Kim Jong Il highly praised

The vice chairman of the Central Committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea issued a statement on Dec. 24 last year on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il’s assumption of the supreme commandership of the Korean People’s Army and the 87th birth anniversary of anti-Japanese war heroine Kim Jong Suk.

Noting that holding Kim Jong Il in high esteem as supreme commander of the KPA was a great national jubilee of the Koreans and a historic event of epochal significance in accomplishing the cause of Juche the statement went on:

With Kim Jong Il holding the top post for defending the nation, the north rose as an invulnerable bulwark of Juche-oriented socialism frustrating the nuclear racket the US is kicking up in the new century, too, and an unconquerable fortress reliably defending the peace and security on the Korean Peninsula, winning the admiration of the world. As a result, the north is demonstrating its might as an ideologically and politically strong country and a military power dynamically advancing to attain the goal of building a great prosperous powerful nation.

The stirring reality in which the atmosphere of national reconciliation and unity prevails on this land despite the unprecedentedly strong tendency against the reunification of the country and the movement for independence against US mounting high thanks to the violent trend of independent reunification are ascribable to the Songun politics of Kim Jong Il who provided a landmark of reunification in the 21st century.

Therefore, it has become an irresistible mindset of the people to support and follow his Songun politics, an all-mighty treasured sword, on this land.

The revolutionary life of Kim Jong Suk was a glorious and brilliant life of a great loyalist, a great revolutionary and a great mother who held President

Kim Il Sung in high esteem as the sun of the nation, devoted her all to the struggle to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche and thus performed great feats that will shine long in history.

New Year message to south Korean people

The Central Committee of the National Democratic Front of South Korea released a New Year message to the south Korean people.

Last year was a year in which the democratic forces in south Korea registered noteworthy successes in the struggle to terminate the US colonial domination and military occupation and reunify the country by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation, the message noted and continued.

The struggle for national reunification last year clearly proved that the attitude and stand on the June 15 joint declaration is a touchstone distinguishing between patriotism and treachery and that implementing the joint declaration by the concerted efforts of all the fellow countrymen provides a short-cut to smashing the moves of the anti-reunification forces inside and outside Korea and bringing earlier the day of reunification.

This year is a significant year marking the 5^th anniversary of the historic June 15 South-North Joint Declaration and the 60^th anniversary of the liberation of the country.

It is necessary to wage a struggle for democracy this year with main emphasis on finally eliminating the pro-US ultra-right conservatives such as the Grand National Party that makes desperate efforts to topple the present government and hamstrings the process of progressive reform under the backstage manipulation of the US.

All movement organizations and people from all walks of life should strengthen the solidarity and unity in the struggle, conduct a dynamic and coordinated joint struggle, actively choose and steadily improve forms and methods of struggle which may attract popular masses’ sympathy and participation.