Today the Korean people make dynamic efforts to open the gate to a great, prosperous and powerful country holding aloft the unique Songun politics of leader Kim Jong Il full of confidence and optimism.
The Songun politics is a mode of politics that regards the military affairs as the first and foremost state affairs and defends the country, revolution and socialism, and pushes ahead with the overall socialist construction with the People’s Army as the core and main agent.
The Songun politics is the basic mode of socialist politics. It is, first, because the Songun politics enables to thoroughly maintain and embody the fundamental ideal and principle of revolution.
Socialism is a fundamental ideal of revolution. Independence of popular masses is realized through socialist revolution and construction.
If socialism is to be built and completed successfully, it is necessary to maintain fundamental principle of revolution.
It is fundamental principle of revolution arising in building and completing socialism successfully to thoroughly defend and embody independent demands and interests of popular masses.
Since socialism is accompanied with an acute confrontation with imperialism, cause of socialism can not be pioneered and advanced victoriously without rifle. Socialism is pioneered and advanced victoriously by rifle capable of resolutely frustrating aggressive moves of imperialism.
It is, also, because the Songun politics is a strategic mode of politics to be consistently maintained in the whole process of accomplishing the cause of socialism.
As long as imperialism exists on the globe, the imperialists’ moves of aggression and war to obliterate socialism continue. Under such condition, it is impossible to ensure the victory of socialism and ac
The Paris Commune, the working class government, first in history and the people’s power in Spain were collapsed because they had no strong revolutionary armed forces, the rifle that can defeat counterrevolutionary armed forces.
Socialism was not defended in the Soviet Union and the eastern European countries whose army was not prepared into the revolutionary armed forces capable of defending socialism.
The Songun politics enables to defeat the aggressive moves of imperialism and defend the gains of revolution and the cause of socialism.
The Songun politics, which regards the military affairs as a fundamental issue deciding the destiny of the revolution and socialism and concentrates the utmost efforts to the strengthening of the revolutionary army, firmly ensures the victorious advance of the cause of socialism even under the military aggression and war moves of imperialism.
With the banner of Songun held aloft, the Korean people could stand alone even in the encirclement of imperialism to defend socialism and create miracles of advancing the building of a thriving nation while braving through manifold difficulties.
The Songun politics guarantees other modes of politics in the socialist society.
The socialist society, in which unity and cooperation based on love and trust is a basis of the social relations and the united strength of the popular masses is a driving force in the social development, requires the benevolent politics and the socialist democracy as the basic modes of politics proceeding from its nature.
Benevolent politics is politics of love and trust towards popular masses and socialist democracy is politics of popular masses themselves that enables them to hold the position of master of state and society and play the role as such. It is the superiority of the socialist politics.
The benevolent politics and socialist democracy in the socialist society are firmly guaranteed by the Songun politics.
Socialism advances successfully in the serious confrontation with imperialism. Under the condition that imperialists make desperate efforts to stifle socialism, it is impossible to defend socialism and realize independence of the popular masses without rifle.
That is why strong rifle is a prerequisite of the benevolent politics and the socialist democracy.
Like this, the Songun politics is a consistent mode of politics, the basic mode of socialist politics that should be maintained invariably in ac
