金正日的先軍領導與現代朝鮮

金正日的先軍領導與現代朝鮮
Kim Jong Il’s Songun-based leadership and Modern Korea

Kim Jong Il Gives Field Guidance at Construction Site of Huichon Power Station.

Over a century ago, a politician of the West wrote in one of his works that korea had been constantly subjected to harassment by many powers, likening the nation to a football kicked freely by the powers.

What is the present image of the country, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea?

Its leader Kim Jong Il kept in mind the lesson of history that a country or nation, even though it aspires after sovereignty and justice, is doomed to fall victim of foreign aggression and injustice if it is not strong enough. He resolved to carry forward the idea of attaching importance to arms, created by President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994), founding-father of socialist Korea. He inspected the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su 105 Guards Tank Division of the Korean People’s Army on August 25, 1960, starting his Songun-based leadership.

More than half a century since then, Korea under Kim Jong Il’s Songun-based leadership has built up its military strength to rank among the military powers.

Today the KPA is unequalled in terms of politico-ideological strength. Unimaginable indeed is the ideological and spiritual world of the KPA soldiers who are determined to protect the security of their motherland from imperialist aggression, even sacrificing their lives for their leader and people. “I am a soldier of General Kim Jong Il. I am determined to go back to his bosom.” This is what a soldier of the KPA, who was accidentally drifted into south Korean waters, said as a reply to the enemy’s stick and carrot.

The artillery firing on Yonphyong Island is a good example of the KPA’s might. Last year a south Korean artillery unit on the island fired shells into the territorial waters of the DPRK. The KPA responded immediately by reducing the island to a lake of fire at one stroke. The strength of the army can be illustrated by the anti-ballistic missile system and other military hardware, which were premiered at the 2010 parade of the KPA to mark the 65th anniversary of the Workers’ party of Korea (October 10). Its nuclear deterrent for self-defence has already rendered the US nuclear blackmail invalid.

Kim Jong Il’s Songun-based leadership further consolidated the single-hearted unity of the Korean society.

The unity in ideology and will between the leader and his army and people is peculiar to Korea. Kim Jong Il put forward the KPA as the main force in carrying out the socialist cause and encouraged it to lead civilians by creating the indomitable revolutionary soldier spirit, thus cementing the cohesion and unity of the whole society in ideology and will. In the course of emulating the revolutionary soldier spirit, civilians have achieved oneness with soldiers in ideology and fighting spirit, which in turn contributed to raising the peculiar single-hearted unity to a higher level. This is just the greatest strength of the nation, which even an atomic bomb cannot break. It was by dint of this single-hearted unity that Korea could surmount the worst trials it faced at the close of the last century, although the Western media sang in chorus about the imminent “collapse of socialist Korea”. Today it is advancing by leaps and bounds towards the goal of building a great, prosperous and powerful nation.

Kim Jong Il’s Songun-based leadership has brought about world-shaking changes in the economy and all other realms of the country.

He presented the line of economic construction-giving priority to the development of defence industry and simultaneously developing light industry and agriculture. It provided a sure guarantee for developing the country’s economy even in the face of the escalated imperialist moves for aggression, sanctions and blockade.

Rapid growth was achieved in the defence industry, as well as heavy industry and cutting-edge science and technology, all of which are closely linked with the defence industry. Light water reactor project is being pushed forward on the basis of the domestic nuclear technology. The self-made artificial earth satellites were successfully launched in 1998 and 2009. The machine-building industry has seized supremacy in CNC technology, and all factories are making great strides toward CNC-based modernization. This nationwide modernization drive has culminated in the CNC machine-tool manufacturing factories renovating their buildings in a green-economy fashion and installing fully automated production lines. A new steel-making system which no longer relies on imported coke and scrap iron has been established in the iron and steel industry.

Light industry and agriculture are making headway on the basis of the latest advance in the defence industry and heavy industry. Fibre and fertilizer industries fed by domestic fuel and raw materials are up and running. Foodstuff factories and other light industrial establishments have been technologically upgraded for mass production of quality consumer goods, thus contributing to improving the people’s standard of living.

Land realignment was undertaken as a nationwide campaign, repartitioning crop fields into large-sized, standardized ones and thus changing the overall landscape in the countryside. Gravitational waterway projects were completed one after another, and breakthroughs were made in the genetic and biological engineering, heralding richer harvests of grain. Ostriches native to tropical Africa have been acclimatized and rare fishes including sturgeon, salmon and eel are being bred in artificial conditions. The farms breeding the bird and fishes unfold spectacular scenery.

Remarkable progress has been made in education, public health, art and literature, and all other fields of social life, under the slogan “Push back the frontiers of science!” Computer networks for on-line lecturing and medical service cover the whole country. The Grand People’s Study House and other cultural establishments are open to ordinary people. The Kaeson Youth Park at the foot of Moran Hill and other amusement parks look like day at night, all crowded with laughing people.

A CNN correspondent reported on the spot. Nothing is wrong with your eyes; You are seeing socialist north Korea.

This is all what you will see in modern Korea changing beyond recognition under Kim Jong Il’s Songun-based leadership.

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