Kim Jong Il Leads the Independence Movement of the 21st Century Through Songun Politics

A south Korean progressive theorist Kim Ho-min wrote the following articles and posted them on the internet recently.

1. Kim Jong Il Leads the Independence Movement of the 21st Century Through Songun Politics
2. Kim Jong Il, Successor to the Independent Cause of President Kim Il Sung



1. Kim Jong Il Leads the Independence Movement
of the 21st Century Through Songun Politics

The reason why Kim Jong Il, chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK, becomes the great man of the times is because of his exploits in the ideological and theoretical work which reflects the demands of the era and people.

1. The formulation of the Songun politics is the exploit chairman Kim Jong Il performed reflecting the new era and the new stage of the independence movement.
Kim Jong Il has solved the different complicated problems arising from the outset of the new century and led the revolution and construction of north Korea holding fast to the theory on ideology.
In this course he made ideological and theoretical exploits on the basis of the Juche idea, the guiding ideology of north Korea.
It is just the Songun idea and Songun politics that he formulated in accordance with the requirements of the new era of the 21st century through inheriting and developing the idea of giving importance to arms created by President Kim Il Sung.
That the Songun idea and Songun politics are of so great significance to the independence movement of humankind is because the formulation of them and the Songun leadership came to being, first of all, reflecting the demands of the new era.
Second, because they were formulated through the “Arduous March”, unprecedented revolution and construction, led by chairman Kim Jong Il.
And they also came to being reflecting the new stage of the independence movement.
Chairman Kim Jong Il correctly grasped such quintessence of the times, led the revolution and construction relying on the arms and formulated the Songun idea and Songun politics.

2. Core principles of Kim Jong Il’s Songun idea and Songun politics contain the rudder of independence and progress.
First of all the Songun idea and Songun politics are the idea and politics based on the arms philosophy.
Kim Jong Il regarded the arms as arms held by revolutionary comrades and arms that defend the party and people, not only arms in physical terms, and regarded it as the essence of the arms philosophy.
The Songun politics is a powerful political mode that places the military affaires as the foremost one among the state affaires, defends the fatherland, revolution and socialism with the revolutionary army as the core and main force, and pushes forward the overall socialist construction.
Chairman Kim Jong Il’s Songun politics spreads the Songun culture throughout the society.
The Songun idea and Songun politics are based on the theory on ideology.
Therefore, the revolutionary soldier spirit occupies the pivotal position in the Songun idea and Songun politics. The revolutionary soldier spirit is the spirit of devotedly defending the leader, the spirit of devoted implementation and the spirit of heroic self-sacrifice.
The revolutionary soldier spirit in full bloom in the revolutionary army of north Korea did not come to being spontaneously, of course.
It was the fruition of the love for soldiers of chairman Kim Jong Il who visited the servicepersons on Cho islet in the face of the rugged sea routes, climbed the stiff Chol pass pushing up the car by his shoulders and went back again to meet the men of the revolutionary army saying that they are his sons and daughters.

3. The might of the Songun idea and Songun politics formulated by chairman Kim Jong Il shines throughout the world.
The Songun idea and Songun politics formulated by chairman Kim Jong Il are the main source of the great victories in north Korea.
And they opened up a new prospect for the country’s reunification.
Independence, peace and the national unity are safeguarded eventually by the Songun arms.
It is for the might of Songun that the US could not dare to provoke north Korea although it stepped up the war atmosphere against the north.
The Songun idea and Songun politics opened up the new chapter of the movement for global independence.
The worldwide influence of Songun finds itself, first of all, in the increase of the nations that make efforts to check the US hegemonic moves by building up the military capabilities.
The tendency to study the Songun idea and Songun politics is increasing in different countries of the world.
In many countries in Europe, Asia, Central America, and Russia, even in the US institutes and study groups of the Songun idea and Sngun politics mushroomed and are conducting public activities.
Now the study of and interests in the Songun idea and Songun politics surpass the academic dimension and for they are based on the conception of the future of the movement for global independence they became the idea and politics of the contemporary times.
Like this the Songun idea and Songun politics of NDC chairman Kim Jong Il is the most dynamic idea of the times with the historical significance of the world.



2. Kim Jong Il, Successor to the Independent Cause of
President Kim Il Sung

President Kim Il Sung is the sun of humankind who performed the great feats shining forever in history by opening up the new era of true change where the people's independence is realized by devoting his all wisdom and energy.
President Kim Il Sung’s revolutionary history occupies the most brilliant height in the history of the Korean nation and the world.
The successor to the independent cause of President Kim Il Sung is chairman Kim Jong Il of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK.
1. Chairman Kim Jong Il is the incarnation of loyalty to President Kim Il Sung.
Through realizing deep in his heart the greatness of President Kim Il Sung since his early days and learning the boundless loyalty to Kim Il Sung, shown by his mother Kim Jong Suk and other anti-Japanese guerrillas, Kim Jong Il who was born in Mt. Baekdu and grown up in the bosom of the anti-Japanese guerillas, could bear the greatest loyalty to President Kim Il Sung and still embodies it, moving all the people a great deal.
Kim Jong Il systematized President Kim Il Sung’s idea as the Juche idea and declared his resolution to model the whole of the society on the Juche idea, and has devoted his all to let the people know how great President Kim Il Sung is.
The energetic revolutionary course of Kim Jong Il, for both of its start and end are his loyal mind for President Kim Il Sung, and is so noble on the highest level and makes so great miracles.
The reason his loyalty to Kim Il Sung touches the heartstrings of the entire humankind and the whole world is because it shines as ever without slightest change even after the President’s demise.
After the President’s demise Kim Jong Il set forth the revolutionary slogan “The Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung is Alive With Us Forever” and mourned for 3 years for the President leaving the top post of the state vacant even in the period of hardest trial such as the “Arduous March”.

2. NDC chairman Kim Jong Il defends the people-centered socialism built by President Kim Il Sung and pushed forward the independent movement.
The fervent loyalty of Kim Jong Il finds its expression in that his work never brooks any aberration in implementing the behest of the President.
Kim Jong Il provides the bright future of a thriving socialist country and is leading the army and people, for which President Kim Il Sung devoted his all.
Chairman Kim Jong Il energetically administered the Songun politics which exalted the single-minded unity of the whole society rapidly by putting up the revolutionary army as the driving force, and destroyed the imperialist enemies’ regime of nuclear monopoly, their most important yet weakest chain, horrifying them.
The cause of national reunification, the life-long desire of President Kim Il Sung, has been dynamically progressed thanks to Kim Jong Il.
The secret of Kim Jong Il’s perspicacity, miracle-making leadership ability is attributed to his idea of “the People Are God” and character of genius and his people-first working method which trusts in and relies on the people, in addition to his absolute loyalty to the President.

3. Kim Jong Il is the leader of the single-hearted unity provided by President Kim Il Sung.
The secret that Kim Jong Il always gains victories in the showdown with the imperialist enemies is that he considers the single-hearted unity of the whole society as the key point for the victory of the revolution, and subordinates everything to that work.
He set forth the problem of leader as the nucleus holding that the people cannot make the revolution with desire only, so there should be a center of idea, theory and unity.
Furthermore, he put forward the theory on the leader that when the party which conveys and inculcates the leader’s idea and intension to the popular masses functions smoothly, the general masses can be firmly rallied in an organizational and ideological way under a single guideline and gain the ultimate victory in the arduous revolutionary struggle.
The north Korean society created lofty ideological volition and militant spirit like the revolutionary soldier spirit, the Ganggye spirit and the Songgang Torch by virtue of Songun and the single-hearted unity, and is materializing them and advancing toward a thriving nation.
This reality is possible to be ushered in thanks to Kim Jong Il’s politics of love and trust.
The revolutionary activities of chairman Kim Jong Il who systemized President Kim Il Sung’s idea to the Juche idea, declared the modeling of the entire society on the Juche idea, and is leading the 21st century with his Songun politics, can be said as a great career of the sacred great man who devotes his all to show how noble Kim Il Sung’s idea, leadership ability and virtue are, and is accomplishing the revolutionary cause of the President