Native place of Kim Jong Il at the secret camp of Mt. Baekdu
Great birth and great praise viewed through
Revolutionary slogans are the writings the guerilla fighters, political workers and the patriotic people from all walks of life wrote on the barked trees during the anti-Japanese armed struggle vigorously staged under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung.
Revolutionary slogans have kept intact though more than 50 – 60 years elapsed and thousands items were unearthed throughout the DPRK.
Great leader Kim Jong Il indicated that the recently discovered slogans are the vivid historic materials which show the indefinite loyalty to the leader, devotion to the revolution, faith of the inevitable victory and revolutionary optimism of the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters.
Following are some slogans praising the birth of great leader Kim Jong Il.
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“The fellow countrymen, the bright star rose on
“The star of sun rose on the house of the sun in
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“All the compatriots, look up to
“Long live the bright star of
“The 20 million compatriots, the bright star rose on
“The bright star of
“The bright star of
“The star soaring on
“The bright star rose with the spirit of
“The bright star of
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“The 20 million people, the bright star is shining”
“Ah, we announce the birth of the bright star of
“The successor to general Kim Il Sung was born on
“We engrave the august names of general Kim Il Sung, sun of the nation, and the bright star of
“Long live the bright star of
“Let us bring up the bright star of
“Long live the bright star of
“Bright is the future of
“The bright star risen in the sky over
“Long live the bright star, the brilliant future president of the 20 million-nation”
“The birth of the bright star of
Long live the bright star of
“The bright star of
Long live the 20 million-Korean nation”
“Fellow countrymen, boast.
The bright star of
“Long live the bright star of
“Long live the bright star of
“Long live the bright star of
“Long live the bright star of
“Long live the bright star, the hero Jr. of the country”
“The bright star of
“The bright star of
“The bright star of
“The people in the Pyongan area, look up to the bright star of
“Let us go to meet the bright star of
“Glorious is the road to the great star of
“The bright star of
“Let us take part in the anti-Japanese war following the bright star of
“The bright star of
“The bright star rose on
The three stars of
“Long live the bright star of
“The 20 million people, the bright star of
“The bright star of
“The birth of the bright star of
“The birth of the bright star of
“The dawn of a country shining with the bright star is just breaking”
“With the bright Baekdu star of Korea with 5,000 year-long history, let us build a brilliant country of the sun on the liberated three thousand-ri Korea”
“I will shine forever the grand star of
Outstanding thinker and theoretician
President Kim Il Sung said:
“Comrade Kim Jong Il has been engaged in ideological and theoretical activities with an unusually strong spirit of inquiry and energy, brightening our Party’s Juche idea as the great guiding ideology of the age of independence.”
Leader Kim Jong Il is an outstanding thinker and theoretician, who scientifically formulated and systematized Kim Il Sung’s revolutionary idea and set it as the guiding ideology of the revolution and construction.
He made in-depth analysis of preceding revolutionary ideas of the working class and defined the President’s revolutionary idea, whose validity and vitality had been already proved in the course of advancing the Korean revolution and the cause of independence of humankind, as the integrated Juche system of idea, theory and method.
This means that he gave a perfect scientific and theoretical elucidation of the Juche idea, the ideological and theoretical summing up of the revolutionary struggle conducted by the President in combination with the name of its founder.
The kernel of the President’s revolutionary idea is the Juche idea, which is new and original in terms of the basis of world outlook and the composition of contents.
It is attributable to Kim Jong Il that the idea has acquired great historic significance in the revolution and construction.
The Juche idea which was created by reflecting the requirements of the times is the guiding ideology, theory and method for completing the cause of independence of the popular masses.
Thanks to Kim Jong Il, it has become the encyclopedic theory of revolution providing revolutionary theories and methods of struggle in all stages of struggle for the people's independence.
He ensured that the validity and advantages of the President’s revolutionary idea were given full play in the revolutionary practice by proclaiming the program of modeling the whole of society on the Juche idea.
He developed the principles of the Juche idea into a political philosophy. His ideological and theoretical activities to perfect the idea as the guiding ideology of the revolution embrace all the theoretical and practical issues in all fields of the revolution and construction including the theories of building party, state and army and the development of literature and the arts.
Now the Juche idea is demonstrating its traction force and vitality more clearly and the cause of the Korean revolution is winning victory after victory in any storms and trials.
Kim Jong Il established the Songun idea based on the Juche idea to provide the unfurled banner for consummating the Korean revolutionary cause.
At present the imperialists are intensifying an onslaught on the anti-imperialist independent forces by taking advantage of the collapse of socialism in some countries and, especially, the
The reality requires new line, strategy and tactics to victoriously advance the people's cause of independence and socialism.
The urgent demand of the times and revolution has been met as Kim Jong Il established the Songun idea representing his conviction and will to complete the just cause started by the President with arms.
This idea is geared to protect and realize the independence of the popular masses by relying on the powerful military force. It is an idea of continuous revolution to achieve final victory of the revolution by dint of arms and advance the socialist construction as a whole with the People's Army as the main agent of the revolution.
The experience of the Korean revolution shows that the guiding principles and requirements of the Juche idea can be maintained and fulfilled only by the Songun idea and politics.
As the Workers’ Party of Korea has held up the banner of Songun, it has been able to establish Juche in ideology, independence in politics, self-sufficiency in the economy and self-reliance in defense, adhere to the principle of giving precedence to the ideological work and provide a springboard for the building of a great, prosperous and powerful socialist nation in difficult conditions.
The Juche idea is displaying its great vitality owing to the Songun idea and Kim Jong Il is carrying forward and enriching it.
Socialist Korea is advancing the just cause victoriously with unshakable conviction and principle.
Credit for this goes to Kim Jong Il who has held fast to the Juche idea as the guiding ideology of the revolution and led the revolution and construction to a road of victory by means of Songun idea and politics.
Tragedies are taking place on the international arena due to the jungle law.
Weak nations are falling a prey to the high-handedness and arbitrariness of imperialism.
The imperialist allied forces are launching an all-out offensive on the anti-imperialist countries. The independence cause of mankind and the world peace have faced a severe threat.
The lesson for the progressive peoples is that if a nation is to defend its sovereignty and peace, it must have its own power to defend itself.
The Way of Defending Sovereignty
There will be no countries which do not value their sovereignty and dignity.
But these cannot be realized as one aspires for them. These cannot be defended or presented by somebody else.
The imperialists overcome with expansive delusion of the “superiority of power” are trying to trample down by means of force the countries in which they have great interests or that do not obey their control. Weak ones will fall prey to the strong. The former
The past history and the present reality show that the force of the imperialists should be met with force. One should foster his strength if he doesn’t want to fall a prey to imperialism. There is no force that can match the people who are confident of the justice of their cause and their own strength.
It is proved by the reality of the DPRK, a small country in the East.
The DPRK squarely frustrated the hard line of the
As it regarded the military affairs as the most important ones of state affairs and put primary efforts into the strengthening of its military forces,
This tells that Songun is just the best way to defend the sovereignty of a country against the imperialists’ unprecedentedly worse arbitrariness and high-handedness today.
Reliable Guarantee for Peace
Peace is an ideal of mankind. They have struggled to prevent war and realize peace for a long period of time.
But their ideal of peace has not been realized yet.
The imperialists’ maneuvers of aggression and war are becoming more unscrupulous with the passage of time. It is the present reality that peace is being disturbed and the people are shedding blood in many parts of the world.
Peace cannot be realized by means of begging and concession instead of strong self-defensive power. The event of
As long as imperialism exists, peace can never be realized of its own. The ambition of dominating other countries, aggression and plunder are the nature of imperialism. If there is an imperialist country of no such nature, it is not an imperialist country.
To prevent aggression and war by the imperialists, countries and nations must have their own strong self-defensive power. If a nation attaches importance to military affairs, and on the principle of giving priority to military affaires, develops its war industry and strengthens its self-defensive armed forces, it will have nothing to be afraid of.
It is mainly attributable to Songun that the decades-long attempts of the
Under the banner of Songun, the DPRK has continuously cemented its strong military power to defeat any aggressors. To cope with the
If it happened, not only the
If all countries strengthen their self-defensive power and fight against imperialism in firm unity with each other, the aspiration and desire of mankind for independence and peace will be successfully realized.
Songun idea studied worldwide
The world’s progressives are getting ever more enthusiastic about learning the Songun idea and politics whose validity and vitality are given full play along with the invincible might of the DPRK that is winning victory after victory under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il.
Last year the idea and politics were studied and disseminated throughout the world amid great interest of the people.
Celebrated works of Kim Jong Il on the Juche idea, the root of the Songun idea, were published in booklet by organizations and institutions of over 40 countries including the Paektusan Association for the Independent Development of Mongolia; the Mexican Institute of the Juche idea; the Funtra publishers of the Czech Republic; the Narodna Tribuna publishers of Bulgaria; the Pavnic publishers of Guyana; and a Maltese publishers.
The Publilaser publishers of Peru noted in the preface of the booklet that without the Juche idea, the Korean people could have neither defended the socialist banner under the trying ordeals nor foiled the constant aggressive moves and vicious economic blockade by the
Political parties and other organizations of different countries including Nepal, Pakistan, Italy and the Democratic Republic of Congo issued books and bulletins under such titles as “The cause of Juche and Songun politics”, “Homeland of Songun politics” and “The might of Songun” which explain the principle and originality of the Songun idea established and enriched by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and praise the might of the DPRK shining as a fortress of independence under the banner of Songun.
Study and dissemination of the Songun idea and politics were carried on in various forms on a worldwide scale.
Symposiums, round-table talks, lectures and other events were held on over 500 occasions in more than 120 countries and regions such as
The Songun idea and politics were praise as a guarantee of national sovereignty and prosperity and global peace and security at the events held on such themes as “Songun and socialist Korea” and “Almighty weapon for the cause of anti-imperialist independence” with the attendance of politicians, public figures and broad segments of people of different countries and regions.
The chairperson of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia said that Songun politics is politics to build and impregnably defend the cradle of the people's life and politics ensuring the people's opinion. The secretary general of the Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea, the chairman of the People's Front of Workers, Peasants and Students of Peru, the general secretary of October 8 Revolutionary Movement of Brazil and the chairman of the Forum of Self-Reliance Studies of Nepal highly praised that the Songun idea is an excellent idea that enables countries to safeguard their sovereignty and Songun politics is kept in the hearts of the world people for its might, validity and vitality, inspiring them to the road of independence, referring to the fact that the DPRK is demonstrating its might, foiling the eve-pronounced aggressive moves of the US.
The East European and Central Asian Regional Association for the Study of the Juche Idea and Songun Politics adopted a declaration calling for following Songun politics, noting that the politics administered by Kim Jong Il is the greatest politics in the present times.
More than 300 newspapers and broadcasters including Russian newspaper Patriot, Prensa Latina News Agency of Cuba, Lao newspaper Pasason, Thai newspaper Xing San Ribao, Bulgarian newspaper Duma, Czech newspaper Halo Noviny, British newspaper Proletarian, Mexican newspaper Trabajadores and Peruvian broadcaster Santarosa introduced the might and vitality of the Songun idea and politics under such titles as “The immortal banner to be held up by the world’s progressives”, “Modern Korea and Songun” and “Songun is a sure guarantee for accomplishing the cause of independence of humankind” from the outset of last year in keeping with the world’s trend toward sympathizing with and learning Songun.
Worldwide study and dissemination of the Songun idea and politics last year reflected the common desire of progressive humankind aspiring for an independent life and demonstrated the validity, magnetic charm and inexhaustible vitality of the cause of Songun.