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Neighboring Country’s Mean Behavior: Written by Jong Phil

Pyongyang, February 23, 2017 (KCNA) — The DPRK made a complete success in the test-fire of surface-to-surface medium to long-range strategic ballistic missile Pukguksong-2 on February 12 under the energetic guidance of respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. The news instantly jolted the world and the international community is acknowledging the nuclear attack capability of the DPRK that has made rapid progress in quality.
Leading media of the world are unanimous in assessing that the acknowledged success in the test-fire of Pukguksong-2 was a demonstration of the DPRK’s strategic superiority as it proved impossibility of advance detection by satellite, interception and preemptive attack.
However, a neighboring country, which often claims itself to be a “friendly neighbor”, is downplaying the significance of the test-fire, branding it as a “nuclear technology just at the beginning” and threatening “the DPRK will suffer the biggest loss.”
In particular, it has unhesitatingly taken inhumane steps such as totally blocking foreign trade related to the improvement of people’s living standard under the plea of the UN “resolutions on sanctions” devoid of legal ground.
It has often stated that the UN “resolutions on sanctions” should not have negative impact on the people’s living. Its recent measures are, in effect, tantamount to the enemies’ moves to bring down the social system in the DPRK.
This country, styling itself a big power, is dancing to the tune of the U.S. while defending its mean behavior with such excuses that it was meant not to have a negative impact on the living of the people in the DPRK but to check its nuclear program.
The righteous voices of the world deride it, commenting that “a big neighboring country is imposing sanctions on the DPRK to curry favor with the U.S.” But the hostile forces are shouting “bravo” over this.
The DPRK manufactured a nuclear weapon in a few years, which would take others tens of years, and completed the new latest strategic weapon system in a matter of six months with its own efforts and indigenous technology. This shows the might of its tremendous defence industry.
It is utterly childish to think that the DPRK would not manufacture nuclear weapons and inter-continental ballistic rockets if a few penny of money is cut off.
The DPRK will produce the latest weapons unprecedented in history as many as it wants as it has the self-reliant defence industry, provided by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il with their lifelong dedication, and scientists and technicians in the field of defence industry working hard in do-or-die spirit guided by the faith that the strategic idea and intention of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea must be put into practice.
These weapons would invest the DPRK with capabilities for protecting peace and stability in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world.
The present reality makes the people of the DPRK keenly feel once again the validity of the WPK’s line of simultaneously pushing forward the economic construction and the building of nuclear force.
The DPRK will invariably advance straight along the road indicated by the Party’s line and deal a heavy blow to the U.S. and its vassal forces by dint of powerful nuclear deterrence and thus win the final victory.

Are You Good at Dancing to Tune of Others: Jong Phil

Pyongyang, April 21, 2017 (KCNA) — The following is the full text of “Are you good at dancing to the tune of others”, a commentary written by Jong Phil Friday:
Not a single word about the U.S. act of pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of a war after introducing hugest-ever strategic assets into the waters off the Korean peninsula is made but such rhetoric as “necessary step” and “reaction at decisive level” is openly heard from a country around the DPRK to intimidate it over its measures for self-defence.
Particularly, the country is talking rubbish that the DPRK has to reconsider the importance of relations with it and that it can help preserve security of the DPRK and offer necessary support and aid for its economic prosperity, claiming the latter will not be able to survive the strict “economic sanctions” by someone.
Its official media claimed on April 18 that the DPRK’s pursuance of nuclear and missile program made the U.S., which had been its rival in the past, its supporter now. Then question is what the DPRK should call that country and how the DPRK should deal with it in the future.
The DPRK’s nuclear deterrence for self-defence, its army and people built by tightening their belts to defend the sovereignty and right to existence of the nation, is by no means a bargaining chip for getting something.
The DPRK has been so far exposed to economic sanctions but it has kept to the path of justice chosen by it with its own efforts.
The present world ruled by the jungle law makes the DPRK realize once again the iron truth that there is nothing but its own strength to rely on and that self-reliance and self-development are the only way out.
If the country keeps applying economic sanctions on the DPRK while dancing to the tune of someone after misjudging the will of the DPRK, it may be applauded by the enemies of the DPRK but it should get itself ready to face the catastrophic consequences in the relations with the DPRK.
The DPRK will defend its dignity and build a paradise for the people with its own efforts, rallied close around the respected Supreme Leader.

Commentary on DPRK-China Relations

Pyongyang, May 3, 2017 (KCNA) — Kim Chol released a commentary on Wednesday, titled “Reckless words and deeds undermining the DPRK-China relations must be stopped” the full text of which reads:
Very serious is concern at home and abroad about the anti-DPRK racket for putting sanctions and military pressure on it kicked up by the U.S. and its vassal forces with the DPRK’s possession of nuclear weapons as a pretext, racket which renders the situation on the Korean peninsula acute with each passing moment.
A string of absurd and reckless remarks are now heard from big neighboring countries, perhaps frightened by the U.S. blackmail and war racket, every day only to render the acute situation of the Korean peninsula more strained.
Typical examples are stories poured out by the People’s Daily and the Global Times, widely known as media speaking for the official stand of the Chinese party and government.
Recently they in their commentaries asserted that the DPRK’s access to nukes poses a threat to the national interests of China. They shifted the blame for the deteriorated relations between the DPRK and China on to the DPRK and raised lame excuses to justify China’s base acts of dancing to the tune of the U.S.
Those commentaries claimed that the DPRK poses a threat to “the security in the northeastern region of China” by conducting nuclear tests less than 100 km away from its border with China. They even talked rubbish that the DPRK strains the situation in Northeast Asia and “offers the U.S. excuses for deploying more strategic assets” in the region.
Not content with such paradox, the commentaries asserted that to remain averse to the DPRK’s access to nukes is to preserve interests common to the U.S. and China, calling for slapping harsher sanctions on the DPRK in order to avert a war which would bring danger to China.
The newspapers, even claiming China holds the initiative in handling the DPRK-China relations, made no scruple of letting out a string of provocative remarks urging the DPRK to choose one out of the two options i.e. “whether to face protracted isolation by breaking Sino-DPRK friendship or to preserve national security by making a U-turn of dismantling its nukes”, if it doesn’t want military confrontation with China.
This is just a wanton violation of the independent and legitimate rights, dignity and supreme interests of the DPRK and, furthermore, constitutes an undisguised threat to the honest-minded neighboring country with which it has had long history and tradition of friendship.
We do not have any intentional wish to explain the unavoidability that forced us to have access to nukes to become a nuclear weapons state acknowledged by the public at home and abroad, and detail all the courses that were never a smooth sailing.
What is infuriating is the fact that it is totally undermining the DPRK-China relations, that were pioneered at the cost of blood and have been consolidated and developed decade after decade and century after century, by citing absurd pretext and showing no less aversion than the one shown by the U.S. and other hostile forces over the nuclear issue with which it has nothing to do.
China is often hyping up “damage caused by the DPRK’s nuclear tests” to its three northeastern provinces. This is a far-fetched assertion devoid of scientific ground and validity.
Five nuclear tests by the DPRK were conducted with full guarantee given to security and even those Koreans living near the nuclear test ground have never suffered any damage after the tests.
The U.S. carried out scrupulous observation of the processes of the nuclear tests with the use of ultra-modern information means equipped with nuclear substance collecting equipment. But it failed to trap even a trace amount of radioactive materials like xenon. China is well aware of this.
Trumpeting about sort of “damage”, in defiance of this stark fact, only reveals the ulterior purpose of China displeased with the DPRK’s rapid nuclear development.
As far as “violation of national interests” oft-repeated by politicians and media persons of China is concerned, it is just the issue that the DPRK should rather talk much about.
It was never China but just the DPRK whose strategic interests have been repeatedly violated due to insincerity and betrayal on the part of its partner.
China established diplomatic relations with the south Korean puppet forces keen on bringing down the socialist system in the DPRK and has deepened the scope of relations to politics and even military, beyond pure economic exchanges. What excuse can it make for its crime of turning not only the three provinces in the northeastern part of China but the whole country into an advanced base against the DPRK. Now in areas along the DPRK-China border including the basins of the River Amnok and the River Tuman, agents and spies of the south Korean Intelligence Service are engaged in secret maneuvers under the guise of religionist and businessman, openly hatching plots and conducting abduction and terrorist acts against the DPRK. China has to hold full responsibilities for this.
We clearly remember that it had let such human scum as Park Geun Hye, who was ousted from the post of power and thrown into prison being censured by all people, stand on the tribune of honor at Tiananmen Square and given a kiss to her.
Some theorists of China are spouting a load of nonsense that the DPRK’s access to nukes strains the situation in Northeast Asia and offers the U.S. an excuse for beefing up its strategic assets in the region. But the U.S. had activated its strategy for dominating Asia-Pacific long before the DPRK had access to nukes, and its primary target is just China.
China should acknowledge in an honest manner that the DPRK has just contributed to protecting peace and security of China, foiling the U.S. scheme for aggression by waging a hard fight in the frontline of the showdown with the U.S. for more than seven decades, and thank the DPRK for it.
Some ignorant politicians and media persons of China daringly assert that the traditional relations of the DPRK-China friendship were in line with the interests of both countries in the past. They are advised to clearly understand the essence of history before opening their mouth.
Korea and China are neighbors which are closely related geographically and countries of peculiar relations, relations of comrade-in-arms and brothers, whose preceding leaders had nurtured the feelings of friendship in the struggle for common cause, holding high the flags drenched with red blood.
The anti-Japanese war and the war against the U.S. are recorded with heroic tales that will remain indelible in the contemporary histories of Korea and China, and the sons and daughters of the two countries deepened friendship with selfless sacrifice and devotion that far surpass nationality in the hard-fought battlefields.
On the center stage of the world politics affected by the vortex of the troublous 20th century, the two countries pooled intention and efforts to defend the banner of socialism and sovereignty.
It was not just for the interests of Korea that we rendered devoted assistance to the Chinese revolution and showed sincerity to the party and government of China whenever they faced difficulties, even facing huge damage. Anyone with even a little common sense and reason might be well aware of this even though we do not open to public the skeleton in the cupboard that existed between the DPRK and China.
But by deliberately leaving all this in the dark, China is parroting the “unanimous view of the international community” cried by the U.S. and resorting to sanctions racket after branding the DPRK as a criminal, pursuant to the forces hostile toward the DPRK. This is an intolerable act aimed to deny the mainstay of the DPRK-China relations and do away with the noble tradition of bilateral friendship.
It is not the DPRK that passed the “red line” in bilateral relations but it is China which has unhesitatingly passed the line.
By the “red line”, the two countries were meant not to violate the dignity, interests and sovereignty of each other.
For the DPRK, the nuclear weapons are its absolute symbol and represent its supreme interests.
The DPRK have had access to nukes to defend the country and the people from the aggression moves and threats which the world’s biggest nuclear power U.S. has posed decade after decade with an aim to deprive the DPRK of its political ideology, social system and dignity. The mission of the DPRK’s nuclear weapons will remain unchanged in the future, too.
However, they are threatening that they would not rule out military intervention, to say nothing of highly-intensive economic sanctions if the DPRK does not give up nuclear program. This is extremely arrogant chauvinist logic that not only the strategic interests of the DPRK but also its dignity and right to existence must be sacrificed for their interests.
One must clearly understand that the DPRK’s line of access to nukes for the existence and development of the country can neither be changed nor shaken and that the DPRK will never beg for the maintenance of friendship with China, risking its nuclear program which is as precious as its own life, no matter how valuable the friendship is.
Some expect that the DPRK will not be able to subsist without help from someone and it will give up and beg for the restoration of relations if the string of sanctions is tightened just a little more. This is a foolish calculation. The source and foundation of the existence of the DPRK is our own land, our own sky and our own natural resources and the tremendous power of self-development displayed by its great people in the indomitable spirit.
The DPRK, which has already become one of the most powerful nuclear weapons state, does not feel the need to think over how many options it has now.
The geopolitical importance and strategic value of the Korean peninsula situated at the entrance to the Eurasian continent are growing with each passing day, and roads to Pyongyang that has ranked itself with dignity among the most advanced nuclear powers are stretched all around the world.
China should no longer try to test the limits of patience of the DPRK but make proper strategic option, facing up to the situation.
China approved the adoption of the unwarranted “sanctions resolutions” on the DPRK at the UN Security Council meeting in order to check the U.S. THAAD deployment in south Korea and opted for sanctions against the DPRK, even suffering economic damage in the three northeastern provinces of its own. Even though it made concession and flattered, defying all accusations, THAAD targeting China like a dagger was deployed all of a sudden at midnight in south Korea, making fun of the truly “idiot giant”.
If China fails to maintain its own principle and throws away the fraternity with the DPRK it has maintained for decades like a pair of old shoes just for the immediate interests, it will end up in miserable state not trusted by anyone to only face misfortune from all sides.
China had better ponder over the grave consequences to be entailed by its reckless act of chopping down the pillar of the DPRK-China relations.

Is Russia Sightless or Is It Mimicking Blind: Researcher of Institute for International Studies

Pyongyang, August 9, 2017 (KCNA) — Ri Chol Ho, a researcher of the Institute for International Studies of the DPRK, on Wednesday issued the following article titled “Is Russia Sightless or Is It Mimicking the Blind”:
The news of the successful launch of inter-continental ballistic rockets of the DPRK, which put the whole land of the U.S., empire of evil, within its striking range, has been afloat all over the world as breaking news.
The U.S., an aggression state which brandished a nuclear stick of aggression and oppression decade after decade, has finally been dumbfounded in the face of the Juche weapon, and the whole world now turn its eyes to Songun Korea with admiration.
The international community was unanimous in commenting in high terms that the fact that the DPRK’s ICBM reached the maximum height of more than 3 700 km and flew nearly 1 000 km and that the launch was made at high angle launch system more rigorous than actual maximum range flight conditions is demonstrative of the substantial might which is capable of putting even the eastern areas of the U.S. including New York, to say nothing of the western areas of the U.S., within the firing range.
The DPRK’s ICBM, a noble fruition of its great policy of simultaneously developing the economic construction and the building of nuclear force, is clearly recorded in space as a pronoun of defence of international justice and peace, both in name and reality.
But only Russia is making a far-fetched assertion, denying this stark fact unanimously acknowledged by the world community, while feigning blind and deaf.
Russia, a country bordering the Korean peninsula, is calling the DPRK’s ICBM a medium-range ballistic rocket with 681 km of height and 732 km of distance. This is utterly ironical.
The U.S., situated in the American continent across the ocean, dares not deny the fact even though it is reluctant more than others to acknowledge the DPRK’s success in the ICBM launch. A big question is how come the ICBM of the DPRK is taken as medium-range ballistic rocket by Russia, a country very close to the DPRK.
Another question is that Russia, which will be grouchy if it is ranked second in military standings, is making desperate efforts to make its far-fetched assertions sound plausible while misusing even the name of the Defence Ministry.
The world people are watching the erratic act of Russia with surprise as its authorities and the public have differing stand over the launch. Lots of military experts, media and social circles of Russia are unanimously acknowledging the launch as ICBM launch but this is denied only by the authorities.
What is skeptical is that whether Russia’s temporal concept on object is not ruled by its perversity and jealousy that big country’s rifle should be regarded as a rocket and small country’s rocket should be taken as a rifle.
For years, Russia took outwardly strong stand toward the U.S., as it used to say that “sanctions resolutions” against the DPRK should not affect the normal economic and trade activities of the DPRK and its people’s living at a time when the issue was on agenda at UN even though Russia was subject to trouble as a key target of sanctions and pressure by the U.S. Therefore, the world has been skeptical about its assertion of calling the ICBM a medium-range ballistic rocket. However, Russia, which had showed bravery as if it was going to hinder the adoption of the “resolution sanctions” on the DPRK, boarded the ship operated by the U.S. all of a sudden to be “complimented” by Trump. This is quite enough for the world to guess what was the true aim sought by Russia in insisting that the ICBM of the DPRK was a medium-range ballistic rocket.
The far-fetched assertion of Russia has become an engine that heartened the DPRK to work for more launches of ICBM and compelled it to take new measures of action.
It will be clear to Russia itself whether it is really the blind or is feigning the blind.
If Russia does not drop its own “big power concept” which it values so much, the reality in which it is not treated as a big power even though it is a big power will be its permanent destiny.

Kim Jong Un Guides Hwasong-12 Launching Drill Again

Pyongyang, September 16, 2017 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army, guided once again a launching drill of the medium-and-long range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 on the spot. (…)
He told leading officials of the Department of Munitions Industry of the Party Central Committee and the field of defense scientific research accompanying him that our final goal is to establish the equilibrium of real force with the U.S. and make the U.S. rulers dare not talk about military option for the DPRK. And he stressed the need to run at full speed and straight, continuing to qualitatively consolidate the military attack capacity for nuclear counterattack the U.S. cannot cope with.
As recognized by the whole world, we have made all these achievements despite the UN sanctions that have lasted for decades but never made them from any “benefit” of the UN, he said, adding it is very stifling for those countries styling themselves big powers keeping their minds on bringing to their knees the DPRK through UN sanctions.
We should clearly show the big power chauvinists how our state attain the goal of completing its nuclear force despite their limitless sanctions and blockade, he said, underlining the need to put an end to them with the all-state efforts as it has nearly reached the terminal.

Chinese Media’s Shameless and Impudent Acts Blasted

Pyongyang, September 22, 2017 (KCNA) — Following is the full text of a signed article “Rude Deed of Shameless Media”:
Some media of China are seriously hurting the line and social system of the DPRK and threatening the DPRK at a time when the U.S. and its vassal forces have reached the extremes in their frantic moves to impose sanctions and pressure on the DPRK over the DPRK’s just exercise of its right to self-defence.
The Chinese People’s Daily and its sister paper Huan Qui Shibao and websites People’s Network and Huan Qui Network insulted the DPRK, saying “it pricked its own eyes with its own hands” and “it was a noose put around its own neck” while shunning the legitimacy of the DPRK’s possession of nuclear weapons and the self-defensive nature of its measure for bolstering the national nuclear force. Not content with this, they said “it would face the fate of sun setting in the western sky” and set forth such presumptuous “initiatives” as “international solidarity” and organization of “forum international think-tank” for settling the nuclear issue of the DPRK.
As for the “sanctions resolution” against the DPRK, the dirty excrement of the reactionaries of history, they spouted such extremely ill-boding words that China “did not target the normal living of the people in the DPRK” and “DPRK is fortunate to have China as its neighbor”.
In a word, their comment meant that the small country DPRK put itself and the international community as a whole at a “peril” for standing against “the world’s superpower” with the manufacture of nuclear weapons, and that there is nothing to be displeased over the step of decrease of food taken to make the DPRK, “chief culprit rendering the world restless” get exhausted.
This can not be construed otherwise than an act of the blind whose eyes are open and the deaf and dumb who look outwardly normal as they can not understand the essence of the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula nor can they properly see, hear and express the changed international political situation in the wake of the DPRK’s possession of nuclear weapons.
Moreover, the news media openly faulted the line of other sovereign state. This makes one think that it was quite natural for them to lose trust from people of their own country and the international community to not a small measure due to their self-complacence and prejudice.
Even though they can be pretexts to shield their clumsy plight of getting dragged on by the U.S., we can not connive at their acts of dare hurting the dignity of the state and people of the DPRK.
As was already emphasized, the DPRK’s access to a nuclear deterrence was pursuant to the strategic decision of the party and state of the DPRK to fundamentally terminate the decade-old U.S. hideous hostile policy toward the DPRK and nuclear threat and blackmail, and this finally led the DPRK to possess H-bomb for ICBM, the absolute weapons on the earth.
Even at this moment, the U.S. hatches sinister scheme of provoking a nuclear war and is holding dangerous secret war confab after introducing to the Korean peninsula and the region huge strategic hardware enough to fight several wars while openly calling for “totally destroying north Korea”.
History and reality teach a serious lesson that only powerful strength can defend oneself from the tyrannical nuclear weapons.
The military attack on Syria committed in the eyes of neighboring big powers including China in April last showed the world in practice what the “peace by strength” touted by the Trump administration meant, and Beijing might have felt not a great deal.
What matters is that how can The Chinese People’s Daily and media under it which had trumpeted about “sovereignty and independence in the road for social progress” and “peculiar sovereign position” spout principle-less nonsense that are mocked even by Trump’s twitters.
If they are not novice reptile media devoid of insight and their own view to the international politics, they should be well aware of themselves before commenting on others.
Now heard from DPRK-China border are reflective complaints on who became hopeless as the consequences of the U.S.-manipulated “sanctions resolution” on the DPRK.
A Chinese businessman who was left empty-handed in the trade with the DPRK said: I don’t know politics and diplomacy. But one thing is clear. Korea, not a big country, is talking what it wants to say and does what it wants to do while standing against the U.S., the superpower. It’s hard to understand what’s wrong with China. Lots of minor businesses in three northeastern provinces of China are suffering huge losses. Then why does it kowtow to the U.S. I really feel shame. I am more afraid of the corruption of the state than the corruption of people.
This is the public mindset.
Literally speaking, media styling themselves speaking for the people had better use their heads to read the people’s mindset and speak for the people of their own country, rather than admonishing others.
If it is the organ of a party styling itself the initiator of “principle of non-interference” outside, it can stand with dignity before the world people only when it maintains this principle.
As for “good neighbor”, the DPRK has much more to say about it.
When the Soviet Union and the U.S. and the whole world released denunciation statements over the first nuclear test carried out by China in the 1960s, it was only the DPRK, good neighbor, which actively supported it and encouraged it through government statement.
When high-spirited White House owner set out on his trip to China, its neighbor DPRK released a worldwide aphorism that Nixon’s China visit was not a march of victor but a trip of loser with a white flag in his hand, thus helping the big neighbor save shame and maintain its face. China might know this sincere neighbor more than itself.
Then why is it going under the armpit of the U.S. while holding a white flag to blame the good neighbor.
Nixon, suffering from disease from wrath by the unusual principle and resourcefulness of the DPRK which stopped the historical disgrace which could have been a shame on the socialist camp, had called for a “war with China” till the last day of his leave from office. This is quite alike the act of Trump who is teasing Beijing, caught in the trap of “world economy”, under the pretext of “nuclear issue of Korea”. It is seen by the whole world.
The DPRK knows which way it should follow.
The DPRK does not have to lie on its face just as China did when it visited the U.S. and there is no need for China to force the DPRK to learn it.
History proved that the path covered by the DPRK for nearly one century has been an un-trodden path through thick and thin but it was far-sighted and promising option as this helped the country escape the tragic events witnessed in Eastern Europe which was mentally disarmed in the face of the imperialists, and as this helped others to evade clumsy situation of not breathing properly being caught in the noose of dollars.
The Korean people have learned the might of unity and happiness even though they did not lead a plentiful life and they have the perspective and generosity of looking far into the dawning tomorrow in the darkness.
As for the fortune of the DPRK, its people are not such ignorant people who foresee their fortune by money or divination sign.
Though small in territory and population, the people of the DPRK have such fortune which no other country and nation has and therefore, we feel sorrowful at the neighbor seeking money only without its own soul even though it is big.
Lots of countries and peoples of the world are keenly realizing where lies the genuine fortune of each country and nation while viewing the admirable DPRK greeting the great change in its destiny and standing against the “world’s only superpower” while taking the lead of the struggle to defend peace of the region and the world, although it had its territory totally usurped by big powers keen on scramble and was trampled down under them in the past because it was weak in strength.
Truly frustrating is the perspective of the political hangers-on who are just satisfied to have their rice bowl safe even though the neighbor is thieved while considering Korea just as a front yard and “buffer zone” for holding back the invasion by robber.
It is the U.S. and other dishonest and hostile forces who are taking issue this or that way while doggedly shunning the reality of Juche Korea.
The light act of China’s media openly resorting to interference in the internal affairs of other country, being oblivious of the mission of media which should regard objectivity and impartiality as their lifeline, would be little short of driving a wedge between the two countries and the two peoples, pursuant to the U.S.
The party organ of the socialist country bragging long history denounced socialist Korea so maliciously in collusion with the imperialists. This leaves us think that whether they can be entitled to enter the coming party conference hall only when they register the dirty reptile records of betraying the peoples of the two countries.
The Chinese media had better watch how the DPRK smashes the hostile forces’ arrogance and high-handed practices, rather than kowtowing to the ignorant acts of the Trump administration.
They had better mind their own businesses, before impudently pointing an accusing finger at others.
Korea is a land of rising sun as its name implies and one has to turn one’s head toward China to watch the sun setting in the western sky in Korea.

Chinese Media Slashed for Arrogantly Meddling in Event of Korean Nation

Pyongyang, February 8, 2018 (KCNA) — The following is the full text of “For what they despicably intrude on other’s affair”, an article written by Jong Phil which was carried on the DPRK’s leading newspapers Thursday:
The ties between the north and the south of Korea are now on the track of positive development.
Thanks to the DPRK’s proactive proposal and steps, a breakthrough was made toward detente, peace and improvement of the relations between the north and the south and the enthusiasm of the fellow countrymen to hold the Winter Olympics as a successful event of the nation is sweeping the whole Korean Peninsula.
At this time, some media of China, not to be left behind the U.S. and Japan, reactionaries of history, are letting out impudent arguments of individual experts, seriously spoiling the atmosphere for the feast.
The Chinese Central TV Network on Feb. 5 aired an assertion of a vice-researcher of the Institute for Asia-Pacific and World Strategy under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: The DPRK calculated to show an open aspect of the country and improve its international image through the south Korea visit by the president of the Presidium of its Supreme People’s Assembly. The international community is expecting the DPRK to show greater sincerity and concession over the denuclearization issue if it truly hopes for promoting the detente on the Korean peninsula. Unless it does so, it will be difficult for the DPRK to attain its purpose.
On the same day, the Global Times of China’s People’s Daily carried an argument made by a senior research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies that restoring inter-Korean relations without touching on the nuclear issue is unsustainable and fragile.
Earlier in January, some Chinese media made wicked assertions that the sustenance of the atmosphere for detente on the Korean peninsula is closely related to the solution of the “nuclear issue of the DPRK” and that “detente will not last long without common recognition of the denuclearization”.
Such incoherent talks heard from Chinese media can not but be retorted as an arrogant act aimed at interference in the internal issue of the Korean nation and an unreasonable logic and sophism ignorant of the essence of the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula.
Obvious is the stand of the DPRK to successfully hold the Winter Olympics as a national event and fully display the dignity and might of the Korean nation and, therefore, this is supported and welcomed by all the fellow countrymen and the international community.
It is only the U.S. and other outsiders who are to blame for the division of the Korean Peninsula and the tension there that stand against the Korean nation working hard to open up a new chapter for peace on the peninsula by its concerted efforts.
China’s experts and media, that have touted for “peaceful solution” to the Korean peninsula issue whenever an opportunity presented itself, now shun the present positive development of the situation and are arguing for and against while setting the DPRK’s participation in the Winter Olympics against its strategic issue. How can such behavior be interpreted as an act of allegedly “disinterested” neighbors.
This is evidently an act of screwballs feeling dissatisfaction with the north and the south of Korea aspiring after detente and peace, and a mischievous act to reverse and divert the international focus away from the atmosphere for the north-south reconciliation.
It reminds one of a mean fellow looking over the fence of a feast host.
The Winter Olympics has nothing to do with “denuclearization”.
As acknowledged by the world, the DPRK’s possession of nuclear deterrence was a legitimate option for self-defense reflective of the stern historical lesson and the reality in which the DPRK’s sincere efforts for the denuclearization of the whole Korean Peninsula were ignored and the U.S. nuclear threat to the DPRK aimed to destroy its sovereignty and rights to existence and development has daily increased.
At this time, swimming against the atmosphere of peace on the Korean Peninsula, the U.S. is rendering to the extremes the political and military threat and brandishing a fireball after shipping huge aggression forces including all sorts of ultramodern nuclear war weapons to the sky, land and sea, thereby threatening the Winter Olympics and the post-Olympics situation.
If one truly hopes for peace on the Korean Peninsula and regional stability, it is reasonable for one to say what it should do to the trouble-maker U.S.
It is illogical for the Chinese media to absurdly vociferate about “denuclearization”, far from saying what it should do.
So, is an event of “denuclearization” ever on the list of the Winter Olympics?
Call a spade a spade. It is very despicable of those Chinese media to mess with their neighbor’s event, far from offering congratulations to it.
Ignoring the reality and occasion, they are forcibly linking the issue of “denuclearization” to the Olympics, which cannot be interpreted otherwise than an act aimed to spoil others’ feast.
They betrayed the dark intention to distract the international caution focused on them to the DPRK by doggedly standing in the way of creating reconciliation atmosphere between the north and the south of Korea that would have a positive impact on the world peace and the development of the regional situation.
They are trying to hold the issue of inter-Korean relations on nuclear issue leash and use it as leverage for interference.
They, in the long run, left the international community unpleasant feelings that the “initiative and proactive neighboring diplomacy” only seeks interference in the internal affairs of other countries and nations.
Recently they slandered the DPRK’s measure for self-defense as “narrow-minded interpretation of outside and self-justified action in the nuclear and missile issue”. They also belittled the military capabilities of the DPRK, quoting a “conclusion drawn after inspecting from the south side position in Panmunjom”. Now to what extent have they reached.
Some experts and media of China engrossed in admonishing others are now showing the same proclivity as the Trump and Abe groups and the conservative riff-raffs of south Korea marginalized after being isolated and rejected in the world.
Going blind in judging the trend of the times would make one face great disappointment.
Such senseless meddling doesn’t fit the appearance of a “power”.

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The presidential portrait of Philip F. La Follette, painted by an old acquaintance from his days as a federal soldier in the Revolution.
Seeking a third term to finish his construction of a new dawn for the republic once and for all, incumbent President Philip La Follette has rallied his supporters within the party to almost guarantee his renomination after four years of intraparty purges of his detractors following his narrow triumph over John L. Lewis in 1948. Yet, inspired by former Vice President Lena Morrow Lewis’s deathbed plea to “save our party’s democratic soul,” burgeoning efforts from within statewide opposition groups have sought to mount opposition from within the presidential nominating process as a means of reconquering state parties.
Philip F. La Follette: The heir to one of the nation’s great political dynasties, Philip Fox La Follette would emerge from the Great War and Revolution as a war hero, a reputation that, with his last name, would carry the once outspokenly anti-war young man to the Governor’s office, Lindbergh’s Supreme Court, and finally the upper echelons of the Army, where his ability to avoid taking positions on controversial issues would win him the Farmer-Labor nomination for the presidency in 1944–and finally the White House itself. Alienating much of his constituency from the outset with his determination to prosecute the war effort to its fullest, La Follette would respond to the battlefield use of two atomic weapons by Japan with a series of nuclear strikes upon the Japanese mainland that would claim final victory for the United States at the cost of the lives of over two million Japanese civilians. Appointing General Douglas MacArthur, hardly a Farmer-Laborite, as Secretary of State, La Follette has pursued the rebuilding and rearmament of a ring of anti-communist nations in Asia while pledging to avoid any future war.
Declaring that, with the age of war having closed, the republic must “win the peace,” La Follette allied himself with much of Charles Lindbergh’s base of support, saluting alongside the fascists of Alabama as he presided over the sharpest GDP growth in American history and buoyed it with executive orders to nationalize the healthcare industry while engaging in the mass sterilization of Americans and constructing an interstate highway system and hydroelectric power grid without congressional approval. With an investigation into the disappearance of Smedley Butler yielding evidence of an assassination organized under former President Lindbergh and a litany of arrests of leading anti-La Follette figures stuning the nation, the opposition would unite in an unprecedented impeachment effort.
Now, months after having saved his presidency from the first impeachment in American history, 55 year old incumbent President Philip F. La Follette has sought a new mandate for his call to “win the peace” in a quest for a third term; further, the President has taken his first major post-impeachment use of executive power to reorganize the cabinet into umbrella departments of Peace, Production, and Prosperity. Pointing to the successful slaying of the dragon of inflation and the first space launches in human history, Phil has sought the passage of a constitutional amendment reducing the legislative power to that of a veto and expanding that of the presidency while instituting a nationwide referendum system. Although practically guaranteed renomination after his purging of opponents from national power within Farmer-Labor following his narrow 1948 triumph over John L. Lewis, La Follette’s re-envisioning of Farmer-Labor has nonetheless continued to fuel a dogged but disorganized opposition movement despite the winning over of former opponents such as Washington’s Scoop Jackson, who nearly mounted a bid against La Follette himself.
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Alf Landon campaigning in New York with the widow of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Norman Thomas.
Nationwide Opposition Candidates:
With efforts to discourage any opposition campaigns in full swing, only one major figure has stepped forth to win ballot access in most states continuing to hold primaries, although many states have seen independent organizing efforts in tandem with the shared ultimate goal of the demise of fascism.
Alf Landon: 65 year old former President Alf Landon has his cross to bear. Refusing to endorse against Charles Lindbergh after withdrawing from the party’s 1936 primaries, Landon’s inaction as his 1932 campaign manager Rush Holt put Lindbergh over the line would see the Lone Eagle’s flight path on a course to the White House, from where he would crush the remaining loyal Landonites in the midterm elections of 1938. Landon emerged triumphant in 1928 by pitching his moderation as a formula for long term Farmer-Labor dominance of government, only to see the party implode under his watch. Losing the popular vote only to win a contingent election via the machinations of Clarence Dill, Landon's presidency proved eventful, most notable, perhaps for its domestic inaction. While concentrating his focus upon the Molotov-Lundeen Pact establishing friendly diplomatic relations with the Soviet government in Russia, a policy Landon championed as the catalyst for the wide scale withdrawal of foreign forces from American soil, Landon would cut economic aid across the board and refuse to bail out banks & big business in the face of record unemployment rates following the worldwide depression brought on by the collapse of the Japanese economic bubble, while focusing on driving up interest rates to control inflation.
Pitted against a hostile Congress led by Clarence Dill, the man whose legislative acumen carried him to the White House and who now stands as La Follette’s loyal Secretary of Peace, Landon found much of his party arrayed against him in the face of a veto of the Thomas Bill nationalizing natural gas distribution & the telephone industry despite prior promises from Landon to support both proposals. With the complete breakdown of legislative-executive relations, Dill forced through the Recovery Act of 1931, the largest omnibus bill in American history, enacting vast economic reforms over the disgruntlement of Landon. Winning the primaries of 1932 in a landslide, only to lose at the convention in the face of the backroom dealings of Clarence Dill, Landon would fail in a 1936 comeback attempt that would inadvertently pave the way to fascism.
In partisan exile, Landon would unsuccessfully organize against President Lindbergh, only to watch his followers be resoundingly defeated in the midterm elections of 1938; finding himself at the upper echelons of power anew as an unofficial negotiator with the United Kingdom under President Luce, Landon would organize political comeback in 1945 by winning election to the United States Senate after the death of George Norris. Working from there on policy issues such as advocacy of the Parliament of Nations and support for presidential programs such as the Interstate Highway system, Landon and his remaining caucus of conservatives have been at the fore of anti-La Follette intraparty organizing from the campaign of John L. Lewis to the movement for impeachment. Throwing his hat into the ring once more, Landon has used his stature to argue that only his brand of moderation can resurrect the Farmer-Labor of old as a viable party independent of the control of the fascists brought to power by his own neglect.
Robert A. Heinlein: Launched to international fame as the senior naval officer during the American attack on Pearl Harbor, 45-year-old former Commodore Robert A. Heinlein has used the events of December 7th, 1941 as a springboard for a lucrative career as a science fiction author. Emphasizing scientific accuracy in novels with titles such as Red Planet and Rocket Ship Galileo, Heinlein would step from the military and literary arenas to the political at the urging of his publisher James Laughlin and associate Ezra Pound, the poet and former New York Governor who has attempted to revive the American social credit movement. In turn, with Laughlin, Pound, and office holders such as Senators Hans Wight and John Horne Blackmore and Representative Solon Earl Low in tow, Heinlein has capitalized on his war hero stature to campaign for the presidency entirely unrelated to those of every other candidate campaigning against La Follette and instead intended to revitalite the American social credit movement.
Falling curiously between the social credit wing of Farmer-Labor and radicals of the Liberty League, Heinlein has described himself as a libertarian while supporting a social credit monetary system balancing a nationalized monetary supply with a requirement of a 100% reserve on money lending as described in his seminal novel For Us, The Living; further, he has coupled his experience in the Navy with his science fiction work to argue that he is uniquely able to continue President La Follette’s attempts to reach for the stars through a space program and argued for a currency backed by the very goods owned by the government itself. A firm believer in the concept of a national draft and a militarist at heart, Heinlein has resurrected positions such as support for the repeal of the Jesus Amendment, the concomitant secularization of the United States government, and support for a constitutional amendment requiring a national referendum prior to any declaration of war resulting in the drafting of supporters.
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Reliving his military days with a uniform on the campaign trail, the President visited a zoo to greet flocks of koalas.
Regional Opposition Candidates:
With opposition Farmer-Labor organizations persisting around the nation and fighting to recapture control of their state parties, anti-La Follette factions across the nation have rallied around regional candidates in states permitting competitive primaries in an attempt to rise the tide of the down ballot opposition. Thus, all of the following candidates are only on the ballots of one or several states.
John Haynes Holmes: 73 year old Unitarian minister John Haynes Holmes served as a leading advisor to William Jennings Bryan, guiding the post-revolutionary nation through the unsteady waters of foreign occupation as he used the White House pulpit to preach his gospel of pacifist socialism. Playing a key role in the pardons of former revolutionaries, Holmes would serve in Alf Landon’s inaugural diplomatic delegation to Bolshevik Russia before reluctantly supporting Charles Lindbergh for his opposition to war with Japan. Nonetheless, a consistent opponent of fascism from his days as a seminary student denouncing young Governor Milford W. Howard’s new order in Alabama, Holmes has been a consistent bulwark in the struggle against the party’s fascist wing, renouncing President La Follette once it became clear that he would not end the Third Pacific War and using the word impeachment as early as the atomic bombings of 1945, which Holmes has denounced as a violation of the Jesus Amendment. Running on restoring the party’s former core of Christian socialism, Holmes has been put forth across New England as the flag bearer of the opposition.
Sid McMath: Hoisting the banner of opposition across the Deep South and Southwest is 40 year old Arkansas Senator Sid McMath. Primarying longtime incumbent Farmer-Laborite Garrett Whiteside in 1948 only to face off against the organization of Progressive strategist Osro Cobb, known as the “wizard of Arkansas” for his success in what was once the nation’s most Farmer-Laborite state, McMath would win an upset victory running on his record as a war hero and ties to Smedley Butler and Evans Fordyce Carlson. Horrified at revelations of the murder of Butler by the Lindbergh Administration, McMath would vote for the removal of Philip La Follette after a midnight visit from his former commanding officer in the Marine Corps David Shoup, transforming himself from an enigma to a pariah overnight as fascists across the nation have descended upon Arkansas to challenge him in 1954, with La Follette forces already organizing behind challenger Orval Faubus in a move that has placed McMath in an unexpected alliance with former rival Osro Cobb.
Jimmy Hoffa: 39 year old labor leader Jimmy Hoffa inherited the mantle of leadership of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from longtime President John L. Lewis after the arrest of Lewis and his deputy Tony Boyle. A moderate with sympathies to both the party’s right and left seen as balancing with fellow CIO leader Walter Reuther’s socialism, Hoffa has put the interests of labor above all from his days leading the Teamsters Union. A fiery speaker who many credit with saving the CIO from collapse after the arrest of its leonine leader, Hoffa’s name is only on three ballots, but he has emerged as the choice of handfuls of CIO-affiliated delegates across the nation as a protest vote against the continued nationalization of the General Trades Union.
Jerry Voorhis: The Senate’s sole member from the Single Tax Party, California’s Jerry Voorhis has nonetheless served as the lightning rod around which disparate California anti-La Follette Farmer-Laborites have organized owing to the state ordinances permitting political crossfiling. Having described “the Kingdom of God” as being a world “all producing wealth is owned publicly” in his Claremont University thesis, Voorhis would oppose President Lindbergh from the beginning as a Farmer-Labor socialist before joining the Single Tax Party in 1946, reviving it in the state of California in an attempt to find a new vehicle for his politics. Seen as a contender for the presidency regardless of party affiliation, Voorhis’s draft movement among California oppositionists has been heralded as the first step of the left wing knight’s hypothetical return to a rebuilt Farmer-Labor Party. Among his surprising supporters has been former Lindbergh-La Follette stalwart Reverend Robert P. Shuler, who has praised Voorhis for crossing ideological and party lines to defend his right to free speech in moralistic attacks on Henry Luce’s romantic life.
Frank P. Zeidler: 40 year old Wisconsin Governor Frank P. Zeidler has stood as a socialist in the heart of La Follette country, successfully resisting primary challenges to maintain his grasp on the office amidst a tenuous alliance with Joseph McCarthy. Entering politics following the death of his rising star brother Carl, Frank has accepted the ballot line of the opposition in several Midwestern states following the death of former Senator Herbert S. Bigelow, once anticipated as a socialist challenger himself. A socialist to the core, Zeidler supporters point to his history of fiscal success and balanced budgets as evidence of his acumen in economic management and ability to control inflation as a possible future chief executive.
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The Primaries:
The quixotic challenge of former President Landon would find itself in a surprise competition for national attention with a handful of local efforts sponsored by opposition groups unable to connect themselves nationally. Meanwhile, in an expected turn of events, Robert A. Heinlein would carry the primaries in strongly pro-social credit Shoshone and Vancouver, a respectable showing that has set the war hero and author up solidly for leadership of a social credit bid for party leadership in 1956. Similarly, the success of Jerry Voorhis in California would surprise primary observers and fuel rumblings of a possible 1956 movement.
Among the opening primaries, a lightning bolt would land directly into the La Follette campaign as Arkansas Senator Sid McMath, hardly taken seriously as a challenger by the Administration, won 59.6% in the Florida primary. Scrambling for a response, La Follette would win the uncompetitive South Carolina primary but lose Louisiana by ten points and McMath’s own Arkansas by thirty. With McMath gaining steam across the South, he would nonetheless falter in North Carolina amidst bickering between left and right wing opponents of La Follette that would tear apart his organization in the state and reveal a lack of strong support from anti-La Follette Senator Charles A. Jonas, who would mount a campaign for Alf Landon and leave La Follette to win the state with 54.3% of the vote to a mere 36.1% for McMath. Although McMath would retort with a razor thin victory in Mississippi the next week, focusing on the bread and butter of economic issues rather than rivalry with La Follette, he would soon find several members of his Senate staff indicted on corruption charges. Nonetheless, he would continue his surprising streak with an overwhelming victory in Georgia, combining the Appalachian miners of the north with the urban left of Atlanta and its darling Senator Ellis Arnall for 58.8% in the state’s primary, alongside a surprising 47.1% showing in Alabama with the support of oppositionist Senator Jim Folsom.
As Landon inherited the conservative labor support of John L. Lewis, and with it success in the coal country of the Border South, he would displace a faltering John Haynes Holmes in the state of New York and attempt to present a united front by campaigning alongside Norman Thomas, a strategy that would bring the former President to his most surprising victory, with 51.4% of the vote to 42.9% for President La Follette and 5.3% for Robert A. Heinlein despite the support of former Governor Ezra Pound. The sole exception would be Michigan, where favorite son Jimmy Hoffa would stand on his only primary ballot.
However, the Midwest would present other issues for President La Follette. From the plains of his birth to the industrial Midwest to the south and east, socialist Governor Frank Zeidler would win significant support. Locked out of the Houston, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, and Illinois primaries, Zeidler would nonetheless carry Ohio with 52.1% of the vote and the endorsement of dying Herbert S. Bigelow, adding to his roster Dakota, home state of campaign manager George McGovern. Although coming in an expected second to the incumbent President in their shared home state, Zeidler’s 40.1% showing in Wisconsin, and 3.4% given to former Speaker of the House Joseph McCarthy as a write-in, would raise alarm bells in the President’s home even as he swept the nation.
Nonetheless, La Follette would present a convincing showing of his own for an incumbent President in his quest for a third term, sweeping primaries such as those of Washington and New England against spirited campaigns for the opposition from such men as John Haynes Holmes and, in cautious support of Zeidler, Marion Zioncheck. Thus, despite carrying a smaller share of the national popular vote in comparison to 1948’s battle for the soul of Farmer-Labor, La Follette would emerge from the primaries with a supermajority of the delegates and the path to re-election clearly paved by certain renomination.

Philip F. La Follette	763
Jerry Voorhis	371
Robert A. Heinlein	47
Jimmy Hoffa	16
Alf Landon	11
Sid McMath	13
Frank Zeidler	8

The Convention:
To many, the gathering of one and a half thousand delegates in Philadelphia was meant not as a convention, but as a coronation. Yet, dedicated members of the opposition would refuse to let yet another expected loss in another round of political battle stop them. With tens of thousands mulling about Philadelphia’s Civic Center, the expensive venue that presidential loyalists had insisted on as a means to draw ties to the immortal location of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, oppositionists would gather in the lobby of the Philadelphia Marriott to organize a united front around California Senator Jerry Voorhis in an attempt to bridge divides among the Farmer-Labor opposition and, for appearance’s sake, at the least, to change the depiction of the anti-Phil movement as one of united purpose rather than disparate regional interests.
If the 14,000 in attendance for the convention did not already make delegates packed into the convention hall feel as if they were in a can of sardines, the prying eyes of hundreds of Blackshirts standing guard made the skin of oppositionists crawl, for if looks could kill, Sid McMath would later muse on the televised Longines Chronoscope, every opposition man would be left as dead as canned sardines. After the carnage of the 1948 convention, broadcast to a million American homes over radio, the now loyal machinery of the Farmer-Labor Party was determined to maintain the first televised convention in American political history as their coronation, not the opposition’s competition. In an unprecedented move that communicated clearly the hostility towards anti-La Follette elements from the new doyens of party leadership, Blackshirts had been formally contracted by the National Committee to serve as security.
Indeed, if looks could kill, Frank Zeidler would have been shot dead by none other than Convention Chairman Burton K. Wheeler as the Wisconsin Governor ascended to the podium to enter the name of Jerry Voorhis as a candidate for the presidency, showing the hand of the opposition’s united front. As Zeidler denounced the third term campaign as “the next phase of a national effort to subvert the will of the people,” jeering Blackshirts would shout back “who won?” in reference to Phil’s twenty five point lead in the popular vote. Over the shouts of opponents, Zeidler would denounce La Follette’s urban planning policies, noting as Governor his distaste for the “iron ring of suburbs” surrounding Milwaukee.
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Demonstrators allied with the Zeidler campaign demonstrate with signs promoting socialist New York Congressman Norman Thomas.
Sid McMath would rise next to second the nomination of the opposition’s standard bearer, asking delegates of President La Follette, “how will this man be measured when weighed in the scales of freedom in the world?” Continuing, the Arkansan would declare that “The concepts of freedom, equality of opportunity, and dignity for all people are the basis and bulwark of our national pride and our nation’s strength. America’s instinct for equal rights under the law for all citizens is the underlying force that binds us together. America’s conscience dictates that justice is the moral essence of the law. Fires of freedom are burning, ignited by the precepts proclaimed in the American Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights to the Constitution of the United States…they shall not be extinguished.” McMath would not turn to the upturned noses of the Blackshirt guards, but to the dozens of television cameras positioned across from him. Understanding acutely that neither he nor his compatriots were to win this day, Senator McMath was not addressing the voting delegates assembled before him but the voting masses of the nation. Confident in that assertion, Sid McMath would hold his head high as he left the stage, the cheers of supporters carrying his heart over the din of hisses and insults.
President La Follette would not take the stage until Voorhis had been voted down, animated counters on the television screen announcing to the world his triumph. For the first time in American history, a President had been impeached. For the first time in American history, a President had survived impeachment. Now, for the first time in American history, a President had consecutively won renomination for a third term. Secretary of Production Ralph Immell would later recount a smile upon Phil’s face as the news came through, joining 16 year old Sherry for a hug and beckoning over First Lady Isen and his older children. The larger than life man so often plastered with the title dictator would caress a photo of his family from before the war, from before the presidency, and would take a deep breath as he left his private room to greet the throngs of admirers.
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The First Family shown in a photo from 1941 treasured by the President.
The President’s speech would be brief, listing a challenge to the Federal Reserve as among his third term goals and rebutting allegations of authoritarianism by arguing that he held the reformist soul at the heart of Farmer-Labor. Promising loyalty to “the life of democracy,” Phil would describe his Administration as “investigating problems very thoroughly, whether it be a depression amongst farmers, or unemployment. Out of this, shall we say scientific investigation of problems, we seek after remedies.” Nonetheless, Phil would stand by granting "the Executive branch power to get things done and restore to every American the opportunity to help himself. After that, he can sink or swim,” and reiterate his admiration for Milford W. Howard’s fascism with a nod to the Alabama delegation. Noticing shouts from opponents in Norman Thomas’s New York and a sign hoisted by Landon delegates from Nebraska, President La Follette would look from the delegates to the cameras to defend his leadership.
“Over thirty years have passed since that unhappy day when the American people, blinded by promises made by those at home and abroad, forgot the highest values of our past, of the Republic, of its honor and its freedom, and thereby lost everything at Tegucigalpa. After those days of treason, discord and hatred moved in.
America, since the day the revolution broke out, was a picture of heartbreaking disunity. We did not receive the equality and fraternity which was promised us; instead we lost our freedom. The breakdown of the unity of mind and will of our nation at home was followed by the collapse of its political position abroad. American freedom is rooted in American abundance. Let me emphasize the statement that no free nation can remain half at work and half idle. Howardism was an explosion against these intolerable conditions.
We overcame class and class warfare. I do not recognize classes, but only the American people. I therefore appeal now to the American people to stand for Americanism against autocratic dictatorship and economic tyranny. The La Follette Administration will complete the great task of reorganizing our national economy, saving the American worker, and saving the American farmer. The Administration has worked and will work for victory not merely in the brutality of war, but in peace as well. We have no desire to fight for ourselves; only for the United States of America.
As we won the war, I appeal to you once more, let us win the peace.”
As Blackshirts below ripped signs of protest from the hands of the opposition, the President of the United States would end his address with a barb, characterizing his opponents as “machine minded organization without principle or program.” Looking into the eyes of delegates who wished him dead, La Follette would defiantly declare that “definitely and irrevocably, we are here to stay as American people reclaim their heritage,” before closing with a final imploration to “win the peace.”
Four years ago John L. Lewis had declared that “the hour of labor’s redemption” had arrived. Today, John L. Lewis closed his eyes in a prison cell a thousand miles away as hundred foot banners of George Washington rose in the convention hall that labor had ruled two decades ago. Alongside Washington rose equally prominent banners of Philip La Follette, speakers blasted a folk rendition of the campaign anthem “Vote for Phil” from convention hall into ten million television sets and from thousands joined chants of “Phil! Phil! Phil!” accompanied by the salute of Rome and its empire, of Howard and his fascism, today of La Follette and the peace to be won. Whatever November might bring for Philip La Follette, his hour of triumph was at hand.
“Hail victory!”
A tall banner of George Washington shortly before similar banners of President La Follette were placed around him.
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