Long live Songun politics! 51 years of Songun politics in the DPRK.

Long live Songun politics! 51 years of Songun politics in the DPRK.


Why has socialism in the DPRK been so successful and still continues to hold the red flag high for the world proletariat?

In his “Army centred politics of Kim Jong Il” Professor Kim Chol U states that

“ Kim Jong Ils army centred politics is rooted in the Juche idea. It is a mode of politics that was created in the practical struggle of waging the revolution in the Korean way guided by the Juche idea that fully reflects the requirements of the idea. In others words, it is based on the theory that the army means the Party, the state and the people.”

Songun politics is putting the military first and making the military the torch barer of the revolution. It is the correct policy is a world now dominated by western imperialism. Western imperialism runs rampant and as we are seeing in Libya today causes havoc and chaos were ever it wants. The correct policy of the Korean workers party under the wise leadership of the dear leader comrade Kim Jong il has given western imperialism and the new Third Reich that is NATO pause for thought about trying to combat socialism in Korea.

If other socialist nations, before the agents of western imperialism managed to infiltrate their societies using revisionist spies, had taken heed of the wise policies of the great leader comrade Kim Il sung and put the army on the highest pedestal of the revolution then these nations would still exist today in freedom and independence as apposed to slavery and poverty.

Songun politics are not only the correct response for a socialist country to take to imperialist encirclement but the ideologically correct communist policy for any socialist nation. As professor Kim Chol U again states:

“Marx and Engels pointed out that in order to establish the socialist system, it is necessary to prepare the revolutionary force, namely, the army of the workers and peasants and other working masses”

The worker and peasant army as embodied the Korean Peoples Army is the only democratic army in the world now. The workers and peasants are the masters of the revolution they don’t have a stake in society they are society. Songun politics puts the peoples army at the centre of the revolution and hence the workers and peasants army really feel part of the socialist cause.

Another quote from the same work I think out lines why and how the DPRK has been so successful in defending the socialist system at home and helping us, communists abroad, in understanding how to build and defend a socialist system.

“The hope of western politicians for a change in policy in the north was based on their judgment that in the adverse circumstances, the north would be forced to haul down the Red flag of Juche-orinated socialism. The situation was grave. Kim Jong il however, absolutely refused.

Don’t expect any change in me, he said, we will win if we keep socialism; we will perish if we abandon it.

The clear political answer was an expression of an iron will and faith to maintain and implement Juche-orientated socialism, whatever the difficulties.

In these most difficult circumstances, what or who did he believe in when he declared his political decision to keep the socialist flag flying, not only today but in the distant future? He trusted in the military force he had built up for decades”

That lengthy quote proves that Songun politics is the correct communist policy in times of hardship. The situation our movement faced in the late 1980s and early 1990s was grave and the leaders of European communism were found wanting in the hour of the proletariat's need. But the DPRK showed us all how to march forward to victory and maintain the communist system.

The armed forces of a socialist country are born in combat against the capitalist during the revolution. The ranks and officers are the workers and peasants, the army is the centre of the revolution and comrades Kim il Sung and Kim Jong il have proven this to the world!

Long live anti-revisionist Juche centred socialism with the peoples army at its head! Long live Songun politics!