50 YEARS OF SONGUN REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP

by Dermot Hudson, chairman of the Juche Idea Study Group of England (JISGE)


It is said that the first step of any journey is the most important and Korean people say that well began is half completed.The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il took the first step of the Songun revolutionary leadership on the 25th of August 1960 when he visted the historic Guard Ryu Kyong Su 105 Seoul Tank Divsion. This was the tank unit which liberated Seoul on the 28th of June 1950.The unit smashed down the walls of division,which had been erected by the US imperialists,shattering the domination and oppression of thedepraved and nefarious Yankee imperialists the Korean people’s sworn enemy.It is said that the tank
is the central component of modern warfare,it combines operational mobility with tactical offensive and defensive capablities.Thus the visit of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il to the tank unit had profound significance in several different ways.
This first step on the road of Songun revolutionary leadership explemified concept of Songun that miltary affairs should be put before political affairs.The Songun revolutionary leadership was a continuation in a higher form of the Juche revolutionary cause that had been pioneered by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung.It marked the start of a new era in the Juche revolution.
This is the whole essence of Songun the guiding idea of the Korean and world revolutions and is an embodiment of the Juche idea.The idea of putting military affairs first came from the experience of the Korean revolution which can be summed up as Arms are the life and soul of the revolution.The Korean revolution can be said to have began in earnest when the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung was bequeathed 2 pistols by his late father Kim Hyong Jik.The Korean revolution advanced through arms during the 20 year long anti Japanese armed struggle and in the fiery crucible of the great victorious Fatherland Liberation War.
When the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il gave guidance to the Guard Ryu Kyong Su 105 Tank division US imperialism,the chieftain of world imperialism and main force of aggression and war was instensfiying its aggressive manoeuvres and domination all over the world.It had intervened in the Congo killing Patric Lumumba the Congo’s first leader.It carried out the Cold War against the socialist countries.In particular in turned its attention to Korea.It shipped in nuclear weapons into south Korea in the 1950s and reinforced its conventional armed forces there.It was inciting its puppets in south Korea to “march north” to attack the DPRK.
Imperialism had also penetrated the international communist movement in the form of modern revisionism.The modern revisionists caused splits and confusion.The socialist camp was split into two creating a dangerous situation.The modern revisionists compromised with the US imperialists and stifled the anti imperialist struggle,.Jabbering about ’peaceful co existence’ they embarked unilateral and one sided disarmament of the socialist camp. In 1962 Khruschov betrayed Cuba to the US imperialists.
Thus the need was for Korea strengthen and consolidate its self defence capablities a revolutionary line in opposition to both US imperialism and modern revisionism. The great leader President Kim Il Sung and the dear leader comrade Kim Jong Il knew that socialism could not be defended by just talking about “peaceful co existence” and other such flowery and effete phraselogy.The whole experience of the Korean revolution showed that the revolution was defended and advanced by the gun .Leader Kim Jong Il thus wisely took stock of the prevailing internal and international situation so gave on the spot guidance at the Seoul Guards Ryu Kyong Su 105 tank division,thus putting military affairs first fully encapsulating the truth of Songun and the experience of the Korean revolution.During
his guidance leader Kim Jong Il emphasised that ideological and political education must be instensfied as well combat training.

The Korean People’s Army was fortified ideologically and politically. It was built up as the army of the leader,party and working class.As the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il said
“The People’s Army is the revolutionary armed force of the Workers Party of Korea and its mission is to defend with arms the revolutionary cause of our party”

It was also built into a strong army ,a revolutionary army of Mt Paektu fully inheriting the traditions of the anti Japanese armed struggle. It became an army in which each of its soldiers was a match for a hundred enemy soldiers(though the anti party revisionists tried to oppose the revolutionary slogan “ a match for a hundred”).
Leader Kim Jong Il taught as follows

“We must must inspire the entire Party membership and working people and soldiers of the People’s Army with a firm conviction of victory and dauntless fighting spirit so that if the enemy assaults us we shall rise as one as smite the aggressors violently for the honour of Juche Korea under the direction of the leader”.
Under the Songun based revolutionary leadership of leader Kim Jong Il the KPA and Korean people smited US imperialism with full force.In January 1968 the USS Pueblo an armed spy pirate ship of the US imperialist aggressors was captured by the KPA navy off Wonsan(the Pueblo can be seen today on the bank of the river Taedong).The US imperialists demanded the immediate return the ship falsely claiming that it was in “international waters” and the cowardly revisionists tried to advise the DPRK to send the ship and its crew back.
The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il said
"Nowadays people of a certain country are saying that if a war breaks out in Korea it will be serious problem,and “advising us” it would be better to have the Pueblo quietly released.This would mean making a concession to US imperialism,and we can never do such a thing.A concession to US imperialism means submission and surrender.Since the our People’s Arm“Ny did not capture the “Pueblo” on the sea off the United States,but when it was in violation of our country’s territorial waters and engaged in in acts of espionage,we need to neither make any concession to the Americans or pander to them”

The DPRK resolutely stood firm and refused to do so until an apolegy from the US was issued

In 1969 the US imperialist spy plane EC121 tried to infiltrate into DPRK but was shot down by the KPA airforce.In 1994 a US army helicopter infiltrated into DPRK airspace and was brought down by one shot by the KPA.
The US imperialists seeked to isolate and stifle the DPRK by inventing the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula leading to the 1st ‘Korean nuclear crisis’ in the 1990s and the 2nd one in the 2000s.The DPRK refused to bow down and instead declared a semi war state and announced its intention to withdraw from the one sided and inquitous NPT in 1993.This move stunned the US and they had to enter into talks.
When Bush vocificated about a “rogue state” and “axis of evil” and raked up the 2nd nuclear crisis the DPRK under the Songun supreme commander comrade Kim Jong Il responded with a series of hardline measures namely withdrawing completely from the NPT and declaring itself a nuclear state.This was not mere words,the DPRK succesfully carried out nuclear tests in October 2006 and May 2009.It nuclear device was the fruit of self reliance based 100% on Korean resources and technology.
Thus under the Songun revolutionary leadership the DPRK has been fortified ever more strongly as powerful socialist state of independence.A country of Juche which is able to do what it likes and say what it like no matter what others may say or think.Comrade Kim Jong Il brilliant commander of Songun declared on the 1st of January 1995,at the Takasbol army post that the Korean people had a choice of either being an independent people adhering to socialism or colonial slaves of imperialism.Thanks to the Songun revolutionary leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il the DPRK has been able to smash the unceasing pressure and moves of US and world imperialism to isolate and stifle the DPRK.The DPRK has carried proudly along the road of Juche defying the imperialists.The Songun revolutionary leadership has carried forward the Juche revolutionary cause and
is propelling it ever onward to final victory.
The 50 years of the Songun revolutionary leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il,illustrious brilliant commander of Songun,have been 50 years of victory and glory.

KFA PICKETS AT U.S.AND SOUTH KOREAN EMBASSIES

On August 17th UK KFA along with the ASSPUK and JISGE as well New Communist
Party general secretary Andy Brooks and members of the labour,peace and progressive
movement.Some had travelled from as far as Southampton and Oxford to be at the
meeting.
The first picket was at the south Korean puppet embassy at 1pm.The KFA banner along
with the DPRK and the AUCPB red flag and also slogans "Hands off the DPRK "
and "No UNSC" sanctions were displayed.One south Korean puppet official asked the
picketers "Do you have permission from police to do this"(possibly a feeble attempt
at intimidation),later a so called "Police Community Support Officer" tried to ask for
identification of demonstrators but there was no legal nessecity for this.The other
attempt at obstruction came from a rather arrogant UK businessman who claimed the
demonstration was interrupting his company board meeting !.

The statement of UK KFA denouncing the Ulji Freedom Guardian exercises was
read out by Kevin Cain KFA Organisation secretary and leader of the For Bolshevism
group.Demonstrators chanted "DPRK Here to Stay,SK no way !","No War exercises"
"Down with Lee Myung Bak puppet regime" "Victory to the DPRK" "US troops out
of Korea".The music "Peace is On Our Bayonets" ,"Death to the US imperialist
agggressors " "Korea is One" and "No Motherland Without You".


Demonstrators then proceeded to the US Embassy at Grosvenor Square.The picket
started at 3pm Police tried to move us away from the front of the entrance of the US embassy, but we refused and remained in the area used by all other protests there. .Flags of the DPRK were displayed also UK KFA banner and placards
"Hands Off the DPRK" and "No UNSC sanctions".This part of the demonstration was
joined by the Revolutionary Workers Party (Posadist-Trotskyist).Kevin Cain KFA
Organisation Secretary read out the UK KFA statement denouncing Ulji Freedom
Guardian he said "The US imperialists and south Korean puppets-thee Lee Myung bak sellout fascist regime-are staging yet more military exercises this time Ulji Freedom Guardian.These come hard on the heels of earlier military exercises which appear to be held continously in south Korea.

UFG is larger in scale than the other exercises and is a clear cut rehearsal to start a war and invade the DPRK.US president Obama has declared himself the "first Pacific president of the USA" and intends to rule the Asia Pacfic region as a colonial domain.

UFG exercises are a threat to peace not only on the Korean peninsula and the Asia-Pacific region but also the entire world as a war could easily start as a result of the exercises,a small incident or accident could easily turn into war which would then spread across Asia and become a nuclear war.
UFG is a crude and blatant attempt at intimidating the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea into making unilateral concessions and ultimately to give up its socialist system.This is a serious encroachment on the DPRK's sovereignity"

Brent Cutler resident of Southampton city stated that US troops remain in south Korea
contrary to UN agreements and resolutions and the Korean Armstice Agreement,it
is time for them to go home

Dermot Hudson KFA Official Delegate UK and president ASSPK said that the Obama
regime in the US has continuined with the policy of Bush aimed at stifling the DPRK.
Ulji Freedom Guardian is a rehearshal to invade the DPRK as it even involves civil
servants and adminstrators.He said that Obama is just the trendy face of US
imperialism.
Speakers also drew attention to the insidious attempt of the US imperialists to
extradite Sean Garland leader of the Workers Party of Ireland and friend of the DPRK
to the US as well the US extradition of UK citizen Gary McKinnion.

Speakers also contrasted the DPRK's advanced socialist democracy with the corrupt
and decadent bourgeois democracy of the US.
The slogans "USA No Way,DPRK Here to Stay" "US troops out now" were chanted
loudly by demonstrators.The music "Peace is Our Bayonets","Death to the US
imperialist aggressors ","Korea is One" ,"Let Us Uphold the Red Flag" and "No
Motherland Without You" were played.

Support for the picket was expressed by Malaysian residents in London and also
English working class youth.

Picket concluded at 5pm