It is 10 years since respected Marshal KIM JONG UN put forward the line of Pyongjin, the line of building the economy and nuclear force in parallel at the historic March 2013 plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea . It is a unique revolutionary line based on the Juche idea and the Songun(army first ) idea.Only People’s Korea had the line of building the economy and nuclear force in parallel.
The line of Pyongjin was put forward when the US imperialists and world reactionary forces were running wild to stifle People’ Korea. The US imperialists and south Korean fascist puppets carried out nuclear war exercises one after the other . At the same time the UN Security Council , a marionette of the US imperialists imposed sanctions on the DPRK for the mere fact that it had launched its own satellite the Kwangmyongsong 3-2 in December 2012. The situation demanded that the DPRK take measures to defend its independence , its system ( the people-centred socialist system and its very existence . Independence cannot be defended by words alone.During the period from the collapse of the USSR at the beginning of the 1990s we have seen countless invasions and interventions by US imperialism most notably the Yugoslav War , the 20 year long occupation of Afghanistan and the Iraq War .
The line of building the nuclear force and economy in parallel is a modern application of the original , independent , Juche based line of building the economy and defence in parallel that was put forward by the great leader President KIM IL SUNG in 1962 .President KIM IL SUNG keenly realised that the DPRK could not rely on other countries for its defence. An example can be given of the Cuban Missile Crisis in which the revisionist USSR betrayed Cuba by capitulating to US imperialism and pulling out the missiles.
The line of building the economy and nuclear force in parallel is a profoundly independent , anti-imperialist and anti-revisionist line which defends Juche-based socialism .
Thanks to the implementation of the Pyongjin line, Juche Korea raced across the nuclear finishing line and became a proud member of the nuclear club which consists of a small number of countries such as the US, UK ,France , Russia , China , Israel , India and Pakistan . Similarly the ICBM club is an elite exclusive club of just 6 or 7 countries . My own country, Britain, which once styled itself as having an empire "on which the sun never set " , does not have its own ICBMs . The DPRK has both its own ICBMs and Nukes , more importantly it has total control over them, it does not have to ask the permission of another country to fire its ICBMs nor does any other country have a second key to operate the DPRK's nuclear weapons !
I remember being in the DPRK in September 2016 when the DPRK carried out both nuclear and missile tests. On the 9th of September when I was going into the Ponghwa Art Theatre in the afternoon ,suddenly my guide turned to me and said in a quiet but determined voice "this morning we have successfully tested the nuclear warhead ". Later that night I saw on TV the veteran DPRK news announcer Ri Chun Hee announce the nuclear test . On the day that I arrived , the 6th of September, the DPRK had conducted the most impressive test of a road launched ICBM .I was able to watch it on TV during the evening of my arrival . I could only marvel at the majestic sight of the road launched missiles blasting off from the Pyongyang-Kaesong motorway.
During the past year there have been massive victories on the front of defence building ; several tests of the new type ICBM , the Hwasong-pho 17 have been carried out and recently an underwater nuclear attack drone was successfully tested.
At the same time the economy of the DPRK was built up. Despite having to spend resources on building nuclear weapons for the DPRK as well harsh and draconian sanctions , the DPRK pressed ahead with truly massive construction projects such as building Mirae Scientists' Street , Ryomyong Street Songhwa Streets and also Samjiyon City , projects which would cost billions and billions to build in the imperialist countries .The DPRK also took the measure to provide preschool children with dairy products free of charge . The DPRK rightfully rejected imperialist aid and solved the Covid 19 issue with its own resources.
Those who urge that the DPRK abandons its nuclear programme and concentrates solely on the economy should consider the case of Libya . In Libya Col Gaddafi pursued anti-imperialist independent policies and built an Arab socialist country. However Gaddafi went off the rails and tried to be friendly with the imperialists believing that they were his friends . At the insistence of the imperialists Gaddafi abandoned the infant nuclear programme of Libya ,even handing over the materials to the USA !. A few years later Gaddafi was murdered in a CIA led uprising in Libya and Libyan socialism destroyed. This is what happens when you abandon nuclear weapons !
The past ten years have proved beyond all doubt the correctness and vitality of the great line of building the economy and nuclear force in parallel that was adopted at the March 2013 plenary meeting of the Central Committee .
Dr Dermot Hudson
Chairman British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea
Chairman Korean Friendship Association of the UK
Official Delegate KFA for the UK
President Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK
Chairman British Solidarity Committee for Peace and Reunification on the Korean Peninsula .
Hon Secretary General International Central Committee for Songun Study .
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