46 years of Songun revolutionary leadership

Leader Kim Jong Il began his Songun leadership by giving an on-site inspection to the KPA Guard Seoul Ryu Gyong Su tank division No. 105 on August 25th, 1960.

Since the leader left first step of the Songun revolutionary leadership, the Korean People¡¯s Army has been strengthened into the army of leader, the Workers¡¯ Party of Korea and invincible army.

The leader, with farsighted wisdom, paid primary attention to strengthen the KPA into the army of leader and the Party and has wisely led the work from the outset of his Songun revolutionary leadership.

He established a regular system of educating the soldiers with revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung in the beginning of 1969. It is a remarkable event to be recorded in history of army building that he put forward the program for transforming the army after the Juche idea and slogan ¡°Let us devotedly fight for the Great Leader¡± in keeping with developing situation in 1970s.

He led the KPA to follow the good example of the anti-Japanese fighters¡¯ loyalty to the President in 1980s.

He said to the commanding officers of the KPA on January 1, 1995 that the might of the revolutionary army, in essence, is that of ideology. He continued that the ideological education of the soldiers should be intensified in order to develop the KPA into an invincible revolutionary armed force.

The leader, who inspected Daedoksan Post on March 1996, said that the post is the birthplace of ¡°A match for hundred foes¡± so that glorify the President¡¯s feats on leading the army by effectively doing educational work of the soldiers through the monument to the President¡¯s field guidance.

Leader Kim Jong Il saw to it that the movement for the title of O Jung Hup-led 7th Regiment be conducted in the KPA on January 1, 1996.

The leader said that the movement for the title of O Jung Hup-led 7th Regiment is a mass movement of new type to defend the headquarters of the revolution by emulating the good example of the 7th regiment of the anti-Japanese guerilla army that defended the headquarters of the revolution at the cost their lives during the period of the anti-Japanese armed struggle.

Through the movement for the title of O Jung Hup-led 7th Regiment, the KPA soldiers prepared themselves politically and militarily so that the KPA became invincible armed force loyal to the Party and the revolution.      

Thanks to the wise leadership of the leader, the KPA has been strengthened into the revolutionary army of the leader and the Party.

 

Concerted efforts to anti-US and anti-war struggle and for the withdrawal of the US troops from south Korea

 

The August 15 all-people rally for independence and reunification was held in Seoul on August 15, 2006.

The all-people grand march for independence and peace was held there.

More than 3,000 figures from the Reunification Solidarity, the National People¡¯s Solidarity for National Independence, Democracy and People¡¯s Right to Live, The Association for Supporting Prisoners of Conscience under the Family Movement for realizing Democracy and members of the 2006 Reunification Vanguard for Independence and Peace of the Korean Peninsula.

They marched along the street holding placards ¡°By our nation itself,¡± ¡°independent reunification¡± and ¡°Realization of peace¡± and chanting slogans ¡°Independence,¡± ¡°Peace¡± and ¡°Reunification.¡±       

The August 15 all-people rally for independence and reunification to check the conclusion of the south Korea-US Free Trade Agreement and the expansion of the US military base in Pyeongtaek and protest against sanctions against north Korea which invite a war was held in Seoul on August 15.

Participated there were workers, peasants, youth, students, and residents of Pyeongtaek more than ten thousand in all.

A resolution was read out at the rally.

The resolution accused the US of working hard to reduce south Korea to a base for provoking a war and driving the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war by escalating its hostile policy toward north Korea.

In addition, it noted that the US has schemed to swallow up the economy of south Korea through the conclusion of the south Korea-US Free Trade Agreement. 

The resolution called for foiling the US hostile policy toward north Korea and war moves through the anti-US, anti-war struggle for peace.