Kim Jong Il and Political Independence
Kim Jong Il and Political
Kim Jong Il (1942-2011), eternal Chairman of the
National Defence Commission of the Democratic People’s
The Juche idea clarifies that man is the master of
his own destiny and he has the strength with which to carve out his destiny.
In the closing years of last
century socialism collapsed in several countries in succession, but the DPRK
remained unperturbed; the credit should go to the line of independence
maintained by Kim Jong Il. When the allied imperialist forces of the world were
claiming about the “end of socialism,” he made public several works including The Historical Lesson in Building Socialism
and the General Line of Our Party, Abuses
of Socialism Are Intolerable and Socialism
Is a Science. Through these works, the world was convinced of his faith in
the truthfulness and scientific accuracy of socialism and inevitability of its
triumph and his country’s unshakable will to remain unchanged on the road of
its own choice.
Vishwanath, former secretary
general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, recalled the days
when these works were being published, saying, “His works that declared to the
whole world the scientific character of socialism were rays of the sun, a
light.”
The exploit of exploits Kim Jong
Il performed was that he defended socialism by administering Songun politics.
His Songun politics was a
powerful political mode that made his country firmly maintain independence in
the turbulent political situation of the world at the time.
With the end of the Cold War, the allied imperialist
forces led by the United States, the self-acclaimed one and only superpower in
the world, availed themselves of the destroyed balance of power on the planet
and resorted to high-handedness and arbitrariness on the international arena;
they were undisguised in their attempts to invade other countries and interfere
in their internal affairs. Particularly unprecedented were their pressure and
sanctions and attempts for an aggressive war against the DPRK that was steadily
following the road of socialism under the unfurled banner of anti-imperialist
independence.
In order to cope with the brigandish acts of the imperialists,
Kim Jong Il formulated Songun politics as the basic mode of socialist politics,
which requires giving precedence to military affairs over all other affairs of
the state on the principle of attaching importance to arms, consolidating the driving
force of the revolution with the army as the core and main force and, by
relying on it, advancing the socialist cause victoriously.
This brought about a fundamental change in the human
and socialist political history.
Kim Jong Il led the struggle for defending socialism
to victory by braving the difficulties; he resolutely overpowered the
imperialists and crushed their outrageous pressure and challenges by responding
with the tougher countermeasure of wielding a sword when the enemy were drawing
a knife and levelling a cannon when they were pointing a gun.
The international community commented that the DPRK
was humbling the United States while saying what it had to say on the
international arena, that it was the only country that responds to the
high-handed and arbitrary acts of the United States on its own terms, that the
United States was on the defensive in the face of the independent Songun
politics of the DPRK, and that the DPRK was leading the United States which was
said to be leading the world.
In 2002 Kim Jong Il met a foreign figure on a visit
to his country.
The foreigner said that the DPRK had always won
victory on its own terms in the confrontation with the
Kim Jong Il replied that it was the temperament of
his people to confront the more fiercely the greater the pressure against them
was.
Recollecting his meeting with Kim Jong Il, the foreigner
wrote in an article, titled, Political
Mechanics of the DPRK:
Action and reaction is the third
law presented by Isaac Newton and it is a basis of the classic mechanics. On
the basis of this law, a Russian scientist presented the theory of rocket and
opened the era of conquering outer space; true to this law, the greater the
pressure by the United States is, the greater the strength of the people of the
DPRK grows and the more frequent the US nuclear threat is, the greater the
country’s capability of striking becomes. This is the political mechanics of
the DPRK advanced by Kim Jong Il.
The exploits performed by Kim Jong Il, a giant of independent
politics, will live for ever in the hearts of the progressive people of the
world.
