A Gun Report Rung Out in the Run-Up to the Foundation of the Party

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said:

"Comrade Kim Il Sung was a great revolutionary who devoted his all to achieving the victory of the revolution by displaying infinite loyalty to the revolutionary cause."

On October 9, 1945, one day before the founding Congress of the WPK, President Kim Il Sung visited the Kangson Steel Plant, not visiting Mangyongdae, his dear native place, and showed deep trust in the workers, saying that they should become the vanguard in the building of a democratic state, and indicated the ways for rebuilding the factory one by one.

When the car running to Pyongyang from the factory entered a pass, he asked an accompanying anti-Japanese revolutionary fighter if he had understood what he meant by the word "everything comes out of the iron-water pot".

The anti-Japanese revolutionary fighter, recalling the time, said with courage that it meant rifles and machines can be made.

He approved of him and said that from iron-water pots, there come not only machinery but also houses, and that if our workers produce iron in large quantities, we should build houses for the people in a prosperous way.

Looking towards the Kangson Steel Plant, the President said that a new strength was created now he had met the workers of the plant. He said that the workers of the plant would demonstrate the wisdom and talent of the Korean people by reparing the electric furnace with their own efforts and technology and removing molten iron to contribute to building a new country.

And he emphasized that if we found the Party and closely united the broad sections of the working class and people around it, we could build a prosperous, independent and sovereign state by our own efforts.

He said that the Japanese imperialists had destroyed all the factories and ran away and the enemies are blocking the road of the DPRK struggling to found the party and build a prosperous, independent and sovereign state.

He said that we should not stop the revolution even in the liberated country, as we won the fierce struggle in the snowy wind of Mt. Paektu, and that we should not let go of our guns until the victory of the revolution.

Then he told an anti-Japanese revolutionary fighter to bring a gun, set the 20-meter-long pine tree on a mountain table north of the road as a target, and fired at it.

The gun fire by the President on the day before the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was an echo of the firm will to carry forward the Juche revolutionary cause pioneered in the forests of Mt. Paektu by armed forces.

Indeed, the history of the leadership of President Kim Il Sung, a legendary great man, is an ever-victorious one that can never be covered in hundreds and thousands of books.