START OF WORK BY KIM JONG IL IN THE CC WPK

19 JUNE 2004 - 40 YEARS SINCE THE START OF WORK BY THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE WORKERS PARTY OF KOREA, COMRADE KIM JONG IL IN THE APPARATUS OF THE CC WPK


To the General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea,
Chairman of the State Committee of Defence of the DPRK,
Supreme commander of the Korean Peoples Army,
Great Leader of the Korean people,
Comrade KIM JONG IL
Pyongyang, DPRK

Dear Comrade KIM JONG IL

On behalf of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and myself personally, I congratulate YOU on the 40th anniversary since the start of your work in the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
Having made in student years the firm decision to devote yourself fully to the cause of the Korean revolution, You have tirelessly and resolutely mastered the practice of political leadership, working in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the party, already having excellent fundamental theoretical training within the precincts of the Kim Il Sung University. Natural talents and the highest working capacity have allowed YOU during the years of study at the University, to deeply study the works and classics of Marxism-Leninism, and also to acquire encyclopaedic knowledge in the field of political economy, philosophy, military science and production economics. Working in the apparatus of the Central Committee, YOU delved into all questions of the life of society. It is hard to name those spheres of its activity to which you have not made a significant contribution. Your scientific work on questions of planning, the organization of manufacture and energy, development and modernisation of national education and the public health services, development of culture, military science, etc., have become in the DPRK the plan of implementation of the most colourful and grandiose dreams.
In the apparatus of the Central Committee of the WPK, You have passed all stages of official growth from an instructor of a department, a manager of a sector and a department up to the Secretary of the Central Committee of the party. In 1997, you were unanimously elected as General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
A ruling revolutionary party in a socialist state is the organizing and directing force of socialist construction responsible for the country’s destiny, its development and for the happy life for each of its citizens. You always were with the people, in their hearts, always knew, what the people live with and consequently, the decisions of the party, Your decisions as its leader, after the death of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, are momentous.
You have placed the work of the party apparatus of the WPK, so that all its workers from instructor up to the secretary of the Central Committee on a yearly basis for one or three months work as secretaries ?of primary organisations in the districts most remote from the capital, in agricultural cooperatives or small enterprises. It allows workers of the party apparatus to always be together with the people and never to forget about its needs and always to be a part of the people.
You were not broken by the enormous difficulties, which fell upon the country at the end of the 1990-s. You withstood and the main thing, convincingly triumphed contrary to all the pessimistic predictions of bourgeois political scientists and politicians. Moreover, You have forced the entire bourgeois world to observe the successes of the DPRK in the field of development of atomic energy, space technology, development and modernisation of the Armed Forces of the DPRK. The imperialists were left only gnashing their teeth, not having a chance to bite the DPRK. Therefore nowadays, they are designing new acts of provocation, every possible speculation is being set up concerning the DPRK, which do not bring the desired results, despite the volume of dollar injections into organized provocations.
We understand that many difficulties may not have arisen if it were not for the criminal policy of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) concerning the DPRK at the start of the 1960-s. We understand also that the difficulties in the DPRK considerably increased because of the treachery of the higher ranks of the party nomenclatura of the CPSU against the people at the beginning of the 1990-s. This led to the demise of the USSR, a significant weakening of the world communist movement and towards the considerable strengthening of the imperialistic camp because of this. The CPSU having betrayed the DPRK in the beginning of the 1960-s, forced socialist Korea during the country’s earliest period to solve all the questions of socialist construction using only its own strengths. The ideas of Juche, formulated by the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and formed into a political system by you, Dear Comrade Kim Jong Il, are today a guiding star for the construction of a prosperous, flourishing socialist society in the DPRK. The policy of Songun developed by you and put into practice guarantees accelerated advancement forward along the chosen way in modern conditions.
Your numerous scientific works on questions of communist ideology and party building have become an important contribution to the treasury of communist worldview, a guidebook for those parties, which are struggling for the establishment of a socialist system in their own country in conditions of imperialist encirclement.
On the occasion of the anniversary, allow me to wish YOU, Dear Comrade Kim Jong Il, good health and great strength for the fastest implementation of the teachings of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, your great plans of socialist construction in Korea and unification of the Korean nation.
With sincere respect, N.A.Andreeva, General Secretary of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (ACPB) 9 June, 2004, Leningrad

“The party’s guiding ideology determines its character, the aims of its struggle, the main directions of party building and party activity and the fighting capacity and strength of a party depends on it. A party can only become great if it is guided by great ideas... "
From the book by General Secretary of the WPK Comrade Kim Jong Il. “The Workers’ Party of Korea is the party of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung”. (Korea, Pyongyang, 1995)

“The party’s guiding ideology determines its character, the aims of its struggle, the main directions of party building and party activity and the fighting capacity and strength of a party depends on it. A party can only become great if it is guided by great ideas”.
“By not merging with the masses, a party will fail to carry out a revolution victoriously and build a new society. When the leader, the party and masses form a unified monolith led by the leader, the strongest, firmest subject of the revolution is formed and becomes the great driving force in the revolution and the construction of a new society”.
“Under the leadership of comrade Kim Il Sung, our party constantly strengthened the ideological-educational work of all its members with the revolutionary ideas of the party, the Juche ideas, and also vigorously developed the struggle against ideological distortions, flunkyism, dogmatism, revisionism, factionalism and other ideological degenerative elements of all types as well as elements of sectarianism. Thus, the party has managed finally to put an end to factionism, historically for a long time bringing much harm to our revolution and to put a barrier up preventing the penetration into our environment of modern revisionism and any other opportunist ideological trends. The fact that our party has overcome factionism and flunkeyism in the communist movement in Korea and has resolutely barred the way to modern day revisionism and other types of opportunism, it has marked a historical victory in guaranteeing unity in the party ranks, preservation of their purity, and in the establishment of a unified party system”.
“Today all members of our party are thoroughly armed with its unified ideology, that is, with the revolutionary ideas of comrade Kim Il Sung”.
“All members of the party are monolithically unified around the leader on the basis of unity of ideas, belief, comradely love and feeling of revolutionary duty, in which lies the source of steadfastness, indestructibility of unity and the unity of our party”.
“Organization and discipline are essential requirements of the socialist, communistic movement based on collectivism and it is the main guarantee in preserving the fighting spirit of a revolutionary, fighting party. Observance of the principles of establishing homogeneous ideas, united leadership is provided by organization and discipline, in a separation from which unity and unity of numbers are inconceivable.
The party of the working class, having lost organization and discipline, cannot lead the revolution itself and turns into a powerless group having only just a name.
Comrade Kim Il Sung achieved the exact embodiment of the principles of democratic centralism in party building and party activity that has led to the establishment within the party of a system of uniform leadership, to the establishment of conscious revolutionary discipline. Democratic centralism as organizational principles of our party demand the development of democracy under the condition of the establishment of the discipline of centralism. Centralism signifies revolutionary discipline and order allowing the whole party to function, as a unified mechanism, under the unified guidance of the leader.
Without him, unity, party unity, and coordination of its actions are inconceivable.
Democracy is aimed at developing the party line and policy, extending the will of the party masses and to reveal the entire charge of conscious enthusiasm and creative initiative of members of the party in the struggle for the realization of this line and policy. When the discipline of centralism is weakened, unscrupulous deviations under the signboard “democracy” appear and that leads to the creation of disorder in the party and to its split. In our party, the principles of democratic centralism were strictly observed and are observed. As a result, the guidance of the leader is also freely and firmly carried out at all levels from the center to the local organizations. A revolutionary atmosphere has been established when all party organizations and members of the party dominate, having adopted the line and policy of the party as their own, consistently put them into practice with great enthusiasm and creative initiative.
The expansion of the functions of the Communist Party organizations, the strengthening of the role and activisation of party life are the key moments in the increasing of organization and discipline of the party”.
“Party life is a school of revolutionary education”.
“In separation from party life, it is impossible to present unity of an ideological system and the actions of millions of members of the party”.
“In principle, class demands of the working class are equitable to the radical interests of all the working masses; its historical mission is to achieve social liberation not only of the working class itself, but also of all working people”.
“Taking into exact account the root interests of the working class, all the working masses and the order of the epoch of independence, proceeding from the concrete reality of our country, Dear Comrade Kim Il Sung put forth and has successfully carried out the line on the creation of a mass party of the working people uniting workers, peasants and labour intelligentsia”.
“Being guided by the line on the building of a mass party, our party widely accepted into its ranks advanced people from the environment of workers, peasants and labour intelligentsia, correctly combining quantitative growth of the party ranks and their qualitative strengthening that has enabled to assert firmly the proletarian, revolutionary character of the party, to achieve its continuous expansion and strengthening”.
“The process of building socialism is a process of transformation of all members of society on the model and similarity of the working class, a process of their education in the spirit of the traditions of the working class. A line on the building of a mass party fully corresponds to the natural demands of socialist construction. The realization by our party of this line led to the continuous increase in membership while preserving the party’s proletarian character, the further strengthening of its base in the masses, and gave a powerful impulse to the process of education of all members of society in the spirit of the traditions of the working class.
The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung built our party in view of its future development so that the cause of the party confidently proceeded from generation to generation”.
“The party of the working class is the weapon of the revolution”.
“Despite the incalculable difficulties and tests of endurance, the revolution and the construction of socialism have taken a powerful head start, and in all spheres of life in the country and people there were great changes”.
“Our society is the most stable and strongest society in which all people united by a single idea around the party and leader, forms one big friendly family. In the whole of society, a healthy, lively, emotional mood and a revolutionary atmosphere dominate. Today in our people in full measure, fine communist morals are shown: people give their strengths for the good of the society and the collective, comradely helping and strengthening each other. This clearly demonstrates the advantages and the power of the socialist system in our country and convincingly testifies to the high ideologically spiritual qualities of our people”.
“Directing the revolution and construction of a new society, our party always supports the demands and interests of the broad masses, relying on their forces and in the struggle has formed with it a single entity.
The masters of the revolution and the construction of a new society are the broad masses, and namely they are the driving force of the revolution of the construction the main thesis of the Juche idea on revolution”.
“If you believe in the people and lean its strengths then you will triumph a hundredfold, but if you alienate yourself from them, you will be rejected by them and you will not avoid defeat by a hundredfold”.
“Namely this has become the glorious starting point, the highest principle of all the activity of our party”.
“.. constantly being dipped into the depths of the people to breathe with them one air, self-sacrificingly serving them and, leaning on them to solve the revolutionary tasks is the immutable law of the activity of our party and our workers”.
“The history of the revolutionary movement shows that if you retreat one step in revolutionary principles you will take two steps back and if you retreat by two steps you will be thrown ten steps back, and in the end you will kill the revolution. The absence of a revolutionary adherence to principles, sequence of a line and policy are distinctive features of opportunism of all types. Revolutionary adherence to principles in fulfilling the cause of socialism guarantees loyalty to the party of the working class, to the cause of socialism its conviction in its correctness and by will of the party take the cause of socialism to the end”.
“Juche in ideology, independence in policy, in the economy, self-defense in the defence of the country - this line put forward by comrade Kim Il Sung is the revolutionary, independent line which a red thread penetrates the principle of Juche, the spirit of independence. Our party resolutely defends this line and consistently puts it into practice.

ARMY ORIENTATED SONGUN POLICY

“The revolutionary line Songun and the policy of Songun are a scientifically proven revolutionary line and method of policy most correctly reflecting the demands of the epoch and revolution”.
Kim Jong IL
During our epoch, the resolute fight between socialism and imperialism continues.
However, the struggle between communist ideology and bourgeois ideology, the personified by socialist states and imperialist states, has nowadays become especially fierce in character by virtue of the wrecking of the USSR, the wrecking of the socialist camp and the monstrous enrichment of the imperialist states due to the impetuous robbery by them of the countries of the 3rd world, and also by virtue of the escalating military potential by the imperialist powers, especially the USA, using advanced achievements of military and space science.
In their claims for complete world domination, the USA is today destroying the developed international system of security, crudely infringing on the sovereignty of other states, and unleashing aggression against the countries which have for the USA certain? economic or strategic interests. That was the way it was with Grenada and Panama in the 1980-s, with Iraq and Yugoslavia in the 1990-s and again the aggression of the USA against Iraq in 2003, which is still continuing.
Today those countries asserting their independence and sovereignty in order to survive and defend themselves have to have a sufficiently high military potential, well organized, well equipped modern defense system and attacking army, and also a modern defence industry.”

“A person’s conviction is the main criterion of the dignity of his personality.”
"Without conviction it is impossible to preserve conscience and morals, and without them, convictions cannot be defended.
Kim Jong Il

“A revolution is only worth something, if it is capable of defending itself” (V.I.Lenin).
The Korean revolution today defends itself by carrying out military-guided policies political method in the fight for the defence of the country, the very existence of the socialist state. The essence of the ideas of Songun consists in making military science the priority, to consider the army a support and the main force when carrying out a revolution and construction.
Strengthening the army and defensive power guarantees the maintaining of the dignity of the nation, the sovereignty of the country and the peaceful work of its citizens.

"FOR THE PARTY OF WORKING CLASS THERE IS NO WORK MORE IMPORTANT THAN IDEOLOGICAL WORK"

(From the book of General Secretary WPK comrade Kim Jong Il “To regard as of paramount importance ideological work, the natural demand for the cause of socialism”)
(Korea, Pyongyang, 1995)

“The party of the working class is, inherently, a leading political organization, which, using ideas as the weapon, wakens the broad masses, organizes and directs them along the path of revolution and construction of a new society. Its most powerful, unique weapon is ideas. Only having taken them for the basis and having provided in all affairs advanced carrying out of ideological work, can it with honour execute its main duty, the mission of the leading political organization”.
“How the ideological work of the party of the working class is conducted and how far people are trained in the ideological plan, will depend on how far socialism will develop and strengthen, together with its destiny”.
“The ideological work of the party of the working class, fighting for socialism, is its ideologically theoretical activity on deepening and developing socialist ideas according to the demands of the time and the development of the revolution and is its ideological-educational work on familiarizing the broad masses with the ideas of socialism”.
“The incomparable advantages and invincible strength of socialism consist in that it comprehensively and to the full reveals the inexhaustible energy and mental abilities of the broad masses being the subject of history.
This is the advantage and the power of the ideas of socialism the realization of which is provided by ideological work”.
“Socialism is incompatible with private property and the capitalist market economy”.
“The establishment of a socialist system and the creation of the material-economic conditions does not mean automatically successful carrying out of work on education and re-education of all members of society in the spirit of new socialist ideas. And if under socialism all the conditions for an independent and creative life of the people are created and the people use the various good things, but among people active ideological work is not being conducted, then they, thinking this is natural, will not deeply realize how dear to them the socialist system is and then have a duty to defend it. Besides, if ideological work is not conducted among the people, then by measure of liberating people in socialist society from worries, and continuing the steady life, their revolutionary enthusiasm may gradually be reduced and then there would appear a susceptibility to live self-righteously. In that case people will self-denyingly not struggle for socialism and may, being deceived by false propaganda of imperialists and other reactionaries, start looking at capitalism through rose tinted glasses, and to go as far as betraying the cause of socialism”.
“The cause of socialism’s advancement forward should be accompanied by the continuous deepening and development of ideological work. The more the intrigues of the enemies of socialism become more furious, the more it is necessary to conduct ideological work more actively”.
“The mass media, literature and art are powerful ideological instruments of educating the masses, of their organization and mobilization”.

THE EDUCATIONAL LEVEL OF THE POPULATION DEFINES THE LEVEL OF CULTURE OF THE NATION
In the DPRK all the people study.
After the liberation of Korea from Japanese colonial rule and the establishment of people's power with the formation of the DPRK (on September 9, 1948) one of main priorities of activity of the Government became the question of the general education of the population. We shall note that towards the moment of the formation of the DPRK, in Korea there were in all, 12 people with higher education. Under the Constitution of 1972, a general compulsory 11-year education was introduced guaranteed by the system of free-of-charge training (4-years primary and further secondary education). All children of school age in the DPRK study and receive from the state textbooks, writing-books, school accessories, clothes for all seasons of the year at only symbolical prices (almost free-of-charge).
A harmonious system of higher education was established. At the Kim Il Sung University, Kim Chak Polytechnical University and other higher learning institutions of which there are more than a hundred, the training of national cadres takes place. In addition, the system of in-service education functions well. Throughout the country, there is a large network of libraries and bookshops, which are carrying out the function of public study. In the center of Pyongyang, the People’s Study Palace stands with an area of more than 100 thousand square meters with a book fund of 30 million volumes and 600 various halls and premises. Inside the Palace, it is possible to read and take books out, to receive information on the latest achievements in science and technology, to listen to and participate in various scientific seminars. Service of readers by literature is carried out at a modern technical level that provides the searching and granting of the ordered books within 3-5 minutes.
Study at higher learning institutions is free-of-charge and all students receive grants.
Already by the1980-s, the whole of the country’s adult population had secondary education. Now, the Government of the DPRK has laid down the aim of improving the quality of education according to the demands of the XXI century. According to a UNESCO program, a national plan has been developed until 2015 that undoubtedly, will be fulfilled. There are intermediate (control) plans of development of education until 2008.

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