Now that all the people of the country turned out as one in the struggle to carry out the important tasks set forth at the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, we look back with deep emotion upon the historic Nanhutou meeting organized and guided by President
President
"The Korean revolution enjoyed a fresh lift with the meeting at Nanhutou acting as a turning-point. In this sense, the meeting can be called a watershed in the Korean revolution, marking off the two halves of the 1930s."
The historic Nanhutou meeting was a significant meeting as a watershed that led the Korean revolution to a fresh upsurge in the second half of the 1930s under the outstanding revolutionary leadership of the President.
After successfully concluding the second expedition to north Manchuria, the President went to Nanhotou in mid-February Juche 25(1936) without resting himself after the expedition and convened a meeting of military and political cadres of the KPRA (Korean People's Revolutionary Army) from February 27 to March 3.
At that time, under the leadership of the President, the Juche-oriented revolutionary forces of the Korean revolution with the KPRA as the leading force grew greatly, the unity and cohesion of the revolutionary ranks strengthened, the mass foundation of the armed struggle was consolidated and the Juche character of the Korean revolution further strengthened.
An acute struggle was waged between the fascist forces that emerged as dangerous forces of aggression and war and anti-fascist forces in the international arena, and the Japanese imperialists were getting more undisguised in their moves for overseas aggression by accelerating the militarization and fascism of Japan in the East and more frantic in their moves to obliterate all Koreans in colonial Korea.
The prevailing situation urgently demanded that the KPRA advance to the area around Mt. Paektu as soon as possible and expand and develop the armed struggle deep into the homeland.
The President convened a meeting of military and political cadres of the KPRA to set forth a new strategic line to meet the immediate historic task set forth by the destiny of the country and the nation which were at the crossroads of victory or failure.
At the meeting the President made a historic report "The tasks of communists in the strengthening and development of the anti-Japanese national liberation struggle".
In his report, the President reviewed the experience of the military and political activities in the areas along Tuman River in the first half of the 1930s and made proposals on the important tasks facing the Korean communists to develop the anti-Japanese national-liberation struggle in the period when a new turning point in the revolution and the new strategic policies for implementing them.
In other words, he advanced new ways of ensuring a major upsurge in the overall Korean revolution centering on the anti-Japanese armed struggle, including the policies of moving the main force of the KPRA to the border areas and gradually extending the theatre of the struggle into the homeland, further expanding and developing the anti-Japanese national united front movement, actively stepping up preparations for founding a party, and developing the Young Communist League into an Anti-Japanese Youth League. He brought all these points up for discussion.
The attendants vied with one another to take the floor and looked forward to the day when they would advance to the area around Mt.Paektu, deep into the homeland to fight a decisive battle with the enemy. Everybody who took the floor expressed their full backing and agreement with the policies he had set out in the report.
The new strategic and tactical policies advanced by the President were Juche-oriented and revolutionary ones which clearly indicated the way for bringing the anti-Japanese national liberation struggle centered on the armed struggle to a great upsurge on a nationwide scale as required by the prevailing situation and the developing revolution and indicated the way for accelerating the historic cause of national liberation by the efforts of the Korean people themselves.
Thanks to the strategic and tactical policies adopted at the Nanhutou meeting, the Korean revolutionaries could set up a new landmark to raise the overall Korean revolution to a higher plane, centering on the anti-Japanese armed struggle.
The first reason why Nanhutou meeting served as the watershed of the Korean revolution is because it was the first meeting in which we fully established Juche in the history of the Korean communist movement and the anti-Japanese national liberation struggle.
The decisions it adopted enabled the Korean communists to adhere to a Juche-oriented stand during subsequent stages of the revolution and invariably uphold it as the lifeline of the nation in the face of any adversity.
The next reason why Nanhutou meeting served as the watershed of the Korean revolution is because it was a festival of victors.
This victory had been won at the cost of innumerable sacrifices and blood and the strenuous efforts made by the Korean communists unsparingly for the fatherland and the people, and history and the times. The Korean communist movement, shunned by the Comintern, parties of fraternal countries, and by our people, albeit in part, owing to the factional strife among early communists, the break-up of the Korean Communist Party and the mistakes committed by the Leftist opportunists in the struggle against the "Minsaengdan", could remove these stains of the past and help us embark along the ever-victorious road with the Nanhutou meeting as a momentum.
Under the wise leadership of President
After the Nanhutou meeting, the KPRA advanced proudly into the homeland under the slogan "Let us advance to the homeland and raise the battle cry!" and accomplished the historic cause of national liberation by waging a bloody struggle against the Japanese imperialists
We will add eternal glory to the immortal exploits of President
