Discourse Published in Rodong Sinmun, Organ of the Central Committee of
the Workers’ Party of Korea , and Minju Joson, Organ of the DPRK Government
September 5, Juche 97 (2008)
In
this historic period, when we are entering a golden age of national
prosperity under the Songun-based revolutionary leadership of the
Workers’ Party of Korea, we will be greeting the 60th anniversary of
the founding of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , the
glorious country of Kim Il Sung.
The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung
was the founder of the DPRK and the father of socialist Korea , and
he is the eternal President of State. The founding of the Republic
under his leadership brought about a fundamental change in the shaping
of the destiny of our country and its people.
Guided
by his Juche-oriented philosophy on State building, and under his
seasoned and sophisticated leadership, our Republic has been
established and developed as a genuine country of the people, as a
Juche-oriented socialist country, the first of its kind in history, and
our people, who were oppressed and maltreated for centuries, have
become able to enjoy, in the embrace of the Republic, the pride and
happiness of a genuine life in which they exercise full rights as
masters of the State and society.
The
mountains and rivers, which are getting more and more beautiful with
each passing day, the vast expanses of farmland, the urban and rural
areas, the streets and villages, the defence lines and frontline posts
that have been built up to be impregnable, and the many factories,
enterprises, economic and cultural establishments and monumental
structures, all bear the imprints of President Kim Il Sung’s
great and sacred leadership; and every aspect of the most dignified,
prestigious and fulfilling life that our people are enjoying generation
after generation, century after century, is associated with his
benevolent, fatherly affection and solicitude.
As
we greet the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Republic, our
Party members, service personnel and people solemnly look back upon the
great revolutionary career and immortal revolutionary exploits of
President Kim Il Sung, who devoted his whole life to the country and the people, and bestow on him the highest gratitude and glory.
The
immortal exploits he achieved for the country and the people
constitute the eternal cornerstone of our country and revolution and an
unshakable foundation on which to build a great, prosperous and
powerful socialist country and carry forward and accomplish the Juche
revolutionary cause.
By holding President Kim Il Sung
in high esteem as the Sun of Juche, and developing his philosophy on
and exploits in State building, our Party is opening up the road of
building a thriving country in the Songun era, the road of fresh victory
for our revolution. Thanks to our Party’s leadership and advance in
the Songun-based revolution, our Republic has risen as a Juche-oriented
socialist State with invincible political and military might,
demonstrating its prestige and dignity.
Our
Party members, service personnel and people are now firmly determined
to glorify, in answer to the Party’s call, this meaningful year as a
year of historic change that will be recorded in the history of the
country and to accomplish, under the banner of Songun, the successful
building of both a great, prosperous and powerful socialist country and
the Juche revolutionary cause.
1
The
60-year history of our Republic is a history of great struggle and
victory, a history of great creation and transformation, in which,
braving the tempest of the revolution under the leadership of the great
leader and the great Party, the independence and honor of the country
were defended and a thriving socialist country was built.
Our
Republic, in the whole period of its history from the first days when
the foundations for State building were laid up to the present, when we
are building it up into a great, prosperous and powerful socialist
country, has followed a road covered with victory and glory, braving
unprecedented difficulties and trials amid a sharp confrontation with
the imperialist forces of aggression. Our struggle to build a new
country, a new society, has been grim and arduous, as we have had to
overcome every manner of hardship. However, our country blazed a trail
in accomplishing the cause of anti-imperialist independence, the cause
of socialism, and created historic miracles in this course, thus
accumulating great and imperishable exploits and valuable experiences.
This is why the 60-year history of our Republic has come to shine with
such brilliance and our socialist country, Songun Korea , to
demonstrate such prestige and dignity today as the citadel of
independence, the bulwark of socialism.
The
anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle the great leader organized and
led was a historic struggle that laid the basis for the founding of our
Republic and ushered in the era of socialist State building.
It
was a sacred, patriotic struggle to defeat the Japanese imperialist
aggressors, who had occupied our country by force of arms, and liberate
the country, and the fiercest of revolutionary wars fought against the
heavily-armed Japanese imperialist aggressor forces.
The
great leader led the 20-year bloody struggle against Japanese
imperialism and crowned the anti-Japanese war with victory, thus
accomplishing the historic cause of national liberation. In the flames
of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle he put forward the policy
of building a people’s government, accumulated valuable experience in
this regard and created our glorious revolutionary traditions, which
are the eternal wealth of the country and the revolution.
The
struggle of our Party and people to build an independent and sovereign
State on the land of our liberated country was conducted in very
complicated and difficult circumstances and conditions. Owing to the
US imperialists’ occupation of south Korea ,
the country’s territory was divided into two, and the imperialist and
reactionary forces at home and abroad resorted to every manner of
vicious scheme to thwart our Party and people in their efforts to build
a new country.
President Kim Il Sung
established the people’s power and regular revolutionary armed forces
that inherited the traditions of the anti-Japanese revolution and, by
enlisting the high patriotic enthusiasm of the liberated people and all
other patriotic forces, laid solid foundations for the building of an
independent and sovereign State through democratic reforms in the
northern half of Korea, thus frustrating the schemes of the imperialist
and reactionary forces.
On this basis, he founded our Republic.
He
wisely led the work of strengthening the power organs, developing the
people-oriented State and social system of the Republic and bringing
its advantages and vitality into full play in all areas of State
building.
The
Fatherland Liberation War against the armed invasion of the US
imperialists was the first and grimmest trial faced by our young
Republic; it was a fierce war that would decide the fate of the country
and nation. The US imperialists made desperate efforts to crush our
Republic in its cradle, hurling into the war a huge force of their own
aggressor army and of their 15 vassal States , as well as the latest
military hardware and other means of waging war, only to suffer
ignominious defeat.
Under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung,
the ever-victorious and iron-willed brilliant commander, our soldiers
and people turned out as one in the just Fatherland Liberation War and
fought in a self-sacrificing manner, giving a full demonstration of
their unparalleled mass heroism at the front and in the rear.
Consequently, they defeated the US aggressor armed forces that had
been boasting of being the “mightiest” in the world, defended the
freedom and independence of their country with honor, encouraged the
oppressed peoples of the world in their anti-imperialist national
liberation struggle, and made a great contribution to safeguarding
world peace.
The
historic victory of our Republic in the Fatherland Liberation War was a
clear testimony to its invincible might, to the strength of our State
and social system, to the confidence of our army and people in sure
victory, and to their indefatigable fighting spirit. It also
demonstrated that no force can conquer a people who have taken their
destiny in their own hands and are united solidly behind their party
and leader. For its victory in the war, in which it shattered the myth
of the US imperialists being the “strongest” and inflicted a crushing
defeat on them for the first time in the world history of war, our
Republic won a worldwide reputation as a heroic country, its army as a
heroic army and its people as a heroic people.
Not
only did our Korea , the land of Juche , emerge victorious from
the military confrontation with the formidable imperialist aggressor
forces, but it also worked miracles and made innovations in the ensuing
postwar reconstruction, socialist revolution and socialist
construction. Starting from scratch on the war debris, we achieved
epoch-making development in the revolution and construction.
Under the seasoned leadership of President Kim Il Sung,
our country completed its postwar reconstruction in a matter of just a
few years and carried out the cooperative reorganization of the rural
economy and the socialist transformation of private trade and industry
perfectly in the Korean style and without any deviation. In response to
the call of the leader, our people embarked on the grand Chollima
march in the spirit of taking ten or a hundred steps when others were
taking one, thus effecting a great
revolutionary upsurge that was unprecedented in socialist construction.
Through the gigantic struggle to create and construct socialism, our
country, having been backward for centuries, emerged as a most
advantageous and powerful people-centered socialist country, a
socialist power, that is independent in politics, self-supporting in the
economy and self-reliant in defence, a country called Chollima Korea, a
model for socialist countries throughout the world.
The Songun era, a new era in the Juche revolution, occupies a special position in the history of our country and revolution.
It is a great era of the Juche revolutionary cause in which the ideas, leadership and cause of President Kim Il Sung are inherited and carried forward, and it constitutes a new, higher stage in the development of our country and revolution.
Long ago our Party put forward modeling the whole society on the Juche idea as its ultimate program,
and it has held fast to it as the basic line in building the Party,
the State and the army, true to the noble idea of President Kim Il Sung.
It
concentrated all its efforts on building and developing the Party, the
State and the army as the Party of the leader, as the State of the
leader, and as the army of the leader, and on remolding man and
transforming society and nature as required by the leader’s
revolutionary idea, the Juche idea, thus laying strong foundations for
carrying out the cause of modeling the whole society on the Juche idea.
In
the 1990s the situation took a sudden turn, and grim trials and
hardship, the rigors of which were unprecedented in history, were laid
in the way of our country and revolution. Taking advantage of the
collapse of socialism in several countries, the imperialists and
reactionaries clamored about the “end of socialism,” directing the
spearhead of their attack against our Republic, which was holding high
as ever the banner of socialism. Their anti-DPRK, anti-socialist
maneuvers put the sovereignty and right to existence of our country and
nation at jeopardy; our country was turned into a theatre of the
fiercest confrontation between socialism and imperialism and our people
found themselves at a crossroads, where
remaining as an independent people lay in one direction and becoming
colonial slaves once again in the other.
To
cope with the prevailing situation, our Party raised high the banner
of Songun, under which it frustrated every scheme of the imperialists
and reactionaries against the DPRK and socialism by dint of our
invincible political and military might, thus safeguarding the
sovereignty of the country and nation and our style of socialism with
honor. It is a great victory of international significance for our
small country to have defended itself, its nation and its socialism in
single-handed confrontation with the US-led imperialist reactionaries.
Our country has, without firing a shot, registered one victory after
another in its political and military confrontation with the US
imperialists, facing down and smashing the aggressive moves of an enemy
that had been behaving in a high-handed and arbitrary manner in every
part of the world.
These achievements of our Songun-based revolution are literally a miracle.
In
spite of the grim trials we have faced in the struggle to defend
socialism, we have achieved tremendous development in all spheres of
politics, the military, the economy and culture.
Thanks
to the Party’s Songun-based revolutionary leadership, our country has
occupied the position of a politico-ideological and military power,
paved the way for building a great, prosperous and powerful nation and
brought about a fresh turn in the revolution and construction. Our
Republic has now secured a fundamental guarantee for building a great,
prosperous and powerful socialist country and accomplishing the
revolutionary cause of Juche, and it is stepping up the general march
of the Songun revolution for building the country into a socialist
economic power.
Socialist
Korea, which is winning victories and displaying its might by dint of
Songun, has become a beacon of hope and a banner of victory for the
people of the world who aspire to independence.
The 60-year history traveled by the Republic under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung and our Party, instills in our people the deepest pride and self-confidence and hardens their faith in sure victory.
Our
army and people prize their Juche-oriented socialist country more than
their own lives, love it infinitely and are working more vigorously to
defend and add luster to it, their motherland.
2
A great leader and a great party build a great nation.
If
a leader and a party are great, their country, even though it may be
small and once backward, can become a developed and dignified, powerful
one.
The
greatness of a leader and a party is precisely the greatness of their
ideology and leadership. Our Republic has been able to rise as a
Juche-oriented socialist State with invincible might because it is
guided by the Juche idea that was authored by the great leader and
because it embodies this idea fully in State building and State
activities under the leadership of our Party.
The
immortal Juche idea is a man-centered outlook on the world, and an
ideology of independence; it is a great guiding ideology of our era
that sheds scientific light on the way of championing and realizing the
independence of the masses and of the country and nation. Our
Republic, which incorporates the great Juche idea in its State building
and State activities, is a people-centered socialist country in which
the people are regarded as God, an independent socialist State with a
strong Juche character and national identity, and an invincible
socialist power that prevails over any enemy, however formidable, and
overcomes every manner of trial and hardship by dint of Songun.
Our
Republic is a genuine people’s country, a people-centered socialist
State that upholds the masses of the people as the masters of the State
and society, and serves them.
Although
the masses of the people are the driving force of social history, it
is not true to say that their position and role are always identical in
any society or country. Never before in history has there been a
country like our Republic that guarantees the position and role of the
masses at the highest level by embodying the doctrine “The people are
my God,” which was President Kim Il Sung’s dictum.
This
philosophy is permeated with the noble love for the people that is
expressed in upholding the masses of the people as the most valuable
and powerful beings in the world, serving them faithfully and solving
everything by relying on them.
The
dictum “The people are my God” is our Party’s fundamental principle in
State building and the basis of all its lines and policies, as well as
the starting point of the activities of the State.
Everything
in our Republic–the socialist system of the State and society, the
Socialist Constitution and other State laws, as well as all the lines,
policies and activities of the Party and the State–is geared to
defending and ensuring the independent rights and interests of the
masses.
The
basis of socialism is the people. Our politics, which regards the
interests of the people as the foremost concern, is genuine socialist
politics and the politics of infinite love for and trust in the people,
that is, noble, benevolent politics.
Every
line and policy of our Party and the government of our Republic
reflects the opinions and demands of the masses and is successfully
implemented by their voluntary zeal and struggle. In our country,
promoting the people’s well-being is regarded as the supreme principle
in the activities of the Party and the State, the slogan “We serve the
people!” is fully incorporated in State activities, and the
infringement of the people’s interests and lording it over them by the
abuse of authority and bureaucratic behavior are never tolerated.
Since
the masses of the people are regarded as the most valuable beings, the
State, the army, the public security organ, many monumental edifices
and various honorary titles are named after “people,” and this is a
powerful symbol of the people-oriented character of our State, our
system and our politics.
Our
people, who hold the position of masters of the State and society in
the embrace of the people-centered socialist country, are enjoying a
worthwhile and fulfilling life and performing their responsibilities
and roles as such.
Each
of them takes part in the exercise of State power and State
administration with equal rights and leads a valuable political life in
a particular political organization. The State bears responsibility
for the people’s livelihood; all the people study to their hearts’
content, promote their health and enjoy a revolutionary cultural and
recreational life that is full of optimism thanks to the systems of
free education and medical care and various other people-oriented
policies.
Now
our Party and State, despite the strained conditions in which
everything is in short supply, are concentrating all their efforts on
stabilizing and improving the people’s livelihood, with their primary
attention focused on it, and stepping up the building of an
economically powerful socialist country so as to ensure in the near
future that our people live a rich life with no reason for envying
anyone in the world. The independent and creative life our people are
enjoying in the embrace of the Republic is a genuine human life,
dignified, worthwhile and happy, which is something unimaginable in a capitalist society.
Our
Party and our Republic are the most affectionate motherly party and
motherly country that lead the people and take care of them with love
and trust, and their embrace constitutes the cradle of the genuine life
and happiness of the people.
For
this reason, our people have sacrificed themselves in the defence of
their country, their motherland, and, firmly united behind the Party,
waged a heroic struggle for its prosperity, invariably trusting and
following our Party and the government of the Republic both in days of
glory and in days of grim trials.
The
single-hearted unity of the whole society constitutes a priceless
achievement in State building that could only be made by our socialist
country under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung,
who was endowed with love for and trust in the people, and of our
Party, which faithfully carries forward his ideas and will. This is the
proud face of our society, the like of which cannot be witnessed
elsewhere in the world. Based on the relations of revolutionary
comradeship, and the inseparable blood ties by which the Party and the
leader boundlessly love and care for the people and the latter
absolutely trust and loyally support the former, the single-hearted
unity of the leader, the Party and the masses was formed and has
developed despite the complicated and difficult circumstances and
conditions, and the whole society has become a great harmonious family
in which its members help and lead one another forward.
Today
our single-hearted unity has been further strengthened at a new height
of unity in which the entire Party, the whole army and all the people
are joined together rock-solid, centered on the revolutionary
leadership and based on one ideology and faith, comradely love and
revolutionary obligation.
No
force can break its great unity. Our single-hearted unity is the
fundamental guarantee of the strength of the socialist system and
social stability in our country, the inexhaustible source of the
invincible might of our socialist motherland and the powerful driving
force of the victorious advance of the revolution and the building of a
thriving nation.
The
US imperialists are most fearful of the single-hearted unity of
our entire army and the people behind the great Party, and resort to
every conceivable scheme to break it. While persisting with their
aggressive military maneuvers, the US imperialists and their acolytes
try to slander us under the signboard of “human rights” and
“democracy,” but this is wild dream. The “defence of human rights” and
“democracy” the imperialist reactionaries advocate are nothing other
than sophistry to hide their intervention in and hegemonic moves
towards other countries. It is preposterous to slander our Republic,
which is the motherland of the people, and our society that is united
single-heartedly, with such far-fetched sophistry. It only serves to
trigger the unanimous indignation of our people, and can never be
tolerated.
This
country of the great people, this people-centered socialism of our own
style, which enjoys the absolute support and trust and ardent love of
the masses, will forever add brilliance to its noble image and dignity,
overcoming every manner of trial.
Our
Republic is an independent socialist State that absolutely maintains
its Juche character and thoroughly preserves its national identity in
its development and activities.
The
Juche character and national identity are the independence and
lifeline of a country, a nation and the masses of the people. The
struggle of the masses for independence is waged with the country and
nation as a unit, so the party, the government and the masses of each
country should conduct the revolution and construction independently
and creatively as masters.
It
is only when they hold fast to the Juche character and national
identity and maintain the line of independence in the revolution and
construction that they can defend the sovereignty of the country and
nation, guarantee their independent development and realize the
independence of the masses successfully.
Having
put forward such original ideas on the Juche character, the national
identity and the line of independence for the first time in history,
President Kim Il Sung blazed the trail for the
independent development of the Korean revolution and guaranteed, by
dint of his iron faith and will and seasoned leadership, that the
principle of Juche, the line of independence, was maintained
consistently in the revolution and construction.
True
to his idea of State building, our Party and State regarded preserving
the Juche character, the national identity and the line of
independence as the fundamental principle in accomplishing the cause of
the masses’ independence, the cause of socialism, and strictly adhered
to it, and thus built our country into a highly dignified and
prestigious independent country, a socialist State embodying noble love
for the people and nation.
We
have solved all the problems arising in the building and activities of
the State and in the revolution and construction by our own efforts
and in our own way on the principle of self-reliance, in accordance
with our ideology and faith, our determination and will and the actual
situation in our country, and in line with the interests of our
revolution. By holding fast to the principle of Juche, the principle of
independence, in all fields of politics, the economy, military
affairs, culture and external relations, we have resolutely opposed
great-power worship, dogmatism and all other ideas advocating
dependence on outside forces, and categorically rejected any form of
intervention and pressure by the imperialist reactionaries and other
foreign forces.
We
are also doing everything we choose and decide in conformity with our
own ideology, demands and interests, regardless of the existing
theories or formulas, and despite what others may say.
Our Party long ago put forward the slogan of “Let us live our own way!”; this is Juche, independence and self-reliance, and herein lie our dignity, pride and honor.
President Kim Il Sung,
based on the Juche stand, shed a fresh, scientific light on the
essence of the issue of the nation and its position and role in social
development and, on the basis of this, linked class character with
national identity, and the destiny of socialism with that of the
nation; thus he made it possible to preserve the national character in
the revolution and construction while maintaining the class character
and to open up a vista for achieving the prosperity of the nation while
advancing the socialist cause.
Our
Party and State treasure and preserve the nation’s identity in the
revolution and construction and in all fields of social life in line
with President Kim Il Sung’s
Juche-oriented idea and theory on the issue of the nation. Since a man
is a member of a class and at the same time a member of a nation, he
embodies a national identity along with a class character and
entertains national demands along with class demands. If the national
identity and national demands are neglected and suppressed, it will be
impossible to rally the broad sections of the masses and other patriotic
forces, build a truly independent and sovereign State, or successfully
carry out the cause of the masses’ independence, the cause of
socialism.
Ours
is a proud nation with a time-honored history of 5 000 years and a
brilliant culture. Reflected in our people’s national identity are
their nation’s resourcefulness, talents, firm character, patriotic
spirit and outstanding cultural traditions.
Our
Party and State have made valuing and preserving the excellent and
beautiful traditions of our nation a major policy, and have fully
implemented it.
While
preserving the excellent features of our nation that have been handed
down throughout its history, we are creating new excellent features of
the nation along with the advance of the times and the revolution; on
the basis of this, we are educating the people in the
Korean-nation-first spirit, the spirit that our leader, our Party, our
ideology and our system are the best, and adding brilliance to the
greatness of our nation.
The
socialist cause of Juche is a cause for realizing the independence of
the working class and other working masses and at the same time a cause
for guaranteeing the independence of the country and nation and
achieving the nation’s prosperity.
Our
Party and State have, while stepping up socialist construction,
enriched the excellent qualities of the nation and added a new chapter
of national prosperity to history.
Because
we properly maintained the Juche character and preserved the national
identity of the revolution and construction under the leadership of the
great leader and the great Party, no form of intervention or pressure
from the imperialist reactionaries could cut any ice with us, no modern
revisionism or other ideological trend towards opportunism could make
inroads into our country, and our people have been able to cherish a
uniquely high level of national pride, self-confidence, consciousness
of national independence and self-respect, and give fuller play to the
spirit of socialist patriotism.
Our
Republic, which has developed under the banner of the Juche idea, is
demonstrating its pride in being a people-centered socialist country
that fully embodies class and revolutionary principles, and at the same
time, a socialist State, independent, self-supporting in the economy
and self-reliant in defence, strong in the Juche character and national
identity, and the genuine motherland of the whole nation. Our
Juche-oriented socialist motherland has stood firm amid the worldwide
great political cataclysms, and will win victory after victory by
following the road of development, the road of Juche, as ever.
The
imperialist reactionaries are now slandering our Republic, the
motherland of Juche, claiming that it is “closed” and “isolated,” and
are making futile attempts to lead us to “reform” and “openness.”
Our
country has never closed its doors, and it maintains good relations
with many countries, home to billions of people, around the world,
based on mutual respect. As for reform, we reformed the outdated social
system in a revolutionary fashion decades ago, and have been
constantly creating the new and renovating what is old and backward. In
actual fact, the imperialists and reactionaries are hostile towards
our country and are blockading it and trying to isolate it.
The
“reform” and “openness” they are advocating represent a move to
destroy and put down our style of socialism. Such moves will only
worsen their relations with us and are doomed to failure.
Our Republic is an invincible socialist power that demonstrates its dignity by dint of Songun.
The history of the revolutionary activities of President Kim Il Sung
and our Party is the history of Songun-based revolutionary leadership,
and our country and revolution have traveled a road covered with
victory and glory by displaying their invincible might under the banner
of Songun.
President Kim Il Sung
liberated the country by dint of Songun and guaranteed its
sovereignty, independence, prosperity and development by force of arms.
True to his Songun idea and line, our Party has, since long ago,
grasped military affairs and Party work as the key, and concentrated
its efforts on strengthening our revolutionary armed forces
politically, ideologically, militarily and technically, thus laying a
firm foundation for developing its Songun-based revolutionary
leadership at a new, higher stage.
The
Songun-based revolutionary line, Songun politics, that our Party is
pursuing now, is a great revolutionary line of our era, the basic mode
of socialist politics, that gives top priority to military affairs over
all other affairs of State, that safeguards the country, the
revolution and socialism by strengthening the Korean People’s Army to
the maximum, and that builds up the driving force of the revolution and
pushes ahead with socialist construction with the army as the core, as
the main force. With regard to the system of State administration, we
ensured that the authority of the National Defence Commission was
strengthened and a system was established whereby the Commission guides
and administers defence affairs overall, so that all work in the
revolution and construction was conducted strictly on the principle of
giving precedence to military affairs.
Our
Songun politics, because it is rooted in the Juche idea and fully
embodies and encompasses the Juche-oriented principles, strategy and
tactics of the revolution and its methods and art of leadership, is the
ever-victorious banner of our country and revolution and an
all-powerful sword in the revolution and construction.
The
paramount strength of a nation rests with its military might. Our
anti-imperialist, anti-US struggle is waged fiercely on all fronts of
politics, the military, the economy, ideology and culture, and the main
front that decides the destiny of the country and nation is the
anti-imperialist military front. The confrontation with the imperialist
aggressive forces is, in essence, a showdown of strength, and strength
alone can make sense in relations with the imperialists. Without our
own strength, our own powerful self-defensive military might, we can
neither win the fight against the imperialists, nor defend the Party
and the State, nor guarantee the safety of the people.
This is the stark reality of today.
By
dint of its Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Songun politics,
our Party has strengthened and developed the Korean People’s Army as
the army of the Party and the leader, as the invincible revolutionary
armed forces, both in name and in reality.
The
monolithic leadership system of the Party, the command system of the
Supreme Commander and revolutionary military traits have been firmly
established in the People’s Army, and the entire army–from the Supreme
Commander down to the rank and file–now forms an integral whole based
on revolutionary comradeship. All the men and officers of the People’s
Army, cherishing an unshakable ideology and faith, constitute an
invincible armed force that has acquired a mastery of our style of
strategy and tactics and is equipped with up-to-date military hardware.
Our
Juche-oriented defence industry has become able to produce every type
of powerful state-of-the-art weaponry and military hardware and means,
and the spirit of giving importance to military affairs has been
established throughout society, with the result that the work of arming
all the people and fortifying the whole country is proceeding at a higher phase.
Thanks
to the Songun politics, our Republic has frustrated all the challenges
of the imperialist reactionaries and all their schemes to isolate and
stifle it, and demonstrated its invincible military might to the world,
and our socialist country, Songun Korea , has risen as a world-class
military power that no aggressor dares to attack.
As
a result of the Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Songun
politics, of the Party, the politico-ideological position of our
Republic has been made rock-solid, and great progress has been made on
the economic and cultural fronts. On the road of Songun our army and
people have successfully achieved great unity–oneness of ideology and
work style on the pattern of the revolutionary spirit and the work
style of the soldiers–and the politico-ideological might of the country
and the revolution has been enhanced beyond any comparison.
Under
the Party’s Songun-based leadership the army and the people have
carried out all their undertakings in socialist construction in a
revolutionary and militant manner by forming an integral whole, and
have in this way implemented grand projects to transform the appearance
of the country, build numerous monumental structures, develop science
and technology by leaps and bounds, and usher in a new golden age of
culture and the arts of the Songun era.
Thanks
to our Songun-based policy of national reunification and the concerted
efforts of the nation, the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration
(2000) and the October 4 Declaration (2007) were adopted and made
public, and this opened up an epoch-making phase in the reunification
of the country.
The
national spirit for reunifying the country independently has been
raised to an unprecedented height in the north, the south and abroad,
and the movement for national reunification is developing as a
nationwide movement under the banner of “by our nation itself.”
Our
Songun politics, which stands against the imperialists’ policies of
invasion and war and for the independence of the country and nation,
arouses great sympathy among the progressive peoples of the world and
greatly contributes to global peace and the cause of mankind’s
independence. Our Songun politics and independent foreign policy have
made it possible to raise the prestige and influence of our Republic to
an unprecedented level in the international arena and to develop its
external relations rapidly.
Under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung
and our Party the DPRK was built and developed into a Juche-oriented
socialist State with invincible might and achieved world startling
victories and changes by overcoming every manner of historical
challenge. The glorious country of Kim Il Sung,
socialist Korea, that shines with brilliance by dint of Juche and
Songun, is displaying its might as a great socialist country, and for
this it is warmly loved and held aloft by our people as their great
motherly country, is highly regarded by all Koreans as the pride and
honor of the whole nation and as the fortress of national
reunification, and is attracting the attention and admiration of people
the world over.
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Our
Republic has traveled a long, long revolutionary path under the
unfurled banner of the Juche idea, the banner of Songun, but our
revolution is yet to be accomplished.
We
must build a great, prosperous and powerful socialist country on this
land and realize the cause of national reunification through the great
unity of the whole nation. We must make proactive efforts, shoulder to
shoulder with all countries and progressive peoples that aspire to
independence, to defend world peace and accomplish the cause of human
independence.
To build a great, prosperous and powerful socialist country true to President Kim Il Sung’s
lifelong wish is a sacred duty our Party and State have assumed before
the times and the revolution. Under our Party’s Songun-based
revolutionary leadership, the whole Party, the entire army and all the
people must, with firm confidence in victory, step up with vigor the
general march of the Songun-based revolution towards building a great,
prosperous and powerful country.
We must, first of all, build up the political and ideological position of our socialist country.
The
might of socialism is its political and ideological might, and
consolidating the political and ideological position of the socialist
country is essential for building a great, prosperous and powerful
country. In keeping with the development of the revolution and
construction, we must conduct ideological work proactively so as to
display to the maximum the inexhaustible spiritual strength of our
soldiers and people and give fuller play to the dignity of socialist
Korea as a political and ideological power.
We
must intensify education in the Juche idea, the Songun idea, among
cadres, Party members and other working people, so that they can work
and live in a revolutionary and militant fashion as befits
revolutionary people of the new era of the Juche-oriented revolution,
the Songun era.
We
must give them in-depth and effective class, revolutionary, socialist
and other forms of education so as to ensure that they are imbued with
high class and revolutionary awareness, a firm conviction in socialism
and the spirit of socialist patriotism.
We
must consolidate the single-hearted unity of the revolutionary ranks
so that it is like steel. The core of our single-hearted unity is the
leadership of the revolution. All cadres, Party members, soldiers and
people must defend the leadership of the revolution politically and
ideologically even at the risk of their lives, in the spirit of
performing death-defying deeds in defence of the leader. All the men
and officers of the People’s Army and all the people must be united
more solidly around our Party in ideology and purpose, morality and
obligation, and loyally support its ideas and leadership.
Single-hearted
unity is the great foundation of our revolution, and public sentiment
is the great foundation of our single-hearted unity. We must fully
understand the public sentiment and work effectively with people so as
to constantly strengthen the single-hearted unity of our revolutionary
ranks.
We
must remain vigilant against the enemy’s attempts to shatter our
political and ideological position and undermine our single-hearted
unity, and deal resolutely with them. We must wage a strenuous struggle
to frustrate the maneuvers of the imperialists and reactionaries to
infiltrate us ideologically and culturally and wage a psychological
smear campaign against us, and we must intensify the ideological
campaign in such a way as to prevent every element of the bourgeois
ideology and way of life, however insignificant, from infiltrating our
country.
We
must continue, under the banner of Songun, to invest great efforts in
strengthening the country’s defence capabilities. Its defence
capabilities represent the sovereignty of Songun Korea , its right to
existence, and its authority, dignity and destiny. It is only by
continually strengthening our defence capabilities that we can defend
the security of the country and people and provide the decisive
military guarantee for building a great, prosperous and powerful
socialist country.
The
People’s Army is the main force of our revolution and the core force
of our national defence. In our Songun politics, military affairs are
given top priority and enhancing the People’s Army is the key element.
What
is most important in strengthening the People’s Army is thoroughly to
establish the monolithic leadership system of the Supreme Commander,
his command system, in the army.
The
entire army must loyally support its Supreme Commander’s ideas and
leadership, share its destiny with him and move as one under his orders
and instructions.
We must enhance the People’s Army’s political, ideological, military and technical preparedness.
The
People’s Army must intensify the political work of the Party so as to
ensure that all service personnel acquire political and ideological
traits befitting the army of the Party and the leader, the army of the
Supreme Commander, and it must give fuller play to the traits of unity
between men and officers based on revolutionary comradeship.
The
soldiers and the people must share life and death on the road of
Songun under the leadership of the Party, and consolidate their great
unity. By carrying out Party policy on training, all service personnel
must train themselves into a-match-for-a-hundred combatants who are
well versed in our particular strategies, tactics and art of warfare
and who can skillfully apply them in actual combat.
The
armaments and other equipment of the People’s Army must be modernized
constantly based on the latest science and technology.
The
men and officers of the People’s Army, fully aware of the importance
of the duty they have assumed before the Party and the revolution, the
country and the people, must make the defence lines of the country
impregnable and play a vanguard role in socialist construction.
An
atmosphere must be created in which military affairs are given
importance throughout society, and then all the people must learn
military affairs earnestly and the entire Party, the whole country and
all the people must make thorough preparations to cope with any
emergency and, by building ever-stronger defences, turn the whole country into an impregnable fortress.
We must build our country into an economically powerful State by stepping up socialist economic construction.
Today
economic construction is at the forefront in the building of a great,
prosperous and powerful nation. Only by building our country into a
socialist economic power by accelerating economic construction can we
further strengthen the political and military might of Songun Korea ,
make it rich and strong and radically improve the people’s standard of
living.
We
have set ourselves the ambitious goal of opening the gate of a great,
prosperous and powerful country in 2012 when we will be celebrating the
100th anniversary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung.
If we are to achieve this goal, we must bring about a new
revolutionary turn in socialist economic construction, and thus
strengthen the country’s economic might and solve once and for all the
problem of the people’s living. The entire Party, the whole country and
all the people must turn out to launch a general economic construction
offensive.
In
order to bring about a revolutionary turn in economic construction, we
must thoroughly implement the line of economic construction for the
Songun era put forward by the Party. As demanded by this line, we must
give priority to the development of the defence industry and develop
light industry and agriculture simultaneously so as to effect a drastic
turn in improving the people’s standard of living.
Giving
precedence to the vanguard sectors of the national economy, the basic
industrial sectors, is the key to developing the defence industry,
light industry and agriculture quickly and simultaneously. We must
concentrate nationwide efforts on these sectors so as to shore up the
power, coal-mining and metallurgical industries and rail transport, and
thus open wide the road of advance in building an economically
powerful country.
By
carrying out the Party’s line of attaching importance to science and
technology, we must push forward the frontiers of cutting-edge science
and technology and raise the country’s science and technology to a high
level. All sectors of the national economy must proactively push ahead
with the modernization of factories and enterprises as required in the
IT age and based on the latest science and technology.
We
must improve the management of the socialist economy. In economic
management it is essential to strictly observe socialist principles, to
apply the method of collective management correctly, to strengthen the
central and coordinated guidance of the State and, on the basis of
this, to give full play to the creativity of the lower units. We must
enlist all potential and all the latent resources to the fullest and
effectively on the principle of self-reliance and thus step up the
building of an economic power by drawing on our own efforts, technology
and resources.
We
must comprehensively develop education, the health service, art and
literature, and all other fields in the building of socialist culture.
We must train revolutionary talents in greater numbers and more
qualitatively and give full play to the advantages of the
people-oriented public health system by improving educational and
public health work, and also bring into fuller bloom Juche-oriented art
and literature, the art and literature of the Songun era.
We
must, by vigorously stepping up the general march of the Songun
revolution, build a great, prosperous and powerful socialist country on
this land and thus achieve a decisive victory in carrying out the
cause of President Kim Il Sung, the socialist cause of Juche.
Reunification
is the supreme task of the Korean nation, and it brooks no further
delay. The Korean nation, which continuously handed down its tradition
as a homogeneous nation throughout history, has been divided into north
and south for over 60 years. We must reunify the country at the
earliest possible date, and thus put an end to the tragic history of
national division and pave the way for the coordinated development and
prosperity of the country and nation.
The
banners that our nation must hold up in achieving the independent
reunification of the country are the June 15 North-South Joint
Declaration and October 4 Declaration.
These
declarations are declarations of national independence and great
national unity and great programs for national reunification. The
standpoint and attitude towards these historic declarations constitute a
standard by which to distinguish collaboration from confrontation,
reunification from division between north and south. Whoever earnestly
desires national reunification must support these declarations and
implement them faithfully.
The
basic ideal of national reunification as stated in the declarations is
“by our nation itself,” and this is, to the core, the ideal of
national independence, the ideal of national unity. All the compatriots
in the north, the south and abroad must achieve national unity on the
principle of national independence and frustrate all the maneuvers of
the anti-reunification forces and accomplish the cause of national
reunification without fail through the united efforts of the Korean
nation itself.
We must make vigorous efforts to expand and develop the country’s external relations and realize global independence.
The
government of our Republic must conduct its external activities
briskly in accordance with the ideals of independence, peace and
friendship and as required by the changing situation, so as to increase
the number of supporters of and sympathizers with our revolution and
create an international environment that is favorable for building a
great, prosperous and powerful socialist nation and achieving national
reunification. By strengthening friendship and unity with all countries
and all progressive peoples who aspire to independence, we must wage a
vigorous struggle to frustrate the war policy and hegemonic moves of
the imperialist aggressive forces, defend peace and realize global
independence.
In
order for our Party and State to fulfill their mission and duty before
the times and the revolution, it is important to strengthen the
government of the Republic and enhance its role.
We must carry out President Kim Il Sung’s
ideas and theories on State building and our Party’s line of State
building in the Songun era, and thus continuously develop the
government of the Republic.
The
government of the Republic, based on the lines and policies of the
Party, must consolidate and develop our State and social systems and
forcefully push ahead with all the work of the revolution and
construction.
The
people’s government organs and their officials must fulfill their
missions and responsibilities and perform their duty as the servants of
the people by achieving further improvement in their style and method
of work, as required by the times and the developing revolution.
The
Workers’ Party of Korea is the supreme leading political organization
in our society, and its leadership is the basic guarantee of all the
victories of the country and the people. We must firmly establish the
monolithic leadership system across the Party, further consolidate the
unity and cohesion of the Party, build up its ranks organizationally
and ideologically, improve the functions and role of its organizations,
and thus enhance its organizing ability, fighting capacity and might
in every way possible.
We must ensure comprehensive leadership by the Party over the revolution and construction.
We
must establish the Party’s monolithic leadership across society so as
to ensure that all types of work in the revolution and construction are
conducted on the basis of the lines and policies of the Party and in
accordance with the ideas and intentions of the Party. In particular,
Party organizations must give the people’s government organs effective
political guidance, in other words, policy-based guidance, and render
them active support in order to help them fulfill their mission and
duty.
Our
Republic is a great achievement of the Juche revolution, and the
government of the Republic is a powerful weapon in the revolution and
construction. The government of the Republic must step up the
revolution and construction with greater vigor under our Party’s
Songun-based leadership, and thus accomplish the cause of President Kim Il Sung, the revolutionary cause of Juche
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