先軍的永恆太陽

先軍的永恆太陽
Eternal Sun of Juche

President KIM IL SUNG

President KIM IL SUNG, founding father of socialist Korea, is praised by the world progressive people as the eternal sun of Juche.

The President created the Juche idea, the great guiding ideology for the cause of independence.

In the 1920s the struggles for liberation of the oppressed nations across the world against the colonial rule of imperialism were gaining momentum along with the revolutionary struggle of the working class against the exploitation by capital. In Korea, which was under the military occupation of the Japanese imperialists, national liberation movement entered a new stage of its development and the struggle of the people from all walks of life was growing in intensity.

At this time the President embarked on the revolutionary struggle for the liberation of the country and the people and strived for a new path for the Korean revolution. In the course of this he discovered the truth that the masses of the people are the masters of the revolution and the revolution should be carried out by relying on them and through one’s own efforts. And, based on it, he elucidated the principles of the Juche idea and clarified the new path of the Korean revolution at the Kalun meeting held in June 1930. This was a historic event which declared the creation of the Juche idea.

The creation of the Juche idea opened up a new era, era of independence, in which the masses of the people, who had regarded slavery as their inevitable fate and been subject to history, could become genuine masters of their own destiny and the world and carve out the era and the revolution in an independent and creative manner.

President KIM IL SUNG and leader KIM JONG IL looking round the Tower of Juche Idea (April, 1982)

The Pyongyang Declaration adopted in the World Congress on the Juche Idea held in April 2012 in celebration of the centenary of the birth of President KIM IL SUNG said as follows:
“The Juche idea is now striking its root deep in the minds of the world progressives and becomes a recognized guiding ideology that represents not only the present era but the whole historical era of humankind.

“The popular masses’ struggle to build a new independent world free from domination and subjugation, intervention and pressure under the banner of the Juche idea will surely win victory.”
The President pioneered the cause of independence and led it to victory by dint of his unique Songun-based revolutionary leadership.

He started his Songun-based revolutionary leadership with the founding of the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army (later Korean People’s Army) on April 25, 1932, and after defeating the Japanese imperialists and liberating the country by force of arms he founded the party and set up the government.

He defended the sovereignty of the country by winning the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953) against the United States. This is one of the greatest achievements he gained in enforcing the Songun-based revolutionary leadership. Thanks to his outstanding military ideas, strategies and tactics the Korean army and people could inflict an ignominious defeat on the US, boasting of its being the “strongest” in the world, for the first time in the latter’s history.

While leading the post-war rehabilitation, socialist revolution and socialist construction to victory the President held fast to the line of giving priority to arms and military affairs, thus establishing a powerful socialist country independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in national defence.

President KIM IL SUNG and leader KIM JONG IL at the construction site of the West Sea Barrage (September, 1985)

Brilliant victories and successes the President achieved in the two revolutionary wars against the powerful US and the Japanese imperialists, the social revolution of two stages—anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution and the socialist revolution—and the socialist construction of several stages by dint of his Songun-based leadership inspired the struggle of the world revolutionary people for independence. Countries in Africa, once called “a colonial continent” and “dark continent,” gained their national independence and embarked on the building of a new society. The Latin American countries, which were regarded as the “hereditary estate” and the “quiet backyard” of the US, waged vigorous struggles against imperialism and for independence and socialism.

President KIM IL SUNG opened up a new era of developing international relations on the principle of independence.

He set it as a fundamental principle to maintain independence in state relations and as an iron rule to ensure complete equality and exercise sovereignty in external activities.

Thanks to his principled stand and energetic activities the principles of complete equality, independence, mutual respect, noninterference in each other’s internal affairs and comradely cooperation were set as the basis of the relations between revolutionary parties in the declaration adopted at the meeting of representatives of the Communist and Workers’ parties of socialist countries in November 1957. The above principles were reaffirmed and emphasized in the statement declared at the meeting of the representatives of the Communist and Workers’ parties held in November 1960.

President KIM IL SUNG and leader KIM JONG IL visiting the refurbished Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on Mt.Taesong

President KIM IL SUNG ensured that the DPRK should exercise its sovereignty in settling all the issues arising in the international arena. When the US precipitated the Caribbean Crisis against Cuba in 1962 and the Tonkin Gulf incident against Vietnam in 1964, he ensured that the DPRK stated its principled stand on the prevailing situation on the principle of independence, not reading the face of others and following in the footsteps of the big countries.

President KIM IL SUNG was the closest comrade and dearest friend of all the revolutionaries and progressive peoples across the world. In his lifetime he met over 70 000 foreigners including heads of the party, state and government of 136 countries and discussed on the issues arising in carrying out the revolution and construction in an independent manner and building a new independent world. He also gave unstinted support and assistance to the peoples of the countries who met with difficulties in their building of a new society and suffered from the invasion and intervention of the imperialists.

President KIM IL SUNG, who pioneered an independent era and devoted his whole life to victoriously advancing the cause of global independence, will live as the eternal sun of Juche in the hearts of the world people aspiring after independence.

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