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Kim Il Sung's Undying Feat in National Liberation

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

   Pyongyang, August 15 (KCNA) -- The national liberation (August 15) is significantly celebrated in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
    The Korean people recollect with deep emotion the immortal feats performed by President Kim Il Sung in accomplishing the cause of the national liberation in reliance upon arms.
    The President embarked upon the road of revolution, shouldering the destiny of the country and the nation. Keenly realizing that it was imperative to build a revolutionary armed force to save the fate of the fellow countrymen who were groaning under the jackboots of the Japanese imperialists and win back the ruined country, he gave a comprehensive exposition of the strategic and tactical issues to push ahead with the Korean revolution and advanced the line of anti-Japanese armed struggle at the Kalun Meeting.
    The Korean Revolutionary Army was formed on July 6, Juche 19 (1930) in the efforts for implementing the Juche-oriented line and policies put forward at the Kalun Meeting.
    The President dispatched groups of the revolutionary army to the northern part of Korea, central Manchuria and other areas so that they could expand the ranks, accumulate military experience and secure a centre for activities and weapons. This made it possible to carry out the tasks for the anti-Japanese armed struggle.
    In May 1931 he came to Jongsong County (at that time) of Korea and convened a meeting of underground political workers and chiefs of underground revolutionary organizations at Kongsudok in which he delivered a speech "Let us fully prepare revolutionary forces for an armed struggle."
    He put forward all the tasks to thoroughly liquidate the aftereffects of the "Left" adventurist acts of the factionalists completely infected with flunkeyism and prepare full revolutionary forces for an armed struggle.
    Later, in Hoeryong he held a meeting of underground political workers in the areas of Hoeryong and Jongsong and indicated ways to revolutionize and organize the people in Ryukup area along the River Tuman and build secret camps for armed small units and underground political workers conduct military and political activities and turn the area into a strategic centre for the armed struggle.
    Under the leadership of the President, the core elements were trained, a mass foundation was laid and a full military preparation was made to build the anti-Japanese armed ranks in a matter of nearly two years after the formation of the Korean Revolutionary Army.
    Basing himself on this preparation, the President founded the anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army, the first revolutionary armed forces in Korea, on April 25, 1932 to defeat robber-like Japanese imperialists and accomplish the historic cause of national liberation.