For a New Era of Colonial Nation’s Liberation Struggle

“President Kim Il Sung organized and led the protracted anti-Japanese armed struggle under the banner of the Juche idea, and accomplished the historic cause of Korea’s liberation in August 1945. He is a great leader, who set up a paradigm for the national liberation struggle in colonial countries, thus performing immortal exploits in the history of modern Korea and other colonial nations.”

This is what Alba Chavez, Chairwoman of the Latin-American Institute of the Juche Idea, said in praise of President Kim Il Sung.

President Kim Il Sung waged the armed struggle against the Japanese imperialists, thereby proving that the people in colonial countries can bring about national liberation by overthrowing the imperialist colonial rule on their own strength.

What underlaid the fundamentals of colonial nation’s liberation struggle was whether they would rely on their own strength or not.

Kim Il Sung authored the Juche idea that the popular masses are master of revolution and construction and also its driving force. Based on it he laid down the basic principle that the colonial countries should free themselves with their own strength, and embodied it in leading the liberation struggle of the Korean people by their own efforts.

He clarified in his many works including The Path of the Korean Revolution made public in June 1930, a firm standpoint that the country’s liberation should be achieved by the Koreans themselves and held fast to it. He put forward the slogan, “Accomplish the Korean revolution on our own!” and solved all the problems arising in the national liberation struggle from preparing necessary conditions for armed struggle.

The anti-Japanese armed struggle in Korea was pioneered, advanced and won under the wise leadership of Kim Il Sung had a great ideological and spiritual impact on the people who turned out in the colonial liberation movement across the world. Many progressive figures from around the world spoke highly of the victory of the Korean people in their armed struggle against Japanese imperialism, which heralded a new era of colonial nations conducting their liberation struggle by themselves as the genuine master of their destiny. From then on, the oppressed people in colonial countries, the object of history in the past, have become the driving force of history.

The brilliant victory in the anti-Japanese armed struggle led by President Kim Il Sung illuminated a correct path for colonial nations to defeat imperialist aggressors and emerge victorious in the national liberation cause through organized armed struggle.

At that time, some countries engaged in the movement to free themselves from colonial enslavement by means of petitions, demonstrations, uprisings or riots, which all failed owing to appeasement and suppression by colonialists.

President Kim Il Sung defined an organized armed struggle as a main type of liberation movement of colonial nations and successfully implemented it.

In the light of basic principle of the struggle for independence of the popular masses and historic lessons drawn in Korea and other colonial countries in the world the President held up the slogan, “Oppose armed force with armed force, and counter-revolutionary violence with revolutionary violence!” he launched an organized armed struggle against imperialist colonial rule by founding the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerilla Army, the predecessor of the Korean People’s Army, on April 25, 1932. He led the Korean liberation struggle with the AJPGA as its main driving force, finally achieving the national liberation on August 15, 1945.

The victory of the Korean armed struggle led by Kim Il Sung clearly proved that those in colonial countries should counter the anti-revolutionary violence only with the revolutionary one and that the organized armed struggle is the only way to overcome imperialist aggressors and attain national independence.

It afterwards promoted the anti-imperialist national liberation struggle of the oppressed people all over the world to a new upsurge, kindling the flames in many regions of the world and ushering in a new era of independence.

Kim Il Sung’s exploits are recorded in the most brilliant chapter of the history of humankind’s independence cause.

In 1968 Havana, capital of Cuba, hosted a worldwide meeting of culture, which adopted its formal document the “Korean people’s anti-Japanese armed struggle organized and waged under direct command of Comrade Kim Il Sung”.

A famous political activist in Latin-America said, “rich experience of the Korean people who fought for their country’s liberation arms in hand from the 1930s and brought about victory clearly proved that any nation can defeat only when it struggles arms in hand.”