KIM JONG IL
ON PRESERVING THE JUCHE CHARACTER AND NATIONAL
CHARACTER OF THE REVOLUTION AND CONSTRUCTION
CHARACTER OF THE REVOLUTION AND CONSTRUCTION
June 19, 1997
There
is now a sharp confrontation in the world between socialism and
imperialism, and between the forces of independence and the
forces of dominationism. In the complex international situation
and relationship between forces, the people’s struggle against
domination and subjugation and for independence is continuing.The
imperialists and reactionaries are tenaciously maneuvering to arrest
the world progressive people’s drive towards independence and to
obstruct their struggle for independence with a view to realizing
their ambition for domination, but no forcer can ever turn back
the main trend of our age which is heading for independence.
In
order to thwart the dominationist machinations of the
imperialists and reactionaries and give a strong impetus to the
people’s cause of independence, the cause of socialism, we must
maintain the Juche character of the revolutionary struggle and
construction and sustain their national character.Preserving
these qualities is imperative for the independent development of the
country and nation and for success in realizing independence for the
popular masses.Past experience and lessons have proved that
adherence to the Juche character and national character is the
key to success in the revolution and construction and vital to
national prosperity.
Under the wise leadership of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung,
our Party and our people have resolutely maintained the Juche
character and national character in opposition to imperialism and
dominationism throughout the entire period of the revolutionary
struggle.As a result, they have achieved an independent
development of the country and nation without any deviation and
have won brilliant victory in the revolution and construction.
In
the future, too, we shall firmly keep the Juche character and
national character of the revolution and construction and fight
staunchly along the road of Juche.
1
Adherence to the Juche character and national character of the
revolution and construction is a fundamental principle that must
be maintained in accomplishing the people’s cause of
independence, the cause of socialism.
Maintaining
the Juche character of the revolution and construction means
that the popular masses shape the destiny of their country and
nation and their own destiny independently and creatively by
being the masters of their destiny.Sustaining the national
character means preserving and developing the good qualities of
the nation and embodying them in all spheres of social life.
Maintaining
the Juche character and sustaining the national character of the
revolution and construction is a principled requirement for
carrying out the socialist cause in keeping with its own nature
of independence and past and present conditions.The socialist
cause is the revolutionary cause of independence, which is aimed
at realizing independence for the popular masses and advances and is
accomplished by the struggle of the masses.A country and nation is a
community of people as well as a basic unit in which they shape
their destiny.The masses’ destiny is inseparably linked with the
destiny of their country and nation.Since the popular masses live
and shape their destiny within a nation-state as a unit, the
masses’ cause of independence, the socialist cause, is in no way
separate from their country and nation, and it is impossible to
realize the masses’ independence unless the independence of their
country and nation is ensured.A man as a social being is a
member of a social stratum and social class as well as a member
of his nation.He has both the class character and national
character.Since each nation has peculiar cultural traditions that
have been formed and consolidated down through history, it is
impossible to meet the masses’ desire for independence and their
interests to the full if their national character is ignored.It
is only when the socialist cause preserves the Juche character
and national character that it can be a truly revolutionary cause
that champions and realizes independence for the masses and
ensures the independent development and prosperity of the nation.
Preserving
the Juche character and national character is the common
requirement and aspiration of all countries and all peoples.There
exist no people who do not love and value their country and
nation or like to see the dignity and soul of their nation
trampled upon and ignored.In order to ensure that socialism strikes
root deep in the people’s minds and advances with strong sympathy and
support of the masses, it is necessary to maintain the Juche
character and national character in carrying out the socialist
cause so as to keep the dignity of the country and the soul of
the nation.
Preserving
the Juche character and national character and ensuring the
independent development of the country and nation are an
essential requirement for strengthening international unity and
solidarity and contributing truly to the development of the world
revolutionary movement.There are many countries nations in the
world, and each country and nation has its own characteristics,
but all the countries and nations are equal and
independent.International unity and solidarity are the relationships of
mutual support and cooperation among the countries and nations
which aspire after independence.These relationships can develop
as truly voluntary and durable ties only on the basis of ensuring
the independent development of each country and nation and
respecting each other’s independence.Unity and cooperation based
on independence constitute a truly internationalist relationship
among countries and nations.When the Juche character and national
character are suppressed, and when the independence of countries
and nations is trampled upon, inequality and discord occur among
countries and nations, and unity and cooperation become
impossible.The socialist cause is a national cause and also an
international one, and the world socialist cause advances and is
accomplished through the process of victory and development of the
revolution in each country.Only when the people of each country carry
out the revolution and construction in their country successfully
as masters can the world socialist causes advance triumphantly.
Although
preserving the Juche character and national character is a
matter of fundamental significance in shaping the masses’
destiny, no correct solution was given to this problem by the
previous working-class theories.
One
previous theory, which clarified the law of the development of
human history from the point of view of historical materialism,
related the formation of nations to the emergence and development
of capitalism and predicted that the nation itself would
gradually disappear with the liquidation of the capitalist system
and with progress in the building of socialism and communism in all
countries.Under the circumstances in the past when the driving force
of the revolution was not prepared in each country and nation
and when the need to strengthen international solidarity among
the working class in the struggle against capitalism and
imperialism was the basic problem, that theory was unable to
raise the question of sustaining the Juche character and national
character of the socialist cause to be carried out.The previous
theory’s argument that the working class has no motherland can be
viewed as reflecting the requirement for strengthening international
working-class unity and solidarity which were urgent for the
socialist movement of the period as well as the need for
overcoming opportunism which spread bourgeois nationalism in the
working-class movement and the socialist movement.
In
our times when the popular masses carry out the revolution and
construction actively on their own initiative with the
nation-state as a unit and with their destiny firmly in their
hands, the task of each country and nation for adhering to the
Juche character and sustaining their national character has presented
itself as an urgent requirement.However, the political parties in
several countries which were building socialism in the past
failed to evolve a new theory and a new policy in keeping with
the new realities and find correct solutions to the problems
arising in ensuring the independent development of countries and
nations.Those parties regarded the national contingents carrying
out the revolution and construction to meet their people’s
desires and to suit their national characteristics and their countries’
specific situations within the world socialist movement as
contradicting internationalism, and did not pay due attention to
the matter of preserving independence of the countries and
nations and sustaining the national characteristics.Because of
this prejudice and incorrect policy, socialism in these countries
failed to develop as a cause for these countries and nations
and, in consequence, lost its national footholds and support.
Socialism is a class cause and at the same time a cause for
national development and prosperity. The process of the development and
consummation of the socialist society must be the process of
meeting the class demand and interests of the working masses and
also the process of making the country rich and strong and
bringing prosperity to the nation.Since the working class and the
other working masses makeup the overwhelming majority of any
nation, the practice of ignoring the Juche character and national
character will inevitable result in the failure to meet even the
class demand of the working masses properly.Because the
socialist cause failed to become the cause of genuine national
independence in several countries, socialism suffered a gradual
weakening of its class foundation and was unable to ward off
frustration and collapse due to the anti-socialist manoeuvres of
the imperialists and the renegades from the revolution.
In
the countries where socialism collapsed, the dignity of the
countries and nations was trampled upon, their peoples suffered
disasters and even bloodshed was caused by the clashes between
nations.Taking advantage of these events, the imperialists are
making frantic efforts to cloud the image of socialism by attributing
national calamities to socialism.
The
imperialists’ allegation that socialism is inferior to
capitalism in the development of nations is a shameless lie that
black is white and white is black.It is not socialism but
capitalism that blocks the road of national development.In the
capitalist society where the nation is split into hostile classes and
individuals’ interests are placed above public interests, national
unity cannot be achieved, people cannot have the attitude as
befits masters towards the development of the country and nation,
nor can the social wealth be used properly for the common
development of the nation.The exploiting class which owns all the
means of production and wealth in the capitalist society is only
interested in making money.The reactionary exploiting class does
not hesitate to sell out the interests of their country and
nation and harm other countries and nations for money-making.It
is the immutable nature of imperialism to dominate and plunder
other nations.Under capitalism there can be neither national
equality nor free development of nations.The genuine prosperity of a
country and nation can only be realized in the socialist society in
which the entire nation has common interests and all the social
wealth is used for the common development of the nation.Socialism
ensures free development of nations and abolishes both class
exploitation and all forms of social inequality.
Under the guidance of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung,
our Party and our people have firmly and consistently maintained
the Juche character and properly sustained the national
character of the revolution and construction and thus advanced
the Juche revolutionary cause victoriously.
The respected leader Comrade Kim Il Sung
was a great thinker, theoretician and statesman who advanced the
idea of preserving the Juche character and national character for the
first time in history, translated it brilliantly into reality and
gave successful leadership to the revolution and construction.
Preserving
and embodying the Juche character and national character is the
principled requirement of the
revolutionandconstructionelucidatedby the Juche idea created by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung.The
Juche idea, the man-centered outlook on the world, is a noble
idea of loving the people as well as an idea of true love for the
country and nation; it is a great revolutionary idea of our
times which illuminates the road of advancing the cause of world
independence forcefully.The Juche idea has clarified that the country
and nation are the basic unit for shaping the destiny of the
masses and that the popular masses must firmly maintain the Juche
character and national character of the revolution and
construction in order to shape their destiny independently. The
Juche idea has scientifically proved that the process of nations’
development in carrying out the socialist cause is not a process
of one nation being assimilated to another nation or being
merged into another, but a process of each nation developing into a
civilized and powerful nation and steadily expanding and advancing
cooperation and ties among different nations on the principle of
complete equality and voluntary will while leading their own
lives and making history with freedom.On the basis of the
elucidation of the independent nature of the socialist cause and
the socio-historical conditions of its implementation, the Juche
idea has defined the maintenance of the Juche character and
national character as the fundamental principle that must be
adhered to in the whole course of building socialism.The Juche idea has
linked socialism and nations to the same destiny for the first
time, and guaranteed the possibility for countries and nations to
achieve lasting prosperity in step with the victorious advance
of socialist construction. By introducing the Juche idea and
advancing the theory of maintaining the Juche character and national character, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung
provided absolutely correct guidelines for leading the socialist
cause as the genuine cause of independence for the popular
masses, as the cause of countries and nations.This is an
imperishable achievement he made in the history of human thought.
Our
Party and our people, holding high the banner of the Juche idea,
have smashed all kinds of machinations of the imperialists and
opportunists in the struggle for the independence and sovereignty
of the country and for socialism, resolutely defended and
embodied Juche character and national character. In the course of this,
we have registered brilliant successes and accumulated valuable
experiences.
Our
Party and our people have regarded the adherence to the Juche
character as the basic principle of the revolution and
construction and always subordinated everything to the destiny of
our revolution and our nation and found solutions to all
problems by centring on this matter, thus pioneering an untrodden path
of revolution and construction in an independent and creative
way.
Rock-solidly united around the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung,
the Party and people categorically rejected and frustrated the
great-power chauvinism which stood in the way of our
revolution.This was of special importance in defending the
interests and dignity of our nation and adhering to the Juche
standpoint in the revolution and construction.In the past the
great-power chauvinists slandered the maintenance of Juche by our Party
and people in the revolution and construction as “nationalism”
and “isolationism” and exerted pressure upon us.However, we
fought them without compromise in order to save the destiny of
the country, nation and socialism. Even when they were deprived
of their country and had to fight the arduous revolutionary war
in a foreign land against the Japanese, the Korean communists
established Juche to the letter with an unshakable standpoint and
attitude that they were the masters of the Korean revolution.
During the difficult years of post-war rehabilitation and
socialist construction, they also resolutely rejected the pressure and
arbitrariness of the great-power chauvinists who meddled in our
internal affairs and forced an “integrated economy”. If the
Korean communists had not maintained their own lines and
conviction that the Korean revolutionaries should carry out the
Korean revolution, they would have failed to liberate their
country.If we had abandoned the policy of building an independent
national economy and entered the ‘CMEA’ unable to bear the
pressure of the great-power chauvinists during socialist
construction after the war, it would have been impossible for us to
build the socialist state which is independent, self-sustenant
and capable of self-reliant defence.While rejecting great-power
chauvinism which put down the Juche character, our Party and
people conducted a tireless, fierce struggle to overcome
flunkeyism which flattered and yielded to the great power.We thus
removed any room for great-power chauvinism to set foot,
eradicated the idea of dependence on outside forces which was handed
down through history and thoroughly established the standpoint
and attitude as the masters of the revolution in our country.
The
struggle of our Party and our people to adhere to the Juche
character was conducted as an integral part of the struggle to
strengthen the unity and solidarity of the world socialist
movement.Thoroughly rejecting all sorts of misguided tendencies
of setting the Juche character against internationalism, we made
energetic efforts to strengthen internationalist unity and
solidarity in keeping with the nature of the socialist
movement.Even though they were carrying out the unprecedentedly
complex and arduous revolution, the Korean communists and people
maintained the internationalist principle of actively supporting
and encouraging the people of other countries in their cause for
anti-imperialist independence and for socialism and fighting in
unity with the class comrades-in-arms and the revolutionary people.When
the difference in opinions and discord between the socialist
countries aggravated to the point of split in the world socialist
movement, our Party, with a firm, principled and independent
stand, directed great efforts to ensuring mutual understanding
and harmony among the socialist countries.Even though it was
carrying out the revolution under difficult circumstances, our
Party gave unstinted assistance and support to the other
socialist countries which were fighting an anti-US war.Our Party and
our people made energetic and positive efforts to develop the
relations of friendship and cooperation based on complete
equality and mutual benefit not only with the socialist countries
but also with all the countries which sought independence, thus
making a great contribution to strengthening the internationalist
solidarity among the progressive forces throughout the world.
The
successes and experiences of our struggle to pioneer the road of
revolution in an original way as the masters of our own destiny
and to unfold a new history of unity and solidarity in the world
socialist movement and the progressive movement based on
independence clearly demonstrate that the maintenance of the
Juche character constitutes an important guarantee for the victory of
both our revolution and the world revolutionary movement and that
it is an absolutely correct way to remain loyal not only to the
national but also to the international duties.
Our
Party has valued the national character, sustained our nation’s
fine traditions in every possible way and materialized them in
all spheres of the revolution and construction.
The
national character which is formed through history may have the
limitation of the period and class, but it is a mistake to regard
the national character as the breeding ground of the idea of
returning to the past and bourgeois nationalism.The national
character embodies the spirit of national independence and the
cultural traditions of a nation, which constitute a precious wealth of
the country and nation and an important asset for the building of
socialism.
Our
Party has preserved and steadily developed the fine traits of
our people who are resourceful and courageous, and who love
justice and truth, value morality and resent injustice. These
qualities have become an important factor in propelling socialist
construction and in developing the country to be prosperous.Our
Party’s policy of preserving and developing the national character has
won active support from the people and displayed great vitality
in deepening the people’s trust in the Party and planting
socialism deep among them.
Our
Party made the national character a major basis of national
unity.It is the common psychology of the members of the nation to
love their nation and value their national character.This
feeling is of great importance in uniting and rallying the whole
nation. From the early days of the revolutionary struggle, the true
Korean communists attached great importance to the national character
and worked hard to achieve the unity of the people from all
walks of life on the basis of it.In the course of this, they
succeeded in achieving unity with the nationalists as well.The
imperialists and reactionaries are talking as if there were an
impassable gulf between communism and nationalism in order to
drive a wedge of hostility and discord within the nation, but
communism and nationalism have the common desire and aspiration
of love for one’s country and nation. It is impossible to achieve
national unity if the positive aspect of nationalism is ignored
and rejected because of its limitations.What is opposed to communism is
not nationalism in general but bourgeois nationalism, national
egoism and national chauvinism which subordinate the common
interests of the nation to the interests of a handful of the
exploiting class in the guise of nationalism.We realized unity
and cooperation with the nationalists on our initiative by giving
prominence to the community of loving the nation and valuing the
national character and led them tirelessly to go on the road of
patriotism so that they make great contribution to the struggle for
national liberation and socialism while casting their lots with the
communists.
It
is the national character and love for the nation and the spirit
of national independence which emanate from the national
character that can be the foundations of great national unity and
national reunification in our country where the nation is
divided by foreign forces and different ideas and systems exist in the
north and the south.Especially when the national character is
trampled underfoot and obliterated in south Korea by foreign
forces and the reactionaries, we may lose the foundations of the
unity of the whole nation and national reunification and the
nation may become heterogeneous and divided into different
nations unless we hold high and sustain the national character in
every way.
All
our Party’s policies for national reunification, particularly
the 10-Point Programme of the Great Unity of the Whole Nation for
Reunification of the Country put forward by the great national
father Comrade Kim Il Sung, are blended with the
noble spirit of national independence and love for the nation which
value and sustain the national character.By paying deep attention
to sustaining and embodying the national character in leading
the struggle for national reunification, our Party has created
mature conditions for uniting the whole nation in the north, the
south and abroad, and for realizing the coordinated development
of the country and nation.
It
is of special importance that we have stressed the
Korean-nation-first principle in the struggle to preserve and
embody the national character. Our Party has considered it to be a
main link in the struggle for sustaining the national character to
encourage the popular masses, the masters of the revolution
construction, to take pride and self-confidence in the greatness
of the Korean nation and brighten the soul and spirit of the
nation, and laid great emphasis on this work.Our Party has
brought about an all-round development and flowering of our
people’s admirable national character, which has been shaped
through history, created new fine national traits successfully in
all fields of revolution and construction and social life and, on this
basis, advanced the Korean-nation-first principle and armed the
people with this principle.The establishment of the
Korean-nation-first spirit has effected a new advance in the
struggle to sustain the national character and raised its role
beyond measure in carrying out the cause of socialism.As is
evidenced in our people, young and old, men and women, throughout
the country fondly singing “My Country is Best”, all our people
are proud of being Koreans.With a high sense of self-respect and pride
as the best nation living and working in the good socialist
system under the care of the great leader, and under the
leadership the great Party, our people are exalting the national
dignity and displaying national resourcefulness in the struggle
for the prosperity and development of the country and the victory
of socialism.
The
experience of our Party and people in the struggle to sustain
the national character shows that only when the party and the
state of the working class value the national character and work
hard to embody it in the revolution and construction can they
unite the entire nation, advance triumphantly the cause of
socialism by giving full play to their patriotic enthusiasm and realize
the independent development and prosperity of the country and
nation.
By
giving wise leadership to the struggle of our Party and people
for the preservation of the Juche character and national
character, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung
set a brilliant example of leading to victory the revolutionary
cause of the popular masses under the banner of independence. History
has recorded numerous patriots and patriotic struggles, but it
has never known such a communist revolutionary as the great
leader Comrade Kim Il Sung who firmly
safeguarded the Juche character and national character with faith
in independence and a noble patriotic spirit, treading a thorny
revolutionary path nor has it witnessed such a revolutionary cause of
genuine national independence as the Juche revolutionary cause
pioneered and led by Comrade Kim Il Sung.
The socialism of Juche is the brilliant fruition of the great idea and leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Il Sung
who opened up an original way of carrying out the socialist
cause, the cause of independence for the popular masses. Our
socialism of Juche which has been built by ourselves in keeping with our
desire and national characteristics is a people-centred
socialism which has made the popular masses the masters of
everything and made everything serve them; it is the socialism of
independence, self-sufficiency and self-reliant defence, which
has strengthened the Juche character and fully displayed the
national character; it is the socialism dedicated to love for the
country and nation.Here lies its essential characteristics and its
superiority.Because it has most effectively combined love for the
people with love for the country and nation, the independence of
the popular masses with the independence of the country and
nation, socialism in our country is advancing along the road of
victory with an invincible vitality and force and displaying ever
greater attraction in carrying out the cause of independence for
humanity.
By building Juche-orientated socialism which defends and
realizes the independence of the popular masses and guarantees
the independent development and prosperity of the nation under
the guidance of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung,
our Party and people have proved that adhering to the principle
of national independence as well as the principle of the working
class in the revolution and construction and keeping the Juche
character and national character are the road to victory and
glory, Great-power chauvinists and opportunists slandered our
adherence to the Juche character and national character and our struggle
for the revolution and construction on the principle of national
independence as if these were contrary to socialism, but, in the
long run, it is our Party and our people that have defended and
brightened socialism through to the end. Our socialism is
vigorously advancing along its track in spite of worldwide
political upheavals because our Party is consistently leading the
revolution and construction from the standpoint of
Juche.Although those who once posed themselves as “orthodox” socialists
and internationalists discarded socialism and betrayed
internationalism, our Party and people have been invariably and
unfailingly faithful to internationalism under the banner of
socialism and, while defending the impregnable fortress of
socialism, are striving for the reconstruction of the socialist
movement and the cause of independence for humanity by pooling
efforts with all the revolutionary parties and progressive people
who cherish independence and socialism.
2
Stepping
up socialist construction and realizing the reunification of the
country and its prosperity by preserving and embodying the Juche
character and national character is the unshakable faith and
will of our Party and people.We must thoroughly implement this
line which was the life-long desire of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and whose credibility and validity have been proved by history.
Loving
one’s country and nation is a prerequisite for maintaining the
Juche character and national character of the revolution and
construction.
A
revolutionary must boundlessly love and respect the country and
nation. Without a country and nation, nobody can live and shape
his destiny.As the destiny of an individual is inseparably
connected with the destiny of the nation, our Party is exerting
efforts to educate all members of society to have a correct view
on the nation and producing such art and literary work as the multi-part
feature film “The Nation and Destiny” expending much effort.The
theme of “The Nation and Destiny” is that the destiny of the
country and nation immediately means the destiny of individuals
and that the existence of one depends on the survival of the
other.Those who want to shape their own destiny truly must
consider the country and nation as the base of their lives and as
their home of happiness and love them ardently; they must find
the worth and value of their lives in devoting their all for the
independence and prosperity of the country and nation.
How
people approach their own class and how they live as a member of
the class is an important question, but it is no less important
how they live and fight as a member of the nation.It is most
important now for all Koreans to love the country and nation,
lead a genuine life as members of the Korean nation and devote
their all to the common aim of the nation, transcending the different
systems created temporarily owing to national division, as well as
different ideas and ideals, different political views and
religions and different classes and strata.Those who share the
blood and soul of the Korean nation must link their own destiny
with the destiny of the country and nation and fight devoting
body and soul for the independent reunification of the country
and the prosperity of the nation, no matter which class and
stratum they belong to, in what social system they exist and
whether they live at home or abroad.
For
the party in the position of revolutionary leadership to
treasure the country and nation and bear the responsibility for
their destiny is the fundamental condition for fulfilling its
leadership mission.Defending and maintaining the independence of
the country and nation is a prerequisite for realizing the
independence of the popular masses.If a working-class party regards only
the ideals and demands of the class as absolute and neglects
national interests, it cannot fulfil the responsibility for the
destiny of the country and nation, give a correct guidance to the
patriotic struggle and realize the independence of the masses
with credit.A party which leads the revolution and construction
must think and act with the attitude of attaching importance to
the country and nation and lead the masses of the people
correctly to defend the interests of the country and nation
resolutely and realize the development of the country and the prosperity
of the nation.
Our
Party and people are proud of having set a brilliant example of
patriotism in the long-drawn-pout revolutionary struggle for
independence, sovereignty and socialism. The Korean communists
were the most ardent patriots who had fought devoting their all
to the liberation of the fatherland and its independent
development.The history of pioneering and advancing the Korean
revolution shows the ceaseless sacred struggle of our people for
the country and nation.Our people are proud of their patriotic
traditions which are now being carried forward brilliantly under the
leadership of our Party.By carrying forward the noble patriotic
traditions, all our people must implement devotedly our Party’s idea
and policy of defending the fundamental interests of the country
and nation and making their country, their motherland, more
prosperous.
Carrying
out the revolution and construction in one’s own style on the
principle of national independence is the fundamental requirement
for preserving the Juche character and national character.
Dealing with the problems arising in shaping the destiny of one’s country and nation according to one’s own decision is the right to independence which nobody can infringe upon.The revolutionary parties and peoples must resolutely reject the intervention and pressure of the outside forces and resolve their own problems according to their own decisions and judgement to suit their demands and interests.
Dealing with the problems arising in shaping the destiny of one’s country and nation according to one’s own decision is the right to independence which nobody can infringe upon.The revolutionary parties and peoples must resolutely reject the intervention and pressure of the outside forces and resolve their own problems according to their own decisions and judgement to suit their demands and interests.
The
failure to assert one’s own opinion and faith, when under the
pressure of foreign forces, leads to subordination and national
ruin.This is proved by the catastrophic fate of the countries and
nations which followed the intentions of the imperialists and
dominationists and lived consulting their pleasure. The more
pressure the imperialists and dominationists apply, the more
firmly the revolutionary parties and peoples must assert their
opinion and carry out the lines and policies they have adopted.If
they yield to the pressure of the outside forces and vacillate or give
up their aim in difficulty and thus abandon their faith and
withdraw from the road they themselves have chose, they cannot
rise up again.No matter how grave difficulties and trials they
may face, the revolutionary parties and peoples should never lose
their faith in the validity of their cause and invariably follow
the road to independence, the road they have chosen, fighting
with an indomitable will.
In
advancing the revolution and construction and developing
society, it is always necessary to find out and rely on one’s own
way and methods.It is not right for the masters responsible for
the destiny of the nation to copy or blindly imitate others.It is
natural to introduce what is good or developed among others’
things, but it is intolerable to imitate them mechanically or
consider them to be basic.The parties and peoples who are
building socialism should not tolerate the capitalist “Western style” in
managing the state and social system and organizing social life,
but instead they should apply their own style, which is
revolutionary and national, in all spheres of state and social
life including politics, the economy and culture.
The
countries which are experiencing social problems, economic
difficulties and disasters because of national disputes must also
find out a way to overcome them by their own efforts, not
expecting anything from the “prescription” of the imperialists.
The so-called “prescription” that the imperialists are
propagating around the world are neither good for the development
of other nations nor “ingenious plans” to activate the economy
of other countries and ensure national reconciliation; these are the
schemes to embellish themselves and gain their profit in this
process.As reality shows, in the countries which accepted the
imperialist “prescription”, social problems and economic
difficulties have become more serious and national disputes
become more chronic.The countries which are suffering social
economic difficulties and national disputes must reject the
“prescription” of the imperialists which only worsens their
conditions.They must break through the difficulties following their own
prescription.
Our
Party and people are proud of having chosen their own
revolutionary road independently and having advanced the
revolutionary cause. Solving all the problems arising in the
revolution and construction in their own way based on their
independent views.Our style is derived from man-centred Juche
philosophy and patriotism.Because we have not followed others’ opinion
and prescription, but relied firmly on our own views and the
revolutionary methods of our style, we have been able to build a
powerful socialism of Juche and make it prosperous.In the future,
too, we must live and carry out the revolution in our own way on
the principle of national independence so as to firmly defend
and develop socialism of our style and make the country and
nation ever prosperous.
Our own force is the real guarantee for preserving and embodying the Juche character and national character.
The
fundamental factor in preparing our own force is to build up the
political force of our own.In order to preserve the Juche
character and national character it is necessary to prepare our
own force in all spheres including the material and economic
force, but what is most important is to build up a strong
political force, the driving force of the revolution.
Unity means the strength of the driving force of the revolution.
In
the struggle for the independence of the country and nation it
is imperative to achieve national unity based on the unanimous
desire and common interests of the nation.At present, our urgent
task is to achieve great national unity and build up our own
force for national reunification.Only when a nation wide unity is
realized can we crush the divisive forces at home and abroad and
accomplish the cause of national reunification.All the
compatriots in the north, the south and abroad must fight
dynamically to realize the independent reunification of the country,
the great national desire, rallied rock-solid under the banner of
great national unity.
In
the socialist society where class antagonism has been
eliminated, the nation is the people and vice versa and the
centre of their unity is the party and the leader.National unity
in the socialist society must be the unity of the whole society
in ideology and purpose centring on the party and the leader.Our
Party has equipped the entire people firmly with the Juche idea
and turned the whole of society into one socio-political
organism, whose membershave been united firmly centring on the Party and
the leader, thereby building up creditably the independent
driving force of the revolution, the integrated whole of the
leader, the Party and the masses.The strength of the independent
driving force relying on the single-hearted unity of the leader,
the party and the masses is the fundamental guarantee for all our
victories both in the struggle against imperialism and in
socialist construction.By consolidating and developing this
single-hearted unity and displaying its power to the full, we must
safeguard the independence of the country and nation firmly from enemy
encroachment and step up the revolution and construction
vigorously.
In
addition to our own political force, the economic and military
forces must be prepared.The parties and peoples who have not
prepared their own economic and military forces cannot fulfil
their responsibility and play their role satisfactorily as the
independent driving force of the revolution and construction and
preserve the Juche character and national character.The
revolutionary parties and peoples should exert all their energy,
enduring all hardships, to prepare their own economic and military
forces that guarantee the independent development of the
country.
The
role of science and technology in economic construction and
defence build-up has increased beyond measure, and the scientific
and technological competition is brisk on a worldwide scale.In
this situation, without developed science and technology it would
be impossible to build up strong economic and military forces.
The
parties and peoples who are building socialism should develop
science and technology by their own efforts to suit the
requirement of the revolution and the specific situation in their
countries, maintain thoroughly their own attitude. The work of
expanding and developing scientific and technological exchanges
with different countries and introducing advanced science and
technology from other countries, too, must be based on their own
reality. If they give full rein to the strength and intelligence of
their people relying on the strength of the advantages of socialism,
and mobilize all possibilities and potentials actively, they will
be fully able to scale a high peak of scientific and technical
development and ensure the independent development of the country
by means of science and technology.
Our
Party and people have regarded it as the fundamental requirement
for building an independent sovereign state to prepare their own
strong economic and military forces and laid powerful economic
and military foundations that guarantee the independence of the
country and the prosperity of the nation, by waging an
indomitable struggle sparing a penny and tightening their belts
from the first days of the building of a new society. Today we
can firmly defend the fundamental interests of the revolution and
the dignity of the country from the imperialists’ vicious
manoeuvres against socialism and our Republic because we have built the
powerful independent national economy and self-reliant defence
power.By continuing a vigorous struggle to strengthen the force
of the independent national economy and self-reliant defence
power, we must further strengthen the material foundation of the
independent state and social life and defend reliably the
security of the country and the happy lives of the people.
In
preserving the Juche character and national character it is very
important to enhance national pride and self-confidence among
the people.
National
pride and self-confidence are the manifestation of love for the
nation and the spirit of national independence.The revolutionary
parties should always step up ideological work to cultivate the
spirit of national independence among the people so that they are
proud of their country and nation and determined to defend and
develop them.An ideological offensive for boosting the spirit of
national independence should be undertaken especially by small
and backward countries and the countries which have heavily
suffered domination and intervention by big countries and in which
flunkeyism and dogmatism remain deep-rooted.
National
pride and self-confidence are formed and displayed when the good
qualities of one’s nation are understood. The good qualities of a
nation which are formed socially and historically in the
struggle to shape the destiny of the country and nation have
nothing in common with racial characteristics, nor are these
qualities acquired by any special nation.Every nation is blessed
with its good qualities and has the aspiration and desire to
preserve and promote them.Only when the revolutionary parties appreciate
the fine traits of their nations and encourage them positively,
can they help the people to acquire national pride and
self-confidence.
What
is important in preserving and boosting the good qualities of
the nation is to carry forward the national heritage correctly.
Nihilism which ignores and abandons national inheritance is the
main obstacle which impedes the flowering and development of the
fine national traits.In order to preserve the good qualities of
the nation, it is imperative to have an attitude of appreciating
the national heritage and thoroughly reject and overcome nihilism
which denies the nation’s fine traits.Restorationism which tries
to preserve things of the past thoughtlessly on the excuse of
appreciating the national heritage is also a harmful tendency preventing
the good qualities of the nation from being preserved in a
correct manner.If restorationism is tolerated, it would revive
outdated and backward mentality which reflects the requirement
and interests of the exploiting class and goes against times and
create an obstacle in the way of preserving the fine national
traits in conformity with the requirement of socialism.To
preserve the fine national traits it is necessary to reject both
the nihilistic attitude and the restorationist tendencies towards
the national heritage and correctly combine the national stand
with the class stand, the historical principle with the contemporary
trend and thus discard what is outdated or incompatible with
socialism and encourage and develop what is progressive and
popular.
In
addition to preserving the national heritage handed down through
history with a correct view, new fine national traits must be
cultivated continuously.It is only when new national traits are
created based on the inherited good qualities of the nation that
nation’s fine traits can bloom and develop further and their role
become more essential in enhancing national pride and
self-confidence.By stepping up the revolution and construction
successfully, the parties which build socialism must create new
national traits continuously in all spheres of politics, the economy,
ideology, culture and morality and boost national pride and
self-confidence among the people.
The
good qualities of the nation are best cultivated and displayed
while carrying out the revolutionary cause under the guidance of
the great leader.These qualities can be attributed to the
greatness of the leader; the pride and self-confidence in the
nation’s excellence find concentrated expression in the pride and
confidence in having the great leader.
Our people have become a great nation under the care of the respected leader Comrade Kim Il Sung
and have acquired excellent national traits under his
leadership.Today the people around the world call our nation in
association with the name of the respected leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and praise the good qualities of our nation as the excellent traits of Kim Il Sung’s nation.
The core of the traits of Kim Il Sung’s
nation consists of loyalty and dutifulness to their leader.Our
people’s unlimited loyalty and dutifulnesstothegreatleaderComradeKim Il Sung
have become firmly established as their faith and will, as their
conscience and morality, through life experience of shaping the
destiny of the country and nation for many years in history.
Loyalty and dutifulness to the leader are the highest expression of the good qualities of Kim Il Sung’s
nation and constitute the basis of all the other fine traits of
his nation.The mental and moral excellence of our people – the
strong sense of uniting behind the Party and the leader with a
single mind and purpose, revolutionary faith in the socialism of
Juche, unlimited devotion to their country and the revolution,
the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude,
revolutionary optimism, revolutionary morality and comradeship with
which all members of society help and lead each other forward –
emanates from their loyalty and dutifulness to the great leader
and finds clear expression through them.We must further
consolidate and carry forward stoutly the excellent qualities of
our people who are loyal and dutiful to the leader so that the
people remain unfailingly loyal and dutiful to their leader and
their Party generation after generation.
We
must continue to step up education in the Korean-nation-first
principle to encourage the people to brighten the greatness of
the Korean nation further with a strong sense of national pride
and self-confidence.
The
struggle to preserve the Juche character and national character
is the struggle against imperialism and dominationism.
Taking
advantage of the trials which the cause of independence for the
popular masses is undergoing, the imperialists are nor working
more blatantly than ever to obliterate the Juche character and
traits of other countries and nations and realize their
dominationist ambition.Without struggling against the
dominationist machinations of the imperialists at present, it
would be inconceivable to ensure the independent development of the
countries and nations nor would it be possible to prevent people from
falling to the lot of colonial slavery again.
The illusions about and fear of imperialism should be dispelled.
Aggression
and plunder are the real nature of imperialism.No matter how the
international situation may change, the dominationist ambition
of the imperialists will not change.Nothing is more foolish and
dangerous than pinning hopes on the imperialist “aid”, being
unable to see through the aggressive and predatory nature of
imperialism.The imperialist “aid” is a noose of plunder and
subjugation aimed at robbing ten and even a hundred things for
one thing that is given. The revolutionary parties and peoples
must see clearly the miserable situation in the countries and nations
which harboured illusions about imperialism, must always hold on to
the anti-imperialist, independent stand and wipe out even the
slightest element of illusions about the imperialists.
The
fear of imperialism is another expression of illusions about
imperialism.Imperialism is by no means an object of fear; it is
doomed as the refuse of history.If you are afraid of
confrontation with imperialism and are willing to abandon the
anti-imperialist struggle, you will never free yourselves from
its domination and control.The revolutionary parties and peoples
must see through the vulnerability of imperialism, courageously
stand against the bluffing imperialists, and resolutely crush
their reactionary offensive with revolutionary offensive.
We
must smash up the vicious and cunning policy of the imperialists
who seek to obliterate nations and the reactionary doctrines
which try to justify this policy.
The
imperialists’ reactionary policy of suppressing the Juche
character of nations and obliterating national traits is now
taking on a new form in the guise of ganster-like fuss about the
trend towards a “monolithic” world.In the situation where each
country and nation shape their destiny with their own ideas and
systems, there can be no “monolithic” world which covers all
spheres of politics, economy and culture.With social development
and ties and interchange among different nations becoming closer,
common features increase in the lives of nations.However, this
process always presupposes the independent and individualistic
development of nations and takes place on the basis of such
development.
The imperialists have cooked up the trend of a “monolithic world” for the purpose of reducing the whole world to the Western-style “free world” and subjugating and assimilating all nations to themselves.All countries and nations must see clearly the danger of the imperialist policy of obliterating nations which is pursued in the name of the trend towards a “monolithic” world and must intensify the struggle to defeat the dominationist manoeuvres of the imperialists.
The imperialists have cooked up the trend of a “monolithic world” for the purpose of reducing the whole world to the Western-style “free world” and subjugating and assimilating all nations to themselves.All countries and nations must see clearly the danger of the imperialist policy of obliterating nations which is pursued in the name of the trend towards a “monolithic” world and must intensify the struggle to defeat the dominationist manoeuvres of the imperialists.
The
imperialist moves to obliterate other nations and assimilate
them are directed not only to foreign countries and nations but
also to the minority nations and foreign residents in their own
countries. The Japanese imperialists, who imposed immeasurable
misfortune and suffering upon the Korean nation in the past by
means of the most heinous colonial rule and the policy of
obliterating our nation, are now making frantic efforts to
suppress the national rights of the Koreans in Japan, and erase
their national consciousness, and are working tenaciously to assimilate
them to themselves.This is the most glaring example of the
imperialist attempt.The parties and states, which are responsible
for the destiny of their overseas compatriots, must keep a close
eye on the cunning policy of national assimilation pursued by
the imperialists and step up the struggle to expose and shatter
it.
The
“ethnological doctrine” “cosmopolitanism” and other reactionary
doctrines which have been declared bankrupt by history are nor
being adapted and changed into various forms and used as
ideological instruments to paralyze people’s national
consciousness and revolutionary spirit and justify the
imperialist policy of obliterating nations.In order to keep the Juche
character and national traits, we must thoroughly expose and
shatter all sorts of reactionary ideological trends and lies
aimed at hiding and justifying the dominationist nature of the
imperialists.
The
struggle against the dominationist maneovures of the
imperialists should be linked with the struggle against the
traitors to the nation. Without combating the traitors who sell
out national interests in collusion with the imperialists against
their own countries and nations, it would be impossible to
defeat imperialism and dominationism or achieve the development
of nations.This is clearly shown by the situation in the south of
our country.
In
south Korea where our national traits have been grossly trampled
upon because of the flunkeyist, treacherous acts of the
successive reactionary rulers, the soul of the nation and refined
customs are now being totally erased by the clamour of the
authorities for anti-national “internationalization” and
”globalization”.Their clamour for these schemes means an
unheard-of treachery to maintain their powers and comfort in
return for the obliteration of everything that is national and for their
total sell-out of the country and nation to foreign forces.Their
humiliating open-door policy which is pursued in the nbamne of
“internationalization” and “globalization” allows the American,
Japanese and Western fashions to flood all spheres of politics,
economy and culture.In consequence, in south Korea all areas of
social life, ranging from the mode of politics, the language,
written and spoken, to the way of life, are imitating the
American, Japanese and Western fashions, the foreign forces lord
it over, and the national traits and dignity are being wantonly
violated and obliterated.In order to cut off the noose of
domination and subjugation by the imperialists in south Korea
and open up the road of independent development, we must sweep
away the traitors who have sold out the country and nation to
foreign forces and invited all sorts of national misfortune and
miseries.
In
order to oppose imperialism and dominationism and preserve the
Juche character and national character, international unity and
cooperation among the progressive people of the world must be
strengthened.Only when the progressive people throughout the
world support and encourage each other, closely cooperate and
pool their efforts can each country achieve national
independence, prosperity and development, and the cause of
globalindependence be realized with success.The socialist countries,
non-aligned and developing countries must, in solid unity under the
banner of independence, make dynamic efforts to democratize the
international community, thus abolish the old international order
of domination and subordination set up by the imperialists, and
establish a new one which is based on sovereignty, equality,
justice and impartiality.They must actively develop South-South
cooperation on the principle of collective self-reliance so as to
achieve prosperity all together.
Independence,
peace and friendship are the ideals of our Party’s foreign
policy which makes it possible to strengthen international
solidarity and contribute to the cause of world independence. Our
Party and our people have always endeavoured to develop
relationships and cooperation with all the people of the world on
the principles of independence and equality, peace and
friendship and mutual benefit and to establish just international
relations and order between countries and nations. We must make dynamic
struggle to strengthen unity and cooperation with the
progressive people throughout the world and to democratize the
international community.We will thus fulfil our international
duty and historic mission in the struggle to defend the
independence of all countries and nations and to make the world
independent.
It
is a consistent policy pursued by our Party, which is guided by
the Juche idea, to value, preserve and materialize the Juche
character and national character.
As
it did in the past, our Party will invariably maintain the
principle of Juche and national independence so as to bring
further prosperity to our country and our fatherland which was
won back and built by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, and to achieve the cause of national reunification and accomplish the socialist cause of Juche.
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