Friday, August 21, 2015

Stable Cornerstone of the Korean Revolution
It was not until Kim Il Sung, eternal President of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, chose to take a new path of the Korean revolution that the working class and other people of the country had any revolutionary tradition. Although they waged a vigorous struggle for national independence and social emancipation from before the Japanese imperialists’ occupation of their country, they suffered bitter failures and twists and turns alone with no unity of their ranks, because all the social movements in those times were seldom guided by proper strategy or tactics and were devoid of the guiding intellect for their unity, which are provided by a wise leader. Therefore, the movements had no tradition worth mentioning as the historic roots or valuable wealth of the revolution.

The  Korean  working  people  were  provided  with  the  brilliant  traditions  of  revolution  only  after  Kim Il Sung came to the fore of the revolution and founded the guiding idea of the revolution and successfully applied it in the unprecedentedly arduous and complicated anti-Japanese warfare for as many as 20 years, thus bringing the war to victory.

In the course of the struggle against the Japanese aggressors, there were created the Juche-oriented ideological system and revolutionary spirit, the immortal revolutionary exploits and fighting experience, and the revolutionary work method and popular work style; these are the constituents of the brilliant traditions of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

Juche-oriented Ideological System and Revolutionary Spirit

By way of founding the immortal Juche idea and organizing and leading the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, Kim Il Sung established the Juche-oriented ideological system. The revolutionary idea he fathered constitutes the kernel of the revolutionary traditions, and is the ideological and theoretical source of the traditions. Soon after he set out on the road of revolution in his early years, he created the Juche idea which maintains that man is the master of everything and decides everything. He expounded the principle of the idea at the Kalun Meeting held on June 30–July 2, 1930. The foundation of the Juche idea ushered in the era of Juche, a new one in history, and the idea became a true guiding idea in the Korean revolution.

On the strength of the idea, Kim Il Sung achieved the unity and cohesion of the revolutionary ranks and made sure that the Korean revolution as a whole went ahead under the banner of the idea. In this way he established the Juche-oriented ideological system, which constitutes the core of the glorious revolutionary traditions of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

Regarding the establishment of the Juche principle as the matter of critical importance in the revolution, he held fast to the independent and creative stands throughout the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, solving all problems concerning the struggle in an original way with the mobilization of the internal forces. He put firm trust in the resourcefulness of the masses of the people and emphasis on the work of elevating their role when he put forth revolutionary lines and policies. Meanwhile, he steadfastly followed the line of independence in the Korean revolution and rejected big-power chauvinism, flunkeyism and dogmatism. In the course of the bloody struggle against the Japanese imperialists, the Juche-oriented ideological system came into being in which the Korean revolution was carried on with Kim Il Sung’s Juche idea as the sure guideline, the unity of the revolutionary ranks was achieved with Kim Il Sung as the centre, and the revolutionary struggle as a whole was organized and waged only under his leadership.

Kim Il Sung made a valuable model of the noble revolutionary spirit that the revolutionaries of Juche type should acquire, as well as the Juche-oriented ideological system. The revolutionary spirit consists in infinite loyalty to the Party and the national leader, confidence in victory, revolutionary optimism, indefatigable spirit, self-reliance, revolutionary comradeship and sense of obligation, socialist patriotism, proletarian internationalism, and so on. The revolutionary spirit epitomized by the leader was the source of indestructible force that brought about the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to victory along with the Juche-oriented ideological system; it is also great revolutionary wealth that guarantees ultimate victory of the cause of Juche.

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