Visiting the Party Foundation Museum and Monument to Party Foundation on the day of Founding the Workers Party of Korea -by Dr Dermot Hudson

                                                 

During our visit to People's Korea in October 2019 it was the 74th anniversary of the foundation of the Workers Party of Korea so we visited the Party Foundation Museum and the Monument to Party Foundation on October 10th , the day that the Workers 'Party of Korea was founded by the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG and now led by respected Marshal KIM JONG UN .
    The Workers Party of Korea is the supreme general staff of the Korean revolution , the organiser and guide of all the victories of the Korean people. As dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN wrote
"Success in the revolution and construction depends on how a party, the General Staff of the revolution, is built and on how its leadership role is enhanced."
                                             

    The Party Foundation Museum is located in the centre of Pyongyang . It was here that the Workers Party of Korea was founded and the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG lived and worked. The original building was destroyed by the Yankee bombers during the Fatherland Liberation War and an exact replica of the building was constructed at a later date.
   We were shown the main hall were the party was founded on the 10th of October. At the front there was a picture of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG . On the walls at the sides there were pictures of Marx, Engels , Lenin and Stalin . Some people have accused the DPRK and Workers' Party of Korea of 'abandoning Marxism-Leninism ' etc but the fact the the pictures of the founders of Marxism -Leninism are displayed at an important museum shows this is not true ( and also a large picture of JV Stalin is displayed at the International Friendship Exhibition as well) . However Stalin died 7 years before I was born , Lenin 95 years ago , Engels  124 years ago and Marx 136 years ago . Thus their theories are subject to historical limitation and the leaders of the DPRK  President KIM IL SUNG and KIM JONG IL authored and developed the Juche Idea to meet the needs of the time.
  The foundation of the Workers Party of Korea was not a single act but a process . This was markedly different to other countries where communist parties were founded by seceding from social democratic parties or different groups united . The process which began in 1926 with the formation of the Down With Imperialism Union by President KIM IL SUNG when he was young  and culminated with the foundation of the Workers Party of Korea or Communist Party of North Korea on October 10th .
                                             

 In the afternoon we visited the Party Foundation Monument which was constructed in 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Workers Party of Korea . It was constructed under the guidance of the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL . It is situated  in East Pyongyang but is is a direct line with the Korean Revolution Museum and the statues of the great leaders comrade KIM IL SUNG and KIM JONG IL . I liked the area around the Party Foundation Monument it is very spacious and clean with blocks of flats nearby . In London and other capitalist countries it would be unthinkable for working people to live in such a fine area near to a national monument .
                                                       

    The monument to Party Foundation consists of a hammer , sickle and writing brush pointing upwards to the sky . The WPK is different to other communist parties  instead of only a hammer and sickle representing the workers and peasants , there is a writing brush to represent the intellectuals . The  hammer ,sickle and writing brush  are within a circular band which symbolises the single hearted unity of the masses , party and leader,  . Depicted on the inner side  band were different sections of society such as workers , farmers and soldiers and also south Korean patriots fighting for reunification .
  Visiting both the Party Foundation Museum and the Party Foundation Monument made realise that the Workers' Party of Korea founded by the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG is the force leading the Korean people forward . Under the leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN the WPK and Korean people will hold higher the banner of self-reliance and achieve final victory .

Dr Dermot Hudson
Chairman of the Juche Idea Study Group of England
Official Delegate Korean Friendship Association for UK
President Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK