Rodong Sinmun Marks Anniversary of Kwangju Popular Uprising

    Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- The aspiration and desire of the people for new politics and life have rapidly grown strong since the "yusin" dictatorship met its end in 1979.
    Nevertheless, the military gangsters who seized power through the "December 12 army purge coup" responded to the people's growing demand for democracy with the May 17 military fascist action in spring of 1980 by an order of the U.S. imperialists.
    The declaration of "emergency martial law" in the wake of "martial law" which lasted for more than half a year under the reign of the military forces and strengthened fascist dictatorial rule sparked off great resistance of the south Korean people. It triggered off the fierce Kwangju Popular Uprising on May 18.
    The uprisers had put the city under their total control for more than 10 days.
    Rodong Sinmun Saturday says in a bylined article in this regard:
    The Kwangju Popular Uprising was patriotic and popular resistance to realize the desire of the south Korean people for independence, democracy and reunification and a heroic armed uprising unprecedented in the modern history of the East.
    The uprising recorded a shining page in the history of the south Korean people's struggle against the U.S. and fascist forces and it still remains a symbol of the patriotic struggle of the people from all walks of life for independence, democracy and reunification.
    What the Kwangju uprisers desired 33 years ago was independence, democracy and reunification.
    However, foreign forces' domination and their stooges' dictatorial rule are still persisting in south Korea.
    It was none other than the U.S. which instigated the south Korean troops to put down the uprising at the point of bayonet. It was again the U.S. which zealously patronized and backed the military gangsters in their operation to turn Kwangju into a scene of genocide. It was none other than the U.S. which wirepulled the pro-U.S. conservative forces' seizure of power after ouster of pro-democracy and reform forces in a bid to put an end to the June 15 era of reunification.
    In order to translate the desire of the participants in the uprising into a reality, it is necessary to terminate the U.S. imperialists' colonial domination over south Korea and achieve the democratic development of society, concludes the article. -0-

The Kwangju Massacre carried out by the south Korean puppets and the US imperialists- ASSPUK , JISGE and UK KFA commentary

   33 years ago in the south Korean city of Kwangju south Korean troops officially sanctioned by the US to do so (as the south Korean puppet army is under the operational control of the US armed forces) massacred the citizens who had risen up against the corrupt reactionary fascistic rule of the dictator Chun Du Hwan.

    Some 5000 people were killed and left 14,000 injured. The south Korean fascist puppets tried to drown in a sea of the blood the aspirations of the south Korean people for independence, democracy and reunification.

                             What happened in Kwangju 33 years ago  proves that south Korea is not the democracy the paid media of the US and other imperialist countries claim it is, it is not a "free" or "democratic" society but a brutal despotic fascist regime . Even now 33 years after Kwangju massacare the south Korean regime is planning to forcibly dissolve pro reunification organisations and has jailed pro-reunification champions such as Mr Ro Su Hui and Rev Han Sang Ryol. The nature of the south Korean fascist puppets has not changed just as a leopard cannot change its spots.
ASSPUK
JISGE
UK KFA

KCNA Commentary on Gun-related Crimes and Future of U.S.

 Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- Shortly ago, there happened in Florida State a horrible gun-related crime at a time when the U.S. is at a loss what measures should be taken to bring gun-related crimes under control.
    A three-year child killed himself by firing a pistol he took from a bag of his uncle.
    The child was immediately taken to a hospital by his parents but he breathed his last.
    The child's death seems to foretell a tragic fate of the U.S., a hub of violence culture such as gun-related crimes.
    According to information released by the U.S. magazine Foreign Policy, gun-related violence leaves more than 30 000 people dead and over 200 000 wounded in the U.S. every year.
    This means that more than one person falls victim to this violence every two minutes.
    The U.S. administration claims to have taken steps to prevent it but their prospect remains gloomy.
    On January 16, the U.S. president made public a proposal for gun control the keynote of which is to ban the use of assault weapons and make an inquiry into all buyers of guns, etc.
    However, this proposal has, in fact, been put on the verge of becoming null and void due to the U.S. Gun Association which rakes up a huge amount of money through gun production and sale. It put pressure upon senators from ruling and opposition parties in the run-up to the 2014 mid-term election, showing off purses.
    In the final analysis, the proposal failed to reach U.S. Congress on April 17.
    The bottom line of gun-related crimes rife in the U.S. is the law of the jungle and extreme misanthropy, the almighty dollar principle and individualism.
    Hundreds of millions of guns possessed by Americans are charged with misanthropy. Gun report sounded in every crime is reminiscent of a shout "I can live only when I kill you" often heard from among Americans.
    The U.S.-style "freedom" and "democracy" reduced human beings to brutes and produced Article 2 of the revived Constitution which recognized the right to possession of guns, giving spurs to the sale of guns and horrible gun-related crimes.
    It is a matter of time that the whole of U.S. society will turn into a scene of gunfight.
    Owing to the corrupt ideology and culture prevalent throughout the society, U.S.-style capitalism is bound to meet self-destruction. This is the future of the U.S. -0-

Round-table Talks Held with Inhabitants of DPRK upon Their Return Home from S. Korea

    Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- Round-table talks with inhabitants of the DPRK were held at the Koryo Compatriots House on Friday upon their return home from south Korea to which they had been taken due to south Korean puppet agents' sinister plots and allurement and appeasement.
    They are Kang Kyong Suk, 60, who lived in Namyang Workers' District of Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province; Kim Kyong Ok, 41, who lived in Sinhung-dong No. 1 of Sariwon City, North Hwanghae Province; and Ri Hyok Chol, 26, who lived in Sabong-dong of Songphyong District, Chongjin City, North Hamgyong Province.
    Kang Kyong Suk was taken to south Korea in 2010, Kim Kyong Ok in 2011 and Ri Hyok Chol in 2007.
    They brought to light the despicable plot-breeding and allurement and appeasement activities being conducted by the south Korean puppet group as part of the operations to lure and abduct inhabitants of the DPRK.
    Kim Kyong Ok recalled that she was taken to south Korea due to threat and appeasement made by Kim Kwang Chol, specialist in buying and tempting people wandering about China's border area, via "refugee camps" in Kunming, Yunnan Province of China and Thailand.
    Ri Hyok Chol said he was taken to south Korea, deceived by his elder brother Ri Sang Chol who defected to the south at the manipulation of Chon Ki Won, pastor of the "Turihana Missionary Council" in Pangbae-dong, Seoul. He said he felt disgusting towards the elder brother who took him to south Korea for a petty amount of money and seized his money. But he could not repress his bitter resentment at agents of the puppet Intelligence Service who manipulated such allurement and abduction operation, he added.
    The participants in the round-table talks laid bare the sinister aims sought by the puppet group in such operations.
    Kang Kyong Suk quoted a man who was in charge of her at the "Joint Center for Interrogation of Defectors from the North" in south Korea as saying: "We are trying to increase the ranks of defectors from the north, even spending so much money in order to win back even a person of the north to our side in a bid to weaken the forces of the Workers' Party of the north and bring them to collapse and hoist our flag there."
    Kim Kyong Ok also quoted a man who was questioning her as saying: "We keep bringing people like you to the south not because money is in surplus. It is aimed to disturb the mindset of the north and spread liberal democracy to it".
    The speakers described south Korea as the worst tundra of human rights, adding that they were exposed to harsh persecution and disgrace. They condemned the south Korean puppet group for its moves to escalate the confrontation with the DPRK.
    The south Korean puppet group is resorting to the smear campaign against the DPRK, trumpeting about the "human rights record" in the north, Kang Kyong Suk noted, and went on:
    The group set up even a TV channel specializing in conducting an anti-DPRK smear campaign, letting "defectors from the north" appear in programs.
    It went the lengths of bringing together those "who were not defectors from the north" and staging such burlesque as an art performance by a "group of beautiful girls, defectors from the north," in the heart of Seoul as part of the smear campaign against the north.
    Kim Kyong Ok noted that the puppet group is distributing money to wicked elements who fled to the south after committing crimes in the DPRK, before driving them to the anti-DPRK human rights campaign.
    Ri Hyok Chol bitterly denounced a representative of the "Federation of Movement for Free North Korea" in south Korea for his sheer fabrication and groundless vituperation. This guy claimed in a television news briefing program that the people of north Korea were forced to weep along the route during the ceremony of bidding the last farewell to leader Kim Jong Il in December 2011 and otherwise they were threatened with arrest.
    The participants in the round-table talks said they keenly realized once again that the DPRK is a large flower garden prevalent with humanity and it represents the genuine bosom of a mother. They pledged to tu

On the 33rd anniversary of the Kwangju uprising-ASSPUK, JISGE and UK KFA

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK
London 16th May Juche 102(2013)
On the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the Kwangju uprising   the ASSPUK, Juche Idea Study Group of England and UK Korean Friendship issued the following joint statement;

It is 33 years since the residents of Kwangju city south Korea on the 18th of May 1980 rose up against the rotten and reactionary corrupt rule of the south Korean fascist puppet regime of Chun Du Hwan and the colonial domination of US imperialism over south Korea. The Kwangju uprising was a brave and heroic manifestation of the anti -fascist, anti- imperialist struggle of the south Korean popular masses and revolutionaries led by the Revolutionary Party for Reunification (later AINDF) .
The Kwangju uprising added a new chapter to the history of the struggle of the south Korean people for independence ,democracy and reunification . The heroism, courage and self-sacrifice of the Kwangju uprisers was truly remarkable .
The Kwangju uprising was a great inspiration to the peoples of the third world struggling against neo colonialism and dictatorial regimes and it was a great example to anti imperialist and anti fascist fighters throughout the entire world . The Kwangju up risers fought bravely against the suppression of the armed forces of the south Korean puppet regime backed by the US imperialist aggression troops . The blood they shed was not in vain as one day their deaths will be avenged.
                            The Kwangju uprising showed that independence and social change cannot come peacefully , that counter-revolutionary violence must be defeated  by revolutionary violence.

On the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the Kwangju uprising we salute the heroic spirit of the Kwangju uprisers . We support the struggle of the south Korean people , led by the Anti Imperialist National Democratic Front of south Korea  the popular vanguard,for independence ,democracy and reunification and the struggle to overthrow the despotic fascist  puppet regime and drive out the Yankee imperialists.

ASSPUK
JISGE
UK KFA

Quotation of the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG on revisionism (1963)

At present, revisionists are spreading all sorts of anti-Marxist, opportunist theories and widely propagating reactionary bourgeois ideologies and the corrupt bourgeois way of life, thereby paralysing the class and revolutionary consciousness of the working people and, especially, ruining the younger generation ideologically.
The modem revisionists betray the revolutionary principles of Marxism-Leninism and deny the necessity of revolutionary struggle and class struggle. Clamouring that “All men are equal; the whole world is one”, the revisionists repudiate the class outlook and preach the supra-class “outlook of mankind”, or “universal outlook”.
In the field of art, too, they draw no distinct line between the revolutionary art of the working class and the reactionary art of the bourgeoisie, and advocate the supra-class “art of mankind”. The revisionists consider that the working class ought to learn the corrupt capitalist way of life, and believe that the revolutionary working class ought to learn the foul songs and dances which the capitalists enjoy when getting drunk and taking licentious pleasures. They maintain that the class character of art is absolutely unnecessary.
Where revisionism has found its way, people are more and more bereft of love for and pride in their socialist country and are being reduced to egoists who only want a life of luxury for themselves. This means a return to the bourgeois ideology of mammonism. What sort of unselfish struggle for the state and revolution can be expected from a person who knows only money and pursues only personal pleasure? If a person chooses this path, he will not even hesitate to betray his country. One case resulting from this was that of a girl student in a certain country who was so infected with revisionist ideology that she thought it an honour to marry an American espionage agent.
One of our students got himself contaminated with revisionism while studying in a foreign country and was gradually tempted into a depraved life. It is said that he has finally arrived at a point where he feels sorry that he was born a Korean. This is of course a peculiar case. But at any rate, once people are affected and demoralized by revisionism, they will end up by rejecting their country and seeking only their own pleasure.
The revisionists are the agents of the imperialists. At present the imperialists are using the revisionists as their stooges in their manoeuvres to spread counter-revolutionary, non-class ideologies within our ranks and to soften up our camp. Therefore, in order to prevent the penetration of revisionism, further cement the ideological unity of our revolutionary ranks and carry on a successful struggle against imperialism and the landlord and capitalist classes, it is more urgent than ever that class education be intensified.

KIM IL SUNG " OUR PEOPLE’S ARMY IS AN ARMY OF THE WORKING CLASS, AN ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION; CLASS AND POLITICAL EDUCATION SHOULD BE CONTINUOUSLY  STRENGTHENED"  

8th February 1963

The difference between Juche Socialist Korea and pro US puppet south Korea(in pictures)

IN JUCHE SOCIALIST KOREA

                                    

IN THE US-OCCUPIED PUPPET CAPITALIST KOREA