Saviour
of Korean Nation
In the first half of the last
century the Korean people were suffering under the yoke of
colonial slavery.
The Japanese imperialists, during
the period of their military occupation of Korea from 1905
to 1945, killed a million Koreans,
forcibly drafted 8.4 million of young and middle-aged Korean
people to work them like beasts of
burden and took 200 000 Korean women to serve as sex
slaves for their army. They
plundered Korea of its resources and cultural properties, and
prohibited Koreans from using their
spoken and written language, even forcing them to change
their names in a Japanese style.
However, the Korean nation was
finally liberated by General Kim Il Sung (1912-1994).
In 1925 Kim Il Sung, in his teens,
left his country with a firm resolve never to return home
before winning national
independence. In October the following year he organized the Down-
with-Imperialism Union (DIU), which
was made up of Korean revolutionaries of a new
generation. The formation of the
DIU whose immediate task was to overthrow the Japanese
imperialists and achieve Korea’s
liberation and independence marked a new starting-point for
the national liberation struggle in
Korea.
In June 1930 Kim Il Sung made a
historic speech The Path of the Korean Revolution at a
meeting of Korean revolutionaries
held in a region of Northeast China. In the speech he clarified
the principles of the Juche idea,
which is nowadays known worldwide as the guiding ideology of
the era of independence, and
advanced the line of anti-Japanese armed struggle based on the
Songun idea. The line served as an
ideological and spiritual banner of the Korean revolutionaries
as it indicated that the cause of
national liberation could only be accomplished by relying on
oneself and waging an armed
struggle, not by depending on others or taking a peaceful approach.
On April 25, 1932, he founded the
Korean People’s Revolutionary Army, the predecessor of
the present Korean People’s Army.
With the founding of the KPRA the Korean people were able
to step up the national liberation
struggle on the strength of their own armed force.
With a view to rousing the whole
nation to the sacred war of their liberation and uniting them
into a single force, he formed the
Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland in May 1936.
As a result, all the Korean people
who loved their country, regardless of their differences in
ideology, political views, social
strata and religious beliefs, were united as one under the banner
of the ARF, and the national
liberation struggle could be conducted on a nationwide scale.
The anti-Japanese armed struggle in
Korea was a do-or-die struggle waged against the
Japanese army which tried to
dominate the world, hand in glove with fascist Germany. In the
light of both numerical and
technical aspects, the Japanese empire was incomparably superior to
the Korean guerrilla army, with no
state to back it in the rear or support from a regular army,
which was likened to being a “drop
in the ocean” by the Japanese in those days.
However, Kim Il Sung led the
15-year-long armed struggle against the Japanese to victory. It
was his original military idea that
the numerical, military and technical superiority of the enemy
should be defeated by means of the
political and ideological, strategic and tactical ones of the
revolutionary army. Thanks to this
military idea, the KPRA soldiers were fully prepared into
those strong in ideology and faith,
with confidence in the justness of their cause and indomitable
fighting spirit, and correct
strategies and tactics and many other unique combat methods were
created at every stage of the
anti-Japanese armed struggle.
His definition of guerrilla warfare
as the basic form of the national liberation struggle in
colonial countries is of special
historic significance. It was a protean strategy that could defeat
the enemy with a lesser number of
force while maintaining the initiative, though it had no state
rear or support from a regular
army. His policies of combining large-unit operations properly
with small-unit actions and of
establishing semi-guerrilla zones in parallel with the guerrilla
zones of the liberated-area type
were superb strategic and tactical methods that made it possible
to actively launch the armed
struggle.
Under the superb and adroit command
of Kim Il Sung who turned a misfortune into a
blessing and adverse conditions
into favourable ones, the KPRA dealt a telling blow to the
enemy in every battle. The Korean
and Japanese people would unanimously say that the KPRA
appeared at an unexpected place and
disappeared at an unexpected moment and that General
Kim Il Sung used the art of
shortening distance.
The Korean people turned out in the
sacred struggle against the Japanese, looking up to him
as the Sun of the nation and as the
saviour of liberation, who would revive the Korean nation. At
last they attained the cause of
national liberation on August 15, 1945.
Freed from colonial slavery, they
set out on building an independent and sovereign state as
the masters of their destiny.
The exploits Kim Il Sung performed
in liberating Korea will remain for ever in the minds of
the progressive mankind as well as
the Korean people.
Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- The dear
respected Kim Jong Un's talk with leading officials of the Central Committee of
the Workers' Party of Korea "Let Us Effect Kim Jong Il's Patriotism and
Step Up the Building of a Prosperous Country" on July 26, 2012 was made
public.
The talk was carried by newspapers on August 3.
Kim Jong Un in his work said that leader Kim
Jong Il was a peerless patriot who performed undying exploits to be recorded in
the history of the country for all ages. Kim Jong Il warmly loved the country
and the people more than anything else and devoted all his life to the
prosperity of the country and happiness of the people, he added.
He went on to say:
Kim Jong Il's long journey of patriotic
devotion undergoing arduous ordeals helped face-lift the country and laid the
eternal foundation for a thriving nation.
His warm love for the socialist motherland and
people and self-sacrificing devotion to the prosperity of the country and
people's happiness are derived from his absolute trust in his own people and
steadfast confidence in justice of the socialist system and victory of
socialism.
His warm love and devotion are also prompted by
his noble awareness and sense of mission that he was responsible for the
destiny of the country and people whom President Kim Il Sung entrusted to him.
Patriotism that he had displayed is the noblest
one which can be called after him only in the light of its essence and its
tremendous vitality.
This patriotism constitutes the height of
socialist patriotism.
Kim Jong Il's patriotism is the warmest love
for our socialist motherland and people and the most energetic and
self-sacrificing devotion to the prosperity of the country and people's
happiness. It is genuine patriotism as he loved every tree and every blade of
grass of the country.
Kim Jong Il's patriotism is based on the noble
outlook on the country, people and posterity.
This patriotism is the precious mental legacy
and practical example he left to the Korean people.
All the officials, party members and other
working people should actively learn from noble patriotism of Kim Jong Il and
embody it into practice just as it is.
They should faithfully carry forward and
complete all the work Kim Jong Il had planned and tried to realize in his
lifetime in order to materialize his idea and wishes in this land.
The greatest patriotism lies in defending the
country. All the people should attach importance to the military affairs,
sincerely learn them and devote their patriotism to the sacred war for
defending the country if the enemy provokes.
Everyone should bravely turn out in the just
struggle to achieve national reunification true to the noble patriotic idea of
Kim Jong Il.
Kim Jong Un in the work set forth the tasks for
party and working people's organizations and all the state-run bodies and
social organizations to fulfill their responsibility and role in the work for
learning from Kim Jong Il's patriotism and embodying it.
The country will emerge as a thriving socialist
nation when the hot wind of learning from Kim Jong Il's patriotism prevails in
the country and all the people fully embody it into practice, he stressed..
Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) --
The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) issued the
following statement on Tuesday:
As reported, there were press
conferences with Pak Jong Suk and Jon Yong Chol shortly ago. Pak came back to
the DPRK after being lured and abducted to south Korea by the south Korean
puppet regime and Jon, a defector to the south, was arrested after infiltrating
into the DPRK to destroy statues symbolic of the dignity of the supreme
leadership of the DPRK and its monuments under the manipulation of the U.S. and
the south Korean regime. The press conferences fully revealed the truth about
the U.S. and the south Korean regime's allurement and abduction of residents of
the DPRK and their attempted terrorism.
Now the service personnel and
people of the DPRK and all other Koreans are expressing irrepressible
resentment at those attempted terrorist acts and they have aroused concern and
shock among the world people.
Their attempted terrorism is
a blatant challenge to the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK, a
wanton violation of its sovereignty and a grave breach of international law.
This indicates that the
hostile forces' moves for subversion and sabotage against the DPRK have entered
a very dangerous phase of action. The above-said cases go to clearly prove once
again that "defectors to the south" and "human rights in the
north" much touted by the U.S. and the south Korean group of traitors are
nothing but hypocrisy and their real aim is to do harm to the single-minded
unity of the DPRK and bring down its social system.
Much upset by the disclosure
of their crimes in the eyes of the world, the U.S. and the south Korean regime
are letting loose a spate of sheer sophism that they "have no hostile
intents", it is "an individual deed" and it is "a
unilateral smear campaign of the north" in a bid to mislead public
opinion, Worse still, they are making desperate efforts to conceal the recent
cases by such base methods as killing and eliminating those involved in them.
With nothing, however, can
they conceal or hush up their unethical and hideous crimes.
Moreover, it is becoming
clearer with each passing day that the recent attempted terrorism was an
organized and premeditated crime of the U.S. and the puppet regime.
Wicked traitor Kim Yong Hwan
was recently arrested by the Chinese security authorities before being expelled
to south Korea. His crime once again confirmed how desperately the regime is
working to destroy and sabotage the DPRK.
All facts clearly prove that
the U.S. and the puppet regime are the worst human rights abusers and
chieftains of abduction and terrorism.
Now that the U.S. and the
puppet regime are luring and kidnapping residents of the DPRK in wanton
violation of international law and attempting nefarious terrorism against the
dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK, it has a legitimate right to
take all corresponding steps, pursuant to the DPRK Law and the International
Convention on Human Rights and Anti-Terrorism.
The Committee for the
Peaceful Reunification of Korea is authorized to solemnly state as follows in
this regard:
The U.S. and the south Korean
puppet regime should stop at once the act of luring and abducting DPRK
citizens, make an official apology for the hideous politically-motivated,
state-sponsored terrorism against the dignity of its supreme leadership and
sternly punish the prime movers.
They should immediately
disband anti-DPRK plot-breeding and terrorist organizations including the
"Front for Liberation of North Korean People" and the "Society
for Destroying Statues", despicable groups of traitors, and discontinue such
base and reckless acts as bribing human scum and hurling them into crimes.
In case the DPRK's just
demands are not met, there will follow corresponding measures including
punishment of criminals involved in monstrous terrorism and other subversive
and sabotage acts against the DPRK and the operations to lure and abduct its
citizens.
We declare that among the
targets to be punished will be Kim Song Min, representative of the "Radio
Free North Korea" who is the prime mover of the recent attempted
terrorism, Pak Sang Hak, representative of the "Federation of the Movement
for Free North Korea" who is keen on abduction, terrorism and plots, Jo
Myong Chol, former director of the "Unification Education Institute",
and Kim Yong Hwan, a despicable renegade.
We will in the future, too,
never allow those abductors, terrorists and saboteurs who dare hurt the dignity
of the supreme leadership of the DPRK, encroach upon its sovereignty and
threaten the safety of its citizens and their organizers and those involved in
them to go scot-free even by scouring all parts of the earth.
The U.S. and the south Korean
conservative group will be wholly accountable for all this.
It is an inviolable and
legitimate right of the DPRK to devotedly protect the dignity of its supreme
leadership and safeguard its sovereignty and the safety of its people.
Those who dare hurt the
dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK and its social system and people
will not be safe no matter where they are and they will not be able to escape
merciless punishment of the army and people of the DPRK.
The U.S. and the rat-like Lee
Myung Bak group should clearly understand that the steel-strong single-minded
unity of all the service personnel and people of the DPRK is unbreakable as
they are under the great illustrious commander.
Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) --
A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK issued the
following statement on Tuesday:
The U.S. authorities are
vying each other to commit politically-motivated provocations against the DPRK.
The U.S. chief executive
asserted that the DPRK's nuclear deterrent for self-defense "threatens the
world" while its military chief made oft-repeated trumpeting about
"provocations." Officials of the Department of State including its
secretary groundlessly slandered the DPRK on the basis of a variety of wild
rumors about its situation without their own judgments to distinguish truth from
lies. They are still pulling up the DPRK over its launch of satellite for
peaceful purposes in a clumsy bid to justify their hostile policy toward it.
The outbursts let loose by
the authorities, prompted by their inveterate rejection and hostile intents on
the ideology and social system chosen by the people of the DPRK clearly proved
that the U.S. remains unchanged in its hostile policy toward the DPRK.
It is known to everybody that
the U.S. is hostile to the DPRK. But the point is why the authorities of its
administration are all out to kick up an unprecedented anti-DPRK smear campaign
this time.
This reflects their fear of
the fact that world people are rapidly growing stronger in their admiration and
expectation for the rosy future of the DPRK led by the dear respected Kim Jong
Un admired by the whole world. Also lurking behind this is their black-hearted
intention to calm down bitter denunciation and pressure of the international
community to the effect that it is impossible to ensure durable peace and
stability on the Korean Peninsula unless the U.S. drops its anachronistic
hostile policy toward the DPRK.
The U.S. claims that it has
no hostile intent on the DPRK while malignantly slandering it. This is no more
than sheer hypocrisy aimed to deceive the public, to all intents and purposes,
because it is an incoherent one. This is proved by what the U.S. is now doing
quite contrary to its claim.
It is busy staging
large-scale joint military exercises against the DPRK one after another after
massively introducing ultra-modern war means into south Korea and its vicinity.
While talking about
"people's living" in the DPRK, the U.S. is persisting in its harshest
and protracted sanctions and blockade against it, threatening its vital rights
and barring it from developing the economy and improving people's living
standard.
The U.S. is talking to the
DPRK that its people would live well if it dismantles its nukes. This reminds
one of a wolf preaching that it would not hurt sheep if the sheep has its horns
curved.
It is the DPRK's steadfast
option to counter the U.S. hostile policy with bolstered nuclear deterrent.
Now that the DPRK has
powerful nuclear deterrent and strong munitions industry capable of steadily
bolstering it, it is capable of putting spurs to the building of an economic
power, undeterred by the U.S. persistent hostile policy.
The DPRK does not need any
advice from others as it has strategy and orientation of its own style to
develop the economy and improve the standard of people's living and ways to
carry them out.
It will surely build a
thriving socialist nation while countering the U.S. hostile policy with its
toughest policy, with everybody holding arms in one hand and a banner of
industrial revolution in the new century in the other. -0-
