A supreme commander victorious in confrontation and in peace -special article by Dr Dermot Hudson to mark 7th anniversary of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN appointment as Supreme Commander of the KPA

                       

On December 30th is will be seven years since respected Marshal KIM JONG UN was appointed as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army by the Political Bureau of the Workers' Party of Korea reflecting the wishes of the entire Korean people to have comrade KIM JONG UN at the head of the revolutionary armed forces. Basically it meant that respected comrade KIM JONG UN had taken the baton of the Songun revolutionary cause , correctly solved the succession issue which many socialist countries had failed to solve to solve with disastrous consequences . For example in the USSR Khruschov seized power after Stalin died and purged old Bolsheviks like Kaganovich , Beria , Malenkov and Molotov and shifted the USSR onto a Rightist, revisionist course which culminated in the frustration of socialism and the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 . However comrade KIM JONG UN ensured that this did not happen in People's Korea declaring that the eternal strategy of the Korean revolution is 'independence , Songun and socialism .
   Respected Marshal KIM JONG UN shortly after becoming Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army visited the historic Seoul Ryu Kyong Su no 105th Tank Division of the Korean People's Army , a unit that is profoundly steeped in revolutionary history as not only was it the army unit where the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL began his Songun revolutionary leadership  on the 25th of August 1960 but it was also one of the first KPA units to reach Seoul during the liberation of south Korea from US imperialist rule  in June 1950. This demonstrated the commitment of dear
respected Marshal KIM JONG UN to continue with the Songun revolutionary leadership started by the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL,carrying out the behests of comrades KIM IL SUNG and KIM JONG IL . Moreover it showed that respected Marshal KIM JONG UN is a supreme commander who loves his soldiers and is at one with his troops. Marshal KIM JONG UN always stresses the people-orientated style of leadership and always goes down to the basic units .
  During the seven years that respected Marshal KIM JONG UN has been at the helm of the revolutionary armed forces   he visited many front-line units such as at Panmunjom as well artillery units on far flung areas which he travelled to a simple wooden boat .
                                     

   Under the leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN great and significant achievements were made in building up the  defence power of the DPRK with  the DPRK  basically crossing the nuclear finishing line to become a nuclear power of Juche  and an ICBM power .In March 2013, dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN put forward the brilliant and dynamic line of Pyongjin , that is building the economy and nuclear force in parallel. He lead the implementation of this line to its victorious conclusion . Marshal KIM JONG UN told the  3rd Plenary meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea on the 21st of April that "  the miraculous victory of having perfectly accomplished the great historic cause of building the state nuclear force in a short span of less than five years is the great victory of the WPK's line of simultaneously pushing forward the economic construction and the building of a nuclear force and, at the same time, a brilliant victory that could be won only by the heroic Korean people."
  Therefore the DPRK moved onto a new stage of development , namely rapid socialist economic construction under the banner of self-reliance and self-development . The fact that the DPRK had became a strategic state  meant that the DPRK could sit down with the US as an equal negotiating
partner .Thanks to the correct policies of the DPRK and the efforts of respected  Marshal KIM JONG UN  the first ever DPRK-US summit was held in Singapore on the 12th of June 2018. This was an astonishing event that no one expected would happen . Indeed it had seemed like war between the DPRK and US was inevitable but thanks to the skill of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN and the DPRK's deterrent force it this miracle of diplomacy happened . Also the DPRK was able to hold
3 inter-Korean summits and make a breakthrough in improving inter-Korean relations.
                       

   The strategy of the US had been to isolate and stifle the DPRK , it also had a strategy of psychological warfare against the DPRK , of extreme demonisation of the DPRK and trying to deny the DPRK any legitimacy whatsoever . At Singapore respected Marshal KIM JONG UN broke this strategy of the US.
   The DPRK put forward the line of denuclearising the entire Korean peninsula. At the time the imperialist mainstream media propagandised that the DPRK had agreed to unilateral nuclear disarmament and  some pernicious so-called 'Korean experts ' pushed the line that the DPRK would restore capitalism . Some ultra-leftist elements accused the DPRK of 'selling out' and 'caveing into imperialism ' . However the DPRK under respected Marshal KIM JONG UN did not unilaterally
disarm and also kept to the socialist road . It also rejected the ideological and cultural infiltration of imperialism.
  Thus respected Marshal KIM JONG UN is a supreme commander, an iron-willed brilliant commander , victorious in the confrontation with the US and victorious in peace .

Dr Dermot Hudson
President Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK
Chairman Juche Idea Study Group of England
Chairman UK Korean Friendship Association
Chairman British Solidarity Committee for Peace and Reunification on the Korean Peninsula
Hon General Secretary International Central Committee for Songun Study