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DPRK: Seven Decades
of Creation and Changes
FOREIGN LANGUAGES PUBLISHING HOUSE
DPR KOREA
JUCHE 107(2018)
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Introduction
The 70 years of the DPRK is a history of great struggle and
victory, and great creation and changes, in which the Korean
people defended the independence and dignity of the country
and built up a powerful socialist country surmounting the
storm of the revolution under the leadership of their great
leaders and their great Party.
The DPRK has advanced along the road of victory and
glory overcoming unprecedented hardships and trials in acute
confrontation with the imperialist forces seeking aggression
throughout the historic course from the period of laying
the foundation for nation building to the present when the
building of a socialist power is under way.
In the course of the arduous struggle to build a new Korea,
a new society, the Koreans blazed the trail for accomplishing
the cause of independence against imperialism, the socialist
cause, performed miracles of history and immortal feats and
gained precious experiences. Therefore, the 70-year history
of the DPRK shines brilliantly and socialist Korea is exalting
its prestige and might as the citadel of independence and
fortress of socialism.
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Contents
Founding of the Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea ....................................................................... 5
Laying the foundation of independent and sovereign
state ........................................................................... 6
Building of the people’s government ................................ 6
Building of regular armed forces ............................... 11
Enforcement of democratic reforms ............................14
Founding of the people’s state, Kim Il Sung elected
to the top post of DPRK ........................................... 19
Defending national freedom and independence ........ 23
Immediate counteroffensive ...................................... 24
New counteroffensive after ordeals ........................... 27
Great victory in Fatherland Liberation War ................ 31
Building socialism, independent, self-supporting
and self-reliant in defence ......................................... 35
Reconstruction starts on debris .................................. 36
Brilliant victory of socialist revolution,
establishment of people-centred socialist system ....... 39
April theses—programme of socialist revolution ........ 39
Cooperativization of agriculture ............................... 42
Socialist transformation of private trade and industry ... 46
Decisive turn in establishing Juche ............................ 49
Grand Chollima advance .......................................... 53
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Establishment of socialist economic management
system ..................................................................... 57
‘Rifl e in one hand and hammer or sickle in the other!’..60
Theses on socialist rural question .............................. 62
Turning into socialist industrial state ......................... 65
Consolidation and development of people-centred
socialism, defence of socialist cause ......................... 69
Promulgation of socialist constitution, application of
socialist democracy in state activities ........................ 70
Intensifi cation of three revolutions ............................ 73
Uninterrupted leap forward in economic construction..76
Dynamic speed campaign ....................................... 76
At the speed of the 1980s! ...................................... 80
In the face of persistent sanctions and blockade ........... 83
Effl orescence of socialist culture ............................... 87
Smashing anti-socialist sophistry .............................. 89
For a new independent world .................................... 92
Defending socialism by dint of Songun, effecting
a turn in socialist power building ............................. 97
Holding Kim Il Sung as eternal Sun of Juche ............ 98
Kim Jong Il elected to the top post of DPRK ...........100
Administering Songun politics in all-round way........ 103
Strengthening politico-ideological position of
socialism ................................................................105
Laying solid foundations for building economic giant.107
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Overcoming diffi culties ........................................ 107
Effecting new revolutionary upsurge ....................... 109
Turning into military power .................................... 113
For the independent reunifi cation of Korea ...............115
Three Charters for National Reunifi cation .................115
June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and October 4
Declaration ..........................................................120
Strengthening overseas Koreans’ movement ............ 122
Expansion of external relations ...............................126
For all-round construction of socialist power ......... 129
Holding Kim Jong Il as eternal leader .....................130
Kim Jong Un elected to the top posts of Party,
state and army ........................................................ 132
Golden age of military buildup ............................... 134
Decisive turn in improvement of the people’s
livelihood and building of economic giant ............... 137
Building of sci-tech and civilized power ................. 139
New era of national reconciliation and unity, peace
and prosperity, and independent reunifi cation .......... 142
Landmark events in achieving global peace,
stability and prosperity ........................................... 145
Historic visits open up a new chapter for
DPRK-China friendship ....................................... 145
Epoch-making meeting makes history for
DPRK-US relations ............................................. 147
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Founding of the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea
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Laying the foundation of independent and
sovereign state ............................................... 6
Founding of the people’s state,
Kim Il Sung elected to the top post of DPRK..19
DPRK: Seven Decades of Creation and Changes
Laying the foundation of independent
and sovereign state
Building of the people’s government
The Korean people emerged victorious in the anti-Japanese
armed struggle, which was organized and staged under the
wise leadership of Kim Il Sung, the Sun of the nation and
legendary hero, and accomplished the historic cause of
national liberation in August Juche 34(1945).
The liberation of Korea was a great historic event that
brought about a radical turn in shaping the destiny of the
country and people and opened up a broad avenue to the
building of an independent and sovereign state.
The overall situation soon after liberation was developing
favourably for the Korean revolution.
But internal and external situations were very complicated
and mountains of diffi culties stood in the way of an
independent and sovereign state building. Korea was
divided into two due to outside forces, and imperialist and
reactionary forces within and without made every vicious
attempt to check the struggle of the people for building a
new Korea.
Kim Il Sung enlisted the patriotic enthusiasm of the liberated
people and all patriotic forces to foil the manoeuvres of the
imperialists and reactionaries and lay a solid foundation for
an independent and sovereign state building.
After liberation the people’s government inheriting the
anti-Japanese tradition was established in north Korea.
The Korean revolutionaries had the rich experience of
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having built the people’s government during the anti-
Japanese revolutionary struggle.
Kim Il Sung had unfolded a plan to found a democratic
people’s republic in liberated Korea.
But it was impossible to establish a unifi ed government
embracing the whole of the country due to the occupation
of south Korea by foreign forces and their moves to split
the nation. Under the circumstances, it was needed to set
up a central power organ in north Korea fi rst and carry out
a democratic revolution so as to dynamically advance the
Korean revolution and consolidate the foundation for the
building of a democratic, independent and sovereign state.
Therefore, efforts were made to form a provisional people’s
committee as a central organ of state power in north Korea.
Meetings of the people at all levels were convened and the
people’s committees were organized by way of electing their
members.
By late November 1945, the people’s committees were
formed in all areas of north Korea from provinces to cities,
counties, sub-counties and ri to come into operation.
By dint of the local people’s committees alone, it was
impossible to ensure connection between economic sectors
and political, economic and cultural connection between all
provinces.
Accordingly, on November 19 1945, the ten administrative
bureaus of north Korea were organized as a transitional
administrative organ for providing unifi ed guidance over
the activities of local power organs and realizing economic
connection between all provinces.
The organizational setup, mode of activities and experience
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of the sectoral administrative bureaus served as a framework
and asset for establishing a central power organ.
Based on such preparations, a consultative conference was
convened on February 8 1946, attended by the representatives
of democratic political parties, public organizations,
administrative bureaus and the people’s committees in north
Korea.
At the meeting, the Provisional People’s Committee of
North Korea was formed with the representatives of people
from all walks of life including workers and peasants.
Kim Il Sung was elected chairman of the committee with
the unanimous approval of the Korean people.
The Provisional People’s Committee of North Korea was
the direct successor to the people’s revolutionary government,
which had been established in the guerrilla zone on the shore
of the Tuman River during the anti-Japanese revolutionary
struggle, and the people’s democratic dictatorship, which
was guided by the Juche idea and which worked to realize
progressive democracy.
As it exercised dictatorship over pro-Japanese elements,
traitors to the nation, landlords and comprador capitalists
and applied democracy to the broad masses of the people,
it carried out the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic
revolution, established a revolutionary democratic base in
north Korea and created conditions for gradual transition to
the stage of socialist revolution.
The task of the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic
revolution was successfully carried out in north Korea in
1946.
This meant the total elimination of the colonial and
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