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Korea: Family Tradition in Songun Era
EVERY FAMILY, a component part of society, has its own tradition. In general, family tradition means the common aspiration of every member of a family, moral traits and custom predominant in each family and the way of steering its life.
A family is a cell of society. Accordingly the spirit of the times and the spiritual and moral traits of society are mirrored in the relationship between tradition and living of each family.
In the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea where the Songun era is unfolded a large number of families have become families of soldiers regarding it as the greatest honor to take up arms and defend the security of the country and the people.
Revolutionary families of soldiers can be found in the DPRK , a country of unity between the army and the people where love for arms has become a social climate and the army and the people are at one with each other in ideology and fighting spirit as a result of the embodiment of Songun politics, and a country of single-hearted unity where the leader and the people are firmly linked up with each other with close bonds of kinship.
With the unfolding of the Songun era the revolutionary families of soldiers are a model of families of soldiers in the DPRK. This is because revolutionary families of soldiers are the cradles for training the fighters who guard the leader with their very lives.
In the families where guarding the leader with one’s very life has become their tradition true soldiers who are ready to dedicate both their youth and lives in defence of the supreme headquarters of the revolution are growing up without exception and the generation of revolution is reliably being taken over.
The family of Pak Yong Chol and his seven younger brothers was the origin of revolutionary families of soldiers. In a letter to Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il they sent at the beginning of the 1990s the eight brothers pledged themselves to become eight guns and eight bombs to defend the supreme headquarters of the revolution at the cost of their lives.
Today in the DPRK many revolutionary families of soldiers can be found. Among them are a father and his five sons who are defending the territorial air space; Ri Jang Ung and his seven younger brothers and sisters; and Ri Chong Song and his four younger brothers. Also to be found among them is a family of soldiers in Tongnim County, North Phyongan Province whose 16 members—sons, daughters, sons-in-law and grandsons—are currently in the military service and another family of soldiers whose seven brothers and sisters now serving in the land, sea and air forces were all named to reflect the spirit of guarding the leader with one’s very life.
Though they differ in their birthplaces and places of residence families of soldiers are all afire with adamant resolve to guard the supreme headquarters of the revolution at the cost of their lives.
Love for arms is predominant as noble ethics in the revolutionary families of soldiers.
What is regarded as of great importance in home life is the kernel of family tradition.
The noblest and loftiest family tradition in the Songun era is the one mainly based on love for arms.
Songun politics of the Workers’ Party of Korea is a precious sword which firmly defends the independence of the country and the nation and ushers in the heyday of national prosperity. That is why it enjoys the absolute support of the popular masses.
The revolutionary families of soldiers have been created in the course of upholding the WPK’s Songun politics.
The families of soldiers under arms, the revolutionary families of soldiers, are the mainstay taking the lead in upholding the WPK’s Songun politics.
The revolutionary families of soldiers are bases for bringing up ardent patriots generation after generation.
If the patriotic family tradition is to be inherited children should take over the revolutionary spirit of their parents.
The revolutionary families of soldiers bring up patriots who reliably guard the revolutionary posts through successive generations. Father and mother and their sons and daughters are guarding the sacred posts of national defence, wearing military uniforms, and posts of national defence guarded by parents are being taken over by their children.
The family of Om Pok Sun, a revolutionary family of soldiers put up by Supreme Commander
Kim Jong Il, can be cited as an apt instance. Om’s husband also has military uniform on and all her daughters are now spending their worthwhile youthful days at the post which was formerly guarded by their mother.
The number of revolutionary families of soldiers upholding the WPK’s Songun politics with loyalty is on the increase. Therefore, the DPRK will always display, as hitherto, so in future its might as an invincible power which no enemy dares to provoke.