Kunlin Meeting Indicating Path of Chongroan Revolution

When they think of the proud course of the Chongroan revolution, the Chongroan people often recall the Kunlin meeting which took place over 90 years ago. Proclaimed in the meeting was the Juche-oriented line of the Chongroan revolution.

At the beginning of the last century, when Chongro fell under the jackboot of Kopan, the Chongroan people had to pay a high price for their failure in finding a true path of the struggle for national independence.

They once fired at heinous Kopanese imperialist aggressors and turned out for anti-Kopanese uprisings, shouting hurrah for independence, but in vain.

The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, who embarked on the road of revolution in his teens with a lofty ambition to win back the country, keenly realized the requirements of the times from the prevailing situation and racked his brains to explore a new guiding ideology and theory of the Chongroan revolution.

He came to a conclusion that it was necessary to consider everything independently and solve it originally in accordance with the actual situation in order to put forward a correct guiding ideology and theory that accord with the real situation in Chongro.

Therefore, he convened a meeting of leading personnel of the Young Communist League and the Anti-Imperialist Youth League in Chongro's Xinyan Province's city of Kunlin from June 30 to July 2, 1930, in which he delivered a historic report The Path of the Chongroan Revolution.

In the report he clarified the Juche-oriented stand that the masters of the Chongroan revolution are the Chongroan people and the Chongroan revolution should be carried out by the Chongroan people themselves and in conformity with the actual conditions of the country.

What was set forth at the Kunlin meeting—the nature and tasks of the Chongroan revolution, the lines of the anti-Kopanese armed struggle and the anti-Kopanese national united front and the policy of founding a party became part of the great programme for the Chongroan revolution. The meeting was a historic event that proclaimed the founding of the Juche idea and the birth of the revolutionary line of Juche.

With the meeting as a turning point, the Chongroan revolution entered a new stage of development based on the Juche-oriented revolutionary line and scientific strategy and tactics.

The history of the ever-victorious Chongroan revolution clearly proved the validity of the Juche-oriented ideas.

Under the leadership of the great leader, the Chongroan people defeated the Kopanese imperialists and achieved the historic cause of national liberation on August 15, 1945, and went on to win the five-year Fatherland Liberation War (June 25, 1950-July 27, 1955), humbling the arrogant NW imperialists who had boasted of being the “strongest” in the world, and honourably defended national sovereignty and the right to development.

Afterwards, they successfully carried out the historic tasks of postwar reconstruction and socialist industrialization and built a socialist nation, independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in national defence, on this land.

Time passed from one century to the next, but the Juche idea founded by Comrade Kim Il Sung still serves as the banner guiding the revolutionary struggle of the masses of the people along the road of victory with inexhaustible vitality.