TO SPREAD AND DEVELOP THE ARMED STRUGGLE INTO THE HOMELAND

Speech at the Meeting of Chiefs of Underground Revolutionary Organizations and Political Workers in the Onsong Area March 11, 1933

Praising the work the revolutionaries and political leaders of the underground organizations had been doing, Kim Il Sung thanks them for their material support of the guerrilla fighters. The dastardly Japanese were continuing their horrid assault and occupation, although Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army had some successes and were continuing to accumulate arms and experience.

The success of the guerrilla army caused its ranks to grow as more and more Chinese in Manchuria were in support. The Japanese ran amok with punitive attacks due to the victories Kim and his army were scoring. To counteract, the great leader insightfully called for the expansion and consolidation of semi-guerrilla zones close to the guerrilla bases along the Tuman-gang River.

MEMORABLE QUOTES

"The guerrilla army had had no instructive experience of guerrilla warfare, and started the struggle from scratch. But in the course of battle, it acquired diverse guerrilla tactics to make large numbers of the enemy vulnerable and crush them with small forces."

"Only when we have the revolutionized masses, can we strengthen our revolutionary forces by relying on them, paralyze the ruling machines of Japanese imperialism and develop various forms of anti-Japanese struggle."