Kim
Jong Il
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The Workers¡¯ Party of Korea is a Juche-Type
Revolutionary Party
Which Inherited the Glorious Tradition
of the
(October 17, 1982)
Today, October l7, is the 56th
anniversary of the formation of the Down-with-Imperialism Union (
With the formation of the
Our Party has traversed the
glorious course of struggle for over half a century since it took root With the
formation of the DIU; and on this road it has scored many of the most brilliant
achievements of the century, and has grown and strengthened as a powerful
revolutionary party, united rock-firm and equipped with a wealth of experience.
By leading the people our
Party achieved national independence and carried out democratic and socialist
revolutions, and through tremendous construction work, it radically changed the
appearance of the country and built a "model socialist state" which
strikes the world's people with admiration. In the hard-fought struggle against
For its immortal exploits on
behalf of the country and the people, the age and history, our Party enjoys the
unreserved support and confidence of the entire Korean people.
With the monolithic
ideological system firmly established throughout, our Party has been
strengthened more than ever before, both organizationally and ideologically, as
the tested General Staff of the revolution and, convinced of the justness of
its cause and certain of victory, it is successfu1ly guiding the cause of modelling the whole of society on the Juche idea.
Ours is a glorious party with
a long history, a revolutionary party which has carved out a new trail for
progress.
A working-class party is the
General Staff of the revolution and the organizer of all victories. Without
party guidance, the working class and the masses cannot win the revolutionary
bathe. The Korean revolution which had suffered difficulties in the early
communist movement, badly needed a militant party which would be able to lead
the revolution to victory, overcoming all obstacles. This urgent requirement of
the Korean revolution was admirably fulfilled when the great leader Comrade Kim
Il Sung came to lead the revolution.
Having assumed the role of
helmsman of the Korean revolution in the grimmest days of Japanese imperialist
rule, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, With a view to exploring a
new revolutionary road, conceived a plan to form a revolutionary vanguard
organization which, under a correct programme, would
carry out the anti-Japanese National-liberation struggle relying on the masses
and, in l926, he formed the DIU.
The formation of the
very roots of the
The struggle to build a
revolutionary party which began with the
Because the great leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung formed the
At the Kalun
Meeting held in l930, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung set forth the
Juche-inspired line of the Korean revolution and explained a unique way of
founding a revolutionary party.
The most important aspect of
this policy put forward at this meeting was to establish a party independently.
Maintaining independence is a
fundamental need of the communist movement. This movement is a struggle to
accomplish the independence of the popular masses in each country, and it is
the communists and the people of the country themselves who are the ones who
carry it out, the masters of this struggle. Founding a working-class party in
each country is also a task which the communists of the country should
necessarily carry out by their own efforts as the masters.
The policy of founding the
party independently also accorded with the requirement of the international communist
movement which had entered a new phase of development. Now that the
revolutionary struggles of the working class and masses were being carried on
extensively and in a diverse way on a worldwide scale, the revolution in each
country would not be advanced correctly unless the communists of that country
conducted it responsibly and independently. This demanded that party founding
in each country should also be undertaken by the communists of the country
through their independent efforts and on their own responsibility.
Another important aspect of
the party founding policy set forth at the Kalun
Meeting was to form grassroots party organizations first and found the party by
means of expanding and strengthening them and make preparations for party founding
in close combination with the anti-Japanese struggle.
Previously, it had been usual
for a revolutionary working-class party to be founded by uniting communist
groups which were operating in isolation or as the result of a revolutionary
faction seceding from a social democratic party. However, it was impossible to
follow this course in the circumstances in our country. At the time those who
called themselves communists were mostly factionalist-flunkeys who looked to
foreigners and indulged in factional strife to the ruin of the party. It would
be utterly impossible to establish a revolutionary party by "reconstructing"
the party which had already been dissolved or by relying on the old generation
who were infected with factionalist-flunkeyism.
In order to inaugurate a
revolutionary party, it was necessary to break away from the old party and the
old generation, polluted with factionalism and flunkeyism, develop new
communists of the new generation, achieve the unity of ideology and purpose of
the communist ranks and strengthen their ties with the masses. Only by setting
up grassroots party organizations first and then continually expanding and
strengthening them, would it be possible to train communists of the new
generation from amongst the workers and peasants quickly through organizational
and ideological life and practical struggle, and guarantee the unity of
ideology, purpose and action and the purity of the communist ranks and
consolidate the party's mass foundation. Also, only by making preparations for
party founding in close combination with the struggle against Japanese
imperialism, would it be possible to effectively develop communist nuclei who
were tried and tested through struggle, and build up the party as a militant
force with great fighting strength.
The party founding policy
proposed at the Kalun Meeting was a correct one which
reflected the rea1 needs of the international communist movement and our
country.
In accordance with this policy
put forward by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, the work to set up
party organizations was actively pursued after the Kalun
Meeting.
In the early July of 1930 in Kalun, Comrade Kim Il Sung formed the first party
organization with young communists of the new generation. This was the first
party organization governed by the Juche idea, a glorious party organization
which was the origin of our Party.
With this first party
organization as the parent body, Comrade Kim Il Sung expanded party
organizations in different areas.
Thanks to his dynamic guidance
and activity, a party organization was established in the area of Onsong with activists of revolutionary organizations at the
beginning of October l930, and within a short time many grassroots party
organizations appeared within the armed ranks and in east Manchuria on the
While expanding and
strengthening grassroots party organizations, work was actively stepped up to
establish a system of guidance for party organizations aimed at providing them
with unified leadership. As a result the system of guidance of party
organizations from county party committees to party cells in villages was
established. In the Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army party committees were
formed and active in the regiments, party cells in the companies and party sub-teams
in platoons.
In particular, as the Anti-Japanese
People's Guetril1a Army was reorganized into the Korean People's Revolutionary
Army in March l934, radical measures were taken by which the Party Committee of
the KPRA was formed to supervise and control not only party organizations at
different levels within the units, but local party organizations as well.
The formation of the KPRA
Party Committee was an event of great importance to the Korean communist
movement and the building of our Party. It was now possible to set up a unified
system of guidance for party organizations at all levels and carry out the anti-Japanese
armed struggle and the building of party organizations more vigorously by
relying on better organized internal revolutionary forces.
Drawing on the successes
achieved in the first half of the l930's, the great leader Comrade Kim Il
Sung conceived a plan in the second half of the decade to expand party
organizations in the homeland on a wide basis, achieve the unity of the whole
nation under the anti-Japanese banner, set up a well-regulated unified system
of guiding
all party organizations and
ensure party leadership for the Korean revolution as a whole. This plan was
admirably carried out. Here, the Meeting of the Military and Political Cadres
of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army held in Nanhutou
in February l936 was of historic significance.
At this meeting Comrade Kim
Il Sung summed up the work of building party organizations in the first
half of the l930's and put forward a policy for the forceful introduction of
this work on a nationwide scale to lay solid organizational 'and ideological
foundations so that the founding of the party could be proclaimed as soon as an
appropriate situation was created.
In accordance with the policy
put forward at the Nanhutou Meeting, Comrade Kim
Il Sung ensured that party organizations at all levels within the KPRA were
built up and also that party organizations were expanded in the homeland and in
the areas inhabited by Koreans in Manchuria. With the intention of
strengthening guidance to these organizations, he set up the Party Working
Committee in the homeland, the Changbai County Party
Committee and the Party Working Committee in
Party organizations were
increased throughout the country, and a unified system of guidance for party
organizations was established, ranging from the Party Committee of the KPRA to
local party organizations. This firmly ensured the unitary guidance of the
great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung for all party organizations and the
revolutionary movement in our country as a whole.
The founding of the
Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland in May l936 was an event of
historic significance in firmly rallying all levels of people, including
workers and peasants, around the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and in
cementing the mass foundation of the party. The ARF was an anti-Japanese
national united front organization to which party guidance was guaranteed. Party
organizations and communists rallied broad sections of the people in the ARF
and actively mobilized them to the struggle to implement the Juche-motivated
line of the Korean revolution. With the founding and rapid expansion of the ARF
more communists were trained, the mass foundation of the party considerably
strengthened and fresh progress was made in giving party leadership to all
sections of the people.
In this way, during the anti-Japanese
revolutionary struggle, our Party organizations were formed in the ranks of the
KPRA and over a vast area at home and abroad and were, for organizational
purposes, firmly welded to the Headquarters of the Korean revolution. Thus the
leader's guidance, party guidance, to the whole Korean revolution was
successfully achieved.
The most important thing in
party leadership to the revolutionary movement is to make a scientific analysis
of the situation created at each stage and put forward a correct line and
policies, strategy and tactics and thus clarify the road of struggle.
The party's line and policies,
strategy and tactics are put forward by the leader and they are discussed and
decided upon at party meetings. The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung
devised the immortal Juche idea; and applying this idea at each stage, he
proposed a correct line, strategy and tactics for the Korean revolution at the
meetings of party and Young Communist League cadres and military and political
cadres. This was a firm guarantee for achieving the unity of the revolutionary
ranks in ideology, will and action based on the Juche idea, and for enabling
the Koran communists and people to fight always with a clear guideline even in
adversity. In fact, at that time meetings of party and Young Communist League
cadres and military and political cadres reflected the party's organizational
will and served as an important means to put party leadership into effect.
Another important thing in
party guidance to the revolutionary movement is to strengthen its kindred ties
with the masses and organize them to implement the line and policy set forth by
the leader.
At that time the mainstream of
the Korean revolution was the armed struggle, and it was basic to party
guidance to lead this struggle to victory. The party organizations formed
within the KPRA rallied party members and guerrillas behind the leader, explained
and brought home to them his revolutionary line, strategy and tactics and
ensured that they were thoroughly implemented. Meanwhile, the party
organizations in different areas at home and abroad rooted themselves deeply
amongst the broad masses and creditably played the role of educators and
organizers, who mobilized the workers, peasants, young people and students and
other sections of the people on the side of the anti-Japanese struggle.
Because the Koran communists
and people had these party organizations and fought under their guidance, they
could give momentum to the anti-Japanese national-liberation struggle and
accelerate its final victory despite unprecedented difficulties.
After the country's liberation
the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, on the basis of the successes and
experiences he had personally accumulated in party building during the anti-Japanese
revolutionary struggle, lost no time in setting up party organizations in
different areas, and, on October l0, l945, founded the Central Organizing
Committee of the North Korean Communist Party. This was a historic event in
accomplishing the cause of Party founding which had been carried on for many
years under his guidance. Our Party shone forth all over the world as a
revolutionary working-class party of a new type guided by the Juche idea, and
our people were able to push ahead confidently with the building of a new
society under its leadership.
Following liberation our Party,
as a ruling party, developed in a new direction.
The course of the building of our
Party in power was that of expanding its ranks and consolidating it
organizational1y and ideologically. The most urgent requirement was to develop
the Party quickly into a mass party. Only when the Party was developed in this
way and deeply rooted among broad sections of the working masses, would it be
possible to mobilize all the masses and guide political, economic, cultural and
all other affairs, thereby dynamically speeding up the construction of a new
country.
The great leader Comrade Kim
Il Sung, showing a deep insight into the prevailing situation and the
inevitable need of our Party's development, put forward the unique
organizational line of building it as a mass party and inaugurated a unified
party of the working masses by merging the Communist Party with another party
of working people.
To develop the Communist Party
into a mass party was an urgent requirement of our developing Party and
revolution, which accorded with the situation in a new era. In the new
situation where the popular masses emerge as masters of history, the revolution
is not only participated in by the working class but also by broad sections of
the peasantry and working intellectuals. Only when a working-class party in
power rallies all these people and provides them with unified leadership, can
it successfully carry on the revolution and construction. Particularly in our
country, which had been a colonial, semi-feudal society in the past, it was a
highly important strategic problem to draw the peasantry and working
intellectuals as well as the working class into the revolution and construction.
As the Communist party grew organizationally and ideologically strong and the
revolution Progressed after liberation, the Party had to be developed into a
unified mass party which could rally the broad working masses as a political
force and mobilize their strength. It was a task which was brought to fruition.
Our Party merged with another working people's party in time and accepted a
large number of advanced elements of the peasantry and working intellectuals, together
with those of the working class, so that it firmly ensured the unity of the
working masses, developed closer ties with them and pushed ahead with the
revolution and construction successfully by mobilizing many people of various
strata.
An important task arising in
building our Party as a mass party was to consolidate its quality in order to
keep pace with its rapid growth in numbers.
The Second Party Congress held
in March l948 accepted this need for an improvement in quality as a matter of
cardinal importance in the building of a mass party, and advanced an overall
task for this purpose-strengthening Party cells, improving its ideological work
and guaranteeing its organizational and ideological unity. Through the struggle
to implement the Party's policy on this subject as put forward at its Second
Congress, the organizational and ideological work was improved, all the cells
strengthened to become vital militant units and the level of the rank and file
and cadres was raised. In this way the quality of the Party ranks was
consolidated, its unity and cohesion increased and the militancy of its
organizations and its leading role were improved.
The l950's was a Period of
historic significance in the development of our Party as a party of a Juche
type.
The Fatherland Liberation War
against US imperialist invasion was a harsh trial for our Party. In order to
achieve victory in the war the Party had to strengthen itself first of all, organizationally
and ideologically and unite all the people closely behind it.
Even in the grim wartime
conditions the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung convened the Third, Fourth
and Fifth Plenary Meetings of the Central Committee of the Party and guided the
Party to correct deviations and shortcomings in Party building and Party work
promptly and strengthen itself organizationally and ideologica1ly. The Third
Plenary Meeting remedied the loose practices which were revealed during the
temporary retreat and established revolutionary discipline within the Party, and
the Fourth Plenary Meeting eliminated the "Leftist" deviation
manifested in its organizational work and increased and consolidated its ranks.
The Fifth Plenary Meeting in particular brought about a new change in
strengthening the Party organizationally and ideologically by arousing all its
organizations and membership to the struggle to temper the Party spirit of its
members, fortify its unity and solidarity in opposition to factionalism and
establish Juche in its ideological work.
As a result of these timely
measures to strengthen itself, our Party was able to survive all ordeals and be
victorious in the Fatherland Liberation War.
In the postwar period our
Party effected a radica1 change in establishing Juche and cementing its unity
and cohesion.
We rehabilitated the national
economy in a short period after the victorious war, but the situation was still
difficult. To make matters worse, the factionalists who had remained in the
Party adopted revisionism and challenged it. The prevailing situation urgently
demanded that the Party be strengthened organizationally and ideologically
under the banner of Juche.
The great leader Comrade Kim
Il Sung called the Third Party Congress in April l956 and set forth the
very important task of opposing factionalism in the 'field of Party building, Preserving
its unity and solidarity and improving its organizational and ideological work.
At the August l956 Plenary Meeting of the Party Central Committee, he wisely
led the struggle to expose and destroy the anti-Party, counterrevolutionary
factionalists who opposed the Party. All the working people and Party members
including the anti-Japanese revolutionary veterans who were infinitely loyal to
the respected leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, determinedly countered the manoeuvres of the anti-Pop, counterrevolutionary
factionalists and firmly defended the Party and the leader. The historical
significance of the Third Party Congress and the August l956 Plenary Meeting in
the strengthening of our Party lies in the fact that these meetings opposed all
anti-Party, counterrevolutionary ideological elements including those of
factionalism and revisionism and upheld the banner of Juche, the banner of
Party unity and solidarity. After these meetings our Party established Juche
more firmly in its work and further increased its unity and cohesion. Because
it thus rebuffed factionalism and revisionism promptly, established Juche
firmly and preserved its unity and solidarity, our Party was able to raise the
revolutionary banner high without vacillation and strengthen itself
organizationally and ideologically even in the face of the complex situation at
home and abroad.
Our Party reached a new, higher
stage of development in the l960's.
The establishment of an
integral, advanced socialist syst6m and the creation of the solid basis of an
independent national economy as a result of the fulfillment of the task of
laying the foundations of socialism, radica1ly changed the socio-economic
conditions for our Party's activities. In addition, the stubborn struggle
against the anti-Party factionalists and their lingering ideological poison
fulfilled the historical task of eradicating the factions which had been doing
tremendous harm for many years, and of achieving the unity of the Korean
communist movement. This showed that our Party had entered a new Phase of
development.
At that historic moment, the
Fourth Party Congress was held, during which the great leader Comrade Kim Il
Sung put forward the very important task of further strengthening the Party
organizationally and ideologically and increasing its leadership role. In
particular, he stressed the need to oppose revisionism, factionalism, regionalism
and nepotism and preserve the unity of the Party's idea and purpose so that all
Party members and organizations would think and act as the Party Central
Committee did, cast in their lot with it and struggle to the end in whatever
difficult circumstances there might be. Through the struggle to implement the
tasks related to Party building proposed by its Fourth Congress, the Party
further consolidated its unity and solidarity, enhanced its leadership role and
made remarkable progress in improving its work method and style, re-educating
the masses and uniting them around it. In particular, the l5th Plenary Meeting
of the Fourth Central Committee of the Party held in May l967 became an
opportunity to effect a decisive change in establishing the Party's monolithic
ideological system.
In the l970's a great new
change was made in the development of our Party.
The Fifth Party Congress held
in November l970 defined it as the genera task of Party work: to establish a
monolithic ideological system throughout the Party and, on this basis, fortify
the unity and solidarity of its ranks. The congress set forth the very
important task of the proper conduct of work with People, which is fundamental
to Party work. We steadfastly carried out the general task of Party work put
forward by the Fifth Congress and thus laid a solid organizational and
ideological basis on which to continue to strengthen our Party and carry
forward our revolutionary cause to completion.
The Party's cause continues
from generation to generation, and it must preserve its revolutionary character
until it fulfils its mission. If it is to keep this character throughout
generations and carry out its noble mission, a working-class party must
farsightedly carry on the work of consolidating itself, and of hardening its
organizational and ideological basis.
Looking into the future of its
development and that of the revolution, our Party laid down the strategic
policy for transforming the whole of society in line with the Juche idea and, as
its precondition, strove to accelerate the modelling
of the whole Party on the Juche idea.
This is a new, higher level of
establishing its monolithic ideological system. Our Party defined infinite
loyalty to the Party and the leader as an essential quality of its membership
and subordinated all its activities to establishing its monolithic ideological
system. In this way it steeped itself in the Juche idea, the monolithic
ideology, and, on this basis, further cemented the unity of idea and Purpose
amongst its ranks. Our Party paid particular attention to building up the back-bone
of the revolutionary forces. It strengthened the ranks of cadres on the
principle of combining the elderly, the middle-aged and the young, regarding
their loyalty to the Party and the leader as the basic criterion of their
qualification. It intensified the training of cadres and members in Party
spirit by enhancing their sense of organization and putting Party life on a
regular and routine basis. Through the struggle to carry out the Party's policy
for a cadre revolution and the policy of making the whole Party a party of
cadres, which is aimed at raising the political and professional levels of
cadres and Party members, the ranks of our Party and cadres were further
strengthened, and the backbone needed to accomplish the revolutionary cause of
Juche was created.
Our Party developed in depth
the work of establishing its monolithic ideological system and cementing the
ranks of the Party and cadres in close coordination with the establishment of a
new revolutionary work system. We brought about a change in Party work and its
activity by setting up within the Party a well-knit work system under which the
instructions of the Kim Il Sung and Party policy were promptly
circulated to the lowest echelons, all Party organizations and membership moved
as one and upheld and carried out Party policy unconditionally in accordance
with centralist discipline.
The success achieved in Party
building and its activities during the l970's became a solid asset which enab1ed
our Party to aim for higher objectives. The Sixth Party Congress held early in
the l980's put forward an outstanding new programme
to model the whole of society on the Juche idea. It included the militant tasks
of Party
building: to further
strengthen the ranks of the Party and the revolution with continued adherence
to the principle of establishing the monolithic ideological system in the whole
Party as the basic line of Party building, admirably carry forward and develop
the revolutionary traditions and intensify Party leadership of the revolution
and construction. This shows that our Party has entered a new, higher stage of
development as a great party which is modelling the
whole of society on the Juche idea, regarding this as its foremost task.
Our Party has traveled a
glorious road of struggle under the banner of Juche and has been further
trained and seasoned in the process.
In the whole course of its
leadership of the revolutionary struggle and the work of construction, our Party
has always found the key to success in the strengthening of the Party and
consolidated itself organizationally and ideologically above all, and thus
defeated the manoeuvres of the enemies within and
without, further strengthened the revolutionary ranks and led the revolution
and construction to brilliant victory at all times, overcoming manifold
difficulties and trials.
The Korean communist movement
which pioneered the revolutionary road under the banner of the DIU, is now at a
very high level where it strives for the ultimate victory of the revolution, bringing
the cause of modelling the whole of society on the
Juche idea to the fore. Our Party, the organizer and leader of this great endeavour, has grown into unbreakable fighting ranks which
are stronger than ever in terms of ideology and organization and in its ties
with the masses. Today our Party has a firm organizational and ideological
basis on which it can develop for all time as a revolutionary Party of a Juche
type, as well as a strong leadership system capable of gloriously advancing the
revolutionary cause of Juche. This is a sure guarantee that the revolutionary
cause initiated by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung can be carried
on to its consummation.
Our Party which has followed a
unique Path since it started to take root with the formation of the DIU is a
new type of revolutionary working-class party.
Ours is a Juche-type
revolutionary party which is guided by the Juche idea and carries out its
revolutionary activities independently and creatively in keeping with the
interests of our people and conditions in our country. By establishing Juche
thoroughly in all spheres of Party building and activity with the Juche idea as
its unalterable guide, it has been able to f strengthen and develop into an
indestructible revolutionary party.
Basically, it is essential for
a working-class party to establish Juche, which emanates from its own character
and mission. Because it is a political leadership body which fights to oppose
all manner of domination and subjugation and realize the independence of the
masses, it should establish Juche thoroughly. If a party fails to do this and
dances to the tune of others, it will, in the long run f bring run on both
itself and the revolution. Only a party which acts independently, and with its
own principle, can be a powerful party which is united on the basis of its own
guiding idea and can enjoy the support and confidence of its people and enlist
their inexhaustible strength, thus vigorously advancing the revolution and
construction.
It is important for a working-class
party in establishing Juche to eradicate flunkeyism and dogmatism. In our
country, particularly, where flunkeyism and dogmatism were rampant and did
great him to the communist movement, establishing Juche posed a vital question
relating to the destiny of the Party and the revolution. During the anti-Japanese
national-liberation struggle and in the periods of democratic and socialist
revolutions and socialist construction after liberation, the Korean communists
always strove persistently to combat flunkeyism and dogmatism and establish
Juche. As a result, they could strengthen and develop the Party and advance the
revolutionary struggle.
In the years of the anti-Japanese
revolutionary struggle the flunkeyism tried to found a party with the approval
of others and achieve independence on the strength of others, which caused
great harm to the development of the communist movement in our country. After
liberation the harmfulness of flunkeyism and dogmatism was manifested to a
great extent during the Fatherland Liberation War and it became insupportable
as the socialist revolution and socialist construction were carried out on a
full scale.
The great leader Comrade Kim
Il Sung who has fought against flunkeyism and dogmatism since the early
years of the revolutionary struggle against the Japanese, has given wise
leadership so that Juche is being established more thoroughly with the
development of the revolution and construction. Upholding the revolutionary
policy on establishing Juche, our Party has waged a vigorous theological
struggle to eradicate the flunkeyism and dogmatism which still remain in people's
minds and, in the meantime, it has ensured that they are equipped firmly with
the great Juche idea and Party policy, its embodiment, and thus observe and
judge all problems from the Juche-oriented stand and resolve them by their own
efforts. Through the struggle to establish Juche, a change has been effected in
the ideological life of Party members and working people, the Party's unity and
cohesion based on the Juche idea have been further strengthened, and a
continued improvement in the revolution and construction has been brought about.
Under the slogan of modelling the whole Party on the Juche idea, our Party is
now intensifying the battle to establish Juche in Party building and activity
and is thus further perfecting its character as a revolutionary party of a
Juche type.
Ours is an invincible
revolutionary party which has firmly established a monolithic ideological
system throughout its own structure.
Establishing this system is
our basic line of Party building. It is an essential requirement of a working-class
party to ensure the unity of ideology and leadership. This is effected by
establishing the Party's monolithic ideological system. Only when this is done
can the whole Party be armed with the leader's intention and become a living
organism, breathing and acting in conformity with his idea and will.
It is important in
establishing the Party's monolithic ideological system to pervade the whole
Party with the leader's idea.
The leader is the embodiment
of the organizational will of the whole Party and his idea is explicitly the
guiding ideology of the Party. The ideological unity of the Party is brought
about only on the basis of the leader's idea.
Our Party regarded education
in the monolithic ideology as its basic ideological task and carried it out
energetically. As a result, a single ideology has prevailed throughout the
Party, and all its members have been armed firmly with the leader's
revolutionary idea, the Juche idea, and have come to think and act as required
by this idea.
Another important factor in
establishing the monolithic ideological system is to achieve the leader's
unitary leadership absolutely.
The leader is the supreme
controller of a party, and the party's leadership is precisely his leadership. Our
Party has set up a well-regulated system under which all its organizations and
members act as one man under the unitary leadership of the great leader Comrade
Kim Il Sung, give absolute authority to Party policies and defend and
implement them without question.
By thoroughly establishing the
monolithic ideological system in its ranks our Party increased its strength as
never before, and was able to lead the revolution and construction straight to
victory through all difficulties.
The progress of the revolution
calls for further strengthening the work of establishing the Party's monolithic
ideological system. This is a law which governs the development of the Party
and the revolution. The whole course of our Party's existence is the process of
in-depth development of this work. Our Party defined new principles of estab1ishing
its monolithic ideological system and strengthened this work to meet the needs
of the revolution in the l970's when the proposition was put forward that the
whole of society should be modelled on the Juche idea.
Today our Party has grown into loyal ranks, and the Whole membership thinks and
acts according to the will of the Party and the leader, united firmly around
the great Comrade Kim Il Sung. This is the most valuable achievement of
the Korean communists in the long period of struggle to build the Party.
We are a powerful party which
has achieved the closest unity and solidarity based on the Juche idea.
The unity and solidarity of
Party ranks is the source of a revolutionary party's strength. A united party
is indestructible, and 'nothing is more precious in building a working-class
party than its ranks' unity and cohesion.
Unity and cohesion are brought
about through struggle. The struggle against anti-party tendencies is, in
essence, a reflection of the class struggle within the party. Without mounting
a resolute and uncompromising attack against anti-party tendencies and alien
elements, the unity and purity of the party ranks could not be assured.
Our Party has constantly
strengthened the unity and cohesion of its ranks, overcoming all kinds of alien
elements and anti-Party tendencies, including factionalism.
Factionalism was the first
target of the campaign for our Party's unity and cohesion. The revolutionary
ranks led by Comrade Kim Il Sung during the anti-Japanese revolutionary
struggle overcame factionalism and they all united closely behind him. This is
an invaluable tradition of our communist movement which was established during
the bloody struggle to shape the destiny of the country and the people. But the
factionalists who had become traitors and philistines slipped into the
communist ranks in the chaotic situation after liberation and viciously worked
to undermine the unity and cohesion of the Party. In an attempt to accomplish
their factional plot they did not hesitate to collaborate with imperialists.
If factionalism were to be
tolerated, the unity of a working-class party in idea and purpose could not be
achieved, nor could the party exist as an entity. In the struggle for its unity
our Part concentrated its attack first on factionalism which still remained
from the past, wiped out the anti-Party factionalists and achieved the great
unity of the Korean communist movement.
The struggle for the unity and
cohesion of the Party did not end with the defeat of factionalism which had
persisted for many years. After clearing out this filth, our Party went on to
fight the anti-Party revisionists and developed its historic struggle for unity
on a higher level.
The unity and cohesion of our
Party are great and unbreakable because the entire membership is united around
the great Comrade Kim Il Sung and because they are based on its infinite
loyalty to the Party and the leader. The leader is centre of the Party's unity
and cohesion, and its strength depends on how firmly the entire membership is
united behind him. The unity and cohesion of our Party are not just achieved
out of duty. They are based on the membership's infinite respect for and
absolute trust in, th6 Party and the leader, and founded on its unshakable
revolutionary belief and sense of gratitude which cause it to defend and
protect the Pap and the leader politically and ideologically and to fight for
them even at the cost of its members' lives.
The unity and cohesion of our
Party are great and unbreakable because they are based on unity of idea and
purpose. The important thing in the Party's unity and cohesion is to achieve
the unity of idea and will. Unity based on a single idea and purpose must be
durable, otherwise it cannot achieve lasting unity. The single ideology means
precisely the revolutionary idea of the leader, the founder of the Party. The
leader's revolutionary idea is the basis of the Party's unity and cohesion; the
unity and cohesion of the working-class party is the unity of idea and purpose
based on the revolutionary idea of the leader. Our Party is an ideological
entity of communists of a Juche type who regard the Juche idea as their world
outlook. Our Party is so strong because of its great unity and cohesion based
on the Juche idea and centring on the great leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung.
We are a steel-like party with
a strong organization and discipline.
Revolutionary organization and
discipline are the life and soul of the party, the highest organization of the
working class and the weapon of the class struggle and the weapon of the
revolution and construction. Only when iron discipline and organization are
guaranteed, can the working-class party be a truly revolutionary and militant
party and win the revolutionary struggle, in the face of all difficulties and
trials. As history shows, a party dominated by liberalism and indiscipline is
doomed to failure.
Because of its unbreakable
organization and discipline our Party is powerful and invincible. The
organization and discipline of our Party are durable and strong because they
are founded on the membership's infinite loyalty to the Party and the leader
and its high degree of political awareness.
Organization and discipline
are strengthened when a revolutionary system of Party life is established
throughout the Party and that life is regularized and standardized among its
members. Our experience clearly shows that the regulation and standardization
of Party life and the strict observance of the rules and order of inner Party
life are a powerful means for revolutionizing Party member and making them
better organized and disciplined and for strengthening and developing the Party
into a revolutionary one with great fighting efficiency. Through the struggle
to regulate and standardize Party life, the Party members' sense of
organization has been enhanced and a habit has been firmly established of all
working and living in strict dependence on Party organizations. This is a
valuable achievement in Party building.
Our Party is an invincible
Party which maintains close tics of kin ship with the masses.
The Party labours
for the interests of the working class and other popu1ar masses and carries out
the revolution by organizing and mobilizing them. Accordingly, maintaining
close bonds of kinship with the broad masses and becoming deeply rooted amongst
them is particularly important in the building of a working-class party. Only a
party which strikes its roots deep among the masses and enjoys their support
and trust and which knows how to organize and mobilize them can demonstrate an
invincible might and discharge its mission as the General Staff of the
revolution and the political leader of the popular masses.
Keeping in touch with the
masses is important for a ruling party, too. If the party has taken power, this
problem is not solved automatically. If the party in power is divorced from the
masses and loses their support and confidence, it also becomes impotent and
even endangers its own existence.
Since he set out on the
revolutionary road, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung has regarded
the ties with the popular masses as a fundamental Problem related to the future
of the revolutionary organization. For a long time he has always been among the
masses and shared the good things and the bad with them. He has made it an iron
rule to trust the masses and promote the revolution and construction by giving
rein to their strength and wisdom.
Our Party saw to it that
officials and its members raised their Party spirit, working-class spirit and
popular spirit, served the people faithfully and thoroughly implemented the
mass line in all their activities, thus constantly strengthening the ties between
the Party and the masses. In work with people our Party firmly adhered to the
class principle and built up its class position.
On the other hand, it educated
broad sections of the masses, boldly drew them into its fold and united them
firmly behind it.
Today our Party maintains its
close ties with the people and enjoys the unreserved support and confidence of
People of all backgrounds, and our people entrust their destiny entirely to the
Party and fight on without hesitation along the road which it specifies. As has
already been said, our Party forms a perfect whole with the people. No wonder
it is invincible and no force can break its close bonds of kinship with the
people.
Our Party established a well
regulated system of work with people and established a revolutionary method of
work and a popular style of work throughout the Party.
All activities of the party, a
political Organization of the working class fighting for the interests of the
masses of people, are realized through work with people. The party gets people
to act voluntarily, thus transforming society and nature and advancing the revo1ution
and construction.
The great leader Comrade Kim
Il Sung put forward the idea of making work with people basic to Party work.
This is a great idea which clarifies the fundamental Principle of Party
activity by incorporating the Juche idea in Party building. Only by making work
with people its key policy can the Party prevent its work from being reduced to
administrative-technical work, and maintain its nature as a political
organization and fulfill its militant role and function properly.
Our Party opposed the tendency
to reduce Party work to administrative-technical work, a tendency which may
appear in a party in power, and resolutely carried through the policy of making
work with people basic to Party activity.
Establishing the revolutionary
method of work and the popular style of work is a serious and important
question arising in the building of a working-class party.
In particular, when the party
takes power, an inclination towards bureaucracy may appear, the inclination to
issue orders and instructions from a position of power. A bureaucratic attitude
is more likely to be shown by officials who have developed in a tranquil
atmosphere without undergoing revolutionary trails.
By its nature, this is a
despotic method of administration which is used by the ruling class in an
exploiting society. It is fundamentally opposed to the real nature of a working-class
party. When officials do not have the revolutionary method of work and popular
style of work and are infected with bureaucracy, the Part line and policies, however
correct they may be, cannot be carried out and this leads to serious
consequence-estranging the party from the masses and dampening their
revolutionary enthusiasm and creative activity.
Since it came into power, our
Party has considered it to be a fundamental matter in Party building to improve
the method and style of Party work and it has always paid great attention to
this.
The basic policy maintained by
our Party in improving the method and style of Party work is to establish the
anti-Japanese guerrilla work method throughout the Party. This method created
in person by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung during the arduous
anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle is a true communistic work method. Carrying
this forward is the be way to eradicate bureaucracy, the abuse of power and all
other mistaken methods and styles of work left over from the old society and
establish the revolutionary method of work and popular style of work conforming
with a socialist and communist society.
Our Party's traditional anti-Japanese
guerrilla method of work has been embodied and improved in conformity with the
new conditions of socialist construction, through the great Chongsanri
spirit and method. In a nutshell, the Chongsanri
method is a work method of relying on the strength of the masses; it is a
revolutionary work method by which one goes among the masses, shares the good
times and the bad with them and carries out projected tasks by drawing on their
conscious enthusiasm and creative initiative. In the course of implementing the
Chongsanri spirit and method, our Party work has been
completely turned into work with man and its work method and style have been
radically improved.
Improving the method and style
of Party work is a campaign to eliminate obsolete ideological elements from the
minds of officials. So it should be waged tirelessly and patiently over a long
period. Our Party accepted this as a central task to improve its work method
and style in keeping with the new requirements of the developing revolution and
has waged a vigorous all-Party struggle to this end.
As a result, the anti-Japanese
guerrilla method of work has been embodied in all Party work and the way of
Party work radically improved. The revolutionary spirit beats throughout the
Party, all work is carried out energetically, and relations between the Party
and the masses have become unbreakable.
Our Party has been strengthened
and developed into a revolutionary party which advances, united with the masses,
and a militant party which has its roots deep amongst them and enjoys their
unreserved support. This is one of the most precious achievements in building a
revolutionary party of a Juche type.
Our Party is, indeed, a
glorious revolutionary party of a Juche type, a party which was founded and
acts, guided by the Juche idea, a party in which the monolithic ideological
system has been firmly established and whose members have been united rock-firm
on the basis of the Juche idea; a party which maintains close ties of kinship
with the popular masses and strives to accomplish the revolutionary cause of
Juche by improving their role.
To strengthen and develop our
Party still further into a revolutionary party of a Juche type is a decisive
guarantee for overcoming all obstacles and bringing the revolutionary cause of
Juche to completion.
Today our Party is confronted
with the important revolutionary task of promoting the shaping of all society
on the Juche idea and carrying through the cause of national reunification. We
must reunify the country at all costs, whatever difficulties lie ahead of the
revolution, and work through generations to come for the consummation of the revolutionary
cause of Juche. This requires that we should steadily strengthen the Party and
raise its leadership role.
The Party is a weapon of the
revolution and construction and the guiding force of a socialist and communist
society. Without strengthening the Party and raising its leading roe and
function, we cannot successfully advance the revolution and construction and
run the socialist and communist society properly. A socialist and communist
society is not an anarchistic society, but a highly organized one. In order to
manage such a society, there must be political leadership of a guiding force
with the strong ability of organization like a party. Without coherent
political leadership, it is impossible to ensure unity in the ideology and
action of the popular masses and organize and direct man's activities in the
common interests of society.
Even after a communist society
is established, the struggle continues to abolish the old and create the new in
various spheres of social life. Through this struggle society keeps developing.
Without the leadership of a guiding force like a party, we are not properly
able to carry out the work to educate people, improve social relations, conquer
nature and ensure the steady progress of society.
As long as capitalism and
imperialism remain on the globe, even after communism is established in one
country or some regions, we cannot be free from the danger of aggression from
outside enemies and the resistance of internal enemies who are hand in glove
with them. Only through the leadership of a guiding force like a party can we
smash the activities of hostile elements who encroach upon the interests of the
masses and reliably protect their independent and creative life.
In view of the position held
and the role played by a party in carrying on the cause of socialism and
communism, we must build the Party in a methodical way. This can be achieved
through transformation of the whole Party after the Juche idea. Making the
Juche idea prevail throughout the Party is the only way to transform nature, society
and men in keeping with that idea and successfully build and guide a communist
society, the society impregnated with that idea.
Imbuing the Party with the
Juche idea is the consistent policy of Party building maintained from the start
by our Party which was established with the Juche idea as its guiding idea. The
process of the building of our Party is a process of patterning it on the Juche
idea. Imbuing all Party members with the Juche idea is a continuation and a higher
stage of our Party's historic struggle to model itself on that idea.
Imbuing all Party members with
the Juche idea means, in essence, strengthening and developing our Party for
all time into a party of Comrade Kim Il Sung.
Strengthening and developing
our Party into the party of the great Comrade Kim Il Sung implies having
him eternally at its head and holding fast to his ideology and line and
implementing them throughout all generations.
The respected Comrade Kim
Il Sung is the great leader who has, for the first time in their history of
several thousand years, been acclaimed by our people; he is the teacher and
father of our Party and people.
Upholding the great leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung for all time is the noble duty of Korean communists
and is based on their unalterable revolutionary conviction.
It is the revolutionary
conviction of the Korean communists that they can surmount any difficulties and
emerge victorious without fail, only when they follow his guidance. This
conviction has been firmly formed by our people through their own experience
gained in the arduous struggle of more than half a century, from the period when
they began to page a new way of revolution under the leadership of the
respected Comrade Kim Il Sung.
Since the dawn of our
revolution Korean communists have believed that they could carve out the thorny
revolutionary road only under the leadership of the great Comrade Kim Il
Sung, and have won victories, overcoming all trials, and lived and fought
with everlasting, single-hearted loyalty to him, entrusting their destinies
entirely to him.
The revolutionary conviction
of the Korean communists and people who remain faithful to the respected leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung will never be shaken.
We must see to it that all
Party members, working people and the generations to come hold the respected
leader Comrade Kim Il Sung in high esteem, just as the anti-Japanese
revolutionary fighters did, and retain unquestioning loyalty, ready to take the
road across the mountains or swamps when called upon to do so by the Party and
the leader.
Our Party was founded and
developed by Comrade Kim Il Sung. Korean communists are the
revolutionary soldiers who have grown up under his care. Remaining unwaveringly
loyal to the leader who has brought them up is a natural communist obligation.
We must continue to strengthen
and develop our Party into a revolutionary party which eternally upholds the
great Comrade Kim Il Sung as the leader and teacher, into a militant
party which breathes and acts in keeping with his ideology and purpose.
This is the fundamental point
which we must always grasp firmly in building our Party.
We must, above all, steadily
deepen the Work to establish the monolithic ideological system throughout the
Party.
This is a task we must
continue for ever, as long as the Party exists and flourishes.
Today our Party has entered a
new stage of development. Our revolution is assuming a Protracted and arduous
nature and generations are changing among our revolutionary ranks. The internal
and external position of our revolution is tense and complicated. The Present
situation calls for the establishment of the monolithic ideological system of
the Party as a still more important matter.
In establishing the monolithic
ideological system in the whole Party it is a fundamental requirement to
develop all Party members and working people into ardent revolutionaries who
are loyal to the Party and the leader.
We believe that everything in
Party building and Party work depends, above all, on our loyalty to the Party
and the leader. Today our Party emphasizes the allegiance of the young
communists and the guerrillas during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, as
an example in leading Party members and working people to become infinitely
loyal to the Party and the leader. In the grimmest days when our people were
straining under Japanese imperialist oppression, they practiced loyalty to the
great Comrade Kim Il Sung with a revolutionary faith that they could
shape the destiny of the country and the nation and win the revolution only
when they followed his leadership. Party organizations must conduct their work
with the main emphasis on getting all cadres and Party members to uphold and
follow the Party and the leader wholeheartedly and faithfully 1ike the anti--Japanese
revolutionary fighters.
We must strongly defend the
traditions of Juche and cap them forward without tarnishing their purity.
Our Party's traditions of
Juche are the great Comrade Kim Il Sung's ideology and theory, his
revolutionary exploits and batter experience, and his method of work. They are
infinitely rich and valuable and are eternally vital for the strengthening and
development of our Party and for the victory of our revolution, because they
were established in the course of a prolonged, unprecedentedly
sharp and complex struggle. Because it inherited the traditions of Juche our
Party was able to strengthen and develop on the most solid organizational and
ideological groundwork and advance victoriously, breaking through the rugged
road beset with trials and difficulties.
The future of our Party also
depends on how we defend and carry forward these great traditions.
We must make not only the
present generation but also the coming generations hold the great leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung's
ideology and theory as the eternal guiding ideology and theory of the Party, stoutly
defend his revolutionary exploits, experience in struggle, revolutionary method
of work and popular style of work and splendidly carry forward and complete the
revolutionary cause of Juche.
Protecting and constantly
strengthening the unity and cohesion and purity of the Party is a crucial
matter which concerns the destiny of the Party and the revolution. We must
defend and strengthen our Party's great unity and cohesion through all
generations.
Under the wise leadership of
the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, and through its protracted
struggle, our Party has achieved the most solid and viable unity and cohesion
in the history of the communist movement. We are justified in taking Pride in
this fact.
However, we must never be
satisfied with the successes achieved in the struggle for the unity and
cohesion of the Party. Our revolution is not yet completed and we shall have to
continue with the hard struggle. As long as imperialism remains, opportunism
survives and the class struggle continues, we must unremittingly intensify the
struggle for the Party's unity and cohesion.
Party organizations must
ensure that all cadres and their members are fully conversant with our Party's
experience of the anti-factional struggle. This will enable them to have a keen
Party and class outlook at all times and uncompromisingly combat all unsound
elements which undermine the Party's unity and cohesion, such as factionalism, nepotism
and parochialism. Throughout the coming generations we must preserve the unity
and cohesion of our Party and revolutionary ranks which are united as one
around the leader on the f basis of the Juche idea and must enforce our iron
discipline under which all Party members act as one under the direction of the
Party Central Committee.
All Party members should be
fully prepared as communist revolutionaries of a Juche type.
Our Party members are vanguard
fighters who are responsible for the consummation of the Juche revolutionary
cause, the socialist and communist cause in Korea. In order to prepare Party
members to be fully communist revolutionaries of a Juche type, their Party life
has to be strengthened.
This is all the more important
in view of the fact that generations are changing within the Party ranks today.
The Party can be successfully handed on only when Party life is strengthened. This
is because the Party ranks are constantly replenished as the days go by with
new generations who lack Party tempering.
Party organizations should run'
the new system of Party life established throughout the Party efficiently, so
as to improve the standard of party life of the members and steadily temper the
Party spirit of all cadres and members.
An intensified struggle should
be continued to improve the method and style of Party work, so that the leader's
work method will be established more thoroughly throughout the whole Party.
As there can be no other idea
than the leader's in our Party founded and trained by the great leader comrade Kim
Il Sung, so there can be no other work method and style than the leader's
work method. However, the old work method and style still remain in the Party, thereby
harming its work.
If the Party fails to
eliminate the old work method and style, it will gradually lose the support and
trust of the popular masses and estrange itself from them and, in the long run,
have to face difficulties. We should decisively put an end to the old work method
and style, bearing in mind that correcting the method and style of Party work
is a serious problem on which the fate of the Party and the revolution depends.
In order to correct the work
method and style, officials should establish a revolutionary mass viewpoint and
acquire popular personality characteristics. Party workers are out-and-out
defenders of the interests of the working class and other popular masses, and
are their faithful servants. Party workers should regard their subordinates and
the masses as their true revolutionary comrades, love them wholeheartedly, share
the good and the bad times with them, and uncomplainingly devote everything to
them.
If they are to improve the
method and style of Party work, they have to learn the Juche-oriented theory
and methodology of Party work. These are unique subjects which embody the
requirements of the Juche idea for attaching the greatest importance to man in
every thing and making everything serve him. Only when we deeply understand
them can we work with People properly and skillfully solve all problems of re-educating
and mobilizing the masses.
We must remember that if a
working-class party fails to overcome bureaucratic and administrative
tendencies, it will be disqualified from leading the revolution, so we have to
continue to wage a stubborn struggle to eliminate the old work method
completely. In this way we ought to make our Party a mother party which is
always infinitely loyal to the working class and the popular masses, and the
standard-bearer of the masses which is united with them and powerfully drives
the revolution and construction forward at their head.
The success so far achieved in
Party building firmly guarantees a bright future for our Part and revolution. Broad
vistas are now opened up before our Party, and our revolutionary struggle is
becoming more fruitful. We must never rest on our laurels, but continue to
fight vigorously for fresh victories. Hewing out the revolutionary road through
struggle is our Party's traditional revolutionary characteristic. We have to
continue fighting stubbornly along the road of revolution started on
Victory and glory are always
in store for our Party and people fighting for the consummation of the
revolutionary cause of Juche under the wise leadership of the great leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung.