Precious Trees Bearing Revolutionary Slogans Reflecting the Desire for National Liberation

Chairman Kim Jong Il said:

"The trees bearing revolutionary slogans are valuable treasures of our revolution."

As May 5, when the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland was founded, is upcoming, the peerless exploits are recalled of President Kim Il Sung, who arouse all the people to the sacred war for the liberation of the country under the evil conditions of neither support for the regular army nor the state's rear, thus bringing a new spring of liberation to this land.

The greatness of the President who proclaimed a desperate resistance against a million troops of the Japanese imperialists and the noble spirits of the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners who liberated the country through the 20-year-long resistance rallied behind him are vividly reflected in the slogans left by them.

The slogan "Let Us Be Liberated Through All-people Resistance" discovered in South Phyongan Province reminds us of the venerable image of the great leader's strategic and tactical policies on building up the revolutionary forces and stepping up the preparations for all-people resistance in order to overcome the grave difficulties facing the Korean revolution and continue to lead the anti-Japanese national liberation struggle to an upsurge.

It clearly indicates that the idea of all-people resistance was the source of strength that brought about the historic cause of national liberation.

In the area of Sodong-ri, Rangnim County, Jagang Province, is a slogan "Long Live the Anti-Japanese Revolution".

Every single word of the slogan vividly reminds the images of the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters who fought without hesitation for the sacred cause of national liberation, shedding blood in the cold-wind-swept wilderness of Mt. Paektu in the sanguinary days of the anti-Japanese war.

It was thanks to the unshakable faith that the day of national liberation would surely come if they were led by President Kim Il Sung, the peerlessly great man, that the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters were able to achieve the historic cause of national liberation by fighting resolutely, despite all the hardships beyond human imagination in the blizzard of Mt. Paektu.

Among the revolutionary slogans showing the sacred tradition created by the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners is the slogan "Anti-Japanese Unity" found in the area of Sinphyong County.

The anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners were passionate fighters who cherished in their mind that in order to liberate the country usurped by the Japanese imperialists and emerge victorious in the revolution, they should hold the outstanding leader in high esteem as the centre of unity and fight in union with loyalty like a white gem.

As they believed in and followed only President through indescribable difficulties beyond imagination, they realized how powerful the strength of unity was, which would always lead to victory.

It is the iron truth handed down by the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters to posterity that as long as there is the leadership of a great leader and the united strength of the indomitable fighters strong in faith and will, following his leadership with a single mind, will there be no fortress or no difficulties to overcome, and eye-opening dreams and ideals be realized.

"Let Us Be Liberated Through All-people Resistance", "Long Live the Anti-Japanese Revolution", "Anti-Japanese Unity"...

The Korean people will as ever preserve the slogans, the treasure of revolution, with much care and dynamically advance toward the comprehensive development of socialism, upholding with loyalty the leadership of the Party and the leader true to the noble spirit and will of the anti-Japanese forerunners.