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Koreans Grateful to Kim Il Sung for National Liberation

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- August 15 this year is the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of the Korean people from the Japanese imperialists' military occupation. In interviews with KCNA on this occasion many people expressed deep thanks to President Kim Il Sung, who defeated the Japanese imperialists and liberated the nation to guarantee the Korean people's genuine right to life.
    Vice-Minister of Light Industry Min Hong Il said: "I'm happy to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the country's liberation. It is Kim Il Sung that gave rebirth to the people who had been subjected to the mediaeval tyranny, backbreaking labor and maltreatment, deprived of their country by the Japanese imperialists. Since the country's liberation, the people have fully exercised their right to independence and lived a creative life. He is, indeed, the liberator of the nation".
    Kim Kyong Ok, vice-chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Korean Democratic Women's Union, had this to say: "Through the 20-year-long hard-fought revolutionary struggle against the Japanese imperialists, Generalissimo Kim Il Sung emancipated women from the wretched fate of sexual slavery for the Japanese army and all feudal fetters. They are now taking proper positions in all fields of the political, economic and social life, loved as flowers of the families and society."
    Yu Chol Song, a worker of the Pyongyang Steel Plant, said that the anniversary of the country's liberation makes me not only jubilant with the holiday but resentful of the Japanese imperialists. He went on to say:
    "Sixty years have passed since the liberation of the country. But the Japanese reactionaries, far from honestly apologizing and compensating to the Korean people for the crimes committed against them for nearly half a century, are still resorting to anti-DPRK moves with outcries over 'dominium' over Tok Islet and 'kidnapping issue'. The Korean people will certainly take their long pent-up revenge on them". Ri Kyong Sik, a serviceman, stated: "Though many years have passed, the target of the Korean people has remained unchanged. If the Japanese reactionaries persistently seek showdown with the Korean people in disregard of their good will and magnanimity, the servicepersons will avenge themselves on the enemies a hundred fold with the military power they have long built up".