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President KIM IL SUNG provided the cause of independence with the guiding principle towards its successful accomplishment based on the Juche idea and Songun idea. The Juche idea is the doctrine that represents the fundamental demand of man as a social being to live and develop in an independent way as the master of the world and his own destiny and gives light to the correct way for its realization of independence of the country and nation and the popular masses, and firmly ensures it by means of powerful arms.
By relying on the Juche idea and Songun idea, the President put forward the original ideology and theory on the world stage. He developed the world revolution based on the struggle for class liberation of the international working class to the one for defending and realizing the independence of the oppressed and exploited peoples of the world, and gave correct answers to all theoretical and practical problems arising from the struggle for the realization of the cause of global independence, such as the national liberation struggle in the colonial countries, the socialist movement, anti-imperialist and anti-US struggle and the movement for reconstruction of socialism.
He newly delineated and systematized the theory on the world revolution centering on the independence of the people, the nature and strategic goal of the world revolution, the common task of struggle of the revolution and its subject and object, main strategy, and the principle of forming the revolutionary forces of the world, which are the unchanging guiding principle for implementation of the cause of independence of mankind.
President KIM IL SUNG set a practical example in the national liberation struggle in countries under imperialist rule and gave full support to the oppressed people of the world in their struggle for national liberation.
He set out on the road of revolution in his early teens, and organized and led the 20-years long anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to liberate Korea. After national liberation he beat off the US imperialists, the ringleader of imperialism, to firmly defend the national dignity and sovereignty. It was a historic event that substantiated the truth that the peoples under imperialist rule can win the imperialists and rescue the destiny of their nation and realize the independence of the popular masses when they wage the armed struggle, believing in and relying on their own strength.
During the days of the anti-Japanese armed struggle for national liberation, he rendered active support to the revolution in China and defended the former Soviet Union with arms. Even after the liberation of Korea, he wisely led the struggle of the people of many countries for national and class liberation.
He liberated Korea after waging 15-year-long anti-Japanese armed struggle and established the people's country. He defeated the United States that prided itself on being the world’s “strongest” in the Korean War, for the first time in history and safeguarded national sovereignty and dignity with credit. And he led to victory the post-war rehabilitation, socialist revolution and the several stages of socialist construction. Thus, he set a world's example in the struggle for accomplishing the cause of independence of the masses.
His support and encouragement to the Algerian people is an example. The Algerians held up the torch of armed struggle for national liberation in Africa which was called the “continent of darkness” and the “colonial continent” in the past. Encouraged by the Korean people's victory in the Korean War, the Algerian patriots formed the National Liberation Front in August 1954 and engaged in the armed struggle. The President saw to it that great material assistance including provisions was given to them and that the “Day of Algeria” and the “Week of Algeria” be designed in token of solidarity with the Algerian people. When the provisional government of the Republic of Algeria was founded in September 1958, the DPRK was the first to recognize and establish diplomatic relations with it. He also gave active and disinterested support and encouragement to the struggles of the people of Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia and other countries against colonialism and racism. Many African countries could achieve their national liberation and build a new society, thanks to Kim Il Sung's unselfish assistance. Sam Nujoma, first president of Namibia, credited the Korean President KIM IL SUNG with the independence of his country.
President KIM IL SUNG energetically led the socialist movement of the world, holding high the banner of socialism.
He built Korea into a socialist power of independence, self-reliance and self-defense, and put great efforts in strengthening the international solidarity with the socialist countries and achieving the unity in the international socialist movement.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis from October to November in 1962, he made sure that the full support was expressed to the Cuban people, who were fighting bravely against the US maneuvers of stifling and that the DPRK embassy staff in Havana and the Korean students studying in Cuba made every preparation for combat and share the destiny with the Cuban people. He even visited North Vietnam to greatly encourage the Vietnamese people and give selfless material and moral aid to them in the grim days when the US cooked up the “Gulf of Tonkin Incident” in August 1964 to lead to Vietnamese war. These are only a few examples of his achievements in the cause of independence of mankind.
The President was a genuine friend and a great benefactor of the peoples of developing countries. He spared nothing in supporting them undergoing difficulties in the building of a new society. He sent a number of experts and technicians to African and other countries to help them sincerely in their efforts to build party, state and armed forces and to develop industry, agriculture, education, healthcare, sports and other sectors.
Stressing the need to develop agriculture in order to solve the food problem, he ensured that they adopted farming methods suited to their specific conditions and helped their irrigation projects. He made the DPRK host a symposium of the non-aligned and other developing countries on increasing food and agricultural production in Pyongyang and proposed to establish institutes of agricultural science with a view to improving agriculture in African countries.
KIM IL SUNG Research Institute of Agricultural Science was established in Guinea of western Africa and Chollima Agricultural Institute in Tanzania of eastern Africa by help of the Korean agro-technicians, which made a contribution to the agricultural development in Africa.
He authored the Juche idea and the Songun idea to illumine the way ahead of the revolutionaries and people of Korea. By so doing he ushered in a new era of independence when the masses of the people became the masters of their own destiny for the first time in history and elucidated the truth of Songun that the victory of the revolutionary cause and independence, sovereignty and prosperity of a country and nation rest on the arms. The Korean revolutionaries and people called him KIM IL SUNG in the sense that he was like the sun which illuminates the road to national resurrection and prosperity.
There have been formed at a national, continental and international level a large number of organizations for the study and dissemination of the Juche idea originated by the President and acknowledged as a guiding ideology of the cause of independence of mankind KIM IL SUNG’s name is shining as the banner of eternal victory.
Entering the new century, the aspirations of the world people to live and develop independently are getting ever stronger.
As the time passes, it proves clearer the truthfulness and invincibility of the Juche idea.
Seminars on the Juche idea and the activities for its dissemination are proceeding on a worldwide scale. The present situation, where high-handedness, despotic and aggressive moves of the imperialists get ever more unscrupulous after the end of the Cold War, demands that the countries actively advocate the Songun idea and Songun politics rooted in the Juche idea.
Progressive peoples of the world regard Songun politics as an invincible banner that makes it possible to safeguard national sovereignty under any challenge and adversity and accomplish the cause of anti-imperialism and independence. Nearly 500 streets, institutions and organizations in over 100 countries are named after the august name of Kim Il Sung.
Thanks to his energetic activity, the Pyongyang Declaration, “Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism”, was adopted on April 20, 1992, signed by heads and delegates of 70 parties of the world, which was an event of historic significance in the strengthening the unity and solidarity between the parties aspiring for socialism and reconstructing the cause of socialism. At present the number of parties that have put their signatures to the declaration has increased to over 270.
The period between the adoption of the declaration and the last time of his life, he met heads and delegates of more than 120 parties and organizations, and devoted his heart and soul to defending and rebuilding socialism and bringing about new upsurge in the socialist movement. The present situation, when high-handedness, despotic and aggressive moves of the imperialists get ever more unscrupulous after the end of the Cold War, demands that the countries actively advocate the Songun idea and Songun politics rooted in the Juche idea.
Progressive peoples of the world regard Songun politics as an invincible banner that makes it possible to safeguard national sovereignty under any challenge and adversity and accomplish the cause of anti-imperialism and independence.
Nearly 500 streets, institutions and organizations in over 100 countries are named after the august name of KIM IL SUNG.
President KIM IL SUNG, who achieving undying exploits in mankind’s cause of independence, will be remembered for ever with the advancing cause of independence. ***
Dr. Alhassan Mamman Muhammad
National Chairman, Nigerian National Committee on the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism
