Chairman of the National Defence Commission Kim
Jong Il
and the Songun politics
(An article posted on the internet by the chairman of the South Headquarters of the National Alliance
of Youth and Students for the Country¡¯s Reunification)
Yun Gi-jin, chairman of the National
Alliance of Youth and Students for the Country¡¯s Reunification, carried an
article on the internet under the title ¡°Chairman of the National Defence
Commission Kim Jong Il and the Songun
politics¡± on September 7.
The article, referring to the ¡°2007 Reunification-related Seminar of the South Korean Youth and Students-Essay Contest of the Youth and Students¡± under the subject; the ¡°Songun Era and North Korea, and the Future of the Korean Peninsula¡± slated for September 9 in Seoul, indicated that the contest, the third of its kind after those in last year and this spring, is a part of the popular derive for ¡°Correct Understanding of Songun¡±.
Leader Kim Jong Il Inspects the Dabaksol Post of the KPA (Jan. 1, 1995)
It held that now research,
seminar and publication functions about the various fields of north Korea including
the Songun politics are brisk in south Korea, thus the drive for ¡°Correct
Understanding of Songun and North Korea¡± is naturally proceeding, the might of
Songun of north Korea is the leadership ability of NDC Chairman Kim Jong Il who leads the Songun ranks
in the van, and his Songun leadership plays a decisive role in the politics,
economy and diplomatic domains.
The article said that Chairman
Kim Jong Il formulated the mode of Songun
politics on the basis of President Kim
Il Sung¡¯s idea of attaching importance to arms and left the first footprint
of the Songun leadership on the Guards Seoul Ryu Gyung Su Tank Division 105 of
the KPA on August 25, 1960.
It added that
The article said that Kim Jong Il formulated the Songun politics as the main political
mode of socialism through leading the ¡°Arduous March¡± and the ever-fiercer
DPRK-US showdown in the 1990s to victory.
He incessantly made the
inspection tours to the KPA units including the posts in
It also said that the
influence of the Songun politics is really immense, the common phrases on the
lips of the south Korean people are such as ¡°Our general comprehensively copes
with everything¡± and ¡°We¡¯re sure to triumph if our general leads us¡± due to the
broad exchange between the compatriots in the north and south thanks to the June
15 joint declaration, the single-minded unity of the north Koreans who ardently
support Kim Jong Il who upholds the
banner of Songun and his Songun line is the true looks of north Korea.
The article continued saying
that though the struggle to firmly defend the country¡¯s dignity and achieve the
prosperity in confrontation with the formidable imperialists is not easy, the
compatriots in north Korea are greeting the sunrise beyond the dawn of the nation¡¯s
prosperity and feel proud, the fact that the Songun politics, an engine to the independent
and peaceful reunification, rapidly spreads and in different countries over the
world the enthusiasm for anti-imperialist and anti-US struggle following the
banner of Songun is rising.
At the end of the article it stressed
that now it is high time for more sincere study of the Songun politics of Chairman
Kim Jong Il who provides our nation
with the decisive guarantee for victory in the face-off with the
The fact that south Korean people's interest in the Songun politics of leader
Kim Jong Il is rising day by day is because
the Songun politics is an almighty treasured sword which safeguards the destiny
of the nation and guarantees the common prosperity of the nation and the building
of the great reunified prosperous powerful nation.