KIM IL SUNG AND THE BANNER OF INDEPENDENCE

KIM IL SUNG AND THE BANNER OF INDEPENDENCE

President Kim Il Sung, upholding the banner of independence, rendered immortal services to the times and history.

Having embarked on the road of struggle for the country and people in his early teens, he authored the Juche idea, the gist of which is that the masses of the people are the masters and the driving force of the revolution and construction; in other words, it means that man is the master of his own destiny and has the strength with which to carve out his destiny.

Since then the Korean revolution has vigorously advanced along the road of independence.

In the period of the armed struggle to liberate Korea from the Japanese military occupation, he ensured that the guerrillas kept the strong conviction that they should fight the Japanese by making themselves weapons and grenades instead of looking forward to aids from others.

The guerrillas waged the arduous armed struggle for over 15 years, holding high the slogan of winning back the country by themselves, and achieved the country’s liberation.

After liberation he made sure that Korea took the road of Korean-style democracy, not adopting other countries’ styles, and vigorously led the struggle to reunify the country divided by foreign forces.

In the grim days of the Korean war (1950-1953) to repel the aggression of the United States he ensured that the service personnel of the Korean People’s Army employed unique tactical methods such as building tunnels and bringing direct-firing guns up to the heights, thus winning victory in the war.

After the war he put forward a unique line of economic construction to give priority to the development of heavy industry and simultaneously develop light industry and agriculture, and led his people to get rid of flunkeyism and dogmatism and take the road of independence.

When other socialist countries persistently forced Korea to join the CMEA, insisting on the “integrated economy” within them, he never vacillated in the slightest nor deviated an iota from the line of building the independent national economy.

In the mid-1980s the trend of “reform” and “openness” was sweeping the socialist countries, but he firmly maintained the independent stand and held up higher the red flag, thus defending the socialist system of Korea reliably even though others abandoned socialism.

Kim Il Sung paid great attention to realize the cause of making the world independent throughout his life.

He gave clear answers to the matters of principle arising in realizing the cause of global independence such as those on maintaining independence in the struggle for peace and fighting against the imperialist forces of aggression with the united efforts of all the peace-loving forces of the world, and on struggling while uniting and vice versa. When Francois Mitterrand, head of the French Socialist Party, visited Korea in February 1981, Kim Il Sung said to him that in order to prevent a new world war, the European countries should not be aligned with any blocs but make themselves independent and neutral, and that they should help the newly-emerging countries to firmly maintain their independence and build theirs into independent, sovereign states.

When he met Utsunomiya Tokuma, Japanese politician, he told him that the global peace would be surely maintained only when all the countries of the world, including European and Asian countries as well as Japan became independent and that it was his ideal for peace.

Kim Il Sung assisted heart and soul other countries in accomplishing their cause of anti-imperialist independence.

Already in the period of anti-Japanese armed struggle for Korea’s liberation he actively assisted the Chinese revolution and defended the former Soviet Union with arms. After liberation he also gave unstinted assistance to the countries and nations in their struggle against imperialism.

The support and assistance given by him to the Algerian people who launched an armed struggle for the national liberation in Africa, known as the Dark Continent and the continent of colonies, wrote a brilliant page in the world history of national liberation struggle.

When the Algerian patriots, encouraged by the victory of the Korean people in the Korean war, waged an armed struggle after forming the National Liberation Front in August 1954, he sent them food and other materials and set the day and the week of Algeria so as to express solidarity with them in their struggle.

When the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic was established in September 1958, he saw that the DPRK was the first country to acknowledge it and establish diplomatic relations with it.

He also gave energetic and disinterested support and aid to the peoples of Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Namibia in their struggle against colonialism and racism, the Latin American peoples’ struggle against the US imperialists and pro-US dictatorship, Arabians’ struggle against the US imperialists and Israeli Zionists, as well as the Cuban, Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian peoples’ struggle against the aggression of the US imperialists, thus greatly inspiring them to bring about historic victories.

The banner of independence upheld by President Kim Il Sung is a great power of strength and encouragement to the Korean people who are achieving eye-opening successes in the socialist construction with a firm stand of independence and also to the progressive peoples of the world who are struggling for the realization of global independence.

S. KOREAN AUTHORITIES ACCUSED OF FULLY OPENING MINUTES OF INTER-KOREAN SUMMIT TO PUBLIC

Pyongyang, June 27 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea issued an urgent statement on Thursday as follows:

    The south Korean puppet group recently committed such reckless act as fully opening to public the minutes of the 2007 north-south summit, stunning the world people.

By origin, the summit minutes are handled as top secret in any country and they have been strictly kept secret as "minutes of president" in south Korea, too.
    During the "presidential election" in 2012 the puppet conservative group raised the issue of opening to public the minutes, claiming that former president Roh Moo Hyun made remarks calling for giving up the "northern limit line" in the West Sea at the north-south summit in 2007, in a bid to turn the situation in the election favorable to the group, but failed to do so due to the strong rebuff of public opinion.
     As the present regime is shaking to its very foundation due to the disclosure of the "case of the Intelligence Service's interference in the election," the present conservative group fully opened to public all of a sudden the summit minutes, taking issue again with the remarks made by Roh Moo Hyun in a bid to calm down public uproar.
     Such rash action unprecedented not only in the history of the inter-Korean relations but in world history of diplomacy has driven south Korea into mayhem, and opposition parties, broad spectrum of people and media are strongly protesting it as "breach of state spirit unprecedented in history", "coup", "rebellion", "action above law", etc.
     As known to everybody, the 2007 north-south summit was a great event of national history which ushered in a new phase of the development of inter-Korean relations and national reunification together with the June 15 era.
     The summit discussed important issues of national reconciliation, unity, independent reunification, peace and prosperity in which the historic October 4 declaration was adopted.

 The October 4 declaration was unanimously hailed and supported by all Koreans and the whole world.
     What the present conservative group did clearly proves that it is a bandit of unheard-of depraved politicians and political gangsters who openly defile the historic October 4 declaration and abuse even the inter-Korean summit as a plaything for political strife. It also proves that south Korea's politics is a politics of most ignorant and childish philistines which can be seen only in a backward colonial country and reckless politics devoid of any common sense of politics and diplomacy and ethics of inter-Korean relations.
    As far as the issue of the "northern limit line" in the West Sea touted by the conservative group is concerned, it is a bogus line because even its architect American master recognized it as an illegal one. It is, therefore, preposterous to vociferate about its "defence" and "preservation.”
    Moreover, the October 4 declaration clarifies a reasonable way of peacefully settling the issue of the maritime demarcation line in the West Sea. Had it been sincerely implemented, it would not have posed any problem.
    When the unheard-of plot to grab power was brought to light due to the "case of the Intelligence Service's interference in the presidential election" and broad spectrum of people have become vocal protesting and denouncing it, the conservative group made such last-ditch efforts as opening to public the summit minutes in a bid to divert elsewhere public criticism, weather the crisis of the regime and eliminate the pro-reunification democratic forces by branding them as "forces following the north".
    Lurking behind this is a sinister intention to chill the desire of all fellow countrymen for inter-Korean dialogue and improved inter-Korean relations and kick off frantic rackets for confrontation with fellow countrymen in south Korea.
    How can thrice-cursed gangster-like group properly approach dialogue for achieving the reunification of the country, the unanimous desire of all the Koreans, and improving inter-Korean relations as the group is using even the north-south summit, which candidly discussed the issue of the nation's destiny and the issue of inter-Korean relations, as a plaything for a political strife.
    The conservative group's opening to public the summit minutes is the height of the treacherous acts for confrontation which can be committed only by the most despicable traitors who are unhesitatingly hurting the dignity and supreme interests of the nation to gratify their base political greed.
    The group is often talking about "confidence" but it has no face to talk about trust as it is unhesitatingly using even the minutes of the north-south summit as a political plaything to meet its partisan interests, though they should be handled as the most sacred.
    The group's unilateral opening to public the summit minutes without approval of the north is a mockery of the dignity of its supreme leadership and a grave provocation to the dialogue partner.
    The Lee Myung Bak group keen on confrontation with fellow countrymen dared not open to public the minutes of the summit.
    It is clear to everybody that the minutes could not be opened to public without the personal approval of the present chief of Chongwadae.
    Given that "the case of the Intelligence Service's interference in the presidential election" and the opening of the minutes are directly related to the present regime of south Korea, it is needless to say that Chongwadae was behind the action.
    In fact, if the issue of "following the north" should be called into question, none of the successive chief executives of south Korea who visited Pyongyang can be free.
    Even under the situation where the minutes of the summit are abused for sinister political purposes, who can believe in the sincerity of another summit and "summit diplomacy?"
    The army and people of the DPRK will never pardon the reckless action of the south Korean conservative forces.
    The opened minutes irrefutably proved that the controversial issues raised by the group are nothing but far-fetched assertions contrary to facts. Finally, it reminds one of the adage that one who digs a pit for another falls into it himself.
    One's evil doings will rebound on oneself.
    The south Korean puppet group will not be able to escape the most shameful end in face of all Koreans' condemnation and denunciation. -0-

JUSTICE IS SURE TO WIN

The situation on the Korean peninsula, one of the hottest areas in the world, is on the brink of nuclear war. A reckless nuclear threat, nuclear intimidation by the US against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a nuclear state, has thrusted the Korean peninsula to the threshold of nuclear war.

Showdown Between Justice and Injustice

The launch of a scientific satellite Kwangmyongsong 3-2 by the DPRK in December last year was an action fully consistent with the international law on the peaceful use of outer space. Even a specialized agency of the US, a country hostile to the DPRK, recognized officially the successful launch of the DPRK’s satellite.

However, the US instigated the UN Security Council to fabricate a new resolution on anti-DPRK sanctions in January this year, vilifying the DPRK’s peaceful satellite launch as a “test-fire of a long-range missile” and a “grave destructive act” against global peace and security. What cannot be overlooked is the fact that the DPRK has become the only country in the world, which is under “sanctions” in exchange for the launch of a satellite.

The DPRK could not tolerate the ruthless acts of the US and its followers who were impudent enough to illegalize the legitimate right of a sovereign state to launch a satellite. It, therefore, undertook the third underground nuclear test. The underground nuclear test was an open and aboveboard self-defensive countermeasure aimed at protecting its national sovereignty and peace on the Korean peninsula from the decades-long US vicious hostile policy and open nuclear threat. This must not be forgotten.

Nevertheless, the US instigated again the UNSC to fabricate another resolution on anti-DPRK sanctions. The resolution, aimed at restraining all the international activities by the DPRK, forbids the DPRK from conducting any financial transactions.

The excuse of the sanctions was the “prevention of nuclear proliferation” and “threat to peace and security.” That was lame excuse.

A US commentator said that even though the nuclear weapons possessed by Israel and some others were clear violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, they were unquestioned under the patronage of the US, adding that only the DPRK was under “sanctions.”

No other country in the world has suffered such a severest nuclear threat for the longest period as the DPRK has.

Then, where the nuclear threat comes from?

An English specialist in international issues wrote in an article, titled The US Rogue Politics and the Deceptive Act of the Western Media on the Korean Question, that the nuclear threat to the DPRK comes from only one place, the United States. He continued that the Western governments and their faithful media, however, grossly distort the truth and all the news items and reports conveyed to the public were concentrated upon denouncing the DPRK as a “provoker” and the ringleader of “nuclear threat” and making the US a peace-loving “state of justice.”

By the high-handedness and arbitrariness of this “state of justice,” the UNSC in charge of “global peace and security” lost fairness and senses and followed it blindly, thus creating the current crisis of nuclear war on the Korean peninsula.

Injustice can never become justice simply because a country is big and its military strength is superior. All the resolutions made by large countries are not necessarily justice. If a resolution of the UNSC loses fairness, it may become not only injustice but an international crime.

To take “sanctions” against the DPRK for its launch of peaceful satellite and the self-defensive nuclear test is the culmination of injustice, a heinous violation of sovereignty and dignity of a sovereign state and international law.

The countermeasures taken by the DPRK are fair and square, and are heroic acts for punishing injustice; they are worthy of receiving praise of the world.

Such a decisive showdown between justice and injustice is now being fought on the Korean peninsula.

JUSTICE WILL EMERGE VICTORIOUS

As everybody knows, the US has moved the strategic centre for its world supremacy to the Asia-Pacific region, and designated the DPRK as the primary target of its attack.

For this, it has aggravated tensions on the Korean peninsula purposefully and, at the same time, staged continuously large-scale joint military exercises such as Key Resolve and Foal Eagle with south Korean puppet army by mobilizing huge armed forces. Besides, it has revealed its attempt of nuclear attack against the DPRK by committing nuclear submarine, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and nuclear strategic bombers in the exercises.

It is an extremely dangerous play to ignite a nuclear war.

However, the US cannot achieve its objective.

There is a saying that a nation, which values justice and struggles to defend it, is sure to become powerful and such a nation is always righteous.

That is the way the Korean people are. They have never looked away from injustice and yielded to it. The righteous Korean people have consolidated to the maximum their military capability in order to safeguard justice.

The DPRK’s nuclear deterrent is a righteous defensive means which it could not but possess in the light of the increasing hostile policy and nuclear threat of the US against it. And it is a precious sword of justice for defending the sovereignty of the nation and peace.

The above-mentioned English specialist in international issues said that to look back upon the history cool-headedly and lucidly, the US, which is pursuing the policy of a rogue state, is the greatest menace to world peace, adding that the DPRK’s nuclear weapons are clearly the only means to control the acts of the US attacking other countries recklessly, and that the DPRK and its nuclear weapons are the guarantor and means of peace in East Asia, preventing the US’s reckless aggression. This is quite natural.

Now the service personnel and people of the DPRK have entered the anti-US showdown on the basis of its powerful nuclear deterrent. Their firm determination and will are to destroy completely the US, the source of evil in the world. They denounced that if war breaks out in Korea, they will show that injustice is momentary and dying fire, but justice is eternal and roaring fire.

The world people aspiring for justice and progress stand on the side of the Korean people who have risen up for the struggle against the US and its followers who are engrossed in high-handedness and arbitrariness and for the safeguarding of independence and justice.

Victory is in store for justice, for the Korean people who turned out in the struggle to safeguard their sovereignty.

Justice is sure to win.