Hail the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the DPRK!

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Hail the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the DPRK!

Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the DPRK

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60^th Anniversary of the Founding of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – DPRK

Today, September 9, marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). WDIE sends its warmest congratulations on this occasion to the Korean people, and their Party, the Workers’ Party of Korea, and its General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

The Friends of Korea organised a meeting to celebrate the 60th anniversary on Sunday, September 7, in central London. The meeting was chaired by Harpal Brar, Chair of the Co-ordinating Committee, and was addressed by John McLeod and Michael Chant, of Friends of Korea. John McLeod spoke from the heart of the achievements of the Korean people and of the hatred of US imperialism of democratic people everywhere. The presentation of Michael Chant is posted below. Jang Song Chol, Third Secretary at the Embassy of the DPRK in London also spoke. He warmly thanked everyone for marking the important occasion, and gave up-to-date information about the stands of the DPRK. His short presentation struck a chord with the audience and was very much appreciated. After a message of greetings, reproduced below, was adopted by the meeting, an intense period of contributions and discussion followed.

A lively and moving cultural programme was presented, which consisted of British, Irish and Korean instrumental music and songs, appropriate to the occasion, and elucidated by programme notes. Personnel, young and old, from the DPRK Embassy participated, and the whole audience joined in the chorus of the song, "We Only Want the Earth!". The programme concluded with the Patriotic Song of the DPRK, with everyone standing.

The successful meeting concluded with a buffet and social, and informal discussion continued for some time.

The founding of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on September 9, 1948, was an event that was charged with historical significance. Its achievements over these 60 years have not only been a source of pride for the Korean people. It is the continued existence of the DPRK which has been a thorn in the side of world reaction, and a decisive factor for peace on the Korean Peninsula and in East Asia as a whole. Its steadfast stands throughout these 60 years against US hegemony have continued to be a significant contribution to the struggle of the world’s people against US imperialism and the opposition of struggling peoples to big power dictate, aggression and interference. Not only this, but the defence of the people of the DPRK of their sovereignty, and the building of the social system of their choice which has withstood all the attempts of the big powers and reaction to subvert it, is both an inspiration and an example to democratic people of all countries who take up the task themselves of becoming decision-makers.

It should not be forgotten that only three years before President Kim Il Sung led the Korean people in founding the DPRK, the Korean people under his leadership had won their liberation from Japanese colonialism, as part of the world’s titanic struggle against fascism and against the most reactionary forces of the world who wanted to block social progress and wipe out communism and the cause of the working class. The progressive forces in every country were faced with the task of building a people-centred system in their own national conditions and in the context of the new international situation. The Korean people embarked on their own next step of nation-building in this context, freed from Japanese occupation, and set about building a socialist system which is characterised by independence in politics, self-reliance in the economy and self-reliance in national defence.

The fledgling DPRK faced very great difficulties. The US had installed its puppet government of Syngman Rhee in the "Republic of Korea" in the south on August 15, 1948, which divided the Korean nation, in physical terms if not human terms. But the DPRK was then and remains a bulwark against the interference of the US imperialists in Korean affairs. Under the direction of the Workers' Party of Korea, led first by President Kim Il Sung and now by General Secretary Kim Jong Il, the DPRK has been able to overcome the great hardships which history has presented, especially the brutal war forced on it by US imperialism from 1950-1953.

After the war, the DPRK had to carry out the revolution and socialist construction through many stages, under the very difficult conditions of military threats and economic blockades imposed by the big powers under the aegis of the UN but led by US imperialism. With fidelity to their principles and profound conviction of the justness of their cause, the Korean people overcame all these difficulties and adversities and today are following their chosen socialist path putting the people at centre stage.

The significance of the founding of the DPRK stands out in sharp relief on this 60th anniversary. The DPRK continues to be decisive as a factor for peace in the region as it works diligently for the emergence of a united, dignified and independent Korean nation. Its steadfast refusal to submit to US blackmail on the nuclear issue with the aim of expelling the US imperialists and their nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula is an affirmation of its sovereignty and a block to US hegemony.

The bright future of a united and sovereign Korea free from outside interference in its affairs is being realised in spite of all the difficulties. The long-standing struggle of the Korean people to achieve national reconciliation and reunification of the country consolidated at the historic north-south agreement of June 2000 continues to flourish through the sincere efforts of Korean patriots from the north and south and abroad and all justice-seeking peoples. Great strides have been made through joint actions on the fronts of the economy, transport, culture and sports, including travel of dignitaries and family members separated by the division of Korea. These successes have been inseparably linked with the efforts of the DPRK in defending its sovereignty, protecting the reunification movement from US imperialist interference, and allowing the Korean people to undertake the historic task in a manner which serves their own national interest. By their efforts to keep the US in check on the Korean peninsula, the Korean people have contributed also to the cause of world peace. The Koreans will never step back from the principle that human rights precisely mean sovereignty. They remain strong in their determination to defend Korean-style socialism, their life and soul, at the cost of their lives.

There is a great tradition of national unity of the Korean people, which has remained a counter to the designs of imperialism for physical and ideological domination, which today goes under the signboard of globalisation and the upholding of so-called universal values. In the period leading up to the founding of the DPRK, Kim Il Sung himself initiated a conference to further the national reunification movement at a time when the US was attempting to impose colonial enslavement on the Korean people and had installed Syngman Rhee in the south of Korea. So today, the steps to achieve overall national unity are countering the big powers’ attempts to keep the Korean nation divided and impose foreign domination. The US cannot countenance having a unified Korean nation of close to 85 million people which is based on self-reliance. What a factor for progress and against imperialism such a unified nation would be! The struggle to reunify Korea can thus be said to be at the heart of the struggle for peace on a world scale.

The history of the Six-Party Talks has also been an example of the contribution of the DPRK to peace and security, opposing for example the listing of the DPRK as a terrorism sponsor and working out ways forward to the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. It is, of course, the United States that has used nuclear blackmail, while spreading disinformation about the DPRK as a "nuclear terrorist state". Through these talks and its stands in defence of sovereignty and security, the DPRK has played an immense role in frustrating the geopolitical ambitions of the US in East Asia. The US has recently engineered the coming to power in the south of the Lee Myung Bak group which has been doing everything it can to sabotage the advances toward reunification which have been made since the signing of the Joint Declaration. Despite these setbacks, the DPRK is focusing on the ultimate goal of the independent reunification of the Korean nation. The Korean people, through their own conviction and practice, are determined to secure the peaceful and independent reunification of their homeland under the banner of "By the Nation Itself".

The DPRK has weathered difficult challenges in its sixty-year history. In recent years, the country has experienced unprecedented difficulties, especially in its economic life. The main cause has been the further tightening of the economic blockade and military threat against it imposed by the US imperialists and their allies. There was also the disappearance of the socialist market at the time of the end of the bipolar division of the world, as well as many natural disasters. However, the Korean people have emerged firm in their conviction that final victory lies with them and that the economic difficulties caused by external factors are only temporary and will be overcome.

In recent times, we read that fresh progress has been made in agricultural production to provide food for the people, as well as in economic construction, especially the consolidation of basic industries, which are the lifeline of socialist economic construction. At the same time, priority has been given to military affairs in order to safeguard the socialist system and defend it in the spirit of self-reliance against the determination of US imperialism to wipe it off the map. In this, as in other areas of life, the mobilisation of the people themselves is made the key. They see the principles of revolution and socialism as their own, because their socialist system places the concerns and well-being of the people at the centre.

In the 60-year history of the DPRK, what stands out is precisely that the Korean people have been placed in control of their own destiny. The will of the people is at one with the governance of the country. This is an important tenet of modern democracy, which is a task taken up by all democratic forces for implementation. The Korean people, under the leadership of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and the Workers’ Party of Korea, have forged their own way forward, as is the right and duty of any and every nation and people. As the Pyongyang Times explains, referring to the leadership of Kim Il Sung in realising the tradition of people’s government in practice in the DPRK, "He saw the people’s revolutionary government as the most ideal government that conformed to the character of the Korean revolution aimed at anti-imperialist and anti-feudal democracy and the needs of the people." This system of socialist democracy has been built step by step by the Korean people, taking account of the concrete objective and subjective conditions, and it began with opposing the dogmatism which the Pyongyang Times describes Kim Il Sung likening to "sending kids to university without giving them primary and secondary education". This continued and continuing tradition has ensured that today the DPRK stands proud and second to none in its democratic institutions, while providing the example that a people must themselves resolve the problems of democracy step by step, in a revolutionary manner, and grounded in the real world. It emphasises, as they point out, that the primary issue in the revolution is the matter of political power. It was this innovative utilisation of fundamental principles that itself laid the foundation for the establishment of the DPRK sixty years ago, for instance by the setting up of the Supreme People’s Assembly by holding all-Korean elections after the ignominious failure of the separate elections in the south organised by the US.

Our task in Britain on this 60th anniversary remains to strengthen the bonds of solidarity and friendship between the peoples of Korea and Britain through opposing the attempts of our own state machine and that of the US imperialists to attempt isolate the DPRK internationally and to gain domination of the Korean Peninsula which would be of incalculable harm to the people’s cause. Our task is to defend the sovereignty of all nations, including the DPRK, and their right to determine their own affairs and choose and control their own social system without outside interference. This is also a cardinal principle for all justice-loving people. It is to combat and refute the slanders and disinformation about the DPRK which make use of the so-called "nuclear issue", the "human rights issue", or any other pretext, to make out that the country is a "rogue state" and should adopt Eurocentric or Anglo-American values so as to come within the fold of the so-called "international community" that espouses and seeks to impose these values.

On this occasion, on behalf of the Co-ordinating Committee of Friends of Korea, and of all friends of Korea in Britain, I would like to echo the sentiments of all of us and congratulate the Korean people and their great leadership on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK. We wish them every success in their sacred cause of building a great, prosperous and powerful country under the leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Il and the Workers’ Party of Korea, and we wish them continued success in their striving to unify the Korean nation.

(Presentation of Michael Chant, Secretary of Friends of Korea)

from the

Co-ordinating Committee of Friends of Korea

Adopted at the Meeting to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

London, September 7, 2008 (Juche 97)

 

To Comrade Kim Jong Il

General Secretary, Workers’ Party of Korea

Chairman of the National Defence Commission

Pyongyang

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Dear Comrade Kim Jong Il,

On behalf of all friends of Korea in Britain, we would like to convey to you the warmest congratulations on the joyous occasion of the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. We convey to the heroic Korean people our warmest best wishes.

The anniversary is a cause for celebration not only by the Korean people but by progressive people throughout the world. The founding of the DPRK in 1948 was an event of great historical significance for the Korean people who had, under the leadership of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, won their liberation from Japanese colonialism only three years before. It also marked a great victory over the criminal efforts of US imperialism to frustrate such a triumph. The continued existence of the DPRK is today a shining inspiration for struggling people the world over.

We would like to pay tribute to the single-minded unity of society in the DPRK, which is a powerful instrument of the Korean revolution and of consolidating the political and ideological positions of socialism. The significance of the steadfastness of the DPRK is increasingly evident as we mark this important anniversary. The DPRK continues to be decisive as a factor for peace as it works diligently for the emergence of a united, dignified and independent Korean nation. Its implacable refusal to submit to US blackmail on the nuclear issue and to conciliate with Anglo-American disinformation on the so-called "human rights" issue is a powerful affirmation of its sovereignty and a block to US hegemony and all attempts to justify interference in the sovereign affairs of others.

We would also like to pay tribute to the long-standing struggle of the Korean people to achieve national reconciliation and reunification of the country, a cause which burns in the heart of all Korean patriots north and south, and which has the unwavering support of all justice-seeking peoples. We further congratulate the Korean people who have achieved so much, under your leadership, in building a powerful socialist system which is in the service of its people and is centred on meeting their needs and releasing their human initiative.

On this occasion, we pledge ourselves anew to strengthening the bonds of solidarity between the peoples of Britain and the DPRK in their common cause of defeating aggression and war and overcoming all the attempts of reaction to prevent the progress of humankind. Our solidarity is based on fighting shoulder to should with you to build a new and better world, where it is human beings who control their own destiny.

On 9^th September 1948, at the 1^st Session of the Supreme People’s Assembly, the formation of the DPRK was proclaimed by Kim Il Sung. Kim Il Sung – hero of the anti-Japanese struggle, the founder of the Korean People’s Army (KPA), its great commander in chief, who led the Korean people towards the liberation of their fatherland from the Japanese enslavement, was elected Premier of the DPRK, then Head of State (its president).

According to the constitution, the Supreme People’s Assembly is the highest organ of power in the DPRK. Between the sessions of the SPA, Central Standing Committee of the SPA continues work uninterruptedly. The present constitution of the DPRK was adopted at Session I of the SPA of the DPRK of the fifth meeting on 27^th December 1972. Afterwards, (at sessions of the SPA DPRK – 9^th April 1992 and 5^th September 1998), several changes and additions were introduced into it, in connection with the development of statehood and a slight change in the state structure of power, that is completely natural for a developing socialist state. The Socialist Constitution of the DPRK is called the Kim Il Sung Constitution, having judicially documenting the idea of the great leader about state structure and the achievements in the construction of socialism.

Chairman of the country’s National Defence Commission, Comrade Kim Jong Il, is at present the Head of State. The status of President of the country, after the demise of the great leader, remains with Kim Il Sung and no one else has been elected to this post since. Comrade Kim Jong Il was first elected to the post of Chairman of the National Defence Commission (NDC) of the DPRK on 9^th April 1993, re-elected to this high and responsible post on 3^rd September 2003.

Local organs of power make up the People’s Assemblies – provincial ones (for towns and central subordination), town ones (district) and local district (county). In the period between sessions, the local organs of power consist of People’s Committees – provincial ones (for towns and central subordination), town ones (district) and local (county) district ones.

The system of state organs of the DPRK allows the workers, peasants, soldiers and working intelligentsia to actively participate in state affairs and in the running of the state, and the state organs of power best implement the interests of the people, ever more energetically advancing the revolution and socialist construction, strengthening the country’s defence capability.

In North Korea after the liberation of the Fatherland (15^th August 1945) and the successful solution to the tasks of the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution, in an extremely short period of time (1945-1948) the social-economic basis of exploitation was liquidated, and the start of the transition over to socialism was laid down. New, socialist production relations were established in the DPRK, directed at the raising the prosperity of the working people – the entire people. Continual improvement in the material and cultural life of the people is the highest principle of the state and party activity in the DPRK.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a sovereign socialist state, where state (common people’s) and co-operative ownership make up its economic base, where all members of society work, forming a united collective, in which every person helps each other and with this, high results are achieved in work.

State (common people’s) ownership prevails in industry and cooperative ownership prevails in agriculture. Co-operative ownership is one of the forms of socialist property developing in close connection with common people’s property.

Co-operative property, as a form, carrying a transitional character, according to level of further strengthening of the socialist material-technical basis of agriculture (thanks to investment of state funding) and raising the ideological level of the peasants, gradually transfers over in common people’s property.

In the DPRK, personal property also exists, which makes up a share of socialist distribution thanks to the state and society, and also products from a very small personal subsidiary economy. In the DPRK, personal property is protected by law which provides the right for it to be inherited.

In the DPRK, according to the Constitution, an 8-hour workday has been established. In separate spheres of production, 7-hour and 6-hour workdays have been established. Mothers who have three children work six hours but get paid for 8-hour workday. Citizens can start work from the age of 16. Work carried out by persons under 16 is banned. The citizens of the DPRK do not pay income tax on their wages (everyone receives so-called "pure" wages").

The DPRK is a socialist democratic state and provides its citizens, by the Constitution, guaranteed true rights and political freedoms. Every citizen of the DPRK who has reached 17 years old has the right to vote and also be elected to all organs of people’s power. Every citizen has the right to freedom of speech, print, assembly, association and demonstrations, freedom of belief and of atheism.

Every citizen of the DPRK has the guaranteed right to work according to their interests and abilities, the right to housing and paid holidays, the right to free school (11 year) and higher education, the right to free health care, freedom of scientific and literary-creative activity. Veterans of the revolution, members of families of revolutionaries and patriots who have passed away, members of families of military service personnel of the Korean People’s Army, war invalids are taken special care of by the state and society.

Women have equal social standing and rights as men, and women and children are provided with special benefits by the state.

The rights and freedoms of the citizens are continuously expanding according to the level of development of socialist society.

One needs to especially take note of the attention and care taken by the state and the Worker’s Party of Korea (WPK) towards the up and coming generation. Children are surrounded by an all-common love. For them, all conditions have been created for the creative development of the individual and his or her gifts, for the preservation of their health, for the chance to participate on any sport of their desire regardless of whether or not they live in a large city or in a small village. Day-care and kindergartens are completely free for the parents. Educators with special education take care of the children. Constant control over the health of the children is carried out. Palaces and houses for children are found in every populated area. In the summertime, children spend time at pioneer camps, where they often rest together with children from other states that are friendly with the DPRK, and with this, good friendly relations between children are established – the basis of normal respectful relations of the future generation in the future world. The young generation is being educated in the DPRK in the spirit of the highest of patriotism and high morals, is growing up highly cultured and highly educated.

Despite the most brutal economic embargo imposed by the USA, practically from the moment of the formation of the DPRK, the constant ideological acts of diversion and the threat of a pre-emptive nuclear strike on part of frenzied American imperialism, the DPRK is successfully building its own socialist state, developing its own economy and strengthening its defence capability. The victory over the USA by the tiny, only just "born", DPRK in the Fatherland Liberation War bears witness to the strength of spirit of the citizens of new Korea, of their unity around their leader with high patriotism that is stronger than any of the latest weapons.

The state leads and runs the economy of the country which is developing in a planned way (5-year plans are being adopted which take into account all spheres of industrial and agricultural production, the development of science, technology, the people’s education, health, industrial and housing construction, etc.). The detailing of planning makes it possible to concretely take into account all the elements of production and provide for constant growth in the economy. A special role is allocated to scientific-production activity connected to the military-industrial complex that serves to strengthen the defence might of the country. This has the most important significance in the conditions of a 60-year old confrontation with the USA, constantly threatening the DPRK with a pre-emptive nuclear strike. The scientific-research work being carried out by Korean scientists, the recent creating of medium range ballistic missiles capable of reaching the territory of the United States and equipped with warheads (also designed by Korean scientists), have significantly cooled the military-adventurous dust of America, which has made it possible for the people of the DPRK under present conditions, to live and work more peacefully, advancing forward the cause of the three Korean revolutions – the ideological, technological and cultural revolutions on the path towards complete victory of socialism in the DPRK.

In the DPRK, several political parties and social organisations function. The ruling party is the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) – the party of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, the revolutionary party of the Juche type, founded by the great leader on 10^th October 1945. The great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il has been unanimously elected several times over as the party’s General Secretary.

The Workers’ Party of Korea is made up of workers, peasants and intelligentsia who work in the name of the triumph of the cause of socialism and communism. The WPK has inherited glorious revolutionary traditions that were laid down in the heroic anti-Japanese struggle. The main tasks of the WPK are the achievement of continuous growth in the prosperity of the people, the strengthening of the might of the fatherland and unifying the Korean nation.

The WPK is the political headquarters which organises and directs the revolutionary struggle and socialist construction in the DPRK and fully answers for the destiny of the entire Korean people. The WPK today unifies in its ranks more than 3 million people (more than 30 million people live in the DPRK).

The Korean Social-Democratic Party was formed on 3^rd November 1945. From the moment of its formation, the KSDP had written into its programme – to recognise the leading role of the WPK and in a coalition with it, fight against the forces of imperialism and feudalism for the building of a democratic, sovereign and independent state. In the programme of the KSDP, written in as the main tasks are – independence of the country and nation, implementing democracy in political life, development of the socialist economic system, greater prosperity for the people, development of national education, culture and art, and the achievement of the independent and peaceful unification of the fatherland.

The Chondoist Chongu Party (CCP) was formed on 8^th February 1946. Its Programme differed little from the Programme of the KSDP and, at one time, a member of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, the CCP fights for the achievement of the independent peaceful unification of the fatherland.

The Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland (or Fatherland Front) was formed on 22 July 1946. Its main task for the members – independently of specialty, gender, religion and party membership, was to rally around the leader (earlier, President Kim Il Sung, and nowadays – Comrade Kim Jong Il) all patriotic, democratic forces in society on the basis of a worker-peasant alliance, and mobilise them into bringing to life the idea of reunification of the nation.

The General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea has more than 1.6 million members and also includes all branch trade unions. Their main task lies in the active participation in socialist construction and running the socialist economy, health and safety, and ideological-educational work among their members.

The League of Socialist Working Youth of Korea (nowadays called – the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League) was founded on 17^th January 1946 and is a mass political youth organisation. As a militant youth organisation called upon to adopt the relay race of the revolution, the KYL is the trusty reserve and supporter of the WPK, and has more than 3.8 million members.

In the DPRK, function the North Korean Federation of the Peasants’ Associations (1.3 million members), the Democratic Women’s Union of North Korea (more than 200 thousand members), and also several organisations that place emphasis on their activity on several questions such as – the peaceful unification of the Fatherland, cultivation ties abroad, the struggle in defence of peace, solidarity with the peoples of the world for independence, self-reliance and against imperialism.  The Korea Christian Federation, the Korean Buddhist Federation and other social political organisations also function in Korea. All of them in their work are helping to solve questions on one thing or another in Korean society, unifying all the citizens around the policies of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

Korean citizens abroad (those who in the period of colonial rule by Japanese imperialism were forcibly driven from their homes and into Japan under the pretext of work or military duty, or were compelled to travel abroad in search for a means of existence) according to the citizenship law, have the status of citizen of the DPRK and at any time may be repatriated to the DPRK. Since the end of 1959, more than 150 thousand Koreans have been repatriated to the DPRK from Japan. President Kim Il Sung created an aid fund in Japan, to help with education and grants for Koreans living in this country. Presently, in Japan the Association for Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryong), which unifies more than 700 thousand members.

"Chongryong" has a good publishing base and supplies its own products in various languages to more than 150 countries of the world.

Socialist Korea has wide international political contacts and diplomatic representation in the vast majority of countries of the world. The international authority of the DPRK has especially grown in the last 15 years thanks to the irreconcilable firmness of the political line and self-reliance of the DPRK foreign policy. The DPRK is a member of many international and worldwide organisations. The International Institute for the Study of the Juche Idea (headquarters in Tokyo) has Regional Institutes that are functioning in the countries of Latin America, Asia, Europe and Africa.

    The DPRK for the past 60 years has passed along a very difficult and glorious path of defending its independence and self-reliance despite the hostile policy of the USA and its satellites.

Today, the DPRK is a highly developed industrial power, in possession of a nuclear weapon as the only real present restraining factor in providing a reliable defence capability for the country, in conditions of a deepening system crisis of imperialism on the whole, and the recession in the USA.

The Songun (Army first) policy implemented by the WPK makes it possible to find solutions to the most complex of tasks, which others would think impossible. The Songun policy means unity of the Army and people and that the revolution will triumph only with the presence of weapons. Songun politics, the basis of which was worked out by the great leader in the period of the anti-Japanese struggle, officially became the country’s state policy in January 1997. This policy provided not only the indestructible unity of society, but also the triumphant construction of socialism in extremely difficult foreign policy conditions for the DPRK. The army watchfully stands guard on its native borders, constantly updating and modernising its professional skills and introducing and mastering new types of weapons, as a threatening warning to any possible aggressor. The Korean People’s Army also takes an active part in socialist construction in the towns as well as in the countryside.

In socialist Korea, a very respectful and extremely careful attitude dominates in relation to their cultural and national treasure and their own history. There are many museums and exhibitions of various themes. In the DPRK, many beautiful memorials to the present epoch have been built and continue to be built – memorials for the future generations about the arduous struggle for the liberation of the country and the establishment of a new social-political system – socialism.

Korea is a wonderful country of "morning calm", rich with surprisingly rare species of animals and plants together with beautiful and charming landscapes, blindingly wonderful waterfalls and wonderful views around the mountain peaks. Koreans love their country and carefully look after its beauty and are preserving it for the future generations. The beauty of the nature of the DPRK, the grandiose successes in socialist construction, attract many tourists to the DPRK.

Koreans have a friendly life, not just work, but also know how to rest well, singing their song "We do not envy anyone".

(Taken from a special publication of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (AUCPB), September 2008)