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Two Pistols, Origin of Songun Idea

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

   Pyongyang, June 5 (KCNA) -- The DPRK is dynamically advancing along the path of Juche, upholding the banner of Songun today.
    The Songun Idea, the guiding principle of the revolution and construction, traces its historical origin to two pistols, the heritage left by Kim Hyong Jik, an indomitable revolutionary fighter.
    He fought with all devotion for the liberation of the country and the freedom of the people, walking the untrodden path of history with the lofty aim of achieving Korean independence.
    In those days he laid down the policy of changing the course of the anti-Japanese national-liberation movement in Korea from the nationalist movement to the proletarian revolution to meet the requirements of the developing time and energetically pushed forward preparations for armed activities against the Japanese imperialists.
    Immeasurable were the efforts he made to select patriotic youths of proletarian origin and rear them into military cadres, while turning their ranks into an armed force of workers and peasants capable of undertaking the proletarian revolution.
    He eagerly desired to see a thick forest of rifles since he embarked upon the road of struggle, keenly feeling the sorrow of the nation without arms. He handed over to President Kim Il Sung, his son, the two pistols as revolutionary heritage together with the ideas of "Aim High", preparedness for three contingencies--death from hunger, beating and cold and need to obtain comrades.
    Upon receiving the two pistols, the President conceived the great Songun idea to save the fellow countrymen from the depth of misery and organized the matchless anti-Japanese armed units and liberated the country by routing the Japanese imperialists.
    The Korean revolutionary armed forces which find their origin in the two pistols sent U.S. imperialism which had boasted of its being "the strongest" in the world to the lot of a sun setting in the western sky under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung in the 1950s and defended the sovereignty and dignity of the country and the nation with honor by shattering the malicious challenges of the enemies in all the decades of the revolution.
    Cherishing the philosophical principle that the two pistols, the revolutionary heritage of Kim Hyong Jik, are precious assets of the Songun revolution, the Korean people are faithfully upholding the Songun leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea.