Thorough Preparation for the Final Offensive Operation for National Liberation

Greeting the 79th anniversary of national liberation, all the Korean people are looking back with deep feelings on the foresight and immortal leadership of the President Kim Il Sung, who achieved the historic cause of national liberation by thoroughly preparing for the final attack during the past anti-Japanese armed struggle.

During the period of national suffering when the destiny of the country and the nation was at stake, Comrade Kim Il Sung fought a hard-fought anti-Japanese war in the forests of Mt Paektu. He prepared the final offensive operation for national liberation, leading our people in their efforts to defeat the Japanese imperialists and greet the historic day of national liberation.

Chairman Kim Jong Il said:

"Comrade Kim Il Sung achieved the historic cause of national liberation by organizing and leading the anti-Japanese armed struggle to victory after founding the revolutionary armed force in the forests of Mt Paektu."

First of all, President put forward the three lines of national liberation for the final offensive operation.

Entering Juche 32 (1943), the world situation was rapidly changing in favor of the revolution.

The fascist Germany, which had vouched to seize up the former Soviet Union within a few months, was severely defeated in the vicinity of Stalingrad, and started to be pushed out of the Moscow and Leningrad fronts, suffering defeat after defeat. The Japanese imperialists were in a dilemma in the Chinese front, completely losing their balance of forces on the Pacific front, and were in the chains of defeats.

The Japanese imperialists and other fascist countries were doomed like the setting sun. With the passing of time, the extinction of the Japanese imperialists became more and more evident, and the great event of national liberation was coming as a matter of immediate reality.

The rapidly changing situation required more thorough preparation for the final offensive against the Japanese imperialists for national liberation.

On the basis of a scientific analysis of the prevailing situation, Comrade Kim Il Sung put forward the three lines of national liberation and re-declared it at the meeting of the commanding officers of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, heads of small units, groups and revolutionary organizations, which he convened at the Tumu Peak secret camp of the Sinhung secret base in February Juche 32 (1943).

The first of these three lines was to deal a deadly blow to the Japanese imperialist invaders through the general attack of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army.

The general attack of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army was the key part of these three lines and it was a decisive factor in the final battle against the Japanese imperialists.

Comrade Kim Il Sung set forth the task of rapidly expanding and strengthening the ranks of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army for its general attack, solidifying the existing secret bases and building more temporary secret bases in the strategic areas.

The second of the three lines of national liberation was to provoke an all-people uprising in response to the general attack of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army. This nationwide uprising was not only a requirement of the prevailing situation and the development of revolution, but also an essential requirement of the anti-Japanese national liberation struggle in our country, a colonial semi-feudal society.

In order to bring about an all-people uprising in cooperation with the general attack of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, Comrade Kim Il Sung set forth the task of uniting the workers, peasants and other broad section of the anti-Japanese masses to form a single combat unit, intensifying the ideological education among them and preparing them to stand in the all-people uprising in the final decisive battle against Japanese imperialists through the anti-Japanese and anti-war struggle in all forms.

The third of the three lines of national liberation was to wage a combined operation of small units of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army and the armed organisations at home in the rear of the enemies.

This combined operation was a unique tactical plan that would bring the fall of the Japanese imperialists sooner by defeating the numerically and technically superior enemy with a tactical superiority.

In order to ensure the success in this combined operation, Comrade Kim Il Sung set forth the tasks of organizing and expanding the armed resistance organization everywhere, improving and strengthening the military equipment, building up the activity bases, intensifying military training and ensuring unified command of the armed organizations.

The three lines of national liberation, which combined the all-people uprising and the operation of the rear coalition into one strategic and tactical system in the general offensive of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, was the banner of victory which made it possible to successfully conclude the final decisive battle with the Japanese imperialists and it was the wisest line which enabled the Korean people to accomplish the historic cause of national liberation by their own efforts.

Next, Comrade Kim Il Sung wisely organized and led the struggle to implement the three lines of national liberation.

He gave the priority to more soundly preparing the Korean People's Revolutionary Army politically and militarily for the final offensive.

He paid deep attention to firmly preparing the commanding officers and soldiers politically and ideologically.

He personally prepared the course of political training, stressing that political study should be conducted in such a way as to give a deeper insight of the motherland, with the main emphasis on firmly equipping the masses with the lines of Korean revolution and strategies and tactics so that everyone can take on a higher responsibility and skillfully mobilize the popular masses to the revolutionary struggle. He also gave the trainers the orientation of political study at each period and at each stage, giving them a detailed description of the core content to be dealt with in political study, and personally presented himself to political lectures.

True to the instructions of Comrade Kim Il Sung, the members of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army conducted political studies in various forms and methods like discussion and debate, acquiring versatile theories and knowledge, such as Korean history, geography, political economy and the international labor movement, with the main emphasis on the study of Comrade Kim Il Sung's works such as "Ten-Point Program of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland" and the "Tasks of the Korean communists".

Under the energetic guidance of Comrade Kim Il Sung, the members of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army were able to possess versatile and profound political qualities, and they perfected the appearance of the units.

Comrade Kim Il Sung also directed great efforts to military training to prepare the Korean People's Revolutionary Army in the military aspect.

While guiding military training, Comrade Kim Il Sung gave valuable instructions on establishing Juche in training and ensuring that the purpose and conduct of training were thoroughly subordinated to the sacred war for liberating the country by our own efforts.

He ensured that the commanding officers and soldiers of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army were well versed in modern war strategies and tactics.

Saying that the guerrillas' weapons and tactics alone could never guarantee the decisive defeat of the Japanese imperialists, he emphasized that they should learn how to handle new modern weapons and combat equipment, and that the great event of national liberation could be achieved by our own efforts only when they were through the regular training.

Keeping in mind the teachings of Comrade Kim Il Sung, the members of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army firmly established Juche in military training and, on the basis of the rich experiences from the guerrilla warfare of over ten years, they further intensified the training of the guerrilla warfare in combination with the regular war training.

As a result, the members of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army were able to acquire a wealth of military knowledge, including the field regulations of the common arms sub-units, units and allied units, staff teaching, shooting, the ranks, garrison, sports, topography, and guerrilla tactics, and acquire modern warfare methods and tactics, ranging from inaugural training to landing, crossing the river, parachuting, radio communication training and large-unit combined operations.

As to the military training of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, the documents of the Japanese imperialists at the time recorded that the forces of four divisions organized by Koreans only in the Maritime Province of the Soviet Union and the border area of Korea were preparing for landing operation and parachuting, with units of 100 000 Koreans preparing for a battle with the Japanese army stationed in Manchuria.

Thus, under the wise leadership of Comrade Kim Il Sung, the Korean People's Revolutionary Army could grow up to be a regular revolutionary army equipped with political theories and military technical knowledge comparable to the those taught in the regular military school or a military academy. By the time the general offensive order for national liberation was issued, all the units were fully ready waiting for the launch of the fatherland liberation operation on the ground, at sea and in the air.

In response to the general offensive for national liberation of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, Comrade Kim Il Sung also ensured that preparations were made for implementing the all-people uprising and the rear coalition.

Uniting the broad masses of the people as a political force and forming a large number of armed forces everywhere was of a great importance in ultimately defeating the Japanese imperialists and achieving the historic cause of national liberation in that they did not merely give material and moral aid to the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, but were supposed to perform a role in the struggle for the liberation of the country, as an independent force, waging the nationwide uprising and the rear coalition in response to the general offensive of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army.

After the founding of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland in Juche 25 (1936), Comrade Kim Il Sung saw to it that it was expanded throughout the country firmly uniting all the people who hated the Japanese imperialists. He systematically prepared the nationwide uprising and the coalition operation together with the general attack of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army.

He saw to it that a core training base for the nationwide uprising was established in the secret camp on Mt Kanbaek, Paektusan Secret Camp, to systematically train the backbones of the Party and revolutionary organizations.

At the meeting of the heads of small units of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army and political worker convened at the Paektusan Secret Camp in May Juche 27 (1938), Comrade Kim Il Sung set forth the policy of building a core training base for all-people resistance in the Kanbaek secret camp.

He emphasized that training the hardcore was more important than anything else, particularly in speeding up the preparation of the all-people resistance, adding that training centers should be set up in the secret camp of Mt Kanbaek, enabling us to train the core members in the shortest span of time to organize and train the armed units, small and big in size.

At the important meetings and gatherings, he always stressed the importance of training the core, and made sure that all the officers of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army paid great attention to the Mt Kanbaek secret camp assisting them materially and morally. He took measures to enlist the trainees in the small units and groups to be trained better through practical activities.

Thanks to the guidance and concern of the Comrade Kim Il Sung, the secret camp On Mt Kanbaek trained a large number of highly qualified officers, firmly prepared politically, ideologically and militarily. Later they worked skillfully as heads of the armed units of 30 to 40 people and as leaders of the revolutionary organizations in many parts of the country, including the Sinhung and Yangdok areas and played a big role in the preparation of the all-people resistance and the final offensive for the national liberation.

The Comrade Kim Il Sung led the work of organizing and strengthening the armed organizations for the all-people resistance.

In the mid-July, Juche 32 (1943), the Comrade Kim Il Sung convened a meeting of the leaders of the small units of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, groups and underground revolutionary organizations in the forest of the Komsan secret base, and clarified the need to step up the preparations for final decisive battle on the basis of a scientific analysis of the revolutionary situation changing in favor of the cause of the country's liberation and the balance of forces between the enemy and the army. He set forth the policy of forming the armed units of workers and peasants for the all-people resistance under the banner of self-earned independence, and clarified the character and main mission of the armed units.

The armed units were civilian armed organizations for the all-people resistance that operated under the guidance of the local party organizations and the Korean People's Revolutionary Army on the basis of the independent lines put forward by the Comrade Kim Il Sung. Its fundamental mission was to strike the enemy in the rear in combination with the final offensive operation of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army and to support the struggle of the popular masses who turned out in the all-people resistance with force. For this reason, the armed forces had to play the role of a vanguard and a shock force in the whole process of preparing and carrying out the all-people resistance by means of an active coalition operation in the general attack.

In order to make all the armed units fulfill their mission satisfactorily, he said, they should strengthen their ranks politically and ideologically, steadily enhance their military might, and keep the secret of the units, build their bases in mountainous areas and prepare the armed equipment and supplies necessary for their mission, and reliably defend the revolutionary organizations and the masses from the enemy's suppression.

In accordance with the policy set forth by the Comrade Kim Il Sung at the Komsan meeting, the organization of the armed units for the all-people resistance was conducted actively.

The formation of the Komsan armed unit was followed by Kkachibong armed unit in Hoeryong, Musan miners armed unit in Musan, and many other armed units in the northern part of the Tuman River such as Rajin, Unggi and Kyongwon, as well as in Pyongyang and other parts of the country including Sinyang, Sunan in South Phyongan Province and Koksan in Hwanghae Province. The "Fatherland Liberation Corps" was formed in Pyongyang and it worked actively in a wide range of areas, and in the summer of 1944, the "anti-Japanese students military corps" was organized by a political worker of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army who was dispatched to Pyongyang.

Thus, the Comrade Kim Il Sung further strengthened the Korean People's Revolutionary Army politically and militarily, and he ensured that the preparation for the uprising and the coalition operations was thoroughly completed, and as a result, he achieved the historic cause of national liberation on August 15, Juche 34 (1945).