The Down-With-Imperialism Union and the WPK

Great President Kim Il Sung Organizes the DIU (Oct. 17, 1926)

The Down-With-Imperialism Union and

the Workers’ Party of Korea

The Workers’ Party of Korea is enjoying absolute trust and support from the Korean people and the world revolutionary people as the most revolutionary party that takes the immortal Juche idea and the Songun idea as its guiding ideology, the ever-victorious steel-like party that leads the revolution and construction to victory and glory, and the mother party that sealed blood ties with the popular masses and bestows loving care and trust upon them.

That the WPK has honorably discharged its glorious mission as a great party in the era of independence and a general staff of revolution which leads the independent cause of the popular masses to a shining victory is attributed to its proud traditions and origins.

President Kim Il Sung who left his native home in Mangyongdae in January 1925 with a firm determination not to return home before he liberate the country occupied by Japanese imperialism, formed the Down-With-Imperialism Union (DIU), the first revolutionary organization in Korea, on October 17, 1926.

The immediate task of the DIU was to overthrow Japanese imperialism and realize liberation and independence of Korea, and its ultimate task was to build socialism and communism in Korea and, furthermore, defeat all imperialisms and build communism throughout the world.

The DIU was a vanguard organization for leading the revolutionary cause of Juche to victory and the first genuine communist revolutionary organization in Korea.

The formation of the DIU was an imposing prelude for building a Juche-oriented revolutionary party, a new-type party, based on the principles of independence.

President Kim Il Sung, proceeding from the adamant stand that the master of any country’s revolution is its own people, illuminated the original way of founding the party in conformity with the concrete conditions of Korea, far from any approved theories, and brilliantly accomplished that cause.

The DIU members held the President in high esteem as the center of the unity and leadership and shared their will and life with him, and such traditions of unity have been firmly continued in every annals of the Korean revolution and the WPK became an invincible party which realized the most solid unity and cohesion for the first time in history.

The cause of the WPK which was started from the DIU is more brilliantly being realized under the guidance of leader Kim Jong Il, the peerless political elder and the great brilliant commander of Songun, and the WPK will display its honor in the future, too, as the ever-victorious party that spearheads the era of independence.