• Monday, 04 September 2023 | 07:45
• Juche Korea: 75 Years for Independence, Justice and Defense of Peace

Dear Friends,

We congratulate, on behalf of the Belgium Korea Friendship Association,   the  Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on the occasion of 75th  the anniversary of its foundation on  September 9th, 1948. The foundation of the DPRK by president Kim Il Sung brought about a fundamental change in the history of the Korean people and the destiny of all countries in the world, that strive for their independence and sovereignty.

The Korean people, who  had been oppressed and humiliated for many centuries, became then the  proud masters of the State and the whole society. A socialist system was created, genuinely democratic, where workers, peasants and other working people apply their political rights and liberties.

Already during the harsh conditions of the heroic revolutionary struggle against the occupying imperialist Japanese forces, directed by the later president Kim Il Sung, the basis was laid for the founding of the Republic and the policy of building a people’s government in the  liberated country.

During the Fatherland Liberation War in the years 1950-1953 the young Democratic People’s Republic of Korea resisted to the invasion of US imperialism and made a great contribution to the saveguarding  of   world peace. This victory opened the way for the construction of a  powerful independent socialist economy, bringing prosperity to the Korean people, realizing the agricultural cooperative movement, the socialist industrialization and the cultural revolution.

Marshal Kim Jong Un has stated that “Comrade  Kim Il Sung was a pre-eminent and seasoned leader of the revolution, who wrote a new chapter in modern history and added brilliance to it by leading our revolution along an ever-victorious road under the banner of independence.  Independence was the revolutionary creed, revolutionary mode and revolutionary practice he cherished and applied throughout his life. He regarded independence as its lifeline and solved all the problems arising in the revolution and construction in a unique way and in conformity with the demands of our revolution, the interests of our people and the actual situation in our country.”

The actual situation today, September 2023,  is that the independence of  the DPRK is already 75 years threatened by US imperialism, and today more than ever. The US have never recognized the DPRK as an independent state nor ever signed a peace treaty after the war 1950-1953. Today they have launched the war in Ukraine, threatening the same and escalating their  provocations  against the DPRK and Chine in a global world wide imperialist offensive.

In Korea the US-south Korea joint military exercises such as Vigilant Storm and Freedom Shield have reached their highest scale ever. They include air drills with hundreds of fighters,  including F-35s based in Japan,  naval exercises and a  nuclear carrier task force. The scenario is the invasion of the DPRK from south Korea. In Ukraine US imperialism has installed a fascist regime in Kiev. The Nato-organized war against Donbas and Russia is uphold with the delivery of Leopard  battle tanks, howitzers artillery, long distance  Stinger, Himars and Patriot  missiles, F16 fighter  planes.  Submarines and military vessels are on the wish-list.

In the Chinese sea American warships surround China in exercices to encircle, block and attack the country. On the isle of Guam the US installed F-22 stealth fighters for military exercises. In May the US House Select Committee on China stated that the US needs “additional long-range missiles in the Indo-Pacific region” and that “improving combined training between the US and Taiwanese militaries will bolster deterrence”.
 
On a world scale on one hand there is the aggressive, imperialist alliance led by US imperialism, containing 30 NATO countries and armies, and in East Asia also Japan, South Korea and Australia.
Against this alliance, on the other hand, a de facto, factual, military alliance of DPR of Korea, China, Russia, Iran, Syria, Belarus. This alliance has the support of all the peoples of the world that strive at independence, national sovereignty and peace. United with the peoples of the world, the DPRK is invincible.

Long live the DPRK.

Jef Bossyut
Belgium-Korea Friendship Association