Int'l Preparatory Committee for Meeting Praising Great Persons of Mt. Paektu Sends Appeal to World Progressives

  Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- The international preparatory committee for 2017 Meeting Praising Great Persons of Mt. Paektu sent an appeal to all progressive people in the world on Oct. 6.
    The appeal said that the year 2017 marks the 105th birth anniversary of President

Kim Il Sung, the 75th birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il and the 5th anniversary of Marshal Kim Jong Un's election to the top posts of the party and state of the DPRK.
    The international preparatory committee decided to hold the meeting, an international event of world progressives, in Mt. Paektu and Pyongyang in the DPRK in August next year associated with the exploits Kim Il Sung performed for the country's liberation and Kim Jong Il's Songun leadership feats, the appeal noted, and went on:
    Let us stir up the atmosphere of praising the great persons of Mt. Paektu through brisk celebration events worldwide for lauding their undying exploits on the significant holidays in 2017.
    Let us celebrate with splendor the birth anniversary of H.E. Kim Jong Un in January next year and conduct brisk colorful political and cultural activities till December marking the birth anniversary of anti-Japanese war hero Kim Jong Suk in the wake of the celebrations of the Day of the Shining Star and the Day of the Sun and thus make the whole year of 2017 clad in festive mood.
    Let us make the great feats performed by the great persons of Mt. Paektu always known to the whole world and glorify them for all ages.
    Let us highly praise the great ideology and leadership of the great persons of Mt. Paektu and their noble virtues and conduct positive activities for writing and creating books and literary and art works introducing the reality of the DPRK.
    Let us stage wide-ranging international solidarity activities for supporting the just cause of the Korean people.
    The international preparatory committee will creditably fulfill its responsibility and duty in ensuring international celebrations of significant year 2017 and making preparations for the successful holding of the meeting in close touch with the regional and national preparatory committees, the organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people in different countries and the international democratic bodies. -0

Imperishable exploits for Korea’s reunification

Kim Jong Un Makes Report on Work of WPK Central Committee at Its 7th Congress

Imperishable exploits for Korea’s reunification

In his historic report on the review of the work of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea at its 7th Congress, supreme leader Kim Jong Un lavished praise on President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il who made great contributions to Korea’s reunification.

Whenever hurdles and difficulties lie in the way of national reunification owing to vicious obstruction of the anti-reunification elements within and without, President Kim Il Sung pulled through difficulties by advancing bold and reasonable proposals starting from the spirit of national independence. He remarkably enhanced the Korean nation’s reunification will with his ardent patriotism and lofty virtue and opened a heyday of nationwide movement for reunification, he noted.

The President, until his last moment of his revolutionary career, made public the ten-point program for the great unity of the whole nation and worked heart and soul to knit the Korean nation into a united force. He had initiated inter-Korean summit and exhausted every possibility to carry out it, he stated.

Chairman Kim Jong Il formulated the three principles of national reunification, the proposal for founding a Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo and the ten-point program for the great unity of the whole nation, all advanced by the President, as the three charters for Korea’s reunification and put forward outstanding ideas and lines including the five-point policy for great national unity to illuminate the road ahead of the Korean nation in its reunification movement, he noted.

Chairman Kim Jong Il had frustrated a new war move of the anti-reunification elements at home and abroad to lay a sure foundation for the country’s independent reunification by bolstering up the DPRK’s national power with his Songun politics.

The noble patriotic will for reunification of Chairman Kim Jong Il and his bold decision resulted in two rounds of north-south summit and the adoption of the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, its action program, guided by the idea of By Our Nation Itself, the first of their kind in the history of national division. This was an epochal event that provided a historic milestone for independent reunification and opened up a turning phase for national reunification, he noted.

Thanks to the wise guidance of the great leaders, the cause of national reunification could advance along the orbit of national independence for decades despite the complicated situation where the separatist forces at home and abroad got all the more frantic in their moves, and the driving force of national reunification could steadily grow stronger to prevail over the anti-reunification forces, he said.

All achievements won in the movement for national reunification during the past are brilliant victory of prominent idea of independent reunification and rational proposals put forward by President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and proud fruition born of tireless guidance of the President and the Chairman, he stressed.

NO TO EU SANCTIONS ON PEOPLE'S KOREA ! say KFA branches of Europe !

Europe wide statement of the Korean Friendship Association

Branches of the Korean Friendship Association (KFA) in the UK, Ireland ,Spain,Basque Country, Belgium, Netherlands ,Denmark,Switzerland, and Poland and also European Preparatory Committee for the Grand Meeting to Praise the Great Persons of Mt Paektu issued  a joint statement on the recent imposition of sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK);
  On the 27th of May the European Union(EU) announced harsh sanctions against the DPRK , on top of the ones announced in April by EU and in addition to long standing EU sanctions against the DPRK.
  These sanctions are draconian in the extreme as they ban any ships and aircraft from entering the DPRK as well the curtailment of economic co-operation and restrictions on banking.
  The EU's justification for this is spurious .The EU claims it is because of nuclear and missile tests carried out by the DPRK. They ignore the fact that it is the independent and sovereign right of the DPRK  to take self-defensive measures such as nuclear and missile tests in response to the threats to the DPRK's independence posed by US imperialism . The DPRK has only carried only 0.18 per cent of the world's nuclear tests. However EU member states have carried out nearly 15 per cent of the world's nuclear tests.The EU has 500 nuclear warheads held by some of its member states. Several EU member states also have ballistic missiles. The EU is a major arms trader. Thus the EU's condemnation of the DPRK is extremely hypocritical.
  The EU sanctions against the DPRK is a mean device to to attempt to impede the building of socialism in the DPRK and undermine the DPRK's sovereignty . They are a hostile act
   We demand the EU revokes the sanctions against the DPRK  at
once !
KFA United Kingdom
KFA Ireland
KFA Spain
KFA Switzerland
KFA Belgium
KFA Basque Country
KFA Netherlands
KFA Poland
KFA Denmark
European Regional Preparatory Committee to Praise the Great Persons born
UK Preparatory Committee For the 2017 Gathering to Praise the Great Persons Born of Mt Paektuof Mt Paektu

Great Leadership Illuminating the Path of World Socialist Movement

The annals of the sacred struggle waged by the Workers’ Party of Korea are brilliant thanks to the immortal exploits made by the great leader of the Korean people President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) who devoted his all for the build-up of the revolutionary Party and the victorious advance of the world socialist cause. Particularly his devotional efforts to lead the revolutionary parties to keep to the road of independence and socialism in the latter half of 80s and early 90s of the last century have been brilliantly written in the annals of the world socialist movement.
At the time mankind was in anxiety, suspense and frustrations on the destiny of socialism in the crossroad of socialism and capitalism.
He lost no time to encourage the revolutionary parties and people over the world in their struggle for socialism and lead them to victory.
   In July, 1991 he met a delegation of a European Communist Party, when he told them that the collapse of the East European socialist countries cannot be attributable to what they call the disadvantage of socialism compared to capitalism. Then he categorized the advantages of socialism to capitalism. He encouraged them with confidence saying that they have to reconstruct the socialist movement to counter the enemy. Giving them confidence he said: Cowards, go. Let us keep to the red flag.
He availed himself every opportunity to awaken them that the communist and workers’ parties aspiring after socialism had to hold to independence.
When he met the Chairman of the Communist Workers’ Party of Sweden in the end of June, 1992, he told him that in view of the historical lesson of the socialist movement it was very important to hold fast to independence in the struggle for socialism and every party had to advance along the road of socialism under the banner of independence.
When he met the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Belgium on June 30, 1994, he gave him valuable words worth a guideline in keeping to independence.
At the time the international situation was hard. The imperialists took advantage of the opportunity to stage a stronger reactionary offensive against the progressive forces.
The chairman thought that it is none other than President Kim Il Sung who could iron out this impasse and lead them invariably to the road of socialism and independence. Then he put everything aside to pay a visit to Korea.
In the talk President Kim Il Sung told: At present many people dare not abuse witnessing the Americans behave like an “international gendarme”. Some people are only eating crow while being held in contempt by Americans and hesitate to face imperialism for socialism in fear of them. We have to set ourselves firmly against imperialist nations. Although both the Workers’ Party of Belgium and the Workers’ Party of Korea are small, they steadfastly keep to independence. The smaller they are, the firmer the small nations unite to disallow the great power chauvinism and their high-handedness.
Therefore, the world socialist movement, inspired by his confident instructions for the revolutionary nations to hold to the independence and advance toward socialism could return to the march full of vigor tiding over ordeals.
Therefore, the progressive mankind is still praising President   Kim Il Sung as the outstanding leader of the cause of anti-imperialism and independence and regards the WPK, independent and ever-victorious in its over-70-year history, as a model revolutionary Party fighting for the independence of the people.

Great Statesman (3)

  A heart of a man can neither be won forcibly, bought with gold nor bound with chains. The world people as well as the Korean people vied to see him regarding him as a peerless outstanding man and great statesman and respecting him ardently.

    Kuno Jyuji, former Minister of Postal Service of the Tanaka cabinet and a parliamentarian from the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, expressed his impression after meeting with great President Kim Il Sungduring the visit to the DPRK in 1972.

  “I have met many socialist as well as capitalist leaders. But I have never seen anyone who moves and excites my heart. Since a leader of a state would express in a talk his mind based on the national prestige of his own state, the talk is confined to a formality and his manner is usually fastidious and authoritative.

   …Across ages there had never been so far in the world such a man so simple, benevolent, broadminded and tender-hearted as President Kim Il Sung.”

   Kanemaru Shin expressed his luck of meeting great President Kim Il Sung and acquainting himself with a genuine popular statesman whom he and mankind so much longed for and who was possessed of such a noble humaneness.

   “My highest respect only goes to His Excellency Kim Il Sung!”

   Today under the leadership of respected Marshal Kim Jong Un who embodies intact his genuine humanity and high virtues and exercises his will intact the great sun of humanity illumines the world more brilliantly.

Great Statesman (2)

 

President Kim Il Sung had an unchangeable creed of life.

His great power of the love of people brought about a wonderful history of progress and efflorescence immeasurable with an ordinary time scale.

In all the time of the great change and creation he was always a benevolent father of the people.

Therefore, Japanese journalist Takaki Takeo, deeply admired for the close relationship between the leader and the people after participating in the New Year celebration of the students and children during his visit to Pyongyang in 1971, wrote in his travelogue:

“To be sure, he is a father. The children call him ‘Father Marshal!’Not only they but all call him the same way. The relationship between the father and his children is the same with the relationship between President Kim Il Sung and the people of this country.

It is a fusion of the warmest and most excellent comradely affection given by the President to the people and given by the people to him. I have been to many countries on business trips, but I have never seen such a political leader as him who greets the New Year with the children.”

Then, how is it that all the Korean people, young and old, call him affectionately their father and follow him?

Japanese social activist Ichigawa Makoto gives a clear answer to it:

“Frankly speaking, at first I could not understand fully the respect of the Korean people to President Kim Il Sung.

However, while meeting him personally and having a talk with him I was well aware of it. He was possessed of love and dignity overflowing like clear water flowing out of the ground.

The reality where the people enjoy a peaceful and happy life in his embrace makes them respect him as their fatherly leader.”

Great Statesman (1)

The struggle of the masses of the people for the cause of independence can only win when it is led by a great statesman.

Therefore, the mankind yearned for a genuine statesman. Then who is such a great statesman?

Prof. Kido Mataichi of the Souka University, Japan visited Pyongyang in 1976 and had an interview with President Kim Il Sung. He said:

“The worth of a genuine statesman and leader of a state lies in his high regard to a man and masses of the people and belief in their strength and his ability of enlisting it. Unfortunately I could not find such a leader of the people among the many I had met so far. However, I have had the honour of meeting President   Kim Il Sung who created the Juche idea and had the Juche-oriented leadership art. If somebody asks me now who is the most excellent among the statesmen and state leaders of the world, I would not hesitate to answer that he is none other than PresidentKim Il Sung.”

Kanemaru Sin, former Japanese Deputy Prime Minister and head of the delegation of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan who visited Pyongyang in 1990, said on a formal occasion:

“I had an opportunity of interviewing President Kim Il Sung during the recent visit to Korea. It was the greatest honour we had ever received. While listening to him, I heartily felt that a statesman had to have a political thinking as he had and learnt a great deal.”

On the 80th anniversary of the foundation of the Association For the Restoration of the Fatherland

            

  
                                       London 4th of May Juche 105(2016) 
 The Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK(ASSPUK), the Juche Idea Study Group of England (JISGE) ,the UK Korean Friendship Association(UK KFA) and the  UK Preparatory Committee For the 2017 Gathering to Praise the Great Persons Born of Mt Paektu issued a joint statement on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the foundation of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland by the great leader President Kim Il Sung  ;
   The Association For the Restoration of the Fatherland was  founded by the great leader President Kim Il Sung on May 5, Juche 25 (1936), was the first anti-Japanese national united front in Korea.Its foundation was a decisive turning point in the Korean people's struggle for national liberation.

    The Association For the Restoration of the Fatherland(ARF)  made great contributions to liberating Korea from Japan's colonial rule, as it helped rally the anti-Japanese forces of different social strata under the banner of patriotism and anti-imperialism  thus creating  the driving forces of the Korean revolution. 
   The ARF was the first steady anti-Japanese national united front organi­zation in Korea, an organization guided by a single programme and rules and under a unified organizational system. It was a mass organization and a powerful underground revolutionary organization, working to fully ensure the leadership of the leader and the Party over the broad patriotic forces all over the country.President Kim Il Sung formulated the 10 point programme of the ARF which represented the advanced line and idea of the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution.

   The ARF was firmly based on the worker-peasant alliance and on the leadership of the revolutionaries.It rejected  compromise and national reformism. It was firmly based on the Songun-based line of armed struggle .
  The founding of the ARF was the fruition of the Juche-oriented line  of the anti-Japanese national united front put forward by the great leader comrade  Kim Il Sung,which exemplified  the will of the Korean people to wage the struggle against the Japanese more vigorously on their own initiative and marking a historic occasion that gave rise to a new upsurge in the Korean revolution as a whole, based on the anti-Japanese armed struggle. 

    The ARF was an excellent example of a Juche-based united front and popular front which showed the way forward for the people of oppressed colonies to defeat imperialism and win independence. The Association For the Restoration of the Fatherland stands out as a model of an anti-imperialist, anti-fascist united front and popular front and its great achievements will shine forever !
ASSPUK
JISGE

UK KFAThe UK Preparatory Committee For the 2017 Gathering to Praise the Great Persons Born of Mt Paektu

WPK, Great Guide of Independence, Songun and Cause of Socialism

 

The Workers’ Party of Korea will soon meet for its 7^th Congress in Pyongyang, the capital city of socialist Korea.

The international community focuses its attention on the occasion of the forthcoming Congress to the WPK, a guiding force of the heroic Korean people who are creating eye-opening miracles and displaying their indomitable mettle.

The past 70 years’ course traversed by the WPK is a glorious journey in which it led the people along the road of independence, Songun and socialism.

The independence, Songun and socialism constitute the strategic line and banner of sure victory the WPK steadfastly has held to in the revolution and construction.

The WPK is a vanguard of revolution leading the people to the independence.

The tribulations and misfortune suffered by the Korean people in the past was not the fate of a small nation caused by the geopolitical position, but a tragic consequence brought about by the submission to the stronger and dependence on the foreign forces.

President Kim Il Sung(1912 - 1994), founder of socialist Korea, implanted the soul of the nation and spirit of independence from the first day of his launch to revolution in the mind of the Korean revolutionaries and people and awakened them with the truth of Juche all along that the master of the Korean revolution is the Korean people themselves and they had to build an independent and sovereign state relying on their own strength.   His wise leadership of arming the people with the spirit of independence afforded a fundamental source of power by which the people could build up a strong nation run through with the principle of Juche in ideology, independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in the national defense.

The WPK is an invincible Party leading the people along the unique road of Songun. Songun is a great force by which the people could build up a citadel of independence and peace on the land of Korea which was war-ridden in the past at the cross-road of competing great powers for supremacy.

The WPK has already established an independent defense industry and consolidated rapidly all-round defense capabilities by carrying out the line of developing the economy and defense simultaneously.

In the historic plenary meeting of its Central Committee in March, 2013 it put forth a strategic line of building up the economy and the nuclear arms simultaneously to set a milestone to build a strong nation.

Since it held fast to the principle of attaching importance to the arms and military affairs, Korea, which fought the nuclear-armed formidable enemy with rifles in the last war, now grew to the great Paektusan nation possessed of nuclear weapons and satellites. The credit of proud tradition of heroic Korea which brought the US imperialists boasting of the world “mightiest” to submission to date since the 50s of the last century goes to the Songun leadership of the WPK.

The WPK is a prestigious Party leading the people convincingly along the untrodden path of socialism.

It expounded in a unique way the scientific accuracy and truthfulness of socialism with the masses of people at the centre. Under the wise leadership of the WPK opening up and guiding the people-centered socialist cause the most advanced social system was established in Korea where the masses of people are masters of all and everything serves for them and the society develops on the strength of the unity of the people. Even at the time of crisis of the country it exercised invariably the socialist policies including the free compulsory education and free medical care for the sake of the people and developed them further.

There are still many things wanted and difficult in socialist Korea. However, bright is the prospect of Korean-style socialism for which all the people united single-heartedly behind the WPK are marching forward to bring into reality the far-reaching goals and ideals.

      Today the WPK is further displaying its invincible might because it is led by Marshal Kim Jong Un.

 

PUBLIC STATEMENT ON THE FORMATION OF THE EUROPEAN REGIONAL PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR THE GRAND MEETING 2017 IN PRAISE OF THE GREAT PERSONS OF MT. PAEKTU

The coming year 2017 marks the 105th birthday of President Kim Il Sung, the 75th birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il and the 5th anniversary of the election of His Excellency Kim Jong Un as First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and as First Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

These anniversaries will be celebrated colourfully by all people around the world who support the just cause of the Korean people.

The achievements of the Great Persons of Mt. Paektu will illuminate the Korean people's and progressive mankind's path for ever.

President Kim Il Sung created the great Juche idea and pioneered a new era of independence for human emancipation. He liberated Korea from the brutal colonial yoke of Japanese imperialism and founded the DPRK, thereby making the Korean people an independent and mighty revolutionary people, and led the Korean People's Army (KPA) to the historic victory in the Fatherland Liberation War. Following his creed The People are my God, he guided the construction of socialist Korea, an independent socialist state centred on the masses.

The great leader General Kim Jong Il proclaimed the Songun policy as the political mode of socialist Korea. He made extraordinary achievements in leading the work of socialist construction over several decades, laying firm foundations for a powerful and thriving socialist country of Juche based firmly on the idea of self-development. Thanks to the Songun policy and his leadership, the DPRK became a space nation and a  nation with militarily capacity to deter any imperialist warmongers.

First Secretary Kim Jong Un is now leading the DPRK into a world class political, ideological, military and economic power, fulfilling the behests and instructions of President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il for the building of a thriving socialist nation.

The great leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il worked heart and soul for national reunification and everlasting peace in Korea. First Secretary Kim Jong Un is loyally continuing their struggle for this highest goal of the Korean people. They opened an era of independence and guided the cause of freedom and happiness of the people and for national reunification, peace and prosperity of mankind.

For these immortal achievements they are held in highest esteem as the Great Persons of Mt. Paektu.

Last October, representatives of organizations formed in different countries of the world for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people met in Pyongyang and appealed to the world progressive people to have a grand international gathering on Mt. Paektu, the spirit and symbol of Korea, in the year 2017 in praise of these great men.

We, who are active in supporting the just cause of the Korean people in the European Region, warmly welcome the proposed convocation of the "Grand Meeting 2017 in Praise of the Great Persons of Mt. Paektu" and are pleased to inform the world progressive people that the European Regional Preparatory Committee for the Grand Meeting 2017 in Praise of the Great Persons of Mt. Paektu has been formed with prominent personalities in the political and public circles in order to speed up its preparations vigorously and elevate a festive mood for the 105th birthday of President Kim Il Sung, the 75th birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il and the 5th anniversary of the election of the leader Kim Jong Un to the top posts of party, army, and state from this year on.

The European Regional Preparatory Committee will coordinate various activities like seminars, memorial meetings, cultural performances and film shows in different countries of the region.

The European Regional Preparatory Committee will inform the population of the countries of the region about the brilliant achievements, great lives and noble personalities of President Kim Il Sung, His Excellency Kim Jong Il and His Excellency Kim Jong Un as well as about the reality of Korea.

The Committee will also mobilize the peoples in the respective countries to actively support the Korean people's just cause for independent reunification and for peace on the Korean peninsula. It will counter the wrong image that the US-manipulated media are spreading about the DPRK. It will defend vigorously and energetically socialist Korea against the hostile forces' slanderous propaganda and reactionary anti-DPRK campaigns.

We will appeal all European organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people to form national preparatory committees for the Day of Sun and the Day of Shining Star of 2017 in order to celebrate in festive mood the birthdays of President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il and giving publicity to the achievements of the great leadership of First Secretary Kim Jong Un who is brilliantly succeeding to their cause.

The 7th Congress of the WPK which will soon be convened will widely open the door to a rosy future of Korea and a golden age in building a thriving nation.

In this context we will give a large publicity about the results of the 7th Congress of the WPK. The Congress is a further brilliant historic event and great milestone of the Songun revolution.
We will hold President Kim Il Sung and General secretary Kim Jong Il eternally in highest esteem and praise His Excellency Kim Jong Un as the great successor to their cause.

European Regional Preparatory Committee for the Grand Meeting 2017 in Praise of the
Great Persons of Mt. Paektu

Societies for Friendship and Solidarity with the Korean People in the European Region

European Regional Committee for Korea's Peaceful Reunification

April 29, 2016

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Always Together for the People Part Four

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A documentary on Madame Kim Jong Suk

Establishing fundamental principles of reunification

President Kim Il Sung put forward the three principles of national reunification when inter-Korean high-level political talks was held in Pyongyang in May, 1972.  

On May 3, the President had conversation with the south Korean delegate who is on a visit to Pyongyang to take part in the high-level political talks between the north and the south of Korea.

If we fail to reunify the country as soon as possible and allow national division to continue, our nation may become a plaything of the great powers and be divided into two forever and we should reunify the country as soon as possible and hand over a unified country to posterity, said the President to the south Korean delegate.

He continued that in order to reunify the country, it is necessary to establish the fundamental principles correctly, which can provide the basis for the solution of the reunification question, only when there are fundamental principles agreed upon by the north and the south, can the two sides make joint efforts for reunification and successfully solve all problems concerning it.

He stressed that reunification question should on all accounts be settled independently without foreign interference and peacefully on the principle of promoting great national unity.

At the day, he spoke logically the essential content and justness of the three principles of national reunification he had matured one after another.

Enchanted with his personality, the south Korean delegate was greatly moved by instructions of the President fraught with logicalness and patriotism.

The south Korean delegate affirmed he positively support the three principles and maybe the south Korean chief executive would give his approval to it. He gave his word that he would regard the three principles as a pillar of reunification.

The three principles of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity is a precious fruition of tireless efforts and convincing will of independent reunification of the President who made indefatigable energies to hand down a reunified country to the Korean nation. 

The July 4 Joint Statement was published in July, 1972. Its main content is the three principles of national reunification-independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity. It is a grand program of reunification common to the nation agreed between the north and the south of Korea.

On the day the Korean people exclaimed that it is a new turning point in putting an end to tragedy of division and hastening the cause of national reunification, the dawn of Korea’s reunification and a mammoth stride of independent reunification.

Thanks to the President’s three principles of national reunification, the Korean nation could expedite the movement for reunification, pushing aside myriad of difficulties. The Korean nation brought about miraculous reality of the June 15 reunification era during which the both sides witnessed unprecedented successes in inter-Korean relations.

GENERALISSIMO KIM IL SUNG GREAT FIGHTER AGAINST IMPERIALISM FOR INDEPENDENCE-special article by Dermot Hudson

GENERALISSIMO KIM IL SUNG GREAT FIGHTER AGAINST IMPERIALISM FOR INDEPENDENCE-special article by Dermot Hudson

                                  
                                                    

The great leader President KIM IL SUNG  was born into a most revolutionary and patriotic family that was associated closely with the struggle for independence. President KIM IL SUNG's  father Mr KIM HYONG JIK led the struggle against Japanese imperialism.Anti-imperialism characterised the whole  life of President KIM IL SUNG  The baton passed to the young KIM IL SUNG who organised the fight against Japanese imperialism. Instead of using the old failed methods for achieving independence such as petitions , non-violence and so , President KIM IL SUNG took the road of revolutionary anti-imperialist struggle . He rejected flunkeyism towards big powers and national reformism and instead rallied the new generation of youths and students .
                                          

In October 1926, some 90 years ago he founded the Down With Imperialism Union(DIU). a communist revolutionary and anti-imperialist organisation declaring that "Irreconcible contradictions exist between the imperialists and people in the colonies  and these contradictions are sharpening  with the passage of time. Because these contradictions are antagonistic they cannot be settled by any kind of 'compromise ' and will only be solved when imperialism is overthrown".
   Thus President KIM IL SUNG raised high the banner of anti-imperialism , rejecting compromise with imperialism.  The DIU  was based on the hardcore of revolutionary youths and students.He went on to form the Anti-Imperialist Youth League and later the Anti-Japanese People's Guerilla Army(later Korean People's Revolutionary Army ) in April 1932. He stressed "In order to guarantee success in the Korean revolution, we must, first of all, organize and wage an armed struggle against the Japanese imperialists.   President KIM IL SUNG leading the heroic guerrillas of the AJPGA in an uncompromising and death defying anti-imperialist struggle to shatter the chains of Japanese imperialism.The Japs were smited by the Korean People's Revolutionary Army at the battles of Pochonbo and Musan. Korea was liberated from Japanese imperialist rule on the 15th of August 1945. This not only shaterred the chains of Japanese imperialism giving the Korean people a new life but also greatly inspired the people of the colonies in their anti-imperialist national liberation struggles. The World Cultural Congress in Havana,Cuba in 1968 praised the anti-Japanese armed struggle led by the great leader President KIM IL SUNG as an example to be followed by the third world people's in their struggle against imperialism.
After the liberation of Korea President KIM IL SUNG smashed the sophistries of those who painted US imperialism in the colours of a 'liberator' and  a 'friend' of the oppressed peoples. In 1949 addressing a meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea President KIM IL SUNG warned against illusions about imperialism ,particularly US imperialism pointing out that "From every point of view-the history of America and the deeds of American troops stationed in south Korea-we must have no illusions about the US "
    The great leader President KIM IL SUNG led the Korean people in the life and death struggle against the US imperialists in the great Fatherland Liberation War . . Victory was achieved on the 27th of July 1953 .US General Mark Clark signing the Armistice Agreeement confessed that the US had actually been defeated..The U.S. News and World Report said that the losses the U.S. forces suffered were more than two times those Americans sustained in five big wars, i.e. independence war, 1812 war, Mexico war, U.S.-Spain war and Philippine war. The US imperialist's defeat in the Fatherland Liberation War opened up a new era of anti-US, anti-imperialist struggle throughout the world.
                                 

  . Some 40 years after President KIM IL SUNG had founded the DIU  said, almost echoing the words he used at the inauguration of the DIU
  It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious. Is it not true that the line of seeking unprincipled compromise with imperialism only tends to encourage its aggressive actions and increase the danger of war? Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace. Genuine peace cannot be achieved unless a struggle is waged against those who break the peace, unless the slave’s peace is rejected and the oppressors’ rule overthrown. We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only denouncing imperialism but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it. This is a line of compromise in an inverted form. Both have nothing to do with a genuine anti-imperialist struggle and only help the imperialist policy of aggression and war.
 At the time some countries had abandoned the anti-imperialist struggle  on the pretext that peace was more important than independence and revolution but President KIM IL SUNG strongly opposed this  and exposed as revisionists those who advocated capitulation to imperialism .He argued for a consistent anti-US, anti -imperialist line pointing that "US Imperialism is the most barbarous and shameless aggressor of modern times,the main force of aggression and  war,the ringleader of world reaction,the bulwark of modern  colonialism,the strangler of national liberation and independence and disrupter of world peace"

  President KIM IL SUNG  made the DPRK into a fortress of militant anti-imperialism and totally opposed the line of compromise with imperialism. The DPRK dealt hammer blows to the aggressive US imperialists by capturing the USS Pueblo in January 1968 and by shooting down the EC121 spy plane in April 1969. 
  President KIM IL SUNG wrote many works arguing for anti-imperialist , anti US struggle such as "Let Us Intensify the anti-US, anti -imperialist struggle" , "The Great Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Cause of the Asian , African  and Latin American peoples is invincible " and many other works .   President KIM IL SUNG wrote that "We small nations must unite and counter US imperialism’s strategy of swallowing us up one by one, by each one of us chopping off its head and limbs. This is the strategy small countries must employ to defeat US imperialism."  
                                         

                             
     President KIM IL SUNG, a man of action and deed ,  made sure that the DPRK gave massive practical assistance to the people's fighting against US and world imperialism. When the Caribbean crisis erupted in October 1962 the staff of the DPRK embassy in Havana armed themselves ready to fight against the US imperialists side by side with the Korean people. The DPRK dispatched air force pilots of the Korean People's Army to fight in the Vietnamese people's war of liberation against the US imperialists and also dispatched pilots to fight with the Egyptian people against the Israeli Zionist aggressors in the 1973 Middle East War. The DPRK gave a generous amount of assistance to the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada  which included  2 boats and 50 RPG launchers.
   Although the international situation in the late 1980s and early 1990s became tortuously complex the great leader President KIM IL SUNG continued to uphold the anti-imperialist banner. Some socialist countries got sucked into the moves of the imperialists to  destroy socialism  but President KIM IL SUNG warned against the moves of the imperialists led by the US imperialists to disarm and stifle the socialist countries saying the world revolutionary people " must not tolerate the imperialists’ armed intervention and military aggression against other countries.
Peace must be won through a principled struggle against the imperialists’ moves for an arms build-up and against their war policy, and not by begging them for it or by unilateral concessions."
  This decisively  rejected the nonsense being prattled by some under the guise of  'universal human values' that socialist countries should give up the anti-imperialist struggle and  capitulate to imperialism. People's Korea became k known as a beacon of shining anti-imperialist struggle and a country steadfast in the socialist principle.
  President KIM IL SUNG continued to meet many anti-imperialist fighters and revolutionaries. He had the Pyongyang Declaration 'Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism ' adopted in April 1992. Right up to the end of his life. Right up to the last moments of his life President KIM IL SUNG upheld militant anti-imperialism and chastised those who turned away from the struggle against
imperialism. On the 30th of June 1994 he told the head of the Workers' Party of  Belgium that "those of a certain country are tolerating the Americans looking down on them , and afraid of them , failing to launch any struggle against imperialism and for socialism".
  Thus President KIM IL SUNG's life from beginning to end was one of principled and constant struggle against imperialism and for independence . The anti-imperialist cause of President KIM IL SUNG is today continued by dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN a man who never minces words and is steadfast in the battle against US imperialism.
Dermot Hudson
President ASSPUK
Chairman JISGE
Chairman UK KFA
Chairman of the UK Preparatory Committee For the 2017 Gathering to Praise the Great Persons Born of Mt Paektu
Member International Committee For the Study of Songun Politics.

Short biography of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG



President Kim Il Sung was  born in  Mangyongdae,  Pyongyang,  on April 15, 1912, the eldest son of Kim Hyong Jik and Kang Pan Sok.

His father named him Song Ju, hoping that he would become the pillar of the country.

He spent his boyhood moving frequently to various areas of Korea and China with his parents, who were engaged in revolutionary activities.

He gained a good command of Chinese because he had learned it at an early age and studied at a Chinese school, thanks to his father’s farsightedness. This made a great contribution to his future anti-Japanese joint struggle with the Chinese people.

In March 1923, he made a journey of 250 miles from Badaogou in China to Mangyongdae, true to the lofty idea of his father that, in order to make revolution, he should know the actual situation in his own country well, and studied at Changdok School in Chilgol, the place of his mother’s maiden home.

In January 1925, he heard the news that his father had been arrested again by the Japanese police, and resolutely left Mangyongdae with a firm determination not to return until Korea had won its independence.

In June 1926, after his father Kim Hyong Jik’s death, he was admitted to Hwasong Uisuk School, a two-year military-political school belonging to an anti-Japanese nationalist organization in Huadian, China, where he organized the Down-with-Imperialism Union (DIU) and was acclaimed its leader on October 17 the same year.

He left Hwasong Uisuk School after half a year of study in order to carry on his revolutionary activities on a full-scale basis and moved the arena of his revolutionary activity to Jilin.

While studying at Jilin Yuwen Middle School, he reorganized the DIU into the Anti-Imperialist Youth League, a more mass-based organization, on August 27, 1927 and founded the Young Communist League of Korea on August 28.

He also formed various mass organizations and led the anti-Japanese struggle.

He clarified the path of the Korean revolution and the strategic and tactical problems for the fulfilment of its main task at Kalun Meeting held from June 30 to July 2, 1930.

He formed the first party organization―the Society for Rallying Comrades―on July 3 in Kalun and organized the Korean Revolutionary Army, a political and paramilitary organization to make preparations for an anti-Japanese armed struggle, in Guyushu, Yitong County, on July 6 the same year.

He founded the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army (later reorganized into the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army), a standing revolutionary army, on April 25, 1932, led the anti-Japanese armed struggle and liberated the country on August 15, 1945.

He formed the Central Organizing Committee of the Communist Party of North Korea and proclaimed the founding of the Party on October 10, 1945.

He established the Provisional People’s Committee of North Korea, was elected Chairman on February 8, 1946 and made public the 20-Point Platform.

He founded the Workers’ Party of North Korea by merging the Communist Party of North Korea with the New Democratic Party of Korea in August 1946.

He led the drive to implement the tasks of the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution successfully in a short period of time.

He organized the first democratic election and established the People’s Assembly of North Korea, where he was elected Chairman of the People’s Committee of North Korea, a new central power organ, and set forth the tasks for the period of transition to socialism.

He developed the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army into the Korean People’s Army, a regular revolutionary armed force, in February 1948.

On September 9, 1948, he founded the DPRK, a unified central government of the Korean people, and was elected Premier of the Government, head of state, by the unanimous will of the entire Korean nation.

He called the joint plenary meeting of the central committees of the Workers’ Parties of North and South Korea on June 30, 1949, where he was elected Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

From June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953, he led the Fatherland Liberation War to a brilliant victory, safeguarding national sovereignty and starting US imperialism on its decline.

On August 5, 1953, he put forward the basic line of post-war economic construction at the 6th Plenary Meeting of the Party Central Committee and led the struggle for its implementation.

He pushed forward socialist revolution aimed at transforming production relations along socialist lines in urban and rural areas, in parallel with post-war economic construction.

He was elected again Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea at the 3rd and 4th Congresses of the WPK held in April 1956 and September 1961.

He advanced a new idea of uninterrupted revolution and defined the three revolutions—ideological, technical and cultural—as its main contents.

He called the 5th Plenary Meeting of the 4th Party Central Committee in December 1962 and set forth a new strategic policy of simultaneously carrying on economic construction and defence building in order to cope with the increasingly blatant moves of the US imperialists to unleash another war.

He was elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea at the 14th Plenary Meeting of the 4th Party Central Committee which was held in October 1966.

He successfully led the drive to implement the historic task of industrialization from 1957 to 1970.

He was elected President of the DPRK according to the new Socialist Constitution of the DPRK adopted at the first session of the 5th Supreme People’s Assembly in December 1972.

He was re-elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea at the 5th and 6th Congresses of the WPK held in 1970 and 1980.

He defined the modelling of the whole society on the Juche idea as the general task of the Korean revolution.

He set forth the three principles of national reunification in May 1972, the plan for founding a Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo in October 1980 and the 10-Point Programme of the Great Unity of the Whole Nation for the Reunification of the Country in April 1993.

He found a brilliant solution to the issue of successor in order to safeguard socialism and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche.

In June 1994, he met former US President Jimmy Carter in Pyongyang and created favourable conditions for opening DPRK-US negotiations about the nuclear issue and a north-south summit.

He worked hard for the Party and the revolution, for the country and the people, for global independence till the last moment of his life and died of sudden illness in his office at two o’clock on the morning of July 8, 1994.

He lived up to the motto “The people are my God” all his life.

He was awarded the titles of Generalissimo of the DPRK, DPRK Hero (three times), and Labour Hero.

He met over 70 000 foreign guests including heads of state and government and party leaders, and paid visits to 16 countries on 106 occasions.

He received 352 decorations, medals and honorary titles from foreign countries and international organizations.

His statue was erected in China, the International Kim Il Sung Prize was instituted and is awarded, and more than 480 streets, institutions and organizations in over 100 countries were named after him.

The greatest of great leaders , a tribute to Kim Il Sung -republished article from 2012

The greatest of great leaders , a tribute to Kim Il Sung by the chairman of the JISGE

As we approach the 100th anniversary of the birthday of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung,on April 15th, we reflect deeply of his achievements and consider his greatness. It is difficult to express it properly. I feel that others have probably expressed it much better than myself and indeed the DPRK itself has published many excellent articles and books . I myself have written the short booklet "The Eternal People's Sun". Nevertheless such a great occasion which will be shortly be celebrated not just in the DPRK but every corner of the globe, so one should say something about it.

The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung was the father of socialist Korea, liberator of the Korean people, a great theorist and ideologist , an ever victorious iron -willed brilliant commander and the great leader of the world revolution.

I first got acquainted with the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung and Korea by reading a book called“A Dictionary of Politics” but the book had very little information about the DPRK and Juche ( in fact it failed to mention Juche !) and was hostile and dismissive . However one thing it said made a deep impression on me , that the DPRK maintained independence and kept relations with both the Soviet Union and China. At the time this was very important and the DPRK was virtually the only socialist country in the world to do so. I grew up in a period when the socialist camp and international communist movement  were badly split between the 2 big socialist countries. Splits, division and confusion very common, we not only had the split between the USSR and China but also Trotskyites and Euro-communists. There was a pressing need for a wise and responsible leader of the world communist movement who would both maintain revolutionary, class and anti-imperialist principles but at the same time maintain unity and solidarity. It was quite a feat for the DPRK to maintain independence it had two great powers,Russia and China ,on its doorstep not mention Japan just across the sea and the US. Just to maintain independence under such conditions was the great feat of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung.

Although I did not know much at that time about the great leader President Kim Il Sung, it was very much apparent to me that he was the most tested and experienced of all the leaders of the socialist countries, having led the DPRK for over 40 years. Comrade Kim Il Sung outlived many veteran communist leaders such as Mao, Tito, Hoxha and others. He was still active as a world communist leader in the 1990s and played a key role in rallying the socialist forces after the frustration of socialism in the USSR and elsewhere.

Despite my admiration for the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung it was hard to find out any other information about the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung and the DPRK. One day I happened to find by chance some books from the DPRK, these were “Korean Review”(1974) and Volume 5 of “KIM IL SUNG Selected Works”. I was immediately impressed by the massive economic social, political and cultural achievements of the DPRK which were not publicised in the West even by so called progressives and communists. I found the sharpness, clarity and militancy of the DPRK captivating. It was a breathe of fresh air.

Reading volume 5 of Kim Il Sung selected Works, I read several speeches including the one made at the 20^th anniversary of the founding of the KPA and was struck by the revolutionary fervor and thorough going anti-imperialist stand. I read works such as the “The Great Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Cause Of The Asian, African And Latin American Peoples Is Invincible", “The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is the banner of Freedom and independence for our people and the powerful weapon of building socialism and communism” and the report to the 5^th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

All these works made a great impression on me for a number of reasons, such as complex and profound ideas conveyed with such simplicity, clarity and precision but above all their deep revolutionary nature that was a breath of fresh air compared to the stale revisionism that pervaded many organisations in the UK . I felt totally enthralled by the Juche idea. It was exciting, radical and revolutionary. I was deeply impressed by the steadfast anti-imperialist line espoused by great leader comrade Kim Il Sung and his militant defence of socialism. He sharply condemned the 'liberalisation' and 'opening up' moves of the East European countries and expounded the dictatorship of the proletariat and proletarian democracy. I was particularly struck with comrade Kim Il Sung's unswerving and stouthearted revolutionary anti-imperialist line , others spoke about 'peaceful co-existence and even co-operation with imperialism but the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung instead talked of chopping the limbs and head off US imperialism and sternly warned them over the "Pueblo" incident that if they provoked a war they would only get corpses and death. I decided to become a follower of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung.

The achievements of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung are so great and so numerous that it is impossible to list them within a single article or even a book or indeed many books. I will just list a few of his achievements, creation of the Juche idea, his role as a great outstanding military commander and the building of independent Juche-based socialism. I think these three areas actually constitute a solid core of comrade Kim Il Sung's life and work but of course there are others.

The Juche idea authored by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung is now known throughout the world. Seminars on it take place all over the world from Lima to London ,from Maputo to Moscow. It is an idea that fully embodies the hopes and aspirations of the world people for independence, to live as masters of their own fate. It inspires the oppressed and toiling masses everywhere. It is an idea which is both simple and complex. It was first outlined by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung at the Kalun meeting in June 1930 . Later it was expanded on in many works. Comrade Kim Il Sung defined Juche as follows

"In a nutshell, the idea of Juche means that the masters of the revolution and the work of construction are the masses of the people and that they are also the motive force of the revolution and the work of construction. In other words, one is responsible for one's own destiny and one has also the capacity for hewing out one's own destiny."

Juche means a lot more than independence and self-reliance though of course these underpin the practical application of the Juche idea. Juche overcame the limitations of previous revolutionary theories which stressed material and economic factors and emphasised the base and superstructure.  Juche showed the correct path for liberation for the oppressed countries of the world and the correct path for
building socialism. The vitality of the Juche idea has been proved by the successful construction of socialism in the DPRK and by the fact they when socialism was frustrated in other countries , the DPRK stood firm.

Self-reliance in defence was and is one of the key pillars of the Juche idea in practical terms. The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung was the iron -willed brilliant commander who defeated 2 big imperialist powers within the space of one generation. He was the protean guerrilla strategist and partisan who led the armed struggle against Japanese imperialism for 15 years . Comrade Kim Il Sung formed the Korean Revolutionary Army in 1930 after the Kalun meeting and later the Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army(which became the Korean People's Revolutionary Army in 1934). They did not have a state or rear base to rely , the anti-Japanse guerrillas had to be self-reliant. They captured weapons from the Japanese aggressors and produced their own weapons such as the Yongil bomb( today the DPRK has its own nuclear Yongil bomb the proud fruit of self-reliance) . Kim Il Sung was like a modern Robin Hood. He set up liberated zones it which land was distrubuted free of charge to landless peasants. Comrade Kim Il Sung was the master of strategy and tactics who defeated the well armed Japanese armed forces in many battles such as Pochonbo, Musan and many others. Korea was liberated in 1945 but only 5 years later did the drums of war sound again when the DPRK was attacked by the south Korean puppets instigated by the US imperialists . The US imperialists threw massive armed forces into the conflict including those of their satellite forces. To my great shame the Attlee government (heavily in debt to the US and pursuing a rabidly pro American line) sent British troops to fight in the war against the DPRK. The odds were stacked against the DPRK; the US had more troops than the DPRK and had the latest weapons , their ground troops were backed by air power. The US in terms of population and area was much greater than the DPRK . However after 3 years it was the US commander general Mark Clark who had to admit "I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.”. US imperialism bit the dust and went on the road of decline and ruin. This was due to the Juche-orientated brilliant military tactics of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung.

Comrade Kim Il Sung showed his genius by not only being a great military commander but an excellent and unparalleled leader in peacetime who built an independent socialist country of Juche and a socialist paradise. Comrade Kim Il Sung made independence the cornerstone of socialism in Korea. The DPRK refused to join the CMEA and instead pursued a policy of self-reliance. The DPRK under the leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung firmly resisted pressure , plots and sabotage by great powers who did not want to see the building of an independent socialism. Comrade Kim Il Sung made sure that the Rightist deviation of modern revisionism and the Left opportunism(aka "maoism") were avoided. He put forward a policy of the class line and mass line. Class struggle continued under socialism in the DPRK but at the same the unity of the people was stressed. Today the DPRK is the most united society in the world where the people, leader, party and army all form an integral harmonious whole. The DPRK does not know social conflict or riots and strikes.

The DPRK became a socialist paradise for the people The DPRK has provided people with the right to work,housing is provided at a very low cost or even totally free(one could only sigh when you contrast this to the recent headline about house prices in London going up even faster). Education is also free up to all levels which include university and post graduate study. School clothes and other things for children are either free or sold at 50% of cost price. Mothers with more than 3 children can work a 6 hour day but be paid for 8 hours. The retirement age is 60 for men and 55 for women. Free medical care was introduced in 1953 and buttressed by further legalisation in 1960 and 1980 .All treatment is including medicine is free and the state even pays travelling expenses to the sanatorium! Taxation including local autonomy tax was abolished in 1974.
Such measures have not been taken in all socialist countries nor in rich countries but have been taken in the DPRK because of the profound concern of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung for the people and the belief that the country should shoulder full responsibility for the destiny and well-being of the people. President Kim Il Sung made sure that improvement of the peoples living standard was enshrined in the principles of both the WPK and DPRK.

Thus Juche socialism in a model for the world . Socialist Korea is the greatest and durable legacy bequeathed by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung.

Lets us study more deeply the achievements of People's Korea, the Juche idea and the revolutionary activities and life of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung.GLORY TO THE ETERNAL MEMORY OF THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM IL SUNG!

Written by the Chairman of the Juche Idea Study Group