On the Juche idea
Tokyo December 10 (KNS) - Korea News Service has received so many questions what is Juche or Juche idea by E-mail.
So the editor of our news service in Tokyo writes simply about the Juche idea on the Internet. Juche is Korean word. It means the subject in English. The Juche idea represents an invariable guiding idea of the Korean revolution and a revolutionary banner of this time. A progressive idea plays an important role in socio-historical progress. When the people are guided by a progressive idea, they can be a powerful creator of history. Of course, it does not mean that all progressive ideas play the same role in socio-historical development. Their role is different according to how they represent the aspirations and interests of the popular masses and how correctly they show the path which must be followed in struggle. There were ideas which reflected the aspirations of progressive classes of society even before the emergence of the working class. But due to their historical and class limitations the trends of thought in the past age could not but be hampered in the role of they played in social development.
The revolutionary ideas of the working class alone can correctly reflect the demands of the time and aspirations of people and give a powerful stimulates to socio-historical development by inspiring the people to wage the revolutionary struggle.
Late President Kim Il Sung created Juche idea after acquiring a deep insight into the requirements of a new era when the oppressed and humiliated masses of the people became masters of their destiny. Thus he developed their struggle for Chajusong(independence) onto a higher plane and opened up the age of Juche , a new era in the development of human history. The revolutionary idea of the working class emerges as the reflection of the mature demand of history and the revolution in their development. In order to advance the revolution under the new historical conditions, the working class and the people of every country, conscious of being masters, had to solve all problems in accordance with their actual situation. In Korea, this was a particularly important matter because of the peculiarities of historical development and the complexity and arduousness of the revolution. The Korean revolution demanded more urgently that the popular masses hew out the path of revolution in an independent and creative manner.
The Juche idea was created on the basis of such a practical requirement of the Korean revolution. "The revolution in each country should be carried out responsibly by its own people, the masters, in an independent manner, and in a creative way suitable its specific conditions." It is the essence of Juche idea. The Juche idea is a new philosophical thought which centres on man. It raised the fundamental question of philosophy by regarding man as the main factor, and elucidated the philosophical principle that man is the master of everything and decides everything.
The philosophical principle of the Juche idea is the principle of man-centred philosiphy which explains man's position and role in the world.
That man is master of everything means that he is the master of world and plays the decisive role in transforming the world and in shaping his destiny.
Establishing Juche in ideology is the primary requirement of the masses' struggle for Chajusong. The revolution and construction are man's conscious activities.
Establishing Juche in thinking, therefore, is the only way to establish Juche in politics, the economy, defence, and all other domains.
The Juche idea was created by late President Kim Il Sung and is developed and enriched by General Secretary Kim Jong Il
2nd meeting of liaison council of Red Cross societies of Korea and Japan to be held
Pyongyang, December 10 (KCNA) -- The second meeting of the liaison council of Red Cross Societies of Korea and Japan will be held in Beijing on dec. 11 and 12 in accordance with the agreement between them.
The meeting will discuss the working matters concerning the second home-visit of Japanese-Korean women.
The DPRK side proposed to hold the second meeting at the end of November, but it has been delayed for certain reasons on the part of Japan.
Plenary meeting of C.C., UAWPK held
Pyongyang, December 10 (KCNA) -- The 31st plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Union of Agricultural Working People of Korea (UAWPK) was held here on Dec. 8 and 9.
The plenary meeting discussed the tasks of organizations of the UAWPK to make a radical turn in their work and the matter of conducting the union work in the revolutionary spirit of servicemen.
Reporters and speakers at the meeting said that the organizations of the UAWPK should further intensify ideological education to train union members to be loyal and filial subjects who absolutely believe in and follow only General Kim Jong Il and to be human bombs defending the general at the cost of their lives.
They stressed that the organizations should make collective innovations in agricultural production and make full preparations for farming next year.
They called on all union members to fully display the revolutionary spirit of servicemen in the practical struggle to defend socialism with rice.
World Human Rights Day observed
Pyongyang, December 10 (KCNA) -- Papers here today dedicate articles to the World Day of Human Rights.
Genuine human rights are determined by how the popular masses are provided with an independent and creative life, Rodong Sinmun says in a signed article.
The article goes on:
Human rights are most ruthlessly violated in imperialist states. it is absurd for them to poke their nose in the internal affairs of other countries over "human rights issue" and act as a "judge of human rights".
Genuine human rights can be guaranteed only in a society whose masters are the popular masses.
The government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea provides all the members of society with political freedom and right, rights to work, rest, receiving education and medical care and all other rights of social human beings.
That is why the Korean people treasure socialism with the belief that it is a genuine society for the people where a worthwhile and dignified life is guaranteed.
Never should it be allowed in international relations that one forces one's own concept of human rights upon other countries or uses it for a sinister political aim.
Minju Joson in a by-lined article says "defence of human rights" in the capitalist society where all the policies of the state are shaped on the basis of the will and interests of the exploiting class is a camouflage to deceive the working people and cover up the reactionary nature of the bourgeois dictatorship and the anti-social essence of the capitalist system.