With the Ultimate Goal of Anti-Japanese Struggle Aimed at National Liberation

President Kim Il Sung said:

"The final objective of the many large and small military operations we had conducted in northern and eastern Manchuria had always been to advance into the homeland and liberate the country. We had concentrated all our efforts on this goal."

The immortal exploits of President Kim Il Sung, who achieved the historical cause of national restoration, shines with great brilliance in the history of our country and the world revolution as a heroic event he succeeded in with the ultimate goal of anti-Japanese struggle aimed at the realization of the cause of national liberation.

The whole process of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle under the guidance of President Kim Il Sung is that of struggle in which he held fast to and accomplished the slogan of liberation of the Korean nation without any deviation.

From the moment he set out on the road of revolution, President Kim Il Sung put forward national liberation and independence as the ultimate goal of anti-Japanese struggle and kept to it throughout.

The cause of national liberation is a cause of the nation itself of which no other nations could take place, and this is a noble, independent right of the nation that nobody would dare check.

Once Syngman Rhee of the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai and other worshippers and kowtowers to America had wild dreams to gain independence of Korea with the help of European and American powers without any confidence in the capabilities of the Korean nation for independent liberation.

This was, in essence, a stupid deed to give away Korean liberation and independence entirely to other powers and to deny true national liberation itself.

In the history of the Korean nationalist movement, such people as Hong Pom Do, Ri Tong Hui and Ryo Un Hyong, the forerunners with a craving for Korean independence and national liberation, met Lenin to gain his support for the national liberation movement and to find some solutions while working hard with the Far East of the Soviet Union as their base.

It was the truth told by history that attempting to seek ways of national liberation and independence relying on other countries that had already gained victory in their revolution rather than its own people is just different from the petition to big powers but still not a right way out.

President Kim Il Sung took an independent view on and determined all the problems arising in the struggle for national liberation including lines, policies and stratagem, and held fast to the realization of the slogan for national liberation without an inch of inflection.

The line of achieving independence of the country by our nation's efforts by armed struggle put forward by President Kim Il Sung was for the thorough implementation of the slogan of national liberation.

In Kalun Meeting, which was held on June 30, Juche 19(1930) as an important occasion for determining the path of the Korean revolution, he said that the Korean nation was at the crossroads of collapsing under the yoke of the Japanese colonial rule or reviving by struggle, and that if the whole nation rose to fight at the cost of their lives, they would meet the dawn of liberation.

He also set the policy of organizing and developing an armed struggle in the form of guerilla warfare in Mingyuegou Meeting on December 16, Juche 20(1931).

National chauvinists attempted to violate the sacred right of the Korean people struggling for national independence, alleging that the slogan of national liberation and independence which had been raised by the Korean revolutionaries disagreed with the Comintern's principle of one Party for one country, and that the slogan was essentially identical with the reactionary slogan of "Koreans' autonomy in Jiandao" professed by the "Minsaengdan".

President Kim Il Sung regarded that our national liberation slogan is aimed at liberating our country by overthrowing Japanese imperialist rule and at providing our people with an opportunity to enjoy genuine freedom and to exercise their rights in an independent new society without any exploitation and oppression, and that it was nonsense that the Korean revolutionaries should relinquish their sacred right to liberate their country and to provide their people with freedom and happiness just because they were sharing the same room in a foreign country.

He also considered alleging that the Korean revolutionaries should not raise the national liberation slogan using the Comintern's principle of one Party for one country as an excuse was, in effect, an attempt to make them take their hands off the revolution in their own country. He could not agree with the opinion of considering the Korean revolu¬tion to be an appendage of the revolution in a large country.

The reason why Dahuangwai meeting held from February 24 to March 3, Juche 24(1935) was recorded as a remarkable meeting in the history of anti-Japanese armed struggle is that it discussed and resolved the issue of the destiny of the anti-Japanese revolution of whether the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, its masters would put down or hold even higher the slogan of national liberation.

For the fighters struggling for Korean liberation at that time, national liberation was a long-cherished desire and the ultimate goal of struggle.

During the meeting which lasted about 10 days, President Kim Il Sung analyzed and criticized seriously on general principles by scientific data and philosophical logic about the extreme leftism and mistakes of anti-"Minsaengdan" struggle by extreme left-wingers and chauvinists and their wrong concepts and evaluation on the slogan of national liberation held up high by the Korean revolutionaries.

At the Yaoyinggou meeting held in March the same year, too, he clarified once again such viewpoints and assertions, and he dispatched a liaison man to Commintern to inform them of the clear standpoint of the Korean revolutionaries.

In this regard, it was written in "History of the Pacific war" that a meeting was held in Yaoyinggou, Wangqing County in March, 1935 to take the first step to overcome this problem ("punitive campaign" of the large Japanese force and the expansion of concentration villages to break the relations between the guerilla and the people, leftist mistakes made during the anti-"Minsaengdan" struggle, etc.) under the guidance of Kim Il Sung and emphasize the struggle for the Korean revolution for national liberation, and that policies were determined to close down the guerrilla zones along the Tuman River in order to deal with the attack and encirclement of the Japanese army and to advance to south and north Manchuria, Korea and other vast areas.

Thanks to the rock-firm faith, will and resolute struggle of President Kim Il Sung to prevent moves to play with the destiny of the nation and revolution and to defend the sacred rights and struggle lines of the Korean revolution, the Korean revolution was saved from crisis and the Korean revolutionaries could hold higher the slogan of national liberation and wage anti-Japanese armed struggle powerfully.

And that the meeting at Nanhutou held in February, Juche 25(1936), a watershed in the Korean revolution, marking off the two halves of the 1930 became a significant event to fully establish Juche in the history of the anti-Japanese national liberation struggle of the Korean people was the result of the indomitable struggle of President Kim Il Sung, and it was his revolutionary faith, will and boldness not shaken under any stresses and storms underpinning this.

His faith in national liberation and iron will were also manifested when he did not accept the adventurous line of Rehe expedition forced by Commintern in the late 1930s, and when he kept to the Juche line of the revolution without any deviation in the days of small-unit actions and the International Allied Forces in the early 1940s.

The publications of other countries also appreciated that the Korean working class and their vanguards, communists were in the van of national liberation movement both before and during the Pacific war, and that their leading role definitely strengthened during this period characterized by the domination of severe oppression and terrorism.

What is of remarkable significance in the leadership of President Kim Il Sung, who resolutely held fast to the national liberation slogan was that he led the sacred war of national liberation to victory by deciding and relying on Mt. Paektu as the strategic base of the Korean revolution.

The Korean revolutionaries are struggling for none other than Korean revolution and the final goal of anti-Japanese revolution is to drive out Japanese imperialists from their country, and that's why the sacred war for independence involving the whole Korean nation should be started in the motherland and, consequently, Mt. Paektu, a sacred mountain with favourable conditions should be put in command for thorough preparations for national liberation – this was the idea and faith of President Kim Il Sung from the early period of anti-Japanese revolution.

The aim of founding the anti-Japanese guerilla unit in the forest of Antu within hailing distance of Mt. Paektu was to advance to the mountain, and strengthening and developing guerilla struggle always relying on it from the early 1930s was also to march to Mt. Paektu as soon as possible and to raise higher the torch of the sacred war of national liberation.

It was of enormous importance in the struggle for the implementation of national liberation slogan that President Kim Il Sung gave ample proof of the march into Mt. Paektu in the meeting at Nanhutou, which was a watershed in the anti-Japanese armed struggle.

The Battle of Pochonbo and the offensive in the Musan area, which became historical events to be marked the history of the struggle of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army and the development of national liberation struggle by making a breach in the Japanese colonial rule were also planned in Mt. Paektu.

The national liberation gained by our people was, indeed, a full realization of the slogan of the Korean national liberation highly raised and firmly held fast to by President Kim Il Sung and a valuable fruition of the patriotic struggle of the Korean people worshipping Mt. Paektu.

That is why Mt. Paektu was cherished deep in the hearts of Korean people as a lantern and symbol of national liberation from colonial rule.

President Kim Il Sung was truly a national hero who held fast to the slogan of Korean national liberation without any deviation and led the sacred struggle for its realization to victory throughout the arduous anti-Japanese armed struggle.