SIXTY — three years have passed since the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea (October 10, 1945). Its history can be said to be the one of its advancing with victory and glory under its flag with a hammer, a sickle and a brush printed on it.
THE WPK, though founded over 60 years ago, had struck deep and strong root long before.
PRESIDENT Kim II Sung (1912—1994) set out on the road of revolutionary struggle in his early teens, when Korea was under the military occupation of the Japanese imperialists. He organized the “Down-with-Imperialism Union” (DIU), a vanguard organization, which heralded the beginning of building a new kind of revolutionary party, and laid a solid organizational and ideological foundation for founding it during the 20-year-long anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle. Consequently, the WPK came to be founded in less than two months after Korea’s liberation (August 15, 1945), and the Party, from the outset, was able to successfully perform its mission and role as the guiding force of the Korean people.
IN the complicated post-liberation situation, the WPK successfully carried out the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal democratic revolution and based on such successes, the WPK founded the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on September 9, 1948. When the United States ignited the Korean war on June 25, 1950, the WPK aroused all the army and people to the sacred war to defend the liberty and independence of the country, shattering the US “myth of mightiness” and demonstrating the mettle of heroic Korea to the world. Under the leadership of the WPK, the postwar rehabilitation was completed in three years, the socialist revolution was successfully carried out by completing the socialist transformation of the production relations in 1958, and the industrialization, which had been commonly done in hundreds of years in other countries, was carried out in a short period of 14 years in Korea.
WITH the socialist economic construction of several stages successfully carried out, the unique people-centered socialist system was established in Korea where backwardness and poverty had once prevailed, and the Republic was turned into a powerful socialist country independent in politics, self-sufficient in the economy and self-reliant in national defense.
IN the 1990s, in the face of the indescribably worst adversity caused by the extreme political and military pressures and economic sanctions of the US-led imperialist allied forces and the consecutive natural disasters, the Korean people, under the leadership of the WPK, could overcome the ordeals and firmly defend the country’s sovereignty and socialism. Under such a difficult situation Korea launched its first artificial earth satellite by its own efforts, displaying its great potentials. Recently the WPK set a goal of opening the gate to a great, prosperous and powerful socialist nation in a few years, and is vigorously advancing toward the goal.
TODAY the Korean people call the WPK “motherly party”, rendering absolute trust and support to it because it is administering the politics of regarding the people as the God, embodiment of the people-oriented Juche idea. Korea’s single-hearted unity called the “weapon more powerful than the nuclear weapon” is the result of the Party’s unshakable line of giving precedence to ideology and its invariable benevolent and all-embracing politics.
THE WPK, under the wise leadership of the leader Kim Jong II, will always emerge victorious, its flag flying as the symbol of victory and glory!
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