• Military

• WMD Menu                           

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

Historic Meeting in Realizing Songun Ideology

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- The validity of Songun idea, the mighty treasure-sword for accomplishing the socialist cause has been proved in the revolutionary practice. President Kim Il Sung, founder of the Songun idea and outstanding leader of the Songun revolution, carried his Songun ideology into practice at the Mingyuegou Meeting held in December 16, Juche 20 (1931).
    He, in his early years of revolutionary activities, found out an idea that people who aspire after independence and justice should take arms, and set forth the line of the anti-Japanese armed struggle at the Kalun Meeting.
    He called the Mingyuegou Meeting when the Japanese imperialists further intensified the brutal repression of the Korean people after the September 18 incident. At the meeting the President put forward a slogan "Oppose armed force with armed force and counterrevolutionary violence with revolutionary violence!" and made public the theory on people's guerrilla warfare.
    The theory that the people are precisely the state, rear and regular army was ascribable to the Songun idea of the President that the entire people should frustrate the counterrevolutionary violence with arms in their hands so as to retake the sovereignty of the nation and defend it forever in reliance upon arms.
    Since then the Korean revolution has covered the only way of victory under the banner of Songun.
    The President founded the Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army, the first revolutionary armed force in Korea, on April 25, 1932 and defeated the Japanese imperialists to achieve national liberation on August 15, 1945.
    After the liberation he gave priority to the military affairs, too. And he defended the freedom and the sovereignty of the country with credit in the Fatherland Liberation War (June 1950-July 1953) against the U.S. imperialists and built the DPRK as a powerful socialist nation independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in national defence.
    The DPRK successfully withstood the unprecedented "Arduous March" and the forced march in the past by dint of the Songun.
    The world community closely watched the political situation of the DPRK with deep apprehensions after the demise of the President. Then Kim Jong Il inspected a company of the Korean People's Army on a hill covered with young pine trees on January 1, 1995.
    For ten years since then, he has inspected one unit of the KPA after another. He, with the army as the pillar of the revolution, has led the socialist cause to victory as a whole, turning misfortune into blessing, adversity into favorable conditions.
    Bright future is in store for the Korean people who are advancing forward under the banner of Songun.