Leader Kim Jong Il said that President Kim Il Sung always maintained the idea of giving importance to the arms, the military affairs, and paid primary attention to the development of the military forces through out the whole course of leading the revolution and construction since he received two pistols from his father and held high the banner of “DIU” (Down- with- Imperialism Union).
The origin of his Songun idea is the two pistols he received from his father Kim Hyong Jik and the historic program of “DIU”.
First of all, the origin of the Songun idea is the two pistols handed over by his father.
President Kim Il Sung received the idea of “aim high”, and t
Two pistols contain the great idea of Kim Hyong Jik that the armed struggle is the highest form of struggle to ac
Two pistols also contain the idea of the proletarian revolution that the masses should fight against the imperialists with arms to liberate the country and build a new society free from exploitation and oppression.
The President always remembered his father’s request that “one can defeat the armed enemy with arms” and acquired the revolutionary preparedness and stand that he would liberate the country at the cost of the life with the armed struggle which had been the aspiration of his father.
Another origin of his Songun idea was the program of “DIU”.
He formed “DIU” in Hwasong Uisuk School in October, 1926 and set forth the program of the “DIU” to defeat Japanese imperialism, the sworn enemy of the Korean people and furthermore, to smash all imperialism on the globe.
The program of the “DIU” expressed his anti-imperialist, independent stand and death-defying will that the irreconcilable contradiction with the imperialists can be solved not by compromise but by the revolutionary violence.
The program contains the great idea of starting the Korean revolution with arms and completing the anti-imperialist, independent cause with arms.
Two pistols and the program of “DIU” have become the historic origin of the Songun idea, a thorough anti-imperialist, independent idea, since they are firm stand against the imperialists and death-defying will that gives precedence to arms.
