KIM JONG IL
THE
SONGUN-BASED
REVOLUTIONARY
LINE IS A
GREAT REVOLUTIONARY
LINE
OF
OUR ERA AND
AN EVER-VICTORIOUS
BANNER OF OUR REVOLUTION
Talk
to the Senior Officials of the Central
Committee of the Workers’ Party of
Korea
January
29, Juche 92 (2003)
These days the
Korean revolution, guided by the Party,
has been making a victorious advance
under the banner of Songun.
Thanks to the
Songun-based politics pursued by our
Party, the revolutionary armed forces
have been incomparably strengthened, the
defence line of the homeland
consolidated and a great change effected
in the revolution and construction.
By dint of Songun
politics we have smashed the anti-DPRK,
anti-socialist machinations of the
imperialists step by step, defended the
country and the revolution and exalted
the dignity and prestige of socialist Korea
in the eyes of the world.
The Songun-based
politics of our Party is a politics the
invincibility of which has been verified
through, severe historical ordeals, and
an all-powerful sword for victory in the
revolution. It is an invariable
conviction and will of our Party to
defend and carry forward by force of
arms the sacred revolutionary cause
which was pioneered and has won one
victory after another by force of arms.
The whole Party, the entire army and all
the people must wage a resolute struggle
under the banner of Songun and thus
build a great, prosperous and powerful
socialist nation, achieve national
reunification and accomplish the
revolutionary cause of Juche.
Our Party’s
Songun-based revolutionary leadership,
Songun-based politics, is a
revolutionary mode of leadership and
socialist mode of politics that gives
top priority to military affairs, and
defends the country, the revolution and
socialism and dynamically pushes ahead
with overall socialist construction by
dint of the revolutionary mettle and
combat capabilities of the People’s
Army. The underlying aspects of Songun
politics are that military affairs are
of paramount importance, that the army
is the hardcore and main force of the
revolution, and that the army must be
strengthened in every way. The essential
characteristic of Songun politics is
that it safeguards the security of the
country and defends the revolutionary
gains by developing the People’s Army
into invincible revolutionary armed
forces, and that it builds up the
driving force of the revolution and
deals with all affairs of socialist
construction in a revolutionary and
militant way with the People’s Army as
the hard core and main force.
The idea and line
of giving importance to force of arms
and military affairs, advanced and
consistently maintained by President Kim
Il Sung,
constitute the basis and starting point
of our Party’s Songun politics.
The struggle of
the masses of the people for the cause
of independence, the cause of socialism,
is accompanied by confrontation of power
with imperialism and all sorts of other
counterrevolutionary forces. Therefore,
military affairs emerge as a matter of
key importance on which hangs victory or
failure in the revolution and the rise
or fall of a country or a nation. A
country or a nation can emerge
victorious in the revolution and defend
the revolution, and carve out its
destiny independently only when it has
its own powerful revolutionary armed
forces.
It is the force
of arms on which hinge the victory of
the revolutionary cause, independence
and sovereignty, and the prosperity of a
country or a nation. This is the
Juche-oriented principle of revolution
and the law of revolution, elucidated by
President Kim
Il Sung
and whose soundness has been verified by
history.
President Kim
Il Sung
organized an armed unit first in the
early period of his revolutionary
activities, achieved the historic cause
of national liberation by force of arms,
and founded the Party and the State
afterwards. In each period and at each
stage of the revolution after the
liberation, he always paid primary
attention to military affairs and
constantly strengthened the
revolutionary armed forces, and thus
laid a solid military guarantee for the
victorious advance of the revolution and
construction.
Our Party’s
Songun politics is a powerful mode of
politics of our era which was created by
inheriting President Kim
Il Sung’s
idea and line of attaching importance to
arms and military affairs in general,
and by developing them in depth as
required by the changing situation. By
dint of Songun politics we have been
defending the President’s great military
thoughts and immortal exploits, further
exalting them on a new and higher level,
and opening a vista for the victory of
the Juche revolutionary cause. The new
era of Juche revolution is the Songun
era and it is a new and higher stage of
our revolution which is developing under
the banner of Songun.
The Songun
revolutionary line, Songun politics, is
a scientific revolutionary line and mode
of statesmanship that most accurately
reflect the demands of the times and the
revolution.
Our Party started
pursuing Songun politics on the basis of
its scientific analysis of the
international circumstances of our
revolution and of the rapidly changing
situation.
Entering the
1990s, socialism collapsed in the former
Soviet Union
and the Eastern European countries,
giving rise to a great change in the
world political structure and balance of
forces. Although the imperialists’ mouthpieces and opportunists
claimed that a new era of “detente and
peace’’ had arrived following the “end
of the Cold War,” the world can never
exist in peace so long as imperialism
remains rampant. By taking advantage of
the collapse of the global socialist
system, the reactionary imperialist
forces intensified their offensive
against the anti-imperialist independent
forces; in particular, the US
imperialists, who had emerged as the
only superpower in the world, were more
tenacious than ever in the pursuit of
their policy of aggression and war, in
an attempt to realize their ambition of
world supremacy, wielding the power of
authority and arbitrariness in the
international arena and violently
encroaching upon the sovereignty of
other countries.
The reactionary
imperialist forces spearheaded their
attack towards our Republic, which is
advancing constantly under the banner of
independence, the banner of socialism.
The US imperialists and their followers
pounced upon us in all directions,
stepping up their moves for military
aggression on an unprecedented scale to
destroy our Republic by means of force
on the one hand, and putting pressure to
bear upon us in all spheres of politics,
the economy, ideology, culture and
diplomacy on the other to squeeze us
dry.
Due to their
anti-DPRK isolate-and-stifle schemes,
the Korean revolution came to face the
severest trials and hardships of its
history; we had to bear the full brunt
of the offensive of the imperialist
aggressive forces, in direct
confrontation with the US imperialists.
The showdown
between us and imperialism is a
confrontation of power; the
anti-imperialist military front
constituted the major front line, the
first lifeline of our revolution, on
which the destiny of the country, the
nation and socialism would be decided.
We had to strengthen and rely on the
People’s Army by concentrating our
efforts on military affairs. In this way
we were able to save the destiny of the
country and the nation, and lead the
revolution and construction to victory.
This is the reason why we say the army
means the Party, the State and the
people. Had we neglected military
affairs and failed to strengthen the
army, we might have perished already,
far from conducting the revolution and
construction.
Our
anti-imperialist, anti-US struggle is
the grimmest war to defend the country
and a war in defence of socialism. It
was only the People’s Army, the
revolutionary armed forces, that could
perform its mission and role as the
standard-bearer of Songun politics. The
Songun politics of our Party embodies
the high spirit of annihilating the
enemy at all costs, and the unshakable
conviction and will to emerge
victorious, on the part of the People’s
Army. It is entirely thanks to the
heroic efforts of the entire army and
the whole nation in single-hearted unity
with the People’s Army as its core under
the Party’s leadership that we could
overcome the difficulties in the way of
revolution and win great victories.
The practical
experience of our revolution has proved
that Songun politics, which gives
precedence to military affairs and
regards the revolutionary armed forces
as the pivot, is the most powerful mode
of politics of our era and revolution.
Songun politics makes it possible to
defeat any enemy no matter how
formidable, tide over any hardships and
trials, and guarantee the victorious
advance of the revolutionary cause. The
Songun revolutionary line, Songun
politics, is a strategic revolutionary
line and mode of politics that must be
adhered to constantly so long as
imperialism exists on the earth and its
aggressive machinations continue.
The Songun
politics of our Party is a unique
socialist mode of politics that gives a
new scientific clarification and
solution to the issue of the main force
of the revolution.
On the basis of
its deep analysis of the development of
the times and the changed social and
class relations, our Party put forward,
for the first time in the history of the
revolutionary movement, the idea of
“precedence of the army over the working
class,” giving prominence to the
People’s Army as the core unit and main
force of the revolution. The originality
of Songun politics and its invincibility
lie in the fact that it gives prominence
to the People’s Army as the core unit
and main force.
The preceding
revolutionary theories of Marxism viewed
the working class as the main force of
the revolution. Having analysed the
social and class relations in the
Western capitalist countries in the
mid-19th
century, Marx identified the working
class as the most advanced and
revolutionary class entrusted with the
mission of liquidating the domination of
capital and all sorts of exploitation,
and building socialism and communism,
and defined it as the leading class and,
the main force of the revolution. This
was the reflection of the reality of
capitalist society in those times.
Later, socialist revolutions emerged
victorious in several countries of the
world, and socialist construction got
under way, with the working class as the
main force. As a result, it had been
recognized as an unbreakable
revolutionary formula in carrying out
the cause of socialism to conduct the
revolutionary struggle and construction
work with the working class as the core
and the main force.
However, Marx’s
theories and formulas, which had been
set forth one and a half centuries
before, cannot accord with the present
reality. The times have advanced
further, witnessing a great change in
social atmosphere, class relations and
the status of the working class. With
the development of capitalism,
especially with the rapid development of
science, and technology and the arrival
of the IT age, the living basis of the
working class has been changed and work
is being done on a more technological
and intellectual basis. The ranks of the
working class have been intellectualized
and the working masses engaged in
technical, intellectual and mental
labour are quickly outnumbering manual
workers. Moreover, the development of
capitalism consolidates the domination
of monopoly capital and adds to the
prevalence of reactionary bourgeois
ideology and culture, which greatly acts
to control the class consciousness,
awakening and revolutionary assimilation
of the working class. The working class
of the present times cannot be
identified with the working class in the
period of industrial capitalism or
proletarian revolution, in the fight of
either the situation of the times or the
actual reality of the labour, social
status and labour movement of the
working class. The changed situation and
the reality require a new ideology and
theory, strategy and tactics with which
to awaken and rally the broad sections
of the masses who oppose the domination
of monopoly capital and the aggression
and war policy of imperialism, train
hard-core elements among them and expand
and strengthen the revolutionary forces.
The limitations
of Marxist revolutionary theories were
also manifested in a socialist society
where the working masses, including the
working class, have become the masters
of the State and society. The preceding
theories based on the materialistic
conception of history considered that
the revolution is completed once the
working class seizes power and
establishes socialist relations of
production. For this reason, they failed
to make a correct clarification of the
law-governed course of socialist
construction subsequent to victory in
revolution; in particular, they failed
to raise the issue of remoulding man,
the ideological revolution, in a
socialist society.
For the first
time in history, President Kim
Il Sung
advanced the outstanding idea that the
course of building socialism and
communism is, in view of the class
relations, the process of modelling the
whole society on the working-class
pattern and gave scientific explanations
of the role of the working class, the
development of class relations and the
law governing the remoulding of man in a
socialist society.
Thanks to his
original theory on building socialism
and under his wise leadership, the
working class and other working masses
have been transformed into socialist
workers in our country and they all work
and live basing themselves on the
collectivist principle under the
socialist system. Our Party has firmly
equipped the masses of the people with the
Juche idea and upgraded the process of
transforming the whole of society on the
revolutionary and working-class patterns
by giving definite precedence to the
remoulding of man, the ideological work,
in the socialist cause. Thus it has
brought about a radical change in the
socio-economic lives and
politico-ideological traits of our
people. The Korean people are
revolutionary and boundlessly faithful
to the Party and the revolution since
they have been educated and trained in a
revolutionary way in the embrace of the
socialist motherland under the guidance
of the Party and the leader. These days
the masses of the people, who are
solidly united behind the Party and the
leader with one mind and
will, constitute a powerful driving
force of socialist construction in our
society.
Needless
to say, class differences still remain
between the working class and the
cooperative farmers, and the
revolutionary and working-class
assimilation of intellectuals cannot be
said to have been completed. The working
class is as advanced a unit of our
society as ever, and has a higher sense
of class consciousness, collectivism and
revolution than other working masses.
Furthermore, it is still in charge of
industry, the leading sector of the
national economy; especially the workers
in the key industries and munitions
industry play a very important role in
the revolution and construction. That is
why our Party treasures the working
class and always pays deep concern to
further revolutionizing it and enhancing
its role.
Applying Songun
politics, our Party has given prominence
to the People’s Army over the working
class, prompted by a new viewpoint and
attitude towards the issue of the main
force of the revolution and the role of
a revolutionary army in the revolution
and construction.
The question of
the main force of the revolution is one
of the fundamental problems in
strengthening the motive force of the
revolution and in developing the
revolutionary movement by enhancing its
role. Which class, stratum or social
collective becomes the main force of the
revolution is decided by its position
and role in the revolution and
construction, its sense of revolution,
organizational discipline, and combat
capabilities.
The question of
the main force of the revolution cannot
remain invariable in any era, society or
revolution, nor is it a question that
can be solved only on the basis of class
relations. Hence, regarding the working
class as the main force of the
revolution anytime and anywhere is an
expression of a dogmatic viewpoint
toward the preceding theories and is not
correct in principle either.
Unfettered by any
established theories or formulas, out
Party strictly rejected any expression
of dogmatic attitude to and revisionist
distortion of the preceding theories,
and strengthened the army and upgraded
its role as required by the development
of the situation and the revolution,
thus leading the revolution and
construction to victory.
For our Party to
give prominence to the People’s Army as
the main force of the revolution is
essential to the accomplishment of the
revolutionary cause of Juche, in view of
the position and role of the People’s
Army in our revolution at present and in
the light of its revolutionary mettle
and combat efficiency.
The
People’s Army is the revolutionary ranks
that defend the first lifeline of our
revolution. It defends the Party and the
revolution, the country and the people
by force of arms and at the cost of life
in direct confrontation with the strong
imperialist enemy. On the bayonets of
the People’s Army hinge peace, socialism
and worthwhile and happy life of our
people.
This is the noble
mission and the heaviest yet most
honourable revolutionary task of the
People’s Army, for which neither the
working class nor any other social group
can substitute.
The People’s Army
is the most revolutionary, militant and
powerful revolutionary group in our
society. No group is equal to the
People's Army in terms of the sense of
revolution and organization and combat
efficiency.
Our People’s Army
is unfailingly loyal to the Party and
the revolution and very strong in
ideology and faith, and it is the most
organized combat unit. It defends the
Party and the leader and carries out the
Party’s policies at all costs, and
fights to the death for the cause of the
Party, the cause of socialism. The men
and officers of the People’s Army, who
defend the country and the revolution by
force of arms in the van, love their
country more dearly than anyone else,
are eager to defend socialism and fight
uncompromisingly against imperialism and
the class enemy with intense hatred. The
People’s Army is a revolutionary unit
that brims over with revolutionary
faith, iron will and militant spirit. It
is stronger than any other collective in
the sense of collectivism, organization,
discipline and unity.
The entire army
is single-heartedly united behind its
Supreme Commander, and moves as one
under his command and directive; it
arranges all of its soldiers’ routine
life and activities as required by
military rules and discipline. The
collectivist principle and organization
and discipline have become the lifeblood
and requirements of the routine life of
the People’s Army.
The
high sense of revolution and
organization of the People’s Army is
reflective of the characteristics of the
armed unit and the mettle unique to the
revolutionary army, and constitutes a
basic factor of upgrading the combat
efficiency of our army and improving its
politico-ideological might.
It
is not that any army that takes part in
the revolution or any socialist army
acquires the traits and qualities
befitting a revolutionary army and,
moreover, can become the main force of
the revolution. The working class or the
army can become a revolutionary class or
revolutionary armed forces and play an
important role in the revolution only
when it is awakened and organized under
the leadership of a revolutionary party.
Apart from the correct leadership of the
party and the leader, it is impossible
to train any hardcore unit of the
revolution or
to awaken and rally the broad sections
of the masses around the revolutionary
ranks.
Our People’s Army
has grown up into genuine revolutionary
armed forces, an invincible army to
perform its honourable mission and duty
with credit as the hardcore unit and
main force of the revolution, thanks to
the leadership of President Kim
Il Sung
and the great Workers’ Party.
President Kim
Il Sung
built our People’s Army into a prototype
of a revolutionary army and laid eternal
foundations for its development by
thoroughly applying the principles and
ways he had put forward for the building
of Juche-type revolutionary armed
forces. He built the People’s Army into
an army of the Party and the leader, a
genuine army of the people, and
developed it as an armed unit of
ideology and faith, possessed of all the
politico-ideological traits required of
a revolutionary army. Under his wise
leadership an independent and modern
munitions industry was created and so
developed as to serve as the material
and technical foundations for the
modernization of
the entire army. The imperishable
exploit he performed for the building of
the armed forces is the most valuable of
his revolutionary achievements and it is
now proving its worth as the solid
foundation and priceless asset for our
Party to further strengthen the People’s
Army and pursue Songun politics.
On the basis of
his great achievements in army building,
our Party gave prominence to the
People’s Army as the standard-bearer and
main force of Songun-based revolution,
and directed all its efforts to
upgrading it. Through the continuous
field inspections of the units of the
People’s Army, our Party always went
deep among the servicepersons and took
care of them with love and trust. It
strengthened the army through
revolutionary education and training by
decisively intensifying Party political
work within the army and unsparingly
supplied everything necessary for the
army. The Party took revolutionary
measures to firmly equip the People’s
Army with our own unique strategy and
tactics, and radically improve its
military and technical preparedness as
required by the characteristics of
modern warfare and tense situations. Our
Party’s energetic guidance has given
rise to a fresh turn in the
politico-ideological traits and fighting
spirit of the People’s Army, making its
combat efficiency and might better than
ever before. Being an army of the Party
and the leader and an army of the
Supreme Commander, in name and in
reality, our People’s Army has grown up
to be revolutionary ranks of loyalists
full of the spirit of defending the
leadership of the revolution at all
costs, and the entire army from the
Supreme Commander to the rank and file
has formed a harmonious whole on the
basis of revolutionary comradeship. The
Party’s leadership over the army has its
firm place within the People’s Army, a
revolutionary and military spirit
prevails in the entire army, and the
good traits of unity between superiors
and subordinates, between officers and
rank and file and between commanding
officers and political officers are
manifesting themselves to the full
within the army.
The noble
politico-ideological traits,
revolutionary spirit and fighting mettle
of the People’s Army are expressed in a
concentrated way in the revolutionary
soldier spirit. The revolutionary
soldier spirit, which was created and
has been given full play within the
People’s Army under the leadership of
the Party, is the lofty revolutionary
spirit of our army, characterized mainly
by a spirit of defending the leader at
the risk of one’s life, a spirit of
carrying out tasks at all costs, and a
heroic self-sacrificing spirit. It is a
death-defying spirit with which the
soldiers of the People’s Army fight for
the Party and the leader, for the
country and revolution at the cost of
their youth and lives; it is a
revolutionary spirit of sure victory, a
spirit of confronting any enemy no
matter how formidable head-on and
breaking through any difficulties and
trials.
The revolutionary
soldier spirit of the People’s Army is a
noble revolutionary spirit symbolic and
representative of the great Songun era.
And it constitutes the most
revolutionary and militant ideological
and spiritual weapon, which makes it
possible to create miracles and perform
meritorious deeds in the course of the
revolution and construction. In the
Songun era the working class, too, can
perform its class duty and mission only
when it is equipped with the
revolutionary soldier spirit, and all
the other working people can maintain
and add luster to their honour of being
the masters of the State and society,
their honour of being the socialist
working masses, only when they learn
from the revolutionary soldier spirit.
When the entire army and all the people
live and struggle with the revolutionary
soldier spirit and fighting spirit,
united single-heartedly behind the
Party, there will be no enemy in the
world strong enough to resist us and no
fortress we cannot conquer.
Since our
People’s Army is the creator,
personifier and pioneer of the
revolutionary soldier spirit
representative of the times and the most
powerful combat unit that defends the
first lifeline of our revolution, it is
the standard-bearer, hardcore unit and
the main force of the Songun revolution
and, has been exalting the honour to a
high degree.
Songun politics,
which gives prominence to the People’s
Army as its main force, makes it
possible to firmly maintain and apply to
the letter the fundamental ideals and
the basic principles of the revolution.
Socialism is the fundamental ideal of
our revolution to realize the
independence of the masses of the
people, and socialist society is a
society which embodies the class demands
and aspirations of the working class.
Apart from the intrinsic desire and
class principle of the working class, it
is impossible to realize the
independence of the masses of the people
and complete the socialist cause. We are
striving to build a great, prosperous
and powerful socialist nation and
reunify the country in the midst of a
severe class struggle against the US
imperialists and other enemies. The
complex and grave situation of our
revolution demands that the edge of
class struggle be sharpened and the
working-class principle, the
revolutionary principle, be maintained
more thoroughly in all spheres. Our
Party has upheld the banner of Songun in
the acute confrontation with
imperialism. Our rifle is the rifle of
class, the rifle of revolution, and it
is the most powerful weapon for
anti-imperialist class struggle. The
revolutionary soldier spirit of the
People’s Army is the highest expression
of class consciousness and the
revolutionary spirit of the working
class. Today our Party is totally
serious and uncompromising about its
demand for adherence to the class
principle, the revolutionary principle,
in all spheres of the revolution and
construction and for farther
intensification of class education and
revolutionary education among the
soldiers and the people, as required by
the Songun era. When our army and people
are firmly equipped with a high level of
class consciousness and the
revolutionary soldier spirit in support
of the Party’s Songun-based leadership,
the socialist class position will be
further cemented, and the socialist
cause will be defended and, completed
with victory under any circumstances.
The Songun
politics of our Party is the most
powerful and dignified politics of
independence which embodies the Juche
idea.
Independence is the life and
soul of a social being, the masses of
the people, a country and a nation. The
man-centred Juche idea is an idea of
independence, and all revolutionary
struggles are ones for independence. The
Juche idea correctly combines love for
the masses of the people with that for
the country and the nation, and the
independence of the masses of the people
with that of the country and the nation,
and scientifically elucidates the ways
for its realization. The politics that
defends and realizes the independence of
the masses of the people, the country
and the nation on the basis of the
fundamentals and principles of the Juche
idea is the most revolutionary and
scientific politics, and it also
constitutes genuine politics of love for
the country, the nation and the people.
Our Songun
politics that relies on the invincible
revolutionary armed forces is a
principled and righteous politics of
anti-imperialist independence and
politics of love for the country, the
nation and the people, the politics
which reliably defends and guarantees
the independent demands and interests of
the masses of the people, and the
sovereignty and dignity of the country
and the people from infringement by the
imperialist reactionaries. As
self-defensive revolutionary armed
forces, our People’s Army is defending
by force of arms the dignity of our
Party and revolution, our ideology and
system and our country and people,
smashing the enemy’s war provocations
and safeguarding the security and peace
of the country. Thanks to Songun
politics we are conducting the
revolution and construction fair and
square in our own way and as suited to
the reality of our country and the
interests of our revolution, and
according to our own ideology and faith,
holding up the banner of independence in
spite of such complicated and acute
situation as today. It is because we
have strong military power and an
ever-victorious strategy and tactics
that we are firmly maintaining the
independent principles in politics,
resolutely rejecting all manner of
outside interference and pressure, and
pushing ahead with all our endeavours
boldly as we intend, unfettered by
anything.
Thanks to Songun
politics, our independence remains
firmly guaranteed and our socialist
motherland is demonstrating its dignity
and honour, authority and might as a
fortress of independence. Our Party’s
Songun politics is literally a politics
for the people and a politics geared to
defending and ensuring the independent
rights and fundamental interests of the
masses of the people. For this reason,
the entire people support it absolutely
and uphold it with loyalty. The unfurled
banner of Songun upheld by our Party has
become a great national banner inspiring
the consciousness of national
independence, self-respect and sense of
national pride and honour among the
fellow countrymen in the north, south
and abroad, and opening up the road to
the national reunification and
prosperity.
Our Party’s
Songun idea, Songun politics, has proved
its validity, superiority and great
vitality, and is demonstrating them all
the more with each passing day in the
practice and reality of our revolution.
First of all, the
military position of our revolution has
been fortified impregnably under the
Party’s Songun-based leadership.
The military
might of the country constitutes the
foremost rational power in the struggle
for independence and socialism and
against imperialism. If one defeats the
enemy on the military front one will
emerge victorious on all other fronts.
Our People’s Army
has grown up to be invincible
revolutionary armed forces, and our
socialist motherland has emerged as a
military power in the international
arena. We have won one victory after
another in the fierce political and
military showdown with the imperialists,
and defended the country, the revolution
and socialism from all manner of
aggressive machinations of the enemy.
The distinguished
successes and achievements we have made
in the military field are precisely the
great victory of our Party’s
Songun-based leadership, Songun
politics, and clear manifestation of its
validity and might. The military
position of the revolution that has been
cemented into an impregnable fortress,
with the People’s Army as the core,
thanks to our Party’s Songun-based
leadership serves as a basic guarantee
for the completion of the Juche
revolutionary cause.
Our revolutionary
ranks have been united more solidly than
ever and the single-hearted unity of our
whole society has been further
strengthened in the Songun era.
Today the
People’s Army and the people have forged
a genuine comradely relationship whereby
they share weal and woe on the road of
Songun-based revolution under the
leadership of the Party, and the whole
society is brimming over with the
beautiful trait of unity between the
army and the people. The servicepersons
are serving the people with devotion
while the latter are taking loving care
of the former as their own flesh and
blood, assisting them with all
sincerity, and devotedly learning from
the revolutionary soldier spirit and
fighting spirit of the People’s Army. As
a result, both the servicepersons and
the people share the same idea and
fighting spirit. In the Songun era the
People’s Army is playing a pivotal,
vanguard role in all spheres of the
revolution and construction, while the
people are treasuring the former above
all else, and displaying the trait of
supporting and assisting the army,
resulting in further solidity of
comradely unity between the army and the
people.
As a result of
our Party’s Songun-based leadership and
politics of love for the soldiers and
the people, the single-hearted unity of
our society has been upgraded to a
single-hearted unity of the whole Party,
the whole army and the whole nation
based on one ideology and faith, and
comradely love and obligation.
Furthermore, the politico-ideological
might of our revolution has been further
strengthened to an incomparable degree.
The great
viability of Songun politics has been
confirmed in the process of
socialist
construction.
As the main force
of the revolution, the People’s Army
stands in the van in all spheres of
socialist construction and has been
performing labour feats, setting a
shining example. The officers and men of
the People’s Army have erected numerous
monumental edifices and modern factories
through their heroic struggle in full
support of the Party’s idea and
policies, and made breakthroughs in the
difficult yet important sectors of the
national economy. They were the first to
overcome manifold hardships and trials
and created miracles and brought about
innovations in all spheres, thus
inspiring the working masses throughout
the country to a revolutionary upsurge.
Taking
their cue from the revolutionary soldier
spirit and the fighting spirit of the
People’s Army, the working class and
other working masses created the Kanggye
spirit and kindled the torch of Ranam,
bringing about a sweeping innovation in
overall socialist construction. By dint
of Songun politics relying on the
People’s Army as the main force, we were
able to endure the severest “Arduous
March” and the forced march, open up a
road towards building a great,
prosperous and powerful socialist nation
and push forward with the revolution and
construction in a bold and positive way
despite the difficult situation. Our
experience shows that if all the
officials and the working people uphold
the Party’s Songun-based leadership and
work as the People’s Army does, it is
possible to conquer the fortress of
cutting-edge science and technology,
build an economic power, establish an
assiduous manner in the management of
livelihood and a noble way of cultural
and emotional life throughout society,
and provide our people with affluent
lives in a short period of time.
Our Party’s
Songun politics has registered a
turning-point in the cause of national
reunification, furthered the
international solidarity with our
revolution and radically expanded the
external relations of the country.
Songun politics,
which is imbued with the principle of
national independence and the spirit of
love for the country and the people, our
policies for national reunification
based on it and our positive efforts
gave rise to the historic Pyongyang
summit, followed by the adoption of the
June 15 North-South Joint Declaration,
and the further development of
inter-Korean relations of reconciliation
and cooperation in several sectors. The
trend of struggle against the US and
other foreign forces and for independent
national reunification is mounting to a
crescendo on an unprecedented scale in south Korea.
Songun politics,
which opposes imperialist aggression and
war policies and defends the
independence of the country and the
nation, is winning broad support among
public circles and the progressive
peoples of the world. It gives a blow to
the
aggressive forces
of imperialism and encouragement to the
anti-imperialist independent forces in
the international arena, stimulating the
cause of making the whole world
independent.
Upholding the
banner of Songun under the leadership of
the great Party, our army and people
have traversed a glorious road of
victory, pushing their way through
raging storms and creating miracles in
history. The Songun-based revolutionary
line of our Party is a great
revolutionary line of our era and an
ever-victorious banner of our
revolution. In the Songun-based
revolution lie the building of a great,
prosperous and powerful nation, national
reunification and the victory of the
revolutionary cause of Juche. Now that
the situation is very complicated and
tense at home and abroad, we must hold
the banner of Songun higher. The whole
Party, the entire army and all the
people must advance more resolutely
towards a new great victory of our
revolution in support of the Party’s
Songun-based leadership.
First of all,
great efforts should be directed
continually at strengthening the
People’s Army. The might of Songun
politics is precisely the might of the
People’s Army; its superiority and might
can be given full play only when the
People’s Army is soundly prepared
politically and ideologically,
militarily and technically.
The Party’s
leadership is the lifeblood of the
People’s Army. Our People’s Army should
be strengthened as the first defender of
the Party, as the revolutionary armed
unit that fights to the death in support
of the Party’s idea and leadership, so
that it can inherit and add luster to
its glorious history and tradition as the army of the
Party and the leader. The more complex
and tenser the situation is, the more
efforts should be made to intensify
politico-ideological education and
military training within the People’s
Army so that all the servicepersons
trust and follow only our Party under
any circumstances and conditions,
heighten their revolutionary vigilance
and maintain their preparedness. The
People’s Army should be fully ready to
mercilessly annihilate the imperialist
aggressors whenever and wherever they
attack.
The
politico-ideological and military
positions of our .revolution must be
fortified rock-solid by firming up
single-hearted unity of the army and the
people. There is nothing to fear or
impossible to do when the army and the
people fight with single-hearted unity
under the Party’s leadership. The
tradition of army-people unity-both
treasuring and loving each other and
sharing weal and woe-should be given
farther play in the Songun era.
It is important
to establish a sound habit, of attaching
importance to military affairs
throughout society.
The work of
consolidating the defence capabilities
of the country is an undertaking shared
by the entire Party, the whole country
and all the people. Our officials and
working masses must organize and conduct
all work on the principle of giving
precedence to military affairs, and make
energetic efforts to build up the
military might of the country, in
addition, the paramilitary forces must
be strengthened and the whole country
turned into a solid fortress.
It is imperative
to expedite overall economic
construction while giving precedence to
the defence industry, as required by the
Songun era, so as to support the Party’s
Songun politics both materially and
technologically, and radically improve
the people’s living standards in a short
period of time.
All
the officials and working people must
cherish the validity and invincibility
of the Party’s Songun idea, Songun
politics, as their unshakable faith,
work and live as required by it at all
times and strive to make the whole
society overflow with such revolutionary
mettle and militant spirit as can be
found only in the People’s Army.
Our People’s Army
and people have burnished the new era of
the Juche revolution as a great Songun
era under the leadership of the Party.
We will victoriously advance the
revolutionary cause of Juche and bring
it to completion under the banner of
Songun.
All the
officials, Party members and other
working people must become ardent
followers of the Songun idea and staunch
defenders and implementers of Songun
politics, and loyally uphold our Party’s
Songun-based revolutionary leadership.