Sao Paulo Meeting remembers Kim Jong Il

A meeting was held in São Paulo City, December 15, to celebrate the leader Kim Jong Il in the occasion of the first aniversary of his death. The meeting, promoted by the Juche Idea Studies Center - Brasil, counted with the presence of many suportters of the struggle of the Korean people and many more people interested about Korea. The meeting, which began at 10h40 a.m., was finished at 2 p.m.

The Chairman of the JISC-Brasil, in the ocasion, described comrade Kim Jong Il as an example of communist leader, which had his like marked by the struggle against oportunism and revisionism, and for keeping high the red flag of socialism even during the most difficult periods of the Korean Revolution. The Chairman told the others that the leader Kim Jong formulated Kimilsungism as the great revolutionary theory of our times, capable of giving correct answers to the concrete problems that arise in the practice of the revolutionary struggle and the socialist construction. Proceeding, he showed that Kimilsungism overcame the historical limitations of Marxism-Leninism and solved the question of the need for continuing the socialist Revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat through the method of impulsing the three Revolutions - ideological, technical and cultural -, giving priority to the the ideological one.

The chairman of the organization proceeded in explaining that it was Kim Jong Il who, for the first time, during the period of his revolutionary practice, formulated the Songun Politics to the level of fundamental policy of socialism, in a time when the U.S. imperialists and its lackeys were intensifying its aggresive maneuvers to overthrow socialism in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Finally, he expressed that the demise of leader Kim Jong Il was, for the Korean people, the loss of that one who was its first leadership during the most difficult times of the Korean revolution. For the Brasilian and other world's communists, his demise was the loss of that one who, since a long time ago, was the main reference in the struggle for socialism.

The General Secretary of the JISC - Brasil explained that the Songun Politics which, in a word, means giving priority to the military affairs, has made the Korean people able not only to keep the achievements of its revolution, but further provided the Koreans with a great ideological weapon to accelerate its socialist construction and develop the country to the level of great political and military power, and keep the peace in the region of the Korean Peninsula.

After the explanations, the documentary "Korea: Changing Sorrow into Strength and Courage" was played. The film showed the great determination of the Korean people to change the sorrow caused by the death of the great leader into strength and courage to materialize the will of the great leader Kim Jong Il, which was developing Korea into a thriving socialist country.

After the tributes to the leader Kim Jong Il, the film "Korea, Country of Juche", which deals with the long trajetory of the thousand-year struggle of the Korean people for the national liberation and for overthrowing the great powerts, was also exhibithed. In the beggining of the 20th century, the country faced its greatest national sorrow in all of its history, which was the beggining of the 40 years of ocupation by the Japanese imperialism, ocupation which caused numberless damages to the Korean nation.

It was President Kim Il Sung who unified the revolutionary struggle for national liberation with the democratic demands of the Korean people, like the struggle of the peasants for the land and for the nationalization of the Japanese-owned enterprises. After twenty years of armed struggle, the Korean People's Revolutionary Army liberated the northern part of Korea and begins the the Democratic antiimperialist and antifeudal revolution.

President Kim Il Sung also led the Korean people during the Korean initiated by the U.S. imperialists, leaving to the United States its first military defeat, a country which was never defeated in almost a hundred wars. After such happening, today, the democratic Korea follows its path of the struggle for building socialism.

The other ones in the meeting expressed great solidarity to the Korean people in its struggle for socialism, and showed themselves very enthusiastic to the see that socialism was developing at great steps in the country, with a highly developed and self-sustained economy, based on modern technologies manufactured by own efforts. Even though the pro-imperialist press tries to slander the progress of socialist Korea, all the ones which were present had shown great wish to proceed in the acts of solidarity to the DPRK.