ASSPUK and JISGE on the 83rd anniversary of the foundation of the Korean People's Army (as the Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army )

   ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK
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             London 12th of April Juche 103(2014)

The Association For the Study of Songun Politics UK and Juche Idea Study Group of England issued the following joint statement on the occasion of the 83rd anniversary of the foundation of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army(KPRA) the forerunner of the modern Korean People's Army on the 25th of April.

       We Juche idea-Songun idea followers in the UK applaud the 83rd anniversary of the foundation of the KPA(25 April 1932) at a time when the KPA commanded by dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un is defending the achievements of Juche Korea from US imperialist aggression and is standing in acute confrontation with US imperialism. It is the KPA that is the only armed force in the world to have the slogan "Let Us Wipe Out the US imperialist aggressors ,sworn enemy of the Korean people". This is a most militant anti-imperialist revolutionary slogan that expresses the uncomromprising will of the KPA soldiers to settle accounts with US imperialism.

The foundation of  Anti-Japanese Peoples Guerrilla Army, in 1932, by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung, a gifted military strategist and ever -victorious iron willed brilliant commander, constitutes the bedrock of the Songun reovolution .


The Korean People’s Army, under the wise leadership of the great leader Marshal Kim Il Sung, took over and carried forward the traditions of the anti Japanese armed struggle. It is based solidly on revolutionary comradeship. Moreover a tradition of army -people unity was created and today flourishes in Songun Korea

Under the wise leadership of the great generalissimo's  Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Ilthe KPA grew into steel strong ranks each soldier being a match for a hundred enemy soldiers.The KPA inflicted a crushing defeat on the US imperialists in the great Fatherland Liberation War of 1950-1953.The KPA also defeated the US in the ‘Pueblo incident’,'EC121 incident’, ‘Panmunjom incident’ of 1976 and the 1994 elicopter downing incident

The KPA became a true Juche orientated revolutionary armed force and is the army of the party,the working class and the leader. New theories of warfare have been created.'Moreover under the leadership of the great leader generalissimo Kim Il Sung the KPA stuck to class and revolutionary principles, the revisionist and opportunist " non class" theories were soundly smashed, The leadership of the party over the armed forces was maintained and enhanced unlike some countries where socialism was frustrated,

                 The might of the KPA was further strengthened under the leadership of supreme commander Kim Jong Il ,who practised Songun politics giving priority to the KPA regarding it as the central pillar of the revolution. The KPA under the Songun revolutionary leadership of the great leader the KPA grew stronger in terms of ideology and politics but also materially. It is now equipped with the latest weaponry and has its own independent deterrent force. The KPA under the command of the Songun supreme commander Kim Jong Il and respected general Kim Jong Un smashed the provocations of the south Korean puppets in November 2010 turning Yongphyong island into sea of flames The KPA  now possesses the most up to date military hardware  including long range missiles and a nuclear deterrent.        
                               

                       
The 83 years of history of the Korean People's Army have been 83 years of victory and glory , The KPA , the vanguard force of the Songun revolution, has defeated the imperialists many times, and under the leadership of supreme commander Kim Jong Un will defeat them again.
                                       The glorious KPA the inheritor and continuer of the traditions of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army is the guerrilla army of dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un ready to win the  great war for national reunification.                                                                                                     
Today the destiny of world socialism depends on the rifles of the Korean People's Army headed by respected supreme commander Kim Jong Un. The DPRK is on the frontline of the struggle between socialism and imperialism. It stands guard over the independence of the DPRK and the people-centred socialism , the authentic socialism.  . We are convinced that the KPA can reliably defend the DPRK and win final victory under the leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un.

ASSPUK
JISGE

Kim Jong Un Goes Up Mt. Paektu with Fighter Pilots of KPA

Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) --

Kim Jong Un, supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, climbed the top of Mt. Paektu at dawn of Saturday, together with the members of KPA fighter pilots' expedition of the revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu.     With a broad smile on his face, the Supreme Commander said that the looks of Mt. Paektu is impressive and the sunrise over Mt. Paektu is a charming and beautiful sight rare to be seen, adding the new morning of Korea dawns from Mt. Paektu.
    Mt. Paektu is the ancestral mountain and the sacred mountain of revolution associated with the soul of the Korean nation and suggesting the spirit of Songun Korea, and it is the cradle of the Korean revolution, the symbol of victory and the eternal beacon of the Songun (army-first) revolution, he said, adding:
    When one climbs snow-stormy Mt. Paektu and undergoes the blizzards over it, one can experience its real spirit and harden the resolution to accomplish the Korean revolution. Climbing Mt. Paektu provides precious mental pabulum more powerful than any kind of nuclear weapon and it is the way for carrying forward the revolutionary traditions of Paektu and giving steady continuity to the glorious Korean revolution.
    The revolutionary spirit of Paektu, the spirit of the blizzards of Paektu, is the noble spirit the army and people of the DPRK should keep in their minds forever, he said, adding that they will have nothing to fear and they will do everything when they live in the spirit.
    Saying that the Korean revolution started in Mt. Paektu is not yet over, he expressed expectation and belief that the fighter pilots would fully discharge their mission as heirs to the Songun revolution. And he had a photo session with them on the top of Mt. Paektu.
    He was accompanied by Hwang Pyong So, Choe Ryong Hae, Kim Yang Gon, Ri Jae Il and Ri Pyong Chol. -0-    

Factory Built by the Workers’ Party of Korea’s View of Posterity

Pyongyang Children’s Foodstuff Factory is a comprehensive foodstuff producer for children which regularly supplies not only foodstuff for babies in breast feeding and weaning periods such as powdered milk for babies, nutritive rise powder, varieties of powdered vegetables, powdered tangle and powdered fish, but soy-based milk and soy-based kefir good for the growth and development of children and pupils.

President Kim Il Sung who called children kings of the country fixed the site of the factory.

President Kim Il Sung who always thought of how to feed milk to children to their satisfaction took a measure to produce milk from soy bean to suit the limited stock farming conditions of the country.

In support of the noble intention of the President, leader Kim Jong Il saw to it that a modern soy-based milk production base was built at the Pyongyang Children’s Foodstuff Factory.

In June Juche 81(1992) the factory started to supply soy-based milk to every child of nurseries and kindergartens and every pupil of primary and secondary schools in Pyongyang 100-200g per day.

Visiting the factory in July Juche 90(2001), leader Kim Jong Il was informed with pleasure that soy-based milk had been supplied regularly everyday to children and pupils in Pyongyang even during an Arduous March in which everything was lacking due to the imperialists’ moves to isolate and suffocate the DPRK in the 1990s.

He pointed out that it shows what kind of society our socialism is.

In December Juche 103(2014) Marshal Kim Jong Un visited the factory and said the Workers’ Party of Korea attaches a particular importance to the factory and the mothers of the whole country are much interested in it.

Nothing that the hostile forces are machinating to prevent the laughter of children from ringing, he stressed that with the increased production of foodstuff for children we should show how we defend the happy life of children and how we maintain socialism.

Like this, the Pyongyang Children’s Foodstuff Factory is associated with the noble love for posterity of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and Marshal Kim Jong Un.

Women’s Football in the DPRK

Today women’s football is the pride of the Korean people.

It has not so long history in view of the history of development of women’s football of the world.

Women’s football appeared in the DPRK in the mid-1980s.

Korean girls had the first training match in May Juche 75(1986) and the women’s football team of the DPRK participated in different international games from Juche 77(1988).

The 11^th Asian Games in September Juche 79(1990) in Beijing, China, the team defeated its strong rivals, placed the third.

Entering the 21^st century, women football of the DPRK greeted a new heyday.

At the 13^th Asian Women’s Football Championship held in Taipei, China in December Juche 90(2001) the DPRK team defeated the Japanese team, thereby attaining supremacy for the first time in Asia in the new century.

Korean girls feeling sky-high won international games one after another.

In Juche 91(2002) the DPRK team came first at the “Albena Cup” International Women’s Football Game and the women’s football tournament of the 14^th Asian Games.

At the 14^th Asian Women’s Football Championship held in Thailand in June Juche 92(2003) it defeated the Chinese, Japanese and all other strong teams of Asia, thereby winning the Asian Championship twice on end.

It bagged gold medals again at the women’s football tournament of the 15^th Asian Games in Juche 95(2006), the 22^nd and 24^th World Universiads and the 4^th Military World Games, the Asian Young Women’s Football Championship and the Asian Women’s Junior Football Championship.

The DPRK team won the title at the 3^rd FIFA U-20 Women’s Championship in Russia in Juche 95(2006).

Participating in the World Young Women’s Football Championship for the first time, Korean girl footballers of our new generation defeated the German team, the first winner candidate, and French and Brazilian teams and won the finals by 5 to 0 the Chinese team.

The world people admired the eventful success, saying “A new football superpower appeared.”, “Korea does only eye-opening work.”, “The team strong in speed and fighting spirit as well as in mental power”

In Juche 97(2008) Korean young girls defeated the U.S. team in New Zealand and came first at the World Women’s Junior Football Championship, the first of its kind in history.

The world spoke highly of the success, again.

“The DPRK team appeared as a new giant in the world women’s football circles.”

Like this, the women’s football of the DPRK is attracting the attention of the world and making a steady progress.

What is the source of the miracle?

It was the trust of leader Kim Jong Il who encouraged the players to add glory to the country at all international games and, when they won, was pleased more than anybody else and honoured them greatly.

Under his care the DPRK women’s football team attained supremacy of the Asian football on three occasions.

When Korean girls bagged gold medal at the East Asian Cup Women’s Football Game in Juche 102(2013), the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un posed for a photograph with them in congratulation of their success.

In Juche 103(2014) he gave guidance to an inspection match of women footballers of the state combined team due to take part in the 17^th Asian Games.

In Juche 103(2014) the women’s football of the DPRK could come first at the 17^th Asian Games and fly a flag of the Republic thanks to the energetic guidance of Marshal Kim Jong Un who carries forward the noble intention of leader Kim Jong Il.

Today the Korean party and state express great expectation and concern to women’s football.

The women footballers of the DPRK are putting spurs to training, filled with confidence in successful international games.

Forest Restoration in DPRK

A nationwide forest restoration campaign is in full swing in the DPRK to cover mountains with green woods.

During an Arduous March enforced by the vicious economic sanctions of the imperialists and continued natural disasters in the 1990s many trees were chopped recklessly to settle the food and firewood problems and there as not a proper measure to prevent a forest fire, seriously reducing the forest resources of the country.

Marshal Kim Jong Un, leader of the DPRK said that with the poor forest conditions left as they are nobody can call himself the master of the country nor talk about patriotism, adding that it is the firm resolve and will of our Party to convert all mountains into mountains of treasure and golden mountains covered with green woods within 10 years.

Forest restoration is a difficult and complicated work to grow and transplant young trees and take care of them for years in the harsh conditions of nature.

It is also a vast nature transformation work to convert all mountains into mountains of treasure and golden mountains.

That’s why a forest restoration campaign is tantamount to a war with nature.

The DPRK carries out reforestation project not in the way of planting a few trees in tree-planting day for a function or transplanting some full-grown trees but in the way of growing many young trees and letting all people plant and take care of them.

For the purpose the country pays deeper attention to growing young trees.

The central and other nurseries producing different young trees of good species in large quantities are set up throughout country.

Many trees are planted qualitatively to enhance the rate of their rooting to the maximum.

The whole Party, the entire army and all the people are turning out in a forest restoration campaign to remove the aftermath of an Arduous March and hand down valuable wealth to all generations to come.

Korean Folk Song “Arirang”

“Arirang”, a favorite folk song of the Korean people was registered as a world nonmaterial cultural legacy in Paris, France in late November Juche 103(2014).

“Arirang”, a folk song was popular in the western area of the Korean peninsula in the late 14^th century and has been handed down till now.

A simple and ordinary song of love, the song reflects the people’s grudge against the exploiter society and their aspiration for happy life.

As soon as it came out, the song spread all over the country with different titles according to areas, numbering over scores of songs.

It alone shows how ardently the Korean nation loved music.

The song describes the national feelings and emotion of the Korean people well with beautiful and tender melody.

Its tone alone reminds one of the history of ordeals of the nation and makes one feel an ardent love for one’s home country.

Just that’s why the old folk song could become a favorite song of all Koreans and a symbol of the Korean nation.

Today it was created and sung anew to suit the aesthetic sense of the era while preserving its unique feature.

New Arirangs of the Songun era such as “Prosperity Arirang”, “Chol Pass Arirang” and “Army-People Arirang” reflect the aspiration of the Korean people, adding rich emotion and optimism to the whole society.

Under the wise guidance of leader Kim Jong Il the grand mass gymnastics and artistic performance “Arirang”, a Kim Il Sung Prize winner, was created on the basis of the folk song as a grand epical picture of the history of the Korean nation.

The register of the Korean folk song “Arirang” as a world nonmaterial cultural legacy is a proof of the validity and vitality of the Workers’ Party of Korea’s policy on protection of national legacies and a powerful demonstration of the resourcefulness and ability of Koreans and the superiority of the time-honored history and resplendent culture of Korea.

Pyongyang Maternity Hospital

The DPRK put universal free medical care into effect in January 1, Juche 42(1953). Now it has built lots of modern special and general hospitals for medical treatment health of working people.

The hospital opened in July 30, Juche 69(1980).

It is a general medical service base for women that fulfils in a unified manner nation-wide therapeutic and preservative work, technical and methodological guidance, scientific research, clinical education and reserve training in obstetrics and gynecology.

The building looks like a mother outstretching her arms to embrace callers. It gives the feeling of closeness and stability to everybody.

The building has over 2 000 rooms convenient for medical care and scientific research work. It is also fully provided with general monitoring devices, centralized oxygen supply system, temperature and humidity conditioning apparatuses.

It also has scores of ambulances and a service system has been established for the convenience of mothers and pregnant women. A modern medicine manufacturing base supplies more than 200 kinds of medicines by itself.

Under the special care of the Korean Party and government the Mammary Gland Tumor Institute was built at the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital in October Juche 101(2012).

The institute is installed with multi-purpose X-ray, CT, wire camera and other latest diagnosis facilities. It specializes in prevention and treatment of mammary glands disease and scientific research on it.

The Pyongyang Maternity Hospital gives medical treatment to more than 400 women outpatients every day and assists in childbirth of over 15 000 women every year.

Since the hospital opened, the Korean Party and government have seen to it that wild honey, bear gall, Paektusan deer’s placenta paste, black chicken, pine-nuts and other tonics and nutritious foods were sent to women for their regular use.

Over the past 30-odd years hundreds of thousand babies including triplets have been born and millions of women have been receiving medical service by free at the hospital. Many foreign women staying in Pyongyang are receiving different medical care and assistance in childbirth. The 448^th triplets were born at the hospital on January 16, Juche 104(2015). The medical staff of the hospital introduced over 250 new scientific and technical inventions including painless delivery into clinical practice and generalizes them across the country.