Oath Taken Before His Mother's Grave

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said:

"In the long period after he embarked on the road of revolution Comrade Kim Il Sung only thought about the revolution and dedicated himself to it, working with devotion for its victory in spite of all the sorrow and agony he experienced."

On April 25 1932, General Kim Il Sung founded the Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army, the first revolutionary armed force of Juche type, and set it as the immediate main task of the army to train the guerrillas in the practical struggle, rapidly strengthen the ranks of the guerrilla units and lay a solid mass foundation for it.

In order to make a breakthrough for carrying out the task, the General made an advance to southern Manchuria as the first action of the army after its founding.

Before leaving for southern Manchuria, he visited his sick mother in Xiaoshahe to bid a farewell to her and resolutely left the place to set out on the advance to southern Manchuria in early June 1932.

Through the successful expedition to southern Manchuria, he laid a solid foundation for rapidly expanding and developing the overall Korean revolution centered on the armed struggle. Late in August 1932 he returned to Liangjiangkou, Antu County, leading the main force of the AJPGA which had grown stronger.

Though he returned after successfully completing the expedition to southern Manchuria, he could hardly make time to go to see his mother because of the move of the Headquarters to the Wangqing area.

Only on September 28 he went to see his mother on the earnest advice of his comrades.

He walked all day long to arrive at the house of his mother towards evening. He, however, felt strain as if his blood curdled all at once and managed to pull the door open.

Looking at his younger brothers flinging themselves into his arms, bursting into tears, he realized all the circumstances. He then hugged them, bursting out sobbing.

After a while, a woman told him about his mother's last wish that if he came when the Japanese were still in Korea and without having achieved its independence, they must not allow him to open her grave.

Then he was filled with greater grief, with ardent yearning for his mother who had lived always thinking of the homeland all her life.

Before the grave of his mother, he swore a solemn oath promising to win back the lost country and realize her desire, the desire of the nation, by waging an indomitable struggle to the last so that all her efforts devoted for the country would be not in vain.

He never forgot the oath during the arduous anti-Japanese war. And as he had pledged, he defeated the Japanese imperialists and accomplished the great historic cause of national liberation.