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HISTORY OF REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES OF CHAIRMAN KIM JONG IL PYONGYANG, KOREA JUCHE 104 (2015) HISTORY OF REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES OF CHAIRMAN KIM JONG IL Foreign Languages Publishing House Pyongyang, Korea Juche 104 (2015) 1 PREFACE Kim Jong Il, who led the cause of the Juche revolution pioneered by Kim Il Sung along the road resplendent with victory, is the eternal General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the eternal Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Already in the 1960s he started administering unique Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Songun politics, and in the mid-1970s he began to lead the overall affairs of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the Korean People’s Army and the state, thus bringing about a radical turn in all the sectors of the revolution and construction and ushering in a heyday of the era of the WPK under the banner of modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism. After the death of Kim Il Sung in the mid-1990s, he formulated the mode of Songun politics in a comprehensive way. By so doing, he frustrated the ever-more undisguised schemes of the US-led allied imperialist forces to isolate and stifle the DPRK, defended his socialist country reliably and opened a new era of building a thriving socialist country. Cherishing an ennobling sense of obligation to the destiny of his country and fellow people and the future of the Korean revolution, he provided a brilliant solution to the problem of inheriting leadership, the core in accomplishing the revolutionary cause. With unshakeable commitment to implementing Kim Il Sung’s instructions for national reunification, he led his fellow compatriots along the road of independence and great national unity and opened the June 15 era of reunification for achieving the ideal of By Our Nation Itself. Holding aloft the banner of anti-imperialist independence, he performed imperishable exploits for the accomplishment of the cause of the independence of humankind. Having treasured and loved people most and shared weal and woe with them throughout his life, he was on super-intense forced march of on-site guidance for building the DPRK into a thriving country and improving its people’s standard of living until the last moment of his life. The history of his revolutionary activities is the history of activities of a 2 great revolutionary, who regarded it as his lifetime duty to carry forward the cause of the Juche revolution pioneered by Kim Il Sung and devoted his whole life to discharging it. In reflection of the unanimous will and wish of the progressive peoples of the whole world to study and learn from the history of Kim Jong Il’s revolutionary activities and the demands of the times and developing revolution, the Editorial Board publishes the English version of the supplemented edition of the History of Revolutionary Activities of Chairman Kim Jong Il which was published in January 2013. Editorial Board 3 CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 BIRTH OF KIM JONG IL AND LEADING SCHOOLCHILDREN TO TRAIN THEMSELVES AS TRUE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GENERAL KIM IL SUNG (February 1942-August 1960).............................................................................1 1. Birth of Kim Jong Il at the Paektusan Secret Camp and His Growth as a Great Revolutionary ........................................................1 2. Forming the Group for the Study of Short Biography of General Kim Il Sung and Learning from and Defending General Kim Il Sung...............................................................6 3. Training Students to Be Builders of Socialism ...............................................12 CHAPTER 2 STARTING SONGUN-BASED REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP AND CARRYING THE REVOLUTIONARY CAUSE OF JUCHE TO COMPLETION (August 1960-March 1964) .............................................................................17 1. Start of Songun-Based Revolutionary Leadership and Declaration of Lofty Determination to Carry the Revolutionary Cause of Juche to Completion............................................17 2. Through Energetic Ideological and Theoretical Activities ...............................20 3. Assisting Kim Il Sung in His Guidance of the Revolution and Construction............27 4. Training Students as Reliable Successors to the Revolutionary Cause of Juche .............................................................33 CHAPTER 3 ESTABLISHING THE WPK’S MONOLITHIC IDEOLOGICAL SYSTEM AND COMMENCING SONGUN POLITICS (April 1964-February 1974)..............................................................................40 4 CONTENTS 1. Starting to Work at the Central Committee of the WPK and Reviewing the Preceding Revolutionary Ideology of the Working Class............................40 2. Establishing the WPK’s Monolithic Ideological System..................................44 3. Implementing the Self-Defensive Military Line of the WPK and Commencing Songun Politics...............................................46 4. For a Revolutionary Turn in Art and Literature and Publication of On the Art of the Cinema.................................................52 5. Bringing About a Fresh Revolutionary Upsurge in Socialist Construction and Carrying Out the Three Major Tasks of the Technological Revolution..................................57 6. Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Birth of Kim Il Sung as the Greatest National Holiday............................................65 7. Improving Party Work.................................................................................68 8. Implementing the Three Principles and Five-Point Policy of National Reunification.............................................................................72 9. Bringing About a Fresh Turn in External Activities ........................................76 CHAPTER 4 ORGANIZING AND LEADING THE WORK OF MODELLING THE WHOLE SOCIETY ON KIMILSUNGISM (February 1974-October 1980)..........................................................................79 1. Acclaimed as Successor to President Kim Il Sung and Proclaiming the Programme of Modelling the Whole Society on Kimilsungism...................79 2. Modelling the Entire WPK on Kimilsungism and Laying Firm Foundations of the WPK.....................................................82 3. Modelling the Entire KPA on Kimilsungism..................................................86 4. Rallying the Broad Sections of the Masses Closely behind the WPK ................90 5. Carrying Forward the Revolutionary Traditions of Juche in an All-Round Way ..................................................................................92 6. Developing the Three Revolutions–Ideological, Technological and Cultural–and Initiating the Three-Revolution Red Flag Movement...................97 7. Launching the 70-Day Campaign, Expediting Socialist Economic Construction under the Banner of Self-Reliance, and Advancing a Strategic Policy of Keeping to the Korean Lifestyle...................102 8. Bringing About a Fresh Upswing in All Domains of Building Socialist Culture......................................................................111 CONTENTS 5 9. Strengthening the Forces for National Reunification and Stepping Up the Movement of Koreans in Japan ....................................119 10. Strengthening Anti-Imperialist Independent Forces.....................................124 CHAPTER 5 STEPPING UP THE MODELLING OF THE WHOLE SOCIETY ON KIMILSUNGISM (October 1980-December 1989)......................................................................129 1. Leading the Effort to Celebrate the Sixth Congress of the WPK as a Meeting of Victors and Setting the Task of Stepping Up the Modelling of the Whole Society on Kimilsungism ..................................129 2. Adding Brilliance to Kim Il Sung’s Immortal Revolutionary Exploits to Mark His 70th Birth Anniversary................................................133 3. Conducting Ideological and Theoretical Activities for Developing Kimilsungism and Publishing On the Juche Idea....................................................................................137 4. Laying the Foundations of the WPK for Carrying Forward the Revolutionary Cause of Juche and Further Strengthening the WPK into a Juche-Type Revolutionary Party..........................................143 5. Strengthening the KPA and Establishing the WPK’s Command System in the KPA ...................................................149 6. Leading the Effort to Consolidate the People’s Government and Further Improve the Working People’s Organizations and the Work with the Masses....................................................................154 7. Bringing About a Fresh Upsurge in Socialist Economic Construction at the Speed of the 1980s and Improving the People’s Living Standards ....................................................................160 8. Further Consolidating the Successes Gained in Building Socialist Culture ......................................................................170 9. Implementing the Plan for Founding the DFRK and Bringing About a Fresh Turn in the Movement of Koreans in Japan ............................177 10. Promoting the Cause of Global Independence ............................................184 CHAPTER 6 ORGANIZING AND LEADING THE STRUGGLE TO DEFEND PEOPLE-CENTRED SOCIALISM OF THE KOREAN STYLE (January 1990-July 1994)................................................................................190 6 CONTENTS 1. Ideological