Saturday, April 03, 2004
A REVIEW OF KIM IL SUNG'S "THE PATH OF THE KOREAN REVOLUTION", A SPEECH MADE ON JUNE 30TH IN KALUN BY JOHN MARCHANT
As it the 10th anniversary of the passing away of respected President KIM IL SUNG I thought it appropriate to the review one of the very first works authored by the Great Leader. It was in a period when resistance to the Japanese imperialist rule in Korea was intenfying that KIM IL SUNG delivered a report to the meeting of the Anti-imperialist Youth League in Kalun. It was from this report that we can trace the origins of the Juche Idea that was born in the battlefields of the Korean national liberation struggle of the 1930s.
To quote from the work:
"THE KOREAN NATION IS FACING A QUESTION OF LIFE OR DEATH TODAY IT EITHER PERHISHES FOREVER UNDER THE COLONIAL YOKE OF THE JAPANESE IMPERIALISTS OR RISE UP IN A FIGHT TO SURVIVE. IF IT MERELY LAMENTS OVER ITS RUINED LAND AND TOLERATES THE UNHEARD OF JAPANESE TYRANNY, OUR NATION WILL FAIL NEVER TO RISE UP AND FIGHT, DEFYING DEATH, IT WILL WILL GREET THE DAWN OF LIBERATION.
THE MASTERS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE ARE THE MASSES OF THE PEOPLE AND ONLY WHEN THEY ARE ORGANISED AND MOBILIZED CAN THEY WIN THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE. THEREFORE THE LEADERS OF THE MOVEMENT MUST GO AMONG THE MASSES AND AWAKEN THEM SO THAT THEY THEMSELVES WAGE THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE AS MASTERS. BUT THE SELF-STYLED LEADERS OF THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT MERELY INDULGED IN A WAR OF WORDS HARMFUL TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT AND GAVE NO THOUGHT TO AWAKENING THE MASSES AND MOBILIZING THEM FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE. WITHOUT ORGANISING THE MASSES FOR REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE IT IS POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE THE SACRED CAUSE OF LIBERATING THE COUNTRY FROM THE VICIOUS JAPANESE IMPERIALIST COLONIAL YOKE.
IN COLONIES AN ARMED STRUGGLE AGANIST IMPERIALISM IS THE LAW OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATI0NAL LIBERATION STRUGGLE OWNING TO ITS INTRINSIC AGGRESSIVE AND PREDATORY NATURE, IMPERIALISM WILL NEVER WITHDRAW FROM THE COLONIES OF ITS OWN ACCORD, AND WILL ALWAYS RESORT TO BRUTAL VIOLENCE TO MAINTAIN ITS COLONIAL RULE. SO THE IMPERIALIST FORCES OF AGGRESSION MUST BE SMASHED BY THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES".
We can see a direct line from the dawn of the Korean Revolution when the spark of the Juche Idea was lit by KIM IL SUNG in 1930 to the present day when KIM JONG IL has inaugurated the Songun revolutionary cause. By studing "THE PATH OF THE KOREAN REVOLUTION" one can detect the evolution of the Juche Idea, it was the Juche Idea which proved to be so instrumental in liberating Korea and inspiring mankind upon the road of independence.
As it the 10th anniversary of the passing away of respected President KIM IL SUNG I thought it appropriate to the review one of the very first works authored by the Great Leader. It was in a period when resistance to the Japanese imperialist rule in Korea was intenfying that KIM IL SUNG delivered a report to the meeting of the Anti-imperialist Youth League in Kalun. It was from this report that we can trace the origins of the Juche Idea that was born in the battlefields of the Korean national liberation struggle of the 1930s.
To quote from the work:
"THE KOREAN NATION IS FACING A QUESTION OF LIFE OR DEATH TODAY IT EITHER PERHISHES FOREVER UNDER THE COLONIAL YOKE OF THE JAPANESE IMPERIALISTS OR RISE UP IN A FIGHT TO SURVIVE. IF IT MERELY LAMENTS OVER ITS RUINED LAND AND TOLERATES THE UNHEARD OF JAPANESE TYRANNY, OUR NATION WILL FAIL NEVER TO RISE UP AND FIGHT, DEFYING DEATH, IT WILL WILL GREET THE DAWN OF LIBERATION.
THE MASTERS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE ARE THE MASSES OF THE PEOPLE AND ONLY WHEN THEY ARE ORGANISED AND MOBILIZED CAN THEY WIN THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE. THEREFORE THE LEADERS OF THE MOVEMENT MUST GO AMONG THE MASSES AND AWAKEN THEM SO THAT THEY THEMSELVES WAGE THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE AS MASTERS. BUT THE SELF-STYLED LEADERS OF THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT MERELY INDULGED IN A WAR OF WORDS HARMFUL TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT AND GAVE NO THOUGHT TO AWAKENING THE MASSES AND MOBILIZING THEM FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE. WITHOUT ORGANISING THE MASSES FOR REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE IT IS POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE THE SACRED CAUSE OF LIBERATING THE COUNTRY FROM THE VICIOUS JAPANESE IMPERIALIST COLONIAL YOKE.
IN COLONIES AN ARMED STRUGGLE AGANIST IMPERIALISM IS THE LAW OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATI0NAL LIBERATION STRUGGLE OWNING TO ITS INTRINSIC AGGRESSIVE AND PREDATORY NATURE, IMPERIALISM WILL NEVER WITHDRAW FROM THE COLONIES OF ITS OWN ACCORD, AND WILL ALWAYS RESORT TO BRUTAL VIOLENCE TO MAINTAIN ITS COLONIAL RULE. SO THE IMPERIALIST FORCES OF AGGRESSION MUST BE SMASHED BY THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES".
We can see a direct line from the dawn of the Korean Revolution when the spark of the Juche Idea was lit by KIM IL SUNG in 1930 to the present day when KIM JONG IL has inaugurated the Songun revolutionary cause. By studing "THE PATH OF THE KOREAN REVOLUTION" one can detect the evolution of the Juche Idea, it was the Juche Idea which proved to be so instrumental in liberating Korea and inspiring mankind upon the road of independence.
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
MEETING TO CELBRATE THE 92TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT LEADER PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG AND THE 72ND
MEETING TO CELBRATE THE 92TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT LEADER PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG AND THE 72ND
ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE
HEROIC KOREAN PEOPLES ARMY
venue details from juche007@yahoo.co.uk or uk@korea-dpr.com
6-30PM
speakers Dermot Hudson chairman JISGE
Shaun Pickford secretary JISGE
this meeting will also be in celebration of the 12th
anniversary of the election of comrade Kim Jong Il
as NDC chairman.
ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE
HEROIC KOREAN PEOPLES ARMY
venue details from juche007@yahoo.co.uk or uk@korea-dpr.com
6-30PM
speakers Dermot Hudson chairman JISGE
Shaun Pickford secretary JISGE
this meeting will also be in celebration of the 12th
anniversary of the election of comrade Kim Jong Il
as NDC chairman.
Sunday, February 22, 2004
MODELLING THE WHOLE SOCIETY ON THE JUCHE IDEA 30TH ANNIVERSARY FROM KCNA
February 19 is the 30th anniversary of the proclamation of the programme of modeling the whole party and society on the Juche idea in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In his historic address before party propaganda officials from across the country 30 years ago, leader Kim Jong Il formulated the revolutionary ideas of President Kim Il Sung as an integral system of ideology, theories and methods of Juche and proclaimed it as the supreme programme of the Workers' Party of Korea to model itself and society on the Juche idea.
Since the programme was declared, the Korean party and people have convincingly advanced under the banner of the Juche idea, a new and unique idea reflecting the demand of a new era in the human history, turning the country into a powerful socialist nation of Juche.
With the policy of modeling the whole party on the Juche idea successfully implemented, the WPK has strengthened to be a glorious party of Kim Il Sung monolithic in ideology and leadership and united closely on the basis of the leader's ideas, and to be a tested political guide of the Korean revolution. And it has fully displayed its might and dignity as a vanguard of the working class guiding the popular masses' cause of independence.
Under Kim Jong Il's songun-based outstanding revolutionary leadership, the modeling of the whole army on the Juche idea has reached a high stage and the army has grown to be the pivot of the revolution, driving force of the Juche cause and invincible army defending the cause of the leader and the party, equipped with powerful offensive and defensive means.
As the political mode of Juche has developed to be perfect humanics, the people have been reared to be new-type human beings with a revolutionary faith, clear conscience and strong sense of morality and the unity of the whole society around the headquarters of the revolution has been achieved on the highest level.
The Korean people are now working hard to build a great prosperous powerful nation under difficult conditions, always sharing the same destiny with their leader. The
Since the programme was declared, the Korean party and people have convincingly advanced under the banner of the Juche idea, a new and unique idea reflecting the demand of a new era in the human history, turning the country into a powerful socialist nation of Juche.
With the policy of modeling the whole party on the Juche idea successfully implemented, the WPK has strengthened to be a glorious party of Kim Il Sung monolithic in ideology and leadership and united closely on the basis of the leader's ideas, and to be a tested political guide of the Korean revolution. And it has fully displayed its might and dignity as a vanguard of the working class guiding the popular masses' cause of independence.
Under Kim Jong Il's songun-based outstanding revolutionary leadership, the modeling of the whole army on the Juche idea has reached a high stage and the army has grown to be the pivot of the revolution, driving force of the Juche cause and invincible army defending the cause of the leader and the party, equipped with powerful offensive and defensive means.
As the political mode of Juche has developed to be perfect humanics, the people have been reared to be new-type human beings with a revolutionary faith, clear conscience and strong sense of morality and the unity of the whole society around the headquarters of the revolution has been achieved on the highest level.
The Korean people are now working hard to build a great prosperous powerful nation under difficult conditions, always sharing the same destiny with their leader. The
Friday, February 20, 2004
KIM JONG IL GREAT LEADER OF THE KOREAN PEOPLE BY ELIZABETH FARRELL(our thanks to the author and the New Worker
Reproduced from the New Worker with the permission of the author
Kim Jong Il – great leader of the Korean people
by Elizabeth Farrell
Kim Jong Il is the leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea –
the General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Chairman of the State
Defence Committee of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of Korean People’s
Army. He developed and advanced Kim Il Sung’s Juche idea and made many
important achievements in the building of Korean socialism. This short
account of his activities marks his 62nd birthday.
KIM JONG IL was born on 16 February 1942, during the struggle for national
liberation, at the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army (KPRA) headquarters
at Mount Paektu.
His father, Kim Il Sung, was the commander of the KPRA, the founder of
socialist Korea and the leader of the Korean people. His mother, Kim Jong
Suk, was an outstanding anti-Japanese guerrilla fighter. Both devoted their
lives to national liberation and the victory of the Korean revolution.
As a boy, Kim Jong Il studied energetically the works of his father.
In 1953, when Kim Jong Il was 11 years old, the Korean War ended in a
victory for the Korean people. Around the same time, Kim Jong Il finished
primary school and started studying at a Pyongyang Middle School. Here he
organised a march to visit old battlefields of the anti-Japanese struggle.
He put forward the slogan “Let us learn for Korea!” among fellow students
and strove to sharpen their understanding of Kim Il Sung’s Juche idea.
When he went on to the Higher Middle School, Kim Jong Il closely studied
the policies of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and set about learning
the history, culture and geography of Korea.
Kim Jong Il often visited factories and farms with his schoolmates, and
repaired trucks and motors at the practice workshop of his school.
During his school days, he was very active in the Democratic Youth League
of Korea (DYL) and worked as vice-chair of the DYL committee of his school.
Although the Chollima productivity movement had started to transform the
country in the fields of economy culture and ideology and vastly increased
socialist production, there was still a lot to be done within the DYL. The
youth organisation still suffered from the effects of the machinations of
anti-Party counter-revolutionary factions, and the DYL did not organise
properly; it lacked ideological education to suit the new circumstances.
Kim Jong Il, who fully understood the problems the DYL faced, worked hard
to implement the Juche idea within the youth movement.
Kim Jong Il was actively involved in the building of socialism from an
early age. At the National Meeting of Youth Builders of Socialism in March
1958, he stressed that Korea’s young people had to build a new socialist
era for themselves, under the leadership of the WPK. He appealed to all
young people to devote themselves to socialist construction. Kim Jong Il
took part in many construction projects during that time, including the
building of houses, work on the Taedong river bank protection scheme and
the Pyongyang School Children’s Palace. He always motivated his fellow
students to do the same.
By the autumn of 1960 Kim Jong Il had finished Higher Middle School and was
admitted to Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang to study political economy.
On the day he entered university, he said: “I intend to make my university
days a fruitful period to learn the leader’s revolutionary idea more
closely and make preparations to shoulder the Korean revolution.”
Kim Jong Il put all his efforts into sharpening his understanding of the
Juche idea, as well as gaining wide knowledge of nature and society. He
already systematically studied Kim Il Sung’s works while he was at primary
and middle school. Now he was studying Kim Il Sung’s Selected Works as well
as Marxist-Leninist classics like Capital, the Communist Manifesto and
State and Revolution.
He acquired a wide range of knowledge not only on political economy but
also in other fields including philosophy and military science. While he
devoted himself to this study, he also encouraged his fellow students to
work hard and helped them overcome dogmatic attitudes to study. Kim Jong Il
was very much in favour of combining theory with practice.
On 22 July 1961, having proved himself to be a reliable political worker,
Kim Jong Il joined the Workers’ Party of Korea. From then on, he actively
assisted Kim Il Sung in his work, accompanying him on tours of field
guidance throughout the country.
Kim Jong Il also did a lot to improve the content of university education
in the areas of Korean history, the study of Juche, economics and philosophy.
For example, he analysed the cause of modern revisionism, which had
started to emerge on a large scale. He explained its reactionary nature and
its danger in his work On the emergence of modern revisionism.
In another work, he pointed out that we must not regard social revolution
merely as a replacement of a social system – we need to look at it from a
new angle that revolution in the ideological, technical and cultural
spheres continues after the establishment of a socialist system.
And in his 1962 work On the special features and aggressive nature of
modern imperialism, he clarified the nature of modern imperialism. “…Modern
imperialism is one in which not only monopoly is based on domination. It is
imperialism that has state monopoly capitalism as its economic and
political basis. It relies not on old colonialism but on neo-colonialism –
these do not exist in parallel with each other – but has been regrouped in
a subordinate way headed by US imperialism, is not growing in scope and
strength but is rapidly falling into deep decay and ruin, making desperate
efforts.”
Kim Jong Il published his thesis The position and role of a county in
socialist construction in 1964. In this thesis he proved the validity of
Kim Il Sung’s theory on a regional base in the building of socialism – and
further developed it. He made a great contribution to the development of
the Juche idea while at university, and enjoyed respect from broad sections
of the people as an outstanding political worker.
Kim Jong Il started work at the WPK Central Committee in June 1964, while
Democratic Korea was facing many difficulties. US imperialism had provoked
the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, which made the situation in Korea very
tense. And internally, revisionist anti-Party elements that appeared in the
WPK were obstructing the implementation of party policy in every possible way.
The WPK had the crucial task of strengthening itself organisationally and
ideologically and of stepping up construction. During the first days after
he had started his work at the Organisational Leadership Department of the
Central Committee, Kim Jong Il said to officials: “The principle line in
the work and activity of our Party is to firmly establish the leader’s
ideological system in the whole Party.
“[This] is a task which must be tackled permanently over the whole course
in which the Party exists and carries out its activity. Therefore, all the
work and activity of the Party must be concentrated on establishing the
leader’s ideological system, assisting and respecting the leader still
better and more, and implementing his instructions to the full.”
As part of this crucial task, Kim Jong Il waged a struggle throughout the
WPK against the revisionist elements. He already saw the true colours of
these traitors that were lurking in the Party’s ranks during his first
period of work for the WPK Central Committee. He grasped and checked the
plotting of the anti-Party revisionists, who were tactfully spreading
revisionist and feudal Confucian ideas through the press. Kim Jong Il
exposed them as traitors and plotters. He stressed that, as long as the
revisionist elements were left in the WPK, the Party could not achieve
unity or implement its policies effectively. And he pointed out that an
all-Party struggle to purge itself of these elements – to smash them
politically and organisationally – was needed.
In the second half of the 1960s, Kim Jong Il worked to implement the line
of simultaneous economic and defence construction – giving scientific
answers to the theoretical and practical problems of socialist
construction. As the ideological struggle intensified, opportunist economic
theory and passivism were smashed – and Party officials were armed with
Juche-based economic theory.
Kim Jong Il attached great importance to arming the KPA soldiers
militarily, but also politically and ideologically. He ensured the defence
capability of the DPRK was improved and Party organisations within the
armed forces did away with military bureaucracy, which was a danger to the
army then.
Comrade Kim Jong Il started work as an instructor and section chief of the
WPK’s Central Committee. He later held the responsible positions of
vice-director, director and secretary of his section. In October 1972, Kim
Jong Il was elected to the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of
Korea. He immediately became of great value to this committee, making sure
that Party organisation was radically improved. He worked to strengthen the
Party by admitting a large number of advanced elements from among the
younger generation, and devoted himself to improving the Party’s
ideological and educational work.
Kim Jong Il encouraged Party cadres to visit lower units, as the
anti-Japanese guerrillas had done, and establish a well-organised system of
guiding these lower units. He set up a new system, which meant that Party
officials would work among their subordinate units 20 out of 30 days. Party
work was completely turned into work among people – political work. Thanks
to this important work carried out under the leadership of Kim Jong Il,
bureaucratic methods were gradually overcome.
From the first moment Kim Jong Il started working at the WPK Central
Committee, Kim Jong Il did a lot of work in the field of art and literature.
He promoted the development of socialist culture and education. He defined
the essence of artistic and literary revolution as eliminating what is old
in all spheres of art and literature – like form and content, system and
method of creation – and developing a new form of art and literature, based
on Juche. He concentrated on cinema, in which art and literature are
combined. Kim Jong Il also worked out a plan for revolutionising cinema by
adapting work Kim Il Sung had created during the anti-Japanese national
liberation struggle, like The Sea of Blood and Flower Girl.
In the course of this, he created a tradition of Juche-based revolutionary
cinema. Kim Jong Il gave a talk to writers and film directors in 1970,
called Let us create more revolutionary films based on socialist life,
which led to the creation of many social realist films. He applied the same
principles to opera.
Upholding comrade Kim Il Sung’s wish, Kim Jong Il guided the struggle to
accomplish the reunification of Korea, which had been cruelly divided by US
imperialism. He ensured that the 1972 North-South Joint Statement reflected
the three principles of national reunification set forth by Kim Il Sung:
independence, peaceful reunification and national unity. He personally
examined the draft and saw that wide press coverage was given to these
reunification principles to make them known throughout the world.
The signing of the 4 July 1972 North-South Joint Statement was a great
historic event, setting out fair and just principles for national
reunification, which is the wish of all Korean people. Kim Jong Il made
sure that the DPRK overcame, at its own initiative, the obstacles the south
Korean government had created, and the fundamental principles of
reunification were discussed at the talks. As a result, the North-South
Co-ordination Committee was formally organised and run as a standing
committee of the whole country.
Comrade Kim Jong Il was respected by the whole Party and Korean people for
his achievements. In February 1974 he was elected to the Political
Committee of the Party at the eighth plenary meeting of the Fifth Central
Committee of the WPK.
Kim Jong Il then proclaimed the programme of imbuing the Juche idea in the
whole society, and he organised and led the struggle to develop the
revolution to a new and higher stage. To model the whole society on the
Juche idea means carrying forward the Korean revolution guided by Kim Il
Sung’s revolutionary idea – Juche – and building socialist society on the
basis of this idea.
Comrade Kim Jong Il explained that the slogan of imbuing the whole society
with the Juche idea was the ultimate programme of the Party because this
slogan clarifies the ultimate goal of the Party as well as the basic way of
attaining it.
In his 1979 speech On thoroughly establishing the Party’s leadership
system, Kim Jong Il said: “Establishing the Party’s leadership system means
enforcing throughout the Party a revolutionary spirit and iron discipline
of carrying through the Party’s decisions and instructions unconditionally,
and encouraging Party members to improve their appreciation of the Party
organisation and intensify Party life so as to fully ensure the Party’s
leadership over the revolution and construction.”
To transform the whole Party on the basis of the Juche idea, Kim Jong Il
explained, it is necessary to establish a monolithic ideological and
leadership system in the Party.
In 1974 Kim Jong Il put forward the proposal to wage a “speed campaign” in
all fronts of the economic construction and finishing the six-year plan
ahead of schedule. During this period, industrial production grew by 70 per
cent compared to the previous year. In February 1975 the DPRK’s Central
People’s Committee awarded Kim Jong Il the title of “Hero of the DPRK” for
his achievements in construction, Party work and many other fields.
Kim Jong Il guided the effort to develop the “three revolutions” –
ideological, technical and cultural. He made great effort to expand and
develop the three-revolution team movement, sponsored by Kim Il Sung. The
three-revolution team was a new method of guiding the revolution that
combines political and ideological guidance with scientific and technical
guidance. Higher bodies give effective help to lower bodies and the masses
are inspired to implement the three revolutions.
Kim Jong Il said: “The three-revolution red flag movement is a new mass
movement to make full preparations for meeting the great revolutionary
event and accelerate the building of socialism and communism to the utmost
by pressing ahead with the ideological transformation of people and the
collective innovation movement in the building of the economy, culture and
defences by embodying the principles of the speed campaign and the
ideological campaign.”
Kim Jong Il advanced the policy of modelling the whole army of the Juche
idea and gave wise leadership to the struggle for its realisation. He
stressed that “modelling the whole army on the Juche idea is essential for
strengthening the People’s Army into invincible, revolutionary armed forces
and a sure guarantee for the successful achievement of modelling the whole
society on the Juche idea.”
He put forward the slogan: “Let us train, study and live like the
anti-Japanese guerrillas!” and ensured that the commanding officers of the
KPA studied Juche-motivated tactics of warfare to master them, and also
studied foreign war experiences.
In the 1980s Kim Jong Il worked to develop the Juche idea, and published
his famous work On the Juche idea. Comrade Kim Il Sung commented: “It can
be said that comrade Kim Jong Il rendered it possible to nurture into a
dense forest the Juche idea, whose seed I had sown in the soil called the
people, and to gather a rich harvest.”
Kim Jong Il wrote many other works, giving a fresh insight to many
historical and practical questions on nature and the advantages of
socialist society and the laws governing its development. He wrote on the
building of the Party, the state and working class organisations, as well
as on the Party as the vanguard of revolution and construction and on the
nature of modern imperialism.
After the Sixth Congress of the WPK in 1980, Kim Jong Il pushed ahead with
the work of further strengthening the foundation of the Party. And in
February 1982, he once again received the title of “Hero of the DPRK”, for
“his great exploits in developing the revolutionary cause of Juche by
developing the WPK into a Juche-type revolutionary party and in promoting
the three revolutions”.
Kim Jong Il gave guidance to the work of strengthening the people’s power
and improving the work of people’s organisations. In February 1982 he was
elected a Deputy to the Supreme People’s Assmbly. Under Kim Jong Il’s
leadership people’s power was further strengthened and its role increased –
improving the Korean people’s trust in the DPRK more than ever before.
Kim Jong Il organised and led the struggle for realising the policy for
founding the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo and the Ten-point
programme for reunification, as put forward by Kim Il Sung at the sixth
Congress of the WPK.
And he also paid a lot of attention to advancing the independence of other
countries. In his Accomplishing the Juche Revolutionary cause, Kim Jong Il
wrote: “To achieve the unity of anti-imperialist, independent forces
affords the decisive guarantee for halting and foiling imperialist moves
for aggression and war, bringing about durable world peace and building and
independent new world.” Kim Jong Il strengthened and developed friendly
relations with socialist countries and communist and workers’ parties
throughout the world.
In 1993 – in a situation similar to today’s – US imperialism created great
tensions on the Korean peninsula and resumed the “Team Spirit” large-scale
joint military exercises with south Korea and openly threatened the DPRK.
To counter these aggressive manoeuvres, Kim Jong Il proclaimed a state of
semi-war for the whole country, people and army, and ensured Democratic
Korea withdrew from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. These measures
forced US imperialism to negotiate with Pyongyang, and after three-stage
DPRK-US talks, an agreement was announced. The Agreed Framework obliged the
US not to use military force against Democratic Korea and provide it with
light water reactors by 2003, on condition that it would freeze its
graphite moderated reactors and related facilities. The Agreed Framework
also stated that 500,000 tons of heavy oil a year should be provided by the
United States. This was a great achievement in the defence of Korean
socialism.
Comrade Kim Il Sung sadly died on 8 July 1994, to the great sorrow of the
Korean people. Kim Jong Il put forward the slogans: “The great leader Kim
Il Sung will always be with us” and “Let us arm ourselves more firmly with
the revolutionary ideas of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung!”. He
expressed his determination to carry on building the revolution in the way
Kim Il Sung had intended: “In the future I will regard the teachings of the
leader given during his guidance to the revolution and construction as the
guiding principles, and carry them out even though a hundred and a thousand
years might pass.”
Kim Jong Il was officially elected General Secretary of the Workers’ Party
of Korea in October 1997, as he had developed the Party to be a strong,
revolutionary party and helped the Korean people to become independent.
This was a recognition of his tireless efforts over the past 30 years.
Another important achievement was the historic 15 June Joint North-South
Declaration. This was a turning point that gave the Korean people new hopes
for reunification – which is the firm wish of Koreans in both halves of the
county.
Many successes were achieved since these talks – rounds of inter-Korean
ministerial talks, economic meetings, joint sports activities and the
re-linking of the inter-Korean railways. Separated families have also been
reunited.
The DPRK also undertook steps to build diplomatic relations with China,
Russia and Japan.
Today, Democratic Korea is facing many difficulties. The so-called “nuclear
issue” has flared up again, when US imperialism broke all four articles of
the 1994 Agreed Framework. The Bush administration, that consistently
pursues a very hostile policy towards Pyongyang, declared that the DPRK is
part of the “axis of evil” and openly threatens it with a “pre-emptive
strike”.
But Kim Jong Il’s Songun, or army-based, politics, mean that the DPRK is an
impregnable fortress. The Korean people, under Kim Jong Il’s wise
leadership, continue to build a socialist society. The Songun policy has
great support and trust of the people, who confidently win victory after
victory in the building of Korean-style socialism.
Kim Jong Il – great leader of the Korean people
by Elizabeth Farrell
Kim Jong Il is the leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea –
the General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Chairman of the State
Defence Committee of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of Korean People’s
Army. He developed and advanced Kim Il Sung’s Juche idea and made many
important achievements in the building of Korean socialism. This short
account of his activities marks his 62nd birthday.
KIM JONG IL was born on 16 February 1942, during the struggle for national
liberation, at the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army (KPRA) headquarters
at Mount Paektu.
His father, Kim Il Sung, was the commander of the KPRA, the founder of
socialist Korea and the leader of the Korean people. His mother, Kim Jong
Suk, was an outstanding anti-Japanese guerrilla fighter. Both devoted their
lives to national liberation and the victory of the Korean revolution.
As a boy, Kim Jong Il studied energetically the works of his father.
In 1953, when Kim Jong Il was 11 years old, the Korean War ended in a
victory for the Korean people. Around the same time, Kim Jong Il finished
primary school and started studying at a Pyongyang Middle School. Here he
organised a march to visit old battlefields of the anti-Japanese struggle.
He put forward the slogan “Let us learn for Korea!” among fellow students
and strove to sharpen their understanding of Kim Il Sung’s Juche idea.
When he went on to the Higher Middle School, Kim Jong Il closely studied
the policies of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and set about learning
the history, culture and geography of Korea.
Kim Jong Il often visited factories and farms with his schoolmates, and
repaired trucks and motors at the practice workshop of his school.
During his school days, he was very active in the Democratic Youth League
of Korea (DYL) and worked as vice-chair of the DYL committee of his school.
Although the Chollima productivity movement had started to transform the
country in the fields of economy culture and ideology and vastly increased
socialist production, there was still a lot to be done within the DYL. The
youth organisation still suffered from the effects of the machinations of
anti-Party counter-revolutionary factions, and the DYL did not organise
properly; it lacked ideological education to suit the new circumstances.
Kim Jong Il, who fully understood the problems the DYL faced, worked hard
to implement the Juche idea within the youth movement.
Kim Jong Il was actively involved in the building of socialism from an
early age. At the National Meeting of Youth Builders of Socialism in March
1958, he stressed that Korea’s young people had to build a new socialist
era for themselves, under the leadership of the WPK. He appealed to all
young people to devote themselves to socialist construction. Kim Jong Il
took part in many construction projects during that time, including the
building of houses, work on the Taedong river bank protection scheme and
the Pyongyang School Children’s Palace. He always motivated his fellow
students to do the same.
By the autumn of 1960 Kim Jong Il had finished Higher Middle School and was
admitted to Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang to study political economy.
On the day he entered university, he said: “I intend to make my university
days a fruitful period to learn the leader’s revolutionary idea more
closely and make preparations to shoulder the Korean revolution.”
Kim Jong Il put all his efforts into sharpening his understanding of the
Juche idea, as well as gaining wide knowledge of nature and society. He
already systematically studied Kim Il Sung’s works while he was at primary
and middle school. Now he was studying Kim Il Sung’s Selected Works as well
as Marxist-Leninist classics like Capital, the Communist Manifesto and
State and Revolution.
He acquired a wide range of knowledge not only on political economy but
also in other fields including philosophy and military science. While he
devoted himself to this study, he also encouraged his fellow students to
work hard and helped them overcome dogmatic attitudes to study. Kim Jong Il
was very much in favour of combining theory with practice.
On 22 July 1961, having proved himself to be a reliable political worker,
Kim Jong Il joined the Workers’ Party of Korea. From then on, he actively
assisted Kim Il Sung in his work, accompanying him on tours of field
guidance throughout the country.
Kim Jong Il also did a lot to improve the content of university education
in the areas of Korean history, the study of Juche, economics and philosophy.
For example, he analysed the cause of modern revisionism, which had
started to emerge on a large scale. He explained its reactionary nature and
its danger in his work On the emergence of modern revisionism.
In another work, he pointed out that we must not regard social revolution
merely as a replacement of a social system – we need to look at it from a
new angle that revolution in the ideological, technical and cultural
spheres continues after the establishment of a socialist system.
And in his 1962 work On the special features and aggressive nature of
modern imperialism, he clarified the nature of modern imperialism. “…Modern
imperialism is one in which not only monopoly is based on domination. It is
imperialism that has state monopoly capitalism as its economic and
political basis. It relies not on old colonialism but on neo-colonialism –
these do not exist in parallel with each other – but has been regrouped in
a subordinate way headed by US imperialism, is not growing in scope and
strength but is rapidly falling into deep decay and ruin, making desperate
efforts.”
Kim Jong Il published his thesis The position and role of a county in
socialist construction in 1964. In this thesis he proved the validity of
Kim Il Sung’s theory on a regional base in the building of socialism – and
further developed it. He made a great contribution to the development of
the Juche idea while at university, and enjoyed respect from broad sections
of the people as an outstanding political worker.
Kim Jong Il started work at the WPK Central Committee in June 1964, while
Democratic Korea was facing many difficulties. US imperialism had provoked
the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, which made the situation in Korea very
tense. And internally, revisionist anti-Party elements that appeared in the
WPK were obstructing the implementation of party policy in every possible way.
The WPK had the crucial task of strengthening itself organisationally and
ideologically and of stepping up construction. During the first days after
he had started his work at the Organisational Leadership Department of the
Central Committee, Kim Jong Il said to officials: “The principle line in
the work and activity of our Party is to firmly establish the leader’s
ideological system in the whole Party.
“[This] is a task which must be tackled permanently over the whole course
in which the Party exists and carries out its activity. Therefore, all the
work and activity of the Party must be concentrated on establishing the
leader’s ideological system, assisting and respecting the leader still
better and more, and implementing his instructions to the full.”
As part of this crucial task, Kim Jong Il waged a struggle throughout the
WPK against the revisionist elements. He already saw the true colours of
these traitors that were lurking in the Party’s ranks during his first
period of work for the WPK Central Committee. He grasped and checked the
plotting of the anti-Party revisionists, who were tactfully spreading
revisionist and feudal Confucian ideas through the press. Kim Jong Il
exposed them as traitors and plotters. He stressed that, as long as the
revisionist elements were left in the WPK, the Party could not achieve
unity or implement its policies effectively. And he pointed out that an
all-Party struggle to purge itself of these elements – to smash them
politically and organisationally – was needed.
In the second half of the 1960s, Kim Jong Il worked to implement the line
of simultaneous economic and defence construction – giving scientific
answers to the theoretical and practical problems of socialist
construction. As the ideological struggle intensified, opportunist economic
theory and passivism were smashed – and Party officials were armed with
Juche-based economic theory.
Kim Jong Il attached great importance to arming the KPA soldiers
militarily, but also politically and ideologically. He ensured the defence
capability of the DPRK was improved and Party organisations within the
armed forces did away with military bureaucracy, which was a danger to the
army then.
Comrade Kim Jong Il started work as an instructor and section chief of the
WPK’s Central Committee. He later held the responsible positions of
vice-director, director and secretary of his section. In October 1972, Kim
Jong Il was elected to the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of
Korea. He immediately became of great value to this committee, making sure
that Party organisation was radically improved. He worked to strengthen the
Party by admitting a large number of advanced elements from among the
younger generation, and devoted himself to improving the Party’s
ideological and educational work.
Kim Jong Il encouraged Party cadres to visit lower units, as the
anti-Japanese guerrillas had done, and establish a well-organised system of
guiding these lower units. He set up a new system, which meant that Party
officials would work among their subordinate units 20 out of 30 days. Party
work was completely turned into work among people – political work. Thanks
to this important work carried out under the leadership of Kim Jong Il,
bureaucratic methods were gradually overcome.
From the first moment Kim Jong Il started working at the WPK Central
Committee, Kim Jong Il did a lot of work in the field of art and literature.
He promoted the development of socialist culture and education. He defined
the essence of artistic and literary revolution as eliminating what is old
in all spheres of art and literature – like form and content, system and
method of creation – and developing a new form of art and literature, based
on Juche. He concentrated on cinema, in which art and literature are
combined. Kim Jong Il also worked out a plan for revolutionising cinema by
adapting work Kim Il Sung had created during the anti-Japanese national
liberation struggle, like The Sea of Blood and Flower Girl.
In the course of this, he created a tradition of Juche-based revolutionary
cinema. Kim Jong Il gave a talk to writers and film directors in 1970,
called Let us create more revolutionary films based on socialist life,
which led to the creation of many social realist films. He applied the same
principles to opera.
Upholding comrade Kim Il Sung’s wish, Kim Jong Il guided the struggle to
accomplish the reunification of Korea, which had been cruelly divided by US
imperialism. He ensured that the 1972 North-South Joint Statement reflected
the three principles of national reunification set forth by Kim Il Sung:
independence, peaceful reunification and national unity. He personally
examined the draft and saw that wide press coverage was given to these
reunification principles to make them known throughout the world.
The signing of the 4 July 1972 North-South Joint Statement was a great
historic event, setting out fair and just principles for national
reunification, which is the wish of all Korean people. Kim Jong Il made
sure that the DPRK overcame, at its own initiative, the obstacles the south
Korean government had created, and the fundamental principles of
reunification were discussed at the talks. As a result, the North-South
Co-ordination Committee was formally organised and run as a standing
committee of the whole country.
Comrade Kim Jong Il was respected by the whole Party and Korean people for
his achievements. In February 1974 he was elected to the Political
Committee of the Party at the eighth plenary meeting of the Fifth Central
Committee of the WPK.
Kim Jong Il then proclaimed the programme of imbuing the Juche idea in the
whole society, and he organised and led the struggle to develop the
revolution to a new and higher stage. To model the whole society on the
Juche idea means carrying forward the Korean revolution guided by Kim Il
Sung’s revolutionary idea – Juche – and building socialist society on the
basis of this idea.
Comrade Kim Jong Il explained that the slogan of imbuing the whole society
with the Juche idea was the ultimate programme of the Party because this
slogan clarifies the ultimate goal of the Party as well as the basic way of
attaining it.
In his 1979 speech On thoroughly establishing the Party’s leadership
system, Kim Jong Il said: “Establishing the Party’s leadership system means
enforcing throughout the Party a revolutionary spirit and iron discipline
of carrying through the Party’s decisions and instructions unconditionally,
and encouraging Party members to improve their appreciation of the Party
organisation and intensify Party life so as to fully ensure the Party’s
leadership over the revolution and construction.”
To transform the whole Party on the basis of the Juche idea, Kim Jong Il
explained, it is necessary to establish a monolithic ideological and
leadership system in the Party.
In 1974 Kim Jong Il put forward the proposal to wage a “speed campaign” in
all fronts of the economic construction and finishing the six-year plan
ahead of schedule. During this period, industrial production grew by 70 per
cent compared to the previous year. In February 1975 the DPRK’s Central
People’s Committee awarded Kim Jong Il the title of “Hero of the DPRK” for
his achievements in construction, Party work and many other fields.
Kim Jong Il guided the effort to develop the “three revolutions” –
ideological, technical and cultural. He made great effort to expand and
develop the three-revolution team movement, sponsored by Kim Il Sung. The
three-revolution team was a new method of guiding the revolution that
combines political and ideological guidance with scientific and technical
guidance. Higher bodies give effective help to lower bodies and the masses
are inspired to implement the three revolutions.
Kim Jong Il said: “The three-revolution red flag movement is a new mass
movement to make full preparations for meeting the great revolutionary
event and accelerate the building of socialism and communism to the utmost
by pressing ahead with the ideological transformation of people and the
collective innovation movement in the building of the economy, culture and
defences by embodying the principles of the speed campaign and the
ideological campaign.”
Kim Jong Il advanced the policy of modelling the whole army of the Juche
idea and gave wise leadership to the struggle for its realisation. He
stressed that “modelling the whole army on the Juche idea is essential for
strengthening the People’s Army into invincible, revolutionary armed forces
and a sure guarantee for the successful achievement of modelling the whole
society on the Juche idea.”
He put forward the slogan: “Let us train, study and live like the
anti-Japanese guerrillas!” and ensured that the commanding officers of the
KPA studied Juche-motivated tactics of warfare to master them, and also
studied foreign war experiences.
In the 1980s Kim Jong Il worked to develop the Juche idea, and published
his famous work On the Juche idea. Comrade Kim Il Sung commented: “It can
be said that comrade Kim Jong Il rendered it possible to nurture into a
dense forest the Juche idea, whose seed I had sown in the soil called the
people, and to gather a rich harvest.”
Kim Jong Il wrote many other works, giving a fresh insight to many
historical and practical questions on nature and the advantages of
socialist society and the laws governing its development. He wrote on the
building of the Party, the state and working class organisations, as well
as on the Party as the vanguard of revolution and construction and on the
nature of modern imperialism.
After the Sixth Congress of the WPK in 1980, Kim Jong Il pushed ahead with
the work of further strengthening the foundation of the Party. And in
February 1982, he once again received the title of “Hero of the DPRK”, for
“his great exploits in developing the revolutionary cause of Juche by
developing the WPK into a Juche-type revolutionary party and in promoting
the three revolutions”.
Kim Jong Il gave guidance to the work of strengthening the people’s power
and improving the work of people’s organisations. In February 1982 he was
elected a Deputy to the Supreme People’s Assmbly. Under Kim Jong Il’s
leadership people’s power was further strengthened and its role increased –
improving the Korean people’s trust in the DPRK more than ever before.
Kim Jong Il organised and led the struggle for realising the policy for
founding the Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo and the Ten-point
programme for reunification, as put forward by Kim Il Sung at the sixth
Congress of the WPK.
And he also paid a lot of attention to advancing the independence of other
countries. In his Accomplishing the Juche Revolutionary cause, Kim Jong Il
wrote: “To achieve the unity of anti-imperialist, independent forces
affords the decisive guarantee for halting and foiling imperialist moves
for aggression and war, bringing about durable world peace and building and
independent new world.” Kim Jong Il strengthened and developed friendly
relations with socialist countries and communist and workers’ parties
throughout the world.
In 1993 – in a situation similar to today’s – US imperialism created great
tensions on the Korean peninsula and resumed the “Team Spirit” large-scale
joint military exercises with south Korea and openly threatened the DPRK.
To counter these aggressive manoeuvres, Kim Jong Il proclaimed a state of
semi-war for the whole country, people and army, and ensured Democratic
Korea withdrew from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. These measures
forced US imperialism to negotiate with Pyongyang, and after three-stage
DPRK-US talks, an agreement was announced. The Agreed Framework obliged the
US not to use military force against Democratic Korea and provide it with
light water reactors by 2003, on condition that it would freeze its
graphite moderated reactors and related facilities. The Agreed Framework
also stated that 500,000 tons of heavy oil a year should be provided by the
United States. This was a great achievement in the defence of Korean
socialism.
Comrade Kim Il Sung sadly died on 8 July 1994, to the great sorrow of the
Korean people. Kim Jong Il put forward the slogans: “The great leader Kim
Il Sung will always be with us” and “Let us arm ourselves more firmly with
the revolutionary ideas of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung!”. He
expressed his determination to carry on building the revolution in the way
Kim Il Sung had intended: “In the future I will regard the teachings of the
leader given during his guidance to the revolution and construction as the
guiding principles, and carry them out even though a hundred and a thousand
years might pass.”
Kim Jong Il was officially elected General Secretary of the Workers’ Party
of Korea in October 1997, as he had developed the Party to be a strong,
revolutionary party and helped the Korean people to become independent.
This was a recognition of his tireless efforts over the past 30 years.
Another important achievement was the historic 15 June Joint North-South
Declaration. This was a turning point that gave the Korean people new hopes
for reunification – which is the firm wish of Koreans in both halves of the
county.
Many successes were achieved since these talks – rounds of inter-Korean
ministerial talks, economic meetings, joint sports activities and the
re-linking of the inter-Korean railways. Separated families have also been
reunited.
The DPRK also undertook steps to build diplomatic relations with China,
Russia and Japan.
Today, Democratic Korea is facing many difficulties. The so-called “nuclear
issue” has flared up again, when US imperialism broke all four articles of
the 1994 Agreed Framework. The Bush administration, that consistently
pursues a very hostile policy towards Pyongyang, declared that the DPRK is
part of the “axis of evil” and openly threatens it with a “pre-emptive
strike”.
But Kim Jong Il’s Songun, or army-based, politics, mean that the DPRK is an
impregnable fortress. The Korean people, under Kim Jong Il’s wise
leadership, continue to build a socialist society. The Songun policy has
great support and trust of the people, who confidently win victory after
victory in the building of Korean-style socialism.
Friday, February 13, 2004
JOINT STATEMENT OF THE JUCHE IDEA STUDY GROUP OF ENGLAND AND THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS ON JAPANESE SANCTIONS AGAINST THE DPRK.
ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLTICS UK
Chairman Dermot Hudson
London 11 February 2004
The Association For the Study of Songun Politics of the UK and the
Juche Idea Study Group of England issued the following joint statement
today in connection with the so called "amendment to the law on foreign
exchange" passed by the Japanese reactionary rulers recently.
In essence this law means total economic sanctions against
the DPRK the homeland of Juche.We are outraged by this measure.
It is a violation of article 3 of the DPRK-Japan Declaration
and is also a violation of international law and the UN charter.
It is un warranted interference in the internal affairs of the
DPRK and a grave challenge to the sovereignity of the DPRK.It is also
a challenge to peace and stablity of the Asia Pacific region and indeed
world peace.
This measure has been done at the bidding of the US
imperialists.It is symptomatic of Japans headlong rush towards ultra
rightist reaction and fascism.It represents a nefarious attempt to
stifle Korean style socialism .
We say to the Japanese imperialists-you are ignorant of the
realities of Korean style socialism centred upon the popular masses
which has been chosen by the Korean people themselves and you have no right
whatsoever to try to destroy it by force.The Korean people have the
Songun revolutionary leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Il and the independent
national economy,the fruit of the Juche idea,and will counter your
sanctions.
Japan would be much better advised to revoke the sanctions
at
once and pay compensation to the Korean people for the damage
they caused during their occupation of Korea.Japan should
honestly implement the
DPRK-Japan Declaration
We demand Japanese Imperialism Hands Off Korea !
Dermot Hudson
President Association For the Study of Songun Politics UK
chairman Juche Idea Study Group Of England.
Chairman Dermot Hudson
London 11 February 2004
The Association For the Study of Songun Politics of the UK and the
Juche Idea Study Group of England issued the following joint statement
today in connection with the so called "amendment to the law on foreign
exchange" passed by the Japanese reactionary rulers recently.
In essence this law means total economic sanctions against
the DPRK the homeland of Juche.We are outraged by this measure.
It is a violation of article 3 of the DPRK-Japan Declaration
and is also a violation of international law and the UN charter.
It is un warranted interference in the internal affairs of the
DPRK and a grave challenge to the sovereignity of the DPRK.It is also
a challenge to peace and stablity of the Asia Pacific region and indeed
world peace.
This measure has been done at the bidding of the US
imperialists.It is symptomatic of Japans headlong rush towards ultra
rightist reaction and fascism.It represents a nefarious attempt to
stifle Korean style socialism .
We say to the Japanese imperialists-you are ignorant of the
realities of Korean style socialism centred upon the popular masses
which has been chosen by the Korean people themselves and you have no right
whatsoever to try to destroy it by force.The Korean people have the
Songun revolutionary leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Il and the independent
national economy,the fruit of the Juche idea,and will counter your
sanctions.
Japan would be much better advised to revoke the sanctions
at
once and pay compensation to the Korean people for the damage
they caused during their occupation of Korea.Japan should
honestly implement the
DPRK-Japan Declaration
We demand Japanese Imperialism Hands Off Korea !
Dermot Hudson
President Association For the Study of Songun Politics UK
chairman Juche Idea Study Group Of England.
Monday, February 02, 2004
REPORT OF JUCHE IDEA STUDY GROUP OF ENGLAND
MEETING 31ST JANUARY.
The Juche Idea Study Group of England and the Association For
the Study of Songun Politics of the UK organized a succesful
meeting to celebrate the 62nd birthday of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il.
The meeting began with the "Song Of General Kim Il Sung"
and the "Song of General Kim Jong Il".
The portrait of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il was
displayed promeniently along with a congratulatory pot of
azaleas and the DPRK flag.A picture exhibition was also
displayed.
The meeting was attended by members of the Study group
and members of progressive political parties.Mr Ha Sin Guk
2nd secretary of the DPRK embassy attended.
A message from John Paul Cupp of the
US Songun Politics Study Group was read out.
The keynote speech was made by Shaun Pickford
secretary of the Juche Idea Study Group of England.He spoke
on the subject of "The Juche Idea and Man's Destiny".He said
that the Juche idea shattered all idealist conceptions of
man's destiny and also refuted dogmatic views on the
philosphical outlook.He praised the greatness of leader
Kim Jong Il as a philsopher.
Robert Siggins spoke on Songun politics.
Study Group Chairman Dermot Hudson spoke on the
work "On the Historical lesson of building Socialism and the General Line of Our Party".
The Mt Paekdu Declaration on setting February to April as months of celebration was read out.It was announced
that a preparatory committee was set up.
A decision on organizing a study course on the Juche idea and the history of the revolutionary activities of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
The video "Beauty Added to the Country under
the leadership of great general Kim Jong Il" was shown.This
showed the work of improving revolutionary battlesites
as well holiday resorts and housing construction.It showed
paradise type villages.At the end new double decker buses
sent by leader Kim Jong Il rolled through the streets of
Pyongyang.
The meeting also heard a report back by Kristian
Carter of both his visits to Yugoslavia to meet the Yugoslav
KFA and also his visit to the DPRK in July 2003.
More details will be added later
MEETING 31ST JANUARY.
The Juche Idea Study Group of England and the Association For
the Study of Songun Politics of the UK organized a succesful
meeting to celebrate the 62nd birthday of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il.
The meeting began with the "Song Of General Kim Il Sung"
and the "Song of General Kim Jong Il".
The portrait of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il was
displayed promeniently along with a congratulatory pot of
azaleas and the DPRK flag.A picture exhibition was also
displayed.
The meeting was attended by members of the Study group
and members of progressive political parties.Mr Ha Sin Guk
2nd secretary of the DPRK embassy attended.
A message from John Paul Cupp of the
US Songun Politics Study Group was read out.
The keynote speech was made by Shaun Pickford
secretary of the Juche Idea Study Group of England.He spoke
on the subject of "The Juche Idea and Man's Destiny".He said
that the Juche idea shattered all idealist conceptions of
man's destiny and also refuted dogmatic views on the
philosphical outlook.He praised the greatness of leader
Kim Jong Il as a philsopher.
Robert Siggins spoke on Songun politics.
Study Group Chairman Dermot Hudson spoke on the
work "On the Historical lesson of building Socialism and the General Line of Our Party".
The Mt Paekdu Declaration on setting February to April as months of celebration was read out.It was announced
that a preparatory committee was set up.
A decision on organizing a study course on the Juche idea and the history of the revolutionary activities of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
The video "Beauty Added to the Country under
the leadership of great general Kim Jong Il" was shown.This
showed the work of improving revolutionary battlesites
as well holiday resorts and housing construction.It showed
paradise type villages.At the end new double decker buses
sent by leader Kim Jong Il rolled through the streets of
Pyongyang.
The meeting also heard a report back by Kristian
Carter of both his visits to Yugoslavia to meet the Yugoslav
KFA and also his visit to the DPRK in July 2003.
More details will be added later
Wednesday, December 24, 2003
KIM JONG SUK FIGHTER FOR INDEPENDENCE by Elizaberh Farrell New Worker paper.
(this article is reproduced from the New Worker newspaper and the JISGE express thanks to the author and New Worker
newspaper)
KIM JONG SUK FIGHTER FOR INDEPENDENCE
by Elizabeth Farrell
Kim Jong Suk was a Korean revolutionary communist and fighter for national liberation. She devoted her life to the struggle against the Japanese colonial rule and the victory of the revolution. Her marksmanship was legendary – but she always placed equal importance on communist education and filled the ranks of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army with Kim Il Sung’s Juche idea. Kim Jong Suk was also the wife of Kim Il Sung, and Kim Jong Il’s mother. This short account of her life and revolutionary activities marks the 86th anniversary of her birth.
Kim Jong Suk was born in Hoeryong, in the north Hamyong province of Korea, under Japanese occupation on 24 December 1917. She grew up in a revolutionary and patriotic family of share-cropping poor peasants.
The police often raided the family’s house in search for evidence against Kim Jong Suk’s father, who was engaged in the struggle for Korea’s independence. And when Kim Jong Suk’s family were unable to repay debts to a landowner, they were evicted from their land. So in the spring of 1922, the Kim family crossed the Tuman river into China. They settled in Beigou, north eastern China, where they took up share-cropping again. Kim Jong Suk, who was only five years old at this time, worked in the field with her mother and her brother every day and wove cloth by night.
When she was 10, her older sister Kim Kwiinnyo was taken by the landowner because the family could not repay debts, and was forced to become his servant. Kwiinnyo cried as she was taken away, while the rest of the family was injured trying to protect her. This left a deep impression on Kim Jong Suk.
The landowner, still not satisfied and angry at the family trying to prevent Kwiinnyo from being taken away, evicted them from their land and hut. Once again homeless and without income, Kim Jong Suk’s family moved to Xishanli, also in China. But her father was ill and her elder brother, who had been seriously injured by Japanese forces, was also unable to work.
Under these conditions, Kim Jong Suk came to realise at a very early age that the oppressive colonial system, which had caused her family so much misery, could never provide a better future for working people. Her father died soon after the family had moved to Xishanli. Just before, he told Jong Suk: “I wanted to be buried in Korea – I wanted to become Korean earth when I decayed. But even this wish is not going to be fulfilled. Wherever you are, you must not forget your hometown, must not forget Korea, and must fight for Korea.” Kim Jong Suk never betrayed her father’s wish and fought for Korea all her life.
In 1930 Kim Il Sung sent a political worker to work undercover in Fuyan, where Kim Jong Suk lived at the time. It was through the night school he set up that Jong Suk’s wish to learn was first realised; she was the first to enrol. Recalling her excitement, she later said: “How grateful I was when the night school was opened! That was the first gratitude I had felt in my life. I was so happy that I shed tears holding on to the edge of the blackboard.”
Her class-consciousness developed at this night school and she was asked by the Young Communist League (YCL), founded by Kim Il Sung, to take part in agitation and distribute leaflets.
In September 1931 Kim Jong Suk was admitted to the Children’s Vanguard, a paramilitary organisation founded by Kim Il Sung for young people and children. This was the beginning of a new life for Jong Suk, an important first step on the road to becoming a guerrilla fighter for Korea’s independence.
When Japanese troops assaulted the village and burnt her family’s house in 1932, Jong Suk lost her mother and sister-in-law. Her sister-in-law, minutes before dying, asked for Kim Jong Suk to bring up her son.
Kim Jong Suk later told a comrade-in-arms about this tragic event, saying: “Mother’s death shocked me too hard to shed tears. The thought of bringing up my infant nephew in this harsh world dazed me as if the sky had fallen in, as if the earth had sunk into an abyss. Neither crying nor writhing seemed to lead me out of despair – but the consciousness of revolution helped me rise.
“With determination to fight stoutly for the revolution under General Kim Il Sung’s leadership, I stood up again with fresh hope.”
She did just that. She pulled herself together and, just 10 days after the death of her mother, joined the YCL.
Kim Jong Suk was the first woman to join the YCL in Fuyan. She made her way to the guerrilla zone, with her younger brother, Kim Ki Song. The guerrilla zone had just been formed, after the foundation of the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army. Here she worked as a member of the Number Eight District Committee of the YCL and as leader of the Children’s Corps. She did everything she could to train the Children’s Corps members, many of whose parents had been killed by the Japanese, into reliable reserves of the Korean revolution.
Her work with the children involved collecting ammunition for the guerrillas, taking them to do weeding in the fields and assigning them to the tasks of signal communication and scouting. She also organised the art troupe of the Children’s Corps, performing revolutionary songs. She prepared the performance programme and directed the rehearsals of the art troupe. She always reminded her audiences of why the art troop was performing. During one New Year performance she told the masses of workers gathered to hear the songs: “Seeing out the old year full of trials, we are seeing in a new year full of hope. In the past year, the Korean people started the great war against the Japanese, fighting through flames – united behind General Kim Il Sung in the new year they will give crushing blows to the Japanese imperialist aggressors.”
She later led the YCL work at the Sandaowan guerrilla base, where she first met Kim Il Sung. Kim Jong Suk participated in the meeting of the county party committee secretariat he had convened.
In March 1934 the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army was reorganised into the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army (KPRA). This made it possible for the guerrilla units, which had been organised in various counties, to be brought together under a unified organisational system that could carry out partisan activities on a larger scale. A year after the KPRA was formed Kim Jong Suk joined it in the Chechangzi guerrilla zone.
On receiving her rifle, Kim Jong Suk said: “With this rifle bearing the blood of the revolutionary forerunners and the people’s desire for national liberation, I will be faithful to General Kim Il Sung until the last moment of my life. I take this one rifle as one hundred rifles and will shoot one bullet as one hundred bullets to take revenge on the enemy.”
The party organisation entrusted her to carry out YCL work within her unit as soon as she joined the army.
Since then she played a key role in military and political activities, making her contribution to the cause of national liberation. She used to say that she had not even the right to die before fulfilling her revolutionary tasks.
Amongst many other things, she educated women in Naitoushan in the far north of Korea, and rallied them behind a women’s association. A Japanese document reports: “After moving to Naitoushan, the communist army gathered the villagers in November 1935 and replaced the [feudal village head] with a peasant committee. At a consultative meeting, the villagers elected the chairman, vice-chairman and head of the accounting section of the committee.
“Subsequently, the committee supported revolutionary organisations by providing them with food and fuel and carrying materials for them. In February the following year a women’s association was formed.” These achievements were a direct result of Kim Jong Suk’s activities.
By 1936, Kim Jong Suk was fighting in the KPRA unit personally led by Kim Il Sung. In May that year, the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland (ARF), the first anti-Japanese national united front organisation, was founded. Kim Jong Suk understood its historical significance of this immediately. Kim Il Sung was elected Chairman of the ARF at the formation meeting. He wrote The ten-point programme of the ARF, setting out the way to achieve national liberation. Kim Jong Suk studied this work in detail and explained it to other guerrillas, as well as distributing and explaining it to the people.
“The KPRA soldiers”, Kim Jong Suk pointed out, “are not only combatants who fight against the enemy with weapons in their hands, but also information workers and organisers who arm the people with the idea of Comrade Commander [Kim Il Sung] and mobilise them in the struggle to put it into effect.
Therefore, when they face the enemy, they must fight valiantly, like lions, and when they go among the people, they must be excellent information workers.”
During her work in the KPRA main unit, she devoted herself to the safety of the headquarters at Mount Paektu, regarding this as her main task. Kim Jong Suk was always the first to defend Kim Il Sung – both fighting to educate people with his political ideas and protecting him physically, many times acting as a human shield.
She exposed counter revolutionaries and fought in important battles, like the battle of Hongqihe, the battle of Dashahe and may others.
In 1937, having proved herself as a reliable political worker, she was admitted to the Communist Party. Kim Il Sung immediately assigned her to carry out key tasks – expanding the network of ARF organisations and building the party. She conducted underground work, many times narrowly escaping death at the hands of Japanese imperialists. She was arrested in Singalpha, an area of great strategic importance for the Japanese at the time, while doing underground work. But she managed to break free with the support of the villagers, who had placed great trust in her.
Kim Jong Suk never showed mercy to the class enemy but always cared warmly for her comrades: cooking, sewing uniforms, and nursing the sick. She educated and led KPRA soldiers with firm belief in the revolution and was a remarkable example to others.
At the KPRA headquarters on Mount Paektu, Kim Jong Suk gave birth to Kim Jong Il on 16 February 1942. She later recalled: “My son was born on Mount Paektu. He grew up wrapped in my military uniform and being carried on my knapsack during marches. He learned to walk with my rifle in his hand and lived on the wild vegetables and water of Mount Paektu. I was determined to bring up my son to be a worthy son of Mount Paektu.”
The soldiers of the KPRA concentrated their efforts on political study and military training while preparing for the decisive battle in the national liberation of Korea. Kim Jong Suk devoted all her efforts to strengthening the KPRA politically, ideologically and militarily. She directed the work of the small units and of the underground workers to be sent to different parts of Korea. Kim Jong Suk mastered the tactics of modern and regular warfare and took an active part in training. She was well known as a crack shot throughout the KPRA. One guerrilla once remarked: “Her bullets have eyes”. Another said: “The devil himself would bow to her.”
Japan singed an unconditional surrender on 15 August 1945.When Kim Jong Suk and the other KPRA soldiers at Mount Paektu heard this news, they danced and hugged each other. The work of building socialism began immediately – people’s committees were set up, and party organisations appeared throughout Korea as soon as Japanese imperialism was defeated. They were led by the revolutionary and national resistance organisations that had made up the ARF.
Kim Jong Suk continued working tirelessly after national liberation in 1945. She strove to explain and propagate the line of building the party, the state and the armed forces to the broad masses and fought to implement party decisions. Immediately after liberation, when Korea cruelly divided into two parts, she struggled to unite all patriots – in both parts of the country.
In particular, Kim Jong Suk rallied women under the banner of communism, ensuring that women’s organisations were formed through the north of Korea. These organisations carried out a massive campaign in wiping out illiteracy amongst women, and guiding them towards social emancipation. Upholding the Juché-orientated economic construction programme, she inspired Koreans to rebuild the economy that had been destroyed by Japanese imperialism.
Kim Jong Suk inspected factories of all kinds, giving workers a helping hand wherever she went. She pointed out that, with their collective knowledge, the Korean masses could overcome the difficulties in reconstruction and build an independent national economy.
She once said in an interview with a Korean newspaper: “As you know, Korea is not completely liberated yet, so the Korean people must make more sacrifices. They must first unite on a mass basis, and at the same time undertake construction with great energy. We Korean women must awaken to the situation in Korea, and work as one for the building of a great nation.
“We must achieve women’s emancipation, our aspiration, through the establishment of our state power and the complete independence of Korea as soon as possible. From now on, I will study the Korean situation and work hard to build a new Korea.”
Kim Jong Suk also put a lot of effort into making sure that Korean people had the chance of an education. When, in 1946, the first people’s university – Kim Il Sung university in Pyongyang – was established, she guided the way in which students should be selected. She pointed out that the purpose of founding the university was to “educate the sons and daughters of the working people and the revolutionaries”. She then determined that one or two years of intensive preparatory education should be given to them.
She further took the children of fallen KPRA soldiers under her wing, knowing that their parents had wanted them to be brought up into reliable reserves of the revolution. In 1947 she opened the Mangyongdae revolutionary school, the successor to the Children’s Corps schools which she herself had attended at the time of anti-Japanese struggle.
Kim Jong Suk lived for only four years in the newly liberated Korea. She died at the early age of 32, to the great sorrow of the Korean people. But in that short time, she rendered distinguished service to the cause of national liberation and socialism. Her achievements will always be remembered by the Korean people.
Just before her funeral, Kim Il Sung recalled his wife’s great achievements: “Kim Jong Suk was an ardent revolutionary who devoted her all for the revolution. She was a crack shot and an experienced underground operative, as well as an iron-willed communist who was never daunted by any trials or difficulties no matter how severe. She lost her parents and brothers in her childhood, and was forced to part with her relatives. She grew up going through many hardships. She loved the country and her comrades dearly, and devoted her all for the interests of the revolution. Whatever she did was for her comrades, not herself.”
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KIM JONG SUK FIGHTER FOR INDEPENDENCE
by Elizabeth Farrell
Kim Jong Suk was a Korean revolutionary communist and fighter for national liberation. She devoted her life to the struggle against the Japanese colonial rule and the victory of the revolution. Her marksmanship was legendary – but she always placed equal importance on communist education and filled the ranks of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army with Kim Il Sung’s Juche idea. Kim Jong Suk was also the wife of Kim Il Sung, and Kim Jong Il’s mother. This short account of her life and revolutionary activities marks the 86th anniversary of her birth.
Kim Jong Suk was born in Hoeryong, in the north Hamyong province of Korea, under Japanese occupation on 24 December 1917. She grew up in a revolutionary and patriotic family of share-cropping poor peasants.
The police often raided the family’s house in search for evidence against Kim Jong Suk’s father, who was engaged in the struggle for Korea’s independence. And when Kim Jong Suk’s family were unable to repay debts to a landowner, they were evicted from their land. So in the spring of 1922, the Kim family crossed the Tuman river into China. They settled in Beigou, north eastern China, where they took up share-cropping again. Kim Jong Suk, who was only five years old at this time, worked in the field with her mother and her brother every day and wove cloth by night.
When she was 10, her older sister Kim Kwiinnyo was taken by the landowner because the family could not repay debts, and was forced to become his servant. Kwiinnyo cried as she was taken away, while the rest of the family was injured trying to protect her. This left a deep impression on Kim Jong Suk.
The landowner, still not satisfied and angry at the family trying to prevent Kwiinnyo from being taken away, evicted them from their land and hut. Once again homeless and without income, Kim Jong Suk’s family moved to Xishanli, also in China. But her father was ill and her elder brother, who had been seriously injured by Japanese forces, was also unable to work.
Under these conditions, Kim Jong Suk came to realise at a very early age that the oppressive colonial system, which had caused her family so much misery, could never provide a better future for working people. Her father died soon after the family had moved to Xishanli. Just before, he told Jong Suk: “I wanted to be buried in Korea – I wanted to become Korean earth when I decayed. But even this wish is not going to be fulfilled. Wherever you are, you must not forget your hometown, must not forget Korea, and must fight for Korea.” Kim Jong Suk never betrayed her father’s wish and fought for Korea all her life.
In 1930 Kim Il Sung sent a political worker to work undercover in Fuyan, where Kim Jong Suk lived at the time. It was through the night school he set up that Jong Suk’s wish to learn was first realised; she was the first to enrol. Recalling her excitement, she later said: “How grateful I was when the night school was opened! That was the first gratitude I had felt in my life. I was so happy that I shed tears holding on to the edge of the blackboard.”
Her class-consciousness developed at this night school and she was asked by the Young Communist League (YCL), founded by Kim Il Sung, to take part in agitation and distribute leaflets.
In September 1931 Kim Jong Suk was admitted to the Children’s Vanguard, a paramilitary organisation founded by Kim Il Sung for young people and children. This was the beginning of a new life for Jong Suk, an important first step on the road to becoming a guerrilla fighter for Korea’s independence.
When Japanese troops assaulted the village and burnt her family’s house in 1932, Jong Suk lost her mother and sister-in-law. Her sister-in-law, minutes before dying, asked for Kim Jong Suk to bring up her son.
Kim Jong Suk later told a comrade-in-arms about this tragic event, saying: “Mother’s death shocked me too hard to shed tears. The thought of bringing up my infant nephew in this harsh world dazed me as if the sky had fallen in, as if the earth had sunk into an abyss. Neither crying nor writhing seemed to lead me out of despair – but the consciousness of revolution helped me rise.
“With determination to fight stoutly for the revolution under General Kim Il Sung’s leadership, I stood up again with fresh hope.”
She did just that. She pulled herself together and, just 10 days after the death of her mother, joined the YCL.
Kim Jong Suk was the first woman to join the YCL in Fuyan. She made her way to the guerrilla zone, with her younger brother, Kim Ki Song. The guerrilla zone had just been formed, after the foundation of the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army. Here she worked as a member of the Number Eight District Committee of the YCL and as leader of the Children’s Corps. She did everything she could to train the Children’s Corps members, many of whose parents had been killed by the Japanese, into reliable reserves of the Korean revolution.
Her work with the children involved collecting ammunition for the guerrillas, taking them to do weeding in the fields and assigning them to the tasks of signal communication and scouting. She also organised the art troupe of the Children’s Corps, performing revolutionary songs. She prepared the performance programme and directed the rehearsals of the art troupe. She always reminded her audiences of why the art troop was performing. During one New Year performance she told the masses of workers gathered to hear the songs: “Seeing out the old year full of trials, we are seeing in a new year full of hope. In the past year, the Korean people started the great war against the Japanese, fighting through flames – united behind General Kim Il Sung in the new year they will give crushing blows to the Japanese imperialist aggressors.”
She later led the YCL work at the Sandaowan guerrilla base, where she first met Kim Il Sung. Kim Jong Suk participated in the meeting of the county party committee secretariat he had convened.
In March 1934 the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army was reorganised into the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army (KPRA). This made it possible for the guerrilla units, which had been organised in various counties, to be brought together under a unified organisational system that could carry out partisan activities on a larger scale. A year after the KPRA was formed Kim Jong Suk joined it in the Chechangzi guerrilla zone.
On receiving her rifle, Kim Jong Suk said: “With this rifle bearing the blood of the revolutionary forerunners and the people’s desire for national liberation, I will be faithful to General Kim Il Sung until the last moment of my life. I take this one rifle as one hundred rifles and will shoot one bullet as one hundred bullets to take revenge on the enemy.”
The party organisation entrusted her to carry out YCL work within her unit as soon as she joined the army.
Since then she played a key role in military and political activities, making her contribution to the cause of national liberation. She used to say that she had not even the right to die before fulfilling her revolutionary tasks.
Amongst many other things, she educated women in Naitoushan in the far north of Korea, and rallied them behind a women’s association. A Japanese document reports: “After moving to Naitoushan, the communist army gathered the villagers in November 1935 and replaced the [feudal village head] with a peasant committee. At a consultative meeting, the villagers elected the chairman, vice-chairman and head of the accounting section of the committee.
“Subsequently, the committee supported revolutionary organisations by providing them with food and fuel and carrying materials for them. In February the following year a women’s association was formed.” These achievements were a direct result of Kim Jong Suk’s activities.
By 1936, Kim Jong Suk was fighting in the KPRA unit personally led by Kim Il Sung. In May that year, the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland (ARF), the first anti-Japanese national united front organisation, was founded. Kim Jong Suk understood its historical significance of this immediately. Kim Il Sung was elected Chairman of the ARF at the formation meeting. He wrote The ten-point programme of the ARF, setting out the way to achieve national liberation. Kim Jong Suk studied this work in detail and explained it to other guerrillas, as well as distributing and explaining it to the people.
“The KPRA soldiers”, Kim Jong Suk pointed out, “are not only combatants who fight against the enemy with weapons in their hands, but also information workers and organisers who arm the people with the idea of Comrade Commander [Kim Il Sung] and mobilise them in the struggle to put it into effect.
Therefore, when they face the enemy, they must fight valiantly, like lions, and when they go among the people, they must be excellent information workers.”
During her work in the KPRA main unit, she devoted herself to the safety of the headquarters at Mount Paektu, regarding this as her main task. Kim Jong Suk was always the first to defend Kim Il Sung – both fighting to educate people with his political ideas and protecting him physically, many times acting as a human shield.
She exposed counter revolutionaries and fought in important battles, like the battle of Hongqihe, the battle of Dashahe and may others.
In 1937, having proved herself as a reliable political worker, she was admitted to the Communist Party. Kim Il Sung immediately assigned her to carry out key tasks – expanding the network of ARF organisations and building the party. She conducted underground work, many times narrowly escaping death at the hands of Japanese imperialists. She was arrested in Singalpha, an area of great strategic importance for the Japanese at the time, while doing underground work. But she managed to break free with the support of the villagers, who had placed great trust in her.
Kim Jong Suk never showed mercy to the class enemy but always cared warmly for her comrades: cooking, sewing uniforms, and nursing the sick. She educated and led KPRA soldiers with firm belief in the revolution and was a remarkable example to others.
At the KPRA headquarters on Mount Paektu, Kim Jong Suk gave birth to Kim Jong Il on 16 February 1942. She later recalled: “My son was born on Mount Paektu. He grew up wrapped in my military uniform and being carried on my knapsack during marches. He learned to walk with my rifle in his hand and lived on the wild vegetables and water of Mount Paektu. I was determined to bring up my son to be a worthy son of Mount Paektu.”
The soldiers of the KPRA concentrated their efforts on political study and military training while preparing for the decisive battle in the national liberation of Korea. Kim Jong Suk devoted all her efforts to strengthening the KPRA politically, ideologically and militarily. She directed the work of the small units and of the underground workers to be sent to different parts of Korea. Kim Jong Suk mastered the tactics of modern and regular warfare and took an active part in training. She was well known as a crack shot throughout the KPRA. One guerrilla once remarked: “Her bullets have eyes”. Another said: “The devil himself would bow to her.”
Japan singed an unconditional surrender on 15 August 1945.When Kim Jong Suk and the other KPRA soldiers at Mount Paektu heard this news, they danced and hugged each other. The work of building socialism began immediately – people’s committees were set up, and party organisations appeared throughout Korea as soon as Japanese imperialism was defeated. They were led by the revolutionary and national resistance organisations that had made up the ARF.
Kim Jong Suk continued working tirelessly after national liberation in 1945. She strove to explain and propagate the line of building the party, the state and the armed forces to the broad masses and fought to implement party decisions. Immediately after liberation, when Korea cruelly divided into two parts, she struggled to unite all patriots – in both parts of the country.
In particular, Kim Jong Suk rallied women under the banner of communism, ensuring that women’s organisations were formed through the north of Korea. These organisations carried out a massive campaign in wiping out illiteracy amongst women, and guiding them towards social emancipation. Upholding the Juché-orientated economic construction programme, she inspired Koreans to rebuild the economy that had been destroyed by Japanese imperialism.
Kim Jong Suk inspected factories of all kinds, giving workers a helping hand wherever she went. She pointed out that, with their collective knowledge, the Korean masses could overcome the difficulties in reconstruction and build an independent national economy.
She once said in an interview with a Korean newspaper: “As you know, Korea is not completely liberated yet, so the Korean people must make more sacrifices. They must first unite on a mass basis, and at the same time undertake construction with great energy. We Korean women must awaken to the situation in Korea, and work as one for the building of a great nation.
“We must achieve women’s emancipation, our aspiration, through the establishment of our state power and the complete independence of Korea as soon as possible. From now on, I will study the Korean situation and work hard to build a new Korea.”
Kim Jong Suk also put a lot of effort into making sure that Korean people had the chance of an education. When, in 1946, the first people’s university – Kim Il Sung university in Pyongyang – was established, she guided the way in which students should be selected. She pointed out that the purpose of founding the university was to “educate the sons and daughters of the working people and the revolutionaries”. She then determined that one or two years of intensive preparatory education should be given to them.
She further took the children of fallen KPRA soldiers under her wing, knowing that their parents had wanted them to be brought up into reliable reserves of the revolution. In 1947 she opened the Mangyongdae revolutionary school, the successor to the Children’s Corps schools which she herself had attended at the time of anti-Japanese struggle.
Kim Jong Suk lived for only four years in the newly liberated Korea. She died at the early age of 32, to the great sorrow of the Korean people. But in that short time, she rendered distinguished service to the cause of national liberation and socialism. Her achievements will always be remembered by the Korean people.
Just before her funeral, Kim Il Sung recalled his wife’s great achievements: “Kim Jong Suk was an ardent revolutionary who devoted her all for the revolution. She was a crack shot and an experienced underground operative, as well as an iron-willed communist who was never daunted by any trials or difficulties no matter how severe. She lost her parents and brothers in her childhood, and was forced to part with her relatives. She grew up going through many hardships. She loved the country and her comrades dearly, and devoted her all for the interests of the revolution. Whatever she did was for her comrades, not herself.”
SPEECH ON THE 12TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ELECTION OF COMRADE KIM JONG IL AS KPA SUPREME COMMANDER
SPEECH ON 12TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ELECTION OF COMRADE KIM JONG IL
AS SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE KPA AND THE 86TH ANNIVRESARY OF THE BIRTH OF
MRS KIM JONG SUK
Comrades and friends ,
Kim Jong Il's election as supreme commander of the KPA on the 24th of December 1991 marked a proud event which gave steady continuity to the history and tradition of the victorious Korean revolution shining thanks to the army.
He has adorned the past decade full of ordeals with an immortal heroic epic, shouldering upon himself all the burdens of the Korean revolution and the socialist cause.
It was under his leadership that the destiny of the homeland and the people was saved from the crossroads of life or death, the socialist cause firmly safeguarded, the stern ordeal during the "arduous march" victoriously overcome and a new era of Juche-oriented revolution opened up.
It that period when he was elected supreme commander of theKPA many socialist countries collapsed and the US imperialists un amok to strangle the DPRK under the pretext of the nuclear issue.
The so called 'nuclear crisis', which has lasted from the early 1990s up to this date, is the political and military showdown between north Korea and the United States, that is, a confrontation of strength between the anti-imperialist independent forces and the imperialists. The key to victory in this confrontation is victory in the ideological confrontation. This is just the maxim of Chairman Kim Jong Il.
In the 1990s quite different with the 1960s, it was really serious matter that the anti-imperialist independent forces of the world could not unite against the imperialists' moves for invasion and war. North Korea could not but hold aloft the banner of socialism all alone. Throughout the international community there was neither ally nor supporter to north Korea in the anti-imperialist struggle. North Korean people should fight single-handed against the United States. Under that situation they needed to have new political mode and revolutionary line to further intensify the anti-imperialist struggle.
Imperialists have increased pressure upon north Korea on the plea of nuclear issue and additionally the natural disasters repeated year by year, causing economic difficulties there. The Chairman had no alternative but winning in the ideological confrontation against imperialists.
The acute contradiction between imperialist forces and anti-imperialist forces cropped out into the Cuban Crisis in the early 1960s, and the contradiction in the early 1990s produced the crisis on the Korean Peninsula. The Cuban Crisis was not a political and military crisis between Cuba and the United States, but a crisis between the former Soviet Union and the United States. And the crisis of the Korean Peninsula is the political and military confrontation between north Korea and the United States.
The Cuban Crisis came to an end with the political defeat of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union sustained the political defeat at last, though it had powerful potentials enough to stand against the imperialist forces both politically and militarily during the Cuban Crisis. Why? it was mainly because Moscow abandoned the idea of independence to fight against the threat of war. The Soviet Union, which had physical for against the United States, was shoved by the United States' offensive. It has practically proved that the essence of the issue is not the physical force and that defeat in the ideological confrontation leads to defeat in the competition of physical power.
Under the ledership of comrade Kim Jong Il a new mode of politics Songun or army based politics
have beeb created.
DPRK has been able to defend its independence against the US imperialist efforts to strangle it under the pretext of the ‘nuclear issue’ even though it is a country of 22 million people.Far bigger countries than the DPRK gave into US Imperialism for example the USSR had an army of 3 million and the capability to destroy the USA several times over but in 1962 it capitulated to US imperialism during the Carribean Crisis.It should also be mentioned that due to ideological weakness the USSR collapsed In 1991 without a shot being fired.
The path covered by him to steer the Korean revolution as the supreme commander represented an immortal history in which an unprecedented unique army-based political mode was created and the new era of army-centered revolution dawned.
The Korean people are loudly beating the drum of the drive to build a prosperous and powerful nation in a daring spirit and with optimism about future braving difficulties even under the present acute and complicated situation. This is a stirring reality brought about by the great army-based policy.
Under comrade Kim Jong Ils wise leadership the work of consolidating the whole country as an impregnable bulwark capable of repelling any surprise attack of imperialists.As well as the
KPA regular troops there are Worker Peasant Red Guards and the Red Young Guards.
All the officers and men of the KPA and the people will as always win victory after victory flying high the flag of the supreme commander even if they may face such a trial as the "arduous march" and dynamically advance towards
Comrade Kim Jong Il has conducted on the spot guidance.In the period of the "Ardourous March " and "forced march" which lasted from September 1994 to December 1999 comrade Kim Jong Il gave on the spot guidance 247 times covering a distance of 129,000 km.
He also led the army to establish the guiding system of the party within itself more thoroughly given the circumstances in which the winds of non party and non politics are blowing.
Songun politics /has achieved significant results:
First of all,Songun politics have made it possible to smash the designs of allied imperialist forces to stifle Korean style socialism.After the collapse of the USSR and the East European socialist countries the US imperialists turned the spearhead of attack against the DPRK with the aim of creating a unipolar world under the total domination of capitalism.Thus the DPRK had to fight against the siege and oppression attack of the imperialists.Only by powerful armed forces was the DPRK able to counter the manouvres of US imperialism and achieve victory in the politico-military showdown with the American imperialists.In 1998 the US imperialists planned to attack the DPRK with the 5027 war plan but this was thwarted.
The military power of the DPRK also provided real bacing for thw DPRK's independent diplomacy.Thus during the period of the Clinton adminstration the DPRK achieved many diplomatic victories.
Under army-first politics achievements have been made in the economic field-several major power stations including the 3rd largest in the world costing $8 billion to build plus many small and medium power stations have been constructed.Land realignment has been carried out.The Youth hero motorway from Pyongyang to Nampo was constructed. A total of 800 new structures have been created in the
last 6 or s years.
Indeed because of the Songun revolutionary idea the DPRK has been able to take bold ,resolute and strong steps to defend its independence such as the reactivation of the independent nuclear power industry,the expulsion of the IAEA inspectors(in reality spies of US imperialism) and the withdrawal from the the one sided and unjust NPT. Moreover the DPRK has taken a tough stance in the DPRK-US negotiations and Earlier this year MIG 29s of the KPA Air Force successfully chased off a US Spy plane thereby defending the skies of the Juche motherland from the US imperialist Aggressors.These moves strike fear in to the hearts of the US imperialists and their Followers but are applauded by the progressive people of the world and Juche idea Followers throughout the world.These decisive moves of the DPRK in defending Its independence are the fruit of the Songun Idea and the Songun revolutionary Leadership of the great leader supreme commander Marshal Kim Jong
Today supreme commander comrade Kim Jong Il is wisely leading the
people and the Army in the life and death confrontation with the imperialists.He is not only
the supreme commander of the KPA but in effect the supreme commander of the world
anti imperialist front.
Let us celebrate with vigour the 12 th anniversary of the election of comrade Kim Jong Il
as KPA supreme commander.
AS SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE KPA AND THE 86TH ANNIVRESARY OF THE BIRTH OF
MRS KIM JONG SUK
Comrades and friends ,
Kim Jong Il's election as supreme commander of the KPA on the 24th of December 1991 marked a proud event which gave steady continuity to the history and tradition of the victorious Korean revolution shining thanks to the army.
He has adorned the past decade full of ordeals with an immortal heroic epic, shouldering upon himself all the burdens of the Korean revolution and the socialist cause.
It was under his leadership that the destiny of the homeland and the people was saved from the crossroads of life or death, the socialist cause firmly safeguarded, the stern ordeal during the "arduous march" victoriously overcome and a new era of Juche-oriented revolution opened up.
It that period when he was elected supreme commander of theKPA many socialist countries collapsed and the US imperialists un amok to strangle the DPRK under the pretext of the nuclear issue.
The so called 'nuclear crisis', which has lasted from the early 1990s up to this date, is the political and military showdown between north Korea and the United States, that is, a confrontation of strength between the anti-imperialist independent forces and the imperialists. The key to victory in this confrontation is victory in the ideological confrontation. This is just the maxim of Chairman Kim Jong Il.
In the 1990s quite different with the 1960s, it was really serious matter that the anti-imperialist independent forces of the world could not unite against the imperialists' moves for invasion and war. North Korea could not but hold aloft the banner of socialism all alone. Throughout the international community there was neither ally nor supporter to north Korea in the anti-imperialist struggle. North Korean people should fight single-handed against the United States. Under that situation they needed to have new political mode and revolutionary line to further intensify the anti-imperialist struggle.
Imperialists have increased pressure upon north Korea on the plea of nuclear issue and additionally the natural disasters repeated year by year, causing economic difficulties there. The Chairman had no alternative but winning in the ideological confrontation against imperialists.
The acute contradiction between imperialist forces and anti-imperialist forces cropped out into the Cuban Crisis in the early 1960s, and the contradiction in the early 1990s produced the crisis on the Korean Peninsula. The Cuban Crisis was not a political and military crisis between Cuba and the United States, but a crisis between the former Soviet Union and the United States. And the crisis of the Korean Peninsula is the political and military confrontation between north Korea and the United States.
The Cuban Crisis came to an end with the political defeat of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union sustained the political defeat at last, though it had powerful potentials enough to stand against the imperialist forces both politically and militarily during the Cuban Crisis. Why? it was mainly because Moscow abandoned the idea of independence to fight against the threat of war. The Soviet Union, which had physical for against the United States, was shoved by the United States' offensive. It has practically proved that the essence of the issue is not the physical force and that defeat in the ideological confrontation leads to defeat in the competition of physical power.
Under the ledership of comrade Kim Jong Il a new mode of politics Songun or army based politics
have beeb created.
DPRK has been able to defend its independence against the US imperialist efforts to strangle it under the pretext of the ‘nuclear issue’ even though it is a country of 22 million people.Far bigger countries than the DPRK gave into US Imperialism for example the USSR had an army of 3 million and the capability to destroy the USA several times over but in 1962 it capitulated to US imperialism during the Carribean Crisis.It should also be mentioned that due to ideological weakness the USSR collapsed In 1991 without a shot being fired.
The path covered by him to steer the Korean revolution as the supreme commander represented an immortal history in which an unprecedented unique army-based political mode was created and the new era of army-centered revolution dawned.
The Korean people are loudly beating the drum of the drive to build a prosperous and powerful nation in a daring spirit and with optimism about future braving difficulties even under the present acute and complicated situation. This is a stirring reality brought about by the great army-based policy.
Under comrade Kim Jong Ils wise leadership the work of consolidating the whole country as an impregnable bulwark capable of repelling any surprise attack of imperialists.As well as the
KPA regular troops there are Worker Peasant Red Guards and the Red Young Guards.
All the officers and men of the KPA and the people will as always win victory after victory flying high the flag of the supreme commander even if they may face such a trial as the "arduous march" and dynamically advance towards
Comrade Kim Jong Il has conducted on the spot guidance.In the period of the "Ardourous March " and "forced march" which lasted from September 1994 to December 1999 comrade Kim Jong Il gave on the spot guidance 247 times covering a distance of 129,000 km.
He also led the army to establish the guiding system of the party within itself more thoroughly given the circumstances in which the winds of non party and non politics are blowing.
Songun politics /has achieved significant results:
First of all,Songun politics have made it possible to smash the designs of allied imperialist forces to stifle Korean style socialism.After the collapse of the USSR and the East European socialist countries the US imperialists turned the spearhead of attack against the DPRK with the aim of creating a unipolar world under the total domination of capitalism.Thus the DPRK had to fight against the siege and oppression attack of the imperialists.Only by powerful armed forces was the DPRK able to counter the manouvres of US imperialism and achieve victory in the politico-military showdown with the American imperialists.In 1998 the US imperialists planned to attack the DPRK with the 5027 war plan but this was thwarted.
The military power of the DPRK also provided real bacing for thw DPRK's independent diplomacy.Thus during the period of the Clinton adminstration the DPRK achieved many diplomatic victories.
Under army-first politics achievements have been made in the economic field-several major power stations including the 3rd largest in the world costing $8 billion to build plus many small and medium power stations have been constructed.Land realignment has been carried out.The Youth hero motorway from Pyongyang to Nampo was constructed. A total of 800 new structures have been created in the
last 6 or s years.
Indeed because of the Songun revolutionary idea the DPRK has been able to take bold ,resolute and strong steps to defend its independence such as the reactivation of the independent nuclear power industry,the expulsion of the IAEA inspectors(in reality spies of US imperialism) and the withdrawal from the the one sided and unjust NPT. Moreover the DPRK has taken a tough stance in the DPRK-US negotiations and Earlier this year MIG 29s of the KPA Air Force successfully chased off a US Spy plane thereby defending the skies of the Juche motherland from the US imperialist Aggressors.These moves strike fear in to the hearts of the US imperialists and their Followers but are applauded by the progressive people of the world and Juche idea Followers throughout the world.These decisive moves of the DPRK in defending Its independence are the fruit of the Songun Idea and the Songun revolutionary Leadership of the great leader supreme commander Marshal Kim Jong
Today supreme commander comrade Kim Jong Il is wisely leading the
people and the Army in the life and death confrontation with the imperialists.He is not only
the supreme commander of the KPA but in effect the supreme commander of the world
anti imperialist front.
Let us celebrate with vigour the 12 th anniversary of the election of comrade Kim Jong Il
as KPA supreme commander.
