By Ochiaka Ugwu
The Embassy of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPKR) in Nigeria has commemorated the 80th anniversary of founding of Workers’ Party of Korea with a lot of dignitaries in attendance.
Speaking at the banquet organised by DPRK Embassy to mark the day in Abuja Wednesday, Chargé d’affaires of the Embassy, Mr. Jong Chol Guk said the Workers’ Party of Korea has achieved victories in the midst of the harsh storms of history over the long 80 years.
He said that its victorious history was as a brilliant result of the wise leadership of the great leaders, comrades Kim ll Sung, Kim Jong Il, who pioneered their party’s revolutionary Cause and led it to victory.
According to him, “The great leader, Comrade Kim Il Sung, who overthrew the Japanese rule and liberated Korea August 15 1945, prioritized the establishment of Party over creation of democratic state and regular armed forces and ultimately, Workers’ Party of Korea was founded by him on October 10, 1945.
“The great Comrade Kim II Sung developed the Worker’s Party of Korea into an independent party that formulates and implements policies in accordance with the needs and interests of the Korean revolution and the Korean people, without regard for the opinions of the great powers.
“Throughout his entire period of leading the Korean Revolution, the Great Leader based in his famous saying on the fact that if people are servile, they will become fools, and if the Party is servile, it will ruin the revolution and construction, he wisely led the Worker’s Party of Korea to fulfill its mission and role as an independent and revolutionary party.
“The Worker’s Party of Korea entered a new golden age in the 1960s when the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il began his work in the Party Central Committee.
“Comrade Kim Jong Il strengthened and developed the Worker’s Party of Korea into a party that thoroughly achieved ideological unity and solidarity of the revolutionary ranks.
“The realization of Kim Il-Sungism throughout society in the 1970s was significant in strengthening and developing the Worker’s Party of Korea into a revolutionary party of Juche.
“In this way, our party has been able to fulfill its leadership function and role as a revolutionary general staff that is firmly united ideologically, morally around leader” he said.
“The Worker’s Party of Korea, pioneered and developed by the great comrade Kim II Sung and Kim Jong Il is being inherited and developed today by the respected comrade Kim Jong Un.
“Under Comrade Kim Jong Un’s wise leadership, the Workers’ Party of Korea has overcome all the storms of history and continues to maintain its identity as a powerful leadership body that is ideologically pure and organizationally unified.
“Comrade Kim Jong Un put forward slogans “Everything for the people” and “Everything based on the people” and is strengthening and developing the Workers’ Party of Korea into a people’s party that dedicates itself to the people.
“Thanks to the wise leadership and dedication of Comrade Kim Jong Un, the Workers’ party of Korea has become the world’s longest-serving ruling party.
“It is the Workers’ Party of Korea’s unwavering commitment to continuously develop Cooperation and exchange with progressive parties in many countries around the world, including Nigeria, to realize international order.
“The Workers’ Party of Korea and the government of DPRK cherish cooperation and exchange with Nigeria’s parties, including All Progressive Congress, and as well as relationship with the Nigerian government and will actively strive to further develop in line with the demands of people of two countries.
“I would like to take this meaningful opportunity to wish His Excellency President Tinubu good health. Wish good health to comrade Kim Jong Un, Secretary of Workers’ Party of Korea Unity and cooperation with the progressive parties of Nigeria, including the Workers” Party of Korea and All Progressive Congress to develop friendly relations between Nigeria and DPRK” he concluded.
Also speaking, Head of International Department of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ini Morgan said that in recognition of the past heroic struggles of the Korean people under the leadership of the Workers’ Party, APC salutes Korean people and the past activities of the revolutionary leadership of the party in support and defense of Korea independence, sovereignty and their socialist system.
Morgan said that, “On the 10″ October, 80 years ago, and under the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung, the Korean people stood as one and rose up in support of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea, and created a new epoch in the history of the Korean Revolutionary Movement.
“Under the wise leadership of Kim II Sung, the Korean people built up the socialist nation independent in politics, self-sufficient in economy and self-reliant in defense.
“In 1990s, the severe sanctions of hostile forces along with the collapse of the Soviet Union and other socialist countries, it had a huge impact on the economic and political development of Korea. At that time, Kim Jong II met the new and aggressive challenges of the hostile forces, elevating the Korean People’s Army as the leading force in defending and developing their economic and social system, and became ideologically and politically stronger than before.
“Today, under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Un and the WPK, the DPRK is now emerged as a nuclear state, the State and the Korean people are the defender of peace of the Korean peninsula.
“For 80 years the WPK has led and defended the Korean people of the DPRK against all forms of intimidation, attacks, economic, political and social interference.
“To the people of Korea, we stand and salute you as we join with you to celebrate the 80″ anniversary of the founding of the WPK. And availing myself of this opportunity, I make a firm conviction that the relationship between the APC and the WPK will be developed by the interest of the two countries and peoples” he concluded.
The event was attended by Ag Vice Chancellor of University of Abuja, Prof. Mathew Adamu, Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VoN), Jibrin Baba Ndace, Deputy Director of Asia and Pacific, Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Mohammed Haidara, Head of International Department of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ini Morgan and Amb. Wahab Akande.
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