Thursday 29 March 2012

Vitality of Juche Idea Demonstrated before World

Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- 30 years have passed since the publication of leader Kim Jong Il's work "On the Juche Idea" on March 31, 1982.

The work was brought out in pamphlet by political parties, organizations and institutions of more than 140 countries in less than a year after its publication.

The famous works of Kim Jong Il, a library of the Juche idea, including "On the Juche Idea" were translated into more than 60 different languages and published in more than 190 countries over the past three decades.

The Juche idea has been studied and disseminated on a global scale since the 1960s and its study groups appeared in various parts of the world.

More than 100 study groups go by the august name of Kim Jong Il and tens of thousands of seminars on the Juche idea were held.

The publication of his famous works got brisk. More than 540 000 copies of his works including "Let Us Advance under the Banner of Marxism-Leninism and the Juche Idea" and "Socialism Is a Science" were brought out in many countries in more than 40 different languages in the latter half of the 1990s.

Among the works on Songun politics widely published were "Songun Politics of Our Party Is an Effective Socialist Political Mode" and "The Songun-based Revolutionary Line Is a Great Revolutionary Line of Our Era and an Ever-Victorious Banner of Our Revolution" which comprehensively deal with the principles and theories of the Songun revolution based on the Juche idea.

Those works were published in more than 20 different languages and distributed in at least 30 countries last year alone.

The study and dissemination of the Juche idea were organized on a global scale. The first study organization of the Juche idea was formed in Mali in April 1969 and there came into being the International Institute of the Juche Idea in 1978.

More than 50 study organizations were formed in 1982 alone and the African Regional Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea and the European Society for the Study of the Juche Idea were founded in 1985. There is a well-organized system for studying and disseminating the Juche idea in different continents, countries and regions.

International and continental seminars on the Juche idea were organized nearly 20 times in the 1980s.

In Asia national seminars were held more than 100 times in 36 countries and various forms of international and national seminars took place more than 2 900 times in a year of the 1990s.

In the new century the Juche idea was studied and disseminated in various forms and methods more than 9 000 times in at least 180 countries and regions.

A new method of studying and disseminating the Juche idea by use of internet was applied.

The 13th Enlarged Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the International Institute of the Juche Idea adopted a decision to hold a world conference on the Juche idea in Pyongyang in April this year, the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung.

The Tower of the Juche Idea, unveiled on April 15, 1982, has been visited by at least 480 000 foreigners of nearly 52 000 delegations over the last three decades.

Nearly 320 pieces of commemorative stones were contributed by more than 80 countries and international organizations.

All facts go to prove that the Juche idea has tremendous vitality and the trend of the times to follow this great idea grows stronger with the flow of time. -0-

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