Communist Study Corner #11

The Great Leader Comrade KIM IL  SUNG on Non-Allignment and Anti-Imperialist Unity 

"The non-aligned countries should not be fussy about which countries are progressive and which not, but endeavor to find some common ground and unite with each other. Classifying the non-aligned states into this or that side contradicts the essential character and idea of the non-aligned movement. This will lead, in the long run, to forming new blocs within the movement and splitting it. As for the progressive nature of a country, its criterion is Chajusong, and a nation which maintains its Chajusong is automatically a progressive nation. Since the non-aligned states are all opposed to domination and subordination and aspire after Chajusong, they can unite on the basis of this common feature—their aspiration for Chajusong

The non-aligned states should base themselves on the principle of unity in settling any differences or disputes that arise between them. However serious they may be, differences and disputes between non-aligned states are the internal affairs of brothers who are advancing shoulder to shoulder towards a common goal; they are not matters to be settled by fighting or by bringing in outside forces. They should be settled through negotiations by the parties concerned, in keeping with their national interests and the interests of the non-aligned movement as a whole, free from any interference from outside. Should non-aligned states antagonize or fight each other, trapped by the intrigues of the domination­ists, they will play into the hands of the latter, and this will simply make them the losers.

For the newly-emerging countries to fight in unity against imperi­alism and all other forms of dominationism, they should maintain their Chajusong.

The non-aligned states, the third world countries, must categorically reject all forms of interference from abroad and not follow other countries blindly or as their henchmen. And the newly-emerging countries should respect each other’s Chajusong and refrain from picking holes or meddling in the affairs of other countries. This will preclude any dominationist forces from gaining a foothold in the non-aligned move­ment, render whatever nation’s baton impotent and enable the newly-emerging countries to strengthen their unity and wage a determined struggle against dominationism. (Exerpt from “LET US STEP UP SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION UNDER THE BANNER OF THE JUCHE IDEA” --- great leader Comrade KIM IL SUNG, Sept. 9, 1978 on the occasion of the 30^th anniversary of the DPRK