Today, the Korean people are now speeding up advance to thoroughly carry out the militant tasks advanced at the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Party Central Committee by dint of the revolutionary spirit and fighting trait of self-reliance.
The revolutionary spirit and fighting trait of self-reliance, which are displayed highly at all battlefields of socialist construction, were provided in the arsenal of the guerrilla zone during the anti-Japanese armed struggle.
The great leader Comrade
"The spirit of self-reliance that rang out in the hammering of the arsenals in the guerrilla zones drove the pulse of the era of the Workers' Party and provided the powerful force that propelled this era forward."
The anti-Japanese armed struggle, which was organized and waged by the great leader Comrade
In order to nip in the bud the guerrilla zones in different areas including the district along the Tuman River, describing them as the "cancer in achieving peace in the Orient", the Japanese imperialists committed merciless murder, incendiary fire and plunder while performing a full-scale scorched-land operations along with economic blockade against the guerrilla zone.
Under the circumstances, the great Leader put forward a policy of further improving military equipment of the anti-Japanese people's guerrilla unit with their own efforts and arming all the people in the guerrilla zone.
In the concluding speech "Arsenal members should give full play to the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance" he delivered at the short course on using a bomb held at Dafangzi in Wangqing on November 26 Juche 21 (1932), the great Leader stressed the need to make weapons at the arsenals of the guerrilla zone by their own efforts to arm themselves while disarming the enemies of their weapons to improve their military equipment.
The arsenal in the guerrilla zone at that time was nothing but a blacksmith's shop in the village that had reforged the blade of hoe and sickle and there was no expert related to the repair of weapons. Worse still, there was no necessary machinery and equipment, except such backward iron tools as hammer, anvil, pliers, bellow and file.
That was why, many people thought at that time that it was enough to make swords and spears.
Worse still, dependence on others, which had remained in the minds of people, was prevalent, rather than lack of expert related to the repair of weapons or necessary machine units.
In the early days after founding the anti-Japanese people's guerrilla unit, some people asked their neighbour to offer a hand grenade factory, out of a desire to benefit from the country which fulfilled the revolution earlier.
But the neighbouring country did not reply to their asking for assistance.
The great Leader made up his mind to resolve everything with self-reliance.
With firm stand that the decisive factor in promoting the revolution is to rouse one's effort to the most, he saw to it that the Juche character was thoroughly established in the arsenal work.
He personally researched and completed a gunpowder making method in order to solve the problem of gunpowder, which was the most bottleneck in the arsenal work.
With breakthrough made in the production of gunpowder under the direct guidance of the great Leader, the arsenals in the guerrilla zone could briskly conduct the repair and production of weapons.
A typical example is the bomb made at the arsenal of the guerrilla zone. Starting from sound bomb, they developed pepper bomb and Yongil bomb, which served as a powerful weapon that made the enemies tremble with fear during the anti-Japanese armed struggle.
Members of the arsenal in the guerrilla zone repaired damaged rifles and automatic guns by themselves, recycled necessary bullets and made pistols, as well as gun with wood. The wooden gun gave full play to its might in the battle of the Tadu Stream on September 30 Juche 22 (1933).
Later, the revolutionary spirit and fighting spirit of self-reliance displayed at the arsenal of the guerrilla zone were inherited and developed in the arsenals built in the Paektusan Base. They were applied not only in the manufacture of munitions but in the work of making military uniforms and curing wounded soldiers.
The guerrillas used barks of bristle-tooth oak, wild-walnut tree and Amur cork to solve the problem of dyeing materials for uniforms on their own and did the cutting and sewing of clothes by themselves. They would whet iron wires and made holes in them when needles were broken during the tailoring and even made sewing machines by themselves so as to complete the task of uniform production without fail.
The guerrillas at the base obtained medical apparatuses and various medicinal materials needed for treating patients by their own efforts so that many comrades could recover from injuries and rejoined the ranks of fighters.
Such miracles performed during the anti-Japanese armed struggle were the brilliant fruition brought about by the wise leadership of the great Leader who came up with the idea of independence that all problems arising in the revolutionary struggle should definitely be solved by their own efforts, led the revolution along the road of Juche and trained the guerrilla fighters into those strong in self-reliance.
The revolutionary spirit and fighting spirit of self-reliance demonstrated in the anti-Japanese armed struggle became the source of strength that created great miracles in the periods of the building of a new democratic Korea after liberation, the Fatherland Liberation War, post-war reconstruction and other eras of the revolution that came afterwards.
Today, the Korean people hold fast to self-reliance which has been the banner of struggle and the driving force of a leap forward through the whole course of the Korean revolution as the treasured sword for prosperity, while making remarkable progress in socialist construction.
