Report of JISGE and ASSPUK meeting 6th October

The Juche Idea Study Group of England together with the Association For the Study of Songun Politics UK and supported by the UK Korean Friendship Association held a meeting on the 6th of October 2012 a incentral London. .  The director general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea Dr Vishwanath was sent greetings and best wishes to the meeting as he was unable to attend due to illness.

        The meeting was attended by members of the JISGE, ASSPUK and UK KFA. There were people from all walks of life and different ages there. Th. In the audience were students university students , school students, workers, retired school teachers and and  retired people.

                   The chairman opened the meeting '. In his opening remarks he said that the meeting had been arranged to report back from his second visit to the DPRK at the invitation of the KASS and also celebrate the 67th anniversary of the foundation of the Workers' Party . The speaker said that the Korean people would shortly celebrate the 15th anniversary of the election of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il as general secretary of the WPK, the 67th anniversary of the foundation of the WPK and 86th anniversary of the foundation of the the Down With Imperialism Union by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung. The speaker said that the election of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il as general secretary of the WPK was an epochal event in the Songun revolution and in defending socialism.

                       The meeting heard a number of keynote addresses. Firstly the JISGE chairman reported back from his visit to the DPRK .

This was my second visit in a year  and my 8th visit to the DPRK .It was very good to see the reality of the DPRK and renew ties with KASS and other DPRK organisations. I saw with my own eyes the true reality of the DPRK which is rapidly building a thriving socialist country under the wise leadership of great respected Marshal Kim Jong Un, First Secretary of the CC of the WPK , First chairman of the DPRK NDC and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, The central part of the visit was the excellent and detailed course on Kimilsungism -Kimjongilism organised by the KASS. 

My visit came at a time when the DPRK was proudly celebrating the 64th year since its foundation in 1948.  It was at a time when the DPRK is standing in confrontation with US imperialism, the chieftain of US imperialism. Great excitement had been generated by the visit of supreme commander Marshal KIm Jong Un to front-line areas and his subsequent speech  " 25 Aug 2012 – Only Victory and Glory Will Be in Store for Us Who are Advancing under the Unfurled Flag Bearing the Immortal Beaming Images of the Great Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il"  made on 25th of August to mark the 52nd anniversary of the start of Songun revolutionary leadership, This speech along with his order to counter the provocation of the US with a sacred reunification war is a powerful inspiration to anti-imperialists.          The course organised by the KASS was attended by delegates from Mongolia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Venezuela , Pakistan, Russia , Slovakia, Nigeria , Benin and Democratic Congo. There were even American tourists on the plane  This shows that the propaganda  about the DPRK being isolated is totally false .

                                  Driving from the airport one could see the beauty of the DPRK in autumn with the fields covered in swathes of green rice. In the Pyongyang area there was no sign of flood damage or crop failure, Once again my own eyes confirmed the reality of Juche-based socialism  . everyone was going about their business normally no one was starving or begging, Miss Kim explained to me about the new flats in Changjon street.  Some of the flats are 170 square metres. These were newly built and given to the working people free of charge something unimaginable in a capitalist country . Indeed in my own country the UK rents are sky high . Flats in Westminster . a central part of London sell for £1,195,000 or rent for them is £3000 per month .  The reactionary government of the UK has adopted a policy of "social cleansing"  of removing poorer people from the central parts of London such as Westminster, Kensington and other parts to other areas.

The DPRK is the only country in the world to provide free housing. No one should be against this ! The DPRK enforces many other popular people-orientated policies such as free education and free medical care.

                           On the last day of my visit we took a trip on the magnificent Pyongyang Metro a real edifice of Juche-based socialism. It costs only 5 won (about 2p or 3p ) to go on the Metro with free travel for pensioners and war veterans. The Metro is very clean , in fact the cleanest in the world and free from banal capitalist advertising.

During my visit to the DPRK dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un himself visited ordinary families in Changjon Street and sat down with them. Again this is something unimaginable in the imperialist and capitalist West. In the UK it would be impossible for David Cameron to visit ordinary working people as it would provoke anger. However dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un was received like a member of the family. He gave the families presents including a 42 in LCD TV which would cost £500 to buy in the UK, Thus workers in the DPRK enjoy a far higher level of social benefits than in even the so-called advanced capitalist countries.

                        The DPRK is virtually crime free and Korean people are the most honest in the world. There is no pornography or prostitution in the DPRK . Women are respected as the flower of the country.

The core part of the visit was a course on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism . This was held at the People's Palace of Culture. We were given a number of lectures on Kimisungism-Kimjongilism by leading academicians of the KASS such as Dr Kim Chang Un and Dr Mun Jong Suk.

Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism has been expounded by dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un. It is now been studied and promoted on an international scale  so the KASS arranged this course so to achieve a better understanding of it.  Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism  is the great revolutionary ideology of our era founded by the great President Kim Il Sung and further enriched by the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il.

 It was explained that  leader Kim Jong Il had expounded Kimilsungism but forbade the use of the term Kimjongilism.  Kimilsungism -Kimjongilism  is the eternal guiding ideology of the Workers' Party of Korea and has its core the Juche idea. As dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un said  

"Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is an intregal system of the idea, theory and method of Juche and a great revolutionary ideology of the Juche era"

  The Juche era is fundamentally different era from preceding eras of history , previously history was dominated by exploiters. Now under the banner of Juche the masses have emerged as masters of history to oppose exploitation.

       Dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un has written a number of works such as , "Let us Brilliantly Acomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche Holding Kim Jong Il in High Esteem as the eternal general secretary of  our party " "Let Us March Dynamically Forward to Final Victory Holding Higher the Banner of Songun ", "The great Kim Il Sung is the eternal leader of our Party and People", "On Bringing About a revolutionary turn in land administration in line with the demands for building a thriving socialist country "and " Let Us Step the building of a thriving socialist country by applying Kim Jong Il's patriotism"  and "Only Victory and Glory will be in store for the people who are advancing under the unfurled beaming images of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il".

                                                        Whilst studying at Kim Il Sung Military University  respected leader Kim Jong Un wrote a thesis on the military art and tactics of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung during the Fatherland Liberation War.

 The Western media have been shocked by the fact that the leadership of dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un is so firmly established . There has been a totally smooth transition in the succession in the DPRK. Dear respected Kim Jong Un has many talents. He is an expert on literature and culture as well the knowledge based economy. He is a great military commander and general who can drive a tank fast. He commanded the Yongphyong island operation which give the US imperialists and south Korean puppets(to use a northern Irish term) a good blattering .Dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un is also a benevolent father of the people , He took steps to safeguard the health and wellbeing of mourners last December, such setting stands for people to get a hot drink, when the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il passed away. Now dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un is exerting every effort to improve the living standards of the people.

 Visiting Pyongyang after the space of 5 months we could see many new structures and buildings with a number under construction or existing buildings being renovated . During the day and night you could hear the sounds of construction. It was really amazing. The Rungna People's Pleasure Park has been newly opened. This consists of 2 fun fairs, a dolphinarium and an outside water sports facility. On the my last day the Pyongyang Folk Park was opened. Who can say that the DPRK is not prosperous ?

                Basically the Korean people looked far happier than ordindary working people in the UK and capitalist countries. In my country the UK many workers suffer from depression but in the socialist DPRK  I saw happy people who knew only the joys of life. There were no starving or homeless people. It is a big lie that there is starvation. Josef Goebels Hitler's so called Minister of Information and Propaganda once said if you repeat a big lie often enough people will accept it as a truth. This is precisely what the media of the capitalist countries do in relation to the DPRK.

ation by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung is told the spectacular and colourful pageant of "Arirang". We were deeply lucky to saw the last performance of the season. Arirang is now better than ever. It was held at the May Day stadium on Rungna island. Arirang  is a work of true genius. It outshone the banal opening ceremony of the London Olympics . The performance of Arirang requires a high level of discipline, unity  and purpose. As such this is only available in the DPRK based on single hearted unity around the Juche idea, the party and leader. My guide Miss Kim said she had been an Arirang dancer in 2008. So it made a difference to see Arirang in the presence of someone who had been a performer.

eum. I thought as a foreigner I would not be allowed to visit it .  The museum was built under the guidance of the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un. It is of a very high standard with an imaginative layout(even has its own narrow gauge railway line) and well designed and constructed scale models  as well as original pieces of military hardware. Everything is of Korean make. The DPRK  is able to defend itself and win victory by its own efforts. No one should doubt the power of Songun. I saw the exhibition of strategic rockets and missiles and thought to myself it is a case of Goodbye Yanks, goodbye south Korean puppets !  The USA could be destroyed at the push of a button !. There was also a section on international warfare including a section on Iraq. Visiting the exhibition I became even more firmly convinced that the DPRK under the wise leadership of respected Marshal Kim Jong Un will one day fully display the power of Songun and reunify the country by driving the hated US imperialists into the sea ! May the imperialists suffer a second and third Yongphyong island !

                                 I was also able to visit the Pyongyang Mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front of south Korea and converse with its chief comrade Zo Il Min.  We in the JISGE and ASSPUK are proud to have such excellent comrades as the AINDF. A film about "Ulji Freedom Guardian " was shown. This showed the war moves of the US imperialists and south Korean puppets along with mercenary troops of pro US satellite nations,. The AINDF comrades stressed than Korea is the only country in the world that knows thepain of national division.We exchanged gifts and  then had an excellent luncheon in a fraternal and cordial manner.

                             I also met comrades from the Korean Committee For Friendship with Britain and the Korea Publications Exchange Association .

               The speaker concluded that all JISGE and UK KFA members should visit the DPRK and see for themselves the reality of the DPRK as one seeing is worth a hundred

sayings.

The JISGE chairman  also gave an introduction to Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. He said

      Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is fully consistent with the Juche idea. It is the ideology of the Juche era which is different to all previous eras and epochs . Before the Juche era history was dominated and made by the exploiters , the ruling class. However the oppressed and exploited masses such as workers in capitalist countries and the peoples of colonial and semi-colonial emerged as the makers of history . Typical of this was was the emergence of the first socialist state in the world and the anti-imperialist national liberation struggle such as the anti-Japanese armed struggle led by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung.

 It fully enshrines the ideas of the great leaders comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il . Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is a great revolutionary programme for the contuinity of revolutionary leadership and socialist construction in the DPRK. In the DPRK thanks to dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un instead of denying the ideas , theories and leadership of the preceding

great leaders President Kim Il Sung and general Kim Jong Il, their theories have been elevated a new higher level , Kimilsungism -Kimjongilism .Respected Marshal Kim Jong Un  has vowed that there should no concession in adhering to the revolutionary ideas of the great leader President Kim Il Sung and the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il.  Under the banner of Kimilsungism -Kimjongilism the DPRK will advance along the road of independence,Songun and socialism and win victory after victory

The secreary general of the JISGE spoke on the foundation of the Workers' Party of Korea and its history.  His masterly speech outlined the nearly 90 years of history of the WPK . He said that 

    The history of the Workers' Party of Korea goes back to the foundation of the the Down With Union by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung in 1926. The DIU was an organisation which broke with the stale practices of factionalism and flunkeyism which had plagued the

Korean revolution . The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung put forward the line of independently founding the party at the historic Kalun meeting in June 1930. Later the 

Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland was founded .

                         In 1945 the Communist Party of North Korea was founded on the 10th of October. In order to prevent the working people being split amongst different forces the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung saw that the CPNK merged with the New Democratic Party in August 1946. Then in 1949 the Workers' Party of North Korea and Workers' Party of south Korea merged to form the Workers' Party of Korea.           

                         Thanks to the leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung  the WPK withstood the grim trials of the great victorious Fatherland Liberation War . Comrade Kim Il Sung defeated the Pak Hong Yong -Li Sung Yop counter-revolutionary spy clique.

                           The WPK under the wise leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung opposed modern revisionism which did so much damage in some socialist countries. It also opposed ultra leftism which emerged in some parties.

                In the 1970s  the dear leader comrade Kim Jong Il put forward the programme of modelling the party and society on Kimilsungism . In the 1990s when socialism collapsed in some countries the WPK under the leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung and the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il rallied the international communist forces by putting forward the Pyongyang Declaration. The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il wrote

a number of works such "Fundamentals of Revolutionary Party Building , "The Workers' Party of Korea  is the Party of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung " and many others.

            The WPK has 3 million members. It is not bureaucratic nor is it elitist or technocratic. It has members from all walks of life and society , professors, coalminers,

teachers , street cleaners and waitresses. It is not an elite but has deep roots in society.

            Today under the leadership of dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un the WPK is 

leading the Korean forward to the final victory of Songun.

The general secretary of the New Communist Party said that it is very good that the Worker's Party of Korea under the leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung has defended socialism. The socialist achievements of the Korean people are really great  as he had seen for himself and these achievements had been won at great sacrifice.

The WPK under the leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung and the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il had avoided the mistakes and pitfalls of European Marxists.

Juche shows how to combine the interests of the individual with the interests of the collective. The individual could only be free as part of the collective.

A lecturer at the University of London spoke about the 86th anniversary of the Down-With-Imperialism Union and Songun. Thes speaker said that the roots of the Workers' Party of Korea go back to the Down With Imperialism Union which was founded in 1926. In 1982 the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il wrote the work "The Workers' Party of Korea is a Juche-type revolutionary party which inherited the glorious tradition of the DIU  "

which fully fully expounded how the WPK was qualitatively different to other communist parties. This work had been written at a time when people in Britain had just started to study the Juche idea. It was written at  a time when youth uprisings took place in inner city areas of Britain and later the miners strike took place.  Juche teaches us that class struggles are intertwined with national liberation struggles. The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung ensured that the revolutionary traditions were carried forward and achievements made in the work of Juche party building.
           Later the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il developed Songun politics and the Songun idea to defend Juche based socialism against the threats from imperialism. Dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un is following in the traditions of Songun. In his excellent speech on the 25th of August this year  he stated 

Counter provocations with an immediate counteroffensive, and an aggressive war with a war of justice for the country’s reunification–this is our principled stand and unshakable will.

We will never remain onlookers to the enemy’s desperate moves for aggression; we will do all we can to defend the destiny of the country and nation.

It is a truth confirmed by history that nobody in the world can check the advance of a people who have turned out for their cause of justice.

If another undesirable war breaks out on this land as a consequence of the unpardonable actions of the United States and its south Korean puppets, they will sustain an ignominious defeat in the war and our great nation will greet a bright dawn of their reunification.

Only victory and glory will be in store for us who are advancing under the unfurled flag bearing the immortal beaming images of the great Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il

this is a powerful inspiration to anti-imperialists everywhere as it shows that a nation can stand up against imperialism and it can be defeated.

The JISGE chairman  said that when he attended the lecture given by the KASS on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism he learnt how Juche clarifies that the class struggle, the national liberation struggle and struggle to build a new society are all part of the struggle for independence and therefore all inter-related. Trotskyites try to falsely set class struggle against national liberation struggle .
 

The general secretary of the New Communist Party and chairman of the International Committee for the Release of Mr Ro Su Hui spoke about the repression of Mr Ro Su Hui and south Korean pro reunification patriots.He said that Mr Ro Su Hui had been unjustly arrested by the south Korean authorities but this is one human rights violation that the Western media did not like to talk about or admit has happened even though video footage clearly shows the shocking incident of Mr Ro's arrest.The speaker said we need to build up the campaign and organise a picket soon. He the committee has received international endorsements.

Questions and discussion came from the floor of the meeting.  There were practical questions about travel to the DPRK, questions about the role of Trotsky-ism in Korea , about road traffic in Pyongyang .

The JISGE chairman reiterated that it is very important for people to visit the DPRK  and that the JISGE and UK KFA must send delegations to visit the DPRK next year.

A letter to dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un was adopted by the meeting.

An exhibition of books from the DPRK was on display

Refreshments such as sandwiches , tea, coffee and biscuits were served.