During the anti-Japanese armed struggle, President
The respected Comrade
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During the first period of the anti-Japanese armed struggle, he advanced the original idea that they should fight endless battles using the guerrilla warfare method, which relied on the active support of the masses and the favorable natural and geographical conditions without the support of state rear or regular armed forces, accumulating battle experience and creating new guerrilla tactics one by one.
The President explained in details the tactical principle of guerrilla warfare analyzing one after another the limitations of the theory of armed groups, in which they should organize a large number of armed groups and defeat the enemy with endless attrition, the theory of immediate armed confrontation, which claims that they should immediately turn to a full-scale armed attack, and the theory of deliberation that the forces should be accumulated tenaciously as the struggle had a protracted character and defeat the enemy at one strike.
The President put forward the principles, methods and Juche-oriented tactics of guerrilla activities in his works such as "Guerrilla Actions" and "Practical Senses of Guerrilla" by comprehensively systematizing the valuable experience gained through more than a year of armed activity, and adroitly applied them in every battle.
The tactical principles, principles of action and forms of battle of the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Army became the decisive factors that enabled the Koran People's Revolutionary Army (KPRA) to win continuous victory in the battles against the prevailing enemy.
The President personally organized and led the defense campaign of the Xiaowangqing guerrilla zone, dealt an annihilating blow to the Japanese aggressors rushing in large numbers by transition from all-out defense to the war of attrition with flexible maneuvering and active defense centered on the tactics of allurement and trickery, and the tactics of disturbing the enemy's rear.
The enemies turned their attack on the Xiaowangqing guerrilla zone where the General Staff of the Korean revolution was located and brought in more than 5 000 troops and squadrons including the Japanese Kwantung Army and the puppet Manchukuo army in this area.
When the enemy continuously threw large troops into Mt. Ppyojok and Mt. Marban, the President pushed the enemy into passive defense and mercilessly smashed them using various tactics such as ambushing, sniping, attacking enemies' camping site and embedding bombs under the campfire while endlessly luring them by transition from all-out defense to the war of attrition with flexible maneuvering and active defense centered on the tactics of allurement and trickery.
When the enemy's forces were scattered, he attacked and destroyed the enemy by pooling efforts and when the enemy was rallied, he defeated the enemy's "punitive" using the tactic of disrupting the enemy's rear all over with dispersed forces.
From Xiaowangqing defensive battle, countless new military tactics were born that contributed to the systematization of guerrilla tactics. Those were indeed unique and original that could not be found in any other military manual.
The luring and ambush tactics was used in the battle of Laohei Mountain. In the battle of Dongning provincial city, the guerrillas, with fewer force, conducted a pre-emptive attack on the headquarters of the enemy therefore vanquishing large force of enemy. The Battle of Pochonbo was a model guerrilla battle which satisfied the requirements of guerrilla tactics to the highest level. All processes were geared like cogwheels; the targets and timing, the combination of shocking agitation by means of arson and brisk publicity activities. In the Battle of Fusong provincial city, the guerrillas defeated the enemy with the tactics of "Make sound in the east, Attack from the west". Meanwhile, in the battle of Hongtou Mountain, the enemy was annihilated in the deep "Punchbowl". The battle of Xiaodeshui was remarkable for the world-famous tactics "Watch the enemies fighting themselves from far away". This tactics was about making two forces of enemies from opposite directions to fight each other; the guerrillas fire at both forces and escape, the enemies approach closer to each other and before even recognizing, they start firing to the opposite side, killing themselves. Apart from all these mentioned, other guerrilla tactics included surprise attack, the flexible combination of large and small units operations.
There is no end to talking about the guerrilla tactics created by the President during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.
Indeed, the Juche-oriented strategies and tactics created by the President during the anti-Japanese armed struggle were invincible weapons that enabled them to shatter the regular war of the aggressive forces by guerrilla warfare.
