President
"One cannot be faithful to the revolution if one is illiterate. So in the days of the anti-Japanese armed struggle I put forward the slogan ‘Studying is the first and foremost task for revolutionaries,' and ensured that a revolutionary way of studying was established among the anti-Japanese guerrillas."
During the period of the anti-Japanese struggle from the very first day he founded the Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army, a revolutionary armed force, on April 25, 1932, President
In early 1933, when he visited Wangqing, President was so deeply grieved at the bitter past of most anti-Japanese guerrillas who had no access to schooling whatsoever and could not even write their own names because deprived of the country, and decided to teach them first spelling to build them up to be competent political and military officers.
The decision of President to teach them the orthography to teach the principles, strategies and tactics of the revolution was associated with his boundless and profound fatherly love and warm affection, taking the guerillas in his arms to bring up them as Juche-oriented revolutionary fighters.
He made the anti-Japanese guerrillas realize their wrong way of thinking of some of the guerrillas who were going to learn when they had a free time, asking them how they could they make the revolution without knowing how to write their own language as Korean who were to carry out the Korean revolution in the future and saying that not just by paying money or going to school let them learn a language.
He also handed in the brochures and notebooks for them to study, personally wrote their names in a large size in their notebooks for the guerrillas who did not know how to write their own names and wrote the alphabet chart one by one, showing warm fatherly love.
Encouraged by the great trust and warm love of President, the anti-Japanese guerrillas turned out as one to live up to his loving care.
The guerrillas learned at camp, on the march, during the battle, collectively and individually.
The camp arranged a few hours every day, took a short time, and studied the words all together or in groups of several people and also when they did military training they learned letters loading and decking, and when military training was over, they used and consolidated the letters they had learned.
In the days when it was very difficult to obtain a pencil and a notebook, the guerrillas carried a sandbag with them, spread it over the rest of the march, wrote and, at the camp, made a sand table and spread it over it, and studied writing.
When they marched at night or through the dark forest, they hung white towels or cloth on their backs behind their foremen's knapsacks, and wrote characters on them, and read the letters in their mouth. When they had a break during the march, they wrote characters on snow or on the ground with wooden sticks, and they even learnt letters without spending time in vain during the battles.
Like this, the anti-Japanese guerrillas bore the teachings of the great leader deep in heart, who said that they should learn Korean letters first, even in the flames of the anti-Japanese war, learnt the letters one by one to learn the truth of the revolution and grew up to competent military commanders and political workers.
