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250-mile Journey for Revolution Linked with Road to National Liberation and Prosperity

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

   Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- Today is the significant day when President Kim Il Sung set out on the 250-mile Journey for National Liberation.
    After his graduation from Badaogou Primary School in Northeast China, he made the 250-mile Journey for Learning true to the lofty intention of his father that a man who was born in Korea should have a good knowledge of Korea. After arriving at Mangyongdae, he attended Changdok School, cultivating a great ambition for national liberation.
    He received in January Juche 14 (1925) a few months ahead of his graduation the heart-rending news that his father had been arrested again by the Japanese police.
    With a determination to wage a life and death struggle for taking revenge on the enemy for his father, his family and the Korean nation, he set out on the 250-mile Journey for National Liberation on January 22 regardless of intense cold.
    He went to Kaechon via Sinanju from Pyongyang by train. From there, he walked all along in the teeth of biting cold and blizzard in the northern area.
    On February 3, the 13th day after he left Mangyongdae, he arrived at Phophyong Ferry and he looked over the motherland and then the alien land across the river with sorrow and indignation.
    He walked slowly towards the opposite side of the river singing quietly the Song of the River Amnok composed by someone and made a firm resolve not to return to Korea before he won her independence.
    The arduous 250-mile journey for revolution covered by the President with a pledge to save the nation from quagmire at the age of 13 led to the liberation of the country and the happiness of the people.
    The President, true to his great pledge made in the 1920s, waged the 20-year-long bloody anti-Japanese war to accomplish the historical cause of national liberation and humbled the arrogance of the U.S. imperialists in the three-year-long Fatherland Liberation War to defend the nation's sovereignty in the 1950s.
    He also constructed the DPRK that the U.S. imperialists said would not be recovered even in 100 years to be a powerful socialist country independent, self-supporting and self-reliant in defence and laid a solid foundation for eternal prosperity of the country.
    The Korean people bear deep in their mind the philosophy left by the history of the Korean revolution that the long arduous march is linked with the eternal happiness, the philosophy they learned from the 250-mile journey for revolution made by the President.