Over nine
decade have passed since Kim Il Sung
(1912-1994), President of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, had
formed the “Down-with-Imperialism Union (DIU)” on October 17, 1926. The
formation of the DIU is of special importance in the modern history of Korea in
that the Workers’ Party of Korea
(WPK), the guiding force of the Korean society, traces its origin back
to the formation of the DIU.
The programme of the WPK is based on that of the
DIU.
When Korea was under the military occupation of
Japan (1905-1945), the young President, shouldering the destiny of Korea and
its people, embarked on the road of revolutionary struggle. He keenly realized
that the previous nationalist movement and the early communist movement could
never achieve Korea’s liberation and independence,
for they were stained with scramble for
the sphere of influence, factional strife, flunkeyism and dogmatism, and
devoted his all to find a new way of struggle. In course of this, he formed the
DIU, a new vanguard organization of the Korean revolution, by rallying young
revolutionaries with one and the same idea and will.
Its formation was a historic declaration heralding a
new start of the Korean revolution and also a significant event that ushered in
a dramatic change for the Korean people in carving out their destiny. It made
it possible for the Korean revolution to follow the road of a new development
with clear objectives and tactics of its struggle and for the Korean people to
carve out their destiny with their own responsibility and by their own efforts
as the independent driving force of history.
The DIU set it as its immediate task to defeat
Japanese imperialism and achieve Korea’s liberation and independence and its
final objective to build socialism and communism in Korea and, further, destroy
all imperialism and build communism throughout the world.
The programme of the DIU, based on the clear-cut
ideals of anti-imperialism and independence, served the fundamental basis of
the programme of the WPK which was found nearly 20 years later, on October 10,
1945. The WPK sets it its immediate objective to achieve complete victory of
socialism in Korea and carry out the national liberation and the people’s
democratic revolution on the whole Korean peninsula and its ultimate goal to
fully realize the independence of the popular masses by modelling the whole
society on the Juche idea. It also defines it as its important task to oppose
all kinds of imperialism and dominationism including US imperialism and
struggle for peace, democracy, national independence and victory in socialism
throughout the world.
The WPK has strictly adhered to the principle of
independence advanced by the DIU as the guiding principles for its party
building and activities.
It was above-mentioned that the DIU was made up of
revolutionaries of a new generation who were not infected by subservience to
great powers and dogmatism, inveterate maladies of the previous national
movement in Korea. Since the formation of the DIU, the Korean revolution
entered a new road advancing under the banner of independence. The
revolutionaries of the new generation trained by the DIU chose the way to
believing in the people and relying on their efforts so as to liberate their
country. They finally achieved Korea’s liberation by waging the two-decade-long
anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.
Herein lies the factor which enabled socialist Korea
to have consistently traversed the road of independent development, displaying
its dignity as an independent power. The WPK has always kept above all the
demands and interests of the country and the people in solving all problems,
rejecting foreign domination and interference.
There are some examples proving that the WPK has
strictly adhered to the principle of independence. It took the road of
Korean-style democracy in building a new society after its national liberation
(August 15, 1945) when the Korean war (1950-1953)unleashed by the aggression of
the United States devastated everything in the country, it held fast to a
unique line of economic construction on giving priority to the growth of heavy
industry while simultaneously developing light industry and
agriculture; it always adhered to the line of building
an independent national economy, turning down the pressure of great-power
chauvinists to join the COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Aid).
In the closing years of last century socialism
collapsed in the former Soviet Union and other East European countries in
succession. Witnessing such phenomenon, the imperialists guessed that socialist
Korea would inevitably meet the same fate. However, their judgment turned out
wrong, for they were too unaware of how strong is the independent spirit of the
WPK.
The WPK was founded with vanguard fighters of the
new generation trained by the DIU as its backbone.
The members of the DIU were vanguard revolutionaries
who opened up a new path of the Korean revolution. Already at the dawn of the
Korean revolution they held up high President Kim Il Sung as the leader of the
revolution, the sun of the Korean nation, and the nucleus of the unity and
cohesion. They were passionate revolutionaries with staunch spirit of
independence against imperialism. During the arduous anti-Japanese
revolutionary struggle they performed great feats in laying down the organizational
and ideological foundations of party founding. They increased the ranks of
Korean revolutionaries by awakening and organizing them in such a way that one
person trains ten others and ten people a hundred, thus building up the basis
for the party founding, with the result that the WPK could be founded as the
guiding force of the Korean society in less than two months after Korea’s
liberation.
Today the WPK has millions of its members who are
armed with steadfast spirit of independence against imperialism just like the
DIU members did. They are now full of determination to carry through the cause
of independence against imperialism, the socialist cause, pioneered by their
forerunners.
Always in the van of the general advance to build a
socialist thriving nation desired by President Kim Il Sung and Leader Kim Jon Il which
is coming true under the leadership of
Kim Jon Un are
the members of the WPK.
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