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Liberator of Korean Nation

KCNA

    Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- August 15 is the anniversary of liberation of Korea from the colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists (1945). The Korean people, with a 5,000-year-long history and brilliant culture, were reduced to colonial slaves after the Japanese imperialists militarily occupied the country in the early 20th century.
    The Japanese imperialists plundered Korea of natural resources at random and bled the Korean people white by inconceivable methods and means.
    They made every effort to deprive the Korean people of their history, cultural tradition, language and names in an attempt to exterminate the Korean nation.
    Their colonial enslavement policy turned Korea into a living hell and distressed the Korean people.
    President Kim Il Sung, who was born into a patriotic and revolutionary family when the country was under the Japanese occupation, keenly felt the sorrow of the ruined nation, started revolutionary activities for the liberation of the country and fought against the invaders for two decades.
    He founded the Korean People's Revolutionary Army in April Juche 21 (1932) and declared a sacred war against the Japanese imperialists. During the hard-fought war, he stroke terror into the one million-strong "crack Kwantung Army" with his superb tactics. He finally defeated the Japanese imperialists and liberated Korea, thus earning the fame as a legendary hero. Since then, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has appeared in the international arena as an independent and sovereign state and its people have become the happiest and proud people in the world.
    This is why the Korean people always venerate Kim Il Sung as the liberator of the nation and founder of socialist Korea.