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 75th 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 53rd 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 105th 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.
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