Kim Jong Un Inspects Ryomyong Street under Construction Again

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, provided field guidance to Ryomyong Street under construction again.

After arriving at the street construction site early in the morning, he watched the brightly illuminated street, his face beaming with a broad smile.

He said that the street looked wonderful in daytime, adding it looked spectacular in the dark, too. He was pleased with scenery, noting that words would fail to fully describe the beautiful and fascinating scene of the illuminated street.

He went round various parts of the street to learn in detail about its construction.

Learning that the outer walls of the 70-storeyed apartment house were successfully tiled in a short span of time in an impeccable manner by solving the scientific and technological issue arising in tiling outer wall in cold weather, he said that it looks very nice. It was a good idea to install solar panels on the sunny wall so that they may have decorative effect and generate electricity, he added.

He said that not only skyscraping apartment houses but also multi- storey apartment houses have been built in such a peculiar style that they have their features, stressing that Ryomyong Street where both architectural structures stand in good harmony is an icon and standard of Modern Avenue.

He said he felt as if he were seeing the happy people who would settle in Ryomyong Street. He noted he was very pleased to think that he became able to keep the promise he made to people to complete the construction of the street till the Day of the Sun and that he would soon share again joy with them. He called for doing whatever difficult job under any circumstances, if it is favored by the people and if it is in their interests.

He set forth tasks to be fulfilled to wind up the construction of the street.

Ryomyong Street, which is under way with self-reliance and self-development as the dynamic force, will shine as a street reflecting the Party's plan to build a powerful country without fail despite vicious obstructions of the U.S. imperialists and other hostile forces, a street built with the might of a harmonious whole of the Party and the masses, a street at a high-level of socialist civilization, a street demonstrating the inexhaustible economic potentials of Juche Korea and a fairyland in the era of the Workers' Party, which tells the world it can do anything if it has a will and live better than others in its style, he stressed.

He said only 30 days are left before the Day of the Sun.

He ardently called again upon all the builders to dash ahead like the wind towards the finish line and thus successfully builds the street as a monumental edifice in the era of the Workers' Party and strikingly demonstrates the invincible national power of socialist Korea.

Accompanying him were Hwang Pyong So, Kim Jong Gwan and Ma Won Chun.

What Will Be Trump’s Opinion?

Donald Trump pledged, when running for presidency, that he would do everything in his power to reduce unwarranted expenses including those for the upkeep of GIs abroad and prioritize domestic issues and the interests of American citizens. This earned for him the admiration of his fellow-citizens.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the successive presidents of the US had been pursuing policies based on emotions rather than reasons, on the force of habit rather than scientific judgment. They seemed too proud of the “American Empire” without recognizing the change of the times.

The same is true of its relations with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

The US has remained hostile to the DPRK over the past seven decades, out of its political ambition to dominate the whole of Korea. It would be too humiliating for the “sole superpower in the world” to make any concession to the small country, even though it swallowed a bitter pill each time. Its political judgment that the DPRK would collapse before long turned out to be foolish and subjective.

To look back, the US has threatened the DPRK with nukes for more than 70 years. This forced the latter to possess nuclear weapons of its own, even H-bomb. After all, the US invited the scourge of nuclear threat against itself.

Trump is well advised to understand this stark reality. It is uncertain whether his pledge as to the withdrawal of troops from south Korea is based on the economic calculations of the erstwhile real estate dealer or his reasonable fear of a possible nuclear holocaust on American soil.

If he is truly concerned about the safety of American citizens, it would be a good idea for him to have GIs pull out of south Korea promptly and renew dialogue with the DPRK.

What is required of him now is the courage not to make the same mistakes as his predecessors did in dealing with the DPRK. The international community is attentive to what he is going to choose.

The Idea of Aim High Will Live For Ever

The idea of Aim High was authored by Kim Hyong Jik (1894-1926), an outstanding leader of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement in Korea.

Kim Hyong Jik was born in a patriotic and revolutionary family and keenly experienced national suffering and sorrow caused by the Japanese military occupation of Korea. With a strong resolve to bring the spring of national liberation, the spring of a civilized nation, to his ruined country even though he might be torn to pieces, he conducted revolutionary activities to open up a new way of the struggle for the country’s liberation. In the course of this, he authored the idea of Aim High reflecting his determination that if he fell in the struggle, his son would pick up his cause and that if his son failed to accomplish the cause in his generation, his grandson would fight until their country’s independence and prosperity was achieved.

On March 23, 1917, he formed the Korean National Association at Haktanggol, Pyongyang, as an embodiment of the idea of Aim High.

As the largest anti-Japanese underground revolutionary organization of Korean compatriots at home and abroad at that time, this organization was fundamentally different from those formed in the preceding periods. With its roots struck deep among the masses of the people, it was well-knit and thoroughgoing in its stand of anti-imperialist independence. With the formation of the KNA, the anti-Japanese national liberation movement in Korea could rally the broad sections of the masses with clear fighting objectives, and a new phase was opened in achieving the unity of the anti-Japanese revolutionary forces. Under the guidance of Kim Hyong Jik, the KNA performed immortal exploits in developing the anti-Japanese national liberation movement from the nationalist movement to a proletarian one and achieving unity in the anti-Japanese independence movement.

The idea of Aim High is the idea that the revolution must be carried on through generations with firm anti-imperialist stand until a new society is built, in which the people enjoy genuine happiness.

His son, Kim Il Sung, the eternal President of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, with the idea of Aim High and two pistols bequeathed by his father as invaluable revolutionary heritage, authored the Juche idea and Songun idea, and on this basis illuminated the path of the Korean revolution. The line of fighting an anti-Japanese armed struggle, which Kim Il Sung advanced, brought about a new phase for the Korean national liberation struggle. He thus achieved the historic cause of national liberation and built a socialist system, a new country in which the people became its master.

The idea of Aim High was succeeded by Kim Jong Il, the eternal Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK.

Kim Jong Il held the banner of Songun higher with unshakable faith that the destiny of the masses and the future of the cause of independence are decided by arms and that precedence should be given to military affairs in order to resolutely thwart the anti-socialist onslaught by the imperialist forces and reliably defend and add lustre to socialism. Thanks to his Songun politics, the DPRK registered one victory after another in the acute confrontations with the US, which was styling itself as the sole superpower in the world, and demonstrated its prestige as a world-class political and military power which no imperialist aggressors would dare to invade.

The idea of Aim High implies a noble view of life of living not merely for today but for tomorrow, a revolutionary outlook on life that genuine happiness is sought in the struggle for one’s country and nation. And it requires that one should brave trials and difficulties, thinking about the interests of his country before his own and about his nation before his family.

The idea of Aim High pulsates with the ideal of national independence.

Kim Hyong Jik said that the Korean people, wherever they were, must not forfeit the soul of the Korean nation, that no one would or could bring them their independence, and that history taught that depending on foreign forces was the way to national ruin.

National liberation and independence should be achieved not by depending on foreign forces but only through the concerted efforts of the whole nation－this idea is now dynamically encouraging all the Korean people in the north, in the south and abroad to the national reunification movement. To put an end to the intervention and domination by outside forces and build a thriving independent and reunified state as early as possible true to the July 4 Joint Statement in 1972, June 15 Joint Declaration in 2000 and October 4 Declaration in 2007 that embody the ideal of national independence is the unanimous will of the Korean nation.

The Korean people are adding lustre to the idea of Aim High under the leadership of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong Un put forward a new strategic line of simultaneously conducting economic construction and building up the nuclear forces, and is wisely leading the struggle to build a powerful socialist country and achieve the independent national reunification. Under his leadership, the DPRK has emerged as a nuclear and military power in the East, and is achieving miraculous victories and successes in building a socialist economic giant.

Kim Jong Un Visits Remodeled Korean Revolution Museum

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), chairman of the DPRK State Affairs Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, gave field guidance to the remodeled Korean Revolution Museum.

He went round various places of the museum to learn in detail about its remodeling.

Looking at the photos of the peerless great persons of Mt Paektu and historic data and relics displayed in rooms, he said that the academic system was established well to vividly and visually show the revolutionary histories of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il according to their contents and periods. He was pleased with everything including display form and illumination effect.

He said that the successful remodeling of the Korean Revolution Museum marked a great historic event, adding that the museum dealing with the whole course of the Korean revolution is a revolution museum of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in name and reality.

A visit to the Korean Revolution Museum helps one know well about the course covered by the Korean revolution in its development and clearly visualizes the path before us, he noted, stressing that the Korean Revolution Museum, ideological and mental mainstay and beacon of our army and people, serves as the greatest treasure and textbook of the revolution.

Saying that it is an unshakable will of our party to usher in the golden age of education in the revolutionary traditions, he stressed that to intensify the education in the revolutionary traditions at present is a crucial matter decisive of the victory of the revolution.

The Korean Revolution Museum has a very important role to play, he said, giving instructions that would serve as guidelines for managing and operating the museum.

Personally meeting anti-Japanese revolutionary fighter Hwang Sun Hui, curator of the museum, and showing care for her health, he had a warm talk with her.

Then he had a photo session with the officials and lecturers of the Korean Revolution Museum, expressing belief that they would creditably perform their honorable mission and duty before the times and the revolution.

Accompanying him were Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, vice-chairman of the DPRK State Affairs Commission and vice-chairman of the C.C., WPK, Kim Ki Nam, member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK, member of the DPRK State Affairs Commission and vice-chairman of the C.C., WPK, Kim Jong Im, director of the Party History Institute of the C.C., WPK, Jo Yong Won, vice department director of the C.C., WPK, Yu Sung Hwa, vice-director of the Party History Institute of the C.C., WPK, and Ma Won Chun, director of the Designing Department of the State Affairs Commission.

H.E. Kim Jong Un Watches Ground Jet Test of Newly Developed High-Thrust Engine

H.E. Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, watched the ground jet test of Korean-style high-thrust engine newly developed by the Academy of the National Defence Science.

After being told about the production of the new-type high-thrust engine, he personally visited the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground at dawn to learn in detail about the technical specifications of the engine and preparations for the test and guided it.

The test was conducted to confirm the overall technical indices of the engine such as features of thrust power in the combustion chamber, accurate movement of turbine pump, control system and various valves and their structural safety and reliability.

He mounted an observation post and gave an order to start the test.

The results of the test confirmed the stable maintenance of technical indices of all systems such as starting and stopping features of a new-type high-thrust engine of Korean style designed and manufactured by the defence scientists and technicians by their own efforts and with indigenous technology, the features of the thrust power in the combustion chamber, turbine pump, control systems in the whole course of engine operation after accurately reaching the expected values, and the perfect guarantee of their structural reliability.

He noted that the success made in the current test marked a great event of historic significance as it declared a new birth of the Juche-based rocket industry which has radically turned into a development-and creation-oriented industry both in name and in reality by completely doing away with dogmatism, conservatism and formalism left in the field of rocket industry and the dependence on the technology of other countries.

He emphasized that the whole world will soon witness what eventful significance the great victory won today carries.

The development and completion of a new-type high-thrust engine would help consolidate the scientific and technological foundation to match the world-level satellite delivery capability in the field of outer space development, he noted, adding with pleasure that today when a great leaping forward has been made in the development of the rocket industry is the day to be always remembered, a historic day which can be called "March 18 revolution".

He said that the field of munitions industry made a series of unprecedented successes this year as it did last year, instilling dynamism into the grand revolutionary advance of all the service personnel and people. Then he had a significant photo session with the officials, scientists and technicians in the field of defence science who took part in the test.

He was accompanied by Ri Pyong Chol, Kim Jong Sik and other leading officials of the C.C. the WPK and scientists and technicians in the field of rocket research.

White Paper on Human Rights Situation in U.S. in 2016

 The DPRK Institute of International Studies Wednesday released a "white paper on human rights situation in the U.S. in 2016".

According to the white paper, the U.S. presidential election in 2016 was recorded as squandering the largest sum of money in history.

About USD 5 billion was consumed in the presidential election in 2008 and USD 6 billion in 2012, whereas in the last presidential election it amounted to USD 10 billion. Advertisement for the presidential candidates cost USD 4.4 billion, and the earnings by websites, radio stations and newspapers for political advertisement amounted to USD 1.2 billion, USD 916 million and USD 882 million, respectively.

The turnout for the last presidential and general elections was 60% and 30~40%, respectively.

Terming the U.S. a human rights desert where even elementary human rights are not provided, the white paper said:

In the U.S., in one week of December 2016, 275 000 persons joined the chronic contingent of the unemployed numbering 7.9 million; 18.8% of the total number of the unemployed was young people.

Last year the number of persons without shelter exceeded 560 000, and 322 000 persons in 17 northern counties in Florida are maintaining a bare existence with the help of "charitable organizations."  

According to the statistics made public by economists jointly in the end of 2016, the average annual income of the wealthy people accounting for 1% of the total population was 81 times that of those under the middle class, a considerable increase from 27 times 36 years ago.

Over the past 25 years, school expenses skyrocketed to 440%. About 6 million young people less than 24 years old do not think about going to school and 1.2 million high-school students give up further studies every year because of the exorbitant school expenses.

The situation of medical service in the U.S. is a graphic testimony to the system's anti-human nature.

It costs USD 500 to have a tooth pulled out, tens of thousands of dollars for appendectomy, USD 1 000 for a day in hospital for first aid, and USD 100 000~200 000 for an operation on the emergency case in the first-aid room.

The "health insurance" has become a legal tool for emptying the people's purses.

The Department of Justice made public that from the end of June 2016 management personnel of medical organs and doctors numbering 301 were prosecuted on suspicion of health insurance fraud.

Though women occupy 57% of the workforce, their salary is 81% of that of their male counterparts, and it is 69% and 58% for the Afro-American and Hispanic women.

About 6 million women fall victim to violent crimes every year.

A UPI dispatch disclosed that the cases of human trafficking in 2016 increased by 35.7% compared to the previous year.  

 Noting that 2016 was a blood-soaked year ridden with cases of gun-related crimes in the U.S., the white paper disclosed that more than 58 120 cases of gun violence took place nationwide, claiming 15 039 lives and injuring 30 589.

On the U.S. institutional discrimination aimed at obliterating other races, it said:

According to a report by the Expert Group on African Descendents of the UN Human Rights Council, 40.4% of the homeless in the U.S. are Afro-Americans and their unemployment rate is double that of the whites'. And as for the same offences, the imprisonment rate of black men is 5.9 times higher than that of white men and the rate of black women, 2.1 times higher than white women.

Most of the 256 people who fell victim to police shootings in the first three months of last year were black.

The above-mentioned violations of human rights in the U.S. are the tip of the iceberg, and they are by no means accidents that were witnessed in 2016 alone.

These criminal offenses, which run counter to human dignity and intelligence, are the inevitable outcome of the American-style "democracy" and the U.S. social system based on the law of the jungle and extreme individualism.

The U.S. is loud in its advocacy of "universal respect for human rights," publishing "annual reports" that deal with the human rights situations in other countries. However, it can never cover up nor negate its own human rights situation that has been the subject of international criticism and condemnation.

Kim Jong Un Visits Paektusan Institute of Architecture

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, visited the Paektusan Institute of Architecture, an icon and standard of designing.

Providing field guidance to the institute in July last year, he gave an instruction to turn it into an icon and standard of designing. He guided the layout for internal remodeling several times and settled all matters arising in the project to modernize it.

Upon being told that the institute was successfully remodeled, he sent it modern designing means recently.

He went round the room for the education in the revolutionary history and the room dedicated to the history of the institute.

Looking at the historical data and relics showing the history of the leadership provided by leader Kim Jong Il for the development of Juche-oriented architecture, he looked back with deep emotion on the proud path covered by the institute.

Going round various places of the institute such as the exhibition of architectural sci-tech achievements, the room for the study of architectural designs, the designing documents room, the information data study room and the inner court, he learnt in detail about the modernization and the work being done at the institute.

Noting that the designers, architects and researchers of the institute have successfully fulfilled the designing tasks assigned to them by the Party each time a major construction project was to be undertaken in the past, and produced a lot of architectural masterpieces worth national treasures at the highest level, he stressed that it is an able and trustworthy group of designers and an icon and standard of the nation's architectural designing.

Learning in detail about the technical features and functions of the equipment newly installed at the institute, he said that it could outpace the world even in creating modern architecture only when it widely introduces advanced scientific and technological achievements in the architectural field to suit the actual conditions of the country.

The institute has a very important duty to perform, he said, setting forth the tasks which would serve as guidelines for its work.

Saying that the Party shows very deep trust and great expectation for the institute, he expressed expectation and conviction that the officials, designers, architects and researchers of the institute would creditably fulfill their heavy yet honorable mission and duty in the future, too. Then he had a photo session with them.

He was accompanied by Ma Won Chun, director of the Designing Department of the State Affairs Commission.

Kim Jong Un Visits Paektusan Institute of Architecture

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, visited the Paektusan Institute of Architecture, an icon and standard of designing.

Providing field guidance to the institute in July last year, he gave an instruction to turn it into an icon and standard of designing. He guided the layout for internal remodeling several times and settled all matters arising in the project to modernize it.

Upon being told that the institute was successfully remodeled, he sent it modern designing means recently.

He went round the room for the education in the revolutionary history and the room dedicated to the history of the institute.

Looking at the historical data and relics showing the history of the leadership provided by leader Kim Jong Il for the development of Juche-oriented architecture, he looked back with deep emotion on the proud path covered by the institute.

Going round various places of the institute such as the exhibition of architectural sci-tech achievements, the room for the study of architectural designs, the designing documents room, the information data study room and the inner court, he learnt in detail about the modernization and the work being done at the institute.

Noting that the designers, architects and researchers of the institute have successfully fulfilled the designing tasks assigned to them by the Party each time a major construction project was to be undertaken in the past, and produced a lot of architectural masterpieces worth national treasures at the highest level, he stressed that it is an able and trustworthy group of designers and an icon and standard of the nation's architectural designing.

Learning in detail about the technical features and functions of the equipment newly installed at the institute, he said that it could outpace the world even in creating modern architecture only when it widely introduces advanced scientific and technological achievements in the architectural field to suit the actual conditions of the country.

The institute has a very important duty to perform, he said, setting forth the tasks which would serve as guidelines for its work.

Saying that the Party shows very deep trust and great expectation for the institute, he expressed expectation and conviction that the officials, designers, architects and researchers of the institute would creditably fulfill their heavy yet honorable mission and duty in the future, too. Then he had a photo session with them.

He was accompanied by Ma Won Chun, director of the Designing Department of the State Affairs Commission.

BALLISTIC ROCKET LAUNCHING DRILL IS RIGHT FOR SELF-DEFENSE OF SOVEREIGN STATE: KPA STRATEGIC FORCE SPOKESMAN

The U.S. and its vassal forces are running around like a chicken with its head cut off following the ballistic rocket launching drill conducted by Hwasong artillery units of the Strategic Force of the Korean People's Army (KPA) on March 6.

It is against this backdrop that the UN Security Council, at the instigation of the U.S., Japan and the south Korean puppet forces, made public a press release terming the KPA's ballistic rocket launching drill as "threat" and "violation of resolution", after discarding international justice and impartiality once again.

A spokesman for the Strategic Force of the KPA in a statement Thursday said that there is no country in the world whose army responsible for the defense of the state takes into account the approval by the UN or article of the international convention when staging exercises and it does not make sense to claim that the KPA's rocket launching drill becomes a threat to world peace and security.

The statement went on:

We have never acknowledged the illegal "resolution" cooked up by the U.S. and its vassal forces.

The aggressors and provokers keen on holding the largest-ever nuclear war drills against the north after massively introducing nuclear strike means in and around the Korean peninsula are finding fault with the regular and just drill of the KPA for defending sovereignty. This is nothing but a strange act like a thief crying "stop thief".

No matter what rhetoric the aggressors and provokers may make, our Strategic Force will more perfectly arm itself with our-style rockets of super precision and intelligence and further round off the Juche-based rocket strike war methods.

The U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces should clearly bear in mind that our warning that if a single bullet is fired into the areas where the sovereignty of the DPRK is exercised, it will blow up the bases of aggression and provocation with the matchless Hwasong artillery pieces mounted with nuclear warheads, is not hot air.

A spokesman for the National Peace Committee of Korea (NPCK) released a statement on Thursday in denunciation of the south Korean puppet group of traitors for persistently enforcing the early deployment of THAAD despite the strong opposition and protest at home and abroad.

The statement said that the puppet group is pressing for the deployment of THAAD, yielding to the gangster-like demand of its U.S. master, adding it is an unpardonable act of reducing south Korea into an permanent nuclear war advanced base for the U.S. in realizing its strategy for dominating Asia-Pacific, war theatre of big powers and a base to kill the fellow countrymen and endangering the peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in the region.

It went on:

The puppet forces claim that THAAD deployment is a "security measure to cope with the north's missile threat" even though they are clearly aware that not only THAAD but any other interception system will be useless in the face of the might of the ultra-modern ballistic rockets of the DPRK. Their rhetoric is just sheer sophism to deceive the public at home and abroad.

The U.S. persistent moves to deploy THAAD in south Korea is a product of planned scenario to inveigle the south Korean puppet forces into the global missile defense system targeting big powers around Korea.

The puppet forces' reckless THAAD deployment farce in utter disregard of the destiny of the nation renders the situation on the Korean peninsula and in the region all the more grave and makes the crisis of a nuclear war a reality with each passing day.

It is quite natural that countries around Korea are expressing deep concern about THAAD deployment and are taking all-round countermeasures in strong protest against it.

The puppet forces will be made to face stern punishment and to pay a dear price as they threaten the security and interests of the DPRK and neighboring countries in active pursuance of the U.S. ambition for aggression, in defiance of the repeated warnings at home and abroad.

The puppet forces of traitors will face stronger protest and retaliatory measures at home and abroad for their frantic moves for THAAD deployment as war servants of the U.S., and chaos and damage to be entailed by it will all be imposed upon the south Korean people.

WORKING PEOPLE OF THE WHOLE WORLD, UNITE!

KIM JONG UN

LET US ADD ETERNAL

BRILLIANCE TO

COMRADE KIM JONG IL'S

GREAT IDEA OF AND

ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE

SONGUN REVOLUTION

Talk to the WPK Organ Rodong Sinmun and

the KPA Organ Joson Inmingun to Mark

the Day of Songun

August 25, Juche 102 (2013)

FOREWORD

 The leaping, vibrant and eye-opening reality of the DPRK in the new century is unthinkable separated from H. E. KIM JONG IL’s exploits in the leadership of the Songun revolution.

The respected Supreme Leader KIM JONG UN is carrying forward brilliantly the cause of Songun revolution.

We have the privilege to post the translated version of the work of His Excellency Supreme Leader KIM JONG UN “ LET US ADD ETERNAL BRILLIANCE TO COMRADE KIM JONG IL’S GREAT IDEA OF AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE SONGUN REVOLUTION ” on the occasion of 75^th birthday anniversary of the great leader KIM JONG IL.                             

Nigerian National Committee on the Study of

Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism

February, 2017

With deep respect for the great Comrade Kim Jong Il and firm confidence in the victory of the revolution, our service personnel and people are greeting the 53^rd anniversary of the start of his leadership of the Songun revolution.

The Day of Songun, when General Kim Jong Il started his leadership of the Songun revolution, is, together with the day of the founding of the KPA (Korean People's Army), a historic day when an important milestone was established in the history of building up our revolutionary armed forces and the history of our country.

Thanks to this significant day, a historic turn could be brought about in developing our revolutionary armed forces and implementing the cause of the Juche revolution, and the history and traditions of our sacred and victorious Songun revolution which had been pioneered and developed by force of arms could be carried forward.

Songun is a proud tradition of the Korean revolution which was pioneered by Comrade Kim Il Sung and led by him and Comrade Kim Jong Il, and also a banner of victory and glory.

The great Generalissimos blazed the trail of the Songun revolution, thus creating a new history of Songun and ushering in the era of Songun.

Having clarified in his early days the truth of the revolutionary struggle that one can emerge victorious against an armed enemy only when one fights him with arms in hand and having advanced the idea and line of attaching importance to arms, to military affairs, the great Comrade Kim Il Sung identified building up the armed forces as a fundamental aspect of the revolution, directed primary efforts to organizing and developing the armed ranks and achieved the historic cause of national liberation with the Korean People's Revolutionary Army as the main force. In reliance on the armed force of the

revolution, he wisely led two revolutionary wars, two stages of social revolution and socialist construction, and thus built on this land our style of socialism that is centered on the masses of the people, and demonstrated the dignity and honour of the country.

Comrade Kim Jong Il, who was faithful to Comrade Kim Il Sung's ideas and cause, led our revolution along the glorious road of victory, braving the severe historical trials and adversities by dint of his unique leadership of the Songun revolution. His visit to Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Guards 105^th Tank Division of the KPA on August 25, 1960 was a historic event that proclaimed his succession to the cause of the Songun revolution and the start of his Songun-based leadership.

Songun was the General's revolutionary idea, his practice in the revolution, his political ideal and his political mode.

During the long period of more than half a century from the day when he started his leadership of the Songun revolution, the great General visited one KPA unit after another, strengthening the army into an invincible revolutionary army, and led the revolution and construction to victory by force of Songun.

Regarding the strengthening of the KPA as the most important task in the Songun revolution, he raised the KPA as the buttress, the main force, of our revolution, and achieved the historic victory in the grim anti-imperialist, anti-US showdown in defence of the country's security and socialism by training the KPA into the army of the leader that is boundlessly faithful to the cause of the WPK(Workers' Party of Korea), into an invincible revolutionary army.

He defined the spirit of defending the leader to the death, the spirit of implementing his instructions whatever the cost and the heroic self-sacrificing spirit displayed by the service personnel as the revolutionary spirit symbolic and representative of the Songun era, as the revolutionary soldier spirit, and led all the service personnel and people to live and struggle in that spirit, thus ensuring that a great transformation was brought about in all sectors of the revolution and construction.

In order to consolidate the successes of his Songun-based leadership and introduce Songun politics in a comprehensive way, he saw to it that the First Session of the Tenth Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea adopted a Socialist Constitution embodying the idea and principles of the Songun revolution. He established a new state administration structure the backbone of which is the National Defence Commission, and led all state affairs on the principle of giving precedence to military affairs.

The history of his leadership of the Songun revolution is an unprecedented history of complete anti-imperialist independence, a history of infinite patriotic devotion; it is also a history of ennobling trust and affection, filled with absolute trust in and paternal affection for the service personnel and people.

Thanks to the General's leadership of the Songun revolution, our revolution could win victory after victory, surmounting every manner of historical vicissitude; thanks to the General's super-intense forced march of patriotic devotion, our service personnel and people could work historic, never-before-seen miracles.

Songun was, indeed, our General's immutable revolutionary creed, which he cherished and applied throughout his life, and a great revolutionary undertaking during which he adorned the history of the country with brilliant victories and imperishable achievements.

In the course of his Songun-based leadership, the General formulated and developed the idea of the Songun revolution, thus creating a guiding principle and ever-victorious banner for our people and the revolutionary peoples of the world to adhere to in accomplishing the cause of independence.

The basic idea of the Songun revolution is to give importance and precedence to military affairs in implementing the masses' cause of independence, the socialist cause, and pushing ahead with the overall revolution and construction with the revolutionary army as the core force.

From the starting point of the Juche-based revolutionary principle that the victory of the revolutionary cause is decided by force of arms, the idea gives scientific and practical answers to the key questions arising in winning victory in the revolution.

It clarifies the revolutionary theory on building up the arms of the revolution, the revolutionary army, strengthening the driving force of the revolution with the revolutionary army as the core and, by relying on it, advancing the revolution and construction victoriously.

Its most important requirement is that the army should be developed into the army of the Party and the leader, into an invincible revolutionary army capable of defeating any enemy however formidable, by attaching importance to military affairs and directing primary efforts to building up the army.

If the masses are to carve out their destiny and accomplish the cause of socialism amid a sharp confrontation with the imperialists and the constant threat of war, they must, before anything else, firmly hold up and strengthen the arms of the revolution. It is a serious lesson taught by the history of the world socialist movement that when the arms of the revolution are weak or waver, they can defend neither the destiny of the masses nor socialism.

That one must consolidate the driving force of the revolution with the revolutionary army as the main force and propel the revolutionary struggle and construction work by relying on its leading role is a new revolutionary theory elucidated by the Songun idea.

The revolution is a do-or-die struggle to decide who prevails over whom between the revolutionary forces and the counterrevolutionary forces, so the destiny of the revolution depends on how the driving force of the revolution is strengthened and how its role is enhanced.

Among the social groups that form the revolutionary forces in a socialist society, the masters of which are the masses, the group that is the strongest in the revolutionary sense, organization, discipline and fighting capability is the revolutionary army under the guidance of the leader. The revolutionary army, thanks to its revolutionary idea, great spiritual strength and revolutionary temperament, is capable of leading the society as a whole and

propelling the revolutionary struggle and construction work. If the revolutionary army stands in the vanguard and all the people struggle with its revolutionary spirit and temperament by forming an integrated whole with the service personnel, their power is incomparably great.

The idea of the Songun revolution has opened up a new road, a road to victory, for successfully advancing the masses' cause of independence, the socialist cause, by consolidating the driving force of the revolution and enhancing its role.

The General's idea of the Songun revolution throws new light on the political theory that Songun politics is the most powerful politics and the basic mode of socialist politics.

Ideas and ideals are translated into practice by politics, which in turn decides the destiny of the masses and the rise and fall of the country and nation.

The great General elucidated for the first time in history that socialist politics for fully realizing the independent demands and interests of the masses should be Songun politics which give importance and precedence to military affairs, and formulated Songun politics as the basic mode of socialist politics.

As he said, Songun politics is a mode of socialist politics

that presents military affairs as the most important of all state affairs, and defends the country, revolution and socialism and accelerates overall socialist construction with the KPA as the core, as the main force. It is a mode of independent politics that fully embodies the fundamentals and principles of the Songun idea.

Formulating Songun politics as the basic mode of socialist politics has brought about a fundamental change in the history of mankind's politics and the history of socialist politics and created a priceless sword with which to achieve the ideals and principles of socialism successfully.

The General's Songun idea is a revolutionary idea and theory embodying a comprehensive anti-imperialist, independent stand and the spirit of ennobling love for the country, nation and people, and which is based on an iron faith and willpower.

Songun, a new term in our era, was coined to reflect the unshakable faith, willpower and great fortitude of Comrade Kim Joug Il who, taking full responsibility for the destiny and future of the country and people amid the long-drawn-out, sharp confrontation with an imperialist power, solved all problems in our own way and in conformity with the demands and interests of our people and nation.

Thanks to the idea of the Songun revolution, a great idea of Comrade Kim Jong Il, we have been able to defend the dignity of the country, the independence of the people and the gains of socialism with credit and open the way for the prosperity of the country and the rosy future of the nation by our own strength, that is, by force of arms.

As an idea enriched and developed in the course of the practical struggle to apply the Juche idea, the Songun idea is a scientific revolutionary theory which makes it possible to satisfy the requirements of the Juche idea in an ideal and comprehensive manner.

The formulation and development of the idea and theory of the Songun revolution by the great Comrade Kim Jong Il further enriched the ideological and theoretical treasure-house of our revolution and significantly increased the appeal and vitality of the Juche idea.

The Juche idea is the roots of the Songun idea and the latter is the brilliant embodiment of the former.

Thanks to the Songun idea, the Juche idea could be splendidly applied to the revolutionary practice and shine more brightly as a great guiding ideology which guarantees the victorious advance and accomplishment of the masses' cause of independence.

The General, through his outstanding leadership of the Songun revolution, performed undying exploits for the country and revolution, for the times and history.

He honourably safeguarded the Juche-oriented socialism which Comrade Kim Il Sung had established, and guaranteed the solid continuity of the revolutionary cause of Juche, the revolutionary cause of Songun, by dint of his leadership of the Songun revolution.

Juche-oriented socialism is a precious gain of our revolution to which, Comrade Kim Il Sung devoted his life, and it is our people's lifeblood and the cradle of their true life and happiness.

The 1990s, when the reckless anti-DPRK moves of the allied forces of the US and other imperialists to check the victorious advance of our revolution and stamp out our socialism went to extremes, was a period of the severest ordeals for our revolution.

When our army and people were at the crossroads of whether to remain an independent people and guardians of independence thus becoming victors or be reduced to the imperialists' colonial slaves again, Comrade Kim Jong Il determinedly held up the banner of Songun, and defended Juche-oriented socialism with honour and achieved brilliant victories. This was a historical miracle which only our General could have brought about. By dint of his leadership of the Songun revolution he laid a firm foundation for the prosperity of the country and the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche and provided a sure guarantee for victory.

The most important guarantee for victory in the revolution is to strengthen the Party, the General Staff of the revolution, and consolidate the driving force of the revolution by uniting the service personnel and people around it.

A fundamental principle which the great General consistently adhered to in Party building was to build our Party into the party of the leader. He defined imbuing the entire Party with Kimilsungism as the ultimate objective in building it and wisely led the effort to establish a monolithic ideological system and a monolithic leadership system firmly throughout the Party. As a result, our Party could be developed into a revolutionary party which is unfailingly faithful to the ideology and guidance of its leader and possessed of a strong sense of organization and discipline, and into an ever-victorious party with solid mass and military foundations, one that could discharge its mission and role as the guiding force in implementing the cause of the Songun revolution. The General held up single-hearted unity as the greatest foundation of the revolution and realized the single-hearted unity of the Party, army and people centred on the leader, thus significantly strengthening the driving force of the Songun revolution remarkably.

By strengthening the KPA into an invincible army and consolidating the military capabilities of the country to the maximum with the KPA as the core, he provided a sure military guarantee for the victory of the cause of the Juche revolution.

Under his energetic guidance, the KPA developed into a vanguard detachment which regards defending the leader to the death as its lifeblood and takes the lead in implementing the orders of its Supreme Commander at all costs, and into a trailblazer in the struggle to accomplish the cause of the Songun revolution. A forceful drive was waged to make the defense industry Juche-oriented, modern and informative, enabling us to produce the most sophisticated military equipment by relying on our own efforts and technology. Thanks to the General's outstanding leadership of the Songun revolution, the KPA could be developed into an invincible revolutionary army, our country could produce and launch satellites and become a nuclear state, fully demonstrating its dignity as the powerful Paektusan nation, and we could reliably defend the dignity of the country and the sovereignty of the nation by frustrating the imperialists' moves of aggression and their challenges at every step.

The great General laid firm material and technological foundations for building a thriving socialist country.

Under his leadership a grand plan for building a prosperous country was unfolded during the days of the Arduous March and forced march, when our revolution was undergoing grim trials, and a warm wind of creating fresh miracles and innovations swept across the country. The fierce flames of the industrial revolution in the new century flared up, ushering in the era of the knowledge economy, monumental structures symbolic of the era were built in all parts of the country and model works representative of Songun culture were created in large numbers. The wealth and edifices our service personnel and people created in the Songun era under his guidance constitute a valuable asset for the prosperity of Kim Il Sung's nation and Kim Jong Il's Korea.

The great General brought about a fresh turn in the struggle for the independent reunification of the country and firmly defended global peace and security on the strength of his leadership of the Songun revolution. He ushered in the June 15 era of reunification by our nation itself, provided a precious asset for the reunification of the country and the common prosperity of the nation and safeguarded peace in Asia and the rest of the world by smashing the imperialists' uninterrupted schemes to unleash a war.

The great exploits Comrade Kim Jong I1 performed for the country and revolution, for the times and history for more than half a century by dint of his tireless Songun-based leadership will shine forever, along with the triumphant advance of our revolutionary cause.

We should faithfully carry forward his great idea of and achievements in the Songun revolution and add eternal brilliance to them.

The idea of the Songun revolution is a great guideline for our revolution and his Songun-based leadership exploits are a motive force for victory.

It is the unshakable faith and unbreakable will of our Party, army and people to carry forward and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche, holding aloft the banner of Songnn.

We should follow to the end the road of Songun, the road of independence and the road of socialism that the great General traveled throughout his life, translate his instructions into brilliant reality and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche, the revolutionary cause of Songun, with credit.

All officials, Party members and other working people should arm themselves firmly with the General's idea of the Songun revolution, closely study his great Songun-based leadership achievements and thoroughly apply and add luster to them in the revolutionary struggle and construction work.

The line of giving importance to arms, to military affairs, should be implemented to the letter in order to make the defense capabilities of the country as strong as steel.

The KPA should be prepared more firmly as an army that is strong in ideology and faith, a powerful Paektusan revolutionary army.

The Party's leadership is the lifeline of the KPA, and its might is inconceivable without the Party's leadership. The sole general direction for the KPA is to advance straight forward with guns leveled precisely in the direction our Party indicates. Our armed forces must serve as an eternal cornerstone and guarantee for the Party and its cause.

The officers and men of the KPA should feel their hearts burning with a single idea, a single determination, to support the Party and the leader alone and safeguard them to the death, whatever ordeals they may face and however the situation may change. They should equip themselves firmly with the revolutionary ideas of our Party and cherish the steadfast faith that they will defend to the end the red flag of the revolution, the Juche flag of the Party, even at the cost of their lives.

They should intensify their training, as the anti-Japanese guerrillas did on Mt. Paektu, so as to prepare themselves into a-match-for-a-hundred combatants possessed of Kim Il Sung's and Kim Jong Il's military strategy and tactics, heroic combat spirit and fighting capability, establish rigid discipline in their units and assume the appearance of a perfect regular army.

Military posts and barracks should be laid out as if they were the service personnel's own homes, and satisfactory material and cultural living conditions provided so that they can lead a good service life.

While discharging their basic duty of defending the country, service personnel should achieve breakthroughs in various other sectors and major projects of socialist construction; they should never rest content with doing things for the people but always take the lead in this regard.

Great efforts should be channeled into developing the defense industry. The defense industry should concentrate on making bigger strides in building our country into an invincible military power, and thus produce more and better-quality military hardware of our own style that is precise, light, unmanned and intelligent.

The Worker-Peasant Red Guards should enhance their combat capability through intensive combat and political training and reliably defend their respective provinces, counties and villages in times of emergency.

All the sectors of socialist construction should bring about great leap forward and great innovations.

We should radically improve the people's standard of living by giving a spur to the efforts to build an economic giant, holding aloft our Party's line of simultaneously promoting the two fronts.

We should make innovations in the sectors of agriculture and light industry, key areas in building an economic giant, and promote housing construction, so as to ensure that the people lead an affluent and happy life.

We should focus our efforts on the priority sectors of the national economy, basic industry, to ensure that the existing self-supporting foundations pay off, and vigorously push ahead with the effort to modernize them and normalize production. We should direct strenuous efforts to the electric-power and coal-mining industries in particular, and develop all sectors of the national economy based on the twin pillars of the metallurgical and chemical industries.

By rapidly developing science and technology and educating all the people so that they are well-informed about science and technology, we call raise the national economy onto a more modern and higher CNC level and perfect the economic structure of the country in keeping with the requirements of the era of the knowledge economy.

We should accelerate the construction of a cultured socialist nation. It is important to make all the members of society artists and people who enjoy socialist culture, and to bring about a fresh turn in all the sectors of cultural construction. By doing so, we can translate into reality the people's desire for a wholesome and cultured way of life.

In order to bring about a decisive turn in the construction of a thriving socialist country, the militant functions and role of Party organizations should be further heightened.

Party organizations are the vanguard organizations of the Songun revolution, and the Party's ideology and leadership are implemented through them. They should regard it as the main line of Party work to establish the monolithic leadership system of the Party, and ensure that all officials, Party members and other working people support the leader's ideas and leadership with loyalty and conduct every manner of work in line with the Party's ideology and intentions.

In the current general offensive, Party organizations should give fullest play to the spiritual strength of officials, Party members and other working people. The mother of miracles is the spiritual strength of the masses, and the key to ushering in a new golden age in the building of a thriving nation is to inspire them.

Party organizations should scrupulously educate officials, Patty members and other working people to study the greatness of the General's idea of and achievements in the Songun revolution and exalt their brilliance. They should intensify the frontline-style political work among the masses so that all officials, Party members and other working people make it part of their lives to learn from the service personnel's spirit of defending the leader and carrying out his instructions to the death and their fighting spirit, and make strenuous efforts to create the Masikryong speed by displaying Kim Jong Il's patriotism.

The service personnel and people should propel grand socialist construction on the strength of working together.

Working together is a powerful mode of struggle for the service personnel and people in waging an unyielding offensive with one mind and purpose. The commanding personnel of the KPA and leading civilian officials should scrupulously organize and command their working together and enlist their spiritual strength and every other means so that they perform unfailingly and in time the revolutionary tasks assigned to their respective units.

True to the instructions and lofty will of the great Generalissimos, we should make proactive efforts to open a new phase of national reunification, prevent aggression and war and defend global peace and security.

The idea and cause of our Songun revolution are invincible.

Because the great Juche idea and the Songun revolutionary idea are illuminating the road ahead of us and we have the wise leadership of the Party, the single-hearted unity of all the service personnel and people and the invincible KPA, the victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche and the revolutionary cause of Songun is guaranteed.

As in the past, so in the future and forever, we will achieve only victory, upholding the great banner of Songun.