As we mark the 113th anniversary of the birth of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG, we think deeply about his achievements in leading the Korean revolution to victory and carrying out socialist construction . Undoubtedly , one of his greatest achievements was the creation of the Juche Idea .
Today the Tower of the Juche Idea stands tall and proud on the banks of the River Taedong . Juche is the guiding ideology of People’s Korea and is known all over the world .
The Korea that President KIM IL SUNG had grown up in was a dark land without independence ruled by the barbarous Japanese imperialists .The people were doubly and triply oppressed by the Japanese imperialists , landlords and capitalists . President KIM IL SUNG himself was born into a humble and poor peasant family in the village of Mangyongdae and saw the contradictions of the existing order first hand .
At an early age and following the example of his father , Kim Hyong Jik , he embarked on the road for the struggle for independence . However as a young man he found that the movement for independence was dominated by hidebound bourgeois nationalists who were divorced from the people . They indulged in bickering among themselves and also advocated all manner of false theories and ‘roads to nowhere ‘ such as trying to win independence with the help of big powers or trying to win independence through petitions etc and even ideas about ‘self-cultivation. The early communist movement in Korea was no better . It was split into warring factions , these were also divorced from the people . Each faction tried to lobby the COMINTERN or Third International .
President KIM IL SUNG , a true genius of revolution , realised quickly that it was hopeless to conduct the struggle for independence in this way .Instead he thought that the struggle should be conducted on the basis of independence and by going among the people and enlisted their support , not just support but active participation . This was the basis of the great Juche Idea which stipulates that the popular masses are the masters of the revolution and construction .
The Juche idea was outlined in embryonic form when 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 Kalun in June and July 1930. . He stressed that the Korean revolution should be carried out independently and by relying on the popular masses.
In his speech,titled 'The Path of the Korean Revolution ' he explained his ideas and put forward the Juche -oriented 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 was 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 the 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.
Thus the Juche Idea was born. It was authored by President KIM IL SUNG in the fiery days of the anti-Japanese armed struggle . It was thanks to the Juche Idea that under the leadership of President KIM IL SUNG the Korean people were able to win independence and then build a new independent people’s country .
At a time when modern revisionism had emerged and the big power chauvinists were putting pressure on the DPRK , comrade KIM IL SUNG on the 28th of December 1955 made the classic speech "On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche In Ideological Work” he defined Juche in a masterly but simple way saying that “ "What is Juche in our Party’s ideological work? What are we doing? We are not engaged in any other country’s revolution, but solely in the
Korean revolution. This, the Korean revolution, determines the essence of Juche in the ideological work of our Party. Therefore, all ideological work must be subordinated to the interests of the Korean revolution.”
Under the banner of the Juche, socialism centred upon the popular masses was built .The DPRK pursued independent and original policies rejecting dogmatism , revisionism and big power chauvinism .In the DPRK agriculture was co-operativised before mechanisation because it was the demand of the working farmers .
Truly startling miracles were achieved .In the difficult period after the destruction caused by the US imperialists in the Korean War , the people of the DPRK performed such miracles as producing 120 000 tons of steel at a blooming mill with capacity of 60 000 tons and 270 000 tons of pig iron by equipment with a capacity of 190 000 tons, building a flat in a matter of 14 minutes, raising the gross industrial output value at 36.6 percent on a yearly average in 1957-1960 and realizing the socialist industrialization in a matter of 14 years.
The Juche-based socialism of the DPRK is people-centred socialism . The DPRK since its foundation in 1948 has always pursued people-oriented policies. This is another factor in the durability of Juche-based socialism .In People’s Korea there is free education , free health care,even free housing , low cost food and cheap public transport (the Pyongyang Metro is famous for being the cheapest underground rail network in the world ). Taxation was abolished in March 1974.In People’s Korea everything is for the people .At present the DPRK, led by Marshal KIM JONG UN is carrying out massive housing construction both in Pyongyang and in local areas.
Today’s People’s Korea is the proud outcome of the leadership of President KIM IL SUNG and the application of the Juche idea .
We will never forget the achievements of President KIM IL SUNG in authoring the Juche Idea.
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