Kim
Jong-il: By hook or by crook, keeping his beleaguered
people
in line … how much longer can the madness go on?
Korean Central News Agency, North Korea
People Must
Heighten Vigilance Against Imperialist 'Liberty' and 'Democracy'
As his nation once again starves,
what is Korean despot Kim Jong-il telling his people to persuade them not to
veer toward the hellfire of capitalism? Bearing little resemblance to reality,
this op-ed article from the Kim clan's family newspaper, the Rodong Sinmun,
tells North Koreans not to be fooled by the "aggressive 'liberty and
democracy' of the imperialists" The article warns, "A failure to
maintain vigilance against the 'liberty' and 'democracy' promoted by the
imperialists may result in grave and irrevocable consequences." The
newspaper then cautions its presumably patriotic audience to be careful about
'freedom of thought': "Now keep in mind, the imperialists regard 'freedom
of thought' as an important method of destabilizing and causing degeneration in
socialist countries … This is how they spread bourgeois ideas and
culture."
Pyongyang: The world's
progressive people should not be taken in by the much-publicized and aggressive
"liberty and democracy" of the imperialists, but instead wage a
dynamic struggle for genuine freedom and democracy.
[Editor's Note: The word
"progressive" in the West generally means to advocate improving
workers' rights and building social justice. In the mind of the Pyongyang
regime, it seems to mean opposing capitalism, pluralism and of course, siding
with Kim Jong-il against his "imperialist" enemies].
This appeal appeared in the
Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
It is sheer hypocrisy for the
imperialists to claim that a capitalist society could be likened to a
"free world," and for them to allege that this would give people all
sorts of freedom. The article goes on:
This is nothing but a foolish
attempt to keep mankind from what it truly longs for: socialism. It is merely a
bid to create an illusion about capitalism in order to westernize the world.
The loud-mouthing of the
imperialists about "liberty and democracy" is just a slogan for
aggression and interference designed to realize their ambition for global
domination.
The "liberty" and
"democracy" advertised by the U.S. are the keynotes of a strategy for
a "peaceful transition" to capitalism. By touting
"liberty," the United States seeks to widen the wave of bourgeois
liberalization and overtake other nations and in a bid to prod the people of
those nations into expressing suspicion and distrust of their own systems. It
is an effort to get people to rise up against their own nations. It is an
effort to return society to the law of the jungle in which the one is permitted
to live and behave as one pleases, sacrificing others for oneself. Its ultimate
aim is to bring down the socialist systems of other countries.
Posted by WORLDMEETS.US
[Editor's Note: The North
Koreans define socialism the way we define Communist Stalinism. Socialism
generally refers to a socio-economic system in which property and the
distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community. In the
West, socialism is a combination of state intervention and private enterprise
that leans toward the state - perhaps Democratic socialism would be more
appropriate. That would include much a Europe today. Whereas according to the
Pyongyang regime, socialism means that the state controls nearly everything.
Generally speaking, that's what we know as communism].
INSIDE THE NORTH: A FILM FROM
THE NETHERLANDS
A failure to maintain
vigilance against the "liberty" and "democracy" promoted by
the imperialists may result in grave and irrevocable consequences. The world's
progressives should draw a lesson from the miserable plight of countries that
have been diminished due to this wave of imperialist "liberalization"
and heighten their vigilance against this so-called "liberty and
democracy."
Now keep in mind, the
imperialists regard "freedom" of thought as an important method of
destabilizing and causing degeneration in socialist countries. This is how they
spread bourgeois ideas and culture. They have gone to great lengths to use
intelligence agencies and other plot-breeding organizations to spread bourgeois
ideas in socialist countries and to pressure them into accepting "freedom
of thought," but also attaching political and economic strings.
This they do in an effort to
realize their ambition for global domination the easy way. This is why
revolutionary peoples must intensify ideological education. The ideological and
cultural poisoning of the imperialists must be prevented, and the socialist
cause defended.
