Not only have the imperialist media such as the reactionary BBC and various media outlets but certain elements, the echoes of the BBC and CNN in the labour and progressive movement have joined in slandering the DPRK and the memory of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il . Various revisionists, opportunists as well as ultra-leftists, Trotskyites and anarchists poured slander on the memory of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il.It is disgraceful that such people are attempting to disparage the memory of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il and tarnish the beautiful image of Juche socialism . Now supporters of Songun speak.
1)THE ROLE OF THE LEADER.
Modern revisionists mouth about the "cult of personality ". This was a term used by Khruschov to slander and vilify the late JV Stalin and the building of socialism in the USSR . Khruschov's so called secret speech to the 20th congress of the CPSU was leaked out to the imperialist countries and the term "cult of personality" became a stock in trade for anti-communist propagandists as well as revisionists and opportunists . The USSR and international communist movement suffered badly because of Khruschov's folly . The USSR swung right and a few decades later restored capitalism , that is where the theory of the "cult of personality" ends up. The essence of the theory of the so called "cult of personality" is an artificial separation of the leader from the masses. Bourgeois and revisionist commentators fail to realise that the leader is not an individual but the centre of unity of society.
Those who prate about the "cult of personality" are those who fail to see society as a collective, instead are influenced by a bourgeois concept of society which sees society as made up of atomised individuals, typically an extreme and nihilistic variant of these world outlook was expressed by ex premier M Thatcher who once claimed that "there is no such thing as society"
Indeed the leader is the supreme brain of the revolution , the supreme brain of society . Society is like a living organism or a body. The body requires a brain , a body without a brain would be impossible . Yet some people think you can have a body without a brain. No one thinks of the brain enslaving their own body.
In the DPRK the masses , the party and the leader form an integral and harmonious whole the like of which has never been witnessed in any exploitative capitalist society and not in any revisonist countries either . People in the DPRK are united in a single heart and a single mind, they move as one.
2)DEMOCRACY, MASSES AND LEADER
Some of the sillier and most offensive propaganda comes from the imperialist media such as the BBC which talk of "state organised mourning" , this insults the pure feelings of Korean people grieving for the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il. It is possible to force people some things such as go to work but it is impossible to force people to cry . Some so called "leftists " join hands with them such forces complaining about a "concentration of power" and "hereditary principle" . Such people ignore the fact that comrade Kim Jong Un was elected vice-chairman of the Central
Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea at a party conference in September 2010. The WPK has over 3 million members, most families in the DPRK have party members within them. So basically Kim Jong Un's appointment as successor to the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il was democratically decided by a large number of people so there is no parallels with monarchies. Some foolish people speak of "feudalism " but in a feudal society organs like the Supreme People's Assembly and local people's assemblies simply wont not exist nor would the Workers' Party of Korea. Feudalism is defined simply by the Freedictionary Online as "political and economic system of Europe from the 9th to about the 15th century, based on the holding of all land in fief or fee and the resulting relation of lord to vassal and characterized by homage, legal and military service of tenants, and forfeiture.". In the DPRK feudal landlordism was abolished in 1946 by the Agrarian Reform law , which redistributed free of charge all land over 5 hectares ,one of the most radical land reforms in history Those who talk about "feudalism" are not only extremely ignorant of the DPRK's history and struggle only very ignorant of the DPRK's history and struggle but actually lack a Marxist understanding(just how can and when did feudal production relations come back when they had been abolished), just how stupid can revisionist and Trotksyite blockheads be ! The DPRK is often judged through the prism of imaginary socialist societies envisaged in failed revisionist programmes ( in 1951 we had the "British Road to Socialism" supposedly a creative application of Marxism, 60 years later we are still waiting for socialism)
In the DPRK organs of power such as the Supreme Peoples Assembly, provincial and city peoples assemblies are elected by direct and equal suffrage. The voting age is 17 years old. Usually in the DPRK the turnout for elections is virtually 100% (compare this to turnouts of 60% or 70% in capitalist countries or even less than 20% in local elections). Voting in the DPRK is seen as a demonstration of unity and harmony in which everyone participates, people even dance at polling stations, every section of society votes. In capitalist countries such as the UK there is a view that voting in elections is for rich people, intellectuals and the so-called 'chattering classes' Unlike the so-called Western democracies electors have the right to recall their representatives if they fail to do their job properly.
The DPRK fully practises the Chongsan Ri method and Chongsan ri spirit worked out by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung and fully embraced by the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il. The Chongsan ri method is best defined thus
"The basic requirement of Chongsan-ri spirit is to thoroughly defend the interests of the popular masses, rally the entire people around the Party and convert all the works into that of popular masses themselves. The main content of Chongsan-ri method is that superiors help their subordinates, go out to the spot to grasp the actual conditions and find correct ways to solve the problems, give priority to the work with the people and fully mobilize the people’s revolutionary enthusiasm and creativity to carry out their assignment."
All cadres and officials are expected to do manual work. Officials live in ordinary blocks of flats.
The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il himself worked very hard ,cutting down on his sleep only taking naps and eating plain rice-balls. He died whilst on a tour of on-the spot-guidance.
The relationship of the masses to the great leader President Kim Il Sung and the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il was a close one which Westerners found hard to understand. They were like ties of blood , Korean people regarded Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il as their fathers. The role of the leader under Juche-orientated socialism is very different to politicians in capitalist societies. Often politicians in capitalist societies are simply front-men for the big monopoly corporations. Real decision making in done behind closed doors in the boardrooms of the City rather than parliament.
The great leader president Kim Il Sung declared "The People Are My God". The great
leader comrade Kim Jong Il also practiced this carrying out people-orientated policies , benevolent policies. The leader loved the people and the people loved the leader. This was clearly demonstrated when the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il passed away , no communist or socialist or progressive person should speak ill of this.
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3)STRUGGLE AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF SOCIALISM
Daft revisionists and Trotskyites wilfully ignore the danger of US imperialism , the south Korean puppets , other imperialist powers such as Japan and assorted international reactionary forces trying to overthrow socialism in the DPRK ,not necessarily by direct force(though this is a possibility with US troops stationed in south Korea and Japan plus 1,000 nuclear weapons in south Korea) or sanctions but by trying undermine the DPRK from within. This was of course used in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. As a Rodong Sinmun article of 19th of January 2009 pointed out
"The lesson to be drawn from those east European countries which shrank back from the class struggle, harboring illusion about the class enemies is that if a country makes one step for concession and retreat in the acute class struggle, it will have to take ten or a hundred steps for concession and retreat and thus meet such tragedy as losing its socialist gains at the hands of the enemies, the article says, and continues:
An uncompromising struggle against the class enemies calls for properly understanding the target of the class struggle.
Imperialism is the no. one class enemy of socialism.
Imperialism represents brutes who cannot exist even a moment without invading other countries and nations. For imperialism aggression and plunder are means of its existence. Its aggressive nature and bestiality can never change.
We must not forget even a moment that there always exist the class enemies who are working hard to destroy the socialist system.
There are those who are opposed to the socialist system, those introducing the corrupt bourgeois way of life into society, taken in by the imperialists' anti-socialist propaganda, those abandoning the socialist principle for money and those divulging state secrets for money and others who try hard to undermine socialism. All of them are the class enemies of socialism.
The moves of the class enemies to disseminate unsound ideas into socialist society must be thoroughly frustrated.
It is necessary to solidly consolidate the socialist class base, strengthen the cohesion and unity of the revolutionary ranks and more firmly build up the armed forces of the class and the revolution, the article notes, urging the people not to be tricked by the talk about the super-class "human rights" and "humanitarianism."
In the 1960s revisionist Khruschov abolished the dictatorship of the proletariat and declared itself a "state of the whole people" abandoning the class struggle and giving up the revolution halfway . The great leader president Kim Il Sung severely criticised this theory in several important works such as the link below
http://www.uk-songun.com/index.php?p=1_162_ON-THE-QUESTIONS-OF-THE-PERIOD-OF-TRANSITION-FROM-CAPITALISM-TO-SOCIALISM-AND-THE-DICTATORSHIP-OF-THE-PROLETARIAT
The DPRK maintained that the struggle against the remands of the overthrown capitalists and landlords should be kept up. The DPRK in fact faced sabotage and trickery by spies of both the US and south Korea , for example in 2002 south Korea admitted it sent 7726 spies into the DPRK between 1953 and 1972, virtually 1 a day !
It would be disastrously naive for the DPRK to "open up" , for it to adopt pluralism and liberalism as some revisionists seem to think.
Some so called "ultra leftists " and Trotskyites go as far to repeat the claptrap of so-called defectors( in reality criminals and traitors) and CIA sponsored propagandaists such as the mysterious Ms Demick whose age and birthplace no-one seems to know and whose book is a 'novelised' rather than factual account. Such anti-DPRK rubbish is exposed in the short booklet "Behind the Mirror of Lies-the truth about the Democratic People's Republic of Korea"
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4)SONGUN IDEA,SONGUN POLITICS AND SONGUN REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP
The life of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il was closely bound up with the Songun idea, Songun politics and Songun-based revolutionary leadership. The Songun idea was based on the simple principle that arms guarantee the defence and advance of the revolution. This was the truth of the anti-Japanese armed struggle led by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung and was elaborated at the famous Kalun meeting of June 1930. The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il was born the son of guerrillas on Mt Paektu within the sound of the gunshots of the anti-Japanese war. Later during the severe Fatherland Liberation War against the Yankee imperialists he visted the KPA Supreme Command operations room. As it well known to the world , comrade Kim Jong Il started his Songun revoliutionary leadership on August 25th 1960 at the historic Seoul Guards Ryu Kyong Su no 105 Tank Division.
Songun was developed in depth by the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il . As he expounded
"By dint of Songun politics we have smashed the anti-DPRK, anti-socialist machinations of the imperialists step by step, defended the country and the revolution and exalted the dignity and prestige of socialist Korea in the eyes of the world.
The Songun-based politics of our Party is a politics the invincibility of which has been verified through severe historical ordeals, and an all-powerful sword for victory in the revolution. It is an invariable conviction and will of our Party to defend and carry forward by force of arms the sacred revolutionary cause which was pioneered and has won one victory after another by force of arms. The whole Party, the entire army and all the people must wage a resolute struggle under the banner of Songun and thus build a great, prosperous and powerful socialist nation, achieve national reunification and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche."
Songun fully recognises the basic fact that socialism is built in confrontation with imperialism. The DPRK itself is on the frontline of the struggle between socialism and imperialism.
During the 1960s US imperialism was inciting its puppets in south Korea to “march north” to attack the DPRK.
Imperialism had also penetrated the international communist movement in the form of modern revisionism. The modern revisionists caused splits and confusion.The socialist camp was split into two creating a dangerous situation. The modern revisionists compromised with the US imperialists and stifled the anti imperialist struggle Jabbering about ’peaceful co existence’ they embarked unilateral and one sided disarmament of the socialist camp. They melted down tanks and guns. In 1962 Khruschov betrayed Cuba to the US imperialists. Not only did they weaken the defence capacity of the socialist camp but they crippled communist and worker's parties throughout the world with their "peaceful road " theories.
Thus the need was for Korea strengthen and consolidate its self defence capablities a revolutionary line in opposition to both US imperialism and modern revisionism. The great leader President Kim Il Sung and the dear leader comrade Kim Jong Il knew that socialism could not be defended by just talking about “peaceful co existence” and other such flowery and effete phraselogy. The whole experience of the Korean revolution showed that the revolution was defended and advanced by the gun
The Korean People’s Army was fortified ideologically and politically. It was built up as the army of the leader,party and working class.As the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il said
“The People’s Army is the revolutionary armed force of the Workers Party of Korea and its mission is to defend with arms the revolutionary cause of our party”
It was also built into a strong army ,a revolutionary army of Mt Paektu fully inheriting the traditions of the anti Japanese armed struggle. It became an army in which each of its soldiers was a match for a hundred enemy soldiers(though the anti party revisionists tried to oppose the revolutionary slogan “ a match for a hundred”).
Leader Kim Jong Il taught as follows
“We must must inspire the entire Party membership and working people and soldiers of the People’s Army with a firm conviction of victory and dauntless fighting spirit so that if the enemy assaults us we shall rise as one as smite the aggressors violently for the honour of Juche Korea under the direction of the leader”.
Under the Songun based revolutionary leadership of leader Kim Jong Il the KPA and Korean people smited US imperialism with full force.In January 1968 the USS Pueblo an armed spy pirate ship of the US imperialist aggressors was captured by the KPA navy off Wonsan(the Pueblo can be seen today on the bank of the river Taedong).The US imperialists demanded the immediate return the ship falsely claiming that it was in “international waters” and the cowardly revisionists tried to advise the DPRK to send the ship and its crew back.
The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il said
"Nowadays people of a certain country are saying that if a war breaks out in Korea it will be serious problem,and “advising us” it would be better to have the Pueblo quietly released.This would mean making a concession to US imperialism,and we can never do such a thing.A concession to US imperialism means submission and surrender.Since the our People’s Arm“Ny did not capture the “Pueblo” on the sea off the United States,but when it was in violation of our country’s territorial waters and engaged in in acts of espionage,we need to neither make any concession to the Americans or pander to them”
The DPRK resolutely stood firm and refused to do so until an apolegy from the US was issued
In 1969 the US imperialist spy plane EC121 tried to infiltrate into DPRK but was shot down by the KPA airforce.In 1994 a US army helicopter infiltrated into DPRK airspace and was brought down by one shot by the KPA.
Since the end of the 1980s the US imperialists have invaded and trampled down the sovereignty of many nations-Panama, Somalia, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan , Libya and others.
The US imperialists seeked to isolate and stifle the DPRK by inventing the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula leading to the 1st ‘Korean nuclear crisis’ in the 1990s and the 2nd one in the 2000s.The DPRK refused to bow down and instead declared a semi war state and announced its intention to withdraw from the one sided and inquitous NPT in 1993. This move stunned the US and they had to enter into talks.
When Bush vocificated about a “rogue state” and “axis of evil” and raked up the 2nd nuclear crisis the DPRK under the Songun supreme commander comrade Kim Jong Il responded with a series of hardline measures namely withdrawing completely from the NPT and declaring itself a nuclear state.This was not mere words,the DPRK succesfully carried out nuclear tests in October 2006 and May 2009. The nuclear device was the fruit of self reliance based 100% on Korean resources and technology.
Thus under the Songun revolutionary leadership the DPRK has been fortified ever more strongly as powerful socialist state of independence.A country of Juche which is able to do what it likes and say what it like no matter what others may say or think.Comrade Kim Jong Il brilliant commander of Songun declared on the 1st of January 1995,at the Takasbol army post that the Korean people had a choice of either being an independent people adhering to socialism or colonial slaves of imperialism.Thanks to the Songun revolutionary leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il the DPRK has been able to smash the unceasing pressure and moves of US and world imperialism to isolate and stifle the DPRK.The DPRK has carried proudly along the road of Juche defying the imperialists.The Songun revolutionary leadership has carried forward the Juche revolutionary cause and is propelling it ever onward to final victory.
Some people wanted the DPRK to laid down its weapons and disarm, it is all too clear what would have happened had the DPRK listened to them and abandoned.
Songun.
5)THE SUPERIORITY OF JUCHE-BASED SOCIALISM OVER THE CORRUPT IMPERIALIST WEST.
Some say we should be modest about the DPRK achievements and its people centred socialist system , or indeed focus on problems rather than promote the achivements of the DPRK.
The DPRK's achievements are vast . Indeed each day it shows its superiority over the sick,decadent corrupt West. The funeral of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il though a sad and painful event demonstrated the unity ,disclipine and order of Songun Korea. Had any Western capitalist state tried to put that number of people on the streets it would resulted in chaos and disorder on a wide scale. In the UK it was impossible for shop sales to take place without 1 person being stabbed and killed. In the DPRK people can walk the streets safely at night and leave their doors unlocked. In the UK such a thing is impossible. Here criminal gangs threaten the safety of people and drug addicts openly take drugs on the street. Even right-wing
anti socialist philosophers such as Oswald Spengler admitted that the West was on the path of decline and eventual eclipse. The West will indeed be eclipsed by the new socialist civilisation of Juche Korea.
The social and economic achievements of Juche Korea, which are associated with the leadership of the great leaders comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il are great. The DPRK has full employment,people are guaranteed the right to work by the Consitution and this is underpinned by socialist planning and the independent national economy.Taxation was abolished back in 1974 and the agricultural tax in kind was abolished in the period 1964-1966.Housing is supplied virtually free of charge.The Pyongyang Metro is one of the cheapest in the world with a flat rate fare of about 2p(compare this to £4 minimum fare on the London underground.
Education at all levels is free started from kindergarten right up to university level .DPRK university students are not burdened with heavy debts,their accomdation and clothing is supplied free of charge.Education has good quality facilites.This can be witnessed at the Changwang Kindergarten and universities such as the Kim Chaek University and Kim Il Sung university.A new state of the art e library has been opened at the Kim Chaek University built entirely with DPRK funds and resources.Children at the Changgwang kindergarten recieve 5 meals a day.Each child gets 120g of rice per day a far cry from the alleged starvation that the imperialists press claims takes place !
Health care is also free including prescriptions and dentistry.The DPRK public health system is a self reliant people centred socialist healthcare system.The DPRK public health service does not rely on low wage labour from outside the country,unlike the NHS !.There is no hidden fees or costs either in DPRK hospitals(such as parking charges,fees for single rooms,tv charges etc-all of which exist in the UK) It includes the section doctor system whereby doctors actually give check ups to patients in their homes and make rounds of localities.
Socialism in the DPRK is not a copy of the Soviet Union or China nor it is dependent on anyone.It is a Korean style socialist system centred on the popular masses. In the DPRK people are free from the evils of capitalist society such as exploitation, oppression, drugs, violence etc. thanks to the Juche idea independence and creativity are blooming.It is the system chosen by the Korean people themselves. This the legacy bequeathed by the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il which no-one should slander or disparage It will prosper even more under the banner of Juche and self- reliance and the Songun revolutionary leadership of respected General Kim Jong Un.
Let the slanderers of the DPRK and Songun be silent ! Let them eat their own words
LONG LIVE JUCHE-BASED SOCIALISM!
THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM JONG IL IS IMMORTAL!
LONG LIVE RESPECTED GENERAL KIM JONG UN!
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