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From Voice of Korea.
http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/scomde/iee260707008/39/en
Two Conflicting Traditions
The Korean people won the three-year war against the armed invasion of the US imperialists in the 1950s.
As for the factors of the Korean people’s victory in the Fatherland Liberation War, Doctor and Associate Professor Choe Myong Bok, Teacher of Kim Il Sung University, said:
“The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, in a number of classic works, clarified that the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War was a victory of the outstanding military idea, Juche-oriented combat methods and superb strategies and tactics of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung; it was a victory of patriotism and indomitable fighting spirit of the Korean people who fought at the risk of their lives in response to his appeal.”
It is a disgraceful tradition of the United States that it has been severely beaten and defeated by the Korean people since the 1950s. On the contrary, it is a proud tradition of heroic Korea that it has mercilessly beaten at every step the United States running wild relying on its gigantic strength.
The two conflicting traditions teach the truth of history that the leader of a country decides the destiny of that country and people.
The First Tragedy of the United States with the Myth of Its “Mightiness” Broken
On June 25, 1950, the United States ignited a war on the young Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and vaunted that it would conquer Korea within 72 hours.
The 72 hours were repeated hundreds of times to be more than 27,000 hours equivalent to 1,129 days and 3 years, producing the biggest political and military tragedy that the US imperialists were defeated by the Korean people and destined to fall like the setting sun.
After the armistice agreement was signed, the then US President Eisenhower spoke at the radio microphone: “We paid dearly for it. It was tragic and bitter.”
Clark cried sadly after signing the armistice agreement as the first defeated general in the US history who singed an instrument of surrender, his mother recollected.
The United States, which had never been defeated in more than 110 wars, was defeated in Korea because it didn’t know about the Korean people at all.
It was the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, father of socialist Korea, who led the Fatherland Liberation War to victory. He is a peerlessly great man who organized and led the 20-year-long anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle against the Japanese imperialists to victory and accomplished the historic cause of national liberation.
On the day when the war broke out, Comrade Kim Il Sung called an emergency meeting of the Cabinet and said the Yankees mistook the Korean people and that we should show the mettle of Koreans to those who are rushing about, misjudging them.
And he continued that it is necessary to frustrate the enemy’s invasion and immediately launch a decisive counteroffensive action to wipe out the armed invaders.
Many world people, who were watching the future of the young DPRK, greatly admired the daring confidence and unusual commanding art of Comrade Kim Il Sung as regards the fact that the DPRK liberated Seoul, the stronghold of the enemy, only in 72 hours with an immediate counterattack.
The DPRK was called heroic Korea as it broke the myth of “mightiness” of the United States from the beginning of the war.
The shameful tradition of the United States, which produced the first tragedy, lasted for over 70 years.
The “Pueblo”, Trophy of the DPRK
On January 23, 1968, seven seamen of the Navy of the Korean People’s Army captured the US imperialist armed spy ship “Pueblo” which had intruded into the territorial waters of the DPRK.
The crew of the “Pueblo” was in captivity in the DPRK for 11 months.
When the “Pueblo” was captured, the United States deceived the world public that it was outside the territorial waters of the DPRK and that it was a civilian ship for oceanology.
Far from making an apology to us, the United States brought huge troops to the vicinity of the Korean peninsula, threatening and blackmailing that it would invade the DPRK if it does not send back the ship and its crew. Some countries advised the DPRK to make a “concession” for fear of worsening the relations with the United States.
At that time, Comrade Kim Il Sung resolutely declared to the world that the enemy’s retaliation would be answered with retaliation and an all-out war with all-out war.
The crew of the “Pueblo” in captivity confessed that they had intruded into the territorial waters of the DPRK to collect data.
After all, the United States made an apology to the DPRK in the eyes of the world, and the crew of the “Pueblo” was expelled from the territory of the Republic.
This serious event that the United States could not dare to challenge even though it was deprived of its ship for the first time in its history was an ignominious defeat it suffered after the war.
The “Pueblo”, a trophy of the DPRK and a symbol of defeat of the United States, is now tied up in the Pothong River of Pyongyang as an object of denunciation and curse of the international community.
Shame of the United States in the DPRK-US Nuclear Confrontation
In 1993, the United States frantically staged the “Team Spirit 93” joint military exercise, taking issue with the “nuclear issue” of the DPRK.
The United States extensively brought new-type planes and warships loaded with nuclear weapons, and means of nuclear strike of various kinds into the Korean peninsula and its surrounding waters and mobilized over 200,000 aggressor forces to conduct powder-reeking war drills.
When a touch-and-go situation was created in the DPRK where a war may break out at any time, the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il, Supreme Commander of the KPA, declared a semi-war state to the whole country, all the people and the entire army.
Later, he ensured that the DPRK’s withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was declared through a statement of the DPRK government.
It was like a bolt from the blue for the United States professing itself to be the “only superpower” in the world.
High-level talks were held between the DPRK and the United States and the United States finally signed the DPRK-US Agreed Framework for the peaceful settlement of the “nuclear issue”.
And an unprecedented letter of assurance was sent to Comrade Kim Jong Il in the name of the US President that he would faithfully implement the agreement.
The United States suffered another disastrous defeat when the DPRK won the political, military and diplomatic victories in the DPRK-US nuclear negotiations.
Ever-Victorious DPRK
In the 21st century, the DPRK further strengthened the self-defensive war deterrent and defence capability to cope with the evermore vicious nuclear threat of the United States.
When the DPRK made nuclear tests and launched artificial earth satellites as part of the exercise of its self-defensive right, the United States instigated the UN Security Council to fabricate a provocative “resolution of sanctions” against the DPRK.
Taking issue with the 3rd underground nuclear test made by the DPRK in 2013, in particular, it fabricated another “resolution of sanctions” of higher intensity and mobilized huge aggressive armed forces to conduct frantic joint military exercises for provoking a nuclear war.
Doctor and Associate Professor Jang Yong Chol, Teacher of Kim Il Sung University, said that at that time, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, put forward the line of simultaneous building of the economy and nuclear forces at the March 2013 Plenary Meeting of the Party Central Committee and continued:
“At the plenary meeting, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said our Party’s new line of simultaneously developing the two fronts is not a temporary countermeasure to cope with the rapidly-changing situation but a strategic line which should be held fast to permanently from the view of the supreme interests of the Korean revolution.”
Thanks to the gifted strategy and daring confidence of Comrade Kim Jong Un, world-startling special events took place multiply and consecutively and the great historic cause of completing the state nuclear forces was accomplished.
The Korean economy has grown and many creations of self-reliance have been built on this land.
After all, the United States made every possible effort to block the way of the DPRK, but it faced a failure again.
After the summit meeting and talks between the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and the US President Trump in June 2018, the first of their kind in the history of the two countries, even the US conservative media reported the news that the US President Trump praised Comrade Kim Jong Un again and again at a press conference, saying; “Comrade Kim Jong Un has a great character. He is humorous and intelligent and loves his people.”
It is a proud tradition of Korea that it has emerged ever-victorious by fighting against power with superpower, always faithful to the ideology and leadership of the leader.
The tradition of victory continues to be carried forward under the guidance of another peerlessly great man Kim Jong Un.
