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Kim Il Sung's Great Feats for National Liberation

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

   Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung went across the River Amnok via the Phophyong Ferry 83 years ago today with a firm pledge to liberate the ruined country.
    The then Phophyong in the northern tip of Korea is a historical place associated with the President's 250-mile journey for learning and 250-mile journey for national liberation.
    With a noble intention that a man must have a good knowledge of Korea to win her back, he came to Mangyongdae, his native place, covering the 250-mile journey for learning on foot at the age of 11.
    He, who cultivated the lofty patriotic aim to liberate the country witnessing the miserable lot of the people trodden by the Japanese imperialists in the homeland, he embarked upon the 250-mile journey for national liberation. Ten-odd days after he left Mangyongdae, he arrived at the Phophyong Ferry on Feb. 3, Juche 14 (1925).
    Singing the Song of the River Amnok, he firmly pledged himself not to come back before he won the independence of Korea.
    True to the pledge he made at the Phophyong Ferry, he waged the 20-year-long fierce anti-Japanese war, thus defeating the brutal Japanese imperialists and achieving the liberation of the country.
    After the liberation of the country, he accomplished the historic cause of founding the Party, state and army, defended the dignity and sovereignty of the nation with credit in the three-year-long Fatherland Liberation War and led various stages of socialist construction work to a brilliant victory to perform immortal exploits which will go down in the history of the country.
    There are so many countries and leaders in the world. But they have never seen such a peerlessly great man who dedicated his whole life to the struggle for materializing his lofty patriotic oath he took in his teens.
    The pledge of the President on the historical day guarantees the Korean people's happiness of today and the rosy morrow of the Juche-oriented socialist Korea.