Once a famous English economist Professor Joan V Robinson of Cambridge University visited the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(DPRK) in 1964 .She wrote an article in the famous socialist journal “Monthly Review “ that was titled “The Korean Miracle “ about the DPRK (later the mainstream media appropriated this term and used it to describe the fake economic growth in the neo-colony of south Korea ) . Describing the DPRK she wrote that “Eleven years ago in Pyongyang there was not one stone standing upon another. (They reckon that one bomb, of a ton or more, was dropped per head of population.) Now a modern city of a million inhabitants stands on two sides of the wide
river, with broad tree-lined streets of five-story blocks, public
buildings, a stadium, theatres (one underground surviving from
the war) and a super-de luxe hotel. The industrial sector com
prises a number of up-to-date textile mills and a textile machinery plant
. The wide sweep of the river and little tree-clad
hills preserved as parks provide agreeable vistas. There are some
patches of small gray and white houses hastily built from rubble
but even there the lanes are clean, and light and water are
laid on. A city without slums.”
Indeed the DPRK’s achievements are truly miraculous but what was the driving force behind them ? What was the inspiration for them? The answer is that it was President KIM IL SUNG whose birth anniversary will be celebrated not only in the DPRK but across the world on the 15th of April .
President KIM IL SUNG was born into a humble peasant family during the time of Japanese colonialism but became a brilliant guerrilla commander and benevolent liberator who vanquished the Samurais who had stolen the independence of Korea . President KIM IL SUNG led the struggle for independence from an early age, forming the Down with Imperialism Union in 1926 and later the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerilla Army on the 25th of April 1932 .
After liberation from Japanese imperialist rule President KIM IL SUNG built a new People’s Korea on the ruins of Japanese colonialism in the late 1940s . It was not a copy of another country and not a colony or a dependency of another country but a new state based on the Juche idea that President KIM IL SUNG had authored in the days of the anti-Japanese war . The Juche Idea was not created in a library or someone’s front room but on the battlefields of the anti-Japanese armed struggle.The Juche idea was applied in depth to the building of a new state.
President KIM IL SUNG laid down independent and original policies based on the Juche idea such as building an independent national economy . In 1947 he said that "For complete national independence and sovereignty and for national prosperity and development, one must build an independent national economy and thus firmly ensure economic independence."
Earlier in 1945 President KIM IL SUNG had laid the foundations for an independent Juche-based munitions industry at Pyongchon , which is now preserved as a revolutionary site which our delegation visited in April 2016. It was at Pyongchon that the new Juche Korea under the leadership of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG established its independent munitions industry . At first some great power chauvinists in a certain country told Korea that they should not establish its own armed forces nor have its own munitions industry. President KIM IL SUNG also insisted that the DPRK should not simply assemble weapons made by another country but should produce its own weapons . This idea goes right back to the days of the anti-Japanese armed struggle when the Korean guerrillas made the Yongil bomb. It had been hoped that the USSR would supply a hand grenade factory but for whatever reason this did not materialise. Thus President KIM IL SUNG was firmly convinced of the need for both an independent munitions industry and an independent national economy.
Self-sufficiency in the economy and self-reliance are twin pillars of Juche Korea.
In the late 1950 when the DPRK was just recovering from the severe destruction caused by the US imperialists during the Fatherland Liberation War the modern revisionists and great power chauvinists tried to put pressure on the DPRK to join the CMEA but it refused to do so maintaining the line of economic independence. The great leader President KIM IL SUNG defined the independent national economy as follows ;
“building an independent national economy means building a diversified economy equipping it with up-to date technology and creating our solid bases of raw materials,thereby building up an all embracing economic system in which every branch is structurally interrelated so as to provide domestically most of the products of heavy and light industry and the agricultural produce needed to make the country wealthy and powerful and to improve the people's living condition"
The Soviet big-power chauvinists and modern revisionists tried to subordinate the DPRK economy to their own but President KIM IL SUNG was having none of it ,he adhered to the line of economic independence . The DPRK did not join CMEA .The big power chauvinists tried to induce the DPRK to join the CMEA by offering electricity from the Lake Baikal power station.
At that time President KIM II SUNG told them: “We will not use electricity generated by the power station; if we become dependent on electricity from you and then you fail to supply it, then we would suffer greatly; if we have funds for transmission cables from the power station to our country, it would be more effective for us to use these funds to build another hydroelectric power station in our country. It has become more clear today that our decision to build socialism by our own efforts on the principle of self-reliance and not enter the CMEA was quite correct"
President KIM IL SUNG showed truly super-human energy in guiding the building of Juche-based socialism in People’s Korea .He worked day and night to guide the construction of socialism in the DPRK . He even worked on holidays and at weekends . President KIM IL SUNG visited 20,000 different units in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) travelling more than 578,000 kilometres which is the equivalent of travelling around the globe many times . The number of days of President KIM IL SUNG’s field guidance totalled 8,650 from the period after Korea’s liberation in 1945 to the end of his life in 1994 . This works out at 176 days per year , an incredible figure .
Therefore on April 15 we pay tribute to President KIM IL SUNG, the leader who created miracles in building socialism.
Dr Dermot Hudson
Chairman Korean Friendship Association UK
Chairman British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea
Secretary General European Regional Committee For Friendship with the Korean People
Hon Secretary Global Farmy for the Study of KIM JONG UN People-First Policies
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