朝鮮民主主義人民共和國成立六十周年

朝鮮民主主義人民共和國成立六十周年
DPRK and Its 60th Birthday

朝鮮解放以後，金日成主席象徵建國的第一鏟。

今年九月九日是朝鮮民主主義人民共和國成立六十周年。

六十年前，朝鮮民主主義人民共和國的成立，可以說 是在朝鮮打開了社會主義強盛大國建設道路的歷史性事件。成立後一直堅持走社會主義道路的朝鮮民主主義人民共和國今天轉變成了政治思想強國。

朝鮮政府把金日成 (1912 – 1944)創立的主體思想、先軍思想作為唯一指導方針，在一切國家活動中落實了這一方針。還用主體思想、先軍思想武裝所有社會成員，使全社會充滿了這一思想。朝鮮在「為人民服務」的口號下，把仁德政治、寬幅政治作為國家活動的重要政治方式抓好，實現了全體人民從思想意志和道德情義上緊密團結在領導者周圍的全社會的一心團結。

尤其，朝鮮政府在國家活動的整個期間始終一貫堅持了先軍路線。思想和政治、經濟和文化等所有領域的活動都在先軍原則下進行，朝鮮民族統一運動和對外活動也貫徹了先軍的要求。先軍政治作為朝鮮政府的基本政治方式，在任何情況和環境下都成為可靠地捍衛國家主權和尊嚴、切實保證社會主義強國建設的萬能寶劍。

朝鮮並不是一個幅員廣大的國家，但高高舉起主體思想、先軍思想的旗幟奮勇前進，今天在國際社會成了任何人都不可無視的政治大國、思想強國。

成立後始終下大力量加強自衛國防力量的朝鮮民主主義人民共和國今天轉變成了軍事強國。朝鮮在國防上堅持自衛原則，將落實全軍幹部化、全軍現代化、全民武裝化、全國要塞化的路線，建設強大的國防工業作為軍事強國建設的重要要求抓了起來。

成立還不到兩年的朝鮮民主主義人民共和國之所以能夠在美國發動侵朝戰爭 (1950 – 1953)時即刻轉入反攻，在這場歷時三年的戰爭中給了自誇為世界「最強」的美國以歷史上第一次的慘敗，是因為朝鮮政府一直堅持先軍路線。

戰後，朝鮮政府繼續高舉先軍旗幟，加快了軍事強國建設。朝鮮人民軍實現全軍幹部化、全軍現代化的要求，加強成為掌握了現代軍事科學技術和主體戰法的幹部軍隊，擁有任何侵略者都能一舉消滅的強大的攻擊手段和防禦手段的、所有軍人都能熟練地使用現代武器和戰鬥技術器材的無敵戰鬥隊伍。由於高水平上實現了全民武裝化和全國要塞化，全體人民一手拿槍、一手拿鐮刀和錘子，做好了一旦有事時和軍隊一起給侵略者以殲滅性打擊的準備，全國轉變成了攻不破摧不毀的金城湯池。

朝鮮政府一向下大力量加強和發展了國防工業。尤其在上世紀末葉一些社會主義國家接連崩潰，帝國主義勢力的反社會主義攻勢集中到朝鮮的情況下，提出優先發展國防工業的新的經濟建設路線，並在切實貫徹這一路線的過程中具備了最強的戰爭遏制力。

成立後，朝鮮民主主義人民共和國在經濟和文化等社會生活的所有領域取得了驚人的成就。朝鮮政府在戰後的廢墟上進行恢復建設的同時，僅用四五年時間在城鄉卓有成效地完成了生產關係的社會主義改造，一九五八年全面確立了社會主義制度。僅用十四年時間就完成工業化的歷史任務；把曾經是殖民地農業國的國家轉變成了發達的社會主義工業國。國家的經濟加強和發展成了八十年代已經用自己的力量建設像西海水閘那樣世界首屈一指創造物的強有力的自立民族經濟。由於帝國主義聯合勢力極端的封鎖和制裁，加之嚴重的經濟困難和連年的自然災害，國際社會認為「社會主義朝鮮的崩潰」幾乎成為既成事實的時候，朝鮮在一九九八年八月一舉發射成功第一顆人造地球衛星「光明星一號」，震驚了全世界。這是顯示了朝鮮無窮盡的經濟潛力和構建幾十年的自立民族經濟威力的事件。

朝鮮作為人民的福利系統增進之國、無稅之國、全民免費學習之國、實施免費醫療之國、展現出了文藝全盛期之國等，成了世界眾多人所羨慕的對象。

到迎接社會主義朝鮮的始祖金日成主席誕辰一百周年的二零一二年，要敞開社會主義強盛大國大門，是朝鮮政府的目標和意志。朝鮮定將佔領社會主義強盛大國建設的宏偉目標。

祝賀朝鮮民主主義人民共和國成立六十周年。

資料由朝鮮民主主義人民共和國駐香港總領事館提供

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金日成席 (攝於1948年9月9日)
President Kim Il Sung on 9th September, 1948.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea greets its diamond jubilee on September 9 this year. The founding of the DPRK 60 years ago was a historic event which declared that Korea embarked on the road toward the building of a great, prosperous and powerful socialist nation.

Since its founding, the DPRK has followed the socialist road steadfastly and now developed into a politico-ideological power. The DPRK government has thoroughly embodied the Juche idea and the Songun idea, authored by President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) in all its state activities: It armed all the memebers of society with the Juche idea and the Songun idea and imbued the whole society with these ideas. It also employed as its major political mode the benevolent and all-embracing politics under the slogan of “Serve the people!” This has led all the Korean people to unite closely around their leader in ideology will and moral obligation – achieving the single-hearted unity of the country.

Noteworthy in the whole course of its state activities is the maintenance of the Songun line. The principle of Songun underlies all the activities of the country in ideology, politics, the economy, culture and other fields. The national reunification movement and external activities also embody the requirements of the principle. Songun politics, adopted as a basic political mode, has provided the DPRK with a treasured sword with which to firmly defend the national sovereignty and dignity and assure the building of a socialist power in whatever difficult circumstances.

As it upholds the banner of the Juche idea and the Songun idea, the DPRK, though not so large in territorial area, has proved itself in the present international community as a political power, a country strong in ideology, nobody can ignore.

It has also been turned into a military power by putting great efforts into developing self-reliant defence capabilities.

Adherence to the principle of self-reliance in national defence, implementation of the line of making the entire army into an army of cadres and modernizing it, arming all the people and fortifying the whole country, and the building of powerful defence industry – these are the important requirements the DPRK has met in building the country into a military power.

When the United States unleashed the Korean war (1950-1953) against the DPRK with a history of only two years, the DPRK immediately went over to counterattack and during the three years of the war inflicted a crushing defeat on the US, the first of its kind it had suffered in its history, putting to shame the “strongest” country in the world. The credit goes to the Songun line the DPRK has maintained since its founding.

After the war, too, it continued to hold up the banner of Songun, stepping up the building of a military power. The Korean People's Army, as required by the line of turning the entire army into an army of cadres and modernizing it, has equipped itself with advanced military science and technology, methods of modern warfare, powerful means for both offensive and defensive, and prepared all the armymen for skillful handling of state-of-art weapons and combat equipment, thereby emerging invincible. The work to arm all the people and fortify the whole country has been accomplished on a high level, thus preparing the people to be able to deal a smashing blow to the enemy in emergency with arms in one hand and working tools in the other and transforming the whole country into an impregnable fortress with formidable establishments for defence in every part.

Development of defence industry has always been a great concern of the DPRK. With several socialist countries collapsing one after another and the imperialist allied forces focusing their anti-socialist offensive on the DPRK in the end of last century, it put forward an economic line of giving priority to the development of defence industry and consistently implemented it. In the course of this it has prepared a strongest war deterrent.

Eye-opening achievements have also been made in all fields of social life, including the economy and culture.

The government successfully carried out reconstruction after the Korean war, and realized the socialist transformation of relations of production in urban and rural areas in no more than four to five years, thus establishing the socialist system in 1958. It fulfilled the historic task of industrialization in only 14 years, transforming the past colonial agrarian country into a socialist industrial state. The national economy developed into a powerful self-reliant one, capable enough to build the West Sea Barrage and other monumental establishments on its own already in the 1980s. As is well known to the world, it placed its first artifical earth satellite Kwangmyongsong 1 in orbit in August 1998 at its first launch. The successful launching shook the whole world, for it was a fait accomplish in the international community that socialist Korea would soon collapse, strangled by critical economic difficulties caused by the extreme blockade and sanctions of the imperialist allied forces and the consecutive natural calamities. The DPRK demonstrated through the event its inexhaustible economic potential, the might of the self-reliant national economy built up for decades.

The DPRK enjoys acclaim of the whole world, as a country where people's well-being is on systematic improvement, nobody knows what tax is, everybody benefits from free education and medical service, and the art enjoys its heyday.

It is the goal and the will of the DPRK government to open wide the gate to a great, prosperous and powerful socialist nation in 2012 marking the centennial birthday of President Kim Il Sung, father of socialist Korea. It will achieve this ambitious goal without fail.

Congratulations on the 60th anniversary of the DPRK!

Source: Consulate General of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in Hong Kong