The Great Leader President KIM IL SUNG fought for Peace in Korea and for World Peace

The actual situation on the Korean Peninsula is extremely explosive and near to a war due to the warmongering and nuclear blackmail of the US imperialists against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

They find fault with the self-defensive nuclear and missile programme of the DPRK and recklessly speak about a "military option".

The imperialists and reactionaries slander the DPRK with nonsensical accusations like "threat to world peace". But the DPRK is a peace-loving country.

Remember that the great Leader President Kim Il Sung, whose 105th birthday anniversary we celebrated on the past April 15 and to whom this E-Seminar is dedicated, presented to the 3rd Session of the 5th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK in March Juche 63 (1974) the historic proposal to conclude a peace treaty between the DPRK and the US, and sent a respective letter to the US Congress. This proposal of President Kim Il Sung was enthusiastically hailed and supported by all Koreans in the north, the south and abroad as well as by the peace-loving and progressive mankind. A peace treaty should replace the fragile and instable Armistice Agreement and establish a durable peace mechanism on the Korean Peninsula. It was also President Kim Il Sung who proposed to make the Korean Peninsula a nuclear-free zone. Both proposals for peace and denuclearisation are still valid and will always be the principled stand of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and the DPRK government. In the early 1990s, when the US imperialists intensified their pressure and nuclear threat against the DPRK and prepared a war under the false pretext of the "north Korean nuclear programme", President Kim Il Sung looked for a peaceful solution of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula. President Kim Il Sung met the former US president Jimmy Carter in June Juche 83 (1994) and explained to him the DPRK's firm position not to accept sanctions from the US. President Kim Il Sung's firm stand forced the US to cancel their plans for sanctions against the DPRK. Returning from Pyongyang, Carter was overwhelmed by Kim Il Sung's noble personality, virtues and love for peace and justice and praised him as a "great man greater as the American presidents Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln together". Only some days later - on July 8, Juche 83 (1994) - the great and noble heart of President Kim Il Sung stopped to beat forever. Thanks to President Kim Il Sung's rock-firm stand and his Songun politics of military strength and self-defence, a war could be prevented and peace was safeguarded. The framework agreement DPRK-US on the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula concluded in October 1994 in Geneva was the great and historic victory of the peace-loving positions and Songun politics of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

The great President Kim Il Sung also fought untiringly for world peace and global independence.

He met many foreign heads of state, prominent figures and progressive people from all continents and explained to them the DPRK's principled positions on international issues.
Not to forget are his struggle for Korea's independent and peaceful reunification. Even on July 7, Juche 83 (1994) - only one day before the end of his glorious life - he signed a document related to the high priority of national reunification. This last signature of President Kim Il Sung can be seen on the revolutionary site in the truth-village of Panmunjom and remembers eternally all coming generations on his struggle for reunification and peace.

The nuclear force of the DPRK, built by Generalissimo Kim Jong Il and developed and strengthened today by the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un, serves to prevent a new war of aggression of the US imperialists and to safeguard peace on the Korean Peninsula as it is the legacy of President Kim Il Sung's glorious life.

The great Leader President Kim Il Sung was a noble and inflexible fighter for reunification and for peace on the Korean Peninsula and for world peace.

Eternal Glory to the Great Leader President KIM IL SUNG, the Sun of Mankind!

Martin Lötscher

Member of the International Preparatory Committee
for the 2017 Grand Meeting in Praise of the Great
Persons of Mt. Paektu
Chairman of the Swiss Preparatory Committee
for the 2017 Grand Meeting in Praise of the Great
Persons of Mt. Paektu
Chairman of the Swiss Korea Committee
(KFA Switzerland)
Chairman of the Swiss Juche Idea Study
Group (SJISG)

President Kim Il Sung, Great Sun of the World People

President Kim Il Sung, Great Sun of the World People

105 years ago on the 15th of April 1912 in Mangyondae, Korea the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG  was born. He authored the Juche Idea which is the torch of human independence and was the founder of People's Korea. He was an ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander, gifted military strategist, architect of socialist construction and one of the outstanding leaders of the international communist and revolutionary movement.

The respected leader comrade Kim Il Sung whom the Korean and world people hold in high esteem is revered today as the greatest leader of the working class who with extraordinary wisdom, outstanding ability of leadership and lofty communist virtues, has been devoting all his life to the sacred cause of the revolution for the independence of the working masses.

During the long period since he embarked on the road of revolution at an early age, the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung led the extremely arduous and complex Korean revolution to victory, treading a previously untrodden path   thus making a great contribution to the world revolution. The great leader President Kim Il Sung was always an internationalist and considered the Korean revolution to be an integral part of the world revolution and that the Korean communists  to be a steel-like vanguard detachment of the international communist movement.

Although he was born Kim Song Ju originally his comrades first named him  Han Byol meaning  morning star . Later his comrades called him Il Sung meaning future sun. Indeed the great leader President Kim Il Sung became the sun of the Korean people but also the sun of the world people.

The Juche idea the guiding compass of independence was authored by the great leader President Kim Il Sung during the years of the anti-Japanese armed struggle. Today the Juche Idea is studied all over the world with over a 1,000 groups for the study of the Juche Idea the first one was  formed in Mali, west Africa in 1969. A World Congress on the Juche Idea was held in April 2012 and was attended by over 300 delegates including our own delegation from the Juche Idea Study Group of England.

Visiting the Tower of the Juche Idea which has pride of place on the riverside of the River Taedong one could really see that the Juche Idea towers above all other ideologies. Looking at the 170 metre high tower I got an overwhelming sense of the absolute truth of Juche, that it is the ideology that everyone should follow. The imperialists and reactionaries oppose the Juche Idea but its attraction is growing stronger and stronger even though the enemy does everything to obstruct the study of the Juche Idea.

Based on the great Juche idea People's Korea, founded by the great leader President KIM IL SUNG , became a powerful state of Juche in ideology, independence in politics, self-sufficiency in the economy and self-reliance in national. The DPRK is known is the most independent nation on the face of the planet , this is thanks to Juche and thanks to the leadership of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG which is today carried forward by the dear respected leader  Marshal KIM JONG UN who has put forward the great self-development first idea.

I have visited the International Friendship Exhibition in the Scenic Mt Myohyang several times .It would take many days if not weeks or even months  to see the whole exhibition. Here I learnt of the deep reverence of the world revolutionary and progressive people for the great revolutionary leader President KIM IL SUNG who was the great elder of the international communist and working class movement.

President KIM IL SUNG received gifts large and small from the heads of socialist countries and the communist and workers parties. Probably the largest gifts were the trains sent by J V Stalin and Chairman Mao Zedong of China.

There are some 36,000 gifts sent to the great Leader comrade KIM IL SUNG by different people throughout the world, everyone from humble workers to state and party leaders has gifts exhibited there. You will see the train sent by Chairman Mao Zedong of Peoples China and the bullet proof car sent by Stalin as well gifts from the likes of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Col Qaddafi, Yasser Arafat, Sukarno and Allende. and many others. We also saw the gifts that we had presented to the great leader President KIM IL SUNG in 1994. The thousands of gifts do not represent mere diplomacy but reflect the deep and massive respect of the world people for the great leader President KIM IL SUNG.

The great leader President KIM IL SUNG was venerated by numerous revolutionary figures of the world for example the late President Fidel Castro of Cuba said  as follows Comrade Kim Il Sung is one of the most distinguished, outstanding and heroic socialist leaders of the present world. His history is one of the most beautiful histories of a revolutionary serving the cause of socialism.

Chairman Mao Ze Dong of China said "The fate of the world revolution and the international communist movement are on your shoulders, Comrade Kim Il Sung. I wish you long life and good health. This is my last wish".

The world people look up to the great leader President KIM IL SUNG with deep respect, they look upon him as the sun . Glory to the eternal Red sun of Juche , great President KIM IL SUNG!***

Dr Dermot Hudson
President Association For the Study of  Songun Politics UK
Chairman Juche Idea Study Group of England
Chairman UK Korean Friendship Association
Chairman UK Preparatory Committee for 2017 Gathering to Praise the Great Persons Born of Mt Paektu
Member International Committee For the Study of Songun Politics