THE EMBASSY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO SWITZERLAND
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No. 36/22 May 6, 2022
1. Association for Restoration of Fatherland
2. The Worst Barren Land of Human Rights
3. Declaration in April
4. The First People’s Artist of DPRK
5. Soiree by Youth and Students
Association for Restoration of Fatherland
Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- May 5 marks the anniversary of the foundation of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland (ARF).
The association was the first permanent anti-Japanese national united front in Korea working on the principle of democratic centralism with its monolithic programme, rules and organizational system.
An urgent task in the middle of the 1930s was to organize a permanent united front and rally the anti-Japanese patriotic forces from all walks of life under it.
President Kim Il Sung, who penetrated deep into the situation at home and abroad and the requirement of the developing revolution, put forward a policy for organizing the permanent united front involving all the anti-Japanese patriotic forces at the historic Nanhutou meeting and buckled down to its realization.
He explored the way of rallying the whole nation in the sacred war for liberating Korea during the arduous march from Nanhutou to Donggang and at campfires of bivouacs and personally mapped out the programme, inaugural declaration and rules of the anti-Japanese national united front.
On this basis, he declared the foundation of the ARF at the Donggang meeting on May 5, Juche 25 (1936)
At the meeting, he delivered a report "Let Us Further Develop the Anti-Japanese National United Front Movement and Lead the Overall Korean Revolution to a Fresh Upsurge" and made public "The Ten-point Programme of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland", "The Inaugural Declaration of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland" and "Rules of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland".
With the foundation of the ARF, the anti-Japanese national united front movement in Korea rapidly developed into an organizational and systematic one across the country and on a nationwide scale in close combination with the anti-Japanese armed struggle. It helped more vigorously arouse all the anti-Japanese forces to the struggle for liberating Korea.
The Worst Barren Land of Human Rights
On April 12, the U.S. State Department released what is called “2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” appraising human rights situation in 200-odd countries worldwide. This has evoked discontent from many countries.
On the very same day, a terrible incident took place where a gunman showered more than 30 bullets to passengers on the subway in New York City, throwing all people into consternation.
After detonating a smoke bomb in a subway train in rush hour, the criminal reportedly sprayed bullets at the passengers, seriously injuring 29 people. Among them were also a pregnant woman and a 12-year-old child.
On April 16, three gunmen, who burst into a department store in Columbia, fired blindly, wounding twelve people. On April 17, a criminal fired at 200 guests in a banquet, killing 2 minors and wounding dozens of people in Pittsburgh.
According to the data released by a civil organization in the U.S., there occurred 144 cases of large-scale gunfights which claimed more than 13, 000 lives.
Moreover, it is said that the number of guns possessed by civilians in the U.S.－330 million pieces－accounts for 46% of the sum total of the world, while the population of the U.S. accounts for mere 4.2% of the world population.
Innocent people are dying almost every day from a gun-related crime known as a malignant tumor in the U.S. It has become an everyday occurrence to everybody. But there is an issue which can’t be overlooked.
It is the fact that the “report”, which gives an individual appraisal of human rights situation in about 200 countries all over the world, is issued annually in the U.S. which hits the world record of deaths from gun-related crimes not in wartime, but in peacetime.
Gun-related crimes are prevalent with each passing day and innocent people lose their lives in broad daylight owing to the anti-popular policy of the government on the land of the U.S. But it is staging a farce of appraising human rights situation of other countries in an arbitrary manner. It cannot but be the height of abnormality.
It is a long time since the U.S. lost even a basic qualification to say this and that about human rights situation in other countries.
Declaration in April
On the evening of April 25, a grand military parade was held in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in celebration of the 90th founding anniversary of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army.
Everyone clearly remembers the military parade held in April ten years ago in which the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un declared that the military and technological edge was no longer the monopoly of the imperialists, and the era had gone forever when the enemy would threaten the DPRK with atomic bombs, and the spectacular military parade held in October two years ago which demonstrated the development level of the country’s defence capability. The recent one was different from both the above parades in that it fully demonstrated the unprecedented military strength and absolute power of the country.
The parade columns demonstrated the militant spirit of a-match-for-a-hundred with which they would annihilate any enemy at one blow and the development level of military equipment which had changed beyond recognition. Quite spectacular was the buzzing and zooming of the plane squadrons which flew past the parade ground setting off dazzlingly white fireworks.
The magnificent columns of military hardware showed the power of the DPRK which had changed to everyone’s surprise.
The strategic missiles of the latest models with high mobility and destructive striking power, the leading tanks which are a symbol of the fighting capability of the Korean People’s Army, the artillery units which pride themselves on being the first service of the KPA, the super-large multiple launch rocket system with absolute power, the SLBM made through the wisdom and efforts of the Korean people themselves, the powerful anti-aircraft missiles which will shoot down any air target, the Hwasongpho-series missiles which demonstrate the modern character and striking power of the armed forces of the country–all these were impressive.
In particular, the awe-inspiring ICBM Hwasongpho-17 gave a glimpse of how the armed forces of the DPRK had changed and how powerful the country had grown over the past 90 years. The missile had made its debut in the military parade held two years ago and successfully test-fired in March this year, fully demonstrating its power.
The level of the modern character of the country’s armed forces and its absolute might which have changed as compared with ten and two years ago and will continue to change, symbolize the level of the dignity of the country and the happiness its people will enjoy.
If any hostile force dares to attempt military confrontation against the DPRK, it will be annihilated–this is a solemn declaration the country’s powerful revolutionary armed forces made through the parade in April to the reactionaries of history and hostile forces of all hues.
The First People’s Artist of DPRK
The Korean people still remember Kim Ok Song (June 1916–October 1965) who created beautiful, fascinating and interesting melodies, mild and unique songs.
The famous composer did not receive professional music education. If he had anything inherited from his parents in the days of the Japanese imperialists’ military rule, it was just plaintive tunes his mother sang for him as lullabies, and what he treasured and nurtured was the dream of music.
Korea’s liberation in August 15, 1945, was a landmark to the wandering musician as it gave him an opportunity to become a popular composer.
The young fiddler became a composer, to the astonishment of his acquaintances. He got great creative inspiration from the reality of liberated Korea where the women, who had been subjected to maltreatment with no basic rights in the fetters of feudalism, became legitimate masters of the country while enjoying equal rights with men.
Therefore, in 1947 Kim created Song of Women which sings of the patriotism of the Korean women. He produced excellent works in succession such as cantata The Amnok River and orchestral music A Farm Village in Spring.
During the Fatherland Liberation War (June 25, 1950–July 27, 1953) he as a war composer conducted energetic activities to create militant and revolutionary music pieces encouraging the People’s Army soldiers and the people in the rear to the victory in the war.
He lost a lot of things in the war, but also learned many things.
Seeing a platoon leader who had lost his beloved wife and daughter by the enemy giving vent to his indignation and calling for revenge before his fallen comrades-in-arms, the composer wrote a song with burning hatred against the enemy.
Hence the song To a Decisive Battle.
In 1951 he happened to see a soldier writing a letter in a break of a fierce battle. The soldier wrote that he, who had left his home silently, was writing the letter with the joy of having received a decoration. Deeply impressed by the letter and the looks of the soldiers on Height 1211 bravely fighting against the enemy, Kim produced song My Song in the Trench.
“Composition should be done with the heart, not with talent. Beautiful music is in the voice of the people. Love the reality and approach it ardently.” This is what Kim always kept in his mind as his creed in creation.
From September 1955 he worked as vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Union of Musicians of Korea, and as a professional writer of the union from 1960.
He rarely spoke and liked thinking, and his music pieces were beautiful and non-repetitive.
This was possible for his endless pursuit of new things and his zeal highly responsive to the reality.
Every place he went to was represented in poems and songs.
Seeing the orchard in ever-changing Pukchong, he produced song See the “Golden” Trees on the Hillsides, Rows of Apple Trees, envisioning the future socialist paradise filled with the aroma of fruits. Besides, he created various other styles of works such as Song of Mangyongdae, orchestral music and chorus A Bumper Harvest in the Chongsan Plain and nursery song Rabbits in My House.
He experienced the reality deeply and created many masterpieces with his original way of thinking and persevering efforts. Still today his songs are sung by the Koreans.
He was the first to be honoured with the title of People’s Artist of the DPRK when it was instituted on July 27, Juche 50 (1961).
Soiree by Youth and Students
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Youth and students held a soiree at Kim Il Sung Square in celebration of the 110th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.