KIM JONG IL as the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army . This was a deeply significant event that is enshrined in the memory of not just the Korean people but Juche idea and Songun idea followers throughout the world .
Comrade KIM JONG IL was appointed as Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA) by the 19th plenary meeting of the 6th Central Committee of the Workers ' Party reflecting the will of the entire Korean people . Also the world revolutionary peoples were happy to see comrade
KIM JONG IL take the post of supreme commander of the KPA,previously held by the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG , because socialism had been frustrated in many countries owing to the intrigue of the modern revisionists and tricks of the imperialists , people worried what would happen to People's Korea which was now advancing along the road of socialism . Would it be the target of attack by the US imperialists just like Iraq was in 1991 ? , would it fall to the secret schemes of the imperialists just as the USSR had ? .These were questions that exercised the minds of progressive people . By appointing comrade KIM JONG IL as the supreme commander of the KPA , the DPRK answered the questions . Firstly , by solving the succession issue which had caused problems in other socialist countries and their ultimate downfall . Secondly, it placed comrade KIM JONG IL who had accumulated great experience during his years of Songun revolutionary leadership that had began on the 25th of August 1960 . Comrade KIM JONG IL had guided the DPRK 's revolutionary armed forces in their confrontation with US imperialism , the ringleader of world imperialism . Comrade KIM JONG IL given counsel during the Pueblo incident , the EC121 incident and Panmunjom incident . When comrade KIM JONG IL took the post of Supreme Commander of the KPA he ensured that the militant Songun line was continued and that the provocations and pressure of US imperialism were smashed .
The period after the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL became supreme commander of the KPA was a very tense one . Taking advantage of the collapse of the USSR the US imperialists launched wars all over the world such as in Yugoslavia (which had previously been a peaceful unified country ) , Somalia , Iraq and other places . The US wanted to knock down the DPRK , the bastion of socialism in the world that was upholding the red flag of socialism . The US imperialists fabricated the first 'nuclear crisis ' and staged war exercises against with the south Korean puppets . Comrade KIM JONG IL responded by ordering the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK into a semi-war state and declaring the DPRK's intention to quit the one-sided and unfair 'Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty ' which had been concocted by the imperialists and big power chauvinists . This was a great blow to the US imperialists and shook them rigid , so they entered into negotiations with the DPRK .
I can remember how in 1994 comrade KIM JONG IL , the supreme commander of the KPA dealt another blow to the US imperialists . One cold December day , I woke up in my flat and turned the radio on . The pips for 7am went and BBC Radio Four announced ' anti-aircraft gunners in north Korea say they have shot down a US army helicopter' . I was excited to hear that , I put on song
'No Motherland Without You ' , the theme song of supreme commander comrade KIM JONG IL , translated into English it is as follows :
You pushed away the severe storm
You made us believe, Comrade Kim Jong-il
We cannot live without you
Our country cannot exist without you!
Our future and hope depend on you
People's fate depends on you, Comrade Kim Jong-il!
We cannot live without you
Our country cannot exist without you!
Even if the world changes hundreds of times
People believe in you, Comrade Kim Jong-il
We cannot live without you
Our country cannot exist without you!
Oh... Our Comrade Kim Jong-il
Our country cannot exist without you!
A most stirring song .I applauded the action of the KPA commanded by comrade KIM JONG IL at last someone had hit back against the arrogant US imperialists ! .The 1980s and early 1990s were a bad time , a time of abject surrender and capitulation to imperialism but the DPRK stood out as a shining light , a fortress of independence. One crew member of the helicopter was killed and the other one was captured . The captured crew member was only released after the US issued an apology to the DPRK .
The great leader comrade KIM JONG IL not only faced down the US imperialists but augmented the self-defence capabilities of People's Korea by turning it into a nuclear power.
Today we recall the great work done by comrade KIM JONG IL as the supreme commander of the revolutionary armed forces of People's Korea, work that is now contuined by his loyal and capable successor respected Marshal KIM JONG UN .
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
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