C1: SOCIALISM IS A SCIENCE KIM JONG IL, JUCHE 83 (1994) Socialism is a science.

Socialism has been frustrated in a number of countries, but scientific socialism is as alive as ever in the minds of the people. The imperialists and reactionaries are fussing about the "end of socialism", with regard to the events in some countries which had been building socialism. The renegades of socialism try to justify their despicable betrayal, claiming that the ideal of socialism itself is invalid. However, the truth cannot be concealed or obliterated. The crumbling of socialism in various countries does not mean the failure of socialism as science but the bankruptcy of opportunism which has corrupted socialism. Although socialism is temporarily experiencing a heart-rending setback because of opportunism, it will without fail be revived and win ultimate victory for its scientific accuracy and truth. C2: SOCIALISM HAS FAILED BECAUSE OF INDIVIDUALISM KIM JONG IL, JUCHE 83 (1994) The failure [of socialism] to attain the masses' independence in hostile class societies was because all these societies were based on individualism. Individualism is the product of private ownership. Society, based on private ownership and its product, individualism, inevitably splits into hostile classes, produces class antagonism and social inequality, and is accompanied by the exploitation and oppression of the popular masses by a small ruling class. History shows that independence for the masses cannot be realized in a society based on individualism. A historical review of the development of
human society proves that, in order to realize the masses' independence, a society based on individualism must be replaced by a society based on collectivism, by socialism and communism.

C3: COLLECTIVISM GOOD KIM JONG IL, JUCHE 83 (1994) Collectivism is man's intrinsic need. People can exist and develop only when they work as a social collective. People can transform nature and society and meet their desire for independence, not as individuals, but only through collectiv[ism]e cooperation among members of society. If people are to live in a social collective, they
must meet both their collective and individual demands for independence. The collective demand for independence is the common requirement of members of society for the existence and development of the social collective. The individual need for independence is the need as an equal member of a social collective; it is the need which should naturally be met through collective efforts in return for his contribution to society. The individual need for independence fundamental-ly differs from selfish greed, which ignores the collective and subordinates everything to the interests of an individual. Both the collective and individual needs for independence can be satisfied to the fullest only through collectivism. Individual

demand divorced from collectivism becomes selfish greed. Such greed encroaches upon the demands of other members of the collective for independence, and hampers the unity and cooperation of the collective. Collectivism alone makes it possible to strengthen the unity and cooperation of the collective, to stimulate the creative zeal of all collective members and to properly combine both the collective and individual demands for independence and thus fully meet them. Because working in a social collective is the mode of man's existence, and because man's demand for independence can be satisfied only through collectivism, society based on collectivism, socialist and communist society, is the most progressive society which conforms with man's independent nature.

C4: US BAD; OPPRESSES THE HEROIC KOREAN PEOPLES (KIM IL SUNG, 1946 On the establishment of the Workers' Party of North Korea and the question of founding the Workers' Party of South
Korea) The actual situation in

south Korea is fundamentally different from that in north Korea. There the U.S. military government, having seized all power, oppresses the Korean people, and the introduction of democratic reforms is quite inconceivable.
Some people think that south Korea merely lags behind north Korea. This is an utterly wrong viewpoint implying that south Korea, too, is advancing along the road to democracy, only at a little slower tempo than north Korea. In reality, north

Korea is advancing along the road of democratic development, whereas south Korea is moving along an entirely different course.
The indicator by which to tell democracy from pseudo-democracy lies in whether the people can participate in the state administration or not. And the south Korean people are denied the right to participate in government. They have not the slightest elementary democratic rights. The people's committees set up by the south Korean people immediately after liberation were not recognized and, worse still, they were dissolved and their functionaries were arrested and thrown into jail. The democratic political parties, deprived of the freedom of political activities, are forced to go underground.

It is the Communist Party of all democratic political parties that is waging the most determined struggle for the freedom
and independence of the country and happiness of the working people. This is a hard fact admitted by all conscientious people of Korea. And how have

the U.S. imperialists and their lackeys who are obstructing the democratic independence and sovereignty of Korea dealt and are dealing with the Communist Party of South Korea? Those villains have arrested, imprisoned and murdered large numbers of the leading cadres and members of the Communist Party and banned its organ Haebang-ilbo. To lower the prestige of the Communist Party in the eyes of the
masses of the people, the reactionaries have fabricated the so-called forged-note case and staged a farcical trial for it; they have framed the so-called "Right-Left collaboration" plot in an attempt to isolate the Communist Party.

LINK BY AFFIRMING YOU ONLY VIEW WORLD GEOPOLITICS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE US IMPERIALISTS. BY NEGATING YOU ACCEPT THAT THE UNITED STATES' INTERESTS ARE IMPERIALISTIC AND OPPRESSIVE AND MUST BE FOUGHT WITH COLLECTIVIST SOCIALISM.

EXTENSIONS Credentials: Kim Jong-Il Kim Jong-Il is the Party Center of the WPK (Workers Party of Korea), Member of the Central Committee of the WPK, Member and Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Presidium Member of the WPK Central Committee, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, Marshal of the DPRK, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Generalissimo of the DPRK, Eternal General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea, Eternal Chairman of the National Defence Commission, and finally: the dear, great, and eternal leader of the glorious democratic people's republic of Korea.