For Global Independence

Based on the Juche idea that man is the master and the shaper of his own destiny President Kim Il Sung rendered great service to the work of building a new, independent world.

The independence of the exploited and oppressed working masses should be realized if they are to be the master of the world and their destiny to the true sense, freed from all forms of fetters of nature and society. And the only road to this end is to liquidate imperialism which tramples and violates the independent rights of the working masses and the oppressed peoples in their colonies.

In the early 20th century the President made public his classic works Let Us Overthrow Imperialism and Young People Must Follow the Road Indicated by the Advanced Idea. Then in the 1950s he published his works entitled Proletarian Internationalism and the Struggle of the Korean People and Our Righteous Joint Struggle Is Victorious, while fighting to repulse the armed invasion of the US imperialists. In his works released in the 1970s and 1980s such as The Revolutionary Peoples of Asia Will Win in Their Common Struggle Against US Imperialism and Let Us Shatter Imperialist Moves Towards Aggression and War and Safeguard Peace and Independence, he called to fight to the last against the US imperialists, the ringleader of world reactionary camp and the chieftain of aggression and war. By putting up the slogan Let the World’s People Advocating Independence Unite! the President encouraged the people around the world aspiring to independence to get united and develop friendly and cooperative relations.

In the beginning of the 1990s the moves of the US imperialists to split the world revolutionary forces were getting ever more vicious. At this juncture, Kim Il Sung published his works entitled Enhancing the Role of the Popular Masses Is the Guarantee for Victory in the Cause of Independence and Non-aligned Information Services Must Contribute to the People’s Cause of Independence to resolutely frustrate the US’s attempts. From the latter half of the 1920s to the first half of the 1990s he put much emphasis on firmly maintaining the revolutionary principle of independence against imperialism under whatever circumstances and achieving unity of the world people championing independence.

The President remained truly faithful to the noble comradely friendship with and obligation to the revolutionary peoples of the world and gave both material and moral assistance to the peoples in socialist countries, imperialist colonies and newly-independent states.

Since Korea was liberated from the military occupation of the Japanese imperialists in August 1945 he had met a large number of foreign delegations and figures of all strata on their visit to the DPRK and discussed with them on the matter of global independence till the last period of his life (July 1994). He vigorously conducted external activities visiting socialist nations and different countries in Asia and Africa. In his lifetime he met a total of over 70 000 foreign guests including heads of state and government of 136 countries and more than 400 party leaders, and paid visits to 16 countries on 106 occasions, travelling 522 000 kilometres.

When socialism was frustrated in East Europe in the 1990s, President Kim Il Sung put his heart and soul in rebuilding the socialist movement and pushing ahead with it, holding high the banner of Juche. To this end he made strenuous efforts to bring about a turning point in rebuilding socialism. On April 20, 1992 the Pyongyang Declaration titled Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism was adopted. The charter for rebuilding socialism was signed by delegates of 70 parties from across the world including 48 party leaders who were staying in Pyongyang in April 1992 to congratulate President Kim Il Sung on his 80th birthday. The number of signatories to the Pyongyang Declaration reached 215 in July 1994 and over 260 in 2003, and it is steadily growing.

The invincibility and might of socialism as science are becoming more evident as the days go by.

Kim Chong Sop