KIM IL SUNG giving on-the spot guidance to a co-operative farm near to Pyongyang . Every night we saw the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG either giving on the spot guidance or meet foreign guests such as Ludo Martens head of the Workers' Party of Belgium (which at that time was a militant anti-revisionist party and close friend of the DPRK). The music " Long Live Marshal KIM IL SUNG " used to played when President KIM IL SUNG met foreign guests , watching the tv footage ,we perceived a sense of stateliness. President KIM IL SUNG had a most dignified bearing .
I had visited the DPRK three times during the era of President KIM IL SUNG , the first time in May 1992 , then in October 1993 and June 1994. I had visited the DPRK for the first time in May 1992 .
I had become a Juche idea follower in the 1980s . I had read several books about President KIM IL SUNG including the celebrated Baik Bong biography of President KIM IL SUNG . This book was not in public libraries where I lived but I was able to find in the library of Southampton University for which I obtained an external readers ticket for . I also read the 1982 "History of the Revolutionary Activities of the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG " , a beautifully bound book which Granville V Stone of the old British Committee For Supporting Korea's Reunification had kindly sent me . I had became very familiar with the life and achievements of President KIM IL SUNG who rose from being the son of a poor peasant living in a straw house to a great leader and a great statesman . President KIM IL SUNG was a man who smashed empires and upheld justice and a builder of a unique and remarkable socialist country , the country of Juche .I put the picture " Morning of Juche Country " which featured President KIM IL SUNG and Chairman KIM JONG IL walked together across a bridge in Pyongyang .
So in May 1992 I visited the country of Juche , the land of President KIM IL SUNG for the first time . In those days , the revisionist USSR and the bloc of socialist countries around it had collapsed or more accurately , socialism was frustrated in those countries , it was betrayed by the treacherous revisionist leadership of Gorbachov . New forms of anti-communism and anti-socialism appeared . The imperialists drunk with what they saw as their victory over the socialist camp schemed to topple the DPRK , to destroy its socialist system and restore capitalism . Many people wondered would happen to the DPRK . Some cynics and defeatists hidden amongst so-called progressives and leftists in the West sneered that the DPRK would not last long . Of course these blockheads were totally ignorant of the Juche-based, independent , self-reliant socialist system of the DPRK , wrongly
seeing the DPRK as a creation and an extension of the old USSR . When I arrived in the DPRK after
a few days I became immediately impressed and inspired by the solidity and durability of Juche based socialism that had been built by President KIM IL SUNG and the Korean people. When I was
in the DPRK for the first time I saw no black market currency dealers . I remember arriving in Budapest , the capital of revisionist Hungary in the 1980s and seeing black currency dealers almost immediately. Looking around the streets of Budapest I saw not only a McDonalds but also Rambo and Madonna posters , people wearing jeans , all very westernised , basically proving that imperialist ideological and cultural infiltration had made deep inroads . In the DPRK I saw no such things . I
was convinced that socialism in the DPRK could never collapse and would last eternally .
This was not due to an accident of history but due to the wise leadership of President KIM IL SUNG who made sure that the DPRK upheld socialist principles despite the maelstrom of revisionism and anti-socialism . I remember reading in the "Pyongyang Times " during the 1980s the historic speech of President KIM IL SUNG "For the Complete Victory of Socialism " in which he said ""The people's government must guard against the poisonous ideas of capitalism and revisionism and resolutely fight against all attempts to infringe upon the socialist system"." This dealt a blow to the modern revisionists who were going on about perestroika and glasnost etc . In another speech President KIM IL SUNG said " 'Careless opening may allow mosquitoes and blowflies to fly in and cause damage". He rebuffed all the attempts of the imperialists and revisionists to stifle the DPRK . The imperialists even sent various people to offer bribes or inducements to the DPRK to betray socialism . It was not easy for the DPRK to uphold socialism as they faced many challenges and difficulties . Some countries tried to sabotage the foreign trade of the DPRK by demanding settlement of accounts in dollars . However the Korean people steeled themselves and defeated all the challenges under the leadership of President KIM IL SUNG and his successor Chairman KIM JONG IL .The DPRK became a fortress of socialism and at the same time a beacon of hope for the world progressive people.
President KIM IL SUNG also took positive measures to not only defend the socialist cause but to revive and advance the international communist movement . In April 1992 he invited numerous delegations from communist , workers and socialist parties to Pyongyang and they adopted the
"Pyongyang Declaration " Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism" which stated that
"Ours is an era of independence and the socialist cause is a sacred one aimed at realising the independence of the popular masses.
Socialism suffered a setback in some countries in recent years. As a consequence of this, the imperialists and reactionaries are claiming that socialism has ‘come to an end’. This is nothing but a sophistry to beautify and embellish capitalism and patronise the old order.
The setback of socialism and the revival of capitalism in some countries is causing a great loss to the achievement of the socialist cause, but it can never be interpreted as the denial of the superiority of socialism and of the reactionary character or capitalism."
The Russian Communist leader Nina Andreeva , head of the All Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks of the former USSR was invited to the DPRK and gave a lecture at KIM IL SUNG University, titled "The Cause of Socialism Is Invincible " in which she outlined the causes of the frustration of socialism in the USSR and praised the DPRK as a true bastion of socialism.
That the DPRK was a bastion of socialism was thanks to the gifted leadership of President KIM IL SUNG . During our visits in the early 1990s we saw a country firmly united around around the leader and the Party . A society where everyone helped each other . . A country of discipline and order with spotlessly clean streets with no litter. I remember my friend Shaun Pickford when we were in the mountains , looking around and saying "Juche paradise " .Similarly when we were in Kaesong we saw no one begging on the streets or hungry , Shaun related how the Western media had claimed that people were fainting from hunger on the streets of the DPRK , what an utter nonsense !
All in all we saw a socialist paradise created and guided by the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG . Today the DPRK , led by respected Marshal KIM JONG UN , is upholding independence , socialism and self-reliance . This is the great legacy bequeathed by President KIM IL SUNG !
GLORY TO THE MEMORY OF THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM IL SUNG !
LONG LIVE JUCHE KOREA !
Dr Dermot Hudson
Chairman UK Committee to Remember the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG !
President Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK
Chairman Juche Idea Study Group of England
Chairman UK Korean Friendship Association
Chairman British Solidarity Committee for Peace and Reunification on the Korea Peninsula
hon general secretary International Central Committee For Songun Study
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