Flying High, the Flag of the Workers’ Party of Korea

IT was on October 10, 1945 that the Great Leader Comrade KIM IL SUNG founded the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and developed it into an authoritative force guiding Korean society and the cause of independence of mankind. Since the first day of its foundation the WPK has taken the responsibility for and care of the destiny and political integrity of the people. On October 10, 2020 the flag of the Workers’ Party of Korea will fly high as the Korean people will celebrate the 75th  anniversary of this occasion.

On the red flag flied in Mt. Paektu,

We imprinted a hammer, a sickle and a brush.

Associated with the destiny of the people,

The flag has advanced through the storm of the revolution.

This is a passage of the song "Fly High, our Party Flag" which is popular among the Korean people. As it reads, the WPK has covered the long road of revolution for scores of years, being responsible for the people's destiny and flying high its flag. The song vividly carries the Korean people’s trust and confidence in the WPK.

The emblem of the WPK which bears a combination of a hammer, a sickle and a writing brush is imprinted in the red Party flag. They are symbolic of the workers, farmers and intellectuals respectively. The hammer, sickle and writing brush intersect at a point, meaning that the workers, farmers and intellectuals are firmly united. The symbols clearly represent the organization, and characteristics and mission of the WPK that is responsible for the destiny of the working masses and takes care of them.

Singing the song the Korean people are working hard for the building of a thriving and successful nation.

The flag is flying generation after generation

In the clear sky where the sun and stars shine brightly. We will hold up the Party flag of Juche for ever Even if we have to lay down our lives.

The lyric of the song is replete with the will of the Korean people to trust in and follow the WPK, the banner of all victory, thus leaving a deep impression.

The roots of the WPK are in the anti-Japanese armed struggle that was led by the Great Leader Comrade KIM IL SUNG. On October 17, 1926 he formed the Down-with Imperialism Union (DIU) as a vanguard organization in the anti-Japanese national liberation movement of Korea.

The formation of the DIU meant the starting point in the effort to found the Workers’ Party of Korea. Under Comrade KIM IL SUNG’s guidance the primary Party organizations and mass foundation were laid in the anti-Japanese revolutionary armed struggle. This resulted in the completion of the Party founding in a short span of time soon after the liberation of the country. This was a brilliant fruition of the longstanding and energetic struggle of the Korean people for the founding of the Party.

Great Leader Comrade KIM IL SUNG also authored the Juche Idea, a new scientific outlook on the world, reflecting the people's aspiration for independence and demands of the times. This is the guiding ideology of the WPK. Chairman KIM JONG IL strengthened the WPK into the party of KIM IL SUNG, a powerful guiding force of the Songun-based revolution, and led it along the road of victory. For his exploits performed in laying the eternal foundations for the building of a thriving country, he is now held in high esteem as the eternal General Secretary of the WPK. Today the great lives and feats of the Great President KIM IL SUNG and Great Leader KIM JONG IL are being solidified by His Excellency Supreme Leader KIM JONG UN.

With the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea the Korean people attained a radical turning point in their effort to hew out their destiny. Under the leadership of the WPK the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was proclaimed on September 9, 1948. During the Korean war  the two year-old DPRK fought against the armed invasion of the US and its 15 vassal states, the WPK led the Korean army and people to inflict a serious defeat on the US for the first time in its history.

The WPK, since its founding on October 10, 1945, has adhered to the line of independence for 75 years unswervingly. This line of independence has become an ever-victorious treasured sword that brings victorious advance in state building and activities, because it enjoys absolute support and trust of the Korean people. Guided by this line in its building and activities, the Party has defended the dignity and destiny of the Korean people, achieved brilliant successes in socialist construction, and raised the country's strategic position and influence in the world. Now it is pushing ahead with the building of a civilized socialist country, concentrating its efforts on the building of an economic giant and the improvement of the peoples' standard of living.