Meaningful solidarity activities of British friends

 

On the occasion of the 12^th anniversary of Marshal Kim Jong Il's assumption of the KPA commandership and the 86^th birth anniversary of Kim Jong Suk, anti-Japanese heroine, British friends conducted colorful celebration activities.

On last Dec.18, the UK Korean Friendship Association and the Juche Idea Study Group of England held a joint meeting to celebrate these memorial days.

Besides, the Association for the Study of the Songun Politics of the UK created memorial pages: "Glorious Supreme Commander of the People!" http://uk.geocities.com/juche007/supcom12.html and "Kim Jong Suk, Women General of Mt. Baekdu" http://uk.geocities.com/juche007/kimjongsuk.html on its website.

Their solidarity activities render great encouragement to our south Korean people who harbor endless reverence for the three great generals of Mt. Baekdu.

The NDFSK Mission in Pyongyang introduces the full text of the speech made by Dermot Hudson, Chairman of the Juche Idea Study Group of England, at the joint celebration meeting.

 

   Speech on the 12^th anniversary of Comrade Kim Jong Il's

assumption of the supreme commandership of the KPA

 

  Comrades and friends,

  Kim Jong Il's appointment as the supreme commander of the KPA on the 24th of December, 1991, marked a proud event which gave steady continuity to the history and tradition of the victorious Korean revolution shining thanks to the army.

  He has adorned the past decade full of ordeals with an immortal heroic epic, shouldering upon himself all the burdens of the Korean revolution and the socialist cause.

  It was under his leadership that the destiny of the homeland and the people was saved from the crossroads of life or death, the socialist cause firmly safeguarded, the stern ordeal during the "arduous march" victoriously overcome and a new era of Juche-oriented revolution opened up.

  It that period when he was elected supreme commander of the KPA many socialist countries collapsed and the US imperialists run amuck to strangle the DPRK under the pretext of the nuclear issue.

  The so called "nuclear crisis", which has lasted from the early 1990s up to this date, is the political and military showdown between north Korea and the United States, that is, a confrontation of strength between the anti-imperialist independent forces and the imperialists. The key to victory in this confrontation is victory in the ideological confrontation. This is just the maxim of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

  In the 1990s quite different with the 1960s, it was really serious matter that the anti-imperialist independent forces of the world could not unite against the imperialists' moves for invasion and war. North Korea could not but hold aloft the banner of socialism all alone. Throughout the international community there was neither ally nor supporter to north Korea in the anti-imperialist struggle. North Korean people should fight single-handed against the United States. Under that situation they needed to have new political mode and revolutionary line to further intensify the anti-imperialist struggle.

  Imperialists have increased pressure upon north Korea on the plea of nuclear issue and additionally the natural disasters repeated year by year, causing economic difficulties there. The Chairman had no alternative but winning in the ideological confrontation against imperialists.

  The acute contradiction between imperialist forces and anti-imperialist forces cropped out into the Cuban Crisis in the early 1960s, and the contradiction in the early 1990s produced the crisis on the Korean Peninsula. The Cuban Crisis was not a political and military crisis between Cuba and the United States, but a crisis between the former Soviet Union and the United States. And the crisis of the Korean Peninsula is the political and military confrontation between north Korea and the United States.

  The Cuban Crisis came to an end with the political defeat of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union sustained the political defeat at last, though it had powerful potentials enough to stand against the imperialist forces both politically and militarily during the Cuban Crisis. Why? It was mainly because Moscow abandoned the idea of independence to fight against the threat of war. The Soviet Union, which had physical force against the United States, was shoved by the United States' offensive. It has practically proved that the essence of the issue is not the physical force and that defeat in the ideological confrontation leads to defeat in the competition of physical power.

  Under the leadership of comrade Kim Jong Il a new mode of politics Songun or army-based politics has been created.

  DPRK has been able to defend its independence against the US imperialist efforts to strangle it under the pretext of the 'nuclear issue' even though it is a country of 22 million people. Far bigger countries than the DPRK gave into US Imperialism for example the USSR had an army of 3 million and the capability to destroy the USA several times over but in 1962 it capitulated to US imperialism during the Caribbean Crisis. It should also be mentioned that due to ideological weakness the USSR collapsed in 1991 without a shot being fired.

  The path covered by him to steer the Korean revolution as the supreme commander represented an immortal history in which an unprecedented unique army-based political mode was created and the new era of army-centered revolution dawned.

  The Korean people are loudly beating the drum of the drive to build a prosperous and powerful nation in a daring spirit and with optimism about future braving difficulties even under the present acute and complicated situation. This is a stirring reality brought about by the great army-based policy.

  Under comrade Kim Jong Il's wise leadership the work of consolidating the whole country as an impregnable bulwark capable of repelling any surprise attack of imperialists has been completed. As well as the KPA regular troops there are Worker Peasant Red Guards and the Red Young Guards.

  All the officers and men of the KPA and the people will as always win victory after victory flying high the flag of the supreme commander even if they may face such a trial as the "arduous march" and dynamically advance towards

  Comrade Kim Jong Il has conducted on the spot guidance. In the period of the "Arduous March" and "forced march" which lasted from September 1994 to December 1999 comrade Kim Jong Il gave on the spot guidance 247 times covering a distance of 129,000 km.

  He also led the army to establish the guiding system of the party within itself more thoroughly even in the circumstances in which the winds of non party and non politics are blowing.

  The Songun politics has achieved significant results:

  First of all, the Songun politics has made it possible to smash the designs of allied imperialist forces to stifle Korean-style socialism. After the collapse of the USSR and the East European socialist countries the US imperialists turned the spearhead of attack against the DPRK with the aim of creating a unipolar world under the total domination of capitalism. Thus the DPRK had to fight against the siege and oppression attack of the imperialists. Only by powerful armed forces was the DPRK able to counter the maneuvers of the US imperialism and achieve victory in the politico-military showdown with the American imperialists. In 1998 the US imperialists planned to attack the DPRK with the 5027 war plan but this was thwarted.

  The military power of the DPRK also provided real basing for the DPRK's independent diplomacy. Thus during the period of the Clinton administration the DPRK achieved many diplomatic victories.

Under army-first politics achievements have been made in the economic field-several major power stations including the 3rd largest in the world costing $8 billion to build plus many small and medium power stations have been constructed. Land realignment has been carried out. The Youth Hero Motorway from Pyongyang to Nampo was constructed. A total of 800 new structures have been created in the last 6 years.

Indeed because of the Songun revolutionary idea the DPRK has been able to take bold ,resolute and strong steps to defend its independence such as the reactivation of the independent nuclear power industry, the expulsion of the IAEA inspectors(in reality spies of US imperialism) and the withdrawal from the one sided and unjust NPT. Moreover the DPRK has taken a tough stance in the DPRK-US negotiations and early this year MIG 29s of the KPA Air Force successfully chased off a US spy plane thereby defending the skies of the Juche motherland from the US imperialist aggressors. These moves strike fear in to the hearts of the US imperialists and their followers but are applauded by the progressive people of the world and Juche idea followers throughout the world. These decisive moves of the DPRK in defending its independence are the fruit of the Songun Idea and the Songun revolutionary leadership of the great leader supreme commander Marshal Kim Jong Il.

Today supreme commander comrade Kim Jong Il is wisely leading the people and the army in the life and death confrontation with the imperialists. He is not only the supreme commander of the KPA but in effect the supreme commander of the world anti-imperialist front.

Let us celebrate with vigor the 12^th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's assumption of the supreme commandership of the KPA.