Juche

M. Panchenko,
Secretary-general,
International Alliance of Societies for the Study of the Juche Idea and Songun Politics in East European and Central Asian Regions,
Chairman,
Russian Association for the Study of Songun Politics

Comrade Kim Jong Un, the General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea who is possessed of ennobling moral fidelity, said that it is necessary to make profound study of glorious exploits of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung.

The great leader was a model of genuine internationalism.

With his distinguished quality of diplomacy, Comrade Kim Il Sung made positive efforts to rally different nations to the struggle against imperialism.

Comrade Kim Il Sung formed an anti-imperialist united front with neighboring countries, thus playing a big part in destroying Japanese imperialism and defending these countries from military threat of the imperialists.

Comrade Kim Il Sung supported and encouraged revolutionary people in the struggle for independence, standing in the van of the Non-Aligned Movement.

Comrade Kim Il Sung was a great teacher not only for the Korean nation but for all other people. He authored the Juche idea, the doctrine on the popular masses’ struggle for independence and global independence.

The great leader, in his work The Path of the Korean Revolution, announced the foundation of the Juche idea for the first time. He acquired knowledge of prominent thinkers over the world and tradition of the Korean people and enriched them with his brilliant intelligence, thus perfecting this idea.

The Juche idea is the most advanced one. It is because Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism finally regulated relations between nationalism and internationalism.

President Kim Il Sung said.

“Socialist patriotism is related to proletarian internationalism. Only those who are faithful to the revolutions of their own countries can be faithful to the revolutionary cause of the international working class, and only genuine internationalists can be real patriots.”

I will explain in detail Comrade Kim Il Sung’s internationalism.

Comrade Kim Il Sung was a friend of the Soviet people.

He rendered support to our people, fighting shoulder to shoulder with us during the World War II. When the great leader was looking round battle sites of the great fatherland war, an explainer shed tears saying that Brest also underwent sufferings like Korea. Recollecting this, the great leader said that he hardly endured tears.

The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung warned without reserve about the fault of revisionists who made a mess of the socialist cause in the Soviet Union and forced neighboring countries without independence to do so.

The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung said.

“The socialist countries in Eastern Europe perished because they had been extremely servile towards the Soviet Union. In the past, the people of the Eastern European countries used to say ‘A’ if the Soviet Union said ‘A’, and they used to say ‘B’ if the latter said ‘B’. Formerly the people of the German Democratic Republic had adulated the Soviet Union to such an extent that an anecdote had it that if rain was forecast in Moscow, Berliners walked under umbrellas even though it was fine in Berlin.”

The great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il explained wisely the internationalist principle adhered by Comrade Kim Il Sung.

He said in his work On the Juche Idea.

“Independence is not in conflict with internationalism but is the basis of its strengthening. Just as the world revolution is inconceivable without the revolution in one’s own country, internationalism divorced from independence cannot exist. As a matter of principle, internationalist solidarity must be based on freedom of choice and equality. Only when it is founded on independence, will internationalist solidarity become based on free choice and equality and become genuine and durable.”

Soviet leader I. V. Stalin had said that Comrade Kim Il Sung was a genuine proletarian internationalist and set a fine example of it.

That is why in the 21^st century, we admire the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, the founding father of the DPRK, as the great internationalist and the model of internationalism in the present times.