Friday 24 April 2009

LET US FIRMLY GUARANTEE THE FULFILMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY CAUSE OF JUCHE BY FORCE OF ARMS KIM IL SUNG

KIM IL SUNG



LET US FIRMLY GUARANTEE THE FULFILMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY

CAUSE OF JUCHE BY FORCE OF ARMS




Speech at a Banquet to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Foundation of

the Korean People’s Army
April 25, 1982

Comrades,

Today we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Korean People’s Army with a sense of dignity and pride at a time when the whole country is full of political excitement and great revolutionary enthusiasm.

Saluting the auspicious revolutionary holiday of the heroic Korean People’s Army, the glorious armed forces of our Party, and of all Korean people, I would like to offer warm congratulations to the officers and men of our valiant People’s Army and People’s Security Forces who are defending the country staunchly and with fervent loyalty to the Party and the revolution.

In the long years of effort since the days of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, we have lost a large number of precious rev­olutionary comrades. Allow me to pay a high tribute to the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners and to the soldiers of the People’s Army who laid down their valuable lives for the independence of the country, for the liberation of the people, and in the cause of the Party and the revolution.

I also extend hearty congratulations to the anti-Japanese revo­lutionary veterans, the disabled soldiers and the demobilized servicemen, who performed heroic services in the arduous anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and the great Fatherland Liberation War, and are still nurturing the beautiful flower of the revolution in building socialism.

My warm gratitude also goes to our workers, farmers, and all others who are working hard to build the economy and strengthen our defences. They are wholeheartedly assisting the People’s Army, loving them like their own flesh and blood, in an effort to strengthen the nation’s defence power in accordance with our Party’s military line of self-reliant defence.

Comrades,

Half a century has elapsed since we founded the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army, the first revolutionary armed force of our people, to realize the cause of national liberation under the banner of the Juche idea.

At this great moment when we are celebrating the jubilee of the birth of the Korean People’s Army, I look back with deep emotion upon the glorious road of struggle traversed by our revolutionary armed forces and their immortal achievements.

The formation of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army was the result of the bloody struggle of the young Korean communists who had devoted all their bloom of youth and lives to raising an army against the Japanese. Braving all difficulties and hardships, they took to heart the bitter lesson taught by the anti-Japanese national-liberation movement in our country, which had undergone setbacks and difficulties because it had no genuinely revolutionary armed force of its own. The foundation of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army heralded the emergence of a truly revolutionary armed force of a Juche type in our country.

The founding of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army was a historic event that marked an epochal turn in the development of the anti-Japanese national-liberation struggle of our people and the communist movement. With its formation, our people now had a genuinely rev­olutionary army for the first time in their history and were able to launch a victorious struggle of a new, higher stage for the independence of the country and the liberation of the people. That was the very beginning of the glorious history of our revolutionary armed forces.

Our revolutionary army, which opened fire in the forests of Paekdu, has advanced on a proud road of victory through the flames of a grim and arduous struggle for half a century, and fought heroically to perform the immortal exploits that will long shine in our history.

As a genuine army of the people and of the revolution, the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army expanded its ranks with the active support and encouragement of the popular masses and grew stronger in the fierce struggle against the enemy. It waged a 15-year-long heroic struggle under the most trying conditions in history, and at last brilliantly won the historic cause of national liberation by defeating the Japanese imperialist aggressors. In the course of an arduous armed struggle against Japanese imperialism, the foundations of the Korean revolution as a whole were firmly laid and the brilliant revolutionary traditions of our Party established on a solid basis.

After liberation, the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army de­veloped into regular armed forces—the Korean People’s Army.

This army displayed mass heroism and unparalleled self-sacrificing spirit in the great Fatherland Liberation War, in which the destiny of the country was at stake. It dealt an ignominious defeat to the US imperialist aggressors, who had boasted of being the “strongest” in the world, and defended the independence of the country and the gains of the revolution with honour. It frustrated the enemy’s ceaseless acts of aggression and armed provo­cation at every step, defended the security of the country and the people in good faith and firmly guaranteed the victorious advance of the revolution and construction by force of arms. It not only carried out its mission of national defence with credit, but also made a great contribution to the work of construction, for the prosperity of the country and the happiness of the people.

The valuable gains of our revolution and all the victories achieved by our people in the revolution and construction are associated with the memorable exploits of our revolutionary armed forces and are permeated with the blood shed by the anti-Japanese guerrillas and the officers and men of the People’s Army.

The immortal services to the country and its people rendered by the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army and the People’s Army, its direct successor, will shine long in the glorious history of the revolutionary struggle of our Party and people.

During the half century of arduous struggle, our revolutionary armed forces have been trained and tempered politically, ideologically and militarily and have developed into an invincible army which has acquired the Juche-orientated art of war and rich combat experience.

Today the political and moral aspects of our People’s Army are excellent. All the soldiers are well trained in the Juche idea, our Party’s revolutionary idea, and are fired with the resolve to fight to the last for the victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche under the leadership of the Party. The People’s Army is imbued with the Juche idea and the noble traits of revolutionary comradeship, voluntary military discipline, and unity between superiors and subordinates and between army and people. These are the political and moral advantages unique to a genuine people’s army, the revolutionary army, and precisely herein lies the source of our People’s Army’s unbreakable strength, a force capable of defeating any aggressor army.

The military technique and troop composition of the People’s Army are also excellent. It is armed with modern weapons and equipment. Highly trained in military skill and know-how, every soldier handles his weapons and equipment efficiently. Since their foundation, our rev­olutionary armed forces have experienced guerrilla action and regular and modern warfare. This process has seen the formation of a sizable core of highly experienced revolutionaries. This revolutionary core, trained during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and the Fatherland Liberation War, is the precious treasure of our Party and the great pride of our People’s Army.

The security of our country and the victory of our revolution are firmly guaranteed by the unconquerable Korean People’s Army. This army was founded in the flames of the glorious anti-Japanese rev­olutionary struggle, tempered in the trials of the great Fatherland Liberation War and the fierce class struggle, and is firmly armed with the Juche idea, modern military science and technology and up-to-date weapons and equipment.

We strove to strengthen the People’s Army and, at the same time, to arm the entire people and fortify the whole country. In this way we set up a solid nationwide defence system, with the People’s Army at the core.

Today we take great pride in saying confidently that we have built up an indestructible self-reliant defence force, capable of destroying ag­gressors from any quarter and safeguarding the socialist motherland.

Comrades,

Our revolution is not yet over; we must continue our struggle until we accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche. The enemies of our revolution still survive and we must reunify the country independently and build socialism and communism completely through fierce struggles against the enemies.

As long as forces hostile to the revolution exist, the People’s Army must resolutely resist all their acts of aggression and provocation and staunchly defend the country. It should assist the struggle of our Party and people to reunify the country and model the whole of society on the Juche idea. It is the basic mission of the People’s Army to firmly guarantee the fulfilment of the revolutionary cause of Juche by force of arms.

Today the situation in our country is very strained.

The US imperialists are shipping into south Korea large numbers of aggressive troops and weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear arms, and are instigating the south Korean military fascists to provoke a new war. By drawing in even the Japanese reactionaries, who are watching for a chance to reinvade our country, the US imperialists are building up the military alignment of the United States , Japan and south Korea in an overt attempt to invade our country.

The war exercise “Team Spirit ‘82”, now being staged by the massive aggressive armed forces of the US imperialists and south Korean military fascists, is a “test of war”, designed to attack the northern half of the Republic; it is an undisguised act of provocation against us. Developments in south Korea today show that the moves of the US imperialists and their stooges towards a new war against us have reached a critical stage and brought the situation to the brink of war.

If we are to smash the ever-increasing intrigues of the enemies for a new war, defend the socialist motherland and provide a sure guarantee for the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche by force of arms, we must strengthen the People’s Army.

The People’s Army is the army of our Party, which is guided by the Juche idea and fights for the triumph of this idea. If we are to strengthen the People’s Army so that it can fulfil its honourable mission as the revolutionary armed force of our Party, we must model the entire force on the Juche idea by training all the soldiers to be true communist revolutionaries of a Juche type and fully applying the Juche idea in all aspects of military affairs and activity. Modelling the whole army on the Juche idea is the law that governs the development of our revolutionary armed force and the general task of the People’s Army at present.

We must work hard to strengthen the People’s Army politically, ideologically and militarily, under the slogan: “Let us model the whole army on the Juche idea!”

First of all, the sole ideological system of the Party must be established more thoroughly in the People’s Army.

Firmly establishing this system provides the basic guarantee for increasing the might of the People’s Army, and is the central task in modelling the whole army on the Juche idea.

Education in the Juche idea should be intensified among the soldiers of the People’s Army, so that all of them will be equipped firmly with our Party’s Juche idea, defend it stoutly, and strive devotedly to realize it fully. Education in Party policy and revolutionary traditions should be promoted so as to induce every soldier to defend and carry out the Party policies unswervingly, and learn from the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners’ intense loyalty to the Party and the revolution and from their indomitable revolutionary spirit.

The People’s Army must be infinitely loyal to the Party’s leadership. Without this leadership, it would be impossible to maintain its rev­olutionary character and succeed in the important mission entrusted to it by the country and the people. It should defend our Party politically, ideologically and at the cost of their own lives and build up the revolutionary habit and work system under which it carries out the Party’s orders and directives unconditionally.

The policy of training the whole army as a cadre army and modernizing it should be fully implemented so as to further reinforce the People’s Army in military technique.

Combat and political training must be stepped up among the soldiers so that every one of them will be well versed in modern weapons and equipment, master the Juche-orientated art of war which suits our actual conditions, and acquire a wealth of combat experience. In this way all, from generals to privates, will be qualified to perform the job higher by at least one grade than they are doing at present. At the same time, military science and technology should be developed rapidly to meet the require­ments of modern warfare, and thus the technical equipment of the People’s Army improved steadily.

In order to make the nation’s defence power impregnable we should thoroughly implement the policy of putting all people under arms, building up the whole country into a fortress and strengthen the defence system nationwide.

We must ensure that all the people are under arms and study military affairs in earnest. The entire nation, including the workers and farmers, should not only become distinguished innovators in building socialism, but reliable defenders of the country. The members of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and the Young Red Guards should intensify combat and political training so that all of them can handle their arms skilfully, and deeply study and acquire the Juche art of war and the experience of war. We must reinforce defences in all parts of the country and make the whole country impregnable.

It is a noble and beautiful tradition of our society that the army and people love each other and help each other actively. The officers and men of the People’s Army should give full play to the laudable tradition of unity between army and people. They should love the people, defend their lives and property, even at the cost of their own lives, and aid them in the struggle for socialist construction. The people should love the soldiers of the People’s Army like their own flesh and blood, assist them heart and soul, and intensify support to the army in all spheres.

We must strengthen unity and solidarity with the international revolutionary forces in the struggle against the aggression of US imperialism and its stooges and for national sovereignty and peace.

Ever since their inception our revolutionary armed forces have strengthened unity and solidarity with the international revolutionary forces, holding fast to an independent stand. Our people and their revolutionary armed forces have struggled, forging unbreakable solidarity with their neighbours and revolutionary peoples around the world and forming united fronts with them. They have thus won victories both in the national-liberation struggle against the Japanese imperialists and the Fatherland Liberation War against the US imperialists.

In the future, too, we will continue to cement unity and militant solidarity with the international revolutionary forces, while carrying out the revolutionary policy of self-reliant defence. We will fight on stoutly to check and frustrate the imperialists’ moves for aggression and war, ensure durable peace and security in the world, and hasten the final victory of the cause of anti-imperialism and independence, in close unity with the peoples of the socialist countries, the non-aligned and other newly-emerging countries and all revolutionary peoples throughout the world.

Comrades,

The People’s Army is entrusted with a very important mission and responsibility in the effort to consummate our Party’s revolutionary cause, pioneered and developed under the banner of the Juche idea. Our Party and people expect a great deal from the army.

I am firmly convinced that all officers and men of the People’s Army who are boundlessly loyal to the Party and the revolution will closely rally around the Party Central Committee in the future too, and perform their honourable mission and tasks satisfactorily and meet the great expec­tation of our Party and the entire people unfailingly.

Availing myself of this celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Korean People’s Army, I propose a toast: to the strengthening and development of the heroic Korean People’s Army, the glorious rev­olutionary armed forces of our Party; to the health of the revolutionary core of the People’s Army, including the anti-Japanese revolutionary veterans who, with unswerving loyalty to the Party and the revolution, have devoted their lives to the struggle for national sovereignty and independence and the development of our revolutionary armed forces; to the health of all officers and men of the valiant People’s Army and People’s Security Forces who are carrying our valuable work for national defence and reliably guaranteeing by force of arms our Party’s revolutionary cause of reunifying the country independently and modelling the whole of society on the Juche idea; to the health of the members of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and Young Red Guards who, together with the People’s Army, are dependably guarding the security of the country and the gains of the revolution; to the health of the workers, farmers and others who are rendering active help to the People’s Army, while stepping up socialist construction under the banner of the three revolutions— ideological, technical and cultural; to the health of the military attaches and diplomatic envoys of many countries of the world present here to celebrate the Korean People’s Army Day; and to the health of the comrades and friends present here.

Monday 20 April 2009

Anniversary of Pyongyang Declaration Observed

Anniversary of Pyongyang Declaration Observed
Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Monday dedicates a signed article to the 17th anniversary of the publication of the Pyongyang declaration which says that the world socialist movement has vigorously advanced upholding the declaration since its publication.

The historic Pyongyang declaration "Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism" was made public on April 20, Juche 81 (1992).

Representatives of 70 political parties including 48 party leaders from lots of countries actively supported the draft declaration and signed the declaration on behalf of their parties expressing full sympathy with it.

The article says that the Pyongyang declaration clarified that socialism suited to the intrinsic nature of human being for independence is the ideal of humankind and the socialist society is the genuine society of people representing future. It, therefore, became the great revolutionary banner and the banner of the struggle and victory as it helped the world socialist movement weather out its crisis and bring about a new surge, the article notes, and goes on:

The world progressive political parties aspiring after socialism vied with each other in signing the declaration expressing full support to it. At a time when the declaration was adopted 70 political parties signed it and then the number increased to more than 140 after the lapse of half a year and by the end of 1992 the number reached over 150.

The new century witnessed the enhanced significance and role of the Pyongyang declaration.

Those countries which failed to build and develop socialist society suited to the basic requirements of the popular masses could not stand the tempest of history. However, the DPRK has made steady victorious progress remaining undeterred in any ordeals as it built socialist society centered on the popular masses, the driving force of history, and has solved all the problems depending on them.

As of now more than 270 political parties signed the Pyongyang declaration. The world revolutionary parties and progressive people are struggling with the declaration as the historic charter for socialism and common program for their struggle.

The capitalist structure is shaking down to its very foundation due to the reactionary nature of its political system becoming more undisguised and the recent financial crisis. The reality testifies to the justice of the Pyongyang declaration which clarified the truth and validity of socialism and the inevitability of its final victory.

Socialism is sure to emerge victorious when all the revolutionary parties and people struggle in unity under the banner of the declaration.

Solidarity with DPRK from All Union Communist Partyt of Bolsheviks

To the General Secretary of the Workers Party of Korea

Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK

Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army

Great Leader

Comrade Kim Jong IL



Pyongyang, DPRK



Deeply respected Comrade KIM JONG IL!

In the name of the CC AUCPB and myself personally, I warmly congratulate YOU, the Great son of the Korean nation and in YOUR name, the courageous, heroic, talented and labour –loving Korean people on the Day of the Sun, on the day of birth of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung

Comrade Kim IL Sung – a Great Commander, raised the Korean people up to the struggle against the Japanese colonial yoke, formed a People’s Army which defeated the Japanese occupiers, liberated Korea from foreign invaders and with that, opened up a new page of the history of Korea, a page of self-reliance, independence and happiness for the people in a new country – the DPRK, where the people are the master of everything, where the people are building their own life according to their own understanding, not glancing at the opinion and tips from the side. It is namely independence in the economy and politics, both foreign and domestic that has guaranteed independence of the country and has become the main stability of a socialist society in the DPRK at the same time while other countries (of the people’s democracy), followed the line of the leaders of the degenerated CPSU and ceased to exist as independent states, at one time undermined from within by American diversion propaganda and internal counter-revolution. It was of great service the Great Leader formed the PARTY – the Worker’s Party of Korea – the organiser of socialist construction. The Korean People’s Army formed and nurtured by the Great Leader, nowadays under the leadership of the glorious successor of heroic causes Comrade Kim Il Sung – the Great Kim Jong IL, thanks to the wise policy of Songun, has been transformed into a powerful force of socialism. The policy of Songun at the same time is a reliable shield for the peaceful labour of the citizens of the DPRK in the conditions of constant rattling of nuclear weapons against the DPRK on part of the imperialist predator – the USA, in the flow of the entire period of the life of the socialist country. WE with a feeling of great pride in socialist Korea received the information about the launch of the long-range rocket – 10 thous, km with a satellite broadcasting to the whole world the song of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong IL. This is a significant victory for the country and its people, entering the first ranks of progressive mankind towards the building of a communist society.

There can be no doubt whatsoever in YOUR huge service in this, Deeply Respected Comrade Kim Jong Il. This is because YOU are a Leader recognised and loved by the people, an organiser and supreme commander of your own people in socialist construction. We admire YOUR successes and from all our hearts wish the great Korean people new victories on the path of building a prosperous, flourishing state of a united nation.

Everlasting glory to the name of the Great Leader Comrade KIM IL SUNG – the father of the Korean nation, the founder of the DPRK, the unifier of freedom-loving peoples in their struggle against imperialism, creator of the Pyongyang Declaration of 1992!

Long live Great Kim Jong Il – the loyal and talented continuer of the cause of the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung!

Long live the heroic Korean people, courageously and steadfastly moving forward along the path of socialism under the banner of Juche under the leadership of their Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong IL!

Happiness and successes to you, excellent country of morning calm, independent and freedom-loving Socialist Korea!

Long live the DPRK headed by the Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong IL – the banner-carrier of the struggle against imperialism!

N.A. Andreeva

General Secretary of the CC AUCPB,

11 April 2009, Leningrad.



COMMENTARY BY THE CC AUCPB IN CONNECTION WITH THE REFUSAL BY THE DPRK TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SIX-PARTY TALKS.



The All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (AUCPB) absolutely fully supports the just decision by the DPRK not to participate in future, in the six-party talks on the DPRK nuclear programme as a sign of protest against the position of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) which had condemned the launching by the DPRK on 5 April of a long-range ballistic rocket with a communications satellite. The flow itself of the lengthy, exhausting 6-party talks each time with ones own eyes underlined the biasedness and biliousness of the majority of the participators in relation to the DPRK, invariably demonstrated their complete, although hidden, agreement with the position of the USA. The chief desire of the “leading” parties in the talks was always – to crush the DPRK and destroy socialism on the Korean Peninsula. Under Obama as we see, US policy in principle remained unchanged, which is what we predicted during the US presidential campaign. The change of a leader in the White House may only lead to a small change in the decoration of foreign policy, and no more. This we observe today in relations if only with Cuba…. Under Obama we can expect to see serious upheavals.



N.A. Andreeva

General Secretary of the CC AUCPB





To the General Secretary of the Workers Party of Korea

Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK

Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army

Great Leader

Comrade Kim Jong IL



Pyongyang, DPRK



Deeply Respected Comrade KIM JONG IL!

I heartedly congratulate YOU and in YOUR name, the heroic Korean people, the talented collective of scientific-researh cadres, engineers and their collaborators of the National Defence Commission of DPRK, the invincible and legendary Korean Peoples Army, the officer corps and rank and file members of the CC WKP and all party workers, everyone who has daily being working on strengthening the economic might and growth in the defence capability of the country - we sincerely congratulate you on the successful launching on the morning of 5 April 2009 of a long-range ballistic rocket with a communication satellite!

BRAVO! WELLDONE! An excellent gift for the DAY OF THE SUN, an excellent gift to all the working people of the Planet as confirmation of the truth that one can confront and triumph over evil, wicked and human-hating dark forces. This launch bears witness to the huge achievements in the DPRK on peaceful use of space and once again demonstrate to the whole world the might of the DPRK in the sphere of providing defence of their own country from encroachments on part of any aggressor. You are now recognised by everyone as a powerful nuclear power and YOU have not fallen for the false arguments and frightened howls of the imperialist aggressors who have for a long time possessed nuclear weapons and have no intention of giving their own overloaded nuclear arsenals up, which serve for terrifying all those who do not have any nuclear weapons of their own. Chattering on about love of peace, their real motto is – WE ARE ALLOWED TO DO ANYTHING, but YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED to do anything! The tables have turned and they are now not in a position to anything they want! The truth is on the side of the DPRK and socialism! The launch by the DPRK on 5 April of a new long-range ballistic rocket with a satellite should bury forever any attempts by anyone to threaten the DPRK and beat off the desire to organise provocative military manoeuvres close to the borders of the DPRK.

This launch carries in our opinion, huge political weight, having demonstrated to the whole world the inevitability of retribution (which they are all afraid of) even in relation to the most aggressive power in the world – the USA (on the strength now of being able to reach the territory of the USA) with its human-hating Zionist policy of invading foreign territories and disrespect to all other nations, from their point of view – to “rogues”. YOU, a small SOCIALIST country have taught a lesson of necessity for a respectful attitude to any independent country of the world on part of the “G20 impious” recently in session in France and Germany, with the excessive arrogance of “masters of the world”, having gained for themselves the right as the strong in concrete jungles, and attempting today, to fruitlessly find a way out of the chasm where the empire of dishonesty had led them and burst bubbles of their own “world currency”, being printed out lately ten times more than the whole world can “swallow” and in no way backed up by gold. And no such meetings by the UN Security Council – puppets of the US, no such howling in the bourgeois media (which are now scared stiff) are able to refute the fact that any crime committed against humanity on part of the USA will inevitably be punished. Imperialism together with the USA is dying out. No currency injections (including in Russia and China) will be able to revive their existence, having become already temporary on the planet.

A new era is approaching – and era of socialism. The launching by YOU of a long-range rocket with a satellite is a powerful and dignified contribution to the cause of common peace on Earth, in the cause of burying imperialism.

Long live the new victory of the DPRK over the most evil imperialist predator – the USA!

Long live the heroic Korean people!

Long live the Workers’ Party of Korea led by its leader Great Kim Jong IL!

N.A. Andreeva

General Secretary of the CC AUCPB

5 April 2009

1400 Leningrad

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UK KFA STATEMENT on UNSC Presidential statement

UK KFA STATEMENT
The UK Korean Friendship Asssociation strongly denounces the unreasonable
presidential statement of the UNSC and the sanctions that they are
attempting to impose on the DPRK are short of a declaration of war,an
intolerable infringement of the DPRK's sovereignity.

The 'presidential statement' of the UNSC is hypocrtical and one sided as
many of the countries on the UN Security Council have launched satellites
and have space programmes.No one can own outer space or prevent others
from pursuing the exploration of space.The UNSC statement is a violation
of the original UN charter which stipulates non interference in the interna
affairs of member nations.

The presidential statement is silly and leaves the UN open to ridicule.

Thus UK KFA supports the just and correct measures contained in the
statement of the DPRK Foreign Ministry dated 14th of April.These measures
support the DPRK's sovereign independence.We hail the decision to pull
out of the 6 party talks which are just a smokescreen to disarm the DPRK
and the just measure to restart the nuclear power plant.

All friends of the DPRK must rally around it
US IMPERIALISM HANDS OFF KOREA

Friday 17 April 2009

Paragon of Internationalism

Paragon of Internationalism



President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) of Korea is always remembered by many people of the world as a paragon of internationalism.

In the difficult period of arduous armed struggle against the Japanese imperialists to liberate Korea from their occupation (1905-1945), the President regarded it as an internationalist obligation of the Korean revolutionaries to help the anti-imperialist struggle of the Chinese people, their neighbor. He therefore put forward a line of forming the anti-imperialist joint front with the Chinese, waged and commanded joint operations with the Chinese anti-Japanese units. Those operations included the attack on the Fusong County in August 1936 and the battle at Shuangshanzi in May 1938-he himself commanded the fights, leaving a vivid embodiment of internationalism in the history of the Korea-Chinese anti-Japanese struggle.

In this period, he also waged an energetic struggle to defend with arms the Soviet Union, the first socialist state.

He put forward slogan, “Defend the Soviet Union with arms!” and carried out harassment operations in the rear of the Japanese army, thus frustrating the Japanese aggressive maneuvers at every step.

When the Japanese imperialist aggressors made armed provocations against the Soviet Union in the areas of Lake Khasan in 1938 and Khalkhin-Gol in 1939 respectively, he fought many battles and dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese armed invasion attempts against the Soviet Union.

Even after Korea’s liberation on August 15, 1945, President Kim Il Sung gave selfless support in every field to the Chinese Communist Party engaged in arduous struggle against the Chiang Kai-shek-led Kuomintang. That is why the Chinese leaders like Mao Zedong said that the Chinese national flag inscribed with five starts is tinted with the blood shed by Korean revolutionaries.

Kim Il Sung actively supported and helped the people in the forefront of the anti-imperialist struggle in the 20th century, imprinting its political history with indelible marks.

When the Cuban Missile crisis took place in October 1962, the President, saying that nothing must be spared to defend the Cuban revolution from the US aggression, gave political and military assistance, while sending food and tractors as well as a group of authoritative technicians. He strengthened solidarity and gave selfless support to the struggle of many peoples- to the Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians out against the US imperialists’ aggression and interference; the anti-colonial struggle waged in African countries of Algeria, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia and so on; and the Latin-American peoples against the US and pro-US dictatorship. Whenever Middle Eastern Arab countries were engaged in the wars started by the Israeli Zionists, President Kim Il Sung expressed firm solidarity with the Arab peoples and gave them unstinted material and military assistance. He also made public several works such as Let Us Intensify the Anti-Imperialist, Anti-US Struggle and The Great Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Cause of Asian, African and Latin-American People Is Invincible where he encourage the people of the world in their revolutionary struggle conducted under the banner of anti-imperialism and independence, and clearly illuminated the correct path to the cause of making the world independent.

The leaders and statesmen of the countries, who won freedom from the imperialist colonial shatters, often visited Korea for help, when Kim Il Sung told them about the successes and experience the Koreans gained in the building of new society, and rendered all possible help to them. He also saw it to that efficient technicians’ groups were dispatched to several countries to build irrigation works and farm implement factories as well as a lot of tractors, vehicles and machine-tools, etc. in this way he gave many-sided support and cooperation.

Didier Ratsiraka, former President of Madagascar, said: “Some foreigners only give us some fish of their catch when we are hungry. It means that we should always depend on them. But President Kim Il Sung has taught us how to catch fish, so we could catch them by ourselves if necessary.”

President Kim Il Sung, who has created the noble paragon of internationalism, will live in eternal memory of the progressive humankind advancing toward independence.

Tuesday 14 April 2009

JOINT STATEMENT OF THE ASSPUK AND JISGE ON THE UNSC 'PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT

London April 14
Today the ASSPUK and JISGE issued a joint statement in connection with the UNSC 'presidential statement' imposing sanctions on the DPRK.

This is an unwarranted intrusion in the DPRK's internal affairs as it is the legitmate sovereign right to pursue space exploration and launch satellites.In fact this resolution actually violates the original UN charter which states that there should be no interference in other countries internal affairs.

The so called "sanctions" are virtually a declaration of war against the DPRK but will fail due to the might of the Juche based independent national economy

The UNSC statement is the result of the hullabloo kicked up by the US imperialists, the south Korean puppets,the Japanese imperialists and other reactionary forces and vassal states of US imperialism. The UNSC is acting like a marionette of US imperialism
and a sort of colonial adminstration office for imperialism. It has become a supra
national power violating the independence and sovereignity of nations.

The DPRK does not need the permission of the US or the UN or anyone else to launch
a satellite.Many of the countries on the UN Security have launched satellites without
anyone taking notice.This is an extremely unfair and one sided measure by the UNSC

We support the just,correct and revolutionary stand of the DPRK contained in the
DPRK Foreign Ministry statement of 14th of April which says the DPRK will pull out
of the 6 party talks.This is a great blow to imperialism and we salute the DPRK for
being the only country to stand up to US imperialism !
UNSC HANDS OFF THE DPRK!
US IMPERIALISM OUT OF KOREA!
LONG LIVE THE DPRK !

DPRK Foreign Ministry Vehemently Refutes UNSC's "Presidential Statement"

DPRK Foreign Ministry Vehemently Refutes UNSC's "Presidential Statement"
Pyongyang, April 14 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement Tuesday flatly rejecting the brigandish "presidential statement" which the U.S. and its followers finally released by abusing the UNSC to condemn the DPRK's launch of satellite for peaceful purposes.

Saying that throughout history the UNSC has never taken issue with satellite launches, the statement continues:

First, the DPRK resolutely rejects the unjust action taken by the UNSC wantonly infringing upon the sovereignty of the DPRK and seriously hurting the dignity of the Korean people.

Second, there would be no need to hold six-party talks which the DPRK has attended.

Now that the six-party talks have turned into a platform for infringing upon the sovereignty of the DPRK and seeking to force the DPRK to disarm itself and bring down the system in it the DPRK will never participate in the talks any longer nor it will be bound to any agreement of the six-party talks.

Third, the DPRK will bolster its nuclear deterrent for self-defence in every way.

It will take the measure for restoring to their original state the nuclear facilities which had been disabled under the agreement of the six-party talks and putting their operation on a normal track and fully reprocess the spent fuel rods churned out from the pilot atomic power plant as part of it.

Monday 13 April 2009

On the Auspicious Occasion of the Day of the Sun


- On the Auspicious Occasion of the Day of the Sun -



Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il Said About the Greatness of President Kim Il Sung ;

Respected Comrade Kim Il Sung was a great leader, acclaimed and venerated as the such by our people for the first time in Korea's history of 5,000 years. He was the greatest of great men, the incarnation of all the best values and qualifica­tions a great man must possess.

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 history of the Workers Party of Korea is precisely the history of respected Comrade Kim Il Sung's great revolutionary activities.

Great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung was the founder of the DPRK and the father of socialist Korea, and he is the eternal President of State.

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 the leadership of President Kim Il Sung, the ever-victorious and iron-willed brilliant commander, our soldiers and people turned out as one in the just Fatherland Liberation War and fought in a self-sacrificing manner, giving a full demonstration of their unparalleled mass heroism at the front and in the rear. Consequently, they defeated the US aggressor armed forces that had been boasting of being the mightiest in the world, defended the freedom and independence of their country with honor, encouraged the oppressed peoples of the world in their anti-imperialist national liberation struggle, and made a great contribution to safeguarding world peace.

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.

Great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung regarded the people as his god.

He dearly loved the people, firmly believed in them, and gave his all for their freedom and happiness, under­going hardships and sufferings on their behalf throughout his life.

Great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung is the sun of our nation and the lodestar of national reunification. He devoted all his life to the country and nation and made imperishable achievements in the cause of national reunification.

Great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung set forth the three charters for national reunification which clarified the fundamental principles and methods of national reunification, and provided the guideline that must be maintained in accomplishing the cause of national reunification.

As a veteran of world states­manship, respected Comrade Kim Il Sung gave strength and confidence to the world's progressive people in their fight for independence, and made an imperishable contribution to the cause of human independence.

Invincible WPK

Invincible WPK
Pyongyang, April 10 (KCNA) -- One of the immortal exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung in arranging the foundation for building a rich and powerful country is that he had developed the Workers' Party of Korea into an invincible one.

Under the leadership of the President, the WPK, the organizer and guide of all victories of the Korean people, has set an example in carving out a new way of building a revolutionary party suitable to the era of independence.

He, with the belief that the internal force of the revolution is popular masses, set forth in his early years a policy of founding a party by the method of organizing basic party organizations rooted deep among broad sections of masses including workers and peasants first of all and then expanding and strengthening them. And he had guided wisely the efforts for its implementation.

After the foundation of the WPK, he had led it so as to decisively smash the pressure by the modern revisionists and great-power chauvinists and firmly maintain the Juche stand and independent line in the party building and activities including its organizational, ideological and leadership art construction. As a result, it has steadily emerged victorious even under the grave situation in which socialism collapsed in various socialist countries.

It is a brilliant fruition of the President's wise leadership that the WPK has developed into a steel-like one which is imbued with the Juche idea and, on its basis, is firmly united ideologically and purposefully, a revolutionary one all the organizations and members of which act as one under the monolithic guidance of the leader.

He not only founded the WPK and strengthened as invincible one, but also firmly established the organizational and ideological base and the leadership system in the Party for carrying forward the revolutionary cause of Juche.

As he had laid a solid foundation for bringing the Party's cause to a brilliant accomplishment, the WPK could be steeled further in the past ten-odd-year long struggle for safeguarding the sovereignty of the nation and opening up the road of new advance for the building of a great, prosperous and powerful nation; and it could demonstrate its high authority and dignity as the general staff of the revolution and the vanguard of anti-imperialism and independence which enjoys absolute support of the people.

The great exploit made by the President in developing the WPK into the unbreakable one leading the era of independence will shine long in the annals of the nation.

UK KFA Statement on Satellite Launch

The Korean Friendship Association(UK) congratulates the DPRK on the successful launch of the satellite Kwangmysong-2.The rocket and satellite were contructed using 100% DPRK resources,materials and expertise.Few countries in the world can do this indeed the US’s own space programme owed much to captured Nazi rocket scientist Werner Von Braun.

Those that have lost face due to the success of the DPRK rocket launch are spreading silly and dishonest rumours about the alleged failure of the satellite.However this can only begs the question why raise such hysteria and why put the issue before the UN Security council.

The launch of the DPRK communciations satellite was a peaceful action of a sovereign and independent state.It did not threaten anyone in the surrounding area or even farther a field.The reaction of the United States, Japan and south Korea to the satellite launch is totally unjustified.
It is the United States which menaces the peace of the Korean peninsula and of the rest of the world with it's aggressive military excrises such "Foal Eagle" and with the stationing of a 1,000 nuclear weapons(including the infamous neutron bomb)in south Korea.President Obama in his speech in Prague called for universal nuclear disarment.If these are sincere words by Obama(not just propaganda), then the USA should immediately wthdraw its 1'000 nuclear weapons of all kinds and its 40,000 troops and conclude a peace treaty with the DPRK. We call upon all honest, progressive and peace-loving people throughout Britain and the world to see through the big corporate media-generated war mass hysteria and campaign for Peace and independent reunification of Korea.We hope that the Peace, anti-imperialist, anti-racist and Trade Union movements in Britain and elsewhere will cooperate with the Korean Friendship Assoication for a just solution to the nuclear question in Korea and for increased solidarity with the Korean people in their efforts for Peace and Reunification.Let us all stand together for Peace and Friendship with the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea!
KOREA IS ONE!
UK KFA APRIL 9TH 2009

Immortal Juche Idea, Guideline of WPK

Immortal Juche Idea, Guideline of WPK
Pyongyang, April 9 (KCNA) -- The DPRK has been thriving with the precious heritage left by the great President Kim Il Sung, founder of the DPRK, as lasting foundation.

While leading the revolution and construction, the President, a peerlessly great man, designed all the work and made the priceless wherewithal to be handed down to the generations to come, always foreseeing the distant future of the country and revolution.

What is his greatest exploit in laying the eternal foundation for the rich and powerful country is the creation of the immortal Juche idea that the Workers' Party and people of Korea should firmly adhere to in building a great, prosperous and powerful nation.

The Juche idea is the great guiding idea of the revolution which fully reflects the requirement of the era of independence and the aspiration of the people and gives perfect answers to all problems arising in achieving the prosperity of the country and nation.

From the first days of his revolutionary struggle, he found himself among the popular masses and waged the struggle in reliance upon them. Covering the true road of revolution, he found the truth that the master of the revolution is the popular masses and the revolution will emerge victorious only when they are educated, organized and mobilized and that one should make a revolution not by the approval or instructions of someone but according to one's faith and on one's own responsibility and should resolve all problems arising in the revolution in an independent and creative way.

Guided by the Juche idea fathered by the President on the basis of the practical experience and lesson he had gained in the revolutionary struggle, the Korean people accomplished the historic cause of national liberation and could also win victories in the Fatherland Liberation War (June 25, 1950 -July 27, 1953), the socialist construction and in the war for defending socialism without gun-report.

The DPRK is opening up the road of advance to the victory under the banner of the Juche idea in the present general offensive for making a historic leap on all fronts of building a great, prosperous and powerful nation.

The DPRK will, in the future, too, create a history of victory and prosperity, advancing along the one road of Juche paved by the President.

Report on Implementation of State Budget for 2008 and State Budget for 2009

Report on Implementation of State Budget for 2008 and State Budget for 2009
Pyongyang, April 9 (KCNA) -- Deputy Kim Wan Su, minister of Finance, delivered a report on the results of the implementation of the DPRK state budget for Juche 97 (2008) and its state budget for Juche 98 (2009) at the first session of the 12th Supreme People's Assembly held on Thursday.

According to the report, the plans for the revenue from the profits of state enterprises, the main source of state budgetary revenue, and the profits of cooperative organizations were overfulfilled and as a result, last year's plan for state budgetary revenue was carried out at 101.6 per cent, an increase of 5.7 per cent over the previous year. The plan for local budgetary revenue was carried out at 117.1 per cent.

Last year's plan for state budgetary expenditure was carried out at 99.9 per cent and 15.8 per cent of the total expenditure was spent for national defence.

Thanks to the increased investment in the fields of electric power, coal and metal industries and railway transport, the modernization of key industrial sectors, the priority sectors of the national economy, made dynamic progress and the construction of many major industrial objects was completed to further consolidate the material and technical foundation of the national economy and increase its production potentials.

5.4 per cent more funds than the previous year were spent for agriculture according to the policy objective of the Workers' Party of Korea to solve the food problem for the people and a large amount of fund was channeled into the work for accelerating the modernization of the light industry.

The financial disbursement was increased for the fields of science and technology and a huge amount of funds were spent for the development of education, culture, public health and physical culture and sports and the enforcement of such popular policies as the universal free compulsory education system, free medical service, social insurance and social security system.

The state budget for this year has been shaped in a realistic and dynamic manner on the principle of tapping sources of income to the maximum and cutting down the expenditure for non-productive units as much as possible so as to satisfactorily meet the financial needs for building an economic power, improving the standard of people's living and boosting the defence capability.

This year's plan for state budgetary revenue is expected to grow 5.2 per cent over last year. The revenue from the profits of state enterprises, the main source of budgetary revenue, is expected to go up 5.8 per cent over last year, that from the profits of cooperative organizations 3.1 per cent, that from the fixed asset depreciation 6.1 per cent, that from real estate rent 3.6 per cent and that from social insurance 1.6 per cent.

This year's plan for state budgetary expenditure is expected to show a 7 per cent increase over last year. It has been shaped in such a way as to direct a big share of it to definitely putting the overall economy on the orbit of growth, exceeding the level of the peak year in production, bringing about a signal turn in improving the standard of people's living and accelerating the modernization in all fields of the national economy.

15.8 per cent of the total state budgetary expenditure for this year is expected to be allocated for national defence to strengthen the People's Army, develop the defence industry and bring about a new turn in bolstering up the militia force.

8.7 per cent more funds than last year will go to the priority sectors of the national economy and the spending for the development of science and technology is expected to go up 8 per cent, that for agriculture 6.9 per cent, that for light industry 5.6 per cent and that for city management 11.5 per cent as compared with last year.

A huge amount of fund will go to the field of socialist cultural construction. The financial disbursement for education will swell 8.2 per cent, that for culture and arts 3.2 per cent, that for public health 8 per cent and that for sports 5.8 per cent over last year. The state will thus consistently enforce all the popular policies to clearly prove the advantages of the socialist state budget of the country where the money earned by the people is spent for them.

It is expected that the government will send a large amount of educational aid fund and stipends for the democratic national education of the children of Koreans in Japan this year, too.

Difficult and vast tasks are facing us this year, but there is no fortress unconquerable and only victory is in store for us as long as there are the Songun leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il, the inexhaustible mental power of the servicepersons and people single-mindedly united around the headquarters of the revolution, the matchless military power and the enormous potential of the self-supporting economy, concluded the reporter.

Kim Jong Il Elected Chairman of NDC of DPRK

Pyongyang, April 9 (KCNA) -- The First Session of the 12th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK held here elected General Secretary Kim Jong Il chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission.

The session solemnly declared internally and externally that Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and supreme commander of the revolutionary armed forces, was elected chairman of the NDC of the DPRK, reflecting the unanimous will and wishes of all the servicepersons and people, as he has performed the immortal exploits to shine long in the history of the country and put the dignity and position of the DPRK on the highest level by wisely leading the Juche revolutionary cause started in Mt. Paektu to victory through his distinguished ideological and theoretical activities and with his dynamic leadership.

He developed and enriched the immortal Juche idea in all fields and advanced new and unique ideas and theories indicating the path of winning victory of socialism, thus providing a great guiding idea of the revolution. By successfully applying the idea, he has turned the DPRK into an invincible political and ideological, military and scientific and technological power, consolidated the single-minded unity of the leader, the Party, the army and the people as firm as a rock, ushered in a new era of a thriving nation unprecedented in the nation's history spanning 5,000 years with his Songun revolutionary leadership and made an undying contribution to accomplishing the cause of independence against imperialism.

The election of Kim Jong Il as chairman of the NDC of the DPRK is all the servicepersons and people's expression of unquestioned support and trust in him.

This, at the same time, marks a great event strikingly demonstrating the unshakable faith and will of the army and people of the DPRK to firmly defend and glorify the Korean-style socialist system centered on the popular masses, the most advantageous system in the world, and accomplish the Songun revolutionary cause under his experienced and seasoned leadership.

Thursday 9 April 2009

Statement of Northern Regional Committee of the Korean Friendship Association

The Northern Regional Committee of the Korean Friendship Association(UK) wishes to express its view on the recent delevopments concerning the DPRK's peaceful space programme.The launch of the DPRK communciations satellite was a peaceful action of a sovereign and independent state.It did not threaten anyone in the surrounding area or even farther a field.The reaction of the United States, Japan and south Korea to the satellite launch is totally unjustified. Gordon Brown's response to this event was really sycophantic and foolish.

It is the United States which menaces the peace of the Korean peninsula and of the rest of the world with it's aggressive military excrises such "Foal Eagle" and with the stationing of a 1,000 nuclear weapons(including the infamous neutron bomb)in south Korea.President Obama in his speech in Prague called for universal nuclear disarment.If these are sincere words by Obama(not just propaganda), then the USA should immediately wthdraw its 1'000 nuclear weapons of all kinds and its 40,000 troops and conclude a peace treaty with the DPRK.

We call upon all honest, progressive and peace-loving people throughout Britain and the world to see through the big corporate media-generated war mass hysteria and campaign for Peace and independent reunification of Korea.We hope that the Peace, anti-imperialist, anti-racist and Trade Union movements in Britain and elsewhere will cooperate with the Korean Friendship Assoication for a just solution to the nuclear question in Korea and for increased solidarity with the Korean people in their efforts for Peace and Reunification.Let us all stand together for Peace and Friendship with the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea!


KOREA IS ONE!


April 4th 2009

Sunday 5 April 2009

Statement of ASSPUK and JISGE on Successful Satellite Launch

ASSSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK
President Dermot Hudson email juche007@yahoo. co.uk

We warmly congratulate the government of the DPRK and WPK on the succesful launch of the communications satellite on April 5th.This is a great achievement of the DPRK
and a victory for Juche science and techology.The launch fully demonstrates the power of the DPRK independent socialist national economy and the might of self reliance.It was made with 100% Korean technology,labour and resources.Few other countries even bigger ones could not achieve such a feat.This is a victory for Songun politics and Songun revolutionary leadership of supreme commander Marshal Kim Jong Il

The DPRK has the sovereign right to space exploration which no one should interfere in this.
The US imperialists and great powers who lorded over the world once have been proved useless and impotent.

The successful launch is a poweful gunshot signifiying the building of a great prosperous powerful socialist nation.


LONG LIVE THE DPRK!
LONG LIVE JUCHE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY!
LONG LIVE THE WPK !
LONG LIVE THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM JONG IL!
MANSE MANSE MANSE!

Dermot Hudson
President ASSPUK

DPRK's Projected Satellite Launch Hailed Abroad

DPRK's Projected Satellite Launch Hailed Abroad
Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- The DPRK's projected satellite launch for peaceful purposes has been supported by political parties and organizations in different countries.

The Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union released a statement on March 31, in which it expressed deep apprehension over the reckless moves being made by the United States and its followers to hinder the launch of the experimental communications satellite "Kwangmyongsong-2" by the DPRK, a sovereign state.

The statement said that the United States' outrageous interference in the internal affairs of the DPRK, a peace-loving state, is intended to dominate the world and, furthermore, violate the sovereignty of the DPRK and other countries.

This is, in essence, quite contrary to the "spirit of mutual respect and equality" contained in the September 19 Joint Statement, it pointed out.

It said that the Secretariat of the C.C., the Communist Party of the Soviet Union fully supports the steadfast stand of the Workers' Party of Korea led by General Secretary Kim Jong Il and the DPRK's policy of developing space for peaceful purposes.

Also, the Czech, Moravian and Silesian Trade Unions' Association issued a statement on April 1, the Belarusian National Organization of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the National Social Federation "For the Union and Union's Communist Party" and the Belarus-DPRK National Friend Association Named after Kim Il Sung and the Belarusian Social Association "For Democracy, Social Progress and Justice" joint statements on April 2, and the Russian Association for Friendship and Cultural Cooperation with the DPRK a statement on March 31, in support of the DPRK's projected satellite launch.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Group for the Study of Songun Politics and the Thai Branch of the Korean Friendship Association headquartered in Spain sent letters of solidarity to the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front on Mar. 20 and 25.

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Kim Jong Il Observes Launch of Satellite Kwangmyongsong-2

Kim Jong Il Observes Launch of Satellite Kwangmyongsong-2
Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il visited the General Satellite Control and Command Centre to watch the process of launching the experimental communications satellite Kwangmyongsong-2 on Sunday.

He acquainted himself with the preparations made for the satellite launch.

After being briefed on the satellite launch, he observed the whole process of the satellite launch at the centre.

At 11:20 a.m. the satellite Kwangmyongsong-2, a shining product of self-reliance, soared into space by carrier rocket Unha-2. It was smoothly and accurately put into its orbit 9 minutes and 2 seconds after being completely separated from the carrier rocket.

Expressing great satisfaction over the fact that scientists and technicians of the DPRK successfully launched the satellite with their own wisdom and technology, he highly appreciated their feats and extended thanks to them.

It is a striking demonstration of the might of our Juche-oriented science and technology that our scientists and technicians developed both the multistage carrier rocket and the satellite with their own wisdom and technology 100 percent and accurately put the satellite into orbit at one go, he noted, repeatedly praising the patriotic devotion of the scientists and technicians who are playing a vanguard role in the drive to open the gate to a great prosperous and powerful nation.

Stressing the need to bring about a new turn in conquering outer space and making a peaceful use of it on the basis of the successful launch of the satellite Kwangmyongsong-2, he set forth the important tasks to be fulfilled to do so.

He met with the scientists and technicians who have contributed to the satellite launch by devoting all their wisdom and enthusiasm with ardent patriotism and warmly encouraged them before having a photograph taken with them.

He was accompanied by Secretary Jon Pyong Ho and First Vice-Department Director Ju Kyu Chang of the WPK Central Committee.

KCNA on DPRK's Successful Launch of Satellite Kwangmyongsong-2

KCNA on DPRK's Successful Launch of Satellite Kwangmyongsong-2
Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- Scientists and technicians of the DPRK have succeeded in putting satellite Kwangmyongsong-2, an experimental communications satellite, into orbit by means of carrier rocket Unha-2 under the state long-term plan for the development of outer space.

Unha-2, which was launched at the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground in Hwadae County, North Hamgyong Province at 11:20 on April 5, Juche 98 (2009), accurately put Kwangmyongsong-2 into its orbit at 11:29:02, nine minutes and two seconds after its launch.

The satellite is going round the earth along its elliptic orbit at the angle of inclination of 40.6 degrees at 490 km perigee and 1 426 km apogee. Its cycle is 104 minutes and 12 seconds.

Mounted on the satellite are necessary measuring devices and communications apparatuses.

The satellite is going round on its routine orbit.

It is sending to the earth the melodies of the immortal revolutionary paeans "Song of General Kim Il Sung" and "Song of General Kim Jong Il" and measured information at 470 MHz. By the use of the satellite the relay communications is now underway by UHF frequency band.

The satellite is of decisive significance in promoting the scientific researches into the peaceful use of outer space and solving scientific and technological problems for the launch of practical satellites in the future.

Carrier rocket Unha-2 has three stages.

The carrier rocket and the satellite developed by the indigenous wisdom and technology are the shining results gained in the efforts to develop the nation's space science and technology on a higher level.

The successful satellite launch symbolic of the leaping advance made in the nation's space science and technology was conducted against the background of the stirring period when a high-pitched drive for bringing about a fresh great revolutionary surge is under way throughout the country to open the gate to a great prosperous and powerful nation without fail by 2012, the centenary of birth of President Kim Il Sung, under the far-reaching plan of General Secretary Kim Jong Il. This is powerfully encouraging the Korean people all out in the general advance.

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