Juche

    July 27, Juche 42(1953) was recorded in the history of the Korean people as the victorious day when they defeated the US imperialists and added luster to national dignity and honor.

    President Kim Il Sung said:

    “By winning a great victory in the Fatherland Liberation War, our people humbled the US imperialist forces that had boasted they were the 'strongest' in the world, exploded the myth of their 'invincibility' and inaugurated them on the downward slope.”

    The myth of the US “invincibility” was established and spread in a certain historical course of time. Before the World War I the US ignited war on 114 occasions to conquer small nations and “won victory”. Towards the end of the World Wars 1 and 2 when their destinies would be decided, it joined the victors’ side and easily became a victor country.

    That is why a large number of people in the world had as an unbreakable myth the thought that no strength on earth could win the US until the beginning of the 1950s.

    The myth of its “invincibility” traveled a vast area of the earth like a ghost and implanted the idea of worshipping and fearing the US in the mind of the people who were low in independent consciousness. It also did tremendous harm to the anti-imperialist national liberation struggle and the cause of global independence.

    The US imperialists believed that they could easily submit the DPRK if they introduced outrageous tactics with numerical, military and technical superiority and with the myth of their “invincibility” as a weapon of psychological war.

    But this was a big miscalculation.

    President Kim Il Sung, the ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander, dealt the deadly blow that they had never experienced so far in their wars to the US imperialists to make them suffer from crushing military defeat and thus exploded the myth of being the “invincible US”.

    First of all, President Kim Il Sung set forth the scientific, original and people-centred strategic idea for victory in the war with outstanding wisdom, thus providing an ideological and theoretical guideline for historic victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.

    His strategic idea for victory in the war is the man-centred one proceeding from the principle that soldiers, the popular masses are masters in war.

    In the past the bourgeois military experts advocated the weapon-everything theory. The preceding working class militarists stressed to some extent that mental and moral factors of soldiers played an important role in revolutionary war. But they failed to consider soldier masses as direct performers in war and a decisive factor of its victory.

    President Kim Il Sung clarified explicitly such military and strategic issues as converting the Fatherland Liberation War into a nationwide war, ensuring political and ideological, strategic and tactical superiority of the People’s Army in the whole course of the war to defeat the enemy’s numerical and technical superiority, meeting the material demands of the war by the own efforts of the Korean people, properly combining a large unit warfare with a small one and regular-army warfare with guerilla one and fighting bravely in mountains and at night, and thus provided a powerful ideological and theoretical guideline for victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.

    In the War the “strongest” and up-to-date military and technical devices of the US imperialists were enervated and their numerical, military and technical superiority was defeated by the political and moral, strategic and tactical superiority of the Korean People’s Army. Thus the inefficiency of US imperialists’ military and technical superiority, the basis of myth of their “invincibility”, was pronounced and technical universalism went bankruptcy.

    The President’s outstanding strategic idea was, indeed, the Juche-oriented one that was unfolded, centered on the masses of the people, the subject of the revolution and the original one that suited the specific actual conditions of the DPRK. As a result, it became an ever-victorious banner that gave the most correct elucidation not only to the principles, strategy and tactics of the revolutionary and modern war to defend freedom and independence of the country and the revolutionary gains from the imperialist aggression but the way for their implementation and an invincible treasured sword that enabled the Korean people to achieve historic victory in the righteous Fatherland Liberation War.

    Next, President Kim Il Sung provided a brilliant victory in the front with his extraordinary art of command and original military tactics.

    Destiny of front is connected with that of war, that of country and nation. Final purpose of organizing and mobilizing everything of the country to a war is to win victory in the front. Therefore, greatness of a leader, greatness of a brilliant commander who leads a revolutionary war to victory is expressed in how he leads the front.

    During the war President Kim Il Sung, the matchless genius of military, always took concrete consideration of the changing military and political situation and its development, balance of forces between friend and foe and character of enemy’s action and the front situation. On its basis he scientifically set strategic stages of the war, illuminated the most just strategic policy to be carried out in every stage and correct tasks for its implementation and went out to the forefront in person to organize and command the important and difficult operations and battles, thus winning a brilliant victory.

    In particular, he created lots of the Korean style Juche-oriented tactics for victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.

    Since war is confrontation of armed forces between friend and foe and at the same time confrontation of their military tactics, it can be victorious only by proper ones.

    In the flames of the grave war President Kim Il Sung created a number of tactics such as the immediate counteroffensive and successive strike to deal with the enemy’s sudden attack, formation of the second front behind the enemy lines, a large siege warfare by cooperation of units in the main front and the front in the enemy rear, combinations of the large unit warfare and small one, combination of the guerilla warfare and regular-army one, mountain and night actions, active tunnel-dependent position defence, assault, campaigns of anti-aircraft artillery company and action of separate heavy machine-gun team, etc. All these tactics were the original and smart ones that had never been recorded in the war history of humankind.

    Next, President Kim Il Sung took care of his army men and people with warm love and trust and saw that they turned out more dynamically in the sacred struggle for victory in the war.

    His warm love and trust made the soldiers and people rise up as one for victory in the war and fight courageously.

    President Kim Il Sung conducted energetic work to provide the international environment favourable to victory in the war even under difficult circumstances of the war.

    At that time the US boasted itself of being a “superpower” and a “defender of peace”. The US brought almost all of the capitalist countries under its control and behaved as their head. It made the UN whose aim is to promote the world peace and security a voting machine for it and controlled it.

    In such a circumstance it was impossible for everyone to isolate the US imperialists in the international community and enable the DPRK enjoy international support and encouragement.

    President Kim Il Sung arranged, with rock-firm will and adroit diplomatic strategy, that everything be concentrated on revealing the US imperialists’ aggressive policy and brutal atrocities to the world to isolate them in the international arena and further strengthening the international solidarity with the people in the socialist countries and other revolutionary people over the world.

    All atrocities committed in Korea by the US troops exposed the true colors of the US that had boasted itself of being an “apostle of civilization” and “advocate of humanitarianism”.

    The honest-minded people of the world realized that the atrocity by the US troops is by no means an expression of their “invincibility”, but of their vulnerability and corruption. Even those who had had illusion about the US came round to the anti-US struggle.

    The Korean people could strengthen solidarity with the world revolutionary people and hasten the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War with their support while demonstrating the mettle of heroic Korea to the world with the banner of justice and democracy, freedom and independence even under the unimaginably arduous wartime conditions.

    Marshall, the then US secretary of defense, deplored that the myth had been exploded and his country was not such a strong one as the others had thought.

    The US, the “superpower”, that had never known even a single defeat in the 100-odd-year-long history of its aggressive war suffered an ignominious defeat for the first time by the green Korean People’s Army and the myth of its “invincibility” was exploded.

    President Kim Il Sung was, indeed, the peerless hero and the most brilliant commander of brilliant commanders who dealt to the US the crushing military, political and moral defeat which had never been recorded in its history in the fierce three-year-long war against the “superpower” US that was said to be challenged by no one in the world, thus exploding incisively the myth of its “invincibility” that had been solidified for 100 years.