As the significant day of national liberation approaches, all the Korean people recollect with deep emotion the meeting at Xiaohaerbaling where the great leader Comrade
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The President, at the meeting, set forth a new strategic line and the policy for its realization of greeting the great event of national liberation with a scientific insight into the rapidly-changing situation with his far-sighted, extraordinary acumen – the report to the meeting was a historic speech that illuminated the road ahead of the Korean revolution on the basis of a scientific analysis of the trend of the overall situation and the requirements of the developing revolution.
Entering the 1940s, the situation became very severe. At that time, the Japanese imperialists were making frantic efforts to spread the flames of war to Southeast Asia in order to realize their ambition of creating the "Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere", even though they were still engaged in aggression on the mainland of China. Meanwhile, they were making last-ditch efforts to ensure the "security of the home front" with their tenacious, large-scale "punitive" offensive against the Korean People's Revolutionary Army and unprecedentedly brutal oppression and plunder of the Korean people.
But the President was optimistic about the victory of the revolution. It was his firm faith that the downfall of Japanese imperialism was certain and imminent, and that the day of our national liberation, the historic cause of our people, was near at hand.
He defined the grim period as that of the great event of national liberation and decided to put forward a new strategic line accordingly to turn adversity facing the revolution into prosperity and misfortune into blessing – this is inconceivable apart from his extraordinary wisdom.
The meeting was held in Xiaohaerbaling, Dunhua County, from the tenth to the eleventh of August, 1940, and the major issue at the conference was whether to define the next strategic stage as the period of a great revolutionary event, in other words, whether they could liberate the country in the next stage.
Having said, in short, that they could, he explained that the Japanese army was crumbling, though it still was strong, that the outbreak of mutiny in the air corps of the Kwantung Army, its crack unit, foreboded its imminent collapse, that the enemy was hard pressed to stop his men deserting and surrendering time and again on the battlefield in China, and that the day of Japan's defeat was not far off.
The President was already convinced of the great event of national liberation, looking ahead into the defeat of the Japanese imperialists before and after the meeting at Xiaohaerbaling, with his scientific judgment of the prevailing situation and from the mere fact of the mutiny in the Japanese army circles.
Indeed, the President was a peerlessly great man who defeated a million troops of the Japanese imperialists and accomplished the historic cause of national liberation with his outstanding wisdom and far-sightedness, Juche-oriented guerrilla warfare tactics and prominent leadership.
