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.