Noble Revolutionary Fidelity of the Fatherly Leader Who Devoted to DPRK-China Friendship

The great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il said:

"Our leader is really a great man, warm-hearted, affectionate and dutiful. This is why the people all over the world uphold and follow him as they would do the sun."

Today the Korean people are looking back upon the noble revolutionary fidelity of President Kim Il Sung who devoted himself to the DPRK-China friendship.

The DPRK-China friendship established through the struggle against imperialism and the reactionary forces, is unthinkable apart from the immortal exploits of the President who helped the Chinese revolution with his noble revolutionary fidelity.

There are many people who know that the Chinese People's Volunteers helped the Fatherland Liberation War under the banner of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, while there are not many people who remember that the Korean revolutionaries rendered material and moral assistance to the Chinese revolution under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung.

Even during the difficult days of building a country starting with nothing after the liberation, the President, with his noble international duty, helped the Chinese revolution with blood and made a great contribution to its victory, holding high the banner of resistance to Japan and aiding China, resistance to Jiang Jie-Shi and aiding China.

During the arduous anti-Japanese armed struggle, he paid special attention to helping the armed units led by the Chinese communists in every way, giving unshakable support and cooperation while fighting hard against the Kwantung army of Japanese Imperialists.

At the request of the Chinese communists, he dispatched excellent military and political cadres and members of the KPRA to the guerrilla units led by the Chinese communists to build up their armed ranks politically and militarily. Whenever the armed units of the Chinese communists were in a difficult position, he rendered active assistance to them in their military and political activities.

In particular, in October Juche 23(1934) President Kim Il Sung conducted the First expedition to North Manchuria to support the Chinese anti-Japanese armed units undergoing trials there. He met the Chinese communists there to clarify the ways for developing the revolutionary struggle, handed over to them a large majority of the members of his expeditionary force to strengthen the combat capability of their armed units, conducted several battles including the battle of Lake Jingbo with them, and taught them the methods of guerrilla warfare and mass political work.

Later the armed units in north Manchuria, which was influenced by his first expedition to North Manchuria, formed the Fifth Army Corps of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army based on the Ningan Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Army in league with the small Chinese Anti-Japanese Nationalists units in the area, and therefore the anti-Japanese armed forces there were further strengthened.

President Kim Il Sung set out on the road of the Second expedition to North Manchuria to consolidate the militant alliance with the Chinese communists, which formed through the first expedition and further intensify the joint struggle with them as required by the new era.

He organized and led many joint operations to victory during the 2nd expedition, thus strengthening the militant unity and solidarity between the armed units led by communists of the two countries.

In particular, he ensured that the ties with the Chinese communists were further consolidated through the joint operations with the 2nd and 5th Army Corps.

The long and arduous road of the Korean revolution also bears traces of resistance to Jiang Jie-shi and aiding China.

In the period when the anti-Japanese war ended in victory and the road of creating a new life was opened for the Korean people, the dark clouds of the civil war were gathering owing to the moves of the Jiang Jie-shi clique in the continent of China.

The President dispatched excellent commanding officers and members of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army to Northeast China, saying it was the noble internationalist duty of the Korean communists and all the Korean people to support the revolutionary struggle of the Chinese people.

Under the guidance of the military and political cadres of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army dispatched by the President, the units of Koreans were widely organized in Northeast China including east Manchuria, and their forces totaled more than 250 000.

Even though a single weapon and a gram of explosive were precious for the building of regular armed forces just after the liberation of Korea, the President sent 100 000 weapons and a large number of munitions including ammunitions and explosives, medicines and uniforms, shoes, etc. From the summer of Juche 35(1946) to Juche 37(1948), the aid materials sent by the DPRK for two and a half years amounted to over 2 000 vehicles.

The President also saw to it that the Chinese revolutionaries could move and transport a lot of materials and personnel including wounded soldiers and their families to the safety zone through the Korean territory.

In hearty response to the noble intention of the President to help the Chinese revolution during the liberation war of the Northeast and mainland of China, the units of the Koreans shed precious red blood on the vast area of China ranging from River Songhua to China South Sea Islands.

In November Juche 34(1945), in particular, the President went to Dandong, China at the risk of his life to reverse the situation in the northeast of China. In Dandong, the battlefield where the bloody decisive battle was going on, he learned in detail about the deployment and maneuver of the enemy forces at the council of war of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army and took strategic and tactical measures. He also encouraged the commanding officers, telling them to go into Mt.. Paektu if they were in difficulty and the DPRK would be their reliable rear.

The history of the world revolutionary struggle records the examples of supporting the revolution of other countries, but it doesn't know that a leader of a country personally crossed the border to the battlefield to help a revolutionary war of other country at the risk of his life, discussed the strategic and tactical plan for a long time, and indicated the ways to carry it out.

Indeed, President Kim Il Sung was a genuine internationalist with the noble revolutionary fidelity no one in the world could have.

The immortal feats President Kim Il Sung set an example of genuine internationalism with his noble revolutionary fidelity and strengthened the DPRK-China friendship will shine forever.