08/17/2013, 00.00
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From Republic to Monarchy, Pyongyang 'will be governed only by Kim'

by Joseph Yun Li-sun
North Korea’s Parliament passes a constitutional amendment that identifies the country's government with the ruling family, attacks the "bourgeois who traffic in foreign currency" and eliminates the concepts of socialism and communism, replacing them with the delusional "Juche revolution."

Pyongyang (AsiaNews) - North Korea and the Workers' Party "will be forever kept alive only thanks to the Baekdu bloodline." This is the fundamental concept of the constitutional amendment approved by the North Korean Parliament, which has established the end of the concept of "People's Democratic Republic" to adopt that of the hereditary monarchy. The revision overturns the 10 "fundamental principles" that are the basis of the Workers Party, the only political body in the country.

The "Baekdu bloodline" is a direct reference to its namesake mountain, sacred to Koreans, where according to legend the Korean was born people during the period and the first kingdom of Gojoseon in 2333 BC. Communist propaganda has made it the cradle of the Revolution, according to the national historiography, it is from here that Kim Il-sung (the founder and father of the country) would have organized the anti-Japanese resistance. It was also here that Kim Jong-il, his son, was said to have been born, when it was actually in Russia.

The revision of the principles is not limited to changing the national status, but attacks "the bourgeois who traffic in foreign currency" and eliminates the concepts of socialism and communism, which are replaced in an official manner by the sole dogma of "Juche revolution." The latter is the sum of the thoughts of Kim Il-sung, a mixture of economic autarky (which eventually proved disastrous for the country) and exasperated militarism.

A Catholic source who operates on the border told AsiaNews: "This is a real ideological boundary. With this revision the government makes it clear that the end of the regime is unthinkable as long as there are direct descendants of Il-sung to put on throne. Moreover it excludes the possibility of a military coup or an internal revolution. Henceforth North Korea is identified entirely with the Kim family. "

 

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