Ever-victorious Path

From June 30 to July 2, 1930, President Kim Il Sung of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, then a young revolutionary, presided over a meeting of young revolutionaries of a new generation at Kalun in Changchun County, Jilin Province, northeast China.

In his report The Path of the Korean Revolution, he stressed, on the basis of the lessons of the past anti-Japanese mass struggles, that the Korean people are the masters of the Korean revolution, and that it is the most important for the Korean revolutionaries to adopt a steadfast stand and will to carry out the revolution by drawing on the strength of the Korean people and in conformity with the reality of Korea, clarifying that only then, can they formulate correct lines and policies and achieve the sacred cause of national liberation. 

In this historic report Kim Il Sung advanced the principle of the Juche idea that man is the master of his own destiny and he also has the strength with which to shape his own destiny. 

The meeting discussed many problems including party founding, the line of the anti-Japanese national united front, the character and mission of the Korean revolution and the fundamental standpoint to be maintained by the Korean communists in their struggle, the core of which was the Juche idea. 

Since then the idea was steadily developed and enriched in various stages of the revolution, including the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, and through a difficult and complicated practical struggle. 

Kim Jong Il (1942-2011), Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, published on March 31, 1982 a treatise, titled On the Juche Idea, in which he developed the Juche idea into one philosophical idea with an integrated system of ideas, theory and method. On February 19, 1974, he formulated the Juche idea as Kimilsungism and proclaimed it as the ultimate programme of the WPK to model the whole society on Kimilsungism. 

He led the efforts to firmly arm the Korean people with the Juche idea and transform nature and society in line with the requirements of the Kimilsungism. 

Thanks to the leadership of Chairman Kim Jong Il, who held fast to the Juche idea as the guideline of the Korean revolution, the Korean people came to regard it as their faith and the country was continuously strengthened and developed under the unfurled banner of independence, self-sufficiency and self-reliant defence. 

Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, formulated the Juche idea that was created by Kim Il Sung and developed by Kim Jong Il as Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, and proclaimed it as the ultimate programme of the WPK to model the whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. 

As the country has advanced under the banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, a politico-ideological power, which remains unperturbed in the face of worldwide political turmoil and of the unprecedented moves by the allied imperialist forces to stifle it, has been built on the land where once the worship of big countries and dogmatism were deeply rooted, and the country, having achieved the status of a strategic state that nobody can ignore, is invariably following the road of advance toward a powerful socialist country. 

As it has achieved the single-hearted unity based on the Juche idea, the country will exalt forever the dignity and prestige of an ideological power.