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    The Japanese imperialists launched an armed invasion upon the northeastern area of China on September 18, 1931.

    Out of this the situation in Korea, the colony of the Japanese imperialists, became serious.

    Clamoring that they were making perfection of the guarantee for the public peace for the sake of the “safety of the rear,” the enemies arrested, imprisoned and slaughtered the patriotic people and the revolutionaries at random, expanded the munitions industry and stepped up the exploitation of strategic resources in Korea. The Japanese imperialists’ bloodstained atrocities of oppressing the Korean people were perpetrated cruelly also in Manchuria, a theatre of aggressive war.

    The national and class contradiction between the Korean people and the Japanese imperialists became extremely acute. Encouraged by the harvest struggle of the peasants in the region of East Manchuria organized and led by Kim Il Sung, the anti-Japanese struggles of the workers, peasants, youth and students were waged successively in all parts of the country, assuming the violent character.

    The prevailing situation required waging a full-scale armed struggle by organizing the popular masses’ fierce violent advance.

    At that time preparations for waging the full-scale armed struggle were being made under the energetic guidance of Kim Il Sung.

    The hard-core backbone of the revolutionary armed forces was built and the mass foundation for armed struggle successfully laid.

    The Chinese people’s struggle against the Japanese aggressors was also growing stronger rapidly.

    Kim Il Sung judged such circumstances as the most favorable chance for launching the armed struggle and actively promoted the work to wage the armed struggle on a full scale.

    Kim Il Sung delivered the speech The Path of the Korean Revolution at the Meeting of Leading Personnel of the Young Communist League and the Anti-Imperialist Youth League held at Kalun on June 30, 1930. In his speech he clarified organizing the revolutionary armed ranks and unfolding the anti-Japanese armed struggle.

    He convened the Meeting of Party and Young Communist League Cadres at Mingyuegou, Yanji County on December 16, 1931 and delivered a historic speech On Organizing and Waging Armed Struggle against Japanese Imperialism. In his speech, he put forward a strategic policy of organizing and waging the anti-Japanese armed struggle with the form of guerilla warfare as the main in order to destroy and sweep out the powerful Japanese aggressive armed forces by the efforts of the Korean people themselves.

    In his speech, he elucidated to organize the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerilla Army, the revolutionary armed forces of the Korean people and solve the problem of arms by one’s own efforts to launch the armed struggle.

    After the meeting, Kim Il Sung directed every effort to founding the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerilla Army while conducting activities with the Antu area as a centre.

    First of all, he actively conducted the work to organize the armed rank with the fine youth communists who had been steeled and tested in difficulties of the underground struggle, progressive workers, peasants and patriotic young people including the members of the Korean Revolutionary Army organized after the Kalun Meeting.

    He also put forward the slogan “Weapons are our life and soul! Arms for arms!” to press ahead with the work to equip oneself with arms.

    In response to his appeal, they took weapons away from the enemy at the cost of their lives and built the ordnance repair shops and the blacksmith's shops to reforge the spears and swords by themselves.

    And he also pressed ahead with the work of laying the mass foundation of the armed struggle and forming the united front with the Chinese anti-Japanese armed units.

    Having made full preparations, Kim Il Sung founded the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerilla Army on April 25, 1932, on the tableland at Tuqidian in Xiaoshahe, Antu.

    That day he inspected the first rank of the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerilla Army and delivered a historic speech On the Occasion of Founding the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerilla Army.

    In his speech, he clarified the character and missions of the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerilla Army, significance of its foundation and the military and political tasks to be carried out in the future.

    The foundation of the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerilla Army was a historic event that gave a military guarantee for defeating the Japanese imperialists and liberating the country by dint of Songun.

    The historic significance of founding of the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerilla Army lies in the fact that the Songun-based revolutionary leadership of Kim Il Sung started since then.

    Thanks to the foundation of the first revolutionary armed forces of the Korean people under the energetic leadership of Kim Il Sung, a radical turn was brought about in the sacred anti-Japanese war, the Songun revolution to defeat the Japanese imperialists and liberate the country.