Founding Father of DPRK
Founding Father of DPRK In the first half of the 20th century, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) embarked on the road of the revolution in his teens with a great ambition to win back his country. By waging a 15-year-long arduous anti-Japanese armed struggle without the backing of the state and support from a regular army , a struggle unprecedented in the world’s history of national liberation struggle, he liberated Korea on August 15, 1945. As a result, a wide road for building an independent and sovereignty state was opened before Korea. On the then international political arena, the American-style “democracy” and Soviet-style democracy were regarded as the main political trends. However, Kim Il Sung didn’t follow the trends blindly. We should not follow a political trend separated from the people’s interests and demands. The present stage of the Korean revolution is an anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution. We, therefore, must adopt ...