Juche

    Chairman Kim Jong Il wisely led the study and systemization of the national history of Korea that had been warped, distorted and obliterated by the reactionary historians within and without and thus the study was placed on a scientific basis from the standpoint of Juche. He rendered immortal achievements in making Korea enjoy world-wide fame as a country with 5 000-year long and brilliant history in name and reality.

    The immortal exploit performed by Kim Jong Il in studying and systemizing the national history of Korea is, first of all, that he expounded the most correct methodology in studying history to provide a guiding principle capable of studying and systemizing the national history from the standpoint of Juche.

    Methodology in studying history serves as a fundamental issue that guarantees the scientific accuracy in the study.

    Diverse methodologies for studying history were presented by the numerous historians in all ages and countries with the birth and development of history but all those preceding methodologies could not escape from the various limitations. This is due to the fact that they failed to put the position and role of the popular masses at the center of the study.

    The Juche-oriented methodology based on the principle of social history of the Juche idea that regards the popular masses as the subject of history, the driving force of the social historical development overcame the limitations of preceding methodologies and expounded the most scientific ways for studying history.

    The Juche-oriented methodology clarifies all the methodological issues in the study including the viewpoint and attitude toward history and the principles to be adhered to in the study on the most perfect and scientific basis.

    Kim Jong Il expounded the viewpoint and attitude toward history with the popular masses as the center; viewpoint and attitude toward history with one’s own country and nation as the center; the viewpoint and attitude toward the modern history with the position and role of the leader as the center; thus giving a birth to the Juche-oriented methodology of love for the country, nation and the people.

    He put forward it as the important ones to observe the principle of the Juche character, the principle of the Party and working-class character and the principle of fidelity to historical truth in studying history, thus providing guiding principles for making the history research scientifically on the basis of the Party principle and the working-class viewpoint in accordance with the interest of the revolution in one’s own country.

    The immortal exploit performed by Kim Jong Il in studying and systemizing the national history of Korea on Juche viewpoint is, next, that he presented the important issues arising in studying the national history and clearly clarified the most correct orientation and methods for the successful settlement of the issues.

    Kim Jong Il expounded the concrete orientation and methods for correcting and making clear the numerous historical issues that were of fundamental significance in studying and systemizing the national history of Korea on the Juche basis. Those issues were the origin of the Koreans; existence of the Old Stone Age; existence and formation of a slave society; the period of formation of the Three Kingdoms and their socio-economic relations; position and role of Palhae; formation of the first unified state; birth and development of capitalist relations and the modern bourgeois reformation movement and so on. And he gave scientific answers to the key issues that form the pivot in the system of Korean history including the existence of the Old Stone Age and the formation of the first unified state and thus created a brilliant example of studying and systemizing the national history from the standpoint of Juche.

    The numerous issues that had been ruthlessly distorted and obliterated or remained unsolved by the reactionary historians within and without could be settled on the scientific basis thanks to the wise leadership and practical example of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

    The immortal exploit performed by Kim Jong Il in studying and systemizing the national history of Korea on Juche viewpoint is, next, that he led wisely to vigorously conduct the systemization of national history form the standpoint of Juche on a wide scale.

    In the middle of the 1970s it was urgently required to study and systemize the national history in accordance with the development of the Korean revolution that faced the modeling the whole society on the Juche idea coming to the fore. In this period, Kim Jong Il unfolded an audacious plan of writing and compiling the “Complete History of Korea”(33 volumes), a series of history, and wisely led to wage a speed campaign, thus completing superbly such huge task in a short span of time of 5 years on a high level.

    In the 1980s, he initiated the writing and compiling of the sectional history (60 volumes) of Korea and energetically led to successfully complete the huge and difficult tasks in a short span of time of less than 10 years.

    In the 1990s, he wisely organized and led the work for implementing the President’s programmatic instruction to make research on King Tangun and Ancient Korea. As a result, the fact that Tangun who had been regarded as the founding father of the Korean nation is not a mythical man but the actual one and that the national history of Korea is the long history spanning over 5 000 years could be proved on a scientific basis.

    Directing deep attention into the study and systemization of the national history of Korea from the standpoint of Juche in the new century, too, he energetically led the writing and compiling of the “Short History of Korea” (38 volumes) to create a miracle of completing its writing and compiling in 4-5 years.

    Indeed, the national history of Korea could be formulated as the history of creation and struggle of the Korean people for realizing the independence in name and reality thanks to the wise leadership of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

    Kim Jong Il’s immortal exploits in studying and systemizing the national history of Korea from the standpoint of Juche will shine forever with the history of Songun Korea.