THE BANNER OF STRUGGLE FOR CONTINUOUS ADVANCE OF THE KOREAN REVOLUTION, A DPRK magazine article

Caption Text: The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung makes a speech at a meeting of officers and men of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army (August 1933)

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Walter Corbiere, iii

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THE BANNER OF STRUGGLE FOR CONTINUOUS ADVANCE OF THE KOREAN REVOLUTION

In August 1937, 40 years ago, the great revolutionary leader Comrade Kim Il Sung called a meeting of officers and men of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army and there made a historic speech. The following month witnessed the adoption of an appeal he sent to the Korean people in connection with the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War.

At that time, the Japanese imperialists who launched a full-scale war of agression against China were desperate to make Korea a “solid rear” for the war.

The prevailing situation urgently needed a new strategic and tactical policy for keeping the Korean revolution in continuous upswing and precipitating the defeat of Japanese imperialism.
The way to meet this crucial need was found promptly in the great leader’s speech made at the said meeting and September appeal to the Korean people.

In that speech and appeal, the great leader first scientifically clarified the Japanese imperialists’ objective in the Sino-Japanese War and their policy of aggression.

The great leader also correctly analysed the prevailing situation and the balance of forces between friend and foe and scientifically expounded the inevitability of the defeat of Japanese imperialism and the triumph of the revolution.

The great revolutionary leader Comrade Kim Il Sung advanced at the meeting new tasks of struggle to cope with the situation—militant task to extend the KPRA’s armed struggle behind enemy lines and thereby to deal with the Japanese imperialists heavier political and military blows.
Another task put forward by the respected and beloved leader was that of sending increasing numbers of political workers to major Japanese imperialists’ military bases and industrial districts and multiplying the forms of struggle including mass strike and slowdowns against their aggressive war.
In the appeal, the respected and beloved leader Comrade Kim Il Sung pointed out:

“We must send well-trained political workers to the key military bases in Korea—Hungnam, Hamhung, Wonsan, and other areas. they must establish contact with the comrades already working there and set about enlarging and reinforcing their organizations. Besides, it is particularly important and urgent to create shock troops made up of workers, whose mission should be to become the vanguard in carrying out armed rebellion and subversive activities in the rear.”

The policy of struggle set out by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung in his speech at the meeting of the KPRA officers and men in August 1937 and in his September appeal to the Korean people was a positive, inspiring policy of struggle. It made it possible to further increase the Korean people’s internal revolutionary force, turn the difficult and complicated situation in favour of the Korean revolution and make a continuous advance of the revolution, facilitating national liberation.

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Here, Kim Il Sung’s statements are written in bold, the way bibles quote Jesus in bold or red. —Walter F. Corbiere, III