The General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Kim Jong Un has described University of National Defence which is now named Kim Jong Un University of National Defence as the most valuable strategic asset to Korean revolution.
Kim Jong Un who made this known in a speech during a Congratulatory Visit to the University at its 60th anniversary also noted that revolutionary talented personnel studying at the university were the most precious resources that can guarantee the future of a powerful country.
Kim Jong Un in his historic speech in commemoration of his congratulatory visit to the university stated thus, “if someone asks our Party and people waging the revolution what is their most valuable strategic asset, they will say that is this defence university, a “pedigree farm” for training defence sci-tech talents.
“And if he asks what are the most precious resources that can guarantee the future of a powerful country, they will also say they are the revolutionary talented personnel studying at this university.
“The university has proved this iron truth of history with its dignified history and wonderful feats. As I am standing here on this meaningful day, I am reminded of how epochal and decisive the day of 60 years ago was in achieving the success of our revolutionary cause and carving out the destiny of our state.
“The founding of this university was not simply something created by the fateful decade, when confrontation between socialism and imperialism and between revolution and counterrevolution was acute on the globe and when the urgency of building self-reliant defences in every country posed itself not in words but by shocking events and as a stark reality.
“It was an institute born of the steadfast revolutionary will of the Workers’ Party of Korea to take its destiny firmly in its own hands and defend to the last the gains of the revolution achieved at the cost of blood; it was also a crystallization of its firm faith and ideals for setting up a notable landmark in achieving dignity and prosperity by building great strength.
“It would not be so hard to imagine how extraordinary and audacious the decision was to found this university amid the then global political landscape and internal and external situations of our country.
“If the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung had lived to continue to write his reminiscences without stopping it to our painful memory, he would have recollected why this university had to be founded, I believe.
“As it was founded from scratch with the spirit of self-respect and self-reliance as its lifeblood, since the first day of its founding the university, with Juche as its lifeline and characteristic feature, has served as a reliable base for implementing the Workers’ Party of Korea’s line of self-reliant defence and added inexhaustible potential and dynamism to the growth and development of the defence capability of our state.
“The Juche orientation and modern character are two attributes and buttresses of our self-reliant national defence, and these can be defended and built up only when it has a base for training its own sci-tech talents.
“In fact, from the day of this university’s founding our defence industry could set a clear goal and orientation for its development as a Juche-oriented industry that develops and produces our own style of weapons and other combat equipment, and make rapid development as an industry possessed of self-supporting, modern and advanced characters.
“Though it made its start literally from scratch–without the foundations of the machine-building industry and an asset of munitions industry–our defence industry laid already in the 1970s its firm production foundations based on modern defence science and technology, and has since supported the Party’s cause on the strength of Juche-oriented science and industry. The annals of its great history have been written together with those of the history of this university’s development.
“This is the very place where large contingents of competent personnel have grown up equipping themselves with the spirit of Juche and up-to-date military science and made tangible contributions to the victorious revolution by satisfactorily raising our country’s defence capabilities to the level as high as is required by the revolution at each period and stage of its development. The fine people trained in this campus now constitute the backbone of the revolutionary industry in writing, together with our Party, a new chapter of history of strength the world has never known.
“Our own style of weaponry has attained the power which nobody else on this planet could copy, the powerful strength by which the embryo of great historic events is developing. This strength is undoubtedly the might of potentialities of the Juche-oriented science, crystallization of the pride of Korea and the resourcefulness of the Korean people, and of our proud defence scientists who are the incarnation of those qualities.
“The university has untiringly injected the two essential attributes of vitality, that is, the Juche orientation and modern character, into the revolutionary industry that shoulders the destiny and future of the Party, the state and the people, and laid solid and stable foundations for our country to rise as a world-class power. Herein lies the historic importance of the founding of the university and the incomparable glory of its 60-year history.
“We know there are long-standing institutes around the world boasting their time-honoured traditions of defence science education and training of capable personnel; yet none of them could be a match for this university, a revolutionary institute, which, based in the capital city of the revolution, has maintained its lineage of absolute loyalty to the Party Central Committee and its lines while firmly supporting the revolutionary cause without a slightest vacillation or hesitation for 60 years for its steadfast inheritance and accomplishment.
“This honourable history and traditions of the university and the names and exploits of the numerous heroes born of the university are rather little-known, but the imprints of their life are left anywhere in our country, and their soul of national defence is reflected in the hatred-charged powerful weapons that strike terror into the enemy.
“The defence university does not simply represent the glorious past and present of the revolutionary industry which is a strong buttress of our independent, powerful and self-sustaining country; it also serves as a bulwark of strategic importance for achieving one victory after another in the years to come.
“Your campus is a fierce battlefield, not a comfortable place. The enemy you are facing are die-hard anti-communists, who would not change their hostile consciousness against our Republic until their doomsday. And they are imperialist aggressive forces that boast their highly advanced military science and technology and munitions industry plus their centuries-old belligerency.
“It is a matter of course that the more fearfully they become aware of their doomsday coming closer, the more frantic the ringleader of aggression and its lackeys, dependent on anti-communism and war for their existence, will go and rush to war till they collapse with sheer exhaustion.
“This is not an issue related to rhetoric as mentioned by the UN, but it is exactly a warning of action. Confronting us are the largest nuclear power in the world and the most vicious of its puppets attempting to fool with its nukes. Under such circumstances our view, option and resolve can never be changed.
“The enemy should refrain from acting rashly. They should never slight our warning that if they misunderstand it as something like their worn-out, half-baked bluff, they would pay more dearly for it. The absolute strength we have possessed at present is discharging in a responsible manner the mission of deterring a war and defending peace. No forces will dare opt for the use of military strength against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a military conflict.
“However, the more desperately the enemy try to hold supremacy by dint of the “nuclear alliance” and reverse the strategic situation, the more steadily we should make a leap forward in defence science and industry and the more firmly we should consolidate our war deterrent for self-defence. Our Party and the government of our Republic will never tolerate the balance of strength being disturbed on the Korean peninsula.
“We should neutralize the imperialists’ adventurist military acts of aggressive nature by dint of the absolute superiority of the strength of the Juche-oriented defence science and technology. Nothing will overwhelm the strength of the Juche-type weapons loaded with the might of the revolutionary ideas and the do-or-die resistance spirit, and we, based on this strength, should create a new world, in which war, hegemony and injustice shall not be allowed. This defence university should continue to make responsible and devoted efforts until we accomplish this important mission and righteous cause entrusted to us by the times and history.
“The basic task facing the university is to train in larger numbers pillars who would further consolidate and glorify the position of our Republic as a world-class military superpower, competent talents who are possessed of the Juche-oriented ideology and theory on defence science, a wealth of specialist knowledge and practical abilities, and the key to this end is to radically improve the level of its education.
“To improve the level of its education is the absolute demand of our Party and revolution, and the university should take the lead in implementing the Party’s policy on bringing about a radical turn in education. True to the essence of our Party’s defence policy on guaranteeing the security of the country and people by our own efforts and in accordance with the characteristics of education in defence science and technology and the global trend of the development of military hardware, the university should formulate its educational programme correctly, reorganize the overall structure of its education and make positive efforts to study and apply advanced teaching methods with the main stress on putting the contents of education on a scientific, practical, comprehensive and modern footing, thus increasing the ranks of talents capable of confidently leading the steady advance and development of our defence industry.
“It should thoroughly establish the Juche orientation in the education of defence science and technology so as to play a decisive role in rooting out dogmatic, stereotyped and imitative practices that remain in the defence industry, and pay special attention to intensifying basic science education as suited to its characteristics. In order for the university to keep up its appearance as befits its position and weight, it should, above all else, improve the quality of the ranks of its teachers and ensure that all of them possess high intellect combined with the qualifications of educators.
“With a clear view and stand that improved qualifications are inconceivable separate from scientific research, the teachers and researchers should be proactive in participating in developing cutting-edge military hardware urgently needed in strengthening the country’s defence capabilities and perfecting the combat preparedness of the People’s Army, as well as in projects to push back the frontiers of defence science and technology. In this way, they can prepare themselves to be talented educationists, who possess as their essential qualifications rich experience in education and latest science and technology so as to create a climate of talented persons training students to be more talented ones.
“The university Party committee should make strenuous efforts to establish more firmly the unified leadership system of the Party and a climate of strictly observing order, keeping secrets and maintaining moral discipline in the campus and lay firm material foundations of the university. In this way, it can constantly improve the working and living conditions for the teachers, researchers and students, who are invaluable for our Party.
The Party and the state should give active support to the defence university in its work and throw their weight behind it. Relevant departments of the Party Central Committee should pay close attention to the university’s work and give proper Party-oriented guidance to the university. Other relevant sectors and units should take measures for solving on a priority basis the problems arising in the management and operation of the university.
It is the determination of the Party Central Committee to radically transform the appearance and educational environment of the university with the goal of turning it into one of the most prestigious universities in the world at an earlier date” he stated.
Source: (KCNA)
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