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No. 81/22 October 17, 2022
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Mangyongdae Revolutionary School Again
2. Unfolding an Ambitious Plan in His Teens
3. Ardent Wish of the People
4. DIU, Historic Root of Workers' Party of Korea
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Mangyongdae Revolutionary School Again
Pyongyang, October 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, visited Mangyongdae Revolutionary School again together with his wife Ri Sol Ju on October 16 to spend a significant time with its students.
When he attended the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Mangyongdae Revolutionary School and Kang Pan Sok Revolutionary School, he made a promise to visit the school again in the weekend, saying he was too busy to go round the school that day. All the teaching staff and students of the school were wrapped in great emotion and delight to see him again at the school.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted at the school by the leading officials of the school.
Accompanying him were Jo Yong Won, Pak Jong Chon, Ri Il Hwan, Ri Chung Gil, Kang Sun Nam, Kim Yo Jong and Hyon Song Wol.
Going round different parts of the school including the education control room and a room for lecture on small arms, he acquainted himself in detail with the real state of education at the school.
He said that the school should make efficient use of modernized educational facilities and widely introduce the world's advanced teaching methods and the latest sci-tech achievements to steadily improve the quality of education.
In order to bring up the students of the revolutionary school, the main pillar and the essential artery of our revolution, to be the staunch revolutionaries with literary and military accomplishments and the resolute successors and reserves of our Party, the education should focus on preparing them to be persons with healthy idea, advantageous intellectual ability and strong physical strength and to be genuine persons who are deeply steeped in noble moral ethics, he stressed.
He watched the students' martial arts and swimming exercises.
The students, who have trained their mind and bodies as the competent future commanders truly contributable to the strengthening of the revolutionary armed forces while spending their youthful days at the time-honored revolutionary school to be the pillars of the Juche revolution, fully displayed their physical and technical abilities trained at ordinary times.
Kim Jong Un also saw a pistol live-firing of the students of the graduating classes.
Whenever the students hit the targets in succession, he expressed his satisfaction at the results and became the first man to clap at them with a broad smile on his face.
He hoped for the best wishes for the future of those graduates preparing themselves to be future military talents who would shoulder upon themselves the future of our army. Then, he had a significant photo taken with them, expressing the conviction that all the graduates who participated in the shooting will play an active role as the kernel of our Party and the pillar of the revolution as befit the sons who have grown up by subsisting on the water and air of Mangyongdae.
He learned in detail about the dietary life of the students at the dining hall.
He dropped in at the dining hall where he personally tasted boiled rice and soup and asked students what kind of food they liked most and how they should be processed to be most tasty. And he took a benevolent measure to supply on a regular basis enough meat, eggs, fish, vegetables, kelp, pickles, condiment, etc. for the better diet for the students to meet their appetites and nutritive requirements.
The children of the revolutionary martyrs spent a pleasant time amid the love of the benevolent father who takes care of their life with paternal love.
Kim Jong Un said that it is the principled requirement of our Party to strengthen the revolutionary schools to make Mangyongdae Revolutionary School the best one, a model among education units in the country.
He again stressed the importance to improve the education of the revolutionary school, the pedigree establishment for training the hard-core forces of the revolution, and indicated detailed tasks and ways for the school to fully discharge its mission and duty.
All the students at Mangyongdae Revolutionary School hardened their iron will to prepare themselves to be hot-blooded revolutionaries absolutely loyal to the Party and the revolution, mindful of their duty and important responsibility as sons of Mangyongdae, looking up with emotional tears to Kim Jong Un who puts forward the children of revolutionary martyrs as genuine successors to our revolution and guides them along every stage of their growth.
Prior to leaving the school, Kim Jong Un earnestly instructed senior school officials to look after well the students, the treasures of the revolution and sons of the Party.
His repeated visit to Mangyongdae Revolutionary School will be recorded in the history forever as a revolutionary legend telling about his world of passionate love with which he, regarding the successful inheritance of the great idea and spirit as the most important affair of the revolution for the eternity of the Party and the country, has worked heart and soul to train the children of revolutionary martyrs as the hard-core forces of the Party and the pillars of the state.
Unfolding an Ambitious Plan in His Teens
Huadian, Northeast China, was a hub of the Korean independence movement in the mid-1920s when Korea was under Japanese military occupation (1905-1945).
In Huadian there was Hwasong Uisuk School, a two-year military and political school which independence champions and patriotic activists of enlightenment movement had set up for training cadres for the Independence Army of the Korean people.
In mid-June 1926 Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) entered the school at the recommendation and by good offices of the friends of his father who had died while working for the independence movement of Korea.
When he entered the school, he found there were more than forty students there, most of whom, about 20 years of age, had been enlisted at the recommendation of the Independence Army units. All of them were as old as elder brothers or uncles to him.
However, they all admired him. They came to see him almost every day, some wanting to hear of his experience back in the homeland, others to get help in their studies and still others to discuss political issues with him. In return, they strove to help him in many ways in military drills, which were physically very tough. Soon he was close with them in spite of the difference in age.
He became acquainted from the start with the people who were five to ten years older than him. The students gradually came to realize that he, though young, was an extraordinary kind of man.
He had regarded Hwasong Uisuk School as a short cut to joining the anti-Japanese struggle for independence and pinned great hope on the education provided at the school. His view was that he could defeat the Japanese imperialists only through a military confrontation and that he could stand in the front rank of the independence movement only when he had a military knowledge.
But what was taught at the school was disappointing to him. The patriotic figures who visited the school only spoke vaguely about winning independence as they banged their lectern, but they failed to produce any good methods for achieving it. The same held true with the military training.
The old-fashioned nature of the school made him realize that outdated methods were of no avail. Having become firmly convinced that organizing small armed groups equipped with a few rifles to kill a few Japanese policemen and raising war funds were not the way to achieve national liberation, he started to seek a new path towards national liberation.
He obtained works of Marx and Lenin and read them day and night. While reading them, he considered the principles of revolution contained in the classics in connection with the situation in Korea: How to overthrow Japanese imperialism and win back the country? Who was the enemy and who could be an ally in the struggle for national liberation? What course to take to build socialism and communism after winning national independence?...
During a class seminar, he repudiated the view that when Korea was liberated, feudal society or capitalist society should be built and argued that a society free from exploitation and oppression, a society where the working masses like workers and peasants could live happily, should be built, thus receiving full support of the students.
Many students gathered around him.
One day, he, referring to the need for an organization at a meeting, said to the following effect: We must open up a long and thorny path in order to liberate the country and build a society in which the working people can live happily; if we build up our ranks and fight tenaciously at the cost of our blood, we shall emerge victorious; after forming an organization we should rally the masses behind it and arouse them to liberate the country by relying on their own efforts.
Under his guidance a preliminary meeting for forming an organization was held. The meeting discussed the name of the organization, its character, its fighting programme and its rules and regulations. A week later, on October 17, 1926, the Down-with-Imperialism Union (DIU) was organized with young revolutionaries of Korea.
The immediate task of the DIU was to defeat Japanese imperialism and achieve the liberation and independence of Korea, and its final objective was to build socialism and communism in Korea and, further, destroy all imperialism and build communism throughout the world.
Kim Il Sung was acclaimed as the head of the union with the unanimous approval of the organization members present at the meeting.
At that time he was in his teens.
Looking back, Kim Il Sung’s life was the days when the ambitious plan he had unfolded in his teens was realized.
After he started the Korean revolution in his teens with the formation of the DIU he organized and led the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to victory for more than 20 years, thus defeating Japanese imperialism and achieving the historic cause of national liberation. Then he built a people’s country, the first of its kind in the 5 000-year history of Korea, on the liberated land. In the early 1950s he repulsed the armed invasion by allied imperialist forces and safeguarded the sovereignty of the country. He won one victory after another in the showdown with the US imperialists for scores of years.
Besides, he actively supported many countries in their liberation struggle against imperialism and colonialism, contributing greatly to the cause of global independence against imperialism.
Ardent Wish of the People
On October 8, 1997 Kim Jong Il (1942-2011) was elected General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea. There is a moving story about how he was elected to the leadership of the Party.
After the demise of President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994), the Korean people desired earnestly to have Kim Jong Il at the helm of the WPK and the state at the earliest possible date. The Korean people’s desire was unanimous as Kim Jong Il had achieved great exploits for the country and the people for several decades and the Korean people were fascinated by him.
However, regarding the unanimous desire of the people as their deep trust in and high expectation of him, Kim Jong Il delayed his election for three years and devoted his all to the work of succeeding the cause of President Kim Il Sung. This came from his ennobling sense of moral obligation.
The struggle to defend socialism waged in the international arena in the closing years of last century was the grimmest one unprecedented in history.
The United States, styling itself as the “sole superpower” after the end of the Cold War, and its allies concentrated all their efforts on overthrowing the socialist Korea in their attempt to terminate socialism in the world.
The offensives of the anti-socialist forces were an unprecedented pressure and challenge for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea which was not big in terms of population and territory. Worse still, natural calamities hit the country for several consecutive years. Thus the Korean people experienced immeasurable difficulties in their living and the factories had to suspend their operation. It was indeed the worst-ever ordeal for the country.
Many people of the world were apprehensive about what would become of the socialist Korea. But they soon came to see the DPRK from a new perspective.
Standing up to the unprecedented challenge all alone, Kim Jong Il formulated the Songun-based politics of attaching importance and giving precedence to the military affairs and pushing ahead with the overall affairs of the revolution and construction with the army as the core force in accomplishing the cause of socialism and implemented it in a comprehensive way.
He said that in the prevailing situation in which the country was exposed to the acute military threats of the imperialist forces there could be neither the people, nor socialist state nor the Party without a powerful army, and that in this sense the army is just the people, the state and the Party. His logic is very reasonable.
With this faith and will, he staunchly defended socialism from all kinds of challenges and threats of the imperialists.
Consequently, the schemes of the United States to stifle the DPRK militarily were smashed to pieces.
In those days, Kim Jong Il’s noble traits as befitting the people’s leader and a seasoned statesman was displayed more clearly, and the people’s trust in him became absolute.
At the time, the VOA commented: The socialist system, which has long been in confrontation with the Western countries, was collapsed in recent years, but the DPRK, a country in the East, is invariably maintaining socialism. This is because President Kim Il Sung, a veteran hardliner who was uncommon in the circle of the international communist movement, has brilliantly succeeded in rearing his heir and Kim Jong Il, who is a seasoned statesman and military commander, inherited the cause of the President.
It continued: Therefore, it is premature to raise cheers about the complete collapse of socialism. Keep watchful eyes on north Korea if you think that socialism has collapsed. Then, you can see the stirring reality of socialism led by Kim Jong Il who is successfully inheriting the communist leadership and feel a sense of fear and coercion that it might impose threatening challenge upon the free world of the West. Socialism is not dead.
In the DPRK, it posed as the ardent desire and urgent requirement of the whole Party and all the people to place Kim Jong Il in the top post of the WPK and the state. Reflecting the desire, a Party-wide work took place to elect him to the leadership of the WPK.
A conference of the South Phyongan Provincial Committee of the WPK was held on September 21, 1997, and a conference of the KPA Committee of the WPK the next day. And similar meetings were held in Pyongyang, provinces, ministries, central organs and other Party organizations with the equivalent authority of a provincial Party committee. All the conferences adopted the decision to elect Kim Jong Il General Secretary of the WPK with the unanimous approval of the participants.
On October 8, 1997, the Central Committee of the WPK and the Central Military Commission of the WPK released a special announcement that Kim Jong Il was elected General Secretary of the WPK.
The world’s mass media commented his election as a significant event in the history of politics in the 20th century.
Over 1 300 state, government and party leaders of many countries sent congratulatory messages to Kim Jong Il and grand celebrations were held in more than 80 countries. Over 600 mass media of over 100 countries reported this event on more than 1 000 occasions.
DIU, Historic Root of Workers' Party of Korea
Pyongyang, October 17 (KCNA) -- The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is the experienced and dignified Juche-type revolutionary Party, which has grown up at the root of the Down-with-Imperialism Union (DIU), advanced along the road of victory and performed immortal feats shining in history.
The history of the WPK began on October 17, Juche 15 (1926) when President Kim Il Sung formed the DIU and upheld the red flag of revolution.
The programme of the DIU and its principle of independence served as the foundation of the WPK's programme and its principle of Party building and activities.
And the revolutionaries of the new generation that had grown by the DIU became the core in the Party founding.
Based on this deep and strong historic root, the new-type revolutionary Party of the working class could be founded after the liberation of Korea and the Korean people could victoriously advance the revolution and construction under the leadership of the Party.
Having the tradition of the DIU as its source, our Party has steadily developed into the militant one with strong revolutionary mettle and bright future, while invariably adhering to its Juche character. Inheriting this noble tradition, our Party could be developed into an ideological pure entity, an integral organization and the party which achieved the unity of actions and into an experienced and seasoned guiding force of the Korean revolution.
Today, our Party is more fully displaying its dignity and might thanks to the outstanding and seasoned leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who developed the WPK into the great Party of Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.