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With this alternative in mind, we see him moving on from patriotic youth and students to forming a peasants union on March 10, 1928. By August 1928, he expanded his revolutionary activity to workers in the railways, factories and stevedores under the name of the Anti Japanese Trade Union. While the anti Japanese perspective was clear, the formation of a peasants union and one of workers clearly points to the Leninist understanding of a worker-peasant unity to confront and defeat imperialism in the process of developing a socialist society and a proletarian state. But what is striking is the energy and speed with which this work was accomplished by a young man in his sixteenth and seventeenth year.
This, ofcourse, would not have been possible without the growing resistance of the Korean people to Japanese rule and the family tradition of the Great Leader whose great grandfather, father, mother and other close relatives and friends were all involved in revolutionary movements. So we can understand how an individual's social, political and economic environment conditions his or her development, but what he or she makes of it depends on the consciousness and determination with which the realities of the situation are confronted individually and collectively. It is this capacity exhibited by the young Kim Il Sung that made him the Great Leader he was.
His perceptive understanding is evident in his report, “The Path of the Korean Revolution” of 1930, in which he puts forward the vision that “Experience shows that in order to lead a revolution to victory, you must go among the masses of people and organize them and solve all problems arising in the course of the revolution independently on one's own responsibility in accord with the actual conditions instead of relying on others.” (Works, Vol.I p.3). Here we can see the seeds of theory of Juche (self-reliance) that he continued to develop in accordance with the ever broadening canvas of events he continued to guide towards successful conclusions that has today made this theory and its ramifications and application a global phenomenon.
Starting with the anti-Japanese war in Manchuria, the newly formed Korean Revolutionary Army developed over time to become the best weapon not only to struggle against Japanese militarism but also a major centre of resistance against fascism and imperialism. In this process the names of this armed force kept changing to meet the situation and the scope of operation required of it. The Korean National Liberation Struggle was a major exposure of the false claims of US imperialism on many fronts. Its refusing to remove its occupying army from South Korea even when the Soviet Red Army left the North after the defeat of Japan exposed its hollow claim to defending the democratic right of nations to choose their forms of government as they willed.
It also exposed the stance of US imperialism that it was fighting fascism as it allied with the fascist administration and military of Japan against the Korean people whose language it replaced with English. Even today it maintains an army of occupation with a formidable nuclear arsenal in South Korea which it refuses to vacate despite constant demands from people on both sides of the border to leave the Korean people free to discuss the unity of North and South without outside interference.
None of this could have been achieved without the skilled leadership of Comrade Kim Il Sung who engineered the first defeat of US imperialism in its history on Korean soil on 27 July, 1953 after a brutal 3 year war. Though the US defeat in Korea led to the success of a number of revolutionary struggles in Asia, notably that of Vietnam, their refusal to leave Korean soil, continued military manoeuvres and hostile pacts and threats to the independence of the DPRK, reflect the basically anti-democratic, violent and inhuman character of imperialism that has to be overthrown on a global level to be contained.
We are grateful also to the path of revolution mapped out by the Great Leader Kim Il Sung as it serves as a successful example of how imperialism can be fought and kept at bay.
It was his concern not only with self reliance despite the support that he got from both the USSR and the Peoples Republic of China, but also with the unification of the Korean people and the establishment of a new model of democracy based on the Korean experience which created the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. Its stable existence despite the threats, conspiracies and falsehoods against it, serves as a sharp contrast to the bouts of military rule, corruption and instability of South Korea. Indeed, only a unified Korea can bring peace to East Asia today and we are proud to be a force in solidarity with this aim of Comrade Kim Il Sung and the DPRK.
However, the strength of this state could not have been developed without the organized force of the Korean Workers Party and the Korean Peoples Army. Only a people steeped in their determination to be in free of outside interference, self-reliant in their practice and organized and inspired by a leadership exceptional in its commitment and vision could have achieved what was achieved under the leadership of Comrade Kim Il Sung, whose policy enunciated in the 5th Congress of the Korean Workers Party (1979), outlining the revolutions in the field of ideology, technology and culture with teams to implement them shows his concern in developing the qualities of the people of Korea as the basis of the progress of the state of DPRK. His foresight has been more than proved in the manner in which the stability, defensibility and level of consciousness of the DPRK has continued to grow over the years.
India has been a close friend of the DPRK and on behalf of the All India Indo-Korean Friendship Association, we extend our support and solidarity to the Supreme Leader Comrade Kim Jong Un, the Workers Party of Korea, the Korean Peoples Army and the Korean People. We are proud of your successes to date, including your membership of the United Nations Organization, your advances in nuclear technology and in ensuring the self-defence and self-respect of the Korean People, whose reunification we hope for and support. ***
Suneet Chopra
General Secretary, All India Indo-Korean Friendship Association
