The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is one of the socialist countries that withstood the stormy times of the 80s and 90s, where a large part of the socialist bloc dismantled, and today it attracts great attention from all over the world for its technical, scientific, military and social advances.
As a socialist country, people who study it end up confronting an issue that can be somewhat confusing at first. Which ideology guides Korean socialism? Is it Marxism-Leninism? Any other variation apart from this?
Searching, people come across new terms and unknown names: Juche and Songun. And can still find Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. Here great confusion can begin. What does each of these things mean and which one is the guide to the Korean revolution?
To understand, it is essential to know the history of the Korean revolution.
Kim Il Sung was the great Leader who organized the struggle to expel Japanese invaders from Korea and founded the DPRK. He developed the Korean revolution using Marxism-Leninism as a springboard, which he studied illegally with the help of his comrades, after realizing that the only way to liberate the nation was through armed struggle.
During this period of study and organization of the struggle, he noticed great problems among other so-called Korean communists: these tried to mechanically apply Marxism-Leninism without taking into account the reality and the particular demands of Korea, and there were those who thought that it was up to the Soviet Union the role of liberating the country, not the Korean people themselves.
It was from this reality that President Kim Il Sung conceived the so-called Juche and Songun ideas. In rejection of the servilism and dogmatism of these so-called communists, he defined that the revolution can and must be carried out by each people, and not by others, that each people is the driving force of their revolutions and, therefore, must be supported by it. And also, that the experiences and contributions of others should not be interpreted in a dogmatic and blind way, but in a creative way, in view of the peculiar contradictions before you. If a person tries to follow the contributions of others mechanically, like a recipe, he cannot avoid another end than the failure of the revolution and the socialist construction. And as a support base for Juche, Songun clarifies the importance of weapons in the revolution, the only guarantee of independence and the victory of socialism.
Thus, the great Leader reached the historic cause of the liberation of the country, laid the foundations for socialism, and, further on, he was able to defend the country from the imperialist attack and rebuild it even in the face of innumerable damages. And it proves his correct direction the short time it took the country to rebuild and industrialize from the catastrophic damage of a genocidal war.
A little later, around the 70s and 80s, Comrade Kim Jong Il, son of Kim Il Sung, through his theoretical and ideological work in the Party, developed and enriched the Juche idea as a science and synthesized the revolutionary thought of the great Leader as Kimilsungism. In keeping with the principles of the Juche idea of independence, creativity and independent consciousness, Koreans advanced under the leadership of Kim Il Sung, building socialism not in the Soviet or Chinese way, but in the Korean way. Not looking for answers to Korean problems in these countries, but thinking with your own head about your own problems. In such a way that even in the face of harmful trends in these countries, Korea has remained steadfast in the same path, unchanged. It sailed between the two giants in an agitated ocean without losing his purposes and principles.
And again as proof of the correct orientations of comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, socialist Korea was able to move forward vigorously and develop even when the difficult times came. By maintaining this independent position in ideology and politics, Korea was able to move forward with its own efforts despite the turbulence in the socialist bloc
As the transition of leadership of the revolution took place in the chaotic 1990s, now under the guidance of Comrade Kim Jong Il, new problems and urgent demands were presented in the face of the revolution. In accord with Kimilsungism, Kim Jong Il gave the theoretical and practical answers to the prevailing reality. Faced with the burning situation generated by hostile forces that, after the fall of European socialist countries, turned their attention to Korea, and threatened the security of the country and the revolution, added to the consecutive natural disasters, the Leader developed the so-called Songun politics, the materialization of the aforementioned Songun idea in politics, which places the People's Army at the forefront of national security and socialist construction, as the driving force responsible for the survival and advancement of the revolution, and defined military affairs as the number one priority for the state.
Thanks to this, Korea was able to go through these difficult times in history and safeguard socialism and leave the bases for the construction of an independent and self-sufficient economy, counting on the strength and heroism of the People's Army led by General Kim Jong Il who prepared it as powerful armed forces of revolution and people, visiting their units day and night across the country.
Kim Jong Il wisely led the revolution, keeping President Kim Il Sung in perpetual high esteem and his revolutionary idea as an invariable flag until the 17th of 2011, when he passed away during his endless trips of field guidance around the country.
When the respected comrade Kim Jong Un took the helm of the revolution, the same procedure, of crucial importance for the revolution, was done. Keeping the Leader Kim Jong Il in perpetual high esteem, eternalizing his life and contributions, he studied and systematized his revolutionary idea as Kimjongilism, which joined Kimilsungism, giving rise to Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un said:
“This idea synthesizes the thoughts and exploits of the great Leader Kim Il Sung and the great Leader Kim Jong Il, who transformed our Republic into the most prestigious and powerful socialist state in all history, and clearly sets out the course and the ways to culminate the socialist cause with state power as a political weapon. [...] In order to continue and remain faithful to the noble ideal of the great Leader and great Leader, who throughout their lives considered the people as heaven and devoted themselves totally to them, our Party defined the priority to the popular masses as the essence of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, the guiding idea of the revolution, and determined as its most fundamental task to mold in its activities and those of the State the original concept and philosophy of the people.”
Holding Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism as the guiding idea of the revolution constitutes, as in the past, the firm guarantee that the revolution will not deviate even from its basic principles and that the socialist cause, the cause of Juche, of the independence of the popular masses will be infallibly fulfilled.
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