On the 15th of August 1945 Korea was finally liberated from decades of despotic and fascistic colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists thanks the heroic armed struggle waged by the guerrilla fighters of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army led by President KIM IL SUNG , a gifted military strategist and ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander . The liberation of Korea from Japanese imperialism was a great gain for the Korean people which cannot be measured by any yardstick and could not be bartered for gold . Korea’s liberation meant that the Korean people became masters of their destiny .
Korea had been once shown on world maps as a province of Japan. In the dark days of Japanese colonialist rule when Koreans were not even allowed to use their own language , it seemed like a day dream, a fantasy even that Korea could become independent again , however one man , the young comrade KIM IL SUNG decided that Korea should be independent and that the Korean people should be masters of their own destiny. He decided that a new road of struggle was needed to achieve national liberation and independence .
President KIM IL SUNG realised that it was no use hoping for others to hand them independence on a plate and no use hoping that has- beens who were arguing among themselves would be able to lead the struggle for national liberation to victory . So he formed new movements such as the Down -With Imperialism Union ( the 100th anniversary of which will be in October this year ) and the Anti-Imperialist Youth League whose basis was the new generation of youth who were unaffected by ideologies such as sycophancy towards big powers, factionalism and reformism. President KIM IL SUNG believed in going deep among the masses .
In June 1930 President KIM IL SUNG addressed a meeting of young cadres and activists at Kalun . He set forth the Juche-based line of the Korean revolution in a speech titled “The Path of the Korean Revolution “ Looking the experience of the Korean revolution he pointed out that ;
"Experience shows that in order to lead the revolution to victory, one must go among the masses of people and organize them, and solve all problems arising in the course of the revolution independently on one’s own responsibility in accord with the actual conditions, instead of relying on others.
Drawing on this lesson we regard it as most important to take the firm standpoint that the masters of the Korean revolution are the Korean people and that the Korean revolution should by all means be carried out by the Korean people themselves in a way suited to the actual conditions of their country.”
Thus the Juche-orientated line of the Korean revolution was set forth.
In July 1930 the Korean Revolutionary Army was founded . The great leader President KIM IL SUNG pursued a truly unique Juche- based line of guerrilla warfare in which the armed forces were founded before the Party ..
After the Kalun meeting President KIM IL SUNG reiterated at the Mingyuegou Meeting in December 1931 that the armed struggle was the basic line of the anti-Japanese national liberation struggle of Korea and clarified strategic and tactical problems immediately arising in organizing and developing the anti-Japanese armed struggle such as the type of the armed struggle, organization of a standing revolutionary armed force and establishment of a guerrilla base as a stronghold of political and military activity. President KIM IL SUNG in his speech underscored the need for self-reliance saying that "we fight the armed struggle with no state backing and no aid from outside "
Thanks to KIM IL SUNG's idea and line of achieving liberation and independence of the nation on the strength of arms, the anti-Japanese national liberation struggle of Korea could take the correct path and advance toward victory with full confidence.
President KIM IL SUNG wisely led the struggle for implementing the unique idea and line of realizing the cause of national liberation on the strength of arms.
Then President KIM IL SUNG founded the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army on April 25, 1932. It was the birth of a new-type revolutionary armed force for national liberation and a historic event that provided the military guarantee for realising victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche by dint of arms. It heralded the start of the great anti-Japanese revolutionary war .
The KPRA fought the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and the Juche Idea . They seized weapons from the Japanese aggressors or manufactured their own . Some 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 the DPRK has its own nuclear 'Yongil bomb'.)
In March 1934 the Anti Japanese People's Guerrilla Army became the Korean People's Revolutionary Army . Under the command of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG, an ever victorious iron-willed brilliant commander, the stout hearted and heroic guerrilla revolutionary fighters of the KPRA fought many battles against the Japanese imperialist aggressors such the battle of Pochonbo and the battle of Musan to name just a few . The battle of Pochonbo on the 4 June 1937 was most significant as it symbolised the KPRA's advance into the Korean homeland. One third world revolutionary figure on visiting the monument to the Pochonbo battle said "the beacon fire of Pochonbo marked a great event which gave confidence in struggle not only to the Korean people under the colonial rule of Japanese imperialism but also the world's revolutionary people groaning in those days under the heels of imperialist aggressors- fascist Germany, Italy, Japanese imperialism , and American and British imperialism.
President KIM IL SUNG also applied the Juche idea to the question of the united front and popular front and founded the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland , a Juche-orientated united national front in May 1936
President KIM IL SUNG adopted adroit guerrilla tactics . The KPRA under his leadership showed great tactical flexibility, for example switching to small unit activities in 1940 in order to preserve and accumulate the revolutionary force.
The hard and arduous revolutionary armed struggle led by the great leader President KIM IL SUNG paid off in the end. On the 9th of August 1945 general KIM IL SUNG gave the order for the final offensive against the Japanese marauders . The KPRA together with Soviet army units surged into Korea , the KPRA often taking the lead in the more difficult battles. On August 15 1945 Korea was liberated at last from Japanese imperialist rule. 36 years of oppressive fascist colonial rule by Japanese imperialism came to an end and the Korean people gained a new life of hope and prosperity .
Long live the 81st anniversary of Korea’s liberation !
Long live Juche !
Dr Dermot Hudson
Chairman Korean Friendship Association UK
Chairman British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea
Hon Secretary General Global Farmy for the Study of KIM JONG UN People’s First Policies
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