From the article of 'Petrel'
No.650 / October 19, 1997

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The contradiction of North Korea nation is deepening

Kim Jong Il was elected to the general secretary of the Labor Party

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The Korean Labor Party of North Korea elected Kim Jong Il to the general secretary. It is the position of the representative of the party.

It is factually the election as a national leader because Labor Party has national powers.

However, this election is not the one in any kind of formal organization of the party nor the one having stepped on a right procedure. It is a form that is exactly suitable for a dictatorial nation.

Even though Hitler valued election as stepping on the right procedure - although it is purely the formal one - , how does the nerve of Kim Jong Il become on the whole?

Nepotism (the relative's politics) is said frequently. It is the thing to harden powers and to hold dictatorial politics by near relatives.

He is an heir of father's system and no more so far. He faithfully believes "the Juche ideology" that is the father's ideology and gives priority to the maintenance of the system of North Korea made up by the father above all.

There is exactly the essence of Kim Jong Il just here and there is the essence of the regime. The system such as the one that the child succeeds the parent's powers and the near relatives harden powers is peculiar to the system of feudalism and absolutism (Though the ancient dynasty is the same, we exclude it as needless to say). It is despised even in the bourgeois society.

Certainly, Kim Jong Il might groan under the contradiction and gap between the "Juche ideology" or the Kim Il Sung system and the objective reality, but he cannot find the loophole from that.

Though he can rule only by apotheosize and mystify himself and by cutting off the people; This contradiction only makes the rousing to action of the people to his powers inevitable.

He persists in "the Juche ideology" and presses idealism against the people, on the other hand, he is compelled to take the initiative of "economic reformation" by the history and the current state.

Of course it is exactly a contradiction to observe "the Juche ideology" on the one hand and to try to take the hegemony of "Economic liberalization" on the other hand. So, it will only prepare the failure of his character and the inevitable collapse of the system.

The base of his powers is in the army and does not exist in the working class. Therefore, it is parasitic; The peculiar narrowness, the reactionary character, the despotism and the apotheosis of leader, the mysticism and the secrecy, and the extreme subjectivism might be the reflections. The powers on such narrow-mindedness base cannot avoid the collapse, and Kim Jong Il has no guarantee not to fall into the same trap as Chaushesk.

The one to wrap North Korea now is a complete foolish, an unscientific and illogical imbecility that does not reach even bourgeois liberalism if to see from the worker.

Though they say Kim Jong Il is extreme "able man," but the one being given as the evidence is such nonsensical story as following; when he visited the airport of the army he ordered the change of the direction to the aircraft landing from the north, immediately after that, lightning ran in the north sky, a violent shower fell, and the airplane was able to land safely.

Moreover, he is an expert of shooting and it is said that he had his pistol from right hand to left and struck down all bottles by 50 meters in front of the officers.

It is said "An unusual, natural phenomenon has happened one after another" in domestic various places from about September 21 when the general secretary recommendation began to be decided in the local organizations. As the example, the "fact" that the flower out of season bloomed in the tree of pear and apricot (Or, it is said yasuraume.) and a white rose flowered suddenly is introduced plausibly.

It is after all such story in Japan at the Nara era as a white pheasant appears and it bodes well when the emperor ascends.

However, it is clear that Japan cannot laugh North Korea trying to make consented the people of the man of power's validity by taking out of the "mysterious natural phenomenon" because this "modernized nation" also trying to press "the feelings of reverence to the supernatural phenomenon" against the people.

Why is such a foolish as mere child's play necessary? If his is winning the support of the people and has the conviction, he will not need the story like such a concoction. In that sense, this will teach the weakness of the powers of Kim Jong Il, will not? Anyway, this new leader seems to have neither confidence nor belief in the meaning of the truth.

North Korea is one of very few nations (It can say the last nation) that defends "Stalinism" system in stubbornness unlike the other "socialist" nations.

This system has been survived by the transfer of powers from Kim Il Sung to Kim Jong Il.

Who has called such old-fashioned society in the name of "socialism" ? The party such as Stalinist (and the bourgeois party that follows them) is extraordinary party on earth.

However, already from the time of Kim Il Sung it has been clear that this system is under standstill and corruption. It might be evident that a country cannot exist with an extreme subjectivity principle and self-importance named "the Juche ideology."

If Kim Jong Il would be evaluated in some measure, it only would be the time when he would deny "the drift theory" and indicate a new direction. However, he does not seem to be able to do it at all.

It is said that the objective problem in North Korea now is liberalization of the economy (the making to capitalism) and, politically, to move to the system of freedom and democracy.

They say this road is road that the Soviet Union traced, China traced, and the "socialist" nations of all over the world traced, too.

However, the workers of the world admit such "inevitable" road only in some limit and in some condition. That is, if such revolution will be done it will not be the ultimate revolution and it will have only the meaning of the transition to socialistic revolution; this "liberalistic" revolution (that is, the capitalistic revolution) itself will be the self-contradiction and it will only develop a new peculiar contradiction; it will do nothing but collapse by falling into a blind alley as well as the old system coming to a deadlock.