President Kim Il Sung Provides Historic root of Songun
Politics
Songun politics is the symbol of dignity and
honor and the ever-victorious sword of socialist
The President put forward the Songun idea and
the Songun revolutionary line.
In June 1930 when Korea was under the Japanese
imperialists¡¯ occupation he set out the high priority arms idea, or the Songun
idea, that calls for meeting counterrevolutionary violence with revolutionary violence
and maintains that the armed occupationists can be only driven out with arms. And
at the same time, he put forward the line of the anti-Japanese armed struggle
based on the idea.
Afterwards, the Songun idea and the Songun
revolutionary line he had embodied in the crucible of the anti-Japanese
struggle developed in depth ceaselessly in the course of the revolutionary
struggle of several stages.
In the period of building a new society after
the country¡¯s liberation (August 15, 1945) the idea and theory of building the
party and the state on the principle of giving prominence to arms and keeping
military affairs ahead of all other work were put forth. In the period of the
Fatherland Liberation War (the 1950-1953 Korean War), the idea and theory of
concentrating all efforts of the country on strengthening the People¡¯s Army
into the leading force for victory in the war and ensuring the success of its combat
action were advanced. In the period after that they have been developed and
enriched to be those of relying upon the People¡¯s Army to defend the destiny of
the Party, the state and the people and push ahead with socialist construction.
President Kim
Il Sung founded a revolutionary armed force and strengthened and developed
it into an invincible force.
He founded the Anti-Japanese People¡¯s Guerilla
Army (AJPGA) on April 25, 1932.
In March 1934, he formed the Korean People¡¯s Revolutionary
Army (KPRA) by reorganizing the AJPGA, thus further increasing the might of the
guerilla army. And in the latter half of the 1930s and in the first half of the
1940s he saw to it that multifarious forms of military and political activities
were conducted vigorously including large-unit operations and small-unit or
group activities, so as to firmly prepare men of the KPRA to be competent military
and political cadres.
The situation of the country in the immediate
post-liberation days was very complicated. But so far as military affairs were concerned,
he did not yield a single point, but gave priority to them.
Five days after the country¡¯s liberation from
Japanese colonial rule, that is, on August 20, 1945 he gave instructions as to
building a regularized revolutionary armed force with the anti-Japanese
fighters as its backbone. He set up the Pyongyang Institute (a military
institute) in November in the same year and the Central Security Officers
School the following year and made sure that the military and political cadres
of the units of all branches of arms and services needed for the building of
regular armed force were trained in a short span of time. As a result, the KPRA
strengthened and developed into the Korean People¡¯s Army, a regular armed force,
on February 8, 1948 prior to the founding of the Democratic People¡¯s
In the postwar days, he saw to it that the KPA
creditably took on the appearance as an army having taken over the patriotic
traditions of the anti-Japanese guerilla army and as an army strong in idea and
faith. In February 1963, he put forward the slogan of ¡°A-match-for-a-hundred¡±. By
so doing, he ensured that the training of the entire army into a cadre army and
the modernization of the army were propelled forward vigorously and that the People¡¯s
Army was converted into an invincible army.
President Kim
Il Sung built a self-supporting national defense industry.
In October 1945, only two months after the
country¡¯s liberation, he issued a statement entitled The Armament Industry of Our Own
Should be Established and gave instructions to set up ordnance factories
by the Koreans¡¯ own efforts and clarified the tasks arising in the building of
the armament industry. The preferential establishment of the national defense
industry became an important factor in preparing military equipment for the
People¡¯s Army, a regular army, and winning victory in the Fatherland Liberation
War.
In the postwar days, he put forth the line of
carrying on the building of the economy and defense in parallel as well as the
line of economic construction which envisaged giving priority to the growth of
heavy industry and simultaneously developing light industry and agriculture. On
this basis, he ensured that rapid progress was made in the national defense
industry.
This has enabled socialist
The exploits accomplished by President Kim Il Sung in providing the historic
root of Songun politics will shine forever along with socialist
