editorial

This year marks the 80th founding anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

The WPK’s 80-year history replete with victory and glory is associated with the immortal exploits of Chairman Kim Jong Il who remarkably strengthened and developed the Party organizationally and ideologically.

The Chairman started to work at the Central Committee of the WPK on June 19 1964 and developed it into an invincible revolutionary party with outstanding ideas and theories and leadership ability.

In the 1960s, modern revisionism emerged in the world socialist movement, causing complex events.

He started to do Party work at this juncture and firmly defended, inherited and developed the Juche-oriented Party building ideas and exploits of President Kim Il Sung.

After delineating the philosophical principle that a revolutionary party is a political organization which realizes the ideas and leadership of the leader, its founder, the Chairman established the firm monolithic ideological system in the WPK and strengthened the Party into a militant General Staff which is boundlessly faithful to the leadership of the leader.

He developed the Party into a motherly party which faithfully serves the people while taking full responsibility for the people’s destiny.

He ensured that Party and state lines and policies were formulated with the demands and interests of the masses of the people as an absolute standard and that all Party organizations and officials established a revolutionary habit of working as the faithful servant of the people while going deep among the masses in the spirit of devoted service for them.

He made sure that the politics of love and trust was fully embodied in Party work and activities, with the result that the WPK could achieve the single-hearted unity of the leader, the Party and the masses.

In the mid-1990s he strengthened and developed the WPK into a powerful guiding force of the Songun revolution under the uplifted banner of Songun.

He formulated Songun politics as the basic political mode of socialism as required by the changed environment and developing revolution and saw to it that Party work and activities were oriented to implementing the Songun revolutionary line.

Thanks to the Songun revolutionary leadership of the Chairman, who continued his front-bound journey, the Party could achieve successive victories in the campaign to defend socialism and defend the national dignity and sovereignty with honour while overcoming unprecedentedly great difficulties and ordeals.

The exploits he performed for Party building and development with tireless and painstaking efforts are shining as the precious foundation of the Party, which is ushering in a golden age of buildup of the whole Party under the wise leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.