President KIM IL SUNG was a great internationalist who fought not only for the Korean people but for the world revolution , for the liberation of all of humanity from exploitation and oppression. Throughout his life President KIM IL SUNG gave unstinting support for peoples fighting for independence and met many different leaders and fighters from across the globe including very distinguished figures such as Stalin, MaoZedong , Zhou En Lai,Che Guevara , Fidel Castro , Col Gadhafi, Hafez Al Assad , Allende, Norodom Sihanouk, Enver Hoxha , Erich Honecker ,Yasser Arafat and many others .
Right from the start President KIM IL SUNG always stressed internationalism and fought for not just for the interests of the Korean people but for the interests of the struggling peoples of the whole world ,whilst at the same time stressing independence and self-reliance. Juche does not mean rejecting internationalism , far from it . As President KIM IL SUNG pointed out "Our adherence to the Juche Idea does not in any way mean that we have become chauvinistic .The Juche Idea we advocate does not conflict with internationalism . Instead it is designed to promote internationalism for it leads to the development of sciences and the building of the economy to suit our particular conditions and thus contributes to increasing the strength of our country and the might of the socialist camp as a whole "
President KIM IL SUNG put up the slogan of "Defend the Soviet Union " during the anti-Japanese armed struggle . In 1929 he roused youth, students and other sections of the masses for the fight to defend the Soviet Union in order to hold in check the anti-Soviet machinations of the Kuomintang government and the reactionary warlords who had provoked at the instigation of the Japanese imperialists. President KIM IL SUNG later wrote in his autobiography "With the Century " that "Our activities in connection with the Zhongdong railway incident represented an internationalist struggle to defend the Soviet Union politically. At that time we regarded the first socialist system established on Earth as a beacon of hope and considered it our solemn internationalist obligation as communists to fight in its defence"
Later in 1938 and 1939 President KIM IL SUNG led the anti-Japanese guerrillas to defend the Soviet Union , the first workers and peasants state against Japanese aggression.
The Anti-Japanese guerrillas fought shoulder with their Chinese comrades after imperialism . After Korea was liberated in 1945 President KIM IL SUNG made sure that unstinting support was given to the Chinese People's Liberation Army and Chinese communists in their revolutionary war against the KMT reactionaries .He sent his best fighters such as Kang Gon as well as troops and materials to assist in the Chinese PLA and allowed them to use the northern part of Korea as a rear base.
During those heady days of the 1960s and 1970s President KIM IL SUNG ensured that the DPRK punched well above its weight , giving support to many liberation movements and newly independent states .During the Caribbean Crisis of 1962 the DPRK stood by Cuba where the revisionists and big power chauvinists abandoned it. DPRK diplomats and students in Cuba armed themselves ready to fight side by side the Cuban people. President KIM IL SUNG called for international volunteers to be sent to Vietnam and sent the best pilot of the air force of the Korean People's Army to Vietnam as well as tunnelling experts plus material assistance as well. During the 1973 October War between the United Arab Republic and the Israeli Zionists , a squadron of KPA pilots was sent to assist the Arab people in their fight against Zionist aggression.President KIM IL SUNG also supported the Grenadian revolution . He had DPRK construction experts sent to Grenada and the DPRK gave a generous amount of military aid to the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada , in fact in per capita terms the DPRK gave more aid to Grenada than the USSR did.
President KIM IL SUNG was the great friend of the third world who sent agricultural technicians and engineers to many third world countries such as Madagascar , Tanzania , Togo, Central Africa, Benin ,Guinea, Egypt , Rwanda , Burkina Faso, Ghana and the Seychelles . Agricultural institutes bearing the name of KIM IL SUNG were established in Guinea and Tanzania . This was genuine aid as opposed to the fake aid of the imperialists which aims only to corrupt and enslave newly independent countries .
President KIM IL SUNG bestowed benevolent favours on foreign revolutionaries such as the Cuban woman journalist Candelaria Rodriguez and the famous Latin American Juche Idea follower
Genaro Carnero Checa, former secretary general of the Federation of Latin American Journalists.
Thus the life of President KIM IL SUNG is associated lofty and boundless internationalism.
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 of Korea
Hon secretary general International Central Committee for Songun Study,
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