KFA SEMINAR ON THE 76TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM JONG IL PAPER OF DR DERMOT HUDSON , KFA OD FOR THE UK

KFA SEMINAR ON THE 76TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM JONG IL

PAPER OF DR DERMOT HUDSON , KFA OD FOR THE UK

 In a few days time on the 16th of February it will be 76 years since the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL was born on the snow-swept humble log cabin on Mt Paektu, the base of the Korean revolution and the ancestral mountain of Korea.
   The many decades of the life of the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL were marked by great accomplishments in all fields of activities .Comrade KIM JONG IL was a man of many talents and versatility who was not only a great ideologist and political thinker but a brilliant military commander  and a man of culture and art .Such multi-faced talents and abilities are indeed rare to find.
   KIM JONG IL whose Songun revolutionary leadership spanned some 51 years was the revolutionary successor to the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG , who had authored the great Juche Idea and had most an independent socialist country with an advanced socialist system centred on the popular masses .The great leader Comrade KIM JONG IL made sure that these achievements were not only safeguarded but continued and carried forward . The question of succession to the leadership  is a key one on which the continuation of the revolution depends . In  a number of socialist countries is was not correctly solved leading to disaster and grief, for example renegade Khruschov came to power after the death of Stalin and introduced modern revisionism , wrecking the Soviet Union , putting on the road of eventual collapse in 1991. In China after Mao passed way 'reform ' and 'opening up ' was adopted , undermining socialism. In Albania those that came after Hoxha presided over counter-revolution.
  Chairman KIM JONG IL developed in depth and systematised the Juche idea , the guiding ideology of People's Korea and acme of all progressive ,anti-imperialist ideas.  In  March 1982 he authored the immortal treatise  “ON THE JUCHE IDEA “ and a number of other important works on the Juche idea . Indeed KIM JONG IL not only systematised the Juche Idea but was the standard bearer of the Juche era, an era of revolution in which the people emerged as masters of their destiny and fought for independence . The work ON THE JUCHE IDEA  was translated into many languages and studied in many countries, being hailed as the “Communist manifesto' of the 20th century .
     When imperialists , dominationists and big power chauvinists tried to put pressure on the DPRK not to follow the road of Juche ,  comrade KIM JONG IL put forward the militant revolutionary slogan “ Let Us Live Our Way ! “ in December 1978 and lead the Korean people to an upsurge in the revolution and construction.
 Comrade  KIM JONG IL built up the Workers Party of Korea as the party of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG  by establishing the monolithic ideological system which ensured idealogical purity .
 Chairman KIM JONG IL , an victorious general  of Mt Paektu started the Songun –based revolutionary leadership  on August 25  1960 at the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su No 105 Tank Division of the Korean People's Army. He administered  Songun politics in the 1990s and 2000s  thereby smashing  the  insidious schemes of the US imperialists to stifle People’s Korea militarily and make its people slaves of modern colonialism.
  Saying  “Expect No Change from me” KIM JONG IL  made sure that Korea held high the Red flag of socialism when socialism collapsed owing to the treachery of the modern revisionists. He rebuffed those who urged the so-called “reform “ and “opening up” and led the march towards a thriving socialist nation .
Under the leadership of the great leader Chairman KIM JONG IL the DPRK became a proud independent nuclear power as well as a satellite launching nation. The first roar of nuclear thunder was heard on the 9th of October 2006.
  Comrade KIM JONG IL was the great champion of Korean reunification and the architect of the June 15 Joint Declaration of 2000. He always strived for independent
reunification without outside interference, particularly that of the US , the sworn enemy of the Korean people.
  Comrade KIM JONG IL was associated with militant anti-imperialism and the struggle for global independence . He wrote many works such as  “The Characteristics of Modern Imperialism and its aggressive nature “ which gave a correct and useful analysis of modern imperialism . When the international communist movement was in a state of confusion , despair and disillusion due to the frustration of socialism in some countries  he rebuffed those who said , socialism had failed by writing works such as “Socialism Is  A Science “ and  “The Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable “.
We remember the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL as an unparalleled great leader whose achievements will shine forever . Today the Juche revolutionary cause and Songun revolutionary cause are carried forward by his successor  the dear respected leader Marshal KIM JONG UN who is leading the Korean people forward, under the banner of Juche and self-reliance , to the bright morrow of a thriving socialist country

Dr Dermot Hudson
Official Delegate Korean Friendship Association UK
Chairman Juche Idea Study Group of England .
President Association for the Study of Songun Poltiics UK.