in Founding, Strengthening, and Developing

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Nahendra Khadka

President

Nepal Institute of the Juche Idea (NIJI)

The great Leader President Kim Il Sung:

The great Leader President Kim Il Sung, founder of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, was born on April 15, 1912, in a village in Pyongyang, the capital city of the DPRK. He embarked on the road of revolutionary struggle in the first half of his teens to liberate his country and people from the yoke of the Japanese colonialists and organized Down-with-Imperialism Union on October 17, 1926. He announced the creating of the great Juche idea.

President Kim Il Sung propounded the Juche idea, a man-centred philosophical idea and emphasized that the people in colonial countries should achieve the national liberation by their own efforts. He clarified that the revolution of one’s own country should be made by one’s own efforts and imperialism should be defeated through an organized armed struggle in reliance on the strength of the popular masses. He put forward three very important tasks of building a revolutionary party, a socialist state and an invincible army in the liberated Korea and pushed forward the struggle to implement them.

Under the leadership of Comrade Kim Il Sung, the Korean revolutionaries and the people achieved their brilliant victory in their long anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle on August 15, 1945 and liberated their country from more than four-decade long occupation and oppression of the Japanese colonialists. Comrade Kim Il Sung founded the Communist Party of North Korea on October 10, 1945; with the fighters, who had been tempered and trained during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle as its core and the communist cadres who had been active in various regions of the country. In August 1946, the Communist Party of North Korea and the New Democratic Party of Korea were unified to form Workers’ Party of North Korea. On June 30, 1949, Workers’ Party of North Korea and Workers’ Party of South Korea were unified and Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) was formed, which enabled the Korean people to victoriously carve out their destiny and usher in a new era of epochal changes by relying on their own vanguard force.

Comrade Kim Il Sung founded the Korean People’s Army (KPA), on February 8, 1948. On September 9, 1948 the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was founded and made its debut on the international arena as a full-fledged independent and sovereign state, making the Korean people dignified and capable of carving out their own destiny independently as the masters of the state and the society for the first time in the Korean history.

US imperialism imposed a reckless war on the Korean peninsula from June 25, 1950; in which the US imperialists and other reactionary forces allied themselves against the DPRK but fell to their knees before the brave Korean people and the Korean People’s Army and compelled to sign the Armistice Agreement on July 27, 1953 that ended the three-year-long Fatherland Liberation War (Korean war) with a great victory for the Korean people. In this fierce war, the Korean people firmly rallied behind the great Leader Kim Il Sung to safeguard their fatherland, defeated the aggressors, defended their national freedom and independence, and fully demonstrated the dignity and might of the DPRK. The atrocities the US committed during this war were the most heinous and inhumane war crimes unprecedented in the world history of war. The US imperialist aggressors were not only defeated by the Korean people, but suffered a tremendous loss of troops, arms and munitions-nearly 2.3 times what they had lost during the Second World War.

After the glorious victory in the Korean war, Three-Year Plan of 1954–1956 was carried out. He made it clear to prioritize heavy industry, and simultaneously developed light industry and agriculture and transform the private peasant economy into the socialist cooperative economy in the rural area. The plan was followed by a new Five-Year Plan (1957-1961), then First Seven-Year Plan, Six-Year Plan and two rounds of Seven-Year Plan, through which the DPRK and WPK achieved many unprecedented achievements to develop the DPRK’s economy towards a Juche-oriented independent and self-reliant national economy.

President Kim Il Sung defined three revolutions-ideological, technical and cultural-as the tasks of the continuous revolution to carry out during the whole period of the socialist construction. With the implementation of periodic economic plans, in 1958, the country was turned into a socialist industrial-agricultural state and later on, declared as a socialist industrialized state in 1970. In March 1974, the DPRK was declared the first “Tax-free Country” in the world with the promulgation of a decree of the Supreme People’s Assembly on eliminating tax system once and for all.

The socialist construction was pushed forward in all aspects of social life and all units of the national economy and socialist culture was developed in a blooming environment. In the year 1975, “Universal Eleven-Year Compulsory Education” system was implemented throughout the country. In 1976, the “DPRK Law on the Nourishing and Upbringing of Children” was enacted to consolidate the system of bringing up all children at state and public expenses. The world-famous work Theses on Socialist Education by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung was made public in 1977, which not only transformed the education system of the DPRK, but also aimed at making the whole society intellectual by raising the cultural and technical standards of all members of the society to the level of university graduates.

In 1990, the Soviet Union was collapsed, but the socialist construction in the DPRK continued, with the red revolutionary flag of socialism kept on fluttering .

The DPRK people honoured the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung as the eternal President of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and highly regarded as the founder of the DPRK, founder of the WPK and originator of the great Juche idea, demonstrating Korean characteristics, enriched with the lessons and experiences of a series of struggle against the Japanese imperialism and the US imperialism, nation building and socialist construction. His stand against the imperialist interventions, his prominent role in the Non-alignment Movement (NAM), and teachings for socialism, national liberation and liberation of the mankind are immortal.

Chairman Kim Jong Il:

Chairman Kim Jong Il was born on February 16, 1942 (Juche 31) at Mount Paektu, witness of the struggle against colonialism and imperialism. He was grown up with the thundering sounds of bombs, guns, canons and slogans of struggle for the liberation of fatherland.

Chairman Kim Jong Il, received a revolutionary influence in his early childhood in a revolutionary family, was trained in the battlefield and in the vigorous campaigns for the socialist construction. Chairman Kim Jong Il was a creative revolutionary, socialist thinker and far-sighted ideologue. This is why the DPRK people have hailed him as a Shining Star of the Korean revolution. Chairman Kim Jong Il started his work at the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), on June 19, 1964; from which he initiated his career with a highly important responsibility as the supreme General Staff of the ruling party in his energetic twenties and contributed extraordinary performances in the history of revolutionary party building in socialist Korea by strengthening the Party and presenting outmost ideological works. In 1974, he was elected as the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea and was popularly referred as the “Dear Leader” by the DPRK people. He had written On the Juche Idea and other many works and contributed in the development of revolutionary theory.

When the DPRK was just overcoming the effects of the collapse of the neighbouring Soviet Union and temporary setback of socialism in the East-European countries, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung passed away on July 8, 1994. While the entire Korean nation was mourning over the demise of the great leader, the imperialist and capitalist forces around the world were wishing for the collapse of the DPRK.

Chairman Kim Jong Il firmly stood as a dynamic leader of the DPRK people, led the DPRK state and Workers’ Party of Korea successfully, accelerated the socialist construction. He also achieved new commanding heights of the national economy, developed science and technology, strengthened military power, defended the national sovereignty and integrity; and proved those reactionary astrologers wrong each time.

Chairman Kim Jong Il, with his brilliant leadership quality, sound theoretical and ideological viewpoint, loyalty to the socialism and love to the DPRK people, quickly became the centre of hope and trust for the DPRK people. His commitments to fulfill the dreams of the great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, harmony between the theory and practice, contribution in the field of ideology and great achievements of socialist construction strengthened the Korean nation and advanced it towards an invincibly powerful socialist state, with a single-hearted unity. He resolutely challenged US imperialism that was trying to act as a police state for democracy and human rights and daydreaming for framing and leading a unipolar world after the collapse of the Soviet Union. And, he firmly stood as a leading hero of the global socialist and anti-imperialist movement.

Chairman Kim Jong Il developed the Juche idea, authored by President Kim Il Sung, practically implemented it in the Korean soil and disseminated it throughout the world, and developed it to a new height based on the Korean characteristics. The great Juche idea is the guiding ideology of the DPRK, the WPK and the Korean revolution, which has embodied the fact that man is the master of everything and determines his own destiny. This political philosophy, a human-centred worldview has realized that the people are the masters of the revolution and socialist construction and guides the DPRK society in a politically correct manner. Self-reliance in the economy, prosperity, defence of the national sovereignty and independence are the main aspects of the Juche idea. Socialist construction is the other very important aspect of the Juche idea. The contribution of Chairman Kim Jong Il to the development of the Juche idea is highly important.

Chairman Kim Jong Il defended the sovereignty of the DPRK and its people with the Songun politics. His vision for achieving the reunification of Korea by the efforts of its own people is still valid and valued. He put forward “Korean-nation-first principle”, and firmly unified the Party, people and the army in a view that the Korean people must shoulder the responsibility for their problems and solve it by their own way. He discredited the hegemony of US imperialism and thrashed the external interference in the Korean soil. He purposed the peaceful reunification of Korea and played his best role possible for this noble cause throughout his lifetime. Chairman Kim Jong Il, firmly put forward the idea of trusting, loving and serving people as their true servicemen.

Unlike in the capitalist countries, where the army is used as a troop of mercenary soldiers and means to oppress the people, Chairman Kim Jong Il transformed the Korean People’s Army into a beloved army of the people that serves the people and is always ready to sacrifice themselves anytime for defending the fatherland and people’s interest. The KPA is the main actor of the socialist construction in the DPRK. The army gets mobilized at the time of natural calamities for rescue, relief, reconstruction and rehabilitation works. The KPA is the people’s army, not only by its name, but by its deeds as well.

Chairman Kim Jong Il is, and will be, always remembered for his great contributions as a global hero of the socialism and anti-imperialist movement, who strengthened the Workers’ Party of Korea with a single-hearted unity of the DPRK people, firmly defended national sovereignty of the DPRK, dismantled and defeated all the imperialist maneuvers, developed the Juche idea and continued the Korean revolution of its own kind at the time of global setbacks and adversities. The extraordinary leadership of Chairman Kim Jong Il for building the DPRK as a powerful socialist country, tackling the external interferences and multi-decade long inhuman economic sanctions, is highly appreciable. Chairman Kim Jong Il perfectly resolved the issue of leadership succession as well-the toughest task in many countries-both theoretically and practically, as his greatest exploits.

Marshal Kim Jong Un: Respected Leader of the DPRK People

Succession of a revolution is very important in each country but equally important is the defense, continuation and development of the revolution and its glorious achievements. So is the case with the DPRK. Fortunately, the cause of the Party and the Korean revolution is being brilliantly carried forward and developed under the wise leadership of the respected Leader Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, President of the State Affairs of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the DPRK.

In the visionary leadership of the respected Leader Kim Jong Un, the DPRK is setting a new milestone in the socialist construction even at the time of difficulties and imperialist encirclement; and achieving great victory and epochal changes in all aspects of the DPRK society.

The respected Leader Kim Jong Un’s energetic leadership has achieved new heights of development in the country. His tireless efforts for protecting the life and improving living standard of the people are much appreciated. His noble love for the people could be expressed in a motto, Believe in the people as in heaven, which enlightens his idea, leadership, personality, loyalty to the people and dutifulness to the revolution. His personal visit to the agriculture farms, schools, residential areas, hospitals, factories and affected areas of the natural disasters shows his serious concern and passionate love for the people.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un’s matchless courage and self-sacrificing devotion turned the DPRK into a world-leading military power, capable of countering the imperialist threats, and putting an end to the imperialist aggression and defending the happiness of the people of all generations. Thanks to his wise leadership, the DPRK is achieving new commanding heights in industry, agriculture, science and technology, education, healthcare, sports and many other arenas, overcoming the challenges faced by the multi-decade long inhuman economic sanctions and continuous blockade. Use of science and technology in all aspects of people’s lives is the other laudable achievement of his ongoing tenure. Building and providing new residential facilities for the scientists, construction and distribution of more than 10 000 flats each year for the people, Universal Twelve-Year Compulsory Education for all children, Golden Sea campaigns of the sea-foods for people, correct handling of Corona epidemic etc. are the good examples to exhibit the characteristics of the Korean-style socialism.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, not only implemented the great Juche idea, but also formulated Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, as the guiding ideology of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the Korean revolution. He is an inspiration for the global youths and the working-class people and a ray of hope for the global socialist and anti-imperialist movement.

From the land of the Mount Everest, we salute the revolutionaries in the land of the Mount Paektu and express our solidarity with the great DPRK people, Workers’ Party of Korea and the DPRK government for their new achievements in the socialist construction and anti-imperialist movement.

Long live the DPRK!

Long live socialism!