complete proletarian internationalist thought and his 
  achievements at the time of the anti-Japanese armed struggle form an important 
  part of the brilliant revolutionary traditions inherited by the Workers' Party 
  of Korea and the people after liberation. 
 "When liberation had been won, Comrade Kim Il Sung continued to uphold the 
  revolutionary principles of proletarian internationalism in keeping with the 
  new historical conditions and actively supported the world revolution, closely 
  relating all national tasks to the international task. 
 "First he firmly maintained the position that making a success of the Korean 
  revolution and construction by the Korean Communists and the people themselves 
  was a positive contribution to the world revolutionary cause. 
 "He said: 'Those born in Korea are duty bound to carry through the revolution 
  and build socialism and communism in Korea. The Korean revolution is an internationalist 
  duty assigned to Koreans. So if the Korean people carry the Korean revolution 
  through with credit, they faithfully discharge their internationalist duty.' 
  "This Juche and revolutionary position of Comrade Kim Il Sung is genuine proletarian 
  internationalism, and has nothing in common with national egoism. National egoism 
  thinks only of national interests and utterly disregards the development of 
  the international struggle. 
 "His starting point is the concept that ultimate victory of the world revolution 
  can be achieved only by the victory of socialism and communism in each country, 
  the world being divided into so many nation-states. 
 "How the success of the revolution and construction in one country contributes 
  to the international revolutionary movement he made very clear. He taught: First, 
  every victory strengthens the respective front in the socialist camp and the 
  international communist movement, so strengthening and developing the socialist 
  camp and the international communist movement as a whole; it also enables fraternal 
  parties and peoples to direct more energies to development of the revolution 
  in their own respective countries and in other countries, by relieving them 
  of any burden to the successful country; in the third place it makes it possible 
  for the Party and people of the country concerned to give more active support 
  to the revolutionary struggle of fraternal parties and peoples, because of the 
  firm material foundation built up in the country. 
 "Looking at his task in this way, Comrade Kim Il Sung victoriously guided 
  Korea's socialist revolution and socialist construction, thus making a major 
  contribution to world revolution. 
 "Throughout the whole course of the revolution and construction, he maintained 
  his Juche position and the revolutionary principle of self-reliance. He held 
  that this would save a heavy burden being imposed on fraternal parties and peoples, 
  and would serve to strengthen and develop the socialist camp and the international 
  communist movement in the long run. 
 "He taught the Party and the people that it was their duty to do more work 
  for the world revolution because the world struggle is yet to be won. 
 "More than 20 years have passed since Korea was liberated. It was a very difficult 
  time. The Korean people had to endure unprecedentedly arduous war and two periods 
  of reconstruction. But this did not deter Comrade Kim Il Sung from quickly building 
  Korea into a socialist power, independent in politics, self-supporting in the 
  economy and self-defensive in national defense, using the independent strength 
  of the Korean people. On these principles Korea was converted into a powerful 
  citadel, able to safeguard the eastern outpost of the world revolution, a dependable 
  base with a solid foundation of material support." 
 Part III of: "Thorough Internationalist Position" 

  "In helping the world revolution, Comrade Kim Il Sung never ceased to give great 
  significance to the role of the socialist countries as the base for world revolution. 
  He stressed that the socialist countries which had succeeded in the revolution 
  must, firstly, inspire constantly the revolutionary struggle of peoples of the 
  world through their own example in socialist construction; secondly, unite all 
  forces opposed to imperialism and help materially and morally in all the struggles, 
  including armed struggle, against imperialism; thirdly, make no compromises 
  with any plans of the imperialists that are contrary to the rights and needs 
  of the peoples, frustrate all intrigues of the imperialists to export counterrevolution 
  and never separate the struggle for peace from the struggle against imperialism. 
 "Comrade Kim Il Sung stated that only by maintaining such a revolutionary 
  stand can the socialist camp fulfill its role as the base for the world revolution 
  both in name and fact. 
 "His stand is based on this unshakable proletarian internationalist attitude, 
  and out-and-out revolutionary stance, positively supporting the world revolution, 
  with everything possible done to help it. 
 "While resolutely struggling for the unity of the socialist camp and cohesion 
  of the international communist movement, he set about the development of relations 
  of friendship and cooperation with newborn countries of Asia, Africa and Latin 
  America, and vigorously tried to positively assist in the anti- imperialist 
  national liberation struggle of the peoples in these regions, and the revolutionary 
  movement of people all over the world, opposing the policy of aggression and 
  war of the imperialists, in particular the ringleader, U. S. imperialism, and 
  defending world peace and promoting human progress. 
 "The most shining example in this struggle is his constant and resolute support 
  given to the revolutionary struggle of the peoples of the world against the 
  policy of aggression and war followed by the U. S. imperialists. 
 "He carefully observed the maneuvers of the U. S. led imperialists for aggression 
  and war and gave his unconditional support to the peoples of all countries subject 
  to their aggression. He gave strong support to the struggle of the United Arab 
  Republic people against the British and French imperialists' invasion of the 
  Suez Canal in 1956, and the struggle of the Cuban people against the U. S. imperialist 
  provocations in the Caribbean incident in 1962, giving great encouragement to 
  the peoples of these countries as a living example of proletarian internationalism."