Speech on the 90th anniversary of the Kalun Meeting and the work ' The Path of the Korean Revolution '

One basic misunderstanding about the Juche idea ,even among friends of People’s Korea is that it only began in the mid 1960s or in 1955 when President KIM IL SUNG made the speech ‘ On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche In Ideological Work’ ( something which some people on the British left need to do )
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  In fact Juche goes back to the historic Kalun meeting of June 1930 and the speech ‘ The Path of the Korean Revolution’
President KIM IL SUNG addressed a meeting of the leading activists and cadres of the Young Communist League of Korea and the Anti-Imperialist Youth League . In those days the Korean people were looking for a new way to successfully conduct the revolutionary struggle for independence and national liberation as well as the struggle for class liberation .
 In the past bourgeois nationalists had tried to conduct the independence movement by relying on big powers and also just among a few top-level leaders . The emergence of the communist movement in Korea had proved to be a false dawn because it quickly split into rival factions who competed against each other for recognition from the Communist International  and did not conduct revolutionary struggle among the masses . People groaned in despair.
    The young President KIM IL SUNG keenly realised that this was not the way forward . He stressed that the Korean revolution should be carried out independently and by relying on the popular masses.
 In his speech  'The Path of the Korean Revolution  ' he explained his ideas and put forward the Juche -orientated line of the Korean revolution.
In the speech he castigated the factionalists and flunkeys saying that
“Experience shows that in order to lead the revolution to victory, one must go among the masses of people and organize them, and solve all problems arising in the course of the revolution independently on one’s own responsibility in accord with the actual conditions, instead of relying on others."
 Drawing on this lesson we regard it as most important to take the firm standpoint that the masters of the Korean revolution are the Korean people and that the Korean revolution should by all means be carried out by the Korean people themselves in a way suited to the actual conditions of their country.
   This is the basis of the Juche idea and its starting point. The idea that the masses are the masters of the revolution was first voiced at Kalun in 1930 . President KIM IL SUNG stressed that “ The masters of the revolutionary struggle are the masses of the people, and only when they are organized and mobilized can they win the revolutionary struggle.”.
  President KIM IL SUNG also defined the Korean revolution as being an anti-imperialist , anti-feudal democratic revolution rather than as being  a socialist revolution or a bourgeois revolution.
  In the speech President KIM IL SUNG set forth the revolutionary line of armed struggle,  the original line of the anti-Japanese national united front and Juche-oriented policy of party founding for the first time in the history of the national liberation struggle in colonial countries, and dynamically led the revolution along the road of Juche.
  Since then the Korean revolution has never looked back and never marked time. Thanks to the correct line set down at the Kalun meeting , the line of Juche , the Korean people gained independence and built an independent socialist power of Juche .
It can be said that the Juche Idea was first proclaimed to the world  in the speech made at Kalun .
  Today People's Korea  is advancing under the banner of the Juche idea  smashing the sanctions of the US-led hostile forces