Yun Yong Nam

Researcher of KASS

Before my speech, I would like to offer my warm greetings to participants in the seminar.

Believing that this seminar will achieve expected success thanks to your high zeal, I am going to make a speech.

75-year history of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the history in which it has cherished the noble sense of mission for the cause of global independence and made devoted efforts to accomplish it.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said.

“We should make an active contribution to the cause of global independence and play a pivotal role in promoting the world revolution.”

The DPRK, as a fortress of independence, encourages the anti-imperialist struggle of the people.

Independence is unthinkable apart from the anti-imperialist struggle. It is because imperialism cannot exist without infringing upon the people’s independence.

The anti-Japanese national liberation struggle and the Fatherland Liberation War which the DPRK people conducted against the imperialist formidable enemy under wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung opened up a new era of independence in which the national liberation movement in colonial countries, that is, the revolution is made independently on a worldwide scale.

The Fatherland Liberation War in the 1950s holds a special position here. The war was an acute confrontation between the DPRK who was 2 years old and the imperialist allied forces who had the strongest military and economy and a long history of aggression. The DPRK people won victory in the war.

The DPRK people’s victory in the war gave the world people faith that US imperialism is not a formidable enemy at all and they can defeat it when they fight in unity, thus making the anti-US struggle more intensified on a worldwide scale.

Firmly holding fast to the independent stand even in the rapidly changing international situation, Chairman Kim Jong Il led the cause of independence against imperialism to victory by dint of prominent Songun politics, thus making big contribution to the cause of global independence.

The principle of independence formulated by President Kim Il Sung and invariably carried forward by Chairman Kim Jong Il now becomes more steadfast thanks to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un. It makes the DPRK invariably take the lead in accomplishing the human cause of independence.

The DPRK, as a fortress of peace, makes a big contribution to defending the world peace and security while destroying every aggressive move of imperialism.

Touch-and-go situations prevailed many times on the Korean peninsula, the biggest nuclear magazine and the most dangerous source of nuclear war. This tells that the DPRK holds an important position in defending the world peace and security.

Hence, the DPRK has consistently advocated denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and made such strenuous efforts for ensuring peace as to propose creating a nuclear-free zone through peaceful talks and negotiations and to remove the US nuclear threats on the basis of international laws.

However, the greedy US turned away its face from all such efforts made by the DPRK, but instead resorted to frantic nuclear threats and blackmail in order to consume and weaken strength of the Republic and expected its “collapse” by imposing high-intensity sanctions on it. The West coincidentally vied to predict that the DPRK’s collapse was a matter of time.

But the DPRK has registered huge successes in increasing strength of the state, the national defence capabilities by dint of self-reliance that is a social custom peculiar to the DPRK.

Thanks to the world strongest strategic might whose pivot is nuclear armed forces built up while braving unprecedented difficulties, peaceful environment of the Korean peninsula and the region is reliably guaranteed.

The DPRK fully demonstrates its dignity as the most just and viable society and vigorously encourages the world people’s struggle for social progress and prosperity.

Genuine social progress and prosperity can be achieved only in a socialist system that reflects most correctly and thoroughly the people’s fundamental demand and desire to lead an independent life free from all sorts of domination and subordination.

The DPRK whose guiding principle is the Juche idea makes its people become masters of the society and play the role as such. Their demand and desire are reflected in the lines and policies and all production and construction works are carried out by placing their conveniences before others and regarding their opinions and appraisals as criteria.

Everything good for the people or everything popular is regarded as the one of justice and is prioritized in the DPRK. Politics, military affairs and the economy serve the people and only the popular culture and morality are promoted. All wealth of the society are directed to the improvement of their wellbeing so that they can enjoy cultured life. All necessary measures are taken preferentially and positively and popular policies extended further to defend their life and health.

Beautiful traits and virtues of helping and leading one another forward and warm feelings of human love prevail in the DPRK whose nature is collectivism.

The DPRK is strong and always wins victorious. It is not because it has somewhat material wealth or advanced military weapons but because its people make efforts in close unity in moral obligation while loving each other whatever difficulties may crop up.

With it as a big national pride that they have the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the DPRK people are now working new miracles everyday displaying fully the nature and might of the DPRK society.

This is vividly proved by the fact that many TVs, newspapers and magazines of the world broadly introduce the miraculous successes, including victory in the anti-epidemic war that drove the whole world into the catastrophic situation, made by socialist Korea in socialist construction by dint of single-hearted unity even in the unprecedented difficulties.

Thanks to the outstanding and seasoned leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea whose general object is the global independence, the DPRK, in the future, too, will make more strenuous efforts for anti-imperialism and independence, peace, social progress and prosperity, thus always dedicating itself to the cause of global independence.

Concluding my speech, I wish bigger success in your study and dissemination of the Juche idea.