. In today’s world we are seeing an increase in aggression and intervention by US imperialism and its proxies such as the Zionists so it is important to increase solidarity with People’s Korea , an anti-imperialist socialist country . We are here today to mark two important victories of People’s Korea against imperialism . Tomorrow July 27th is the 72nd anniversary of the victory against the US imperialists in the Fatherland Liberation War (which is misleadingly referred to as the Korean War in the West ) and in less than 3 weeks from now it will be the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Korea from Japanese imperialist colonial rule on August 15th . Both victories were the fruit of the Juche idea and are associated with the leadership of President KIM IL SUNG . Both are an example of a small country winning victory by its own efforts against overwhelming odds.
Both US and Japanese imperialism were and indeed still formidable imperialist powers , Today US imperialism has a colossal global empire of over 700 military bases in over 80 countries .The United States launched at least 251 military interventions between 1991 and 2022. Japanese imperialism , which was most brutal , is all too often overlooked and forgotten but in the past Japan had a huge empire straddling across Asia which included Korea which it had formally annexed in 1910 . It should never be forgotten that Japan was not only an aggressive and expansionist imperialist power but it was an ally of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy.
It can be said that August 15th is the first liberation day of the Korean people and that July 27th is the second liberation day of the Korean people , so it is good to combine the two in a single meeting .
As the anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War is tomorrow I will refer to it first .
The imperialists do not like to talk too much about the great Fatherland Liberation War in Korea or as they like to call it the Korean War. It is often referred to as the forgotten war or unknown war by the mainstream media . The reason for this can be found in the statement of right wing US military historian Bevin Alexander , himself an officer in the US imperialist aggression forces during the war , who wrote that the Fatherland Liberation War was the “first war we lost”. The infamous reactionary senator JR McCarthy said that ““we suffered a serious defeat in Korea “.
The Fatherland Liberation War or Korean War was the first time that a socialist country was involved a full scale war against US imperialism and world imperialism.The US imperialists not only threw their own armed forces into the war but those of the south Korean puppets , 15 of their satellite countries and even the Japanese militarists who fought in Korea in secret wearing the uniforms of the south Korean puppet army . In some ways the Fatherland Liberation War was like a world war.The Fatherland Liberation War was an anti-imperialist struggle against the international forces of reaction headed by US imperialism , a class struggle , a war to defend socialism and a war for national liberation.
In the Fatherland Liberation War The great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG always stressed that the outcome of war is not determined by weapons alone but the ideology of those holding the weapons.The great leader Marshal KIM IL SUNG had accumulated precious experience during the 15 year long armed struggle against the Japanese imperialists. He developed original Juche-oriented military tactics, the likes of which had never been seen before.
An example was the development by the Korean People’s Army of tunnel warfare , a new concept. An article by overseas Korean writer Han Ho Suk wrote that “North Korea's expertise in digging tunnels for warfare was demonstrated during the Vietnam War. North Korea sent about 100 tunnel warfare experts to Vietnam to help dig the 250 km tunnels for the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in South Vietnam. The tunnels were instrumental in the Vietnamese victory
In the first stage of the war the Korean People's Army liberated 90 percent of the territory of south Korea and 92 per cent of the population The DPRK carried out its own defascistation and de-Americanization programme in south Korea establishing a people’s democratic system . A truly remarkable accomplishment that was achieved by the self-reliant revolutionary armed forces of People's Korea under the command of the great leader Marshal KIM IL SUNG.
The US threw into the war unprecedented numbers of troops and amounts of materials. The US even mobilised troops from 15 of their satellite countries including the UK . They also had the Japanese fighting for them but wearing south Korean puppet uniforms .73 million tons of war materials were used in the war . Despite all this the US imperialists failed to subdue the Korean people. On the 27th of July 1953 they admitted defeat by concluding the Korean Armistice Agreement . The US commander Mark Clark wearily admitted that "In carrying out the instructions of my government, I gained the unenviable distinction of being the first United States commander in history to sign an armistice without victory.”
During the three-year long Fatherland Liberation War, the U.S. imperialists lost over 1,567,000 men, including more than 405,000 of their own armed forces, and an enormous amount of combat equipment and war supplies, including over 12,200 aircraft, more than 560 warships and ships, over 3,200 tanks and armoured vehicles of different types, more than 13,350 trucks and 7,690 artillery pieces of various types. The loss suffered by the US imperialists was nearly 2.3 times greater than what they had suffered in the four years of the Pacific War during World War II. Even official US statistics showed during each of the three years of the Korean War they lost double the number of troops lost in each year of the Vietnam war. Later comrade KIM IL SUNG declared that “In this great struggle our people fought determinedly as one in mind under the correct leadership of the party and government and thereby withstood the harsh trials of war honourably and won a historic victory inflicting an ignominious defeat on US imperialism and its running dogs”
Respected Marshal KIM JONG UN said that the Fatherland Liberation War “was a military miracle unprecedented in the war history of mankind and a great feat of historical significance never seen before in the nation's history spanning 5 000 years’
Francisco da Costa Gomes, the then chief of staff of the Portuguese forces in Macau during the Korean war who became the president of Portugal later, once said: The operations plans of the United States were brought to completion through several rounds of discussion by scores of generals including chiefs of staff and military experts of the Western countries which took the side of the United States. But General Kim Il Sung foiled them virtually single-handedly. While witnessing this with my own eyes, I came to realize that he was an inborn military strategist and a great commander the world had ever seen.
July 27th is the second liberation day of the Korean people but August 15th is the first liberation day and it will soon be 80 years since Korea was liberated from Japanese imperialist rule . It has been 80 years of independence ,self-reliance and Juche .
On the 15th of August 1945, Korea was liberated from the grim and oppressive fascist rule of Japanese imperialism which had lasted 36 years. Korea’s liberation was thanks to the 20-year-long armed struggle conducted under the leadership of the great leader General KIM IL SUNG, the sun of the Korean nation, an ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander and gifted military strategist. The anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army led by the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG had neither a state base nor rear to rely on. The armed struggle of the anti-Japanese guerrillas was a self-reliant one that embodied the Juche Idea and the Songun Idea. The great leader General KIM IL SUNG cast aside the flunkeyist idea of relying on big powers for salvation and instead conducted an independent struggle, based on Juche, against Japanese imperialism fully relying on the masses of people. In the early days of the struggle for national liberation President KIM IL SUNG said “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”
As a young communist, patriot and revolutionary in the 1920s, President KIM IL SUNG keenly realised the road of peaceful resistance, the road of dependence on big power and the road of factionalism were roads to nowhere, a massive dead end. So he set about waging the struggle against Japanese imperialist rule independently and in the spirit of self-reliance. He formed revolutionary organisations with the new generation of militant anti-imperialist youth such as the Down-With-Imperialism Union, the Young Communist League of Korea and the Anti-Imperialist Youth League. Believing that independence could only be achieved by the force of arms President KIM IL SUNG formed the Korean Revolutionary Army in July 1930. On the 25th of April 1932, the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerilla Army, later to become the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army, was founded and launched the anti-Japanese war which continued for more than a decade .
The anti-Japanese armed struggle fully proved in practice that independence is achieved by the force of arms. During the anti-Japanese armed struggle, the great leader generalissimo KIM IL SUNG rejected the illusions of the national reformists and opportunists that independence could be achieved by peaceful means or by begging for it.
The anti-Japanese guerrillas led by President KIM IL SUNG, fought in the spirit of self-reliance under the banner of the Juche idea. They seized weapons from the Japanese aggressors or manufactured their own. Some had hoped that the Soviet Union, the first socialist state, would supply them with a hand-grenade factory but this never materialised so they made their own hand grenades the 'Yongil bomb'.Of course today People’s Korea has its own nuclear Yongil bomb.
The Juche-oriented guerrilla tactics of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG and the indomitable struggle of the Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army (later the Korean People's Revolutionary Army ) tore the guts out of Japanese imperialism, defeating the million-strong Kwantung army of Japanese imperialism. The KPRA fought battles at Pochonbo on the 4th of June 1937 and Musan on the 23rd of May 1939 just to mention two of the hundreds of battles fought by the KPRA. On the 9th of August 1945, the KPRA under the command of comrade KIM IL SUNG commenced the final operation to liberate Korea from Japanese imperialist rule. The barbaric Japanese imperialist invaders were expelled from the land of Korea at last.
The defeat of Japanese imperialism, one of the main forces and shock brigade of international fascism, by the partisans of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army led by the great leader General KIM IL SUNG made a great contribution to the victory of the worldwide anti-fascist forces.
The victorious liberation struggle of the Korean people led by General KIM IL SUNG, a gifted military strategist and ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander was an inspiration for the peoples of the colonial countries fighting for their independence and liberation. The 1968 World Cultural Congress in Havana adopted a document praising the anti-Japanese armed struggle waged under the leadership of the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG.
With the victory of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, commanded by the great leader generalissimo KIM IL SUNG, in August 1945 the Korean people finally gained their emancipation from the cruel shackles of Japanese colonialism and greeted a new life of independence, a life of hope for the future.
The Korean people under the leadership of President KIM IL SUNG smashed feudalism and completely eradicated the legacy of Japanese colonial rule and built a new People’s Korea, a Korea of independence and self-reliance , on the ruins of Japanese imperialism. Today People’s Korea led by Marshal KIM JONG UN is well known as the most independent country in the world and is building a powerful socialist country of Juche.
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