Heroic Myth about Guerrilla General Kim Il Sung Is Everlasting Pride of Our Country and People

President Kim Il Sung is a peerlessly great man who infused hope for revival and faith into our people’s minds in the dark days of the Japanese imperialist rule.

He declared a head-on confrontation with world imperialism by forming the Down-with-Imperialism Union and clarified the path of Korean revolution by founding the Juche idea in his teens.

Chairman Kim Jong Il taught the President meant the guerrilla and vice versa and our people had praised the President highly as guerrilla general Kim Il Sung in the period of anti-Japanese armed struggle.

Indeed, the history of our President’s bloody struggle against the Japanese imperialists is adorned with legendary tales conveyed by the people through generations and admired by world people.

The heroic myth of the President, the legendary anti-Japanese hero, is an everlasting heroic epic of a peerless patriot who wrote the unprecedented history of resistance with the noblest and warmest love for the motherland.

Our people still remember the earnest instruction of the President that only those who have devoted their soul and body to the country, crying, laughing and shedding blood for its sake can feel with their hearts how precious the motherland is.

This golden saying is pregnant with his bitter experience during the bloody anti-Japanese war and the heartfelt thought for the preciousness of the country.

The history of the unprecedented struggle fought by the President to liberate the motherland is woven with vivid touching pictures conveying what ardent love for the country he braved the long arduous way with.

Whenever we look back upon the hardships the President underwent, the blizzard-rent Tianqiaoling comes to our minds.

The President recollected the period when the destiny of the Korean revolution was at stake and writing "Song of Anti-Japanese War", thinking the Koreans would become eternal slaves of the Japanese imperialists if he gave up there.

For the twenty years of anti-Japanese war, he overcame lots of such ordeals.

The march to south Manchuria he carried out leading the new-born guerrilla army, the battle for defending Xiaowangqing guerrilla zone where a miraculous victory was won against the enemy armed with guns and planes, the Arduous March in which unimaginably severe trials were surmounted, the expedition to Fusong…

Our President forced his way through such a bloody and wind-driven path, suffering all kinds of hardship, and finally brought the day of national liberation.

The traces and signs of anti-Japanese war still gleaming on the crags of Mt Paektu and in the streams of the River Amnok solemnly convey the legendary history of victory of guerrilla general Kim Il Sung who tided over extreme hardships and ordeals with ardent love for the motherland.

Indeed, national liberation is a precious fruit of the prominent personality of the President who fought the anti-Japanese war with ardent love and extraordinary sense of responsibility for the motherland.

The legends about the President’s anti-Japanese war is a precious wealth telling the great feats of the great man who provided the origin of invincibility for the Korean revolution by performing military miracles never witnessed in the world war history.

Xiaoyingziling battle, the assault on Dongning county town, the battle in Fusong county town, the Pochonbo battle, the Jiansanfeng battle, the Xigang battle, the Hongqihe battle, the Dashahe gully battle…

Numberless indeed are battles where a fatal blow was dealt on the vicious Japanese imperialists.

The world war history never witnessed such a surprising heroic myth as a guerrilla army, not a regular army, winning victory after victory in the hard-fought war against the imperialist aggressors armed to teeth.

The enemies were overwhelmed by the ever-victorious strategies and tactics and singular war methods.

The heroic myth of guerrilla general Kim Il Sung is a valuable textbook of our revolution teaching all the people the genuine truth of struggle and eternal law of victory.

The history of the President’s anti-Japanese war embraces the precious truth of Juche to be held fast to as a guideline throughout the course for implementing the revolutionary cause and the independent spirit of doing everything as suited to our actualities in our style.

It comprises the revolutionary tradition of Paektu incorporating the rich fighting experience and noble exploits of our revolution and the ideal of unity guaranteeing the invincibility of Juche Korea.

It also contains the faith of Juche, optimism about sure victory and all other methods enabling us to emerge ever victorious generation after generation.

In today’s struggle for realizing the dream and ideal for a thriving country and fulfilling the great cause of building a rich country with a strong army under the leadership of the great Workers’ Party of Korea, the heroic myth of guerrilla general Kim Il Sung serves as the eternal vitamin and ever-victorious textbook implanting the precious truth and faith in sure victory in our people’s minds.

Indeed, the heroic legend of the President’s anti-Japanese war is the everlasting honor of our people and the perpetual pride of our country.

Thanks to the respected Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un, who exalts the dignity and power of the motherland with far-sighted acumen, prominent political caliber and the pluck and mettle of Paektu, the history of the peerlessly great man and invincibility which settled on this land for decades and centuries still continues and the epic of miracles and changes is still written.

Rodong Sinmun