Message from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Embassy
On October 10, 1945, the WPK (Workers’ Party of Korea), which organizes and guides all victories of the people of the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), was founded. The WPK is guided by Kimilsungism Kimjongilism, the essence of which is the Juche idea and the Songun idea; the Juche idea, which clarifies that the masses of the people are the masters of the revolution and construction and that they are also the motive force of the revolution and construction, and the Songun idea, which clarifies that the revolution and construction should be advanced with the army as the main force on the principle of giving precedence to military affairs, were advanced by President Kim Il Sung in June 1930, when Korea was under Japanese military occupation (1905-1945).
Carrying forward the ideas and cause of President Kim Il Sung, Chairman Kim Jong Il applied these ideas in a thoroughgoing way in the whole period of leading the WPK. Having advanced the policy of modelling the whole Party on Kimilsungism and consistently advocated it, he formulated the Songun idea as well as the Juche idea as the great guiding ideology of the WPK after the demise of President Kim Il Sung (July 8, 1994) and led the building and activities of the WPK to be conducted as required by the Juche idea and the Songun idea.
Thanks to this, the WPK was further consolidated as an ideologically pure body equipped with the Juche idea and the Songun idea and demonstrated its might as a party that steadfastly adheres to its principle whatever the tempest of history. It could also invariably hold fast to the banner of socialism without any slightest deviation and vacillation in the closing years of the last century amid the harshest isolate-and-stifle schemes resorted to by the allied imperialist forces. Sure enough, the Juche idea and the Songun idea are recognized by the progressive peoples of the world as the guiding ideology of the cause of independence of mankind.
The WPK’s unity, whose foundation had been provided by President Kim Il Sung, its founder, was consolidated by Chairman Kim Jong Il. He attached great importance to solidifying the WPK’s organizational and ideological unity based on one ideology and pure moral obligation and led the efforts to this end.
The rock-solid unity of the WPK reached a higher stage thanks to Songun politics which Chairman Kim Jong Il formulated in a comprehensive way in the mid-1990s. With the achieving of oneness in ideas and working style between the service personnel and civilians based on the revolutionary soldier spirit and consolidation of the whole society as a powerful socio-political force, the single hearted unity of the society of the DPRK reached a new, higher stage.