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Kim Il Sung, Liberator of Nation

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- August 15 is the 59th anniversary of the liberation of Korea from the military occupation by the Japanese imperialists. The Japanese imperialists, who occupied Korea by force of arms in 1905, enforced mediaeval repressive politics and plundered the Korean people of their natural resources at random and bled them white.
    Korean people organized volunteer army units across the country to retake the country. Koreans assassinated Ito Hirobumi, a boss of the invaders, and committed suicide by disembowelment at the International Peace Conference held in The Hague calling for the independence of Korea. They rose up in nation-wide struggles including the March First Popular Uprising and June Tenth Independence Movement. But they could not achieve national liberation because they were not guided by an outstanding leader.
    As they were led by President Kim Il Sung, the Korean people ushered in a new era of historic turn in their efforts to accomplish the cause of national liberation.
    Basing himself on a deep analysis of the historic lessons drawn in the early Korean communist movement and the national liberation movement, he formed the Down-with-Imperialism Union (DIU), a true revolutionary organization of Juche, in Juche 15 (1926), thus lighting the way for an independent development of the Korean revolution.
    With an idea that enemy with arms could be repelled only by arms, he founded the Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army in April Juche 21 (1932), declaring a war against the Japanese imperialists.
    The President, with his original guerrilla tactics, dealt blows at the one-million-strong "elite" Kwantung Army of the Japanese imperialists in different areas.
    He founded the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland, an anti-Japanese united national front organization, in 1936 to arouse the whole nation in the sacred war against Japanese imperialism.
    With full preparations made for an all-people resistance, he issued an order of final offensive to all the units of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army on August 9, Juche 34 (1945). And he called on Korean people, armed groups and uprising organizations to turn out in an armed riot and thus defeated the Japanese imperialists and achieved the liberation of the country on August 15.
    The Korean people have conveyed the immortal exploits of the President, who accomplished the historic cause of national liberation and glorified the dignity and honor of the nation, down through generations.