Report of Seminar held on December 15th

The ASSPUK and Juche Idea Study Group of England organised a meeting in central London December 15th to mark the 20th anniversary of the appointment of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and the 94th anniversary of the birth of the anti-Japanese heroine and immortal communist revolutionary fighter Madame Kim Jong Suk.
The president of ASSPUK and chairman of JISGE stressed the
great importance of the anniversary of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il's appointment as Supreme Commander of the KPA.
He said Kim Jong Il's election as KPA supreme commander came at at time of world turmoil . Only a few weeks earlier that red flag had been lowered over the Kremlin. The US imperialists and their satellite states had concluded the 1st Iraq war with the aim of stifling the anti-imperialist forces in the middle east. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had been broken up into separate states in conflict with each other and all over the world the imperialists were increasing their intervention and interference. US chief executive Bush spoke of a "New World Order" . In Korea the south Korean puppets egged on by the US imperialists were talking wildly of making preemptive strikes on the DPRK including commando raids on the DPRK's nuclear facilities (this was a copy of the aggressive action of the Israeli zionists in destroying an Iraqi nuclear reactor) , later the US imperialists created the so -called 'nuclear crisis' in Korea.
The election of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il as supreme commander of the Korean People's Army
was a major landmark indeed a turning point in the DPRK's Songun revolution. Songun means giving priority to the military, the first line of defence of the revolution. The dear leader comrade Kim Jong Il was well versed in military affairs and had played an behind the scenes role during incidents such as the "Pueblo" affair and the Panmunjom incident of 1976 . This showed his unique art of command ..Indeed he emerged as a pre emenient general and a gifted military stragetist . Comrade Kim Jong Il had began his Songun revolutionary leadership on the 25th of August 1960 when he visited the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su no 105 Tank Division . Thus the election of comrade Kim Jong Il as Supreme Commander of the KPA was the logical outcome of just over 3 decades of involvement in military affairs. It also placed at the one of the top positions of state.

A London University Lecturer said: This is an important occasion when we celebrate the assumption by Comrade Kim Jong Il of the supreme command of Korea ’s great armed forces. It is as a result of his leadership and his development of Songun politics that that Juche-based revolution of the Korean people has been consolidated, defended and developed in the demanding conditions of recent years. Despite the setbacks to the world socialist system, Juche Korea has successfully defied hostility and even open aggression from imperialism at a time when it has been more than ever reckless and frantic in its attempts to suppress the independent anti-imperialist countries and national liberation movements of the world. Comrade Kim Jong Il has made a comprehensive summing up of the Juche-based politics of Songun in his treatise The Songun-based revolutionary line is a great revolutionary line of our era and an ever-victorious banner of our revolution. In this treatise, he correctly states:

Thanks to the Songun-based politics pursued by our Party, the revolutionary armed forces have been incomparably strengthened, the defence line of the homeland consolidated and a great change effected in the revolution and construction. By dint of Songun politics we have smashed the anti-DPRK, anti-socialist machinations of the imperialists step by step, defended the country and the revolution and exalted the dignity and prestige of socialist Korea in the eyes of the world.

I urge all social scientists, progressive intellectuals and all who seek an alternative of hope to the future offered by the crisis-ridden imperialist system and its blood-crazed political leaders to make an earnest study of this treatise and other classic texts of the Korean revolution. Let us create a Juche-based revolutionary current of intellectual life. My congratulations to the Juche Study Group for keeping this goal alive here in this imperialist heartland.

The chairman of the JISGE also spoke about the immortal communist revolutionary fighter madame Kim Jong Suk, mother of Korea. He said that Kim Jong Suk's life is a great example and inspiration for the communist and socialist women's movement. Comrade Kim Jong Suk struggled against the double and threefold oppression of women by Japanese mperialism and feudal society . She showed the correct path for the women's movement resolutely avoiding the trap of bourgeois and petty bourgeois feminism. She was the bodyguardof the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung and showed devotition to her comrades making many sacrfices. After liberation she made a great contribution to building the Democratic Womens Union of Korea . She defeated factionalists and opportunists.
Participants in the meeting agreed the exploits of Madame Kim Jong Suk would be remembered forever by the world progressive people.