From Voice of Korea-History and Tradition of Victory

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History and Tradition of Victory

  The Korean people celebrate July 27 as the great V-Day every year.

  The history of war victory of heroic Korea created in the 1950s under the outstanding leadership of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, founder of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is shining all the more thanks to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the DPRK.

History of War Victory

  The Korean War ignited by the US imperialists on June 25, 1950 was a war of aggression to stifle the young DPRK in the cradle and realize their ambition for world domination.

  It is called the Fatherland Liberation War in the DPRK.

  In the past Fatherland Liberation War, the Korean people inflicted an ignominious defeat upon the US imperialists in hearty response to the outstanding military ideas and strategy of Comrade Kim Il Sung.

  Lecturer Hwang Ryon at the Korean Revolution Museum said that during the war, Comrade Kim Il Sung presented outstanding military ideas, and bold and mysterious strategies, tactics and war methods of Korean style and applied them skilfully, and continued:

  "The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung presented outstanding military ideas and war methods including the idea on transforming the Fatherland Liberation War into an all-people war, the idea on ensuring definite politico-ideological and strategic and tactical upper hand of the army in the whole course of the war, the idea on meeting the material demand of war by our own efforts, large-unit and small-unit activities, regular warfare, guerrilla warfare, mountain warfare and night warfare.

  The Juche-oriented military ideas and war methods of his nullified the upper hand of the US imperialists in number and military technique and enabled the Korean people to win victory."

  The original war methods of Korean style were created by the outstanding military ideas, strategies and tactics of Comrade Kim Il Sung, including the aircraft-hunting team movement, tank hunters' team movement, tunnels warfare and the position warfare, which could not be found in the history of world wars.

  Comrade Kim Il Sung brought about the victory in the war with his love for and trust in the people and the service personnel of the People's Army.

  With the theory that the people and service personnel are the performers of war and the Supreme Commander exists for them, he had a rest home built worrying about the health of soldiers fighting on the heights and took measures to enforce the universal free medical care system for the people.

  Thanks to his love and trust, the brave soldiers of the People's Army blocked the enemy's pillboxes with their chests and became human bombs to destroy the enemy's tanks, displaying matchless heroism.

  Those days since the fireworks of war victory were set off were the history of fireless war of the DPRK against all the hostile forces including the US imperialists.

  In the 1990s which was recorded as the period of ordeals in the history of the DPRK, the US-led imperialist allied forces made more desperate efforts than ever before to isolate and suffocate the DPRK, loudly talking about the so-called "theory of its collapse".

  In those days, the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il defended the country with his original Songun (military-first) politics.

  Thanks to his unusual military wisdom and matchless courage and confidence, the destiny of the country could be safeguarded and the history of victory of the DPRK go on.

  Today the history and tradition of victory of the DPRK are successfully carried forward by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, another iron-willed, brilliant commander.

Tradition of Victory Will Be Eternal

  The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un is energetically leading the people, service personnel of the People's Army and the coming generations to steadily carry forward the noble soul and spirit of the great victorious wartime generation.

  He made public famous works and thus provided a great programme for invariably carrying forward the tradition of victory won by the victorious wartime generation and made the whole country pulsate with the spirit of defending the country.

  He armed the coming generations with the heroic fighting spirit displayed by the army and people in the Fatherland Liberation War and saw that they could inherit the spirit generation after generation, lecturer An Yon Mi at the Korean Revolution Museum said and continued:

  "When he visited the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said the spirit of defending the country, whose core is the spirit of resolutely defending the leader, the spirit of patriotism and the heroic spirit of self-sacrifice displayed by the service personnel of the People's Army during the Fatherland Liberation War, is the most valuable ideological and spiritual heritage the new generations should inherit. And he stressed that the people, service personnel of the People's Army and the new generations should keep the spirit of defending the country and mass heroism displayed in the 1950s as a precious ideological and spiritual wealth and carry them forward generation after generation."

  Comrade Kim Jong Un had the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum built into a monument of the times so that the history and tradition of victory in the great years could be handed down as a valuable revolutionary legacy of Juche Korea forever.

  He came out to the spot to choose the site for the museum and took necessary measures ranging from the designing to the formation of construction forces and the supply of materials. Examining the historic relics and other exhibits to be displayed at the museum, he ascertained the historic materials.

  Afterwards, he came to the construction site several times and led all the elements to be completed on the highest level so that the visitors could have a deeper understanding of the outstanding military wisdom and Juche-oriented tactics of Comrade Kim Il Sung.

  He made it a tradition to invite the representatives of war veterans to Pyongyang and significantly celebrate the V-Day every year.

  He put forward the victorious wartime generation as the most heroic generation who laid the firm foundation of the DPRK even in the tempest of history and as models of the great and indomitable Korean people.

  He invited to the Eighth Conference of War Veterans the lecturers in the field of preserving revolutionary relics related to the war victory and led them to discharge their mission as powerful disseminators and educators infusing the people, service personnel and rising generations with the heroic fighting spirit and traits of the great years as the eternal soul.

  Comrade Kim Jong Un presented it as the general line of building the revolutionary armed forces to make the People's Army the ever-victorious one, so that the tradition of victory could be invariably carried forward.

  He put forward the idea on three elements of the armed forces--service personnel, arms and ideology--and gave a definition that ideology is the core element defining character, aspect and might of the armed forces.

  He guided the military drills of the large combined units of the People's Army on the spot, giving invincible wisdom and courage to the service personnel.

  A rapid progress was made in the strengthening of the defence capabilities under his energetic guidance.

  Comrade Kim Jong Un accomplished the historic cause of completing the state nuclear forces and strengthened and developed the DPRK into a military power any hostile forces dare not challenge.

  The line of simultaneous building of the economy and nuclear forces, the adoption of the policy of strengthening the nuclear forces as part of the constitution and the absolute weaponry intensively representing the progressiveness, modernity and heroism of the state show that the tradition of victory won by the victorious wartime generation goes on in the powerful country no formidable enemy can invade.

  The immortal exploits performed by Comrade Kim Il Sung for victory in the war and the tradition of victory created by the participants in the Fatherland Liberation War serve as the most valuable ideological and spiritual treasure to the new generations.

  The brilliant history of war victory of the DPRK shows that the history of victory is great and the tradition of victory is eternal only under the guidance of an outstanding leader. 

 

From Voice of Korea-Two Conflicting Traditions

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The Korean people won the three-year war against the armed invasion of the US imperialists in the 1950s.

As for the factors of the Korean people's victory in the Fatherland Liberation War, Doctor and Associate Professor Choe Myong Bok, Teacher of Kim Il Sung University, said:
"The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, in a number of classic works, clarified that the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War was a victory of the outstanding military idea, Juche-oriented combat methods and superb strategies and tactics of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung; it was a victory of patriotism and indomitable fighting spirit of the Korean people who fought at the risk of their lives in response to his appeal."
It is a disgraceful tradition of the United States that it has been severely beaten and defeated by the Korean people since the 1950s. On the contrary, it is a proud tradition of heroic Korea that it has mercilessly beaten at every step the United States running wild relying on its gigantic strength.
The two conflicting traditions teach the truth of history that the leader of a country decides the destiny of that country and people.

The First Tragedy of the United States with the Myth of Its "Mightiness" Broken

On June 25, 1950, the United States ignited a war on the young Democratic People's Republic of Korea and vaunted that it would conquer Korea within 72 hours.
The 72 hours were repeated hundreds of times to be more than 27,000 hours equivalent to 1,129 days and 3 years, producing the biggest political and military tragedy that the US imperialists were defeated by the Korean people and destined to fall like the setting sun.
After the armistice agreement was signed, the then US President Eisenhower spoke at the radio microphone: "We paid dearly for it. It was tragic and bitter."
Clark cried sadly after signing the armistice agreement as the first defeated general in the US history who singed an instrument of surrender, his mother recollected.
The United States, which had never been defeated in more than 110 wars, was defeated in Korea because it didn't know about the Korean people at all.
It was the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, father of socialist Korea, who led the Fatherland Liberation War to victory. He is a peerlessly great man who organized and led the 20-year-long anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle against the Japanese imperialists to victory and accomplished the historic cause of national liberation.
On the day when the war broke out, Comrade Kim Il Sung called an emergency meeting of the Cabinet and said the Yankees mistook the Korean people and that we should show the mettle of Koreans to those who are rushing about, misjudging them.
And he continued that it is necessary to frustrate the enemy's invasion and immediately launch a decisive counteroffensive action to wipe out the armed invaders.
Many world people, who were watching the future of the young DPRK, greatly admired the daring confidence and unusual commanding art of Comrade Kim Il Sung as regards the fact that the DPRK liberated Seoul, the stronghold of the enemy, only in 72 hours with an immediate counterattack.
The DPRK was called heroic Korea as it broke the myth of "mightiness" of the United States from the beginning of the war.
The shameful tradition of the United States, which produced the first tragedy, lasted for over 70 years.

The "Pueblo", Trophy of the DPRK

On January 23, 1968, seven seamen of the Navy of the Korean People's Army captured the US imperialist armed spy ship "Pueblo" which had intruded into the territorial waters of the DPRK.



The crew of the "Pueblo" was in captivity in the DPRK for 11 months.
When the "Pueblo" was captured, the United States deceived the world public that it was outside the territorial waters of the DPRK and that it was a civilian ship for oceanology.
Far from making an apology to us, the United States brought huge troops to the vicinity of the Korean peninsula, threatening and blackmailing that it would invade the DPRK if it does not send back the ship and its crew. Some countries advised the DPRK to make a "concession" for fear of worsening the relations with the United States.
At that time, Comrade Kim Il Sung resolutely declared to the world that the enemy's retaliation would be answered with retaliation and an all-out war with all-out war.





The crew of the "Pueblo" in captivity confessed that they had intruded into the territorial waters of the DPRK to collect data.
After all, the United States made an apology to the DPRK in the eyes of the world, and the crew of the "Pueblo" was expelled from the territory of the Republic.
This serious event that the United States could not dare to challenge even though it was deprived of its ship for the first time in its history was an ignominious defeat it suffered after the war.



The "Pueblo", a trophy of the DPRK and a symbol of defeat of the United States, is now tied up in the Pothong River of Pyongyang as an object of denunciation and curse of the international community.

Shame of the United States in the DPRK-US Nuclear Confrontation

In 1993, the United States frantically staged the "Team Spirit 93" joint military exercise, taking issue with the "nuclear issue" of the DPRK.
The United States extensively brought new-type planes and warships loaded with nuclear weapons, and means of nuclear strike of various kinds into the Korean peninsula and its surrounding waters and mobilized over 200,000 aggressor forces to conduct powder-reeking war drills.
When a touch-and-go situation was created in the DPRK where a war may break out at any time, the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il, Supreme Commander of the KPA, declared a semi-war state to the whole country, all the people and the entire army.
Later, he ensured that the DPRK's withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was declared through a statement of the DPRK government.
It was like a bolt from the blue for the United States professing itself to be the "only superpower" in the world.
High-level talks were held between the DPRK and the United States and the United States finally signed the DPRK-US Agreed Framework for the peaceful settlement of the "nuclear issue".
And an unprecedented letter of assurance was sent to Comrade Kim Jong Il in the name of the US President that he would faithfully implement the agreement.
The United States suffered another disastrous defeat when the DPRK won the political, military and diplomatic victories in the DPRK-US nuclear negotiations.

Ever-Victorious DPRK

In the 21st century, the DPRK further strengthened the self-defensive war deterrent and defence capability to cope with the evermore vicious nuclear threat of the United States.
When the DPRK made nuclear tests and launched artificial earth satellites as part of the exercise of its self-defensive right, the United States instigated the UN Security Council to fabricate a provocative "resolution of sanctions" against the DPRK.
Taking issue with the 3rd underground nuclear test made by the DPRK in 2013, in particular, it fabricated another "resolution of sanctions" of higher intensity and mobilized huge aggressive armed forces to conduct frantic joint military exercises for provoking a nuclear war.



Doctor and Associate Professor Jang Yong Chol, Teacher of Kim Il Sung University, said that at that time, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, put forward the line of simultaneous building of the economy and nuclear forces at the March 2013 Plenary Meeting of the Party Central Committee and continued:
"At the plenary meeting, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said our Party's new line of simultaneously developing the two fronts is not a temporary countermeasure to cope with the rapidly-changing situation but a strategic line which should be held fast to permanently from the view of the supreme interests of the Korean revolution."
Thanks to the gifted strategy and daring confidence of Comrade Kim Jong Un, world-startling special events took place multiply and consecutively and the great historic cause of completing the state nuclear forces was accomplished.
The Korean economy has grown and many creations of self-reliance have been built on this land.
After all, the United States made every possible effort to block the way of the DPRK, but it faced a failure again.
After the summit meeting and talks between the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and the US President Trump in June 2018, the first of their kind in the history of the two countries, even the US conservative media reported the news that the US President Trump praised Comrade Kim Jong Un again and again at a press conference, saying; "Comrade Kim Jong Un has a great character. He is humorous and intelligent and loves his people."

It is a proud tradition of Korea that it has emerged ever-victorious by fighting against power with superpower, always faithful to the ideology and leadership of the leader.
The tradition of victory continues to be carried forward under the guidance of another peerlessly great man Kim Jong Un.

KCNA Commentary on Japan's Nuclear Policy

Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- The present authorities of Japan are more openly revealing their ambition for nuclear weapons.

With regard to France's declaration of its plan to increase the number of nuclear warheads and the Finnish parliament's approval of a revised bill on allowing the deployment of nuclear weapons in its territory in contingency, the Japanese minister of Defence on July 17 advocated the need to change Japan's nuclear policy, saying that it is difficult for Japan to comment on the fact, but one thing that deserves comment is nuclear.

The minister of Defence, who is in charge of the security policy of Japan, unreservedly talked about the revision of nuclear policy. This is not just a slip of the tongue to the press or bombast from temerity.

No wonder, the Japanese chief executive told the House of Councilors shortly ago that revision of the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" would be brought up for discussion alongside the revision of the three security-related documents including the national security strategy.

By making such shameless remarks, the Japanese regime has openly revealed its intention to go straight to adopt it as a major state policy decision to arm itself with nuclear weapons, which it has long dreamed of, instead of merely placing it under debate.

Japan's revision of nuclear policy just means the war criminal state's access to nuclear weapons.

As recognized by the international community, the revision of the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" should never be Japan's "subject of debate".

Japan is a heinous war criminal state which plunged the Asia-Pacific region into a sea of blood, using warships, planes, cannons and bayonets for realizing the wild ambition to enslave all mankind a century ago. It is, at the same time, an inhuman criminal state which still denies its past crimes, distorts history and doggedly evades the legal and moral responsibility it assumes for the international community.

For the past 80 years since its defeat, the "Self-Defence Forces" of Japan have undergone a transformation from the "mainland defence type" to the "overseas attack type" aimed at launching a preemptive attack on other countries with its official right to the possession of the "capability of attacking the enemy base." The defence expenses are also hitting an all-time high every year under the deceptive veil of "exclusive defence," going far beyond the "minimum necessary limit" of a "pacifist state".

The successive rulers of Japan laid institutional and legal foundations for reinvasion bit by bit by adopting the "law on overseas dispatches", the "law to deal with contingencies in areas surrounding Japan", the "law on special measures for terrorism" and the "security legislation" alongside their persistent effort to revise the constitution.

In particular, the present ruling forces, which carried out the revision of the "Three Principles on Transfer of Defence Equipment and Technology" and its operation guidelines which stipulated the export of lethal weapons at the outset of their office, are now seeking to forcibly revise the "three principles of denuclearization". Such neo-militarist moves clearly prove that Japan, a defeated nation in Asia, is accelerating its transformation into a war state, regarding the current complicated situation as a golden opportunity for getting rid of all sorts of chains shackling its emergence as a military giant.

It is not secret that Japan has advanced nuclear technology and has stockpiled plutonium and enriched uranium that might be used in making many nuclear bombs and is capable of actualizing the mass production of nuclear weapons at any moment.

It is the immutable truth taught by history that nuclear weapons, for their tremendous destructive power, will turn into a means of tyranny against mankind if they are in the hands of injustice, but will be the greatest deterrent to injustice if they are in the hands of justice.

This is why the world people are getting increasing vocal in their demand that war criminal nation's wild ambition for nuclear weapons should be nipped in the bud for high possibility of repeating the offense.

82 local councils in the archipelago submitted a letter of opinion strongly urging the government and the diet to preserve the "three principles of denuclearization" and the public is blaming the authorities for seeking to "restore the politics deceiving the people." Such mounting criticism is a due denunciation and expression of resentment and protest against the dangerous act of the present ruling forces to make a new history of aggression by realizing their wild nuclear ambition.

The whole world should impose stern punishment on the vicious attempt of neo-militarism to bring nuclear holocaust to mankind under the revanchist ambition, carrying the signboard of the "world's only victim of atomic bombs" to gain sympathy.

Japan's pursuance of neo-militarism will inevitably result in digging its own grave, as those who forget the past repeat the past. -0-

BGSJI and KFA UK support statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry

   BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA 

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              25th of July 2026
The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea (BGSJI), and the  Korean Friendship Association of the UK (KFA UK )  , issued a joint statement in support of the press statement of the DPRK foreign ministry that was issued on Friday 24th of July concerning the recent ASEAN Foreign ministers meeting and other ASEAN related meetings;

The US, ROK(south Korea) and Japan used these meetings for the purposes of stirring up trouble against the DPRK and making hostile propaganda against the DPRK and other countries even though it the event was meant to be a meeting for promoting co-operation among the different countries of South East Asia .

Worse still the issue of the so-called "denuclearisation " of the DPRK was brought which infringes on the constitutional rights of the DPRK .

The DPRK Foreign Ministry asserted that "The U.S.-Japan-ROK futile attempt to deny and infringe upon the constitutional rights of the DPRK can neither bring up for discussion again the issue of "denuclearization", which was irreversibly and finally concluded, nor affect the new mechanical structure of the region being built against the background of the present position of our state."

The press statement of the DPRK Foreign Ministry shows that the DPRK wishes to develop friendly co-operation with other countries whilst at the same time defending it constitutional right and independence .

We denounce the US, ROK and Japan for using the ASEAN forum to advocate the denuclearisaton of the DPRK . This is totally wrong.

BGSJI

KFA UK

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Press Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesperson

Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued the following press statement on Friday:

The 59th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting, the 33rd ASEAN Regional Forum Foreign Ministers' Meeting and other ASEAN-related meetings, held recently in Manila, the capital city of Philippines, discussed the issues of ensuring regional peace and security and expanding cooperation among regional countries.

The DPRK respects the leading position and role of ASEAN to ensure regional peace and security on the principles of respect for sovereignty, sovereignty equality and non-interference in internal affairs and pays attention to the fact that ASEAN aspires after co-prosperity and unity as a regional community.

However, the U.S. and some countries following it are raising waves of confrontation while inciting division and antagonism, abusing the ASEAN arena as a space for justifying their evil intention, contrary to the general will of regional countries prioritizing peace, development, stability and cooperation.

The diplomatic authorities of the U.S., Japan and the ROK have resorted to the hostile rhetoric toward the DPRK, talking about "its denuclearization" and debated the issue of the Taiwan Strait under the pretext of "freedom of navigation". This proves the fact that the U.S., Japan and the ROK are the root cause of regional instability and the main obstacle to ensuring peace.

Southeast Asia can never be a region subjected to promoting the U.S. "security and prosperity" and the ASEAN arena should not be a field of searching for an opportunity of criticizing other countries and inciting hostility towards them.

The U.S.-Japan-ROK futile attempt to deny and infringe upon the constitutional rights of the DPRK can neither bring up for discussion again the issue of "denuclearization", which was irreversibly and finally concluded, nor affect the new mechanical structure of the region being built against the background of the present position of our state.

The crucial threat to be feared and guarded by the region and the international community is the exclusive security and economic bloc being formed, led by the U.S., and the attempt of Japan and the ROK systematically violating the nuclear non-proliferation system under the active patronage of the U.S. to go nuclear.

Consistent is the stand of the DPRK to develop friendly and cooperative relations with the ASEAN member states, which respect the sovereignty and right to development of our state and take friendly attitude to it, and make responsible contributions to ensuring regional peace and security.

The DPRK will as ever actively promote regional peace and development and cooperation on the principle of mutual benefit and co-prosperity, thoroughly deter any attempt of the hostile forces to encroach upon the inviolable sovereign rights of the state and firmly defend the core interests of national security. -0-