Contribution of KFA UK Essex branch to the seminar "President KIM IL SUNG and self-reliance "

 

In the western world, there are a number of military people who became leaders of countries and continuously receive praise. George Washington is remembered especially in the United States. In Britain Winston Churchill is revered, whilst over the Channel in France, Charles de Gaulle is looked still viewed upon as a wartime hero, despite fleeing to England.



One name you will not often see referred to with such reverence, if ever, in the western world referred is Kim Il Sung, the founder of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). His name should be held in reverence but the western world, filled with capitalist and imperialist aspirations, will never yield to his great and unsurpassed successes. For these happened through his pronounced inspiration, socialist ideals and encouraging the unity of the Korean people. The west refuses recognition of the leadership of the Great Leader and Eternal President Kim Il Sung who fought fearlessly the Japanese Empire, liberating Korea in 1945. But you won’t hear of the Korean struggle in the history of WWII and the battle against the Axis power of Imperial Japan. By and large the people of the west do not know of this struggle, and therefore do not understand this lack of recognition is simply because of The Eternal President’s leadership in the defeat of the huge imperialist forces of the United States. They know not of the US and its western allies aim it was to take over the entire Korean peninsula and impose capitalism led colony from Washington. Something which we have witnessed in the US puppet state of South Korea.



Despite the censorship of the western capitalist world, it is an unbiased historical fact, compared to the achievements of Washington, Churchill and de Gaulle, the military successes of Kim Il Sung are far greater. Yet beyond these successes, the political and social achievements of the Great Leader Kim Il Sung, I believe are at the very leastequally significant. For following success over the imperialist forces of the United States in 1953, the Eternal President inherited a country in ruins and rubble, such was the extent of US carpet bombing. I am certain, faced with such a dilemma, western government’s believed the socialist state of the DPRK would fail. However they vastly underestimated the leadership of the DPRK’s Eternal Leader and the commitment of the people through the implementation and success of the Juche ideology. The DPRK was literally rebuilt from the ashes and its people finally liberated from colonialism. Never again would they be threatened by imperialism or influence from afar! The DPRK would be self-reliant on its own leadership and means through an ideology, which survived despite the fall of the former Soviet Union and the majority of its allied states in the 1990’s, and goes forth with great success to this day.



Self-Reliance can never happen without unity. Unity of people, government and military. All are important cogs in a people’s first philosophy where they work in unison. It is how the wonderful achievements of the DPRK have been delivered and where the country represents a beacon of successful socialism despite international sanctions and the constant military threat on its doorstep. In his inspirational speech in 1967, the Great Leader decreed “First, the government of the republic will implement with all consistency the line of independence, self-sufficiency, and self-defence to consolidate the political independence of the country, build up more solidly the foundations of an independent national economy capable of insuring the complete unification, independence, and prosperity of our nation and increasing the country's defence capabilities, so as to safeguard the security of the fatherland reliably by our own force, by splendidly embodying our party's idea of Juche in all fields.”



I have observed with great admiration the magnificent achievements of the DPRK and how it was rebuilt from the destruction of war, whilst constantly maintaining the philosophy of Juche and self-reliance. It sees the DPRK rapidly advancing today. When we in the western world endure increasing numbers of working class people facing homelessness, unemployment, severe poverty or turn to addictive substances due to social conditions, the DPRK is the exact opposite. However we in the western world are fed a diet of denunciation of the DPRK and the Juche Ideology.



When establishing the Essex Branch of the KFA UK, in addition to representing the aims of the main KFA organisation, my intention was for others to discover the truth about the DPRK instead of misinformation and media lies spread by the west. To achieve this the legacy of the Great Leader Kim Il Sung should remain an inspiration and wherever we are politically an underlying message of self-reliance and the ideology of Juche be spread.



Long Live Juche

Long Live the DPRK



Rick Heyse

Korean Friendship Association UK, Essex Branch.

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