SONGUN POLITICS, A REVOLUTIONARY, ANTI-IMPERIALIST FORM OF POLITICS SUITED TO THE 21ST CENTURY

Home JUCHE VERSUS GLOBALIZATION A REVIEW OF THE WORK "PROGRESSIVE JOURNALISTS OF THE FIVE CONTIENTS WIELD YOUR POWERFUL REVOLUTIONARY PEN AND STERNLY CONDEMN US IMPERIALISM" KIM IL SUNG 18 SEPTEMBER 1969 PROUD COURSE OF THE DPRK WPK EVER VICTORIOUS WITH SONGUN TORCH OF THE DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM UNION BRILLIANT LIFE OF  A REVOLUTIONARY THE ROAD TRAVELLED BY THE WORKERS'  PARTY OF KOREA COMBAT IMPERIALIST IDEOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL POISIONING WHO STARTED THE KOREAN WAR JUCHE IDEA BEACON ILLUMINATING WAY AHEAD FOR MANKIND  THE WPK AND DIU US IMPERIALISTS STARTED THE KOREAN WAR THE LEADERSHIP PHILOSOPHY OF KIM JONG IL KIM IL SUNG CONDENSED BIOGRAPHY DPRK BOOKS  WHAT IS JUCHE ? LEADER KIM JONG IL AND KOREA TODAY GREAT CONTRIBUTION-MADAME KIM JONG SUK Comrade Kim Jong Suk Alive Forever in the Hearts of Mankind WHY JUCHE DPRK REFERENCE SECTION -LINKS TO DPRK BOOKS IN PDF THE JUCHE IDEA AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES-CONTRIBUTED BY A NEW MEMBER OF THE JISGE presentation on the work FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NON ALIGNED MOVEMENT made 0n 17th September presentation on the work "Let Us Accomplish the Cause of Socialism and Communism Under the revolutionary banner of the Juche Idea" made at meeting on 17/09/11 PRAISE FOR THE WORKERS' PARTY OF KOREA ANECEDOTE ABOUT MADAME KIM JONG SUK-A BOILING GRUEL POT IN DEFENCE OF SONGUN KOREA, THE MEMORY OF THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM JONG IL AND THE SONGUN REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP VIDEO AND MEDIA SECTION(NEW) WORK ONGOING INCARNATION OF HUMAN LOVE Inheritance of the Socialist Cause  Imperishable Achievements Accomplished in the Cause of Global Independence  INCARNATION OF LOFTY LOYALTY Juche Idea and Kim Jong Il  SHATTERED MYTH AND NEW MYTH  Echo of Victory  KIMILSUNGISM-KIMJONGILISM-AN INTRODUCTION Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism guiding idea for the world revolution   Kim Jong ll's Patriotism Eternal General Secretary of the WPK  JUCHE AND UK KFA PUBLICATIONS People's Korea smashes counter-revolution-special article by JISGE and ASSPUK chairman  NATIONAL AND SOCIAL LIBERATION IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION PEOPLES KOREA, AN EXAMPLE OF INDEPENDENCE AND SELF RELIANCE -speech of the secretary general of the JISGE KIM JONG UN IRON-WILLED BRILLIANT COMMANDER AND GREAT SUCCESSOR THE SONGUN REVOLTIONARY CAUSE-special article  22nd Anniversary of the Appointment of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il as supreme commander of the KPA-paper presented to ASSPUK and JISGE Meeting 7th of December   Speech about the life of anti-Japanese war heroine Kim Jong Suk , made at meeting of the Juche Idea Study Group of England  KIM JONG UN IRON-WILLED BRILLIANT COMMANDER AND GREAT SUCCESSOR THE SONGUN REVOLTIONARY CAUSE-special article 
SOUTH KOREA REPUBLIC OF SUICIDE SOUTH KOREAN STUDENTS DECLARATION VISIT TO THE LAND OF SONGUN STERN PUNISHMENT TO TRAITOROUS REGIME MASS MOVEMENT FOR NATIONAL REUNIFICATION SOUTH KOREAN PEOPLE'S STRUGGLE  AGAINST ANTI REUNIFICATION MOVES IDEAL SOCIETY V DARK SOCIETY THE EC121 INCIDENT APPEAL OF AFRICAN JUCHE IDEA STUDY GROUPS ANNIVERSARY OF CAPTURE OF USS PUEBLO  SATELLITE LAUNCH PRIDE OF NATION.GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR IN SOUTH KOREA CRIMINAL ACTS AGAINST PEACE AND REUNIFICATION Reckless War Drills for Invading the North DAILY INTENSIFYING GRAVE MILITARY CONFRONTATION With unshakable Conviction of Reunification MILITAY PROVOCATION RUNNING COUNTER TO PEACE REVIEW OF THE JUCHE IDEA STUDY GROUP WORK OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS Report of Juche Idea Study of England meeting held January 30th SOUTH KOREAN PEOPLES STRUGGLE AGAINST THE US AND WAR ADSURD CONFAB FOR A WAR AGAINST THE NORTH DEATH TO THE BELLIGERENTS STATEMENT OF KPA GENERAL STAFF ON FOAL EAGLE  KCNA Snubs Call for DPRK's Dismantlement of Nukes STRUGGLE FOR PEACE IN SOUTH KOREA DUE PUNISHMENT ANTI GOVERNMENT AND ANTI WAR STRUGGLE STRUGGLE FOR PEACE DANGEROUS MILITARY MOVES LET US SMASH THE DISGRACEFUL MOVES TO DISTORT HISTORY FATAL BLOW TO THE AGGRESSORS ! STOP SUPPRESSION OF PRO REUNIFICATION FIGURE BRILLIANT LIFE OF WOMAN GENERAL OF MT PAEKTU GLORY TO THE WORKERS PARTY OF KOREA-65TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WPK Opposing Confrontation Moves against the North SOUTH KOREA AILING WITH SOCIAL EVILS    LONG LIVE VICTOROUS ERA OF JUNE 15 INDEPENDENT REUNIFICATION OF KOREA Ever Intensifying Candlelight Struggle Continues to Win Final Victory BRILLIANT LIFE OF A MOTHER WORLD JUCHE CONFERENCE KOREAN PEOPLE DYNAMICALLY ADVANCING UNDER THE BANNER OF THE DIU REPORT OF JISGE-ASSPUK MEETING WITH SOCIAL SCIENTISTS TO MARK 85TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM UNION WARNING TO RUIN OF CAPITALISM With the Might of Single-minded Unity Peerless Woman General UNCHANGED AMBITION TO INVADE THE NORTH Anti-US ,Anti War Struggle to defend peace DO THE PEOPLE LIKE IT ? A Power Station Named after Youth Song Footsteps The First Field Guidance ROAD OF KOREA Pyongyang Declaration of World Congress on Juche Idea FLAMES OF POCHONBO Kim Jong Il’s Achievements in Party Building AFRICA SHOULD FOLLOW JUCHE IDEA-HEAD OF THE CONGO COMMUNIST PARTY Juche Korea in September 2012 - A report of a visit  A COUNTRY WITH MANY HEROES WORLD ADMIRATION FOR GREAT MAN “Kim Jong Un Fever” Ever Growing GREAT CAREER Miracle Produced by Human Love  The Secret of Championship FATHER OF THE NATION ALIVE IN THE HEARTS OF FELLOW COUNTRYMEN IN SOUTH KOREA PRAISE FOR GREAT WOMAN INTERNATIONAL KIM JONG IL PRIZE INSTITUTED DPRK’s Socialist Constitution Kim Jong Un, TIME’s 2012 Person of the Year Leader Who Loves the Future The US Must Draw a Lesson from the Pueblo Incident  Korea Does What It is Determined to Do Kim Jong Un’s Personality and His Smile  Kim Jong Il’s Exploits Performed for the Cause of Socialism On the Road for People FEBRUARY BURNING WITH YEARNING THUNDER FROM KOREA  DPRK Will Show Its Will for Counteraction with Military Action: KPA Supreme Command DPRK NDC Issues Statement Refuting UNSC Resolution Int'l Kim Jong Il Prize Awarded to Equatorial Guinean President DPRK 65 YEARS  National Flag of DPRK ETERNAL IMAGE Invincible Steel-like WPK Great WPK Shining With August Names of Peerless Great Men ETERNAL SUN OF THE NATION Let Us Dynamically Wage Movement for Independent  Reunification Upholding the June 15 Banner Historical Landmark Shining Forever in the Nation's History Hysterical War Provocation Seventy-nine Years under the Banner of Great National Unity Milestone for Independent Reunification, Peace and Prosperity  Kim Jong Un Inspects Completed Sci-Tech Complex Pro-Japanese Acts of Treachery President Kim Il Sung’s Reminiscence “With the Century” KIM JONG SUK A  PARAGON OF DEFENDING LEADER Gun Report Echoing from the Beginning of Year Historical Act, the March First Popular Uprising Decision on Opening WPK Seventh Congress Issued Imperishable exploits for Korea’s reunification Risky Military Provocation Implementation of agreements common to the nation Obstinate racket against north Korea  Creation of self-reliance and self-development  Victorious conclusion of the 70-day campaign Milestone for Korea’s Reunification Immortal Exploits of Party Building A Prerequisite to Korea’s Reunification Korean Peninsula on the eve of war General Kim Jong Un of Undying Fame Immortal Program for National Reunification Inflicting calamity of bacteriological warfare upon the nation Only Death Awaits Provokers    Immortal Banner of Independent Reunification Artificial Racket   Kim Jong Suk, the anti-Japanese heroine Chairman Kim Jong Il signs the inter-Korean joint declaration with Kim Dae-jung
ANTI REUNIFICATION THEORY OF CONFRONTATIONAL MANIAC NOBLE LIFE OF PRO REUNIFICATION PATRIOTIC FIGHTER REUNIFICATION MOVEMENT ADVANCES DYNAMICALLY CALL OF GWANGJU DUE PUNISHMENT INFURIATED MINDSET SWEEPING TREND OF JUNE 15 A bitter grudge Cesspool of Crime , US Military Bases in south Korea MOUNTED WILL AND SHOUT FOR REUNIFICATION OCTOBER 4TH  DECLARATION BANNER COMMON TO THE NATION UNABATED RESISTANCE FLAMES Cheongwadae, Foothold of Irregularities and Corruption Crazy Sycophantic Betrayal Ever-growing Struggle against FTA Anti-Reunification Evil Law should be Abolished AN AWKWARD TRICK On the Occasion of Demise of Great Leader Kim Jong Il, South Koreans Mourn over Demise of Kim Jong Il STINKING "GRAND NATIONAL PARTY" STRUGGLE FOR FAIR BROADCASTING (IN S KOREA) Stop War Drills to Invade the North! Struggle to Bring Down Fascist Regime  Brief introduction of the struggle of the Anti-imperialist National Democratic Front ( AINDF)  43rd anniversary of the AINDF -ASSPUK,JISGE and UK KFA STATEMENT OF AINDF VICE-CHAIRMAN-JANUARY 3RD 2013 On the Occasion of the 44th Anniversary of the AINDF Salute to the 45th Anniversary of the formation of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front of south Korea-ASSPUK, JISGE and UK KFA  Fascist outrage against democracy Eternal Mother Meaning of leaflet scattering actions Disgraceful manner of a pawn for the US   S. Korean Puppet Forces Urged to Stop Retrogressive Revision of Pension System for Government Employees Action for the right to live  Astounding Scandal  South Korea, Kingdom of Crime  Intensive anti-“government” action  Action for Genuine Life  Hot-blooded Outcry Ridiculous utterance of “human rights” The Park regime in a predicament  Against Labour policy Illegitimate Landing Against Revision of History Textbooks  Overt ambition of preemptive strike on north Korea  Root the Cause of War Not let his death be in vain   Revision of History Textbooks helping Ruling Crisis South Korea with signs of ruin Unfinished Action Park Geun-hye, Step Down! Draconian Fascist Law Data about the Repression to the Democratic and Pro-Reunification Activists in south Korea  POWER OF THE DPRK Black-hearted Thought Ever-more undisguised war moves against the DPRK Standpoint of national independence is  a fundamental way for Korea’s reunification “Policy of Unification” is "Unification of System" Actions against Retrogressive Revision of Labor Law Gruesome Pro-US Submission  Worst People’s Life   Immature move of “human rights” against the DPRK Stop the planned deployment of THAAD BRUTAL VIOLENCE Rejected Draconian Labor Law Punish the Park Geun-hye regime! Three years riddled with all kinds of crimes  (1) Unfortunate plight of south Korean women Insolvent Business Groups Deserted Women SECOND WAR GAMES TO OCCUPY NORTH KOREA Three years riddled with all kinds of crimes  Three years riddled with all kinds of crimes  (3) Resume GIP Unforgettable Sewol Disaster Echo of April 19 People’s stern punishment Establishing fundamental principles of reunification    Give up war rehearsals against north Korea! Strangler of Democracy Open up a fresh era for the popular masses! US, the chief criminal of Gwangju massacre Unending June Popular Resistance National independence, lifeline of Korea’s reunification Struggle to achieve genuine life Unforgotten Soul of Schoolgirls Strong Current of Support for Reunification Sweeping Actions against the US and War   Calling for Probe into Truth behind Ferry Sewol Disaster Degrading SOFA Struggle is the only way out for workers No Deployment of THAAD! Exasperation into Revolt Military provocation for escalating tension Hotbed of Corruption Workers’ drive against retrogressive labor reform Expanding campaign against deployment of THAAD Despicable Political Terrorism Dog president  South Korea, a veritable hell Address of “confrontation” not “congratulation” Stop war games against north Korea! Spreading actions against THAAD deployment Inveterate Rancor No THAAD is available Ridiculous Disturbance Fatuous Attempt Puerile Racket Unbroken drive against THAAD deployment Struggle is the only option  Push out murderous Park Geun-hye regime! Ongoing Resistance Baek’s Death Protests Cheongwadae, a haunt of corruption  Uninterruped Drive Risky Maritime Rehearsal Ongoing October Resistance for Democracy Spreading General Strike Cancel the warrant of postmortem! “Step Down, Park Geun-hye! Consecutive publication of declarations on the current situation Nationwide campaign for Park’s resignation Enraged Public Sentiment  An ultimatum from people He is not solitary Ebullitions of Anger Traitorous agreement on protecting military intelligence Give up, Park Geun-hye! Inheriting Martyr’s Spirit Park Geun-hye, a schizophrenic Fourth all-people candlelit action   The 5th all-people candlelight rally  NSL, Draconian Fascist Law The 6th all-people candlelight rally Ridiculous Insanity  The seventh round of all-people candlelight rally
LOOKING UP TO THE SUN OF HUMANKIND THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM IL SUNG RED SUN OF THE WORLD REVOLUTION AND LEADER AND TEACHER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAT UNIQUE COMMANDING ART-VICTORY IN FATHERLAND LIBERATION WAR AUGUST 15 LIBERATION AND PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG ALIVE FOREVER SOME QUOTATIONS OF LEADER KIM JONG IL ON THE GREATNESS OF THE RESPECTED LEADER PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG SONGS PRAISING THE SUN LEADER KIM JONG IL'S TEACHINGS ON THE GREATNESS OF PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG ETERNAL SUN OF MANKIND THE PEOPLE'S SUN  PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG,FATHER OF SOCIALIST KOREA IS THE PEOPLE'S LEADER MANGYONDAE PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG'S IMMORTAL FEATS OF LIBERATING KOREA MAO ZEDONG SAID COMRADE KIM IL SUNG SHOULD LED THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST MOVEMENT Great Sun of Independent Era AMONG THE PEOPLE Always Believing in the Working Class  From farmhand to master of the country The 100th anniversary of the birth of the great leader president Kim Il Sung by ASSPUK and JISGE  The greatest of great leaders - Article by JISGE KIM IL SUNG AND THE BANNER OF INDEPENDENCE AUGUST NAME OF KIM IL SUNG THE SUN IS ALWAYS WITH US -PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG -ROMESH CHANDRA GENERAL KIM IL SUNG PEERLESS PATRIOT SUN IS  EVERLASTING ETERNAL PRESIDENT OF THE DPRK THE EVER-VICTORIOUS IRON-WILLED BRILLIANT COMMANDER Eternal Sun of Juche Whole Life Devoted to National Reunification Reunification Will Enshrined in Historic Autography   Imperishable exploits performed for Korea’s reunification Putting an end to national division   Imperishable exploits for Korea’s reunification  A GREAT CHRONICLE Benefactor of Korea’s liberation  Great Man’s Life Tradition of Victory Saviour of National Restoration
SACRED FOOTPRINTS OF SONGUN REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP SONGUN POLITICS OF MARSHAL KIM JONG IL IS THE BANNER FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE WORLD ARTICLES BY KIM YU JON ON SONGUN SONGUN POLITICS OF NORTH KOREA AND ANTI IMPERIALIST CLASS STAND FIRST TRACE OF SONGUN LEADERSHIP PROUD HISTORY OF THE DPRK DIGNIFIED WITH SONGUN POLITICS BASED ON THE ARMY FIRST PRINCIPLE SPEECHES OF KPA DIFFERENT CIRCLES IN SOUTH KOREA PRAISE SONGUN POLITICS SONGUN POLITICS BANNER OF REUNIFICATION SONGUN TREASURED SWORD FOR NATIONAL PROSPERITY SONGUN POLITICS, A REVOLUTIONARY, ANTI-IMPERIALIST FORM OF POLITICS SUITED TO THE 21ST CENTURY GREAT MARCH OF SONGUN 50 YEARS OF SONGUN REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP -JISGE AND ASSPUK ARTICLE SONGUN POLITICS TREASURED SWORD FOR DEFENDING PEACE INVINCIBLE KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY SPECIAL ARTICLE ON THE KPA AND SONGUN HONOURING THE 79TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE KPA'S FOUNDATION GREAT VICTORY IN THE WAR 51 Years of Songun-based Revolutionary Leadership Songun and Unity-article by ASSPUK and JISGE on occasion of 51st anniversary of Songun revolutionary leadership LONG LIVE SONGUN ! 51 YEARS OF SONGUN POLITICS IN THE DPRK! (article by JISGE and ASSPUK member) DEFENDING WORLD PEACE Songun politics THE INVINCIBLE KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY,REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCE OFJUCHE SONGUN POLITICS AND THE KOREAN PENINSULA VISIT TO THE KPA MILITARY EQUIPMENT EXHIBITION THE WORLD WILL CLEARLY SEE IT  SPEECHES OF THE KOREAN PEOPLES ARMY Marshal KIM JONG UN's visit to West Sea frontline outposts  Some extracts concerning the foundation and struggles of the Korean  People’s Revolutionary Army from great President Kim Il Sung’ s  Reminiscences “With the Century”  IMMORTAL EXPLOITS OF WAR VICTORY Leader Kim Jong Il and Songun Politics  Songun Day of Korea COUNTRY DIGNIFIED WITH SONGUN  On Road of Leadership of Songun Revolution  Dear Home of Soldiers Strength of Songun Trace in Panmunjom
Let Us Carry Out the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's Instructions for National Reunification (August 4, 1997)KIM JONG IL THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF KOREA IS A JUCHE- ORIENTATED SOCIALIST STATE WITH INVINCIBLE MIGHT Abstracts from Great Leader Kim Il Sung's Reminiscences "With the Century" THE WORKERS PARTY OF KOREA IS THE PARTY OF  THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM IL SUNG ON ABOLISHING THE TAX SYSTEM SOCIALISM IS A SCIENCE-KIM JONG IL RESPECTING THE FORERUNNERS OF THE REVOLUTION IS THE NOBLE MORAL OBLIGATION OF REVOLUTIONARIES LET US FIRMLY GUARANTEE THE FULFILMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY CAUSE OF JUCHE BY FORCE OF ARMS Great President Kim Il Sung's Instructions to Accomplish the Socialist Cause Upholding Comrade Kim Jong Il -(Exerpts from President Kim Il Sung's work) FOR A FREE AND PEACEFUL NEW WORLD KIM IL SUNG-ON THREE PRINCIPLES OF NATIONAL REUNIFICATION ON OUR PEOPLE'S STRUGGLE FOR SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION AND NATIONAL REUNIFICATION' KIM IL SUNG LETS US SHATTER IMPERIALIST MOVES TOWARDS AGGRESSION AND WAR AND SAFEGUARD PEACE AND INDEPENDENCE LET US INTENSIFY ANTI IMPERIALIST ANTI US STRUGGLE-KIM IL SUNG THE JUCHE PHILOSOPHY IS AN ORIGINAL REVOLUTIONARY PHILOSOPHY LET US REALIZE THE COUNTRY’S REUNIFICATION INDEPENDENTLY THROUGH  THE UNITED EFFORT OF THE ENTIRE NATION-KIM IL SUNG LET US ACCOMPLISH THE CAUSE OF SOCIALISM-KIM IL SUNG OUR PEOPLE’S ARMY IS AN ARMY OF THE WORKING CLASS-KIM IL SUNG ON THE QUESTIONS OF THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION FROM CAPITALISM TO SOCIALISM AND THE DICTATORSHIP  OF THE PROLETARIAT LET US STEP UP SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION UNDER THE BANNER OF THE JUCHE IDEA SOCIALISM IN THE LIFE OF OUR PEOPLE ON ORGANISING AND WAGING ARMED STRUGGLE AGAINST JAPANESE IMPERIALISM FOR THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE SOCIALIST CAUSE THE SONGUN-BASED REVOLUTIONARY LINE IS A GREAT REVOLUTIONARY LINE OF OUR ERA AND AN EVER-VICTORIOUS BANNER OF OUR REVOLUTION LET THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH OPEN THE WAY TO PEACE-KIM IL SUNG ABUSES OF SOCIALISM ARE INTOLERABLE KIM IL SUNG With the Century Part I THE ANTI-JAPANESE REVOLUTION   10-POINT PROGRAMME OF THE GREAT UNITY OF THE WHOLE NATION FOR THE REUNIFICATION OF THE COUNTRY LET US REUNIFY THE COUNTRY INDEPENDENTLY AND PEACEFULLY THROUGH THE GREAT UNITY OF THE ENTIRE NATION LET US BRING THE ADVANTAGES OF SOCIALISM INTO FULL PLAY IN OUR COUNTRY-PART 3 -REUNIFICATION LET US FIGHT ON STAUNCHLY FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE FATHERLAND -speech to people of Pochonbo 4th June 1937 by KIM IL SUNG    GIVING PRIORITY TO IDEOLOGICAL WORK IS ESSENTIAL FOR ACCOMPLISHING SOCIALISM LET US PREVENT A NATIONAL PARTITION AND REUNIFY THE COUNTRY THE PATH OF THE KOREAN REVOLUTION-KIM IL SUNG  LET US ACHIEVE GREAT UNITY OF OUR NATION FUNDAMENTALS OF REVOLUTIONARY PARTY BUILDING-KIM JONG IL THE WORKERS' PARTY OF KOREA IS A JUCHE-TYPE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY WHICH INHERITED THE GLORIOUS TRADITION OF THE DIU SOCIALISM IS THE LIFE OF OUR PEOPLE-KIM JONG IL ON THE JUCHE IDEA-KIM JONG IL THE TEN-POINT PROGRAMME OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR  THE RESTORATION OF THE FATHERLAND Let Us Brilliantly Accomplish the Revolutionary Cause of Juche, Holding the Great Comrade Kim Jong Il in High Esteem as the Eternal General Secretary of Our Party  Let us march forward dynamically toward final victory, holding higher the banner of Songun!. On Bringing About a Revolutionary Turn in Land Administration in Line with the Requirements of the Building of a Thriving Socialist Country  KIM JONG UN LET US BRING THE ADVANTAGES OF SOCIALISM IN OUR COUNTRY INTO FULL PLAY-KIM IL SUNG ON PRESERVING THE JUCHE CHARACTER AND NATIONAL CHARACTER OF THE REVOLUTION AND CONSTRUCTION-KIM JONG IL The Great Kim Il Sung Is the Eternal Leader of Our Party and Our People  Treatise Published to Mark the Centenary of the Birth of President Kim Il Sung  April 20, Juche 101 (2012)      ON THE KOREAN PEOPLE'S STRUGGLE TO APPLY THE JUCHE IDEA LET US REALIZE THE COUNTRY’S REUNIFICATION INDEPENDENTLY  THROUGH THE UNITED EFFORT OF THE WHOLE NATION Let Us Step up the Building of a Thriving Country by Applying Kim Jong Il's Patriotism Only Victory and Glory Will Be in Store for Us Who are Advancing under the Unfurled Flag Bearing the Immortal Beaming Images of the Great Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il 3. LET US REUNIFY THE COUNTRY INDEPENDENTLY AND PEACEFULLY The Sons and Daughters of Revolutionary Martyrs Should Become the Reliable Backbone of the Songun Revolution Who Would Stoutly Carry Forward the Lineage of Mangyongdae, the Lineage of Paektu-KIM JONG UN THE DPRK REPRESENTS GENUINE PEOPLE’S  POWER AND IS A BANNER  OF THE UNITY  AND SOLIDARITY OF THE MASSES THE TASKS OF KOREAN COMMUNISTS LET US EMBODY THE REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT OF INDEPENDENCE, SELF-SUSTENANCE AND SELF-DEFENCE MORE THOROUGHLY IN ALL BRANCHES OF STATE ACTIVITY-KIM IL SUNG LET US FURTHER STRENGTHEN THE SOCIALIST SYSTEM OF OUR COUNTRY-KIM IL SUNG ON THE QUESTION OF THE NATIONAL UNITED FRONT-KIM IL SUNG NEW YEAR ADDRESS JUCHE 102(2013) KIM JONG UN Speech Delivered at a Banquet in Celebration of Successful Launch of Kwangmyongsong 3-2 Address Delivered at the Fourth Conference of Cell Secretaries of the WPK -KIM JONG UN THE INAUGURAL DECLARATION OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE FATHERLAND KIM IL SUNG  With the Century  4  CHAPTER 12  To Hasten the Liberation of the Country OUR SOCIALISM CENTRED ON THE POPULAR MASSES SHALL NOT PERISH LET US ALL LIVE AND STRUGGLE LIKE HEROES -KIM JONG IL Let Us Usher In a Fresh Heyday on All the Fronts of Socialist Construction by Creating the Speed on Masik Pass -KIM JONG UN GO ALL OUT FOR VICTORY IN THE WAR The Triumphal Return     From Volume 8 of President Kim Il Sung’s  Reminiscences “With the Century Message of Congratulations to the Participants in the Youth Day Celebration  Conference  and Other Young People across the Country-KIM JONG UN "Let Us Add Eternal Brilliance to Comrade Kim Jong Il's Great Idea and Achievements of the Songun Revolution"  President Kim Il Sung’s Reminiscences “With the Century” 3. The Choice between the Soviet and the People’s Revolutionary Government (From Chaper 7 of Volume 3 ) Let Us Usher In a Great Golden Age of Construction by Thoroughly Applying the Party’s Juche-Oriented Idea of Architecture -KIM JONG UN Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un's New Year Address  Let Us Bring About Innovations in Agricultural Production under the Unfurled Banner of the Socialist Rural Theses" -KIM JONG UN "Let Us Hasten the Final Victory through a Revolutionary Ideological Offensive!"  PREVENTING WAR AND PRESERVING PEACE ARE THE BURNING TASKS OF MANKIND” "Young People, Be Vanguard Fighters Unfailingly Faithful to the Party's Revolutionary Cause of Songun" KIM JONG UN  National Heritage Conservation Is a Patriotic Undertaking for Adding Brilliance to the History and Traditions of Our Nation Let the Entire Party, the Whole Army and All the People Conduct a Vigorous Forest Restoration Campaign to Cover the Mountains of the Country with Green Woods-KIM JONG UN LET US HOLD THE GREAT  LEADER IN HIGH  ESTEEM FOREVER AND ACCOMPLISH  HIS CAUSE KIMILSUNGIA IS AN IMMORTAL FLOWER THAT HAS BLOOMED IN THE HEARTS OF MANKIND IN THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE-KIM JONG IL  ON SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION IN THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA AND THE SOUTH KOREAN REVOLUTION Let Us Usher In a New Heyday of Building a Sports Power in the Revolutionary Spirit of Paektu" KIM JONG UN Kim Jong Un Makes Congratulatory Speech at 4th National Conference of War Veterans LET THE WOMEN IN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH  HASTEN THE REUNIFICATION OF THE  COUNTRY THROUGH UNITED EFFORTS Speech of dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN to 70th anniversary of WPK celebrations "The Cause of the Great Party of Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il Is Ever-Victorious" Let Us Bring About a Fundamental Turn in the Three-Revolution Red Flag Movement in Line with the Demands of the Developing Revolution KIM JONG UN NEW YEAR ADDRESS 2016  “The Historical Lesson in Building Socialism and the General Line of Our Party”. KIM JONG IL THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM IL SUNG WILL ALWAYS BE WITH OUR PEOPLE AN ODE TO COMRADE KIM JONG IL COMPOSED BY PRESIDENT  KIM IL SUNG ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 50TH BIRTHDAY CONCLUDING SPEECH AT THE MARCH 2013 PLENARY MEETING OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE WORKERS’ PARTY OF KOREA  March 31, Juche 102 (2013) ON THE NEED FOR THE KOREANS IN THE UNITED STATES  TO UNITE AND STEP UP THE MOVEMENT FOR NATIONAL REUNIFICATION Report to the March 2013 Plenary Meeting  of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea KIM JONG UN On the Occasion of Founding the Anti-Japanese  People's Guerrilla Army KIM IL SUNG On Thoroughly Establishing the System of Party Leadership KIM JONG IL Kim Jong Un Makes Opening Address at Seventh Congress of WPK Report on Work of WPK Central Committee to  7th Congress KIM JONG UN Kim Jong Un Makes Closing Address at Seventh Congress of WPK BECOME PILLARS SUPPORTING  A PROSPEROUS FUTURE KOREA Report to the Seventh Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea   on the Work of the Central Committee(full text)KIM JONG UN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS RAISED BY THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE INDIAN WEEKLY BLITZ-KIM IL SUNG Let Us Usher in a Golden Age of the Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist Youth Movement Kim Jong Un's Letter to Teaching Staff and Students at Kim Il Sung University on 70th Anniversary of Its Founding KIM IL SUNG   ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS RAISED BY THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INSTITUTE OF ITALY(Extract) The Duty of the Working Class of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il for the Times and the Tasks Facing Trade Union Organizations" KIM JONG UN  FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GENUINE PEOPLE’S GOVERNMENT "Let Us Further Intensify the Work of the Women's Union under the Banner of Modelling the Whole Society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism"  ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS RAISED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE NEPAL JOURNALIST ASSOCIATION  November 29. 1990 (Extract) THE WORKING CLASS SHOULD BECOME THE PIVOTAL FORCE IN THE STRUGGLE TO MODEL THE WHOLE SOCIETY ON THE JUCHE IDEA(extract) "On Improving the Role of the UAWK in Accomplishing the Juche-Oriented Socialist Cause"  UNITY OF THE SOCIALIST CAMP AND THE NEW STAGE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST MOVEMENT-KIM IL SUNG
Greatest Glory to Kim Jong Il, Brilliant Commander of Songun! SACRED FOOTPRINTS OF SONGUN LEADERSHIP AT PANMUMJOM WARM RESPECT TO LEADER KIM JONG IL BRILLIANT COMMANDER OF SONGUN DPRK IS HIGHLIGHTED BY BRILLIANT COMMANDER OF PAEKTU LONG LIVE KIM JONG IL BRILLIANT COMMANDER OF SONGUN CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL DEFENCE COMMISSION OF THE DPRK KIM JONG IL AND SONGUN POLITICS Holding the Brilliant Commander of Mt. Paekdu in High Esteem   REPERCUSSIONS OF SOUTH KOREAN MEDIA ON KIM JONG IL LEADING THRIVING KOREAN NATION TO VICTORY BRILLIANT COMMANDER VOLITION FOR REUNIFICATION ASSOCIATED WITH PANMUNJOM BOUNDLESS GLORY OF KOREAN NATION FOR HAVING BRILLIANT COMMANDER OF SONGUN Holiday Common to Humankind NATIONS GLORY SHINES FOREVER REVERING THE SUN OF SONGUN ECHO OF PANMUMJOM BRILLIANT SONGUN COMMANDER OF BAEKDU ON THE ROAD FOR THE PEOPLE Auspicious Event of Humankind, Boundless Praise  A UNIQUE ELDER STATESMAN Peerless Brilliant Commander of Songun IN MEMORIAN GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM JONG IL Comrade Kim Jong Il’s Idea and Exploits Are Immortal Kim Jong Il Will Always Live in Hearts of Koreans and World Progressives SHORT BIOGRAPHY AND MATERIALS ABOUT THE LIFE OF THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM JONG IL PAEAN FOR THE SHINING STAR LEADER KIM JONG IL WILL LIVE FOREVER The invincible strength of the Korean People's Army is attributable to Kim Jong Il of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un and Guards Division  THE MESSAGE READ THROUGH KIM JONG UN'S VISIT TO PANMUNJOM Immortal Exploits in Songun-based Revolutionary Leadership My Sons and Daughters KIM JONG IL AND SNOW      Quotations from Dear Respected Marshal Kim Jong Un’s Works     - On the 20th Anniversary of Generalissimo Kim Jong Il’s Assumption of  Chairmanship of the DPRK National Defense Commission -    Undying Feats Shining in Party Building History HISTORICAL EVENT SPECIALLY MARKED IN HISTORY OF REUNIFICATION Glorious Annals of the WPK ETERNAL PARTY FLAG OF JUCHE Great National Fortune  Reunification will of brilliant commander  Long Journey for Songun Imperishable Trace in Panmunjom The Sun Is Eternal Illustrious Commander’s Footstep Songun, Treasured Sword for National Prosperity and Reunification Eternal General Secretary of the WPK
SOCIALISM IS CREATING MIRACLES PYONGYANG MATERNITY HOSPITAL LOVE AND SINCERITY THAT MAKES FLOWERS BLOOM ON STONES LEGEND OF HUMAN LOVE VISIT TO THE LAND OF JUCHE SOCIALIST KOREA SOCIALIST POWER OF JUCHE People-centred Socialist Korea SOCIALISM TOLLS THE BELL FOR CAPITALISM Victory of Socialism, Historical Inevitability HISTORY PROVES IMMOVABLE TRUTH OF HISTORY AND CAPITALISM HAS NO FUTURE  SCENES OF A  HARMONOUS WHOLE IN THE MOURING PERIOD The Rungna People's Pleasure Park  A branch school Warm Love for People A Neologism Reflecting the Love for the People “Most Preferentially and Absolutely” NATIONAL STRENGTH OF THE DPRK Sweaters Supplied to Kindergarten Children across DPRK NEW BUILDINGS IN PYONGYANG THE JUCHE IDEA AND PEOPLE'S KOREA Motherly Party Serving People EMBLEM OF WPK Why there are no riots in the DPRK Paean to the Motherly Party Giving Supreme Bliss to Workers Kim Jong Il’s Exploits in Party Building  Invincibility of Socialist Korea  A Large Family  Children’s Dream House  The Invincibility of the Workers’ Party of Korea People Praise the Workers’ Party of Korea  There is No Human Rights Problem in Peoples Korea !- by Dermot Hudson  Report of Visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea by Dermot Hudson Blessed Women Magnificent Youth Power Genuine People’s Fatherland Ever-Victorious Party Mother’s Bosom Lofty Picture of Love for People
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SONGUN POLITICS, A REVOLUTIONARY, ANTI-IMPERIALIST FORM OF POLITICS

SUITED TO THE DEMANDS OF THE 21stCENTURY

A Talk presnted by Shaun Pickford

on the occasion of the start of the Songun Revolutionary Leadership

on August 25th 1960

If we analyse the narrative of the Korean Revolutionary process or if we scrutinize the Juche philosophy one overriding theme can be observed, that of innovation. The Korean Revolution due to its extremely unique circumstances had to be a revolution which relied upon originality for its survival and growth.


Creativity is the hallmark of Korean Socialism. From the dawn of the Korean revolutionary struggle in the 1920s to the first decades of the 21st century innovation has been the bedrock of the Korean revolution in dealing with the various challenges which have stood in the way of the forward march of Juche Korea. It was in this tradition of creativity that KIM JONG IL proclaimed to the world the start of the Songun Revolutionary Leadership on August 25th, 1960.


Ten years after the beginning of the Fatherland Liberation War (the Korean War) KIM JONG IL gave indepth guidance to the Seoul Ryn Kyong 105 Guards Division, by providing field guidance to the one of the first Korean Peoples Army divisions to liberate Seoul during the Korean War. KIM JONG IL emphasized the importance of arms in the Korean Revolution to the men and officers of this KPA division and to the Korean people at large. From the early 1960s to the present day KIM JONG IL has consistently stressed the vital necessity of Songun Politics for obtaining the final victory of the Korean Socialist cause.


In the course of ideological development of the Korean Revolution KIM JONG IL's announcement of the beginning of the Songun Revolutionary Leadership on August 25th 1960 was the continuation and consolidation of the positions put forward at the Kalun Meeting by KIM IL SUNG on June 30th 1930, that was where the Juche Idea was formulated. Both these dates are profoundly significant in the evolution of the Juche Idea and of Songun Politics, which have become the cutting-edge ideology of our era.


The concept of Songun was born on the battlefields of the Korean Revolution during the 1920s, 1930s & 1940s. Since the total annexation of Korea by Japanese imperialism in 1910, Korean patriots were trying to find an effective form of resistance to the occupation.

One fundamental lesson gained by the Korean resistance movement was that feudal Korea was defeated and conquered by Japan due to the weak military potential of the Li Dynasty (1392-1910).Opposition to the cruel Japanese occupation of Korea had many varied forms, mostly spontaneous in nature. Such as the March 1th 1919 uprising, which was crushed by the brutal Japanese military in a sea of blood. Other manifestations of the fightback against Japanese imperialism included the movement to pay back the debt to Japan in August 1908, appeals to the major powers such as emissary incident in June 1907,the assassination of leading Japanese officials like Ito Hirobumi in October 1909 and the patriotic cultural movement of the early 20s. There was even talk by some defeatist elements of "national reform" & "autonomy of Korea with the Japanese empire". All these methods failed to secure their objective.


The Korean people faced the choice, independence or extinction? How to achieve independence and social progress for the Korean people under the conditions of the harsh colonialist-feudal regime of Japan?


The decisive answer given to this outstanding question for the Korean people came from the gunshots of the guns of Songun. KIM IL SUNG saw as a cardinal principle of the Korean Revolution the precept of armed struggle.KIM IL SUNG advocated from the mid-1920s that the revolution against imperialism, for independence, for socialism and communism must be pioneered and based upon arms. The two pistols which KIM IL SUNG inherited from his father KIM HYONG JIK (June 10th 1884 - June 5th 1926) became symbolic of the modest emergence of the Korean Revolution and its development into a mighty power with missiles and bombs and the two bequeathed pistols illustrate that Korean socialism will be triumphant because it is based on the will and determination of revolutionary arms and soldiers. Chiwon or "Aim High" of the Korean resistance leader KIM HYONG JIK was realised in the formation of the Korean Peoples Revolutionary Army by KIM IL SUNG on April 25th 1932. This revolutionary armed force acted as a focal point for all Korean revolutionaries and patriots in their anti-imperialist liberation struggle long before the party itself was established in 1945. Really it can be said that the KPRA was the main force in the sturggle for independence. After 20 long bloody years of arduous struggle the KPRA commanded by KIM IL SUNG liberated Korea from grip of Japanese imperialism on August 15th 1945. A new democratic Korea was to be build up after liberation but the Korean peninsula was divided into north and south by outside elements. The United States , which emerged as a superpower at the end of World War Two, occupied south Korea with a large army and installed a subservient regime in Seoul.


The glorious revolutionary traditions of Songun were carried on by the Korean Peoples Army, which was founded on 8th February 1948. The KPRA became a regular. cadre-based army in 1948. KIM IL SUNG ensured that from the early days of Korea's liberation, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea would have a self-reliant defence industry with Korean made weapons of every sort. It was with great pride that KIM IL SUNG test fired the 1st Korean manufactured sub-machine gun on December 18th 1948. Today the DPRK produces its own nuclear devices and long-range rockets.


On June 25th 1950 the allied forces of world imperialism led by the United States launched an attack upon the infant and peaceful DPRK. It was during the Fatherland Liberation War (25 June 1950 - 27th July 1953) that KIM IL SUNG with iron-willed determination and flexible tactics repulsed and ultimately defeated the so-called invincible United States, the south Korean puppets and the various foreign mercenaries (like the UK forces) in July 1953. The US imperialist aggressors were forced at Panmunjom to sign an armistice agreement without any kind of victory, this was a demonstration of Songun Politics in action.


The Key to success in both in the Fatherland Liberation War and in the miraculous reconstruction of the DPRK after the war was that all problems were solved with the KPA at the centre. The Chollima movement of overcoming all difficulties in the way of building socialism in Korea upon the ashes of war,was the perfect embodiment of the revolutionary sentiment of the KPA troops.


KIM JONG IL (born 16th February 1942) was born and raised among the battles of the anti-Japanese war. KIM JONG IL spent His later childhood witnessing the destruction caused by the yankee imperialists to Korea in the Fatherland Liberation War. Even at a young age KIM JONG IL saw the importance of studying military matters as a means of strengthening the Korean Revolution. KIM JONG IL for instance spent 40 days directing an intensive military training drill at Oun-dong in August 1962. In the early 60s KIM JONG IL had the revolutionary slogan put up "Let us train, study and live just like the anti-Japanese figthers did!" In His actions KIM JONG IL demonstrated the unity between theory and practice by becoming a crack marksman and a accomplished fighter pilot.


The aggressive essence of US imperialism was vividly shown in the Caribbean crisis and with the Gulf of Tonkin incident of the 1960s. It was in this environment that KIM JONG IL began the task of systematizing Songun Politics in the 60s. An early thesis of KIM JONG IL on Songun was the work "THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN IMPERIALISM & ITS AGGRESSIVE NATURE" published in 1962. Many KPA veterans at the time called KIM JONG IL the Young General or said that Korea had produced another Great General, a brilliant General who is expert of both the Gun and the Pen.


If we take the take a look at the experiences of socialist revolutions and anti-imperialist movements in history, two elements are vital for a revolution's survival, its ideological and military defence. The Paris Commune of 1871 was overcame by superior means, the 1916 Easter Uprising in Dublin, Ireland was suppressed by British colonialism and the Allende government in Chile was overthrown by the reactionary military in September 1973, to name just a few examples. The successful revolutions are the ones which are able to defend themsleves by any means necessary, such as the Cuban revolution for instance. Songun Politics can seen as the summary of the background of the oppressed peoples everywhere for independence and peace.


Songun Politics are rooted in the Juche Idea. Juche is the philosophical basis of Songun. As I elucidated eariler on, Songun Politics is based on the experiences of the Workers Party of Korea. Songun Politics starts from the standpoint that man is the master of everything in the world and everything serves him/her. Songun has the underlying features of independence, creativity and consciousness in its world outlook. It is this spirit of novelty that KIM JONG IL devoted His foremost attention to military issues. To build up the KPA as the main force means precisely to build up the Party, State and People of socialist society as powerful subjects. A remarkable feature of Songun Politics is the theory of the main force of the revolution, the strike force for gaining independence. This theory of a main revolutionary force is a topic not covered by Marxist classics. I have gained an understanding of this essential strand of Songun Politics by studying the work of KIM JONG IL "THE SONGUN-BASED REVOLUTIONARY LINE IS A GREAT REVOLUTIONARY LINE OF OUR ERA AND AN EVER-VICTORIOUS BANNER OF OUR REVOLUTION" published in January 29th 2003 and from my discussions with prominent DPRK academics during my stay in Korea in July 2009.


To set the record straight Songun views the working class as the ruling class of the DPRK and the WPK as the leading political organisation of Korean socialism. It is the working masses who are the masters of everything in Juche Korea. The theory of a main force is the distinctive contribution of Songun Politics to revolutionary ideology and practice. Now it is the KPA which is the main force of the Korean Revolution, the Peoples Army is in the forefront of the anti-imperialist front in the DPRK and cannot be replaced with another force.


Songun Politics requires a strengthening of the ideological revolution. This task is performed in the shape of the revolutionary soldier spirit, establishing a monolithic ideological system throughout society. An important mission for the Korean Revolution is to make the population of the DPRK emulate the militant fervour of the KPA in their day-to-day lives, to follow the examples of the KPA heroes and heroines with a "match for a hundred foes" gusto. When the Army and Party decides to do something, anything is possible.


The position and role of the Leader, the decisive part the Supreme Commander plays in the structure of Songun is an imperative one. To ensure always the maintenance of the monolithic unity between the Leader,Party,Army and People for the common revolutionary purpose. As a indication of the significance of military affairs in the DPRK the National Defence Commission was made the leading state organ of the Republic, with General KIM JONG IL as the Chairman of the DPRK's NDC.This constitutional change was carried out by the 10th Supreme Peoples Assembly session in September 1998.


Increasingly the KPA is defending and developing Korean socialism to new heights. The KPA is at the core of all victories and successes gained by the Korean Revolution. Songun Poilitcs safeguarded the DPRK aganist imperialist and dominationist attempts to isolate and eradicate Peoples Korea, particularly at the time of the "Arduous March" and the "Forced March" of the late 1990s. At this critical moment when the Korean Revolution faced the issue of its survival, KIM JONG IL made the winning declaration of the Songunization of Korea. KIM JONG IL on the first new year's day after the passing away of President KIM IL SUNG gave-on -the spot guidance despite heavy snowfalls on 1st January 1995. In the period of the later 1990s KIM JONG IL visited 480 KPA units, amounting to an amazing 48,000 miles. KIM JONG IL has never stopped getting guidance to the main revolutionary force, KIM JONG IL is always with the officers and men of the glorious KPA wherever the Peoples Army is stationed.


During the time of hardships in the 1990s Korean Socialism became much renewed and stronger due to KIM JONG IL's leadership. Where others would have surrendered and gave in to the enemy, the DPRK upheld the red flag of Socialism and Communism even higher with the weapons of Songun at the front. Now Korea is regarded as the bulwark of socialism and the beacon of hope by all progressive peoples across the world.


The vitality of Songun Politics has been verified in the vast improvement of the living conditions of the working masses in the DPRK. Over the decade (2000-2010) the DPRK has attained a number of outstanding achievements in the strategic objective of building a powerful and prosperous socialist nation. Songun Korea has set itself the goal of reaching the target of a strong and rich independent socialist country by 2012- the centenary year of the birth of the Respected President KIM IL SUNG. All the Korean people are following the spirit of Kanggye, a town in the extreme north of the DPRK where KIM JONG IL introduced the method of turning adversity into blessings during His on-spot guidance there.


Major factories have been modernized and made more efficient. Large,medium and small sized hydroelectric power stations have been constructed throughout the DPRK. The information technology revolution is being implemented into everyday use, the DPRK manufactures its own computers and has the Koryo mobile phone network. The DPRK launched the satellites Kwangmyongsong No1 & No2 by its own means The infrastructure of Pyongyang and other DPRK cities was improved in the past ten years, in Pyongyang Manusdae Street was constructed in honour of the WPK's anniversary. There has been more productive use been made of the countryside with the land rezoning and realignment initiative. In Kangwon province alone more 1,760 hectares of new arable land have been obtained through realignment. The 150 day campaign in 2009 was a great success for the DPRK with industrial production at a record high of 1-2 fold increase as compare to the rate of industrial growth in 2008.The soldiers of the KPA completed the construction of 100 miles of road, 273 structures, 27 pavilions and many other economic tasks. The KPA have carried out the order of their Supreme Commander to improve the people's living standards.


The ideological content of literature and art has become more revolutionary,innovative and dynamic over the past decade. At the head of this new Songun cultural offensive is the Merited State Chorus of the Korean Peoples Army. Such as rousing songs as "No Motherland without YOU","Hold High The Red Flag"and "Led By YOU,We Will Win" are the emblematic anthems of victory and glory composed in the 1990s. The KPA Chorus produced in 2002 an epic musical suite devoted to the history of Army-First Revolutionary Poitics entitled "A Long Journey of Songun". Indeed the KPA Merited State Chorus is the melodic standard bearer of the Songun Age inspiring the Korean People to greater successes in their efforts to defend and construct Korean-style Socialism.


A spectacular artistic achievement of the Songun Revolution was the production of the mass game "Arirang". This mass gymnastics and artistic performance has gone down in the World Guiness Records Book has being the largest mass game in the international chronicle of such events. In total something like 100,000 artistes and athletes performed in the "Arirang". "Arirang" reached new levels of sophistication with the use of DPRK-made computer graphics and lasers in forming the various wonderful illuminations in the May Day Stadium. Another area where the Songun cultural revolution is making its presence felt, is in the field of documentary and feature films, made by the Korean Film Studios and the April 25th Film Studio. A remarkable DPRK feature film which I viewed recently was about the gold medal winner Jong Song OK at the Women's Marathron Race at Sevilla, Spain on August 29th 1998. From watching this movie I got the impression that Jong Song OK seemed to exemplified the fighting ethos of heroic Songun Korea in her determination to win the race with the Great General always in her mind.


Peoples Korea has stood in confrontation with US imperialism for well over 65 years now. Sometimes this has been a conflict with bullets and at other times a war of words and nerves. The DPRK to put in these terms is facing on a daily basis the threat of invasion, the same sort of threat experienced by Britain in the summer of 1940 from the forces of Nazi Germany.The army and people of Korea certainly have nerves of steel to have dared to resist the empire of terror and greed for so many decades.


The first and foremost accomplishment of Songun Politics was to halt US ambitions to stifle the DPRK and to dominate the world community. After the collapse of the USSR and its Warsaw Pact allies, the US imperialists focused their attention upon the DPRK with the clear intention of destroying the outpost of socialism and independence.With the end of "Cold War Era" US imperialism became more belligerent with interventions against Panama,Somalia,Serbia,Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States has had a long bloody catalogue of aggression within something of the region of over 200 invasions in small and developing countries since 1945.


In the 1990s the US military came up with such nuclear war stratagems aimed at the DPRK as Operation 5027 and carried out large scale exercises like "Team Spirit" and "Rimpac". US neo-conservatives spoke with a lot of arrogance about the dawning of "A New American Century" and "globalization based upon the US model". The ruling circles of the USA thought that the "peaceful transition strategy away from socialism to capitalism" would work with the DPRK as it did with some other countries.


The semi-war situation announced by KIM JONG IL in March 1993 smashed to pieces these ventures of the US imperialists to destabilize the DPRK. Later on in October 1994 the US was forced by the Songun politics to the negotiating table and signed the Framework Agreement on the nuclear issue with the DPRK. The US had to recognize the reality of the existence of Socialist Korea as a independent and dignified nation, as a equal partner in the DPRK-US talks. As a consequence of the Songun Politics of KIM JONG IL the prospects for Korean reunification became brighter with the signing of the north-south statement on June 15th 2000 in Pyongyang.


As KIM JONG IL stressed that the bellicose nature of imperialism does not change. The truth of KIM JONG IL's affirmation in regard to imperialism's essence can be seen in recent developments on the Korean peninsula. To succeed in the revolution one must be fully prepared and vigilant.


The United States and the Lee Myoung Bak clique have cooked up the "Chenan" without any form of evidence. Lee Myoung Bak group and its US backers are making new attempts to isolate the DPRK even further by internationalizing Chenan at such bodies as the UN Security Council. The Seoul regime wants to apply more pressure against the DPRK in the form of "PSI" and other punitive sancitions.Approximately there are 40,000 US troops stationed in south Korea and about 1,000 US nuclear arms pointed at the DPRK. Despite some expectations for change, the Obama Administration has carried on the warmongering attitude of its predecessors in respect to north Korea with the US carrying out in the spring of 2010 the mock "regime change" exercise "Foal Eagle/Key Resolve".


In the Songun era the weapons of the KPA, the guns of the working class have been perfected under KIM JONG IL's Leadership. The DPRK has acquired a nuclear deterrent by its own means, Korea successfully tested two atomic devices in October 2006 and in May 2009. It is an achievement of the Songun Revolution the the Korean Peoples Army now has a weapons capability equal to the imperialists, with advanced weapons systems ready to be used against the aggressor. But the greatest strength of the KPA is in the high ideological and technical quality of its soldiers, who are superior to the class and national enemies of the Korean people.


Songun made the possibility of Korea's peaceful and independent reunification a reality. The north and south of Korea were starting to cooperate in many areas of mutual concern. Many Koreans in the north, south and overseas rallied around the patriotic banner of "By-Our-Nation-Itself", that is to gain the reunification by the efforts of the Korean people as a independent entity free from outside interference. Songun Politics has given the south Korean people the courage and self-respect to struggle for Peace, Reunification and Democracy aganist the tyranny of the Lee Myoung Bak regime.


Songun Politics are an inspiration to the various anti-imperialist nations, movements and parties worldwide. That it is feasible for those who are conflict with imperialism to resist and overcome the hegemonists. Countries which have had contradictions with imperialism such as China, Cuba, Iran,Venezuela,Myanmar,Zimbabwe, Sudan,Libya, Syria and Belarus have devoted much more of their attention to the importance of military affairs in the national life during the past decade.


As a result of Songun Politics many countries which formerly hostile to the DPRK have established diplomatic relations with Peoples Korea between the years of 2000 to 2004. A big cluster of EU member states including the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy have now got DPRK embassies in their capital cities. The trend for trade and cultural cooperation with the DPRK from business and aesthetic circles in the capitalist nations have grown considerably in the Songun era.


Songun Politics have become a subject for study and emulation among diverse progressive and anti-imperialist groups across the world. In many countries around the globe ,organisations are being founded committed to the study and dissemination of Songun Politics. For instance there is the UK Association for the Study of Songun Politics, the US Songun Study Group, the Ukrainian Treasured Sword of Songun Association, the Ugandan Songun Study Association and many other groups and associations throughout the world. From the ghettos of Bogota to the foothills of Kathmandu, the flame of Songun lit on the Mount Paektusan is now illuminating the way forward for all those fighting injustice and oppression, for independence.


The greatest memorial to the brilliant legacy of President KIM IL SUNG has been the preservation and consolidation of Korean style socialism by Chairman KIM JONG IL. Socialist Korea under the Revolutionary Songun Leadership has gained something really distinctive, that is a society which has achieved harmonious unity and a degree of egalitarianism unknown elsewhere in the world. On the Glorious 50th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary Songun Leadership,the future for Korea is a extremely bright one under the guidance of the Great General KIM JONG IL.





11.07.2010


( notes about the author : Shaun Pickford is the Secretary of the Group for the Study of the Juche Idea of Britain, he has been a member of the Group for 17 years. Shaun Pickford has visited the DPRK four times in total, the last time being in July 2009)