Soon it will the 6th anniversary of the passing away of the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL and on the 24th of December it will 26 years since comrade KIM JONG IL was elected by the Political Bureau of the Workers' Party of Korea as the supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.It is time to reflect the massive exploits performed by the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL during his lifetime . There are so many things we could write but I am going to focus on his role as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and the work of developing Songun politics .
One thing sticks out in my memory . The early and mid 1990s following the collapse of the USSR were a sombre period for many .One cold ,drab wintry morning in December 1994 . I woke up and turned the radio to listen to the news on BBC Radio 4 . The announcer suddenly said 'anti-aircraft gunners in north Korea say they have shot down a US helicopter ' .A wave of excitement surged through me .I put on a cassette tape of the song "No Motherland Without You " which was the theme song of the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL . The refrain of the song is
"Without you, there would be no us!
Without you, there would be no motherland!"
We later learnt that one US pilot had been killed and the other had been captured by the Korean People's Army ! .Why did I feel such a surge of excitement and optimism over this incident ? Because it was another great victory over US imperialism. It showed that the DPRK was taking a real hard-line against US imperialism when others had given into US imperialism , compromising with and basically giving up the heady anti-US,anti-imperialist struggle . In fact it was a sorely needed victory over US imperialism because the world revolutionary and progressive people had seen defeat after defeat and retreat in the late 80s and early 90s. This victory had not come from a great power in which some had foolishly placed their hopes in , I remember encountering many so-called revolutionaries who believed that only a big country could successfully carry out the revolution but this victory came from a small country , People's Korea, the Korea of Juche and Songun !.
At the time it was a few months after the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG had passed away , many worried what course Korea would take . The imperialists and big powers wanted to try and force People's Korea to take the road of 'reform ' and 'opening up ' , the road of capitalism .All kinds of pressure was put on the DPRK to abandon the revolutionary road of Juche . Some so-called 'friends ' of the DPRK whispered in people's ears that the DPRK must 'reform' and 'open up' . Ugly and pernicious rumours were spread that the DPRK was 'opening up' and the imperialists rubbed their hands.
However the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL had declared 'Expect No Change from me ' !
When I heard the news of the US helicopter , I knew that the DPRK was sticking firmly to the road
of anti-imperialism . It had not changed its policies .This was still the same country that had single-handedly captured the Yankee spy ship 'Pueblo' , had shot down the EC121 spy and triumphed over the stupid Yankees in the Panmunjom Incident in 1976 .
This was due to the leadership of the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL , an ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander of Songun. Comrade KIM JONG IL had become Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army in 1991. This was a great milestone on the road of the Songun(army-first ) leadership of comrade KIM JONG IL which had began some 3 decades before . Comrade KIM JONG IL built the KPA up to a most solid invincible revolutionary armed force , carrying forward the revolutionary idea of the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG on Juche army building .He made sure that the KPA and Korean people took a super hardline against US imperialism and world imperialism. For example in March 1993 the US imperialists brought forward the so-called 'nuclear issue ' and demanded the so-called special inspection of military bases in the DPRK. At the same they carried out the massive ' Team Spirit' military exercise which they had suspended the year before . Some leaders would have panicked , some would have given in but comrade KIM JONG IL , a great brilliant commander of Songun instead gave the supreme commander's order 0034 to declare the semi-war state on March 8, 1993 and saw to it that the government statement that the DPRK would withdraw from the NPT was published on March 12, 1993. Thus twin blows that hit the US imperialists very hard had been delivered.This shook the imperialists rigid and left them impotent with rage! .
During the 20 year long period of his Supreme Commandership the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL delivered one blow after another to the despised US imperialists such as the first DPRK nuclear test in October 2006 and the second nuclear test in 2009 . When Iraq , Afghanistan ,Yugoslavia and other countries were torn asunder by the rapacious and greedy US led imperialists , People's Korea fully maintained its independence, its security and dignity .
Let us remember the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL as the great brilliant commander of Songun , the commander of independence !
Dr Dermot Hudson
President Association For the Study of Songun Poltiics UK
Chairman Juche Idea Study Group of England
Chairman UK Korean Friendship Association
Advisor International Central Committee for Songun Study .
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