August 15th is a day that has gone down in history as a great day for the Korean people and revolutionary peoples of the world . It was on this day that Korea finally became free of Japanese imperialist colonial rule . The Korean people were liberated from the barbarous rule of Japanese colonialism on the 15th of August 1945 as a result of the 15 year long anti-Japanese armed struggle led by the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG . The fighters of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army led by comrade KIM IL SUNG together with the Soviet Red Army who had joined the war against Japan 6 days before , routed the Japanese imperialist forces in Korea.
The decadent empire of the Samurais disappeared as if it never existed in the first place.Previously people had thought of the Japanese empire as being eternal .The Korean people were able to breathe again after the suffocating rule of Japanese imperialism .The chains of Japanese colonial slavery which had bound the Korean people for 36 years were shattered in one blow . Korean people could again use their own language , something which the Japanese imperialists had denied to them . They became masters of their own fate. The Korean people danced for joy at the news of liberation.
The defeat of Japanese imperialism was a decisive contribution to the international anti-fascist struggle . Not only was Japan a close ally of Hitlerite Germany and fascist Italy but it was itself a fascist state under Tojo who embodied the Japanese form of fascism . The Communist Party in Japan had been banned and trade unions dissolved .
Japanese imperialism had enforced a most ferocious colonial rule over Korea. The Japanese imperialists plundered Korea of not only rice but also gold and silver . They forced Koreans to work 12-14 hours a day and took many Koreans to Japan as forced labourers. About 1 million Koreans were killed by the Japanese imperialists . It was the Japanese holocaust but this is not talked about in the West . Another crime was that over 200,000 Korean women were forced into sexual slavery by the degenerate Japanese imperialists.
President KIM IL SUNG was the great hero who from an early age took up the struggle against Japanese imperialism.
As a young communist, patriot and revolutionary in the 1920s, he keenly realised the road of peaceful resistance, the road of dependence on big power and the road of factionalism were roads to nowhere, a massive dead end. So he set about waging the struggle against Japanese imperialist rule independently and in the spirit of self-reliance. He formed revolutionary organisations with the new generation of militant anti-imperialist youth such as the Down-With-Imperialism Union, the Young Communist League of Korea and the Anti-Imperialist Youth League. Believing that independence could only be achieved by the force of arms President KIM IL SUNG formed the Korean Revolutionary Army in July 1930. On the 25th of April 1932, the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerilla Army, later to become the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army, was founded and launched the anti-Japanese war which continued for more than a decade .
The anti-Japanese armed struggle fully proved in practice the truth of Juche that independence is achieved by the force of arms. During the anti-Japanese armed struggle, the great leader generalissimo KIM IL SUNG adhering firmly to the line of Songun rejected the illusions of the national reformists and opportunists that independence could be achieved by peaceful means or by begging for it.
The anti-Japanese guerrillas led by President KIM IL SUNG, fought in the spirit of self-reliance under the banner of the Juche idea. They seized weapons from the Japanese aggressors or manufactured their own. Some had hoped that the Soviet Union, the first socialist state, would supply them with a hand-grenade factory but this never materialised so they made their own hand grenades the 'Yongil bomb'.Of course today People’s Korea has its own nuclear Yongil bomb.
The Juche-oriented guerrilla tactics of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG and the indomitable struggle of the Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army (later the Korean People's Revolutionary Army ) tore the guts out of Japanese imperialism, defeating the million-strong Kwantung army of Japanese imperialism. The KPRA fought battles at Pochonbo on the 4th of June 1937 and Musan on the 23rd of May 1939 just to mention two of the hundreds of battles fought by the KPRA. On the 9th of August 1945, the KPRA under the command of comrade KIM IL SUNG commenced the final operation to liberate Korea from Japanese imperialist rule. Units of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army along with the Soviet Red Army wiped out Japanese imperialist troops at the same time Korean people staged armed uprisings against the Japanese imperialists .
The victorious liberation struggle of the Korean people led by General KIM IL SUNG, a gifted military strategist and ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander was an inspiration for the peoples of the colonial countries fighting for their independence and liberation. The 1968 World Cultural Congress in Havana adopted a document praising the anti-Japanese armed struggle waged under the leadership of the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG.
With the victory of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, commanded by the great leader generalissimo KIM IL SUNG, in August 1945 the Korean people finally gained their emancipation from the cruel shackles of Japanese colonialism and greeted a new life of independence, a life of hope for the future. At the same time, by defeating Japanese imperialism the Korean people destroyed the last link in the international fascist axis ; fascism had been defeated in Asia as well as Europe.
The Korean people under the leadership of President KIM IL SUNG smashed feudalism and completely eradicated the legacy of Japanese colonial rule building a new People’s Korea on the ruins of Japanese imperialism. Today People’s Korea led by respected Marshal KIM JONG UN is well known as the most independent country in the world and is building a powerful socialist country of Juche.
Long live the 81st anniversary of Korea’s independence!
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