Anniversary of Creation of Korean-style Economic Management System Marked

Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- A national meeting took place at the Taean Heavy Machine Complex Thursday to mark the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Taean Work System by President Kim Il Sung.

Present there were Choe Yong Rim, Kim Ki Nam, Yang Hyong Sop, Thae Jong Su, party officials and administrative and economic officials, officials and labor innovators in Nampho City and the complex and working people.

Thae Jong Su, alternate member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the C.C, Workers' Party of Korea, made a report at the meeting.

The Taean Work System created by the President in December 1961 was a historic event as it provided an epochal turn in consolidating the economic system in the DPRK and displaying the advantage of socialism in all aspects to triumphantly advance the people's cause of independence, the socialist cause, the reporter said.

The system, a model of the socialist economic management most correctly reflecting the requirements of the law governing the development of socialist economy, serves as a revolutionary banner that should be strictly maintained in all fields of the national economy in the whole period of socialist construction, he said, and went on:

The revolutionary essence of this system is that it is the Korean-style work system which applied the immortal Juche idea and the WPK's mass line based on it in economic management.

It is mainly characterized by man-centered economic management system, the people-centered economic management system that makes it possible for the popular masses to become the true masters of economic management and operate economy in a responsible manner.

The DPRK has turned into a socialist power independent in politics, self-supporting in economy and self-reliant in national defence. This is a brilliant result of the distinguished and tested leadership of Kim Il Sung who created the Juche-based economic management system and thoroughly applied it in all realms of social life.

His idea on the Juche-based economic management and feats have been creditably carried forward and developed under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.

The reporter stressed the need to continue to direct big efforts to running the economy in a rational way suited to the socialist principle and people's interests strictly from the Juche-based stand. -0-

Statement of ASSPUK and JISGE saluting 20th anniversary of the election of comrade Kim Jong Il as KPA Supreme Commander

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK
London 14th December Juche 100(2011)
www.uk-songun.com
The ASSPUK and JISGE today issued a statement saluting the 20th anniversary of the election of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il as Supreme commander of the Korean People's Army. This was a great event in the onward march of the Songun revolution. The KPA, founded by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung ,is the reliable defender of socialist Korea. Moreover as the DPRK is on the front line of the struggle against imperialism , the KPA is the defender of world socialism and the anti-imperialist forces of the world. Thus by assuming the top post of the Juche-orientated revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il became the supreme commander of the world anti-imperialist military front.

 The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il ensured that the priceless achievements made by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung made in the field of army-building were continued and actively carried forward. As supreme commander the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il built up the KPA  as the army of the leader with a steel-like unity based on the Juche idea and the Songun idea .This was complemented by the blossoming of the army-people unity under Songun revolutionary leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il
The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il is the brilliant commander of Songun, the general of Mt Paektu. Beginning his Songun revolutionary leadership on the 25th of August 1960 at the Ryu Kyong Su Guards no 105 division of the KPA . As result of tireless guidance to the KPA he accumulated great experience and commanding arts becoming a pre-eminent general and ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant  commander.
The election to the position of Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army was a landmark in the forward march of the Songun revolution. Leader Kim Jong Il effected Songun politics wisely building up the KPA as the core force of the Korean revolution . He ensured that the KPA was not only strong in arms but strong in ideology and politics. Opposing the modern revisionists attempts to 'de politicise ' and ' de ideologise' the army he ensured that the army held fast to the line of being the revolutionary armed force of the Workers' Party of Korea. He kept to the line of maintaining the revolutionary traditions of the KPA forged by the great leader Generalissimo Kim Il Sung in the anti-Japanese armed struggle and and the Fatherland Liberation War . He also built the KPA army as the army of the great leader President Kim Il Sung. Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il fully promoted the revolutionary soldier spirit the epitome of the militant Songun ideology prevailed throughout society thus further cementing the steel-lie unity of the army , people and the party and contributing the revolutionisation of society in a radical way.
During the last 20 years the DPRK , the land of Juche has faced unceasing and increasing threats by the US imperialists and the south Korean puppets to stifle it by force.Supreme Commander comrade Kim Jong Il has by his brilliant commanding art defeated all these attempts honourably defending Juche Korea, the bastion of socialism . Indeed the destiny of world socialism depends on the DPRK thus the robust defence of the DPRK by the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il applying Juche-orientated military tactics and Songun revolutionary leadership has contributed to the defence of socialism and independence all over the whole world.

The KPA and Korean people under the leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il faced down the US imperialists when they clamoured over the nuclear issue. The DPRK threw a nuclear thunderbolt at the imperialists by successfully testing a nuclear device. The KPA smashed the provocations of the south Korean puppets and US imperialists at Yongphyong island thereby defending world peace and socialism. Thus the 20 years of leader's Kim Jong Il's command of the Korean People's Army have been years of great achievements in which the KPA has been strengthened greatly . Because of the decisive role of the anti-imperialist military front there have been victories in other fields such as the economy and culture The ASSPUK and JISGE rejoice over these achievement. On this occasion we will study Songun politics more deeply and also call for the world progressive people to study Songun politics more actively.

ASSPUK
JISGE

JISGE and ASSPUK on the 50th anniversary of the Taean Work System

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK

London 14th of December Juche 100(2011)
The ASSPUK and Juche Idea Study Group of England today issued a joint statement on the 50th anniversary of the Taean Work sytem.
It is 50 years first the great leader President Kim Il Sung visited the Taean Machine plant (now the Taean Machine complex) and worked out the Taean Work system , an advanced system of socialist economic management of Korean-style. The Taean system abolished the old style of one-man management a leftover from capitalist society and instead instituted a new collective style of enterprise management which gave priority to political work.
It was thanks to this system that the DPRK avoided the shortcomings and pitfalls of some other socialist countries. The Taean work system stands out as an example of worker's control and participation. The Taean work system together with the system of unified and detailed planning and the independent national economy constitute a textbook for running a socialist economy .
LONG LIVE THE TAEAN WORK SYSTEM!
LONG LIVE THE JUCHE IDEA!

ASSPUK
JISGE

Statement of The Stoke On Trent Branch of the Group For the Study of The Juche Idea of England

Statement of The Stoke On Trent Branch of the Group For the Study of The Juche Idea of England

20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ASSUMPTION OF KIM JONG IL AS THE SUPREME
COMMANDER OF THE HEORIC KOREAN PEOPLES ARMY


On December 24th 1991, KIM JONG IL was appointed the Supreme Commander of the Korean Peoples Army. The Korean people and the world's progressive peoples are looking upon the 20th anniversary of KIM JONG IL becoming the KPA Supreme Commander with great honour and pride.

The Korean Peoples Army was founded on April 25th 1932 by KIM IL SUNG, as the Korean Peoples Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Army. Japanese colonialism was smashed by the efforts of the Korean Peoples Revolutionary Army commanded by KIM IL SUNG. Five years after the liberation of Korea, the United States launched an aggression on the young Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. With KIM IL SUNG's tactics and strategy, the US imperialist war machine and its satellites was utterly defeated by the Glorious Korean Peoples Army (The Korean War June 25th 1950 - July 27th 1953).

KIM IL SUNG made it priority number one to build up the Korean Peoples Army as the leading force of the Korean Revolution. KIM IL SUNG said that KIM JONG IL was the best person to lead Korea's revolutionary armed forces, as KIM JONG IL has inherited the anti-imperialist traditions of Juche.

Throughout the 20 years of being the Korean Peoples Army Supreme Commander, KIM JONG IL has strengthened the independent defence capabilities of the DPRK with the KPA as the leading force in every way, exalting the dignity of and status of Socialist Korea to the highest level. KIM JONG IL has always given precedence to the arms and military affairs of the Korean Revolution, thus opening up a new era of Songun Politics. It has been over half a century since KIM JONG IL started Songun Revolutionary Leadership by inspecting a KPA unit.

The Korean Peoples Army has grown to be an army strongest in ideology and faith regarding their Supreme Commander with absolute loyalty. KIM JONG IL realised the single-minded unity of the army and people to ensure that Korea shines forever as an invincible and independent socialist country.

The imperialists have become drunk lately with their acts of aggression and belligerence on the international arena. In 2011, alone, the imperialists have intervened into many independent nations in the Middle East and elsewhere. The United States and the south Korean puppet clique are seeking "regime change" in the northern half of Korea, through the medium of the war games such as "Hoguk", "Foal and Eagle/Key Resolve".

By dint of KIM JONG IL's Songun Politics, the Korean army and people will be able to repulse and defeat any imperialist attack upon the DPRK. The Korean Peoples Army has the means and determination to destroy the centres of oppression with the most advanced weaponry at its disposal.

Peace and security on the Korean peninsula are now ensured by the guns of the KPA. Frustrating the moves of the anti-reunification forces for national division by Songun Politics, Korea will be peacefully and independently reunified under the patriotic banner of "By Our Nation Itself".

Since 1991 the exploits of the KPA Supreme Commander KIM JONG IL has developed the Korean Peoples Army into the strongest army and Korea has become a powerful socialist country of Juche. Songun Korea is admired by the fighting peoples, is due to the fact that KIM JONG IL leads the global cause of independence against imperialist tyranny. The Stoke On Trent Branch of the Juche Idea Study Group wishes to sincerely congratulate the officers and soldiers of the Korean Peoples Army on the 20th Anniversary of the Great General KIM JONG IL as the KPA Supreme Commander.


LONG LIVE THE GREAT LEADER GENERAL KIM JONG IL!!!

GLORY TO THE HEROIC KOREAN PEOPLES ARMY!!

Korean-Style Socialist Economic Management Guarantees Building of Economic Power

Pyongyang, December 13 (KCNA) -- The DPRK celebrates the 50th anniversary of enforcement of Korean-style socialist economic management.

The Taean Work System created by President Kim Il Sung in December 1961 is a unique economic management system under socialism which turned the economic management into the work of popular masses by giving priority to political affairs under the guidance of the Workers' Party of Korea.

In line with the requirements of the Taean Work System, the WPK and the government of the DPRK led the party committees to raise their roles and tapped the popular masses' revolutionary enthusiasm and creative ingenuity in a proper way, thus effecting constant changes and innovations in building socialist economy.

They also gave rise to an industrial revolution in the new century advancing towards the world by overcoming the worst trials.

The 50-year-long history in which they have embodied the System proved that to embody the collective guidance of the party committee and the mass line is a fundamental principle for socialist economic management and an immutable truth that brings earlier the emergence of prosperity.

Leader Kim Jong Il made energetic activities to thoroughly apply the System, whose validity and vitality have been proven in building socialist economy, to all the sectors of the national economy.

He authored many works, clarifying the orientation and ways for improving the economic management under socialism in keeping with the intrinsic characteristics of the System.

By making tireless long journey of field guidance, he led the party committees to give free rein to the mental power of the popular masses by implementing the mass line under their collective guidance and manage the economic work in a scientific and reasonable manner.

He set forth principled issues such as strengthening the trinity of general manager, party secretary and chief engineer, attaching importance to political work in administrative and economic work and regarding the science and technology as a lifeline.

He called on the party and society to popularize the achievements and experiences gained in the work to embody the System.

He put forward as model units the factories and enterprises the party committees of which provided proper political orientation to economic work guided by the politics of the WPK, improved the supply service for people based on the just outlook on the masses and encouraged them to implement the WPK's economic policy in an organized manner.

Officials and workers of industrial establishments across the country embodied the fundamental principles of the socialist economic management to bring about great innovations and leap forward in production and construction.

The hot wind of CNC, the flame of the campaign to push back the frontiers of the latest science and technology set off in Jagang Province demonstrated the advantages and might of Korean-style economic management system.

The Korean people are confident that Korean-style economic management system is a constant mode of economic management to be relied on in the whole course of socialist construction and that the building of an economic power is sure to triumph only when they thoroughly implement the fundamental principles. -0-

Any Threat and Blackmail Will Not Work on DPRK: Rodong Sinmun

Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- The U.S. should draw due lesson from its bankrupt hostile policy towards the DPRK for this year and take a right choice.

Rodong Sinmun Monday says this in a bylined article.

This year the U.S. made persistent and vicious efforts to isolate and stifle the DPRK as never before, the article notes, and goes on:

Violence, terror, psychological warfare and the like are main methods of aggression employed by the U.S. imperialists at present. The U.S. imperialists would put the strong-arm policy to the fore or use the methods of terror and psychological warfare before anything else in keeping with situation and object and, if necessary, combine such ploys. Anyhow, what they have attached special importance is the way of threat and blackmail. But such way could never work on the DPRK.

The conclusion the Korean people came to this year again is that they should heighten the vigilance against the cunning double-dealing tactics of the U.S. to the maximum and resolutely take tougher attitude toward the tough policy of the U.S. warmongers.

The DPRK will always emerge victorious in the battle to defend socialism as it has the brilliant commander of Mt. Paektu, the people with firm will and faith that they are sure to win in the fight with the enemy and the invincible army fully prepared in politico-ideological and military technical aspects. -0

comments on the article in the travel section of the Metro about the DPRK -UK KFA

Today's London daily "Metro" carried an article in the travel section about the DPRK. Reading the online edition it is not too bad and even points out that housing is given to DPRK residents free of charge. Howeve the printed edition contained some inaccuracies : the author of the article was pictured with a Korean People's Army officer who was described as her guide. However all tour guides are civilians and the officer could have only been a guide at the Fatherland Liberation War museum or Panmunjom. It also stated that all foreigners stay at the Yangyakkdo hotel. Not true foreigners also stay at the Pyongyang Koryo, the Potonggang hotel , the Changgwang hotel and even lower priced Haebangsan hotel with Chinese staying at the Sosan hotel.
The printed edition says that it costs about £1 for a beer . However the website "price of a pint " states that it is actually 38p . Visting the DPRK in 2008 it was noticed that a bottle of beer in a supermarket could be bought for 21p.
The article refers to , "Kim Il-sung, introduced this ruling philosophy." but fails to mention that this is the Juche idea based on the concept that man is the master and decides everything.
The article also says "home to the lucky few permitted to live there, mainly government officials and their families" . This is nonsense 2 million people live in Pyongyang and people from all walks of life live there, factory workers, teachers, soldiers, train drivers , farmers just to mention a few occupations.
It is seems to be an issue for the writer that usually foreigners are accompanied by guides ( not always in fact) but surely this is an exercise in total sovereignty by the DPRK by ensuring those who visit it play by the rules of the country and are answerable to them.

UK KFA