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Rodong Sinmun on Songun Politics

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

   Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- Songun politics of the Workers' Party of Korea is a historical review of the Korean revolution which was pioneered and has emerged victorious with arms. Herein lie the validity and tremendous vitality of the Songun politics, an all-powerful treasured sword of the revolution and construction in the present times.
    Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed article.
    The WPK's Songun politics is based on the exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung in the Songun revolutionary leadership and experience gained by him in its course, the article notes, and continues:
    The President's Songun revolutionary leadership exploits and experience fully represent all the precious assets of eternal vitality in carrying out the cause of the Songun revolution. They include the unique exploit and experience gained in founding an army and then laying the foundation for founding the party and building power in reliance upon it, the experience gained in developing the revolutionary army into an invincible one by strengthening the blood relations between the army and the people and the experience of consolidating the unity of all the revolutionary ranks by dint of the politico-ideological might of the revolutionary army.
    The WPK's Songun politics means a revolutionary leadership mode at a new higher stage as Kim Jong Il has carried forward the President's Songun idea and Songun leadership exploits and experience and developed them in depth to suit the circumstances of the changed times and the actual conditions. Herein lie its peculiarities and source of its inexhaustible might.
    The validity and vitality of the WPK's Songun politics have been clearly proved in the historic practices of the Korean revolution. It has experienced neither impossibilities nor slightest failure nor frustration as it has advanced thanks to the might of Songun with priority given to arms.
    It is the WPK's Songun politics that fully embodied the precious truth of the Korean revolution as its red flag is recorded only with victories since its inception.
    The WPK set forth the original Songun political mode by systematizing and comprehensively dealing with the principle of the revolution and the experience and methods of struggle validity of which has been fully proven in the historic practices of the Songun revolution.
    A great political mode startling the people in the era can be created only in the revolution which benefits from the invincible revolutionary history and tradition provided by the President and has been steered by Kim Jong Il generation after generation. This is the most precious review of the history of the Korean revolution which was started and has triumphed with arms and immutable truth taught by it.