Permanent Guiding Ideology
of the Workers’ Party of Korea
Today the Workers’ Party of Korea guided by Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is stepping up the building of a thriving socialist nation, resolutely frustrating all the challenges of the hostile forces.
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is a monolithic system of theory and method about revolution and construction illuminated by the Juche idea and, based on the Juche idea that the popular masses are the masters of the revolution and construction and that they have the strength to promote them, clarifies fully the revolutionary theories for realizing the popular masses’ independence including the theories of national liberation, class emancipation and freedom of human beings, and the methods of leadership for enabling them to fulfil their responsibility and role as masters.
The theoretical and practical problems arising in the building of a powerful socialist nation well under way in Korea now have been scientifically elucidated by Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. As Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is lighting up the way ahead to victory, the WPK is vigorously pushing on with the building of a powerful socialist nation with confidence in the final victory in anti-US confrontation. The truth of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism has been clearly proved and developed in depth on the road of the Korean revolution.
The Juche idea which is the essence of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, was created by President Kim Il Sung as a unique revolutionary idea in the history of human thoughts. Leading the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, the President found the starting point of the Juche idea with profound ideological and theoretical activities that the master of the revolution is the masses of the people and that when one goes among them and educates and mobilizes them, one will be able to register victory in the revolution, which one should start not by approval or instructions from someone else but by one’s own conviction and on one’s own responsibility and that all problems arising in the revolution should be solved in an independent and creative way. Then, in June 1930, he created the Juche idea by clarifying its principles and setting forth the Juche-oriented line of the Korean revolution at Kalun.
By applying the Juche idea to practice, he achieved national liberation and built a socialist nation of independence, self-sufficiency and self-reliant defence in Korea and generalized the rich and valuable experience gained in this course, developing and enriching the Juche idea.
Chairman Kim Jong Il systematized ideologically and theoretically all the exploits of the President accomplished in the course of leading the Korean revolution to victory, formulating it as Kimilsungism and developing and enriching it. In his classic work On Some Immediate Tasks of Party Ideological Work for Modelling the Whole Society on Kimilsungism published on February 19, 1974, he formulated Kimilsungism as an integrated Juche system of idea, theory and method, and then on March 31, 1982, he published the classic work On the Juche Idea in which he systematized the Juche idea ideologically and theoretically.
In particular, in the 1990s when the imperialists’ attempts to stifle socialist Korea reached extremes, Chairman Kim Jong Il developed the President’s idea of giving priority to arms into the Songun revolutionary idea and the Songun political theory, and firmly defended the country, national independence, peace and socialism with his energetic Songun-based revolutionary leadership. He put forward the theory of building a powerful socialist nation, laying the groundwork for its building, and clearly proved its correctness.
Kim Jong Un, First Secretary of the WPK, published the work Let Us Brilliantly Accomplish the Revolutionary Cause of Juche, Holding Kim Jong Il in High Esteem as the Eternal General Secretary of Our Party in April 2012, in which he formulated Kimilsungism as Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, and declared that the WPK is a glorious Party of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il guided forever by Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and struggling for its realization. Putting it up as its highest programme to imbue the whole society with Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, the WPK is now nurturing all members of society as the followers of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and remodelling the whole society as required by Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
As the vitality of the popular masses is eternal, Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism which correctly embodies the people’s intentions and desires and lights up the accurate way of their realization is immortal, and the WPK guided by Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism will be ever-victorious with the wholehearted support and trust of the popular masses—this is the unswerving faith of the Korean people.
