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"250-mile Journey for Learning"

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung started the "250-mile Journey for Learning" on March 16, Juche 12 (1923). He, at the age of 11, left alone Badaogou, Changbai County of China, for Mangyongdae, Pyongyang, true to the will of his father that one should know well of his country for its liberation.
    During the journey from Phophyong facing China across the River Amnok to Mangyongdae, he had to pass through primitive forests and deep valleys in the face of snowstorms and bitter cold.
    What agonized him was to see the motherland trampled down by the Japanese imperialists rather than undergo his physical sufferings.
    On the 14th day after he left Badaogou, he entered his native home to amaze all his family members in Mangyongdae.
    He, with a smile on his face, said that young as he was, he could travel two countries alone.
    While studying at Changdok School, he got a better knowledge of the Korean history and geography and the situation of the homeland.
    He left Mangyongdae again and embarked on the road of revolution in 1925 with a firm determination not to come back to the homeland before liberating it from the Japanese imperialists' occupation.
    The Korean people have erected his statues, revolutionary museums and a schoolchildren's palace in Phophyong, Hwaphyong, Kaechon and other places to convey his revolutionary activities associated with the journey down through generations.
    Schoolchildren of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea make marches along the course of the "250-mile Journey for Learning" every year to learn from the President and train their body and mind.