While I was in the DPRK , I was able to have met once again our
close comrades and friends at the Pyongyang Mission of the
Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front of south Korea. The ANDF is
the foremost organisation struggling for the independent reunification
of Korea and for an anti-imperialist democracy in south Korea. Since the
formation of the ANDF in August 1969, many of the organisation's
activists paid the ultimate price for the liberation struggle in south
Korea, execution at the hands of the south Korean regime, most notably
the south Korean journalist and campaigner Kim Jong Tae.
Over lunch at the ANDF mission, Dermot Hudson and I discussed the
worsening situation on the Korean peninsula with Zo In Min and other
ANDF comrades. The issue was raised that it is the United States which
is the main obstruction in the way of peace and reunification of Korea.
There are roughly about 40,000 US troops and approximately a thousand
American nuclear weapons stationed in south Korea. The United States is
which is continually staging provocative war exercises such as "Hoguk",
"Team Spirit" and "Foal Eagle/Key Resolve".
Left to the Korean people themselves, the issue of Korea's peace
and reunification would have been solved long ago. From the first days
of Korea's division, President KIM IL SUNG worked flat out for
reunification. KIM IL SUNG proposed that the Korean people could achieve
reunification overcoming the divergences in ideology and class. It was
KIM JONG IL who put forward uriminzokkirri or by-our-nation itself
method, that the Korean people can attain the peaceful and independent
reunification of the Korean peninsula by themselves, north, south and
overseas. A practical embodiment of this strategy was the June 2000
north-south agreement and the October 2007 north-south summit in
Pyongyang.
The ANDF informed us comprehensively about the struggle for
democracy in south Korea. Our delegation heard how the Li Myong Bak
regime was surpressing the aspirations of the south Korean people for
labour and human rights under the signboard of security-orientated rule.
It is the Li Myoung Bak regime that is inventing such incidents as the
"Cheonan sinking" and the "Yonphyong Island shelling". The south Korean
puppets are presently hellbent on aggravating the northern half of Korea
with their sinister smear campaign against the supreme leadership of
the DPRK. Lee Myoung Bak and his clan of warmongers, believe that the
DPRK will be affected by an"Egyptian-style change" and "Libyan-style
victory", but the Lee Myoung Bak group's dangerous deliriums will not
work with the northern part of Korea. The Lee Myoung Bak is the heir to
the blood soaked history of Syngman Rhee and Park Chung Hee. In May
1980, the regime of Chun Doo Hwan, a figure who
inspires Li Myoung Bak, committed one of the biggest massacres in
modern Korean history in the city of Kwangju, with something within the
region of 4,000 civilian casualties.
On a previous visit to Korea, I was in a position to see the
concrete wall built by the south Korean authorities ,which the divides
the Korean peninsula into two and the DMZ at Panmunjon. The division of
Korea remains a burning topic in international affairs, and with this
matter in mind, I attended the International Conference on Korean
Reunification held at the Yanggakdo Hotel on April 11th 2012. Our
delegation resolved at the reunification conference to increase
solidarity with the Korean people's cause of peace and reunification.
The main purpose of my visit in Pyongyang I was to take part in the
World Juche Congress, which convened on April 12th and April 13th 2012.
Taking part in the congress were delegations from a diversity of
political and social backgrounds, and from a wide range of
anti-imperialist parties and movements, such as the New Communist Party
of Britain and the Free Homeland Movement of Brazil. Participating
delegations were from many countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin
America. I would even go as far to say that it was the most
representative conference in the chronicles of the international Juche
study movement. On March 5th 2011, the Bangladeshi Juche Study Group
proposed holding a grand congress to mark the centenary of the birth of
President KIM IL SUNG.
The venue for the Congress was the Peoples Palace of Culture, which
was built in 1973. Over the next two days there was to be an intense
debate on the originality and the creativity of the Juche philosophy and
of the Songun Politics. Congress delegates gleaned many absorbing
papers and speeches. The congress was an opportunity for an exchange of
views and suggestions between the Juche Idea adherents from different
parts of the world
The 2012 World Congress can be viewed as a landmark event in the
venture to disseminate the Juche Idea on a global scale. At the Congress
there was an affirmation, that the Juche Idea is a philosophy capable
of dealing with the complicated realities of the 21st century.
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is an ideology for those peoples and nations
who yearn for independence, overcoming the globalization "new world
order" projects of the imperialists.
For the Juche followers to have the World Congress on the
Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist ideology held in Pyongyang in time for the
100th birth anniversary of President KIM IL SUNG and on the 30th
anniversary of the publication of the seminal work "On The Juche Idea"
by General Secretary KIM JONG IL was of enormous consequence. In the
same week in the Congress as was having its deliberations, KIM JONG UN
published his work entitled "Let Us Brilliantly Accomplish The
Revolutionary Cause of Juche, Holding The Great Comrade KIM JONG IL In
High Esteem As The Eternal General Secretary of Our Party". This work
authored by KIM JONG UN, produced a great deal of excitement among
congress delegates.
The delegation of which I was a member of, was fortunate to have
attended several DPRK state functions. On Friday April 13th the statues
of the President and of the General Secretary were unveiled on the Mansu
Hill, Pyongyang. I regarded being present at the official ceremony to
unveil the newly built statues of KIM IL SUNG and of KIM JONG IL a
really great honour. Dermot and I joined a crowd of several thousands on
the steps of the Mansu Hill overlooking Pyongyang, so as to view the
official proceedings. The new statues of KIM IL SUNG and of KIM JONG IL
graphically shows the respect and love of the Korean people for the
President KIM IL SUNG and General Secretary KIM JONG IL, who did so much
for the renaissance of the Korean nation.The statues portray smiling
KIM IL SUNG who indicates the way ahead with his hand held forward and
smiling KIM JONG IL blessing Songun Korea prosperous present day while
looking far into its bright future. Our
delegation had the distinction of placing a flower basket, on behalf of
the Juche Idea Study Group of Britain , on to the newly constructed
monument on the Mansu Hill.
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