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LET US FIGHT ON STAUNCHLY FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE FATHERLAND -speech to people of Pochonbo 4th June 1937 by KIM IL SUNG
LET US FIGHT ON STAUNCHLY FOR
THE LIBERATION OF THE
FATHERLAND
Speech Addressed to the People of Pochonbo
June 4, 1937
Fellow countrymen, brothers and sisters,
We
are combatants of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army fighting
against Japanese imperialism for the restoration of the fatherland and
the liberation of the people.
We
are very glad to be having this memorable meeting with you dear fellow
countrymen at home, on a victorious battlefield where we have crushed
the Japanese imperialist aggressors.
On behalf of the KPRA I wish
to convey our warm thanks to you and to the patriotic people at home
who have given active material and moral support and encouragement to
us, the revolutionary army.
Dear fellow countrymen,
Today the Japanese imperialist robbers have enmeshed the whole of our three-thousand-ri
land in a web of army units, gendarmerie and police and rigged up
various evil laws; they brutally arrest, imprison and murder countless
patriots and are forcing our people to remain disgracefully submissive
as slaves.
The
crafty Japanese imperialists are trying to drum the “soul of Japan”
into our people by clamoring “Japan and Korea are one” and the Japanese
and the Koreans come of the same descent,” the aim being to break the
lofty national spirit of our people. They are even attempting to trample
underfoot and wipe out our beautiful language and our national culture
with its 5.000-year old history.
The
Japanese imperialist robbers are further intensifying the exploitation
and plunder of our people, and are seizing all our national wealth. The
Japanese imperialist villains have stretched their grim predatory hands
as far as the remote mountain villages here, plundering all our precious
forest resources. They are bleeding you white by working you like
beasts of burden in all kinds of drudgery. They even keep you from
farming on fire-fields as you please. Because of this, you are
maintaining a bare existence on roots and bark, you are poorly dressed
in coarse flax, and leading a wretched life in tumbledown mud huts.
Further
stepping up their moves of late for invading China proper, the Japanese
imperialist robbers are hell-bent on the fascist suppression and
looting of our people.
Indeed,
with the whole country devastated and turned into a land of darkness,
into a hell on earth, the very life of our nation is now at stake.
Dear fellow countrymen,
Where
there is a tyrant, a struggle will always break out. The ardent youths
and patriots of our country have turned out resolutely in the solemn
anti-Japanese war to crush the Japanese imperialists’ tyranny.
The
KPRA has fought valiantly with arms in hand for six to seven years in
Korea and in the wild plains of Manchuria against the Japanese
imperialist invaders in order to work out the salvation of our nation
and to achieve the liberation of the fatherland. Our revolutionary army
has beaten the enemy everywhere and dealt a serious political and
military blow to the Japanese imperialists’ colonial ruling system,
thereby giving a ray of hope to our people who are living in humiliation
bowed down with the sorrow of statelessness.
Our
strength is increasing and the revolutionary forces of the world, too,
are growing powerful. The support of progressive people the world over
for our struggle is also mounting. We will achieve the historic cause of
national liberation without fail and win Final victory.
Alarmed
by the bold and fearless operations and great military achievements of
the gallant combatants of our revolutionary army who are forging ahead
despite all difficulties, the Japanese imperialist aggressors are making
desperate efforts to “subdue” the KPRA and. of late, are frantically
building up the frontier guard line in a foolhardy attempt to hinder our
revolutionary army’s advance into the homeland. The enemy is even
spreading the absurd, fictitious story that he has “completely wiped
out” the KPRA.
Dear
brothers and sisters, although the Japanese imperialists are
maneuvering in this frenzied manner, the KPRA is holding its own as
ever, demonstrating its might to the whole world.
In
its latest thrust into the homeland the KPRA broke through the frontier
guard line. The much vaunted “iron wall” of the Japanese imperialists. A
few days ago in the Musan area it showered Fire of revenge upon the
enemy right and left and today here at Pochonbo it has fully
demonstrated the indomitable fighting spirit and lofty mettle of our
nation.
Our
revolutionary army has just attacked the Japanese imperialists’
repressive agencies and ruling establishments such as the police
substation and the sub-county administration office and finished off the
Japanese imperialist aggressors installed there, the bitter enemies of
our people who had been imposing all sorts of hard toil and miseries
upon you.
Brothers
and sisters, look at the flames over there. Those raging flames show
that the enemy is doomed. Those flames show the whole world that our
nation is not dead but alive, and that if we fight against the Japanese
imperialist plunderers we can win. Those flames will shine like a ray of
hope in the hearts of our people suffering from maltreatment and
hunger, and will spread throughout our three-thousand-r/ land like a
torch of struggle.
The
Korean people are not of the “same descent” as the Japanese imperialist
villains, and we do not acknowledge the idea noisily propagandized by
them that “Japan and Korea are one”.
We,
the KPRA, will tighten our grip on our weapons of revenge and liberate
our 23 million fellow countrymen suffering from hunger and poverty,
ignorance and darkness. We will liberate our fatherland come what may,
and establish a people’s country free from oppression and exploitation
on the land of the independent fatherland.
Dear fellow countrymen!
Liberation of the fatherland is the vital demand of the Korean people today.
Instead
of merely sitting and sighing over our grievous and bitter lot under
the colonial rule of Japanese imperialism, let us all unite ever more
firmly under the banner of the anti-Japanese national united front and
rise as one man in the lofty struggle to defeat the aggressor, Japanese
imperialism, and achieve the great cause of national liberation.
Struggle is the only way to existence, to national regeneration.
You
should overcome all difficulties, unite and cooperate with each other
with the utmost sincerity and enthusiasm, and make an all-out effort in
the solemn anti-Japanese war for the independence of Korea- Those who
have strength should contribute strength, those who have knowledge
should offer knowledge, those who have money should donate money.
By
various forms of struggle you should completely frustrate all the
anti-popular moves of the Governor-General of Korea, the bloodsucker
that lives on the blood of our people.
You
should demonstrate the indomitable spirit of the Korean people. To do
this, you should smash the false propaganda of the Japanese imperialist
aggressors to smithereens and defend our language, spoken and written,
and uphold our national spirit to the last.
With
great national pride and the unwavering confidence that as long as
there is an ever-victorious KPRA our country will attain independence
without fail. you should give material and moral support to the KPRA and
fight on without yielding. Let us make those flames rage furiously over
the whole of our three-thousand-ri land.
Fellow countrymen, brothers and sisters!
The final victory belongs to us who are fighting for the liberation of the fatherland.
Let
us all advance vigorously, looking forward to the day when we will meet
again in our liberated country, loudly hailing our national
independence, and live in happiness.
Long live the independence of Korea!
Long live the revolution of Korea
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