Die Koreanische Volksarmee ist das Schutzschild des sozialistischen Korea

Zur Feier des 82. Jahrestages der Gründung der Koreanischen Volksarmee (25. April)

Am 25. April, feiert das koreanische Volk mit grossem Stolz den 82. Jahrestag der Gründung der Koreanischen Volksarmee (KVA).
Die vom grossen Generalissimus Kim Il Sung am 25. April Juche 21 (1932) als Antijapanische Partisanenvolksarmee (AJPVA) gegründete, später zur Koreanischen Revolutionären Volksarmee (KRVA) und schliesslich zur KVA umgebildete revolutionäre Volksstreitmacht vom Päktu-Gebirge kann auf eine einzigartige Siegesgeschichte zurückblicken.
Nach dem historischen Sieg über den japanischen Imperialismus und der Wiederherstellung der Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit Koreas (15. August 1945) zwang die KVA unter dem genialen Oberbefehl des Generalissimus Kim Il Sung , des unbezwingbaren Feldherrn mit eisernem Willen, im Vaterländischen Befreiungskrieg (1950-1953) die USA-Aggressoren in die Knie (27. Juli 1953).
Die KVA war die erste Armee in der Geschichte überhaupt, die einen Sieg über die "Weltmacht" USA errungen hat.
Der Sieg über den USA-Imperialismus beweist die Tatsache, dass auch ein kleines Land, wenn es von einem grossartigen und hervorragenden Führer, der das Land und das Volk liebt, geleitet wird, in der Lage ist, die "stärkste Militärmacht der Welt" in die Knie zu zwingen.
Der Sieg der KVA über die USA-Aggressoren und deren 15 Satellitenarmeen begeisterte alle Völker und die internationale Arbeiterklasse. Dadurch wurde Präsident Kim Il Sung der von der progressiven Menschheit am meisten bewunderte und verehrte Staatsmann. Und die Juche-Ideologie begann sich mit grosser Geschwindigkeit über die ganze Welt zu verbreiten.
Dank der revolutionären Songun-Führung des Generalissimus Kim Jong Il wurde die Demokratische Volksrepublik Korea (DVRK) zum Atomwaffenstaat. Gestützt auf die starke atomare Abschreckungsmacht, hindert die KVA die Feinde an einem weiteren Ueberfall auf die DVRK und an der Entfesselung eines zweiten Korea-Krieges.
Im letzten Jahr errang die KVA unter dem Oberkommando von Marschall Kim Jong Un, einem weiteren grossen Heerführer vom Päktu-Gebirge, mit der Erstellung der Schiessbereitschaft der Raketentruppen einen grossen historischen Sieg über die kriegsbesessenen USA-Imperialisten und rettete damit den Frieden auf der koreanischen Halbinsel und den Weltfrieden.
Die heroische und kampferprobte KVA ist das unbezwingbare eiserne Schutzschild des sozialistischen Korea und das immer siegreiche Songun-Schwert.

Juche-Ideologie-Seminar in Pyongyang zu Ehren des Tages der Sonne

Artikel des Schweizerischen Vorbereitungskomitees für die Feier des Geburtstages des Präsidenten
Kim Il Sung, Tag der Sonne (15. April)

Zu Ehren des Geburtstages des Präsidenten Kim Il Sung (Tag der Sonne) fand am 14. April im Volkskulturpalast in Pyongyang ein Juche-Ideologie-Seminar zum Thema Der Kimilsungismus-Kimjongilismus und die Sache der globalen Unabhängigkeit statt.
Daran teil nahmen Kenichi Ogami, Generalsekretär des Internationalen Instituts der Juche-Ideologie (IIJI), Delegationen von Juche-Ideologie-Studiengruppen und Anhänger der Juche-Ideologie sowie Kim Ki Nam, Sekretär des Zentralkomitees der Partei der Arbeit Koreas (PdAK) und Vorsitzender der Gesellschaft der Sozialwissenschaftler Koreas, und weitere Offizielle.
Ramon Jimenez Lopez, Vizegeneraldirektor des IIJI und Vorsitzender des Lateinamerikanischen Instituts der Juche-Ideologie (LAIJI), sagte in seiner Rede, dass es das nobelste Ziel und Ideal des Kimilsungismus-Kimjongilismus sei, die Volksmassen zu den Herren der Welt zu machen und ihr Ideal der Unabhängigkeit zu realisieren.
Er äusserte die Ueberzeugung, dass das Streben der Menschheit nach Freiheit, Frieden und Prosperität verwirklicht werden könne, wenn man den vom Kimilsungismus-Kimjongilismus, der grossen Idee der globalen Unabhängigkeit, gewiesenen Weg beschreitet.
Es folgten Reden weiterer Delegierter, in denen die Songun-Idee und die ihr zugrundeliegende Juche-Ideologie als Kompass zur globalen Unabhängigkeit und die glanzvollen Beiträge des Ersten Sekretärs Kim Jong Un zur Entwicklung des Kimilsungismus-Kimjongilismus gepriesen wurden.
Die Redner hoben hervor, dass die historische Wahrheit und Richtigkeit der unsterblichen Juche-Ideologie dank der Politik und den Aktivitäten des Präsidenten Kim Il Sung und des Generalsekretärs Kim Jong Il bewiesen worden sei.
Das Seminar sandte einen Glückwunschbrief an Marschall Kim Jong Un.

KIM JONG UN zum Ersten Vorsitzenden der NVK der DVRK wiedergewählt!

Der oberste Führer Kim Jong Un wurde am 9. April Juche 103 (2014) an der 1. Tagung der 13. Obersten Volksversammlung der Demokratischen Volksrepublik Korea (DVRK) zum Ersten Vorsitzenden der Nationalen Verteidigungskommission (NVK) der DVRK wiedergewählt.
Die Wiederwahl von Marschall Kim Jong Un zum Ersten Vorsitzenden der NVK der DVRK ist ein freudiges historisches Ereignis! Sie bringt das absolute Vertrauen der Armee und des Volkes zu ihm und deren höchste Verehrung für ihn zum Ausdruck.
Der Erste Vorsitzende Kim Jong Un garantiert das ewige Gedeihen von Kim Il Sungs und Kim Jong Ils Korea und verkörpert die unbesiegbare Songun-Macht. Er ist das leuchtende Banner des Sieges und des Ruhms des sozialistischen Korea.
Die DVRK und das koreanische Volk haben mit Marschall Kim Jong Un eine rosige und glänzende Zukunft. Das Lebensniveau des Volkes wird sich stetig weiter verbessern.
Der Erste Vorsitzende Kim Jong Un wird auch den Kampf des koreanischen Volkes für die nationale Wiedervereinigung zu einem triumphalen Sieg führen.
Marschall Kim Jong Un wird als unbezwingbarer Songun-Heerführer mit eisernem Willen die immer dreisteren aggressiven und konterrevolutionären Gangsterkomplotte der USA-Imperialisten und der proamerikanischen Konservativen Südkoreas zur Zerschlagung des sozialistischen Korea mit gnadenlosen Schlägen zertrümmern.
Das koreanische Volk feierte die Wiederwahl von Marschall Kim Jong Un zum Ersten Vorsitzenden der NVK der DVRK mit machtvollen Freudenkundgebungen. Auf dem Kim-Il-Sung-Platz in Pyongyang fand am 10. April die zentrale Massenkundgebung statt.
Kim Ki Nam, Sekretär des Zentralkomitees der Partei der Arbeit Koreas (PdAK), sagte in seiner Rede, dass Marschall Kim Jong Uns Wiederwahl die Würde der Nation symbolisiert. Der Redner hob hervor, dass Marschall Kim Jong Un mit der neuen Linie der PdAK zum gleichzeitigen Aufbau der starken Wirtschaft und der atomaren Macht die Verteidigung des Landes kraftvoll gestärkt hat.
Auch im Ausland wurde die Wiederwahl von Marschall Kim Jong Un von der progressiven Menschheit gefeiert. Die Freunde Koreas und die Anhänger der Juche-Ideologie und der Songun-Idee brachten in Kommuniqués und Erklärungen ihre Freude darüber zum Ausdruck.

Festlicher Monat April

Artikel des Schweizerischen Vorbereitungskomitees für die Feier des Geburtstages des Präsidenten
Kim Il Sung, Tag der Sonne (15. April)

Der April ist der festlichste Monat der koreanischen Nation. Es ist der Monat der Sonne, in welchem der Geburtstag des grossen Präsidenten Kim Il Sung gefeiert wird.
Der 15. April, der Tag der Sonne, ist der höchste und glanzvollste Feiertag Koreas. An diesem Tag erinnert sich das koreanische Volk ehrfurchtsvoll und liebevoll der unsterblichen Verdienste des Präsidenten Kim Il Sung um die Befreiung der Nation, den Sieg im Vaterländischen Befreiungskrieg und den Aufbau des sozialistischen Volksparadieses sowie den Kampf für die Wiedervereinigung des Vaterlandes.
Im gleichen Monat werden weitere Feiertage und Jubiläen des revolutionären Wirkens der grossen Männer vom Päktu-Gebirge gefeiert.
** Am 25. April wird der Jahrestag der Gründung der Koreanischen Volksarmee (KVA) - der damaligen Antijapanischen Partisanen-Volksarmee (AJPVA) und späteren Koreanischen Revolutionären Volksarmee (KRVA) - durch den Generalissimus Kim Il Sung im Jahre Juche 21 (1932) gefeiert.
** Der 13. April ist der Jahrestag der Auszeichnung des Präsidenten Kim Il Sung mit dem Titel des Generalissimus der Demokratischen Volksrepublik Korea (DVRK) im Jahre Juche 81 (1992).
** Der 9. April ist der Jahrestag der Wahl des Führers Kim Jong Il zum Vorsitzenden der Nationalen Verteidigungskommission der DVRK (1993).
** Am 11. April jährt sich die Wahl des Marschalls Kim Jong Un zum Ersten Sekretär der Partei der Arbeit Koreas (PdAK) im Jahre Juche 101 (2012).
** Der 13. April ist der Jahrestag der Wahl des Marschalls Kim Jong Un zum Ersten Vorsitzenden der Nationalen Verteidigungskommission der DVRK (2012).
** Am 21. April feiert das koreanische Volk den Geburtstag von Kang Pan Sok (1892-1932), der herausragenden Führerin der Frauenbewegung Koreas und Mutter des Präsidenten Kim Il Sung.
Der festliche Monat April beflügelt das koreanische Volk, unter der weisen und edlen Führung des verehrten Marschalls Kim Jong Un noch energischer für die Erfüllung der Vermächtnisse der grossen Generalissimi Kim Il Sung und Kim Jong Il zu kämpfen und das Vaterland zu vereinigen.

10-POINT PROGRAMME OF THE GREAT UNITY OF THE WHOLE NATION FOR THE REUNIFICATION OF THE COUNTRY

KIM IL SUNG

10-POINT PROGRAMME OF THE GREAT UNITY OF THE WHOLE NATION

FOR THE REUNIFICATION OF THE COUNTRY

April 6, 1993

To put an end to the nearly half a century of division and confrontation and reunify the country is the unanimous demand and desire of the whole nation. For the independent and peaceful reunification of the country it is necessary to achieve the great unity of the whole nation. All those who are concerned about the destiny of the nation, whether they be in the north, or in the south, or overseas, and whether they be communists or nationalists, rich or poor, atheists or believers, must unite as one nation, transcending all their differences, and together pave the way for national reunification. 

Those with strength devoting their strength, those with knowledge giving their knowledge and those with money donating their money, all should make a tangible contribution to the reunification of the country and the development and prosperity of a reunified land, so putting an end to national division and displaying the dignity and honour of the reunited 70 million fellow countrymen to the world. 

1. A unified state, independent, peaceful and neutral, should be founded through the great unity of the whole nation. 

The north and the south should found a pan-national unified state to represent all parties, all groupings and all the members of the nation from all walks of life, while leaving the existing two systems and two governments intact. The pan-national unified state should be a confederal state in which the two regional governments of the north and the south are represented equally, and an independent, peaceful and nonaligned neutral state which does not lean to any great power. 

2. Unity should be based on patriotism and the spirit of national independence. 

All the members of the nation should link their individual destiny with that of the nation, love their nation passionately and unite with the single desire to defend the independence of the nation. They should display dignity and pride in being members of our nation and reject sycophancy and national nihilism that erode the nation's consciousness of independence. 

3. Unity should be achieved on the principle of promoting co-existence, coprosperity and common interests and subordinating everything to the cause of national reunification.

The north and the south should recognize and respect the existence of different beliefs, ideas and systems, and achieve joint progress and prosperity, with neither side encroaching on the other. They should promote the interests of the whole nation before regional and class interests and direct every effort to the accomplishment of the cause of national reunification. 

4. All political disputes that foment division and confrontation between fellow countrymen should be ended and unity should be achieved. 

The north and the south should refrain from seeking or fomenting confrontation, end all political disputes between them and stop abusing and slandering each other. As fellow countrymen they should not be hostile to each other and, through the united efforts of the nation, they should counter foreign aggression and interference. 

5. The fear of invasion from both south and north, and the ideas of prevailing over communism and communization should be dispelled, and north and south should believe in each other and unite. 

The north and the south should not threaten and invade each other. Neither side should try to force its system on the other or to absorb the other. 

6. The north and south should value democracy and join hands on the road to national reunification, without rejecting each other because of differences in ideals and principles. 

They should guarantee the freedom of debate on and of activities for reunification and should not suppress, take reprisals against, persecute or punish political opponents. They should not arrest anyone because of their pro-north or pro-south tendencies and should release and reinstate all political prisoners so that they may contribute to the cause of national reunification. 

7. The north and south should protect the material and spiritual wealth of individuals and organizations and encourage their use for the promotion of great national unity. 

Both before reunification and after it they should recognize state ownership, cooperative ownership and private ownership and protect the capital and property of individuals and organizations, as well as all interests concerned with foreign capital. They should recognize the social reputation and qualifications of individuals in all domains including science, education, literature, the arts, public debate, the press, health care and sports, and continue to guarantee the benefits granted to people who have performed meritorious services. 

8. Understanding, trust and unity should be built up across the nation through contact, exchange visits and dialogue. 

All the obstacles to contact and exchange visits should be removed and the door should be opened for everyone without discrimination to undertake exchange visits. All the parties, groupings and people of all social standings should be given equal opportunities to conduct dialogue, and bilateral and multilateral dialogue should be developed. 

9. The whole nation, north, south and overseas, should strengthen its solidarity for the sake of national reunification. 

Things beneficial to national reunification should be supported and encouraged in an unbiased manner and things harmful to it should be rejected in the north, in the south and overseas, and all should assist and cooperate with one another, going beyond their own narrow enclosure. All political parties, organizations and the people from all walks of life in the north, in the south and overseas should be allied organizationally in the patriotic work to achieve national reunification. 

10. Those who have contributed to the great unity of the nation and to the cause of national reunification should be honoured. 

Special favours should be granted to those who have performed exploits for the sake of the great unity of the nation and the reunification of the country, to patriotic martyrs and to their descendants. If those who had turned their back on the nation in the past return to the patriotic road, repentant of their past, they should be dealt with leniently and assessed fairly, according to the contribution they have made to the cause of national reunification.

Report to the March 2013 Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea

KIM JONG UN

Report to the March 2013 Plenary Meeting

of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea

March 31, Juche 102 (2013)

Comrades,

Today we are holding a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea. At this meeting we will discuss and adopt an important strategic line for bringing closer the victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered on Mt. Paektu as required by the prevailing situation and the developing revolution.

Under the wise leadership of the great President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il, our revolution has travelled the glorious road of victory by bravely overcoming the worst difficulties and challenges in the protracted and severe struggle against the allied imperialist forces.

The enemy, frightened by the soaring mettle of our service personnel and other people who are charging forward full of confidence for final victory under the Party’s leadership, have enlisted all their political, economic and military forces to isolate and stifle our Republic; as a consequence, the situation in our country has reached such a grave level as that in a country on the brink of war.

Today we are faced with the important task to achieve the decisive victory in the all-out showdown with the United States for smashing its daily increasing schemes to stifle our Republic and to develop the Juche-based socialist country into a powerful Paektusan nation which no one in the world would dare provoke for ever.

Proceeding from the requirements of the prevailing situation and the developing revolution, the Central Committee of the Party puts forth the new strategic line of simultaneously carrying on the construction of the economy and upbuilding of the nuclear forces.

This line is a strategic line for directing greater efforts to economic construction while consolidating the country’s defence capabilities by developing the nuclear forces which the great General bequeathed to us, thus building a thriving country in which our people would enjoy all the benefits of socialism.

Carrying on the construction of the economy and upbuilding of the nuclear forces simultaneously is an indispensable requirement of the prevailing situation.

We intended to concentrate our efforts on economic construction by relying on the self-defensive war deterrents which the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il had created all their lives, so that the people would not tighten their belts any longer but enjoy the benefits of socialism. However, a great obstacle has been created in front of us.

The United States and its vassal forces, picking a quarrel with our successful launch in last December of a peaceful man-made satellite, railroaded a brigandish “resolution on sanctions” through at the UN Security Council. It was a hostile, outrageous act that illegalizes the legimate right of a sovereign state to launch a satellite.

To cope with this situation and as a link in the whole chain of substantial countermeasures to defend the country’s sovereignty and security, we were compelled to conduct the third underground nuclear test of a self-defensive nature.

The hostile forces, including the United States, grew crazier and adopted another “sanctions resolution,” which is harsher than the previous one. In the meantime, they have staged joint military exercises Key Resolve and Foal Eagle by enlisting vast aggressive forces to ignite a nuclear war.

Rallied solidly behind the Central Committee of the Party, our service personnel and other people have turned out as one in the anti-US, all-out showdown to respond to the enemy’s aggressive war with a righteous war for national reunification. Frightened by our harder line, the enemy dare not lash out at random, but have not given up their wild dream to stifle our Republic.

Our peaceful efforts for the economic construction and the improvement of the people’s standard of living are but to be accompanied by an acute struggle against the enemy, and the US schemes to stifle our Republic by means of sanctions and pressure and thus pull down our nuclear deterrents and our socialist system will persist for long.

The United States is most afraid of our nuclear deterrents, which are small-sized, light and diversified, and is making last-ditch efforts as they think that if we, possessed of nuclear weapons, achieve economic prosperity, its hostile policy towards the DPRK will come to naught.

That the hostile policy the United States pursues against the DPRK is getting more vicious in recent years is also related with the fact that it has moved the strategic centre for its hegemony in the world to the Asia-Pacific region and designated our country as the primary target of its attack.

Proceeding from this, the United States is artificially aggravating the tension, picking a quarrel with our launch of a peaceful satellite without any good reason, and taking this as an excuse, is conducting large-scale joint war exercises one after another by mobilizing enormous aggressive forces. It is intent on dismantling our nuclear armaments and overthrowing our system by all means and methods.

The tragic events that have taken place in several countries in recent years show that if the strength of a country is weak, it cannot defend its sovereignty and the dignity of its nation nor achieve the happiness and prosperity of its people.

We must never forget the lessons of the countries in the Balkan Peninsula and the Middle East which failed to possess powerful self-defensive capabilities, looking to big countries, or gave up even their existing war deterrents under the pressure and appeasement of the imperialists, ending up becoming victims of aggression.

The enemy are now blackmailing us, saying that we cannot achieve economic development unless we give up our nuclear weapons; at the same time, they are appeasing us, saying that if we choose another road, they would help us to be well-off.

The more they do so, the more firmly we must hold the treasured sword of nuclear weapons and the more widely we should open the gate to prosperity.

To carry on the economic construction and upbuilding of the nuclear forces simultaneously at present is the law-governed requirement of our developing revolution.

The cause of Songun revolution associated with the ennobling lives of the great Generalissimos has today greeted a new, historic turning-point.

We must consolidate the strength of Songun to the maximum and, by relying on it, build without fail a strongest country in the world, a people’s paradise, in which all the people live happily with nothing to envy in the world. Unshakable is our Party’s determination to enable our people, who have invariably followed it overcoming various hardships, to enjoy the happiest and most affluent life in the world on the strength of Songun.

The effort to develop the economy and improve the people’s standard of living can be successful only when it is backed by powerful military capabilities, nuclear forces. In the spirit with which we conquered outer space and with the mettle with which we succeeded in the nuclear test of a high level, we must push ahead simultaneously with the campaign to defend the country and the construction of an economic giant, and thus achieve the happiness of the people and the prosperity of the powerful Paektusan nation without fail.

Carrying on the economic construction and the upbuilding of the nuclear forces simultaneously is an urgent requirement for categorically rejecting the domination and intervention of foreign forces and accelerating the historic cause of national reunification, the supreme desire of our nation. The nuclear weapons we are possessed of are a precious asset of the entire nation which will guarantee for ever the prosperity of a reunified country.

The strategic line of simultaneously carrying on the economic construction and the upbuilding of the nuclear forces is a righteous line that will make it possible to brilliantly implement the cause of building a thriving socialist country by remarkably consolidating our war deterrents and putting spurs to the economic construction.

Our nuclear forces are reliable war deterrents and a guarantee for the defending of the sovereignty of the nation. For nearly 70 years after the appearance of the nuclear weapons, the worldwide Cold War lasted for long and many wars, large and small, have been fought in various regions, but it was only the nuclear states that have not experienced military aggression.

If a country is fully capable of dealing precise blows with nuclear weapons at aggressors and their bases wherever they may be on the earth, no aggressors will dare attack it; the more enormous and stronger its power of nuclear strike, the greater its effectiveness of deterring war. In particular, since our country is confronted with the United States which possesses the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world and the latter constantly threatens us with nuclear weapons, we must beef up our nuclear forces both in quantity and in quality. Peace, prosperity and people’s happy life all rest with powerful nuclear forces.

The strategic line of simultaneously carrying on the economic construction and the upbuilding of the nuclear forces is a realistic one which will bring about the maximum effect in the economic development and defence upbuilding in keeping with our actual conditions.

The United States and its vassal forces are now scheming to hamper our effort to build an economic giant and improve the people’s standard of living by dragging us into arms race. The new line will enable us to further strengthen our defence capabilities at small expense without increasing military expenditure and direct great efforts to the economic construction and the improving of the people’s standard of living.

We have strong atomic energy industry which the great Generalissimos established with keen foresight, outstanding leadership and iron courage and also inexhaustible uranium resources.

The Party’s line of simultaneously carrying on the economic construction and the upbuilding of the nuclear forces is a reasonable line which will enable us to ease the strain on electric power supply at the same time as strengthening the nuclear forces on the basis of the Juche-based atomic energy industry; it is also a just line which will make it possible to satisfactorily realize our Party’s plan and intention to enable the people to live a happy life free from any worry while coping with the prevailing situation on our own initiative.

This strategic line is a succession and development of the line of simultaneously carrying on the economic construction and defence upbuilding that was set forth by President Kim Il Sung and applied by General Kim Jong Il thoroughly.

At the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Fourth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea held in December 1962 Comrade Kim Il Sung advanced the line of simultaneously developing the economy and national defence capabilities, the first of its kind in history, and set forth the revolutionary slogan, “Rifle in one hand and hammer or sickle in the other!” As he advanced this line and created both the self-supporting national economy and the self-reliant national defence capabilities, we were able to firmly safeguard the gains of the revolution unperturbed in the upheavals in which socialism collapsed in several countries.

While leading the fierce anti-US nuclear showdown along the road of victory by dint of his distinguished Songun politics, General Kim Jong Il achieved the great cause of possessing nuclear weapons, thus defending Juche-based socialism and providing a strong springboard for building a thriving country.

We are now doing anything we are determined to do in accordance with our faith, will and mettle while resolutely frustrating the vicious moves of the United States and its vassal forces to isolate and stifle the DPRK. We owe this to the powerful nuclear deterrents, to the creation of which the great Generalissimos devoted all their lives. The exploits of the Generalissimos who made our country a dignified nuclear state in the world will shine for ever in the history of our nation.

The Party’s line of stepping up the building of an economic giant while consolidating the defence capabilities of the country with the nuclear forces as the backbone is a treasured sword for hastening the building of a thriving socialist country and national reunification, and it is a banner for our country to firmly defend the sovereignty and dignity of our nation for generation after generation.

The strategic line reflects our Party’s unshakable faith and will to carry the revolutionary cause of Juche through to completion along the road of independence, the road of Songun and the road of socialism, which the President pioneered and the General continued to follow.

We must thoroughly implement the Party’s line of simultaneously carrying on the economic construction and the upbuilding of the nuclear forces as we hold fast to the line.

To step up the building of an economic giant and drastically improve the people’s standard of living is the most important and urgent task facing our Party at present.

It was the General’s lifelong wish to build his beloved country into an economic giant and thus make the people live happily without anything to envy in the world. We must step up the building of an economic giant and improve the people’s standard of living at an early date as was intended by the General.

The success or failure in the effort to build an economic giant depends, first of all, on how we shore up the vanguard sectors and basic industry sectors of the national economy. When power, coal-mining and metallurgical industries and railway transport dynamically advance in the vanguard, the overall national economy can be revitalized and progress full of vigour. The vanguard sectors and basic industry sectors of the national economy should make breakthroughs for victory in the current grand onward march as befits the trailblazers and pioneers in the building of an economic giant.

We must bring about a fresh turn in the development of agriculture and light industry which are the main thrust areas in the building of an economic giant.

It is necessary to fulfil without fail the grain production plan advanced by the Party by increasing state investment in agriculture and doing farming scientifically and technically as required by the Juche farming method.

In hearty response to the Party’s call for making big strides in the grand onward march for improving the people’s standard of living, the light industry sector must run light industry factories at full capacity and mass-produce quality consumer goods favoured by the people.

By stoking up the flames of the industrial revolution in the new century, we must further raise the level of modernization and scientification of the national economy and definitely turn ours into a knowledge-based economy.

In the present era, when the height and speed of the economic and social development are determined by the development of science and technology, the economic giant we are building must be a knowledge-based one whose driving force is science and technology.

Great efforts must be channelled into locally obtaining the fuel and raw and other materials urgently needed in the building of an economic giant by relying on our resources and technology and particularly into putting the key industry sectors, including metallurgical and chemical industries, on a Juche-oriented footing.

By building up forces for developing new technologies and combining the economy organically with science and technology, all sectors of the national economy must equip factories and enterprises with modern technology.

And we must direct efforts to the development of space science and technology so as to develop and launch a greater number of communications satellite and various other kinds of application satellites.

In order to bring about a turn in the building of an economic giant, we must improve economic guidance and management.

State economic organs, including the Cabinet, must work out economic development strategy and set realistic objectives by sectors and stages in a substantial manner and thoroughly carry them out. They must also scrupulously organize and direct production so as to increase production by making the most of the already-built economic foundations.

We must study and perfect our style of economic management method as demanded by the developing reality.

The method, which embodies in it the Juche idea, must keep to the socialist ownership of the means of production and ensure that all enterprises conduct business activities independently and creatively under the unified leadership of the state. It must be a socialist method that encourages the producer masses to fulfil their responsibilities and roles as masters in the production and management.

We must expand and diversify foreign trade, thus frustrating the moves of the hostile forces for sanctions and blockade and bringing about a favourable turn in building an economic giant.

Tourist zones must be built in several places of the country, including the areas of Wonsan and Mt. Chilbo, to promote tourism; provinces must set up economic development zones that conform with their respective features and develop them characteristically.

As long as the imperialists’ nuclear threat exists, we must keep up simultaneously carrying on the economic construction and the upbuilding of the nuclear forces as an immutable line and further consolidate the nuclear deterrents.

Our nuclear deterrents represent the righteous means to defend the sovereignty of the country and nation, prevent war and safeguard peace. When we have strong nuclear deterrents, we will have nothing to fear even though a formidable enemy may pounce upon us and we can concentrate our efforts without any worry on the economic construction and the improving of the people’s standard of living.

The munitions industry sector must make another big stride in the struggle to make our country a most powerful nuclear state in the world.

It must produce precision and small-sized nuclear weapons and the means of their delivery in larger numbers, and constantly update the nuclear weapons technology in order to develop more powerful and more advanced nuclear weapons.

To put the atomic energy industry on an up-to-date, scientific footing is a major key to increasing the production of nuclear materials and the quality of its products and making the nuclear weapons small-sized and light on a higher standard. The atomic energy sector must actively conduct the campaign to break through the cutting-edge so as to introduce the CNC system and full automation to equipment and producing lines.

We must put the atomic energy industry firmly on the foundations of the cutting-edge science and technology as required by the new century, and develop the self-supporting nuclear power industry in order to ease the shortage of electricity in the country.

The People’s Army must enhance the backbone role of nuclear forces in all aspects of the war deterrent strategy and the war waging strategy and perfect the regular combat readiness of the nuclear forces.

We are going to fix by law the issue of holding fast consistently to the nuclear deterrents, the legacy of the great General.

We must be proactive in the external activities for creating a favourable environment for the implementation of the line of carrying on the economic construction and the upbuilding of the nuclear forces.

We must conduct the external activities courageously with the dignity and strength due to a nuclear state so as to further raise the international prestige of our Party. We must also create external conditions and environment while maintaining the principle of independence so as to forcefully promote the building of a thriving country.

We must conduct proactive external activities to disclose the reactionary nature and unjustness of the US hostile policy towards our Republic, the root cause that compels us to strengthen our nuclear forces, and give publicity to the justness and inevitability of our option and line. By so doing, we must increase the ranks of our supporters and sympathizers in the international arena.

As a responsible nuclear state, the DPRK will strive to ensure peace and security in Asia and the rest of the world, implement its commitment to nuclear non-proliferation it made to international society in good faith and contribute to the realization of global denuclearization.

All officials, Party members and other working people must dynamically turn out in the effort to carry out the Party’s line of simultaneously carrying on the economic construction and the upbuilding of the nuclear forces with confidence in sure victory and fighting spirit of implementing Party policy to the death. In this way they must step up the building of a thriving socialist country.

The revolutionary mettle and fighting tradition of our service personnel and other people trained by the great Generalissimos are that the more complicated the situation is and the more gigantic the tasks facing them are, the more staunchly they advance along the road they chose by themselves with firm confidence in the justness of their cause and in victory.

Let us all be firmly united around the Party Central Committee and bring closer final victory by energetically pushing forward with the economic construction and the upbuilding of the nuclear forces simultaneously as required by the prevailing situation and the developing revolution.

ON THE JUCHE IDEA

KIM JONG IL

ON THE JUCHE IDEA

Treatise Sent to the National Seminar on the Juche Idea Held to Mark the 70th Birthday of

the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung

March 31, 1982

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1. THE ORIGIN OF THE JUCHE IDEA

 A progressive idea plays an important role in socio-historical progress.

When the popular masses are guided by a progressive idea, they can be a powerful creator of history. Of course, it does not mean that all progressive ideas play the same role in socio-historical development. Their role is different according to how they represent the aspirations and interests of the popular masses and how correctly they show the path which must be followed in struggle. There were ideas which reflected the aspirations of progressive classes of society even before the emergence of the working class. But due to their historical and class limitations the trends of thought in the past age could not but be hampered in the role they played in social development. The revolutionary ideas of the working class alone can correctly reflect the demands of the time and the aspirations of the popular masses and give a powerful stimulus to socio-historical development by inspiring the people to wage the revolutionary struggle.

The revolutionary ideas of the working class are originated by distinguished leaders.

It can be said that the history of the communist movement spanning a hundred and scores of years is a history of working-class leaders creating and developing revolutionary ideas, a history in which these ideas have been applied to transform the world. In the mid-19th century Marx and Engels propounded Marxism. Thus they highlighted the historical mission and a path of liberation that had to be followed by the working class that appeared on the arena of struggle and stimulated the fight against capital, ushering in the rise of the international communist movement. Lenin developed Marxism and advanced Leninism in accordance with the new historical conditions whereby capitalism had entered the phase of imperialism, with the result that he inspired the working class and the rest of the people to the struggle to destroy imperialist strongholds and to achieve freedom and liberation. This marked the beginning of transition from capitalism to socialism.

Our leader created the great Juche idea after acquiring a deep insight into the requirements of a new era when the oppressed and humiliated masses of the people became masters of their own destiny. Thus he developed their struggle for independence onto a higher plane and opened up the age of Juche, a new era in the development of human history.

The revolutionary idea of the working class emerges as the reflection of the mature demand of history and the revolution in their development.

When the leader embarked on the road of revolution, a new development was taking place in the struggle of the working class and the popular masses against exploitation and oppression. On the world arena, the influence of socialism, which had won its first victory, grew strong, and the revolutionary struggle of the working class and the liberation struggle of the peoples in colonies and semi-colonies were intensified sharply. In an attempt to stop the revolutionary advance of the masses and weather the serious political and economic crises they were passing through, the imperialists further increased their plunder and oppression of the people. In many countries contradictions and antagonism between revolution and counter-revolution were intensified, and the masses of the people whose sovereign rights had been trampled down for a long time rose up in a struggle for their class and national liberation. A new age was approaching, in which the revolutionary movement made progress in a broad and diversified way on a worldwide scale.

In order to advance the revolution under the new historical conditions, the working class and the people of every country, conscious of being the masters, had to solve all problems in accordance with their actual situation. In our country, this was a particularly important matter because of the peculiarities of historical development and the complexity and arduousness of the revolution. The Korean revolution demanded more urgently that the popular masses hew out the path of revolution in an independent and creative manner.

The Juche idea was created on the basis of such a practical requirement of the Korean revolution.

The revolution is a struggle to meet the masses’ desire for independence by enlisting their strength. It is a struggle of the masses to free themselves. When they are armed with the revolutionary idea and united into an organized political force, the masses can emerge victorious in the revolution. The duty of revolutionaries is to go among the popular masses, masters of the revolution, to educate, organize, and inspire them to a struggle. The revolutionary forces, too. should be trained from among the masses, and all problems arising in the revolutionary struggle should likewise be resolved in reliance on their wisdom and strength.

However, the communists and nationalists who were allegedly engaged in the national-liberation movement in our country in the 1920’s gave no thought to the need to go among the masses to educate, organize, and arouse them into waging a revolutionary struggle. But divorced from the masses they were only engrossed in the scramble for hegemony and empty talks. They did not unite the masses but divided them by factional strife.

In the first years of his revolutionary struggle, the leader saw through their mistakes and took a road different from theirs, the genuinely revolutionary road which led him to be among the masses and to rely on them in the struggle. He elucidated the truth that the masters of the revolution are the masses of the people and that when one goes among them to educate and mobilize them one will be able to register victory in the revolution. This is one of the starting points of the Juche idea.

The revolution in each country should be carried out responsibly by its own people, the masters, in an independent manner, and in a creative way suitable to its specific conditions. Independence and creativeness are the inherent requirements of a revolutionary movement, the communist movement.

The Korean revolution which opened the age of Juche could not advance even a step forward unless it was conducted in an independent and creative way from the start. It was a difficult and complex revolution which had to deal with the tasks of the anti-imperialist, national-liberation revolution, with formidable Japanese imperialism as the target, and those of the anti-feudal, democratic revolution simultaneously. It was an arduous revolution which had to hew out an untrodden path.

What is worse, a strong tendency towards flunkeyism appeared in those days within our anti-Japanese national-liberation movement and communist movement to hamper the advance of the revolution. The nationalists and self-styled Marxists followed the evil practices of flunkeyism and factional strife which had resulted in the country’s ruin in the past. They did not try to carry out the revolution by their own initiative but dreamed of achieving independence by depending on foreign forces. At that time, those who were allegedly engaged in the communist movement formed their own party groups and called frequently at the Comintern to gain its recognition. And they endeavoured to imitate mechanically established theories and experience of others, without taking into consideration the historical conditions and specific realities in our country where a colonial and semi-feudal society was in existence. In this way, flunkeyism and dogmatism were very serious obstacles in the way of revolution.

Drawing on serious lessons derived from such flunkeyism and dogmatism, the leader clarified the truth that a revolution should be carried out not by anyone’s approval or instruction but by one’s own conviction and on one’s own responsibility and that all problems arising in the revolution should be solved in an independent and creative way. This is another starting point of the Juche idea.

As stated previously, the leader advanced the Juche idea, a new revolutionary idea, on the basis of practical experience and lessons gained in the revolutionary struggle.

The leader has conducted ideological and theoretical activities invariably based on the revolutionary practice, and developed and enriched the revolutionary idea and theories in the course of giving answers to problems arising in the revolutionary practice. Only on the basis of revolutionary practice can one apply existing theories in accordance with the interests of the revolution and actual conditions in one’s own country and search for new truths and create new ideas and theories.

In his early years of revolutionary activities, the leader was well versed in Marxism-Leninism. But he did not confine himself to applying Marxism-Leninism to the Korean revolution but pioneered a new phase of revolutionary theory from a steadfast Juche-based standpoint and resolved the problems arising in the revolutionary practice from a unique angle.

The leader discovered the truth of Juche idea in the course of the struggle against bigoted nationalists and bogus Marxists, flunkeyists and dogmatists, while hewing out a new path for the revolution. Finally, he explained the principles of the Juche idea at the Meeting of Leading Personnel of the Young Communist League and the Anti-Imperialist Youth League held at Kalun in June 1930 and put forward a Juche-oriented line for the Korean revolution. This was a historical event which heralded the creation of the Juche idea and the birth of the Juche-oriented revolutionary line.

At the time of disorder when national reformism, “Left” and Right opportunism and all other unsound ideas were prevailing, the leader still in his teens gained an insight into the trend of the times, the desire of the people and the law of historical development, expounded the truth of Juche and thus opened the road of independent development for our revolution.

The Juche idea has been perfected as the guiding idea of revolution in our age in the practice of the Korean revolution.

The guiding idea of revolution cannot be made perfect by one effort at a moment. It emerges through the generalization of experience in the revolutionary struggle, on the basis of the conditions of the times and history: it becomes perfect as an integrated ideological and theoretical system when its truthfulness is verified and its content is enriched during the protracted struggle.

The leader led to victory the revolutionary struggles at different stages and the work in all fields of politics, economy, culture and military affairs. In this course, he himself gained a wealth of precious experience and generalized it to steadily develop the Juche idea in a profound manner. The history of the leader who has led the arduous Korean revolution for more than 50 years, is a history in which he created the Juche idea and perfected it as a unique ideological and theoretical system in the great revolutionary practice.

As stated previously, the Juche idea emerged on the basis of the requirements of a new age when the masses of the people appeared as the masters of history and of a rich experience gained in the revolutionary struggle. So it has become the great guiding idea of revolution in our age.