Songun politics
Songun politics
Immortal Songun idea and great
Songun politics shine all over
the world
North Korea, the only invincible Songun citadel, is highlighted as a beacon of hope in the world. The Songun revolutionary idea initiated by President Kim Il Sung, the great man of the 20th century, and the Songun politics that adopted by leader Kim Jong Il, sun of the 21st century, are brightened as a beacon of humanity and almighty sword of the Juche revolution.
Founding of the great Songun idea
President Kim Il sung, the eternal sun of Juche, fathered the Songun revolutionary idea of giving prominence to the military affairs and consistently maintained it in the whole course of leading the Korean revolution since he embarked on the road of revolution in his teenage years.
The foundation of Songun revolutionary idea and its materialization is produced in the 60-year-long confrontation with barbarous US and Japanese imperialism that are armed to the teeth and with aggression and wickedness as their nature.
The Korean revolution, which was aimed at national liberation by crushing the Japanese imperialism and realization of national independence, was faced with the enemy that was armed with up-to-date ammunition and mad for colonial domination from the outset.
At the time the Korean forerunners and organizations appealed “petition,”“compromise” and “reform” to the international community and big powers and the doctrine of nonviolence and pacifism were widely circulated throughout the world.
The resistances of Korean people were suppressed by ruthless Japan’s colonial policy and Korea was at a loss which way to go. They didn’t know with what they should wage arms resistance.
At this juncture, President Kim Il Sung clarified the Juche idea which said the Korean revolution should be achieved by the Korean nation themselves as masters. He put forward the revolutionary line of “oppose armed force with armed force, and resist counterrevolutionary violence with revolutionary violence.”
It became great path of the Juche-based Korean revolution. The birth of the idea of giving priority to the military affairs and the Songun revolutionary line was of great significance to be recorded in the Korean revolution and history of world communist movement.
When some Koreans requested the then Soviet Union to build a factory of hand grenade President Kim Il Sung led his comrades to the anti-Japanese armed resistance with the two pistols that were handed over from his father Kim Hyong Jik, an outstanding leader of the anti-Japanese national-liberation movement as an important asset.
At that time the President said the time has come, let us start our march for independence with these two pistols to help us and think that one day they will have multiplied to two thousand and then to twenty thousands.
Since then the President rallied comrades of like mind, organized the anti-Japanese Guerrilla Army by taking away arms of the Japanese imperialism and making weapons by themselves and realized Korea’s liberation through 15-odd years nationwide anti-Japanese struggle.
President Kim Il Sung consistently adhered to and implemented the policy of attaching great importance to the military affairs and the Songun revolutionary line in the whole process of his life.
The President paid primary attention to foundation of powerful regular army and advanced slogan reading “Go All Out For Victory in the War!” during the Korean War (1950-1953). The President put forth the self-defensive military line with contents training the entire army into a cadre army, modernizing the whole army, the arming of the entire people and the fortification of the country and the line of simultaneously carrying on the building up of economy and defense under contemptible abuses of modern revisionism, flunkeyism and dogmatism that were beginning to make its appearance throughout the world after victory of the Korean War. He carried out it unrelentingly with revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and strengthened the KPA as the strongest army in the world that realized the single-hearted unity between the leader and people.
It is attributable to the policy of giving priority to the military affairs and the Songun revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung, the peerless brilliant commander, who humbled the US arrogance for the first time in the world during the three-year long Korean War and drove it to downward path and defended the socialist system of Juche and national sovereignty by foiling the US aggressive moves in 40-odd year long-range confrontation with the US.
Some time ago, s senior researcher at Hawaii-based Eastern & Western Study Center commented that the US feared the arming of the north Korean people, the fortification of north Korea and a stronghold dubbing unity between the strong army and the people. It is by no means an accident that even the US Congress assessed the north Korean army is the first in the world which are equipped politically and militarily not only in striking strength and mobility.
President Kim Il Sung bequeathed the policy of attaching great importance to the military affairs, the invincible Korean Army and bulwark of socialism to leader Kim Jong Il.
President Kim Il Sung gave a pistol out of two young Kim Jong Il on July 10 1952, the 58th birthday of his father Kim Hyong Jik, saying that you would better take this pistol as continuation of revolution, keep it well as it was a pistol handed down from three generations of Mangyongdae family, you should not lay down the gun and the gun is a companion guaranteeing victory of the revolution.
And the President handed over the Songun revolutionary idea to the leader and laid solid foundation of army leadership, materializing the cause of army building with the leader when the President inspected the units of the KPA from the 1960s to 1980s.
President Kim Il Sung handed over the supreme commandership of the Korean People’s Army, the highest military position of the country, to leader Kim Jong Il and chairmanship of the DPRK National Defense Commission respectively on December 24, 1991 and April 9, 1993.
This was a historic event telling the great truth of idea of giving priority to the military affairs that the Juche revolutionary cause was started and won victory with guns and will be accomplished with it.
Indeed, President Kim Il Sung’s inheritance of Songun gun to leader Kim Jong Il is a remarkable feats to be registered in immortal history of Juche.
President Kim Il Sung’s foundation of the Songun revolutionary idea, its tradition and the cause of building the army are military and political miracles, the first of its kind in history of building of revolutionary armed force of the working class. It performed great contributions to accomplishment of the Juche revolutionary cause and victorious advance of the independent cause of humankind.
Indeed, the august name of President Kim Il Sung will shine with history of humankind as the initiator of the great Songun revolutionary idea.
Development of the great Songun politics
Leader Kim Jong Il, sun of the 21st century, developed the unique Songun politics in keeping with requirements of the times and opened up the Songun era on the basis of the policy of attaching great importance to the military affairs that fathered by President Kim Il Sung to cope with turbulent political military situation at the end of the 20th century.
The socialism was collapsed in former Soviet Union and other east European countries and a great change was taken place in the relations of the world political forces. Taking it as good advantage, the US-led reactionary forces of imperialism made frantic efforts to isolate and stifle north Korea, a bulwark of socialism.
The world reactionaries said that fate of north Korea is hanging in the balance and “its early collapse” was bandied about as an accomplished fact. It was on the crossroad of defending socialism or abandonment, safeguarding national sovereignty or fate of slavery.
At this crucial juncture, leader Kim Jong Il, brilliant commander of Mt. Baekdu,declared to the world that “Don’t expect any change from me.” He continued his long journey of the Songun revolutionary leadership with firm volition to accomplish the revolution with gun. In the process the Songun politics has been developed to the full stage that accelerate defending of socialism, building of a rich and prosperous country and the accomplishment of the cause of national reunification, making the Korean People’s Army the backbone of revolution.
As the leader already formulated, the Songun politics means giving priority to military affairs and making the Korean People’s Army the backbone of revolution, so as to beef up the driving force of revolution and vigorously promote national defense and socialist construction as a whole. <>The Songun politics enjoys absolute support from the progressive humanity. It is because it is a lucid political mode against imperialism to thoroughly advocates and defends national independence and the independent cause of country, nation and humankind. It is a political mode of embodying the requirements of Juche idea and theory that the ideological consciousness play decisive role in revolutionary struggle.
Leader Kim Jong Il traversed rigorous path at the head of the north Korean people, pursuing the Songun politics. He inspected more than 580 units of the Korean People’s Army and the routine accounted for about 126,000Kms during the last decade.
The leader frustrated the US imperialists’ move to strangle north Korea and safeguarded stronghold of socialism and north Korea’s sovereignty and dignity to conclude the “Arduous March” and forced march well known in the world. He also made springboard for building a powerful and prosperous nation, opened a turning phase of national reunification and made headway of the global independent cause.
A foreign expert on Korean affairs wrote in his article that three miracles have been performed in north Korea during the last decade. First, north Korea, which was nearly eliminated from the international arena, has distinguished itself as a state representing socialism, second, the north Korean people have overcome death and launched out into the building of a great prosperous powerful nation, third, the United States and the Western countries that tried to destroy north Korea in the past held out a hand of reconciliation to the country. The Voice of America said it is undeniable that in the world only north Korea stands face to face with the United States. North Korea tries to put down Washington that nobody dares to stand against it.
Now north Korea is highlighted in the world as country of the Songun politics. North Korea is an example and standard-bearer of all countries in the world which struggle against all sorts of injustice and war and for independence and justice.
Present era is shining as Kim Jong Il Songun era and proud era of accomplishment of the anti-imperialism for independence. The Songun idea and the Songun revolutionary cause of Juche that founded and successfully advanced by President Kim Il Sung is shining more brilliantly by leader Kim Jong Il. The 21st century will prosper as Kim Jong Il Songun era.
Long live President Kim Il Sung, and leader Kim Jong Il
Songun politics has a great tradition and meets the demand of the era in a Juche-oriented way (by Kim Ju-yeon)
1. Prelude
Seeing off the 20th century the Korean people as well as the world progressive humankind hoped that the 21st century would be an era vibrant with independence, peace, co-existence and prosperity.
But now war frenzy overwhelms the voice of rationalism and peace and unilateralism and destruction, not co-existence and prosperity, are rampant.
Because of our nation will of anti-US national independence and the might of Songun of north Korea the nation-wide movement for national independence and reunification in the Korean Peninsula gets momentum despite the US moves to stifle north Korea politically and militarily and quell the anti-American mood of the entire Korean nation.
The Songun idea and politics of north Korea are the master key to turn the 21st century started from the intricate situations into the one of independence and peace.
Why we should comprehend Songun well is because we must know north Korea correctly and cherish the pride of our nations great potentials, and thanks to north Koreas Songun politics, justice of the exciting era keeps its vitality and we can picture the future of the independence cause of mankind.
2. What is Songun?
The Songun politics of north Korea is to precede military affairs as the foremost one of the state affaires. In other words it is to increase the national defense capacity by giving priority to military affairs.
And to defend the homeland, revolution and socialism and push ahead with overall socialist construction energetically in reliance on the mettle and militant power of the People's Army.
This Songun politics is the embodiment of the Songun idea rooted from the tradition of the anti-Japanese struggle led by President Kim Il Sung.
The anti-Japanese struggle was enhanced to the full-fledged stage in the course of forming the Korean People's Revolutionary Army under the revolutionary banner of Arms against arms??/SPAN> since the aggressive moves of Japanese imperialism got more desperate.
President Kim Il Sungs anti-Japanese revolution was just the embodiment of the Songun idea.
The President pioneered the anti-Japanese revolution with gun-precedence and gun-philosophy holding the two pistols, the legacy from Kim Hyong Jik, the President??/SPAN>s father.
The idea of gun-precedence was originated from the anti-Japanese guerilla war commenced at the cost of lives to gain the arms.
Chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission Kim Jong Il inherited such gun-first idea, i.e. the Songun idea of President Kim Il Sung, developed it ideologically and theoretically and fathered the Songun politics, a political mode of socialism.
NDC chairman Kim Jong Il held up Songun which gives importance to the military affaires, not economy, and formularized it as a political mode of socialism when north Korea underwent the most severe hardships after President Kim Il Sung passed away, the US moves to strangle north Korea reached the extreme and its economy was under indescribable situation owing to the consequent natural disasters and the collapse of the socialist markets.
What is the newly emerged demand of the era in which the Songun idea and the Songun politics have been emerged?
The Songun politics, first of all, reflects the necessity of the era to build a powerful and prosperous state for every nation and country under the circumstances of the prevailing unilateralism.
And it represents the changed role of the classes and strata in the revolution and construction.
The independent era when the people emerged as masters of their own destiny and especially the new exciting era requires a higher-level independent subject and upholds it.
It is nothing other than the revolutionary army in the Songun politics which gives priority to the military affairs.
It has been proved that the army displays the independent character in a higher level as a militant group full of high loyalty to the leader, revolutionary character and discipline, and a group that undertakes both the revolution and construction.
3. The revolutionary soldier spirit
The spirit passing through the Songun idea and Songun politics is the revolutionary soldier spirit.
This spirit consisted of the spirit of devotedly defending of the leader, devotedly implementing the leader??/SPAN>s intention and orders and heroic self-sacrifice.
Its might was clearly proved in the spirit of being human bombs, devotedly implementation and the mass heroism, which prevailed throughout the army appalling the US during the period of the Arduous March.
The revolutionary soldier spirit strikingly strengthens the subject of revolution through the absolute loyalty to the headquarters of the revolution and the militant and comradely unity.
The unity of the comrades with the guns is based on the revolutionary soldier spirit of the Songun era and is stronger than the like of which has existed in history of humankind.
The revolutionary soldier spirit became the spirit of a firm conviction and volition for the revolution and construction and optimism for the future.
4. Conclusion
The Songun idea and Songun politics are the idea and politics which lead the new stage of the Juche era.
The Songun idea and Songun politics are a great banner that the Korean nation and the entire humankind should support and hold up in order to put down the imperialists. craziness and add the luster to the 21st century as a century of independence, peace and prosperity.
The Songun politics is a politics realizing the core spirit of the Juche idea (By Kim Hyun-hwan, head of the Institute of the Independent Ideas in US)
The main contents of all the works of President Kim Il Sung and NDC chairman Kim Jong Il are that the politics which defends and realizes independence of a country, nation and people, the subject of social reform is the most scientific and powerful policy.
President Kim Il Sung formed the armed forces first, not a party, from the outset of the anti-Japanese struggle and waged the struggle for the national liberation in reliance on the military power.
In particular the north Koreans struggle for safeguarding Juche socialism in the 1990s graphically demonstrated the important role the armed forces play in defending the country, nation and the destiny of the people.
The north Korean army and people have pursued the Songun politics single-heartedly uniting around the leader under the do-or-die will to defend Juche socialism to the end.
In this course the Songun politics was completed as a major political mode of north Korea and the Songun era has been emerged in which the social reform and socialist construction are proceeded in conformity with the requirement of the Songun politics.
And then the Songun politics became a powerful weapon in north Korea for safeguarding independence of the country, nation and people and realizing the countrys prosperity.
In retrospect to the 1990s it is proved that the military might is just socialism and independence, a lifeline of humankind.
It is a clear evidence of the might of the Songun politics that the US has invoked aggressive wars against sovereign states throughout the world but never dared to provoke a war against north Korea.
The reality shows that the military capabilities of north Korea are the powerful weapon which steadily keeps the fundamental principles of the revolution of Juche socialism.
The Songun politics is the most powerful politics that realizes the countrys prosperity by virtue of the revolutionary soldier spirit, the most revolutionary spirit.
The revolutionary soldier spirit comprises the spirit of devotedly defending the leader and single-mindedly uniting around him, the spirit of implementing the tasks to the last surmounting every difficulty and the spirit of the heroic sacrifice.
It is a lofty spirit symbolizing the Songun era and an ideological and spiritual weapon creating miracles in the social reform and socialist construction.
The Songun politics is a politics of loving the country, nation and people with the true love and trust for the people as the fundamental spirit.
The Songun politics of north Korea is a benevolent politics based on the infinite love and trust toward the people.
It is originated from the noble love to safeguard the people's destiny from the aggressive moves of the imperialist allied forces, and guarantee more independent and creative life for them.
President Kim Il Sungs spirit of ever-victoriousness when relying on the strength of the army and people overflows the principles of the Songun politics.
For the north Korean people the Songun politics is their lifeline.
The Songun politics will surely succeed for it enjoys the absolute support and trust of the people.
Songun politics rallying the people as one in mind through love, trust and obligation (Kim Sok-hun, researcher of the Institute of the Independent Ideas in US)
For a social reform movement the single-minded unity of the people rallied around the leader is more powerful than nuclear weapons.
North Koreans pioneered a new phase in history of unity by creating a single-minded unity unprecedented for its character, solidity, scale and roots of the unity.
North Koreas single-minded unity is a unity based on the genuine love and trust between comrades sharing the same ideology and intention, a unity which gets more resplendent in a time of trial, not withers, and a unity glorious with 80 year-long history and root from the anti-Japanese struggle.
It is characterized by a unity in idea, purpose and moral obligation, which combines in an organic manner the unity of the army and people centering on the leader with single idea, the Songun idea, with the unity of the revolutionary comradeship and obligation.
Leader Kim Jong Il, center of this unity, is the highest incarnation of the comradeship and a genuine human possessed of faithfulness, generosity and plenty of affection.
The north Korean leader boasts very often of the people saying that were blessed with the people and there is no such a good people in the world as ours, and the people hold President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il in high esteem holding that they are blessed with the great leaders.
Its another unique trait of north Korea to wholeheartedly sing of the boast of the leader and people.
The loyalty of the north Korean army and people, who trust in the leader and follow him more ardently in the severe times, is based on their absolute confidence in leader Kim Jong Il, an incarnation of love, trust and obligation.
For the north Korean army and people the acknowledgement of the greatness of their leaders is not a knowledge gained by learning but a faith and obligation they realized from experience.
That is why the north Korean people consider the devotedly defending of the leader as the lifeline of the single-minded unity and are full of desperate volition to defend the leader regarding the death on the way as an honor.
The north Korean single-minded unity was emerged from the beginning of the revolution as a new type of unity quite different from all other unities in its ideological basis and nature.
The young revolutionaries of the first generation were attracted ideologically and intentionally by President Kim Il Sung and personally fascinated by him and created the brilliant stage of the single-minded unity by rallying firmly around him with ardent love, trust and faithfulness under the Hanbyul spirit.
Though the Korean revolution underwent manifold trials and hardships north Koreas single-minded unity has never changed but consolidated as a peerless adamant and pure crystal through experiencing all the difficulties and trials.
North Korea military deterrent is further strengthened thanks to the single-hearted unity.
The north Korean army and people will rally more firmly around leader Kim Jong Il with comradely love, trust and faithfulness and bring about peace on the Korean Peninsula by checking the nuclear war of the imperialist allied forces and concluding a peace pact with the US.
Songun politics is a politics guaranteeing peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula (By Kim Hyun-hwan, head of the Institute of the Independent Ideas in US)
The Songun politics initiated by NDC chairman Kim Jong Il is a patriotic politics which safeguards not only the socialist system of Juche but also peace of the entire Korean Peninsula and dignity and interests of the nation.
The ever growing enthusiasm for the national reconciliation, unity and reunification originates in essence from the might of the Songun politics.
North Korea Songun politics is a treasured guideline to have our nation reject outsiders domination and interference in solving the countrys reunification problem, and steadily adhere to the principle of national independence.
Since north Korea Songun politics reliably guarantees peace and reunification cause of the Korean Peninsula despite of the US intervention, our nation is developing the reconciliation and cooperation true to the spirit of the national cooperation of By our nation itself.
North Korea Songun politics replete with indomitable spirit not to tolerate any foreign aggressors or anti-reunification forces at home have all the fellow countrymen cherish the national pride and firm conviction of the victory of the reunification cause and the entire nation self-confidently develop the reunification cause on an independence track.
The entire 70 million Koreans have begun to believe that as far as north Korea possesses the war deterrent consolidated by the Songun politics the US wont dare to trigger a war in the Korean Peninsula and Korea reunification will surely be realized.
The Songun politics is a politics which further strengthens the unity of the independent patriotic forces for reunification.
It is also a politics of national unity and a patriotic politics embodying the spirit of love and trust embracing all the fellow countrymen. The Songun politics safeguards the entire nation from any imperialist aggression by strengthening the defense capabilities.
Though a lot of tribulations and trials lay on the way of our nation struggling for independent reunification, no force on earth can stem the swift stream of the era of independent reunification, advancing under the spirit of By our nation itself as long as there is Songun politics, a guideline for national independence and unity.
The 70 million fellow countrymen should conduct more dynamically the reunification movement and make this year which marks the 5th anniversary of the publication of the June 15 joint declaration and the 60th anniversary of the country??/SPAN>s liberation as the year of reunification, with the unwavering belief that as long as there is the Songun politics no war can be broken out on the Korean Peninsula and the independent reunification, the nations desire, will surely be realized.Songun politics of great Marshal Kim Jong Ilis the banner for world’s independence
Paper presented by AINDFSK to UK Songun Conference 30th July 2005The Songun politics pursued by great Marshal Kim Jong Il is not only a powerful treasured sword which reliably safeguards dignity and sovereignty of the Korean nation and defends peace and security of the Korean Peninsula but also a banner promoting the realization of the world’s independence dynamically.
Marshal Kim Jong Il who brilliantly inherited the Songun idea and traditions pioneered by great President Kim Il Sung in the period of the anti-Japanese armed struggle put up “independence plus Songun” as the highest philosophy of the Korean nation and a vital requirement of the whole nation, realized the single-minded unity of the leader, party and people of Korea with credit and opened wide avenue for building a prosperous powerful nation and reunifying the country independently.
The heroic mettle of the Korean army and people who are advancing under the uplifted red flag of Baekdu smashing the US-led imperialists’ moves to isolate and strangle Korea, closely rallying around the great Marshal even under the hardest conditions, renders unlimited inspiration and encouragement to the AINDF vanguards, the south Korean people and the world’s progressives.
From the outset of the new century the humankind’s aspiration to live independently and peacefully on the principle of independence and equality against the US unilateral hegemony moves emerges worldwide as stronger as ever and the struggle for independence against the US forms a main stream of our times.
Today’s reality in which the US desperation for world hegemony under the signboard of counterterrorism is more pronounced proves that the Songun politics of Korea which incomparably enhances the country’s defense capabilities on the principle of giving precedence to military affaires and the national defense, frustrating the US war provocations and proudly demonstrating its prestige and dignity on the international arena, is really the most powerful and realistic mode of politics in our times.
Korea, even in the acute on-going showdown between the DPRK and the US in regard to the nuclear issue, daringly declared on February 10 that it had already possessed nukes and further proposed on March 31 to hold nuclear disarmament negotiations on an equal footing with the big nuclear powers.
Though the US invaded and occupied former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq unlawfully styling itself as the only super power after the collapse of the USSR and other East European socialist countries, its former rivals, now it is in a tight corner in the political and military confrontation with Songun Korea, struck by its powerful anti-US independent stand.
The world’s progressive humankind looks up to Korea which wins only victory in its showdown with the US and exalts its dignity, and makes efforts to study and embody the Songun politics with great attention realizing that the dignified reality of Korea is attributable to the might of Marshal Kim Jong Il’s Songun politics.
The staunch principles evidenced during the DPRK-US showdown and their basis, the Songun politics affect the policy toward the US of the neighboring powers a great deal.
These powers reject the US unilateral aggression and war moves, give priority to strengthening the national independent defense capabilities and strive to form a strong solidarity front against the US on the regional and world dimension.
The independent stance of several European countries which refused to give helping hands to the US invasion on Iraq become an important political tendency to promote a multi-polar system of the world based on the individual independent defense capacity in confrontation with the US unilateral world domination strategy.
Many countries in the Middle East, Central and South Americas and Africa influenced by the Songun politics of Korea step up their efforts to strengthen the military power providing against the US aggression and map out the independent nuclear development program and develop the nuclear energy industry ambitiously.
With the increasing worldwide interest in the Songun politics the enthusiasm to recognize it as a powerful mode of politics to confront the US unilateral hegemonic domination and study it gets momentum in the third world countries and different delegations visit Korea to study the Songun politics and upgrade the military cooperation with it.
Driven by the growing anti-US independence trend among the countries greatly inspired by the Songun politics, the US gets more isolated in international institutions and political arena and its unilateralism and hegemony policy face increasing condemnation from most of the countries of the world, even from its allied ones, and doomed to failure.
It can be said also that the denunciation of the US in the international institutions and the strengthening of the south-south cooperation, regional unity and multilateralism among the progressive countries are associated with the rising voice for independence against the hegemony in the world due to the impact of the formidable anti-US offensive and high-handed attitude toward the US by Songun Korea.
The reality that the US faces opposition and denunciation everywhere though it deploys some 300,000-strong troops throughout the world and spends the military budget tantamount to that of all the countries’ military expenses combined now, demonstrates that only by pursuing the Songun politics can it be possible to defeat the US and build a new world, independent, prosperous and peaceful.
Along with the patriotic struggles of the peoples in south Korea, Iraq and other regions against the US military occupation and for national independence, and the ever intensifying aspiration of anti-US independence throughout the world, the US aggression and war moves for unilateral world domination will face but destruction and the just cause of humankind for a peaceful and independent new world will surely emerge victorious.
For the European countries it is of paramount importance in realizing the world’s independence against the US hegemony strategy to conduct united anti-US independent action.
Let the world progressives including the European people strengthen their military capabilities in all ways in close unity under the banner of Songun, smash the US policy of strength by their strong military power and build a new independent and peaceful world free of the US occupation, domination, murder and exploitation!
Long live the great Songun idea and Songun politics!