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IT is now 20 years since the demise of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) founding leader Kim Il Sung (1912-1994), who died on July 8, 1994.
Kim Il Sung was a great thinker and theoretician who authored the Juche idea and Songun idea, ushering in an era of independence and ensuring the victorious advance for the cause of global independence. The Juche idea clarifies that the master of revolution and construction are the popular masses and they are capable of pushing ahead with them.
In his early teens he set out on the road of struggle to liberate his country and people from the Japanese military occupation and created the Juche idea and Songun idea in the course of blazing the trail for the Korean revolution.
Under the banner of these ideas he organized and led the 15-year anti-Japanese armed struggle and achieved the historic cause of Korea’s liberation.
After liberation he founded the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the first democratic and people-oriented country in the East, and inflicted on the United States, which had been boasting of being the “strongest” in the world, a disastrous defeat in the Korean war (1950-1953), for the first time in its history.
In the postwar period, he developed the DPRK into a powerful socialist country independent, self-sufficient and self-reliant in defence.
Kim Il Sung was also an outstanding leader who, under the banner of anti-imperialist independence, led the cause of global independence to victory throughout his life.
In the violent turmoil of the 20th century he took the helm of independence and illuminated the way for the cause of global independence against imperialism.
He published many works including: Let Us Intensify the Anti-imperialist, Anti-US Struggle; The Great Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Cause of the Asian; African and Latin-American Peoples is Invincible; The Peoples of the Third World Advancing under the Uplifted Banner of Independence will Certainly Win Their Revolutionary Cause; For the Development of the Non-Aligned Movement; Preventing War and Preserving Peace Are the Burning Tasks of Mankind and For a Free and Peaceful New World, in which he indicated fundamental principles, ways and methods for accomplishing the cause.
He rendered active support and encouragement to the countries and peoples in their struggle against imperialism and for independence. During the great anti-Japanese war for liberating Korea, he assisted the Chinese revolution at the cost of blood and safeguarded the Soviet Union with arms. He was in the vanguard of the worldwide solidarity movement to defend the Cuban revolution when the Cuban Missile Crisis broke out in the early 1960s.
His deep concern and wholehearted assistance were also given to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Algeria, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia and other countries aspiring after independence and opposing imperialism.
Stirred up by his encouragement and support, peoples in many colonial countries could achieve the cause of national liberation, make a dynamic advance towards the building of a new society, and win victory in the war to repulse the imperialists’ aggression.
Thanks to his close attention and energetic activities the non-aligned movement foiled the machinations of the imperialists and dominationists to divide and ruin it and made continuous efforts to strengthen and develop itself.
Kim Il Sung was a veteran statesman of the world who enjoyed high respect and reverence for his noble personality. – Nigerian Observer/Agencies
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