Juche

    In 1930 President Kim Il Sung put forward the line of defeating with arms the Japanese imperialists who occupied Korea by force of arms and enforced suppressive colonial policies unprecedented in history.

    The Japanese imperialists, who reduced Korea into their complete colony at the beginning of the 20^th century, failed to give elementary rights and freedom to the Korean people but forced monstrous exploitation, oppression and plunder upon them and arrested, imprisoned and killed the innocent people. The Korean people conducted the anti-Japanese national liberation movement against the colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists. They not only conducted the Anti-Japanese Righteous Volunteers' Army movement, patriotic cultural enlightenment campaign and mass struggle of violence form but also asked the great powers for sovereignty. It was a historic lesson of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement of the Korean people that it was unable to defeat the Japanese imperialists and liberate the country in such methods.

    President Kim Il Sung, who penetrated deep into the historic lessons of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement of the Korean people and the lawful requirement of the national liberation struggle in colonial countries, matured his plan of liberating the country by defeating the Japanese imperialists through the organized armed struggle. He convened the meeting of leading personnel of the Communist Youth League and the Anti-imperialist Youth League on June 30, 1930.

    In his speech “The Path of the Korean Revolution” made at the meeting, he clarified to organize the revolutionary armed unit to unfold the anti-Japanese armed struggle.

    The anti-Japanese armed struggle line was further detailed at the meeting held in Mingyuegou, Yenji Province, China.

    The line clarified, first of all, to organize and unfold an armed struggle with guerilla warfare as the main.

    The line of conducting the armed struggle with the guerilla warfare as the main was unique and realistic one that illuminated a new way of national liberation war in colonial countries unlike the preceding theories.

    It clarified that the Korean people should found the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerilla Army, their own revolutionary armed forces enough to smash the counter-revolutionary armed forces and get arms by their own efforts in order to wage armed struggle with guerrilla warfare as the main.

    It also made clear that they should establish guerilla zones and semi-guerilla zones in the form of liberated areas as their own solid military and supply base as they fought armed struggle with no state rear and no assistance from outside. It made clear that they should educate the broad masses of the people and train them in practice to rally them behind the revolutionary organizations, thus laying the mass foundation for the armed struggle, and forming the anti-Japanese united front with the Chinese people.

    It clarified to form party organizations in all areas, enhance their vanguard role and strengthen the work of the Young Communist League organizations in order to wage the anti-Japanese armed struggle successfully.

    Thanks to the anti-Japanese armed struggle line, the anti-Japanese national liberation movement in Korea could enter the stage of organized armed struggle led by the correct ideology and line.

    The Korean people finally achieved the historic cause of national liberation thanks to the 15-year-long anti-Japanese armed struggle organized and led by President Kim Il Sung.

    The anti-Japanese armed struggle line put forward by the great President Kim Il Sung is a genuine textbook for the national liberation war in colonial countries which clarified in a concrete and scientific way the tasks and ways in waging an armed struggle in the form of guerilla warfare.