THE TEN-POINT PROGRAMME OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE FATHERLAND

                                                    KIM IL SUNG

 THE TEN-POINT PROGRAMME OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR
THE RESTORATION OF THE FATHERLAND

May 5, 1936
1. To mobilize the entire Korean nation and realize a broad-based anti-Japanese united front in order to overthrow the piratical Japanese imperialist       rule and establish a genuine people’s government in Korea;

2. To defeat Japan and overthrow its puppet state “Manchukuo” by the Koreans resident in Manchuria through a close alliance between the Korean   and Chinese peoples, and to effect full autonomy for the Korean people residing in Chinese territory;

3. To disarm the Japanese armed forces, gendarmes, police and their agents and organize a revolutionary army truly fighting for the independence of  Korea;

4. To confiscate all enterprises, railways, banks, shipping, farms and irrigation systems owned by Japan and Japanese and all property and estates   owned by pro-Japanese traitors, so as to raise funds for the independence movement and use part of these funds for the relief of the poor;

5. To cancel all loans made to people by Japan and its agents and abolish all taxes and monopoly systems; to improve the living conditions of the   masses and promote the smooth development of national industries, agriculture and commerce;

6. To win the freedom of speech, the press, assembly and association, oppose terrorist rule and the fostering of feudal ideas by the Japanese         imperialists, and to release all political prisoners;

7. To abolish the caste system which divides the ryangban (nobles) and the common people, and other inequalities; to ensure equality based on  humanity irrespective of sex, nationality or religion; to improve the social position of women and respect their personalities;

8. To abolish slave labour and slavish education; to oppose forced military service and military training of young people; to educate people in our  national language, and to enforce free compulsory education;

9. To enforce an eight-hour day, improve working conditions and raise wages; to formulate labour laws; to enforce state insurance laws for the  workers, and to extend state relief to the unemployed;

10. To form a close alliance with nations and states which treat the Koreans as equals and to maintain comradely relations of friendship with states    and nations which express goodwill and maintain neutrality towards our national-liberation movement.