KCTV (Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League) “김일성사회주의청년동맹”

Korean Central Television (조선중앙방송)
Brilliant tradition of Korean youth movement

The league, which was founded by President Kim Il Sung during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to liberate Korea from the military occupation of Japan (1905-1945), was not merely a youth organization. As the one with the mission to pioneer the way ahead of the Korean revolution, it played the role of a vanguard in leading the Korean revolution as a whole until the party organization came into existence while ensuring the unified guidance to broad sections of anti-Japanese mass organizations.

The founding of the Young Communist League was a historic event that heralded the birth of a genuine revolutionary youth organization in Korea. It was of a great significance in the development of the Korean revolution and youth movement. After its founding, the league was engrossed in strengthening and expanding itself, guiding its affiliated organizations and enlightening young people and students and masses and revolutionizing rural communities.

Since the President founded the YCLK, the Korean revolution has steadily advanced along the road of development for the last 80 years supported by a powerful force consisting of young people firmly united.

Young fighters brought up by the league formed the backbone of the Anti-Japanese Peoples Guerilla Army (predecessor of the Korean Peoples Army) which was founded on April 25, 1932. Young revolutionaries played the role of the vanguard and shock brigade in carrying out Kim Il Sungs intentions and lines throughout the anti-Japanese armed struggle. They fully displayed all their matchless courage, heroism and the spirit of self-sacrifice in every battle against the Japanese imperialists, thus making a great contribution to the achievement of the historic cause of national liberation.

After liberation, the youth movement of Korea developed onto a new stage. Busy as he was guiding the building of a new society, Kim Il Sung paid deep attention to the strengthening and development of the youth movement. He put forth the line to unite all the youth who loved the country under the banner of democracy, and founded the Democratic Youth League on January 17, 1946, as the one and only mass organization of the youth.

Under the banner of the DYL, the Korean youth devoted all their might and wisdom to the building of a new society, the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953 Korean War against the armed invasion by the United States) and the postwar rehabilitation and construction to accomplish great achievements that will shine forever in the history of the country.

As required by the new reality in which the socialist revolution emerged victorious and the socialist construction was under way in earnest, President Kim Il Sung developed the DYL into the Socialist Working Youth League of Korea in May 1964. Being conscious of his deep trust and expectation, the Korean youth creditably played the role of the vanguard and shock brigade in the socialist construction as well.

By virtue of Kim Jong Ils politics of attaching importance to and loving the youth, the Korean youth have been brought up as the vanguard in defending the socialist system, the models of virtue who sacrifice their youth and life without hesitation for their society, community and comrades, and the heroes of creation and construction who take charge of and creditably complete the construction of difficult and important objects.

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