Puppet government in Seoul under challenge

South Korean Army soldiers manoeuvre K-1 tanks during an annual river-crossing exercise on the Han river in Yeoju, about 100 km (62 miles) southeast of Seoul December 16, 2009. The aim of the exercise is to prepare soldiers for a possible invasion by North Korea. - REUTERS PHOTO

"Defence minister Kim first offered to resign after the sinking of a south Korean naval corvette, the Cheonan, in March with the loss of 46 sailors. But his offer was refused by President Lee Myung-bak. An international investigation concluded the ship was sunk by a fire by joint military exercise by south Korea and the United States. But, puppet government in Seoul put the allegation on DPR Korea with an ulterior motive, being suggested by its Western masters."

by Mahneb Khan

(November 26, Dhaka, Sri Lanka Guardian) Kim Tae-young, defense minister of south Korea resigned on Thursday afternoon when the masses in that country started demonstrating against Seoul’s unwarranted attack on DPR Korea and for giving provocation to escalating tension in the Korean Peninsula. Majority of the people in south Korea are in favor of re-unification of Korean Peninsula under the honest and dynamic leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Il. Some other sources claimed that, minister Kim Tae-young was vehemently opposing America’s naval battle group led by the aircraft carrier George Washington steaming towards south Korea. The Battle Group, in the name of joint exercise with south Korean navy will play dirty role in pushing the entire Korean Peninsula towards war.

In an apparent response to this ‘show’, DPRK’s official news agency issued a statement on Thursday warning of further retaliation if there is provocation from south Korea.

And in Beijing a foreign ministry spokesman said China has expressed concern over the joint exercises and is paying close attention to American naval movements.

Defence minister Kim first offered to resign after the sinking of a south Korean naval corvette, the Cheonan, in March with the loss of 46 sailors. But his offer was refused by President Lee Myung-bak. An international investigation concluded the ship was sunk by a fire by joint military exercise by south Korea and the United States. But, puppet government in Seoul put the allegation on DPR Korea with an ulterior motive, being suggested by its Western masters.

Meanwhile, Sarah Palin, considered a likely candidate for the presidency of the United States in 2012 told an interviewer on Glenn Beck's radio show: "We've got to stand with our North Korean allies".

Palin was asked how she would handle a situation like the one in DPR Korea.

Meanwhile, south Korea and its Western masters are spending millions of dollars in using the global media against Pyongyang, with the ulterior motive of misleading the global opinion against the excellent and praiseworthy leadership of General Kim Jong Il.

DPR Korea follows Juche ideology initiated by President Kim Il Sung.

The Juche Idea alternately chuch'e is the official state ideology of Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It teaches that "man is the master of everything and decides everything," and that the Korean people are the masters of Korea's revolution. Juche is a component of North Korea's political system. Juche literally means "main body" or "subject"; it has also been translated in North Korean sources as "independent stand" and the "spirit of self-reliance". Juche cannot be completely translated into foreign languages. Its best translation would be ‘always putting Korean things first.

The first known reference to Juche was a speech given by Kim Il-sung on December 28, 1955, titled "On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work" in rejection of the policy of de-Stalinization (bureaucratic self-reform) in the Soviet Union. In this speech, Kim said that "Juche means Chosun's revolution" (Chosun being the traditional name for Korea). He stated, "To make revolution in Korea we must know Korean history and geography as well as the customs of the Korean people. Only then is it possible to educate our people in a way that suits them and to inspire in them an ardent love for their native place and their motherland". Kim Il Sung focuses on the importance of education and learning Korean history. Through the education of Korean people's own history will it "stimulate their national pride and rouse the broad masses to revolutionary struggle". Kim talks throughout his speech bulleting monumental events of the past and how certain outcomes could have been prevented. He stresses the importance of remembering their struggle, and that not learning their past, or denying it would "mean that our people did nothing. Hwang Jang-yeop, Kim's top adviser on ideology, discovered this speech later in the 1950s when Kim sought to develop his own version of Marxism–Leninism and began to craft the idea birthing it into the society defining credo it became. By 1958, Kim Il-sung had established himself as "the unrivaled ruler in North Korea" and thus started the language used to reference the people's devotion to Kim. This resulted in building a personality cult around him to glorify Kim Il Sung and his families history and legitimacy as leaders. Even following Kim Il Sung's death he remains the, eternal president and even those critical of his son Kim Jung-il still passionately revere him. The rewritten history of Korea goes as far back as 1866 when the "heroic" Kim family and his great-grandfather had fought against American imperialism. This is an example of the way in which the North Korean political machine began to mythologize Kim's history and abilities. The cult of personality surrounding the Kim family has both legitimated and helped garner support for the Juche ideology. Kim Il-sung was revered as the "supreme leader and the sun" of all people.

The Juche Idea itself gradually emerged as a systematic ideological doctrine under the political pressures of the Sino-Soviet split. After the idedology was pushed aside for almost a decade, in 1963 when Kim spoke of the chuch'e principles to the Korean People's Army, the idea emerged again.

Mehnab Khan is a columnist writing on regional and international issues.