KCNA Issues Detailed Report on Fighting Spirit and Traits of Three-Revolution Frontrunners in 1970s

 

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) Wednesday made public a detailed report on the fighting spirit and traits of the three-revolution frontrunners in the 1970s who pushed forward with the ideological, technical and cultural revolutions.

The detailed report said that the 1970s, which our people entered after successfully accomplishing the historic cause of socialist industrialization at the speed of Chollima, was exciting years when the mass movement of the highest form of our era started with the idea and line of the Workers' Party of Korea of three revolutions and under its wise leadership, and when the validity and inexhaustible vitality of the mass movement was fully displayed.

President Kim Il Sung initiated the three-revolution team movement in keeping with the requirements of the developing revolution according to which the modeling of the whole society on the Juche idea became a priority, and made sure at the enlarged meeting of the Political Committee of the Party Central Committee held in February Juche 62 (1973) that three-revolution teams that consist of core party members and young intellectuals prepared politically and practically were organized and sent to industrial and agricultural sectors. And he set out a plan to launch the Three-revolution Red Flag Movement.

True to the high intention of President Kim Il Sung, Chairman Kim Jong Il let the Komdok Mine and the Chongsan Co-op Farm raise the first torch of the three-revolution red flag movement in November Juche 64 (1975) and wisely led them so that the flame of this movement rapidly spread throughout the country.

Under the energetic leadership of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il the whole country became alive with the three-revolution red flag movement and the three-revolution team movement, and excellent examples were set in implementing the line of the three revolutions in the 1970s.

The detailed report said that there were three-revolution team members who vigorously encouraged the popular mass to the implementation of Party's policies by injecting vitality into the unity and fighting efficiency of groups at the worksites across the country in the 1970s.

The work for instilling into all the people the revolutionary idea of the Party was carried out in a unique manner.

The revolutionary traits were established such that everybody deeply studied the immortal classic works of President Kim Il Sung in a comprehensive and systematic way with "The Room for the Study of the Revolutionary Ideas of Comrade Kim Il Sung" as a base and studied more than 2 hours a day. As required by such atmosphere of the times the three-revolution teams gave momentum to the enthusiasm for studying with various forms and methods like a question-and-answer study, lectures, explanatory statements and dissemination of songs at units under their charge.

In particular, the question-and-answer study method which was created by President Kim Il Sung during the anti-Japanese armed struggle displayed great vitality in raising the political awareness of working people.

The activities conducted by the three-revolution teams by applying the anti-Japanese guerrilla agitation work method in all fields also brought about a fundamental change in agitation and information work.

Amid the fierce flame of ideological revolution, lots of ranks of loyalists, typically "Phibada" guards and "The flower girl" guards, were formed and became active in different parts of the country, and the mass movement guaranteeing the thorough-going implementation of the decisions of the Party Congress stirred up the whole country in the period when the six-year plan was carried out.

The 1970s saw the production of a number of three-revolution front-rankers who defended the Party policies through the great surge in the self-reliance amid the high flame of technical revolution, the detailed report stressed, adding:

It was thanks to the struggle waged by three-revolution standard-bearers that in just two years since the 5th Congress of the Party, the numbers of Chollima workteam, Chollima factory and Chollima co-op farms increased across the country. That of Chollima workteam became over 70 000 while that of Chollima factory and Chollima co-op farms became more than 410 across the country.

It was amid the high-pitched drive waged by the three-revolution front-rankers who advanced forward by letting one person arouse a ten, by letting the ten arouse a hundred and by letting the hundred arouse a thousand in all the work sites that the six-year national economic plan set forth by the 5th Congress of the Party was fulfilled a year and four months earlier than planned and in the period between 1970 to 1979 the industrial output of the country showed annual growth of 15.9% and the total industrial output increased 3.8 times.

The detailed report pointed out that socialist culture made rapid development and three-revolution front-rankers were always in the van in the 1970s when the slogan "Let us meet the requirements of Juche in ideology, technology and culture!" became guidelines of work and life for all the people of the country.

Under the energetic leadership of Chairman Kim Jong Il, true literary and art soldiers of our Party took the lead in the cultural revolution and therefore brought about renaissance in the 20th century.

By thoroughly applying the speed campaign and the principle of collectivism, they created and completed revolutionary opera "Sea of Blood" in such a short period of just four months. They created revolutionary opera "The Flower Girl" in just over 120 days and the revolutionary operas "The Story of A Nurse", "Tell the Story, Forest" and "Song of Mt. Kumgang" in a little over two years, thus making the birth of five revolutionary operas known to the world.

Amid the energetic creation traits displayed by creators and artistes who defended the Party with the creation of famous pieces, revolutionary poems and songs and excellent films and dramas were produced day after day, instilling immense vigor and vitality to the whole country.

The increased production agitation activities waged by the artistes of the Phibada Opera Troupe and the Pyongyang Art Troupe in the land of Kangson were an epitome of the revolutionary culture that could be seen in sites for effecting great upswing at that time.

Amid the flame of the anti-Japanese information and agitation drive, economic agitation drive was waged at the grand construction sites across the country.

The new culture of the working class came into existence, adding vitality to the whole country.

Miners of Komdok who first raised the torch of the three-revolution red flag movement took the lead in establishing the cultured way of production and life.

Workers from different parts of the country took an active part in the national art group festival of workers, fully showing the new ground of mass-based culture and art and the high cultural attainments of the working class.

There were numberless three-revolution front-rankers who devoted their pure conscience to the worthwhile struggle for glorifying the socialist education system.

In the first year for the implementation of the six-year plan, scores of merited teachers were produced, and the number of exemplary education counties increased year after year, notably Ryonggang County, Kyongsong County, Mundok County and Phyonggang County, thus demonstrating the advantages of socialist system that has turned into the country of learning, the country of education.

The decision of the 5th Congress of the Party on bringing up a large contingent of more than one million intellectuals was brilliantly carried out and our country came to have a large contingent of technicians and experts.

Amid the all-people study enthusiasm, more than 523 000 technicians and experts were trained in the period between 1971 and 1975 and this increased the ranks over two times and therefore the number of technicians and experts reached 19.2% in 1976 out of the total number of employees in the national economic fields.

The three-revolution front-rankers in the 1970s brilliantly implemented the decisions of the 5th Congress of the Party with shining achievements in the struggle to carry out the ideological, technical and cultural revolutions and then started implementing the second seven-year national economic plan advanced by the DPRK government, thus greeting the 6th Congress of the Party with heroic exploits.

The detailed report stressed that it is the fixed will of our people to carry forward the fighting spirit and creation traits displayed by the three revolution front-rankers in the 1970s and glorify the era of our state-first principle, the new era of a powerful and prosperous country, by dint of the single-minded unity of loyalty and with the strong might of self-reliance in hearty response to the idea and leadership of the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un.