Real Nature of “Belligerent Nation”

Recently an American professor in his article raised a question whether it was true that the US could never exist without making war and gave five reasons why it continues to thrust itself into disputes of other countries.

He described the Americans as a “belligerent nation” and explained why the US is persistently engrossed in such foolish wars.

Five major reasons he cited are: the US has great capabilities to conduct war; it has no rival; there are a large number of professional soldiers; power organs take hold of everything; and Congress fails to do its duty.

However, he missed one basic reason. It is that he did not mention the history and political idea of the US.

The US espouses dominationism as its political idea, and to this end it adopts war as a weapon for its implementation.

Theodore Roosevelt, president of the US (1901-1909), had once asserted that some wars, when viewed from the aspect of protracted character, were more advantageous than peace. And his war theory has long been in effect in the US.

However, entering the new century, progressive classes in the US have looked forward to the settlement of peace, unlike the past 20^th century which was called a “century of war,” and strived to elect a peace-seeking president.

The Americans elected Barack Obama as their president in 2008, because he was reckoned to be different from his predecessors in the attitude toward the use of forces. During his election campaign Barack Obama promised to show the world a “new image of changed United States.” He meant that he would give up the policy of high-handedness, arbitrariness and unilateralism pursued by the Bush administration and show an “honest attitude of the United States” that cooperates with the world community.

No sooner had he taken office Barack Obama assumed quite different attitude by officially stating that the US would maintain its military superiority and push ahead with the “war against terrorism.” Then he persistently followed the road of further threatening and blackmailing the countries that advocate anti-imperialist independence including the DPRK and Iran.

Now the earth has the population of nearly 7 billion, and the US is going to turn this planet into a world dominated and maintained by it. This is its unchanged strategic target. In order to realize this ambition of dominationism it is running high fever in reckless reinforcement of armaments and manoeuvres of aggression and war against other countries.

Whoever is the host of the White House there can be no change in the orientation of the US policy of dominationism, and this has earned the Americans such a high “title” of “belligerent nation.”

However, the members of this “belligerent nation” are in a difficult situation.

Mammoth banks with a long history and good reputation have gone bankrupt one after another and large conglomerates merged with and sold to foreign businesses for financial difficulties, increasing the ranks of the unemployed.

A large proportion of state budget is being expended every year to pay the interest of national debt. The aggravating financial crisis, debt crisis, is driving the US economy into the worst-ever catastrophe. The main reason of the crisis is the reckless strategy of dominating the whole world and the corresponding expenditure of astronomical sum of money for armaments.

A Brazilian economist and sociologist said that the US has been reduce to the largest debtor nation in the world because it has squandered a large sum of money for wars like those in Afghanistan and Iraq, warning that its hegemonistic prestige would crumble in a few years.

Economists are of the opinion that in order for the US to tide over the current economic crisis it must trim military expenditure and divert that amount to economic recovery.

The incessant wars are claiming many lives of the “belligerent nation.”

It lost many lives in Korea, Vietnam and other places after WWII, and in the new century many Americans have become victims of the dominationist ambition and targets of anti-war forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

An American woman, known as “Mother of Anti-War Campaign,” wrote on her website over her son’s death in Iraq: My son’s death was meaningless; his homeland, now a war machine, deprived him of his precious life; so long, the United States; you were not the country I loved. 

Flames of Pochonbo

On June 4, 1937, flames flared up over the night sky of Pochonbo in the northern area of Korea. Under the commandership of General        Kim Il Sung, the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army (KPRA) made an assault on Pochonbo.

With Kim Il Sung’s signal shot, the KPRA guerrillas rushed into the city to strike the Japanese police substation and set fire to the sub-county office, fire hall and various other enemy’s administrative centres. In the streets floodlit by the flames sheets of the “Ten-Point Programme of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland,” made by the general, and “proclamation” were pasted, and leaflets and manifestos were scattered.

Shouting “Our army has come!”, “General Kim Il Sung is here!” and “Long live the independence of Korea!” the citizens suffering from the cruel oppression of the Japanese aggressors, thronged to the streets.   Kim Il Sung waved back to the cheers of the crowd and made a speech appealing for resistance against Japanese imperialism.

The Battle of Pochonbo was a great event that discouraged the Japanese imperialists who had been strutting as if they were the lords of Asia.

During their military occupation of Korea (1905-1945) the Japanese imperialists were making preparations for starting a war of aggression on the China proper by scheming the July 7 Incident(1937). To this end they intensified the fascist repression of the Korean people more than ever before, to solidify their rear. Especially they strengthened the guard around the northern border areas of Korea in an attempt to prevent the advance of the KPRA into the homeland and its influence on the Korean people at home.

The Pochonbo area was surrounded by a vast forest connected with the area of Changbai, China, the major theatre of the KPRA’s activities. So the Japanese imperialists set up over 20 police organs and built forts every two km and a new guard road along the border. It was, therefore, greatly significant that the KPRA broke through this strict cordon and made a gun shot behind it.

The Japanese army and police officers, who were struck by the attack like a bolt from the blue, confessed such things as, “We feel as if we had been struck hard on the back of the head,” and “We feel the shame of watching the haystack we had been carefully building for a thousand days go up in flames in an instant.” Mass media in Korea and foreign countries including Japan, China and the former Soviet Union reported the victory of the KPRA in its homeland advance under such banner headlines as, “Guerrilla Movement into the Northern Area of Korea” and “Guerrilla Warfare in the Northern Area of Korea.” The whole world was amazed by the fact that the Korean guerrillas had punished the Japanese imperialists severely on the frontier of Korea, a small colonized nation in the East.

The flames of Pochonbo heralded the dawn of the liberation of Korea, convincing the Korean people that Korea was still very much alive and that they were capable of fighting and achieving the liberation of Korea.

That was the darkest period for the Koreans. Under the brutal fascist oppression and depredatory atrocities of the Japanese imperialists the Koreans were forced the lot of medieval slaves.

All sorts of evil laws were produced so as to obliterate national characteristics in everyway.

Koreans were forcibly banned not only to speak and write in Korean but also to change their Korean names in Japanese style. The Korean nation literally stood at the crossroads of life and death.

At that time Kim Il Sung, commander of the KPRA, made an advance into the homeland toinfuse fresh life and courage into the Koreans’ spirit that was dying.

The Battle of Pochonbo encouraged the Korean people greatly. After the battle the independence movements became activated in the homeland, and the young people were eager to join the anti-Japanese guerrilla army. Koreans respected Kim Il Sung as their leader and savior of the national liberation and firmly believed that he would bring the day of liberation of Korea.

On August 15, 1945, Koreans at last liberated their country after defeating the Japanese imperialists.

Another historic significance of the Battle of Pochonbo was that it demonstrated at home and abroad a sure will of the Korean revolutionaries, who pioneered the revolution with arms and would advance it by dint of arms.

The battle was an ordinary raid, which combined the use of small arms and a speech designed to stir up public feeling. However, that small battle made a great impact on the world because it showed the truth that the armed imperialists and colonialists should only be fought with arms to emerge victorious in the revolution for national liberation.

In the initial days when he set out on the road of the revolution, Kim Il Sung discovered the truth of Songun that the military power guarantees the victory of the revolutionary cause and the national independence and prosperity. On its basis he set forth the line of the anti-Japanese armed struggle, and founded the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army (April 25, 1932), an armed force to carry it out. He constantly intensified the KPRA, led the anti-Japanese armed revolution to victory and finally achieved the liberation of Korea.

Leader Kim Jong Il carried forward the Songun ideology and cause of President Kim Il Sung and established the Songun politics in all fields of society, thereby safeguarding the socialist system in the DPRK from the vicious stifling offensive of the imperialist allied forces at the end of the 20th century and ushering in a new era of building a thriving socialist country.

Now the Songun revolutionary cause of the DPRK is firmly carried out by Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of the DPRK.

Leader Who Loves the Future

Everyone will choose Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader of Korea, as the most distinguished man in the international community.

His constant field guidance throughout the country is a focus of the attention of the world mass media.

The image of him treating the people with unreservedness, broad mind and composure warms the hearts of the people and captivates them.

What is the particular admiration of the people is his special love for the younger generation.

From olden times the love for children has been called the most devoted and positive love, and pure and beautiful feeling which cannot be faked or generated by force.

When Kim Jong Un visited Mangyongdae Revolutionary School on the lunar New Year’s Day this year, he patted the cheeks of the students shedding tears of joy and saw them taking meals for a long time, bestowing parental affection on them.

He saw to it that unprecedentedly large-scale celebrations of the anniversary of the Korean Children’s Union were held in June this year. At the celebrations he had friendly conversations with the delgates to the celebrations. His image was really impressive and enchanting.

While inspecting a Korean People’s Army unit defending the remote Jangjae Islet on the West Sea of Korea, he posed for a camera with a six-month-old baby in his arms, with a broad smile on his face.

When he called on a workers’ family that had moved to the newly-built modern Changjon Street, he taught their second son who was a primary school student how to draw pictures, sitting him on his lap.

When a splendid celebration conference was held in August to mark the Youth Day, he sent a message of congratulations to the participants in the conference and other young people across the country and posed for a camera with the delegates to the conference.

Children are the flowers and future of a country and nation.

Politics with regard to the younger generation has a decisive bearing on the destiny of the nation. 

President Kim Il Sung, the founding father of socialist Korea, saw to it that new school uniforms were supplied to the pupils and students all over the country. Much delighted to see the students in new uniforms, he took photographs of them for a long time, skipping his lunch. His image is still vivid in the memory of many people. That General Kim Jong Il sent a helicopter for the triplets in a mountain village is told like a legendary tale about his love for the younger generation. Their love for children is brilliantly inherited by Kim Jong Un.

It is not without reason that socialist Korea is winning victory after victory, remaining unshakeable in the severe upheavals of history.

Love for the rising generation springs up from warm love for humanity and firm belief in the future.

Love for children cannot be expected from a man without belief in the future, and if any, it will be nothing but hypocrisy or ostentation.

Love the younger generation and have confidence in victory!–this is Kim Jong Un’s outlook on the younger generation and on the future.

The international community sees the bright future of Korea in the image of Kim Jong Un who loves children warmly.

It is quite obvious that only victory and glory will be in store for the Korean people who are vigorously advancing towards the bright future under the leadership of Kim Jong Un.