President KIM IL SUNG and Self-Reliance -contribution of Jean Claude Martini-KFA OD for Italy Director of the Juche Idea Study Center of Tuscany and the Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism Fermo Study Group

 

Korean Friendship Association

                                                            

20 – 05 – 2025

President Kim Il Sung and Self-Reliance

Dear comrades,

In this very significant year 2025 the progressive people all over the world celebrated the 80^th anniversary of the great victory over Nazi-Fascism by the heroic Soviet army and people under the distinguished leadership of Generalissimo Stalin. But there are other two events of no minor significance: 80 years have passed also since Korea's liberation and the foundation of the glorious Workers' Party of Korea.

In particular, the military operations conducted under the guidance of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung proved themselves fundamental to defeat Japanese imperialism and also to protect the rear of the USSR, as Stalin himself acknowledged when meeting the President in 1949. This was the brilliant crowning of the Korean revolution which the great leader initiated under the unfurled banner of self-reliance.

Self-reliance is the main aspect in defining a correct Juche strategy and tactics: without self-reliance one cannot even hope to pursue an independent politics and build a self-sufficient economy and national defense. It is self-reliance who made the Korean peninsula safe, at least for the moment, from the holocaust of a nuclear war: had the DPRK not built-up its own self-reliant defense capability, the country would have long ended up like Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya or Syria, since, just like the latter in particular, they still have a formidable enemy on its doorstep.

The difference lies precisely in the fact that socialist Korea possess a reliable self-reliant defense, while others relied on this or that superpower to protect them. It is a mistake never to be done: what if, for example, the superpower could not or did not want to protect a specific country due to its own interests and priorities or because a radical change has been brought about inside its top leadership and the course followed until now changes?

Thanks to self-reliance, the DPRK could be the first one to launch the principled struggle against modern revisionism, not only in the ideological, but also in the military field, when for example in 1968 it retained the captured spy-ship USS Pueblo, without lending an ear to the frightened requests by the Soviet revisionists to hand over it to the US authorities, frightened as they were by the latter's nuclear threat. And in 1990s the DPRK could hold high the red flag of revolution without flinching of an inch from the socialist road, successfully countering the blackmails and the imperialist allied forces' move to isolate and stifle it. That was the first all-out implementation of the Songun policy formulated by Chairman Kim Jong Il in 1960. But already in the second half of the 1950s, the DPRK frustrated the Khrushchevite revisionists' attempt to drag it into the COMECON in order to subjugate its economy and influence its politics with the venomous mushroom of revisionism. Thirty years later as well, President Kim Il Sung rightfully answered the Gorbachevite propaganda on “glasnost” and “perestrojka” by repeatedly stating that in the DPRK «we have nothing to reform because we made no mistake».

Today, the revolutionary politics of self-reliance knows its full heyday thanks to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's outstanding leadership, which let the DPRK into the small and exclusive circle of nuclear superpowers without even making “reforms” or “opening-ups”, as he mentioned in his historical report to the 7^th WPK Congress in May 2016.

Even in the most difficult years of that second half of the 2010s, when the world came on the brink of a nuclear war owing to the Trump administration's reckless provocations and an unprecedented wave of sanctions was poured down on people's Korea, the latter managed to build new streets for the people such as Hwasong Street, and today it came and raised to be admired by the world as an advanced and civilized socialist state which will confidently, as an article published on January 25 last in the Rodong Sinmun said, reach communism before others.

김정은동지 만세!

조선로동당 만세!

조선인민군 만세!

조선민족 만세!

조선민주주의인민공화국 만세!

Jean-Claude Martini

KFA OD for Italy

Director of the Juche Idea Study Center of Tuscany

and the Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism Fermo Study Group