Joint Statement of ASSPUK and JISGE

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK
London 3rd of April
The Association For the Study of Songun Politics UK and Juche Idea Study Group of England today issuing the following joint statement in connection with the ill boding moves of the south Korean reactionary conservative pro US
regime against the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.

The remarks of a certain south Korean general that a pre emptive strike
would be launched against nuclear facilities in the DPRK is an intolerable
provocation which very nearly a direct declaration of war agains the
sovereign DPRK the land of Juche.It is also a wanton violation of the June 15
north-south joint declaration and the more recent October 4th declaration. This
shows that the south Korean reactionary conservatives are committing treachery
and perfidy and are abandoning agreements that have been made.Such actions
expose them as sycophants and traitors.

Futher more we note that the pro US conservative reactionary regime has
initated a fascist crackdown on pro reunification progressive forces in
south Korea whilst at the same time pursuing a policy of confrontation with
the socialist DPRK.The Lee Myung Bak regime is in the mould of Syngham
Rhee and Park Chung Hee.
We support the stance of the DPRK outlined in the statement by the head of
the North side delegation to the general level military talks and the military
commentator of KCNA.
We call on all Juche idea and Songun idea followers to rally around the DPRK
in defence of Juche socialism in order to frustate the provocations of the
the US imperialists and their minions the south Korean conservative reactionaries
of the Lee Myung Bak clique

Kim Jong Il Leads the Independence Movement of the 21st Century Through Songun Politics

A south Korean progressive theorist Kim Ho-min wrote the following articles and posted them on the internet recently.

1. Kim Jong Il Leads the Independence Movement of the 21st Century Through Songun Politics
2. Kim Jong Il, Successor to the Independent Cause of President Kim Il Sung



1. Kim Jong Il Leads the Independence Movement
of the 21st Century Through Songun Politics

The reason why Kim Jong Il, chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK, becomes the great man of the times is because of his exploits in the ideological and theoretical work which reflects the demands of the era and people.

1. The formulation of the Songun politics is the exploit chairman Kim Jong Il performed reflecting the new era and the new stage of the independence movement.
Kim Jong Il has solved the different complicated problems arising from the outset of the new century and led the revolution and construction of north Korea holding fast to the theory on ideology.
In this course he made ideological and theoretical exploits on the basis of the Juche idea, the guiding ideology of north Korea.
It is just the Songun idea and Songun politics that he formulated in accordance with the requirements of the new era of the 21st century through inheriting and developing the idea of giving importance to arms created by President Kim Il Sung.
That the Songun idea and Songun politics are of so great significance to the independence movement of humankind is because the formulation of them and the Songun leadership came to being, first of all, reflecting the demands of the new era.
Second, because they were formulated through the “Arduous March”, unprecedented revolution and construction, led by chairman Kim Jong Il.
And they also came to being reflecting the new stage of the independence movement.
Chairman Kim Jong Il correctly grasped such quintessence of the times, led the revolution and construction relying on the arms and formulated the Songun idea and Songun politics.

2. Core principles of Kim Jong Il’s Songun idea and Songun politics contain the rudder of independence and progress.
First of all the Songun idea and Songun politics are the idea and politics based on the arms philosophy.
Kim Jong Il regarded the arms as arms held by revolutionary comrades and arms that defend the party and people, not only arms in physical terms, and regarded it as the essence of the arms philosophy.
The Songun politics is a powerful political mode that places the military affaires as the foremost one among the state affaires, defends the fatherland, revolution and socialism with the revolutionary army as the core and main force, and pushes forward the overall socialist construction.
Chairman Kim Jong Il’s Songun politics spreads the Songun culture throughout the society.
The Songun idea and Songun politics are based on the theory on ideology.
Therefore, the revolutionary soldier spirit occupies the pivotal position in the Songun idea and Songun politics. The revolutionary soldier spirit is the spirit of devotedly defending the leader, the spirit of devoted implementation and the spirit of heroic self-sacrifice.
The revolutionary soldier spirit in full bloom in the revolutionary army of north Korea did not come to being spontaneously, of course.
It was the fruition of the love for soldiers of chairman Kim Jong Il who visited the servicepersons on Cho islet in the face of the rugged sea routes, climbed the stiff Chol pass pushing up the car by his shoulders and went back again to meet the men of the revolutionary army saying that they are his sons and daughters.

3. The might of the Songun idea and Songun politics formulated by chairman Kim Jong Il shines throughout the world.
The Songun idea and Songun politics formulated by chairman Kim Jong Il are the main source of the great victories in north Korea.
And they opened up a new prospect for the country’s reunification.
Independence, peace and the national unity are safeguarded eventually by the Songun arms.
It is for the might of Songun that the US could not dare to provoke north Korea although it stepped up the war atmosphere against the north.
The Songun idea and Songun politics opened up the new chapter of the movement for global independence.
The worldwide influence of Songun finds itself, first of all, in the increase of the nations that make efforts to check the US hegemonic moves by building up the military capabilities.
The tendency to study the Songun idea and Songun politics is increasing in different countries of the world.
In many countries in Europe, Asia, Central America, and Russia, even in the US institutes and study groups of the Songun idea and Sngun politics mushroomed and are conducting public activities.
Now the study of and interests in the Songun idea and Songun politics surpass the academic dimension and for they are based on the conception of the future of the movement for global independence they became the idea and politics of the contemporary times.
Like this the Songun idea and Songun politics of NDC chairman Kim Jong Il is the most dynamic idea of the times with the historical significance of the world.



2. Kim Jong Il, Successor to the Independent Cause of
President Kim Il Sung

President Kim Il Sung is the sun of humankind who performed the great feats shining forever in history by opening up the new era of true change where the people's independence is realized by devoting his all wisdom and energy.
President Kim Il Sung’s revolutionary history occupies the most brilliant height in the history of the Korean nation and the world.
The successor to the independent cause of President Kim Il Sung is chairman Kim Jong Il of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK.
1. Chairman Kim Jong Il is the incarnation of loyalty to President Kim Il Sung.
Through realizing deep in his heart the greatness of President Kim Il Sung since his early days and learning the boundless loyalty to Kim Il Sung, shown by his mother Kim Jong Suk and other anti-Japanese guerrillas, Kim Jong Il who was born in Mt. Baekdu and grown up in the bosom of the anti-Japanese guerillas, could bear the greatest loyalty to President Kim Il Sung and still embodies it, moving all the people a great deal.
Kim Jong Il systematized President Kim Il Sung’s idea as the Juche idea and declared his resolution to model the whole of the society on the Juche idea, and has devoted his all to let the people know how great President Kim Il Sung is.
The energetic revolutionary course of Kim Jong Il, for both of its start and end are his loyal mind for President Kim Il Sung, and is so noble on the highest level and makes so great miracles.
The reason his loyalty to Kim Il Sung touches the heartstrings of the entire humankind and the whole world is because it shines as ever without slightest change even after the President’s demise.
After the President’s demise Kim Jong Il set forth the revolutionary slogan “The Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung is Alive With Us Forever” and mourned for 3 years for the President leaving the top post of the state vacant even in the period of hardest trial such as the “Arduous March”.

2. NDC chairman Kim Jong Il defends the people-centered socialism built by President Kim Il Sung and pushed forward the independent movement.
The fervent loyalty of Kim Jong Il finds its expression in that his work never brooks any aberration in implementing the behest of the President.
Kim Jong Il provides the bright future of a thriving socialist country and is leading the army and people, for which President Kim Il Sung devoted his all.
Chairman Kim Jong Il energetically administered the Songun politics which exalted the single-minded unity of the whole society rapidly by putting up the revolutionary army as the driving force, and destroyed the imperialist enemies’ regime of nuclear monopoly, their most important yet weakest chain, horrifying them.
The cause of national reunification, the life-long desire of President Kim Il Sung, has been dynamically progressed thanks to Kim Jong Il.
The secret of Kim Jong Il’s perspicacity, miracle-making leadership ability is attributed to his idea of “the People Are God” and character of genius and his people-first working method which trusts in and relies on the people, in addition to his absolute loyalty to the President.

3. Kim Jong Il is the leader of the single-hearted unity provided by President Kim Il Sung.
The secret that Kim Jong Il always gains victories in the showdown with the imperialist enemies is that he considers the single-hearted unity of the whole society as the key point for the victory of the revolution, and subordinates everything to that work.
He set forth the problem of leader as the nucleus holding that the people cannot make the revolution with desire only, so there should be a center of idea, theory and unity.
Furthermore, he put forward the theory on the leader that when the party which conveys and inculcates the leader’s idea and intension to the popular masses functions smoothly, the general masses can be firmly rallied in an organizational and ideological way under a single guideline and gain the ultimate victory in the arduous revolutionary struggle.
The north Korean society created lofty ideological volition and militant spirit like the revolutionary soldier spirit, the Ganggye spirit and the Songgang Torch by virtue of Songun and the single-hearted unity, and is materializing them and advancing toward a thriving nation.
This reality is possible to be ushered in thanks to Kim Jong Il’s politics of love and trust.
The revolutionary activities of chairman Kim Jong Il who systemized President Kim Il Sung’s idea to the Juche idea, declared the modeling of the entire society on the Juche idea, and is leading the 21st century with his Songun politics, can be said as a great career of the sacred great man who devotes his all to show how noble Kim Il Sung’s idea, leadership ability and virtue are, and is accomplishing the revolutionary cause of the President

KPA to Counter with Its Positive Retaliatory Blows Any Attempt to Stifle DPRK by Force of Arms

KPA to Counter with Its Positive Retaliatory Blows Any Attempt to Stifle DPRK by Force of Arms

Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army (KPA) released a statement on Sunday as regards the fact that the U.S. and south Korean bellicose forces started what they called Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises under the simulated conditions of the second Korean war across south Korea on March 2.
The south Korea-U.S. joint military exercises that have started under the new codename of Key Resolve that replaced RSOI are aimed at leading a war to "victory" through the "effective deployment of U.S. reinforcements in case of 'contingency'" and thereby stifling the DPRK by force of arms, the statement noted, and continued:
The U.S. is staging madcap war maneuvers together with the south Korean bellicose forces after forward-deploying a field commanding mechanism for aggression in south Korea and in its vicinity and massively beefing up its air force. This is an indication that the U.S. is in the process of testing and examining a new war method under the simulated conditions of an actual war, the method of reducing the areas of the DPRK to ashes through preemptive air strikes including nuclear attack from the outset of the war and hurling its ground forces there.
The U.S. military is frantically pushing ahead with the arms buildup and war maneuvers at a time when the U.S. and south Korean conservative hardliners are letting loose such reckless remarks as "north Korea failed to meet the deadline to implement the October 3 agreement" and "it is necessary to take new measures if it continues delaying the nuclear declaration." This is an open and blatant challenge to the denuclearization and peace of the Korean Peninsula.
All facts clearly prove once again that the U.S. does not have any idea of dropping its hostile policy toward the DPRK at all and its loudmouthed "dialogue," "end to the state of armistice" and "denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula" are nothing but a crafty charade intended to cover up its preparations for a nuclear war, disarm the DPRK and mislead the world public opinion.
The KPA has never expected any benefit from the dialogue with the U.S.
If the U.S. and south Korean bellicose forces persistently work to realize their scenario to stifle the DPRK by force of arms at any cost, the KPA will not stand passively on the defensive but counter it with positive retaliatory strikes by mobilizing all means long built up by the DPRK at a high price.
In this case the U.S. and its followers will be wholly responsible for all the ensuing consequences

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK

The Association For the Study of Songun Politics UK,the Juche Idea Study Group of England,the UK Korean Friendship Association and the Songun Yahoo group today issued a joint statement in regard to the "Key Resolve" military exercise to be staged in south Korea from March 2nd to March 7th by the US imperialist aggressor forces and the reactionary bellicose south Korea authorities
.
This exercise is very large in scale.It involves a large number of troops
as well as naval and air forces and a lot of military hardware and weapons
including bomber aircraft and cruisers.

It is similar in form and content to the discredited and notorious "Team
Spirit" war provocation exercises of the US imperialists in the past.

The 'Key resolve" war exercise is nothing back an outrageous challenge
and provocation to the DPRK from A to Z.It constitutes a very serious
threat to peace on the Korean peninsula,east Asia and indeed world peace.Owing
to the continuined colonial occupation of south Korea by the US imperialists
the Korean peninsula remains tense.
We Juche idea followers and friends of the DPRK cannot remain oblivious to
the fact that the "Key Resolve" war exercise is not only aimed at intimidating
the DPRK but stifling Korean style socialism by force of arms.We call on
all friends of the DPRK to rally around it at this time and smash the insidious
war provocation moves of the reactionary US imperialists.

These massive aggressive exercises of the US imperialists expose the
hypocrisy of the US imperialists who are talking about improved relations with
the DPRK,peace and even "cultural exchange".These war exercises go against
the idea and spirit of the February 13 six party agreement.These exercises
are a challenge to reunification and violate the spirit of the October 4 declaration
and epochal June 15 agreement.It is time for the south Korean military authorities
to stop being dependent on the US imperialists, stop marching under the baton
of the US imperialists and stop pointing their guns at their fellow countrymen.

We demand the US imperialists and south Korean authorities stop these aggressive exercises at once.Moreover the US imperialists must pull their
troops out of south Korea immediately thereby terminating their reactionary
and anarchonistic policy of colonial rule and domination in south Korea.

signed
Dermot Hudson
President ASSPUK
Chairman JISGE
Moderator-Owner Songun Yahoo group

Appeal from Korean Committe for Solidarity with the World

Dear friends,

Warm greetings from the Korean Committee for Solidarity with the world people!

We are sending this letter in connection with the U.S. war exercises to be held in south Korea .

The United States is planning to stage large-scale war exercises under the changed codename Key Resolve and Foal Eagle with south Korea forces from March 2 to 7 with tens of thousands of troops and modern war hardware involved. Even nuclear-powered carrier ¡ÈNimits¡É is expected to participate in these war maneuvers.

The U.S. hawks are renaming the military exercises staged in the past as the international community denounced them as war exercises to invade the DPRK. The renaming cannot change the aggressive and provocative nature of the war exercises at all.

Through these war exercises the U S. war-like forces seek to more tightly bind south Korea to the ¡Èmilitary alliance¡É with the U.S. and consolidate the foundation of their aggressor forces¡Ç presence in it in a bid to realize their scenario for a war of aggression against the north and their ambition for establishing the sphere of military control over Asia.

The fact that the U.S. is ceaselessly staging nuclear war exercises in south Korea is an intolerable crime against peace and reunification casting a chill over the Korean nation¡Çs desire for reunification and putting a brake on inter-Korean dialogue and cooperation.

The projected joint military war exercise of the U.S. runs counter to the six-party talks. Through the adventurous nuclear test war exercise they intend to pose a serious menace to the DPRK and spoil the atmosphere for dialogue.

Leveling a gun at dialogue partner while talking about ¡Èthe dialogue¡É and ¡È the improved relations¡É is an act contrary to common sense and diplomatic practice.

The U.S. hawks¡Ç reckless moves for a new war which escalate the situation on the Korean Peninsula not only pose a direct threat to the security of the DPRK but also seriously affect the situation in the whole of Asia .

The escalating war exercises in south Korea cannot be justified in any case.

It is our firm belief that you will closely follow the situation on the Korean peninsula and the Northeast Asia and denounce the war games of the U.S. warlike forces and support the Korean people in their struggle for peace and prosperity of Korea , as well as her independent and peaceful reunification.

Looking forward to an affirmative response to this letter, we remain,

Yours sincerely,

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[Appeal from the AINDF National Reunification Committee]

[Appeal from the AINDF National Reunification Committee]

Dear friends and comrades,

We¡¯re pleased to extend our warm comradely greetings to you.

As you know, on February 1 the south Korea-US combined forces command announced that it would stage the joint military exercises codenamed ¡°Key Resolve¡± and ¡°Foal Eagle 08¡± from March 2 to 7 throughout south Korea .

The ¡°Key Resolve¡± drills, renamed from the annual exercises ¡°RSOI¡±, are an exercise of the combined command to complete the preparations of war against north Korea such as reception, staging, onward-movement and integration for the US reinforcements that will be dispatched in contingency of the Korean Peninsula .

The ¡°Foal Eagle¡± drills are typical field maneuver exercises of lading, river-crossing and depth-strike.

The ¡°Key Resolve¡± drills are not different from the former exercises in terms of scope and contents but more dangerous aggressive war drills.

The projected war drills are of great provocation and danger for they are to be staged when the war mongers of US imperialism are letting loose a spate of belligerent remarks and threats against the DPRK and carrying out the modernization of their war equipment in south Korea and introduction of latest weapons into and around south Korea.

The south Korean puppet army staged field maneuver exercises for invading north Korea by mobilizing hundreds of tanks, armored vehicles and planes in the Military Demarcation Line area last January so thus threw a cold blanket over the Korean people advancing along the road of reconciliation, unity and reunification.

These large-scale nuclear war drills for invading north Korea the US and the south Korean war mongers projected despite repeated denunciations of the Korean people and the world peace-loving people are nefarious war drills and dangerous military provocation aimed at stifling the DPRK by means of arms and inflicting nuclear war holocaust upon the Korean nation.

The reality graphically shows that ¡°peace¡±, ¡°dialogue¡± and ¡°improving of relations¡± much hyped by the US are little short of deception to conceal its aggressive nature, and what it pursues in actuality is only confrontation and war.

These provocative war drills to be staged when the reunification atmosphere in the Korean Peninsula gets more fervent than ever before thanks to the historical north-south summit meeting and the October 4 declaration of last October, are anti-nation and anti-reunification acts turning the inter-Korean relations back to that of confrontation and hostility.

Following is the list of troops and war equipment participating in the drills;

- Ground forces

6,000-strong US troops from the mainland and 12,000-strong US troops stationed in south Korea ,

9,000 US troops on standby on the nearby sea,

The ¡°Striker¡± unit of the 1^st brigade of the US 25^th Infantry Division was transported by air to the Daegu airport, south Korea, and deployed at the operation areas on February 15, and the 9^th engineering battalion of the 3^rd navy logistics corps under the US 3^rd expeditionary marines unit entered the Pohang port on February 19 and is running amuck with a south Korean engineering battalion in completing the support mechanism for engineering units in time of combined operations.

- Naval forces

The extra-large nuclear-powered aircraft-carrier ¡°Nimitz¡±, the Aegis cruiser ¡°Preston¡±, the strategic nuclear-powered submarine ¡°Ohio¡± equipped with guided missiles,

- Air forces

24 ¡°F-16¡± deployed at the US airbases in south Korea, ¡°F/A-18¡± pursuit-assault planes, ¡°MC-130¡± special operation plane, ¡°KC-135¡± aerial refueling plane,

¡°B-52¡± and ¡°B-2A¡± strategic bombers in Guam are on standby, and ¡°F-16¡± and ¡°F-15¡± fighters in full readiness at the US bases in Japan,

Now the AINDF, patriotic people and civic organizations from different social strata are dynamically conducting the struggle against the US and war to determinedly frustrate the criminal war drills of the US and the south Korean war-like forces against north Korea and secure the sovereignty and peace of the nation.

We strongly demand that the US stop at once its reckless war provocations, drop its anachronistic hostile policy toward north Korea and immediately withdraw its aggression troops, the main root of tension and war danger in the Korean Peninsula, from south Korea.

The south Korean belligerent forces, too, stop at once the joint military drills with outside forces if they earnestly want the development of inter-Korean relations, peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

Dear friends and comrades,

We avail ourselves of this opportunity to express our belief and expectation that your esteemed organization would send your full support and solidarity to the anti-US anti-war struggle of the Korean nation to smash the US provocative war schemes, terminate the US colonial rule over south Korea and safeguard peace and security of the Korean Peninsula.

We thank you in advance for publishing relevant statement, press release and sending protest message to the White House and the south Korean authorities.

Sincerely yours,

National Reunification Committee of the AINDF

February 23, Juche 97(2008)

TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM JONG IL

Pyongyang Mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front

Website: www. aindf.dyndns.org/kuguk8/pym/T-pym.htm

E-Mail: ndfsk@celery.ocn.ne.jp

Dear comrades and friends,

We have the honor of extending you our warm greetings and high appreciation and glad to send you President Kim Il Sung’s quotations on the greatness of leader Kim Jong Il and an article on kimjongilia on the auspicious occasion of the 66^th birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il (February 16, 1942).

Yours comradely,

Zo Il Min,

Representative of the Pyongyang Mission of the AINDF

February 14, Juche 97 (2008)

Pyongyang, DPRK

President Kim Il Sung’s teachings on the greatness of leader Kim Jong Il

- Abstracts from volume 44 of Kim Il Sung’s works -

In our country Comrade Kim Jong Il has been giving wise leader­ship to all the work of the Party, state and army; the problem of ensuring continuity of leadership has thus been brilliantly solved.

In our country now Party work is successful, state work is suc­cessful, military operations are successful and socialist construction is successful, under the leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Il.

Comrade Kim Jong Il is the genuine leader of the people. He is loyal and dutiful and versed in civil and military affairs. He is a pre­eminent thinker and theoretician, statesman and military strategist, unfailingly loyal to the country and people and very dutiful to his parents. He is the paragon of loyalty and filial devotion.

Comrade Kim Jong Il has been engaged in ideological and theo­retical activities with an unusually strong spirit of inquiry and ener­gy, brightening our Party’s Juche idea as the great guiding ideology of the age of independence.

In other words, he has cultivated the Juche idea, the seed which I had planted in the soil of our people and developed, into a thriving crop and has gathered a rich harvest, so to speak.

Comrade Kim Jong Il gives wise leadership to the revolution and construction with uncommon leadership ability.

Comrade Kim Jong Il strengthens the Party and enhances its leadership role as the main link in the whole chain of leading the revolution and construction.

Under the leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Il, our revolution ushered in a new period of upsurge. Since he assumed leadership, a new change has taken place in all areas of political, economic and cultural work as well as in Party work.

I should say that Comrade Kim Jong Il has rendered distin­guished services when he has developed a powerful motive force, welding the Party and the popular masses into a single socio-politi­cal organism and effected a great historic change by transforming nature and society on the strength of the motive force.

This bespeaks his loyalty to the revolutionary cause of Juche and also proves his preeminent qualities and ability as the leader.

Comrade Kim Jong Il’s leadership has brought about a new change also in building up the revolutionary armed forces.

In line with the Juche-orientated policy of building the army, he stepped up the work of the Party’s political and ideological education, established the Juche-orientated military command system by which the entire army moves as one under the Party’s leadership, and made the People’s Army truly the army of the Party, the army of the revolution.

Comrade Kim Jong Il has unbreakable will, audacity, outstanding strategic intelligence and the art of military leadership worthy of the supreme commander of the revolutionary armed forces. This is the guarantee for the continuous development of our revolutionary armed forces and their victory in every battle.

Comrade Kim Jong Il has all the best qualities required of the people’s leader.

He is, before all else, unfailingly loyal and devoted to the Party and the revolution, and to the country and the people.

Comrade Kim Jong Il does everything to see that my wishes come true, and that the problems of my concern are resolved. Exactly here his loyalty to the Party and the leader, his devotion to the country and the people, and his filial devotion find concentrated expression.

Comrade Kim Jong Il has the virtue of respecting his seniors in the revolution.

He respects and gives prominence to the veteran revolutionaries, my comrades-in-arms in the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, and takes meticulous care of them in and out of work. He looks after retired veterans, providing them with good clothing and sending them to holiday homes every year to keep them in good health.

Judging from the single fact that Comrade Kim Jong Il respects the revolutionary forerunners and holds them in high public esteem, we can say that he has an excellent virtue as the leader of the people. If he trains many more officials loyal to the Party and the revolutionary cause and educates the younger generation so that all of them maintain the tradition of respecting their revolutionary forerunners, our revolutionary cause will be stoutly carried forward from genera­tion to generation.

Comrade Kim Jong Il takes care of the workers, farmers, intellec­tuals and all the other sections of the population in his embrace, puts them forward as the masters of our society and leads them to play their role as masters. He warmly looks after even people with stained family backgrounds or with chequered socio-political records without discrimination and enlists them as legitimate mem­bers of our revolutionary ranks if they follow our Party and support socialism at present. He always goes out among the people, shares weal and woe with them and spares nothing for their happiness.

I can say that love for and trust in his revolutionary comrades and the people are the basic characteristics of Comrade Kim Jong Il’s statesmanship.

Because Comrade Kim Jong Il carries forward our revolutionary cause splendidly, everything in our country is going successfully at present and will proceed with success in the future as well. The era of Kim Jong Il is glorious today and will be more prosperous and resplendent in the future. Our revolution has a really great future.

Kimjongilia, flower of the sun in full bloom

20 years have passed since Kimjongilia, flower of immortality, came out in the world.

Kimjongilia was bred by the Japanese horticulturist Kamo Mototeru. He presented leader Kim Jong Il with Kimjongilia, in celebration of his birthday in February, 1988.

The progressive humankind of the world admired the appearance of Kimjongilia named after the leader, highly praising him as the sun of independent era, prominent and outstanding leader and, father of all people.

Kimjongilia is the flower of sun that the world people present to leader Kim Jong Il, the peerless great man.

Therefore, the world people cultivate Kimjongilia along with Kimilsungila named after the august names of great men, eulogizing it as a flower symbolizing victory of the global cause of independence, not as a natural flower.

Kimjongilia has now been distributed and cultivated in more than 20 countries in Asia, Europe and Latin America.

The North European Kimjongilia Association was formed in Sweden in 1995, the Kimjongilia Association in Mongolia, the Kimjongilia Lovers Society in Japan and the American Kimilsungila and Kimjongilia Association and various kinds of organizations were formed in other countries and regions to distribute and cultivate the flower.

Charmed by the flower of the sun, the south Korean people cultivate the flower in their families with sincerity and sent the flower to the Kimjongilia festival held in Pyongyang every year.

The progressive organizations and figures supporting the cause of Korea’s reunification sent Kimjongilia to the festival every year, highly praising the greatness of leader Kim Jong Il and wishing his good health.

Wide distribution of Kimjongilia in the world is a true reflection of the world people’s warm reverence for him.

The 12th Kimjongilia Festival is now being held in Pyongyang, reflecting the warm feelings of the Korean and world people.

The Kimjongilia festival is the greatest basket of flowers and a poem dedicated to leader Kim Jong Il who enjoys boundless respect from the progressive humankind for the great exploits he has performed for the country, era and revolution.

Kimjongilia will come into full bloom century after century with the world people’s infinite admiration for leader Kim Jong Il.