GLORY OF SONGUN KOREA

DPRK Takes on New Look under Songun Politics

Socialist Korea has changed its looks day by day under leader Kim Jong Il's politics based on the great Songun idea. The Yonggwang Street extending from Pyongyang Railway Station to the Pyongyang Grand Theatre has assumed a new countenance with the 55th anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at hand.

The motorway has been paved again, underpasses reconstructed for convenience sake, footways covered with colored pavements, service facilities built in round, vaulted, flat, zigzag and other styles and dwelling houses face-lifted

Over the last decade many gigantic and monumental edifices were built across the country. Among them are the Anbyon Youth Power Station, Youth Hero Motorway, Kaechon-Lake Thaesong Waterway, April 25 Hotel, Academy of Koryo Medical Science, Taedonggang Beer Factory, modern poultry farms, salterns and power stations.

Nature-remaking projects have been carried on in an extensive way throughout the country. As a result, hundreds of thousands of hectares of land have been realigned as large standardized fields to suit the features of socialist Korea. Comprehensive mechanization of agriculture has been put on a higher stage.

Hundreds of rural villages have made their appearance in recent years.

Mt. Kuwol, Mt. Chilbo, Ryongmun and Songam caverns and other scenic places have turned into tourist resorts for the people.

SONGUN KOREA PRAISED


The world progressives call the DPRK advancing under the uplifted banner of Songun "Songun Korea". This reflects their praises of the DPRK defending the dignity and sovereignty of the country and achieving the prosperity of the nation under the banner of Songun.

The DPRK is highly regarded as "Songun Korea" because it holds leader Kim Jong Il in high esteem.

In the past when Korea lacked a great leader, it was called a "weak colonial country" and a "secluded country". But after the country was liberated by President Kim Il Sung Korea came to be called the DPRK and honoured with various noble titles.

The DPRK was called "democratic Korea" and "people's country" in the period of building a new country and "heroic Korea" and "fighting Korea" in the period of the Fatherland Liberation War.

It wrought epoch-making miracles on the debris after the war.

It was called "socialist Korea" and "Juche Korea" from a "country of Chollima". It was given more titles such as a "tax-free country", a "country independent, self-supporting and self-reliant in national defence," a "country of Renaissance in the 20th century" and a "country centred on the popular masses".

In the crucible of the life and death struggle to defend socialism and build a great prosperous powerful nation in the 1990s the DPRK came to be called "Songun Korea".

Songun, an epitome of the great revolutionary feats of Kim Jong Il, serves as an all-powerful treasured sword which guarantees the eternal victory and prosperity of Korea.

Miracles of Songun Korea

Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- Nine years have passed since leader Kim Jong Il left the first great footprints of his Songun leadership at a post of the Korean People's Army surrounded by young pine trees on the New Year of Juche 84 (1995). In this period, the Korean people have created a great epic of heroic feats which others would be unable to perform even in centuries.

These miracles of Songun Korea praised by the world people as "myth of human history" include the blasting of the "fiction of collapse of north Korea," leap to a possessor of earth satellite and start of the grand march for building a prosperous powerful nation, adoption of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and repatriation of 63 unconverted long-term prisoners, land rezoning of over 200,000 hectares in a matter of a few years, excavation of the Kaechon-Lake Thaesong Canal stretching over 150 km, emergence of a world "marathon queen," the creation of the grand mass gymnastic and artistic performance "Arirang" acclaimed as the acme of human culture, Kim Jong Il's foreign tour covering more than 50,000 ri that shook the world.

The U.S. imperialists, reactionaries and mouthpieces on the payroll of imperialism set afloat a hundred and one rumors, crying with bravo that "the 'destruction' of north Korea is a matter of time" and "socialism will disappear soon on the earth with the 'collapse' of north Korea."

The "fiction of the destruction of north Korea" about which the Western media shouted themselves hoarse went to pieces in every step of Kim Jong Il's unceasing journey of Songun leadership for 9 years.

The DPRK, a small country, put a satellite on the orbit in the first launch entirely with its own technique and wisdom in the difficult days of arduous long march.

With the launch of satellite as a signal for building a prosperous powerful nation, the DPRK started the grand march towards the majestic goal.

The historical summit meeting of the north and the south and adoption of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration were greatest event that set off a storm of sensation at home and abroad.

63 unconverted long-term prisoners came back at a time to the socialist motherland. This was an auspicious event of the nation.

On May 4, Juche 87 (1998), land-rezoning of gigantic scale was announced in Taebaek-ri, Changdo County, Kangwon Province. In the following five years at least 236,360 hectares of crop fields have been rezoned across the country, bring tremendous changes.

The over 150km-long canal tens of meters wide from Taegak-ri, Kaechon City, South Phyongan Province, to Lake Thaesong in Kangso District, Nampho City, is a monumental creation of eternal value built by the Korean army and people in the Songun era.

On August 29, Juche 88 (1999) Jong Song Ok, the DPRK woman marathoner, carried away gold medal at the women's marathon race of the 7th International Athletic Championships held in Sevilla, Spain.

Great was the stir created by the grand Gymnastic Display and Artistic Performance "Arirang" performed by over 100,000 persons that opened at May Day Stadium in Pyongyang on April 29, Juche 91 (2002).

In Juche 90 (2001) the world was aboil with "Kim Jong Il Impact" and "Kim Jong Il Storm". Kim Jong Il made a long journey of more than 50,000 ri in Russia from July 26 to August 18 that year to perform an immortal exploit peculiar in the histories of the DPRK-Russia relations and world politics.

These miracles of Songun Korea are, indeed, a great pride of our sun's nation.

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