Opening Speech to 70th anniversary of the birth of comrade Kim Jong Il Meeting
Friends and comrades
this seminar organised by the Juche Idea Study Group of England together with the Association for the Study of Songun Politics and progressive social scientists ,also supported by the UK Korean Friendship Association , is being held to mark the 70th birth anniversary of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il who was not only the great leader of the Korean people but the leader of Juche idea followers throughout the world and the pivotal figure in the world's movement for independence. 70 years is a great landmark . This is also the first celebration of the birth of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il after he passed away but this in no way detracts from the importance of the event enhances its importance. It also falls coincidentally within the year of a number of other keynote DPRK anniversaries notably the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great leader comrade president Kim Il Sung and the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the Korean People's Army the mighty sword of Songun, This year will also be the 30th anniversary of the publication of the seminal work of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il “On the Juche Idea “.
Firstly allow me to say how shocked I was at the passing away of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il. It was literally a bolt from the blue which no one expected , even the enemies of the DPRK admitted they did not expect it and were unaware of it until the DPRK announced it to the world. So much for their so-called intelligence .On the morning of December 19th I received a cellphone text message from a good friend which said " Very sad news. Condolences to All". I was puzzled , who could have died ?I thought . I found a radio on and switched it to Radio 4 suddenly I heard them say "death of Kim Jong Il " , what this is impossible ! , this can't be true ? I remembered that only recently the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il gave guidance to the new Kwangbok supermarket. It seemed impossible that he could die. I struggled to switch my computer on(it is quite antiquated or so I am told by the younger generation) , finally it came on and I went on to the KCNA website. There was the official announcement with a portrait of a smiling great leader comrade Kim Jong Il. I guess it becomes all the more stark when you think there here in this very room on the 19th of November we held our successful international KFA meeting and it seemed so impossible at the time that such a sad happening would occur only a month later
However we not here to mourn the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il but to celebrate his life and idea and moreover to learn from them.
Comrade Kim Jong Il was born on February 16 th at the Mt Paektu secret camp He was born within the sound of gunshots of the anti Japanese war. He was the son of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung leader of the Korean peoples armed struggle against imperialist Japan and comrade Kim Jong Suk the woman anti-Japanese woman heroine. He was not born in a mansion or comfortable home with all conveniences but in a humble log cabin. Throughout his life he was a true son of the people and a people's leader as well as an iron-willed brilliant military commander fighting against imperialism and an incomparable theorist.
Comrade Kim Jong Il was given profound revolutionary education by his parents . At an early age he saw the great Fatherland Liberation War provoked by the US imperialists ,witnessing the brutality of the US imperialists and their 'carpet bombing'. At school he distinguished himself and went on to University. He declined the chance to study abroad preferring to study at a DPRK university, Kim Il Sung University the first ever people's university in the DPRK .Whilst studying at university like most young people of the DPRK he took part in the reconstruction of war-ravaged Pyongyang but was far too modest to make himself known to those who came to the construction site looking for him. He pledged at University to glorify Korea.
It during his university days that he delved into many deep questions and wrote many profound works. He smashed the false historiography of the West and great power chauvinists and elaborated a Juche-orientated viewpoint of the question of the unification of the 3 kingdoms. Sensing the danger posed by modern revisionism which had emerged in the international communist movement at the end of the 1950s he wrote several powerful works exposing and denouncing it . He brilliantly analysed modern imperialism in his work “. On the Special Features and Aggressive Nature of Modern Imperialism.” this work demonstrated that world imperialism was organised in a centripetal way or in a sort of pyramid structure,
The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il was involved in the work of leading both the army and the party from his twenties. The Songun (army first) revolutionary leadership started on the 25th of August 1960 when he visited the famous Seoul Guards Ryu Kyong Su no 105 tank division of the KPA , a unit steeped in revolutionary war history .
Comrade Kim Jong Il was admitted to the Workers' Party of Korea on the 22nd of July 1961 On the 19th of June 1964 he began work at the central committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. He paid close attention to cementing the monolithic ideological system of the party .
He was elected as member of the WPK CC at the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Fifth CC in October 1972, and a secretary of the CC at the Seventh Plenum of the Fifth CC in September 1973.
As a result of his work of guiding the army and the party was was acclaimed as the successor to the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung the sun of Juche in 1974, at the 8th plenum of the 5th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. It was at this time that he spearheaded the drive to model the whole of society on the Juche idea as well as playing a key part in the speed battle of the mid 70s which saw the DPRK's industrial output value increase by 70% .
It was around this time and in the early the 1980s that he analysed theories
about building socialism and the idea of contradiction. He refuted the wrong view held by some that contradiction was the driving force for building socialism. Instead it was the unity of the party ,masses and leader was the force driving socialist society.
In 1978 in his work “ Let Us Increase the Party's Fighting Efficiency and bring about a fresh turn in building socialism “he put forward the slogan Let Us Live Our Own Way which struck a hammer blow against the US imperialists, dominationists and revisionists who were trying to stifle Korean style socialism . He said
“Living our own way means that we think and act with our own spirit as required by the Juche idea and find solutions to all problems by our own efforts and in the interests of our revolution and our people...
The situation we are in today demands we display to a high degree the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance. At present no country is willing to help another country nor is any country in a position to help another country even should she want to”
Undoubtedly the greatest feat in the field of ideology and theory of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il was the publication of ON THE JUCHE IDEA in March 1982 President Kim Il Sung had first elaborated the Juche idea during the years of the anti-Japanese armed struggle and later expounded it in many of his works and talks to foreign journalists . However no one had systematised or explained its profound nature with reference to philosophy. Indeed it was a pressing demand of the times that the Juche idea should be systematised In his work “ON THE JUCHE IDEA” he explained the core principles of the Juche idea and its relationship to philosophy and historiography . As this is the subject of another paper today I will not go into detail.
Comrade Kim Jong Il had been acclaimed as successor to the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung at the 6th congress of the WPK in 1980 and also elected to the Political Bureau of the WPK and the presidium of the WPK . Throughout the 1980s he guided socialist construction.
Towards the end of the 1980s and in the early 1990s a complex situation arose when socialism was frustrated in a number of countries owing to the treachery of the modern revisionists and renegades . The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il continuing and upholding the Juche revolutionary cause pioneered by president Kim Il Sung ensured the socialist Korea upheld the red flag.
He wrote many works such as “Our Socialism Centred On the Popular Masses Shall Not Perish”,“The historical lesson in building socialism and the general line of our Party”, “ Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable “ , “Socialism is a Science” , “Giving Priority to Ideological Work is Essential for Accomplishing Socialism “ and many other works which shattered the lies and sophistries of the imperialists and traitors about socialism and firmly asserted the validity of socialism.
When the imperialists tried to impose globalisation on the world leader Kim Jong Il continuing the idea of “let us live our own way “ wrote “On preserving the Juche and national character in the revolution and construction “ he said
“In advancing the revolution and construction and developing society it is necessary to always find out one's own way and methods and rely on them. Being fond of other's style and imitating it is not the attitude befitting masters who are responsible for the destiny of the nation. It is natural to introduce what is good or developed among others' things, but it is intolerable to imitate them mechanically or consider them as their basis. The Party and people who are building socialism should not tolerate the capitalist "Western style" in managing the state and social system and organizing social life and instead apply their own style which is revolutionary and national, in all spheres of state and social life including politics, the economy and culture."
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This work was a powerful manifesto against the craziness if imperialist globalisation.
During the last 2 decades the US imperialist have manoeuvred to stifle socialism in the DPRK by force as it is a model and inspiration for the world's people and , thus DPRK found itself on the front-line between socialism and imperialism. Comrade Kim Jong Il was elected as supreme commander of the Korean People's Army in December 1991 and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK in 1993. He met the challenge of the US and other imperialists by developing Songun politics an embodiment of the Juche idea . In January 1995 he visited the Takabasol (dwarf pine tree) post of the KPA and told the officers and men that the DPRK faced a choice either submit to imperialist colonial slavery or maintain independent socialism, the way to do this is by Songun , by giving priority to the army.
. Comrade Kim Jong Il developed and expounded the Songun idea and practised Songun politics the treasured sword for independence. His Songun revolutionary leadership spanned 50 years. He made great achievements in the field of Juche army building . In the late 90s he vigourously gave on the spot guidance to army units . He travelled over 10 000 kilometres in 1996, 12 000 kilometres in 1997 and 16 000 kilometres in 1998. A phenomenal record.
The DPRK became a self -reliant socialist military power with its own independent nuclear deterrent as a result of the Songun revolutionary leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il.
The DPRK was able to face down the US imperialists in the war without gunshots against the US imperialists. If it was not for Songun politics and the leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il a war could have broken out on the Korean peninsula which would have quickly turned into a world war.
The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il made a breach in the walls of division created by the US imperialists . He ushered in the June 15 era, the era of By Our Nation Itself. Comrade Kim Jong Il not only developed theories on national reunification but developed the nation first idea and Juche-orientated theories on the nation.
The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il made a great contribution to the world revolution by rallying the world socialist forces . The Juche idea is a powerful weapon of revolutionary struggle
His Songun politics and Songun idea became a militant banner of nti-imperialism in the 21st Century.
Comrade Kim Jong Il's life was great and it is impossible to cover all his achievements within a single paper or indeed even a lengthy book. How can one sum up a theorist who wrote more than 800 works which covered a multitude of subjects from historiography to military , how can one sum up a leader who was both a great military commander and at the same time a film and opera director ? Leader Kim Jong Il was a great genius and a great leader ,for this we honour him on the 70th birth anniversary. The ideas and policies are today carried forward by his successor respected general supreme commander Kim Jong Il . Kim Jong Il ideas and achievements will live forever in the hearts and minds of the Korean people and Juche idea followers.
GLORY TO THE MEMORY OF THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM JONG IL
KIM JONG IL IS IMMORTAL !
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