10th Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Work Marked
Pyongyang, June 28 (KCNA) -- A national seminar to mark the 10th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's famous work "On Preserving the Juche Character and National Character of the Revolution and Construction" took place at the People's Palace of Culture Wednesday.
He published the historic work on June 19, Juche 86 (1997) in which he gave perfect scientific and theoretical answers to the principled questions arising in valuing the Juche character and national character and maintaining them and giving full play to them in the revolution and construction.
Present there were Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Choe Thae Bok, Minister of Education Kim Yong Jin and officials of party and administrative bodies, working people's organizations here and officials of the fields of science, education, party cadre-training institutions, literature and arts, media and the preservation of revolutionary relics.
Presented there were five papers explaining and proving in depth the scientific nature, truth, validity and invincible vitality of the ideas and theories clarified by Kim Jong Il in this work.
Noting that comprehensively clarified in the work are all theoretical and practical issues in fully embodying and preserving the Juche character and national character in the revolutionary struggle and construction, speakers at the seminar said that the above-said ideas and theories enunciated by him serve as great ideological and theoretical feats as they put the socialist theory of Juche on a new scientific basis.
Recalling that Kim Jong Il made sure that the revolutionary soldier spirit was created and it was generalized throughout the society, they noted that this marked an occasion of effecting an epochal turn in bringing the spirit of national independence of the Korean people to a new height.
They stressed that the work has served as a milestone to bring about a new turn in the struggle for achieving national reunification and, at the same time, as an invincible ideological and theoretical weapon as it indicated ways of frustrating the imperialists' moves for "globalization" and realizing global independence.
National Cooperation Called for
Pyongyang, June 28 (KCNA) -- The June 24 issue of Minjok Thongsin, Internet newspaper of Koreans in the U.S., carried an article of its editor entitled "National cooperation alone guarantees bright future".
The article said that the Grand National Party of south Korea is getting all the more pronounced in its moves to block reconciliation and cooperation among Koreans, denouncing lawmakers from the party for their reckless behaviors that resulted in delaying the meeting for national unity for two days during the great festival for national reunification to mark the 7th anniversary of the publication of the June 15 joint declaration.
It called on all the compatriots at home and abroad to struggle to force the GNP to dissolve itself, stressing that to this end, it is necessary to achieve national cooperation and this alone can guarantee the independent and peaceful reunification of the Korean nation and their bright future.
Poem on Historic Battle Written by British Figure
Pyongyang, June 28 (KCNA) -- Dermot Hudson, chairman of the British Association for the Study of Songun Policy, published poem "Echo of Gunshot in Pochonbo" on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Pochonbo battle.
The poem said that 70 years ago President Kim Il Sung advanced into Pochonbo in Korea, leading the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, and fired a shot reflecting his resolution to bring the ferocious Japanese imperialists to their doom.
It stressed that the gunshot that resounded through Pochonbo and its sky that day seemed to reverberate still today through the DPRK dynamically pushing forward the Songun revolution.
Kim Jong Il's Immortal Exploits Praised
Pyongyang, June 28 (KCNA) -- Seminars were held in Italy, Mexico and Ukraine on June 19 to mark the 43rd anniversary of Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Miriam Pelegrini Feri, president of the Group of Dialectical Materialists of Italy, said that Kim Jong Il has fully applied the Juche idea and the Songun idea founded by President Kim Il Sung into the revolutionary struggle from the first period of the start of his work at the WPK Central Committee.
Ramon Jimenez Lopez, president of the Mexican Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism, referred to the fact that Kim Jong Il has developed the WPK into the party of Kim Il Sung and creditably defended the dignity and sovereignty of the country and the nation and the cause of socialism with his Songun politics.
Nikolai Polishk, chairman of the Ukrainian "Treasured Sword of Songun" Association for the Study of the Juche Idea, said: The greatest exploit of Kim Jong Il is that he formulated the Juche idea founded by the President as an integral system of idea, theory and method of Juche and has steadily developed and enriched it.
A message of greetings to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the seminar in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, a lecture meeting was held by the Indian Intellectuals' Society for the Study of the Juche Idea on June 17 to mark the 10th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's famous work "On Preserving the Juche Character and National Character of the Revolution and Construction".
Security Authorities' Unwarranted Suppression under Fire in S. Korea
Pyongyang, June 28 (KCNA) -- The All-People Movement Headquarters for Checking south Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement of south Korea reportedly made public a statement on June 23 denouncing the security authorities for their unwarranted suppression of the organization.
The statement accused the security authorities of issuing summons against two members of the headquarters on the charge of "spearheading an unlicensed demonstration" against the negotiations for the conclusion of the FTA.
This is a clear manifestation of the politically motivated suppression to arrest the activities of the headquarters and make the struggle of people of various circles against the conclusion of the FTA sag as it is a fascist action against all the leading members of the organization, the statement said, and continued:
It was none other than the "government" that compelled the headquarters to turn out in actions, while seeking to meet the U.S. interests only and it is, therefore, the "government" that should be punished. The security authorities, too, should be condemned for suppressing the legitimate actions.
It demanded the security authorities immediately withdraw the summons issued against the members of the headquarters.
Revolutionary Principle of Juche Idea
Pyongyang, June 28 (KCNA) -- The revolutionary principle of Juche idea is that the masses of the people are masters and the motive force of the revolution and construction.
The principle is the truth that President Kim Il Sung found out and acquired as faith in the early period of his revolutionary activity.
He, with the principle as the guidelines, created a new guiding idea and pioneered the revolutionary cause of Juche under its banner. He also victoriously led the two revolutionary wars, social revolutions of two stages, socialist construction and others.
He had carried the great idea into practice, without restricting himself to the existing theories and formulas. He, therefore, could defeat the Japanese imperialists and liberate the country by leading the Korean people in the anti-Japanese revolution when others said that it was impossible to make the national liberation revolution without recourse to the working class of the suzerain state.
Not a small number of people across the world apprehended whether the DPRK could defeat the U.S. imperialists with their own efforts in the Fatherland Liberation War. Then, he wisely organized and mobilized the army and people so as to crush the numerical and technical superiority of the invaders and safeguard the freedom and independence of the country.
He accomplished the socialist revolution within four to five years in reliance upon the revolutionary strength of the Korean people though foreigners said that it was not possible to carry out the socialist transformation of the rural economy before the industrialization.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s when Eastern European socialist countries collapsed one after another, the Korean revolution, with the might of the Juche idea, defended the people-centered socialism as firm as rock.
In the period of the "Arduous March" and the forced march in which the Korean people had to undergo difficulties caused by the intensified economic blockade of the imperialists and the unprecedented natural disasters, they overcame the difficulties by themselves without pinning hope to others, thus advancing forward towards the bright morrow of a great, prosperous powerful nation.
The Korean revolution is replete with heroic events and world-startling changes. The reality has proved the truth and vitality of the idea that the power of the popular masses is the decisive factor for the victory of the revolution and construction.
Japanese Imperialists' Effacement of Korean Music
Pyongyang, June 28 (KCNA) -- The Japanese imperialists had made vicious efforts to efface national music in an attempt to keep the Korean people as their slave forever during their military occupation of the country.
From the outset of their occupation they suppressed the creation and dissemination of songs, which was part of patriotic cultural enlightenment movement.
The patriotic songs, which were sung widely at the then private schools and evening schools, instilled hatred for Japanese imperialism and national consciousness into the minds of the pupils.
The occupationists fabricated many "song collection incidents" at Private Munmyong School, Private Onchon School and others to strictly control the singing lessons and prevent the dissemination of songs while mercilessly punishing progressive musicians.
In late 1915, they arrested over 30 music teachers and staffs of Hanyong School in Kaesong and cruelly punished them at the end of brutal tortures.
When "Touch-me-not flower" and other anti-Japanese and patriotic songs were spread among people rapidly, they issued an order to prohibit singing of the songs and forcibly stopped composition, arrangement and publication of the national songs by progressive musicians.
The Korean Vocal Music Study Society was forced to be disbanded soon after its foundation and the national operas including "Kyonu and Jiknyo" (cowboy and weaving girl) and "Unhasu" (Galaxy) failed to see the light by the harsh repression of the Japanese imperialists.
Meanwhile, they encouraged war songs on their fascist and aggressive ideas and decadent songs in a big way in order to benumb the Korean people's national and class consciousness.
Such maneuvers held in check the creative national music construction of the Korean people who aspired after the modern civilization and thus did quite a bit harm to music development in Korea.
Creation of Songun Idea, Turning Point of History
Pyongyang, June 28 (KCNA) -- The Songun idea which guarantees a victorious advance of the Korean revolution was created in 1930.
At that time, the Japanese imperialists unprecedentedly intensified the colonial suppression and plunder over Korea, while stepping up the war preparations for the invasion of the Asian continent.
Enraged at this, the Korean people turned out in the mass struggle against the Japanese imperialists in different parts of the country. But the struggle met one setback after another as it was not guided by correct line and policy.
In the first days of his revolutionary activities, President Kim Il Sung put his heart and soul into the establishment of the correct guiding idea of the Korean revolution, rejecting flunkeyism and dogmatism and analyzing the radical shortcomings of the preceding movements. And he made the historic report "The Path of the Korean Revolution" at the Kalun Meeting which was held from the end of June to the beginning of July Juche 19 (1930).
He, in the report, expounded the idea that the masters of the Korean revolution are the Korean people themselves and that the revolution should by all means be carried out by themselves suitable to the actual conditions of the country.
He advanced the policy of organizing and waging an armed struggle against Japanese imperialism as an important task for the successful fulfillment of the Korean revolution.
The Kalun Meeting which put forward the Juche-oriented line of the Korean revolution marked a historic turning point by proclaiming the foundation of the Sungun idea.
Since then, the Korean revolution has all along covered the road of victory under the banner of the Songun idea based on the Juche idea.
Under the great Songun revolutionary leadership of the President, the DPRK achieved the historic cause of national liberation, reliably protected the sovereignty of the country from the armed invasion of the U.S. imperialists and built a powerful socialist country of independence, self-sustenance and self-defence.
Today the great Songun politics of Kim Jong Il has further consolidated the Korean socialist system centered on the popular masses and provided a solid military guarantee for the prosperity of the country.
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Acto central por el X aniversario de obra de Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, 28 de junio (ATCC) -- Tuvo lugar la vispera en el Palacio Cultural del Pueblo el seminario central por el X aniversario de la publicacion de la obra del Dirigente Kim Jong Il "Para mantener el espiritu Juche y la nacionalidad en el proceso revolucionario y constructivo".
En este historico trabajo publicado el 19 de junio del 86 (1997) de la Era Juche, el Dirigente dio una perfecta aclaracion cientifico-teorica a los problemas de principios que se presentan en apreciar el espiritu Juche y la nacionalidad en la revolucion y la construccion, mantenerlos y llevarlos adelante.
En el conclave participaron el secretario del CC del Partido del Trabajo de Corea, Choe Thae Bok, el ministro de Educacion, Kim Yong Jin, los funcionarios de organos partidistas y administrativos y organizaciones de masas, los de instituciones de formacion de los cuadros del partido y de sectores de ciencia, educacion, literatura y arte, prensa e informacion y de conservacion de reliquias historicas revolucionarias en el centro y esta capital.
En la ocasion fueron publicadas 5 disertaciones que explicaron y argumentaron la cientificidad, la veracidad, la justeza y la gran vitalidad de las ideas y teorias aclaradas por el Dirigente en la obra.
Los oradores senalaron que en la obra del Dirigente estan sintetizados todos los problemas teorico-practicos para materializar estrictamente el espiritu Juche y la nacionalidad en el proceso revolucionario y constructivo y agregaron que este pensamiento deviene una grandiosa proeza ideo-teorica que llevo las autoctonas teorias socialistas sobre una nueva base cientifica.
@Apuntaron que el Dirigente hizo crear el espiritu revolucionario de los militares y generalizarlo en toda la sociedad, lo cual sirvio de un motivo de viraje en la labor para llevar a una nueva etapa el espiritu de independencia nacional del pueblo coreano.
@Enfatizaron que esa obra resulta un jalon que permite traer un nuevo viraje en la lucha por la reunificacion de la patria y sirve de una poderosa arma ideo-teorica que ilumina el remedio para realizar la independencia de todo el mundo frustrando las maniobras de "globalizacion" de los imperialistas.
Varios paises elogian hazanas de Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, 28 de junio (ATCC) -- Con motivo del 43o aniversario del inicio del trabajo del Dirigente Kim Jong Il en el Comite Central del Partido del Trabajo de Corea, tuvieron lugar el dia 19 simposios en Italia, Mexico y Ucrania.
Miriam Pelegrini Feri, presidenta del Grupo de Materialistas Dialecticos y Ateistas de Italia, dijo que desde que inicio su trabajo en el CC del PTC, el Dirigente Kim Jong Il materializo estrictamente en la lucha revolucionaria la idea Juche y la del Songun (priorizacion militar), creadas por el Presidente Kim Il Sung.
El presidente del Comite Mexicano de Estudio del Kimilsunismo, Ramon Jimenez Lopez, refirio que el Dirigente fortalecio y desarrollo el Partido del Trabajo de Corea como el partido del Presidente Kim Il Sung y salvaguardo brillantemente la dignidad y la soberania del pais y la nacion y la causa del socialismo practicando la politica de Songun.
Nikolai Polishuk, presidente de la Sociedad Ucrania para el Estudio de la Idea Juche "Espada poderosa del Songun" subrayo que la hazana mas grande del Dirigente reside en haber formulado la Idea Juche creada por el Presidente como sistema integral de la idea, la teoria y el metodo del Juche, haberla desarrollado y enriquecido incesantemente.
En el conclave de Ucrania se aprobo un mensaje de felicitacion remitido al Dirigente.
Por otra parte, con motivo del 10o aniversario de la publicacion de la obra maestra del Dirigente Kim Jong Il "Para mantener el espiritu Juche y la nacionalidad en el proceso revolucionario y constructivo", se impartio el dia 17 una conferencia en la Sociedad de Intelectuales Indios para el Estudio de la Idea Juche.
Principio revolucionario de la idea Juche probado en la practica
Pyongyang, 28 de junio (ATCC) -- El principio revolucionario de la idea Juche consiste en que las masas populares son duenas de la revolucion y la construccion y que proviene tambien de ellas la fuerza impulsora de estas empresas.
Ya en la etapa inicial de sus actividades revolucionarias, el Presidente Kim Il Sung se percato de esa verdad y la convirtio en su conviccion.
Tomandola por la guia, el concibio una nueva idea directriz de la revolucion coreana, segun la cual inicio la causa revolucionaria del Juche y condujo a la fulminante victoria dos guerras revolucionarias, dos etapas de la revolucion social y la construccion del socialismo, etc.
Materializando esa magna idea sin recurrir a las teorias y formulas dogmatizadas, el Presidente pudo liberar la patria tras derrotar a los imperialistas japoneses al dirigir al pueblo coreano a la revolucion antijaponesa justamente cuando los otros opinaban que era imposible hacer una revolucion para la liberacion nacional sin apoyarse en la clase obrera de los paises metropolis.
Ademas, cuando muchas personas de diferentes latitudes del mundo se mostraban escepticas de la victoria de Corea en la Guerra de Liberacion de la Patria (1950-1953) contra los imperialistas norteamericanos, defendio la libertad y la independencia de la patria movilizando al ejercito y al pueblo para rechazar a los agresores con superioridad numerica y tecnologica.
Frente a la insistencia de los extranjeros en que resulta imposible transformar la economia rural de manera socialista antes de lograr la industrializacion, completo victoriosamente en un corto plazo de 4 - 5 anos la revolucion socialista apoyandose en las fuerzas revolucionarias del pueblo coreano.
Gracias al poderio de la idea Juche, la revolucion coreana pudo defender con firmeza y glorificar su socialismo centrado en las masas populares en el periodo desde finales de la decada de 1980 a principios de la proxima decada cuando se derrumbaron uno tras otro los paises socialistas de Europa oriental.
En la "Marcha penosa" y la forzada cuando faltaba todo debido al abierto y brutal bloqueo economico de los imperialistas y a los siniestros naturales de gran magnitud, el pueblo coreano no espero la ayuda de los otros sino supero estas pruebas con sus propias fuerzas y dio en la tierra patria magnificas perspectivas de la construccion de una gran potencia prospera.
En todo el curso de la revolucion coreana, lleno de sucesos heroicos y cambios seculares, se probaron en la practica la veracidad y la justeza de ese pensamiento de que la fuerza de las masas populares deviene la garantia decisiva de la victoria en la revolucion y la construccion.