President Kim Il Sung’s Life
New Delhi : ( Arsh News ) – S. Harrison, the then senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, wrote: I think it is highly respectable that President Kim Il Sung defended the national sovereignty and independence from foreign domination and added brilliance to it.
Defending National Sovereignty
When Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) was born, his country was under the Japanese military occupation (1905-1945).
He embarked on the road of revolution at the tender age of 14 with a determination to win back his country. He founded the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army in April 1932 and staged an anti-Japanese struggle for more than ten years, even without state backing or support from a regular army. Under his leadership the Korean people waged an all-people resistance combined with the general offensive of the KPRA, liberating their country in August 1945.
In June 1950 a war broke out in Korea by the US in an attempt to realize its ambition for world supremacy. The US enlisted huge armed forces, including its 15 satellite countries, ROK troops and the remnants of the former Japanese army, into the Korean front to crush the nascent country. However, the US ended up kneeling down before the Korean people who turned out as one in the resistance to the aggressors, rallied around Kim Il Sung, not to be reduced again to the slaves of the imperialists.
Kim Il Sung also firmly safeguarded the sovereignty and dignity of his country and people in the fierce military confrontation with the US including the incidents of the armed spy ship Pueblo and the large spy plane EC-121.
For his part the concept of independence was not confined to the territorial defence from foreign invasion.
After the country’s liberation he indicated the independent and original road of progressive democracy, built a country where the people are its masters and solved all problems from an independent standpoint. He never tolerated any foreign intervention in the slightest in formulating and implementing the lines of the state. And he consistently adhered to the line of building an independent national economy with a firm belief that economic independence leads to political independence.
Once Kim Il Sung said that although there may be large and small countries, and advanced and underdeveloped nations in the world, there can be no senior and junior countries, nor can there be a people that dominates or is dominated, and that all countries and peoples are fully on an equal footing and independent.
This precious aphorism of lasting value is for the world people.
